RESEARCH DAY MAY 15, 2015 PRESENTATION SESSIONS
8:00-12:00
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Art History and Music
Biology
Chemistry
Communication Studies
Computer Science
Environmental Studies
History
Hugh Scott Oratory Prize Competition
International Studies
Leadership Capstone
Philosophy
Psychology
Women’s Studies
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Campus Picnic Lunch
Fountain Plaza, 12:00-1:00
Please join us at the Fountain Plaza for a picnic lunch.
In case of rain, lunch will be served in Estes Dining Hall.
2 POSTER SESSIONS & DISPLAYS
1:00-2:15
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Schapiro Undergraduate Research Fellowship
Program
Art History
Biology
Communication Studies
English
Mathematics
Philosophy
Political Science
Sociology
Spanish
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Honors Convocation
Blackwell Auditorium, 2:30-5:00
We recognize students for awards, scholarships, and
inductions into honor societies.
Graduating seniors should dress in cap and gown.
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PRESENTATION SESSIONS 8:00 – 12:00
Art History and Music
Old Chapel 114, 9:00-11:00
Nana Ferdnance/Professor E. Terrono
“Roots:” Indigenous Building Practices of the Ashanti, the Impact
of British Colonization and the Return to Sustainable Architecture
in Ghana
Jazmine Funes/Professor C. Ryder
Theater Revised Over Time
Moriah Webster/Professor E. Terrono
Fashioning an American Identity: Clothing in Early American
Portraiture
Kailee Cross/Professor E. Terrono
Thomas Sully’s Career in Richmond, Virginia, in the Context of
American Art in the South at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century
Biology
Copley 100, 8:30-11:45
Tanya Ramer (8:30)
The Link between Oral Hygiene and Cancer
Colin Erne (8:45)
Sirens: The Emergency Medical Services from a Suburban
Perspective
Kethelyne Beauvais (9:00)
Unexpected Experiences as a Women's Health Intern
Amy Northrop (9:15)
Why are Most GPR56-null Male Mice Infertile?
Courtney Stevens (9:45)
Effects of Gene Interactions with Abl Kinase on Cell Migration in
Drosophila melanogaster
Brittaney Ritchie (10:15)
Mapping Olfactory Space
4 Katie Houle (10:45)
Acute Ethanol Exposure in Early Postnatal Mouse Development
Impairs Memory Retrieval but not Learning
Sarah Murphy (11:15)
Malnourishment May Reset the Homeostatic Set Point of the
CD8+ T Cell Population by Modulating CD127 Expression
Chemistry: Capstone (CHEM 495)
Copley 303, 9:00-11:00
Trang Tran/Professor S. Schreiner (9:00)
Activation of Carbon Monoxide and Molecular Hydrogen by Bisphosphino Iridium Complexes
Jennifer LaBarge/Professor A. Marchetti (10:00)
An Investigation into the Chemical Constituents of Artificial Turf
Tim Landis/Professor Kassy Mies (11:00)
Spectrophotometric Analysis of Zn Content in Amyloid Beta
Peptide Plaques using Zincon
Communication Studies: Leadership
Communication (COMM 334)
Haley 103, 9:00-11:00
Professor K. Merrill
Sebastian Burke, Judd Fleming, Angela Mastellone, Doug
Schaeffer, Tom Solak, and Ira Usry (9:00)
A Proposed Solution to Decrease Randolph-Macon’s Energy
Consumption
Client: Thomas Sprouse, Owner Home Energy Store
Emily Clary, Charlotte Horne, Steven Funk, Akeem Holmes,
and Kittinun Wongsirikul (9:30)
A Proposed Solution to Increase Randolph-Macon’s Freshman-toSophomore Retention Rate
Client: Dean Lauren Bell, Registrar Alana Davis, Dean James
McGhee
Jazmine Battle, Madison Guidry, Chris Hamilton, Patricia
Mangas, Caroline Phipps, and Amanda Sopko (10:00)
A Proposed Solution to Decrease Students’ Tardies and Absences
at Henry Clay Elementary School
Client: Teresa Keck, Principal Henry Clay Elementary School
5 Addison Cooper, Melissa Gutierrez-Sanchez, Branon Kincaid,
Jesse Knepp, Tanner Phillips, and Connor Sullivan (10:30)
A Proposed Solution to Increase Student Engagement in the Town
of Ashland
Client: Tom Wulf, Executive Director of Ashland Main Street
Computer Science: Capstone (CSCI 401)
Copley 201, 10:00-12:00
Professor R. Necaise
Nicole D'Ambra (10:00)
Developing a Web Server API for the littleBits Remote Devices
Caroline Young (10:30)
Analyzing and Building Security Tools to Find Vulnerabilities in
Web Servers and littleBits
Htet Htet Khine (11:00)
Secure Communication between IoT Devices and a Server
Environmental Studies: Advanced
Environmental Problem-Solving (EVST
305/405)
Birdsong 218, 9:00-11:00
Professors M. Fenster and C. Gowan
A Revised Population Viability Analysis and Geomorphological
Impact Study for the Federally-threatened Northeastern Beach
Tiger Beetle (Cicindela dorsalis dorsalis) in the Chesapeake Bay
Kelly Balderson, Jacob Aaron Bartlett, Kyran Brooke Belfield,
Jacob Timothy Bram, Natalie Kristen Clark, Emily Elizabeth
Clary, Mary Agnes Cookson, Nana Adwoa Ferdnance, Thomas
Judd Fleming, Rachael Laine Gardner, Laura Haney, Brett
Lee Holder, Maximillian Jeremenko, Alexander Paul Jesmer,
Tiffany Jessup, Jacob Johnson, Jamie Langbein, Isabel
Mangana, Jess McLaughlin, Ross Michael McLaughlin,
Nathaniel Rychlick Meiners, Lucas Powell, Steven Sarver,
Casey Schooler, Shelby Victoria Schuster, Charles Forest
Shaw, Delaney Sheire, Mathew James Stanek, Shane Austin
Taylor, Jacob Trump, Michael Wallman, James Walsh, Kyle
Meredith Wash, Jenelle Whitman, Kelsey Lynn Wooldridge,
Jordan Michael Wooten
6 History
Washington Room, Washington-Franklin Hall, 9:00-12:00
Richard Bock/Professor Fischbach (9:00)
Ottoman Propaganda Between 1900-1918
Charlie Brooks/Professor Bergmann (9:40)
The Affects of Indian Geopolitics on Virginia Politics, 1763-1789
Georgia Ferrell/Professor Bergmann (10:20)
Virginia's Beast: The Problem of Slavery in Virginia Following
the Revolution
Emily Hewitt/ Professor Anne Throckmorton (11:00)
Relics and the Reformation
Hugh Scott Oratory Prize Competition
Owen Room, McGraw-Page Library, 11:00-12:00
Professor T. Sheckels
Participants
Kethelyne Beauvais
Kenny Daniel
Derek Dittmar
Bar Hass
Kristian Spencer
International Studies: Senior Seminar (INST 422)
Fox 108, 10:00-12:00
Mikhaila Calice/Professor S. London (10:00)
The Unintended Outcomes of Foreign Aid: An Analysis of the
Millennium Challenge Corporation Program in Ghana
Leslie Ferrufino/Professor A. Hilliard (10:30)
Cultural Tourism and Ethics in Southeast Asia
Michael Hall/Professor Y. Zhang (11:00)
The Future of Taiwan: Its Options and the Actors Who Influence It
Angelica Kilinc/Professor D. Rodman (11:30)
Vehicles to International Terrorism
7 Leadership Capstone
Dean J. McGhee
SGA Conference Room, Brock Commons 223, 7:00-1:00
Sarah Maxwell (7:00)
Brewing Success: Leader-Member Exchange Theory
J.D. Rackey (8:00)
Leadership Inside the Classroom
Katherine Barthol (9:00)
Leadership in Political Engagement
Jacob Palyo & Katrina Zurasky (10:00)
Leaders Born or Leaders Bred: An analysis of the relationship
between Trait Theory of leadership and Greek Life at RandolphMacon College
Naoko Branker (11:00)
Extra, Extra Read All About It! Crisis Management, AgendaSetting, Cultural Studies, and Influence Theory in relation to US
and Venezuelan media coverage of crises in Venezuela
Connor Kish (12:00)
Alderfer’s E.R.G. Theory and Its Importance during Leadership
Transitions
Philosophy
Fox 102, 11:00-12:30
Eddie Prendergast
Responsibility in Ethics: an Synthesis between the Competing
Claims of Justice and Care
PJ Dominiski
Metaphysics, War and Nostalgia
8 Psychology
Copley 101 and Lobby, 9:00-11:00
Presentations:
PSYC/NSCI 496-498: Senior Project (Professor K. Lambert)
Samantha Scott (9:00)
Investigating the Effects of Rough-and-Tumble Play on
Neurobiological and Cardiovascular Markers of Emotional
Regulation in Rats Exposed to Repeated Stressors
PSYC 369: Integrative RATS (Professor M. Bardi)
Caroline Eglseder, Leila Ferguson, Virginia Morrissette,
Stephanie Socha, Bailey Troia (9:30)
Explicit Attitudes and Stress Reactions toward Persons with
Disabilities
Poster Session:
PSYC 318: Cognitive RATS (Professor A. Hughes)
Lisa Clinger, Jessica Matthews, Kervin Owusu, Katerina
Procopio
Free Recall in Simple vs. Elaborate Depiction Types
Robert Bradshaw, Casey Coombe, Noelle McKearney,
Kittinun Wongsirikul
The Decision to Multitask and its Effect on Perception of
Cognitive Abilities, Judgment, and Memory
Grace Aylor, Zachary Emerson, Rachel Kogut, Jasmine
Shepard
Gender-based Stereotype Threat and its Effects on Attention in
College Women
PSYC 319: Sensation and Perception RATS (Professor C. Riener)
Zachary Emerson, Kervin Owusu, Rebecca Reidy
Is "The Dress" a Bistable Figure?
Bobby Bradshaw, Braeshaun Dozier, Brooke Mauck
Time of Day Preferences and Perception of “The Dress”
Tommy Smith, Amanda Sopko, Kristen Trexler
The Effect of Color Preference and Sensitivity on Ambiguous
Color Perception
9 Shane Foley, AJ Menice, Rachel Monkouski
The Effect of Lightness and Spatial Arrangement on Perceived
Color of “The Dress”
PSYC 349: Social RATS (Professor K. Klaaren)
Katherine Baxter, Savannah Kaiser, Nathan Turner, and
Rebecca Waldman
Are You Going to be Single Forever? The Interaction of Parental
Marital History and Locus of Control on Personal Views of
Marriage
Jessica Caso, Austin Collett, and Diamond Strickland
Interpreting Racist Comments by Atypical Perpetrators
Bernard Burwell, Phong Nguyen, and William Pittman
The Impact of Education and Knowledge on Islamaphobia
Cordell Church, Nolan Clark, and Jordan DeVito
Not for Men or Not for Women? Responses to Advertisements
using Gender Exclusionary Language
PSYC 369: Integrative RATS (Professor M. Bardi)
Madison Anderson, Sharese Jarvis, William Pittman, Kaitlyn
Sewell, Elizabeth Silvius
A Silent Oppression: The Effects of Domestic Violence on Stress
in College Students
Nolan Clark, Alexander Davis, Brian Donoghue
The Stress-er-cise Study
Women’s Studies: Research Project (WMST
301)
Professor J. Conners
Old Chapel 207, 10:00-10:30
Kristian Spencer
This Little Piggie Went to Washington: An Analysis of Joni Ernst's
2014 Campaign and the Gendered Electoral Process
10 POSTER SESSIONS & DISPLAYS 1:00-2:15
Schapiro Undergraduate Research Program
(SURF)
Dollar Tree Community Room, 1:00-2:15
Adwoa Bamfo/Professor Grace Lim Fong
Quantifying the Symbiont Load in the Developmental Stages of
the Marine Bryozoan Bugula neritina
Aaron Bartlett/Professor Charles Gowan
From the Mountains to the Sea: Monitoring James River Water
Quality
Rachel Bowden/Professor Massimo Bardi
Allocare in Long-Tailed Macaques (Macaca fascicularis): The
Role of Family Dynamics
Charlie Brooks/Professor Mathias Bergmann
The Effect of Indian Geopolitics on Virginia, 1754-1815
Phuong Bui/Professor John Thoburn
Ruthenocene as a C5-symmetirc Ligand for Supramolecular
Assemblies
Mikhaila Calice/Professor Thomas Badey
Fighting Back: Analyzing the Use of Social Media for
Counterterrorism
Kali Carroll/Professor Benjamin Ramage
The Effects of Invasive Plants on Native Tree Seedlings
Henry Castillo/Professor John Thoburn
Synthesis of a Chiral Guest for a Cubic Porphyrin Metallocomplex
Host
Dan Coon, Connor Hoerr, and Shuyan Zhan/Professors
George Spagna and Rachele Dominguez
Capturing the Sun and Saving Money: From Ashland to Haiti
Derek Dittmar/Professor Jack Trammell
Disability as a Second Language: Disability and Communication in
Post-Secondary Environments
11 Patrick Dwier/Professor George Spagna
Life in the Goldilocks Zone: Modeling Planet Growth on
Exoplanets
Nana Ferdnance/Professor Evie Terrono
‘Roots:’ Indigenous Building Practices and the Return to
Sustainable Architecture in West Africa
Sarita Hough/Professor Kassy Mies
Ionophore-Assisted Removal of Cadmium Ions from Aqueous
Solutions
Rian Kabir/Professor Grace Lim-Fong
Expression of Symbiotic Bryostatin Synthesis in the Various Life
Stages of the Marine Invertebrate Host Bulgula neritina
Emily Kirk/Professor Kelly Lambert
Mom Knows Best: An Investigation of Maternal Experience on
Cognitive Uncertainty and Emotional Resilience in Rats (Rattus
norvegicus)
Connor Kish/Professor Joan Conners
Social Media Use by Corporations in Crisis Communication and
the Public’s Response
Skylar Lambert/Professor Kelly Lambert
Exploring the Brain’s Playground: The Long-term Neurobiological
Effects of Rough-and-Tumble Play in Rats (Rattus norvegicus)
Tim Landis/Professor Kelly Lambert
Evolving Brains: Sterelogic Analysis of von Economo Neurons in
the Raccoon (Procyon lotor) Cortex
Isabel Mangana/Professor Benjamin Ramage
Conspecific Negative Density Dependence in Eastern Temperate
Forests: Do Forest Canopy Trees Inadvertently Contribute to the
Death of nearby Offspring?
Lucas Matuszweski/Professor Serge Schreiner
Si-H and Ge-H Bond Activation by a Zerovalent Platinum Dimer
Elliot Meyer/Professor Lauren Bell
Crashing the Tea Party: The Effects of the Tea Party on U.S.
House of Representatives Elections
12 Madeline Monk/Professor Amy Goodwin
Giants, Dragons, and the Mutation of the Hero: Medieval Virtues
in Middle English Romances
Thom Morgan/Professor Rance Necaise
MuXcode: A Mobile App for Program Development
Sarah Murphy/Professor Melanie Gubbels Bupp
Dissecting the Molecular and Cellular Events that Ultimately Lead
to Immune Cell Death in the Malnourished
Catherine Pricone/Professor Joan Conners
The Heart of Athletic Teams
Haley Russ/Professor Serge Schreiner
Sulfur-Hydrogen Bond Activation by Novel Iridium Diphosphine
Complexes
Amber Samuels/Professor Alva Hughes
Quantity Discrimination through Olfaction: An Exploration of
Canine Cognition
Junghee Seo/Professor Serge Schreiner
Synthesis, Characterization, and Reactivity of PNP Ligated Late
Transition Metal Complexes
Kaitlyn Sewell/Professor Kelly Lambert
Coping With the Hassles of Life: In Search of Neurobiological and
Behavioral Markers of Emotional Resilience in Male and Female
Rats (Rattus norvegicus)
Kristin Sheetz/Professor Kassy Mies
A Novel Method for the Extraction of Lead Ions from Bulk Water
Supplies using Chelation Chemistry
Delaney Sheire/Professor Charles Gowan
Behavioral Mechanisms Brook Trout Use to Establish Linear
Dominance Hierarchies
Elizabeth Silvius/Professor Cedar Riener
Does Meditation Relieve Stress and Improve Cognition?
Kristian Spencer/Professor Joe Mattys
From Script to Stage: The Metamorphosis of “Agnes of God”
13 Vittoria Sportelli/Professor John Thoburn
Thinking Outside the Box: Synthesis of an Expanded Fe8TAPP6
Metallocube
Elizabeth Steiner/Professor John Thoburn
Solubilizing Porphyrin Metallocubes
Brooke Thompson/Professor Kelly Lambert
A Change of Heart: Mapping Coping Profiles to Cardiovascular
and Neurobiological Responses in Male and Female Rats (Rattus
norvegicus)
Trang Tran/Professor Serge Schreiner
Activation of CO with Low-valent Iridium Complexes Stabilized
by Bidentate Ligands
Kristin Trexler/Professor Massimo Bardi
Dominance and Male-Infant Interaction in Long-Tailed Macaques
Bailey Troia/Professor Amy Armenia
'My Position has evolved': Individual Change in Attitudes toward
Same-Sex Marriage
Talbot Weston/Professor Melanie Gubbels Bupp
The Effect of Mild, Short-Term Malnourishment on the Cellular
Immune Response: Developing a Model to Test Future Treatment
Strategies
Myat Thida Win/Professor Barry Pfitzner
Trade Effects on Convergence and Economic Growth
William Wood/Professor Mark Malvasi
Fender: The Business Behind an American Implement
Art History: Aegean Bronze Age Art and
Archaeology (ARTH 212)
Professor E. Fisher
McGraw-Page Library, 1:00-2:15
Alexi Bowden, Nadhira Hill, Ross Wood, Katherine Myers
Ships and Shipwrecks
Ron Hill, Matthew Kennedy, Nicole Kreth, Heidi Muller
Warfare and Weapons
14 Mattie Reynolds, Maggie Dodson, Marquis Davis, Rachael
Smith
Writing and Symbols
Alex Sims, Katie Terhune, Keith Jones, Eric Long
Bulls and Bull Sports
Laura Nalls, Emily Gingras, John Winburne, Janie Houlgrave
Textiles
Briona Harmon, John Henry’ Zach Sayles, Paige Weaver,
Taylor Vaughan
Minoan and Mycenaean Architecture
Art History: Islamic Art (ARTH 235)
Professor E. Fisher
McGraw-Page Library, 1:00-2:15
Calligraphy Projects
View the projects to see the student names, which are part of the
calligraphy! Projects completed Fall 2014.
Biology: Independent Study and Fundamentals
of Neuroscience (BIOL)
Professors J. Foster & E. Clabough
McGraw-Page Library, 1:00-2:15
Laura P. Ellis, Priscilla Koirala, Katherine Houle, Josh Albert,
Marika Beale, Selena Washington, Sarah Kalasinsky, Lindsey
Sharman
Deletion of the G protein-coupled receptor 56 gene (GPR56) in
mice produces fertility defects in males, but no detectable
behavioral deficits in females
Biology: Integrative Biology (BIOL 122)
Professor E. Clabough
McGraw-Page Library, 1:00-2:15
Public Service Announcement videos about brain development and
alcohol exposure
15 Communication Studies: Seminar (COMM 490)
Professor T. Sheckels
McGraw-Page Library, 1:00-2:15
Naoko Branker
Extra, Extra, Read All About It: Crisis Management, AgendaSetting, and Cultural Studies in Relation to U.S. and Venezuelan
Media Coverage of Crises in Venezuela
Jordan DeVito
Television’s Effect on Perception of Crisis Duration and
Management
Matt Daugherty
Exxon Valdez and BP Deep Horizon Oil Spills: Was There an
Improvement in Crisis Communication
Charlotte Horne
Groupthink in Politics: An Assessment of the Bush
Administration’s Decision to Invade Iraq
Connor Kish
The Effectiveness of Virginia Delegate Joe Morrissey’s Image
Restoration Tactics Based on Facebook Comment Sentiment of
News Posts
Jesse Knepp
The Failures of the Malaysian Airlines Crisis Communication
Team on Flight 370
Angela Mastelone
The Discrimination Case: Is the Media Leading Us to Believe We
Have a Racism Problem?
Olivia Newman
Aurora, Colorado Movie Theatre Shooting: Analyzing Theories
and Observing News Media Coverage During a Time of Crisis
Morgan Parks
Family Communication in Times of Critical Illness
Michelle Pope
The Difficulties of Communicating with Autism Spectrum
Disorder Children
16 Anthony Pullo
A Rhetorical Analysis of the Depiction of Crisis in Terry George's
Hotel Rwanda Through the Critical Lens of Dramatism Theory
Doug Schaeffer
Image Restoration in the Aftermath of Law Enforcement Scandals
Thomas Solak
Image Restoration of a High-Profile Athlete
Kristian Spencer
Celebrity, Fame, Obsession: An Analysis of the Cause of ‘The
Balloon Boy’ Hoax
Jonathan Witt
(TBA)
Hunter Zoll
Media Coverage of the Virginia Tech Massacre
English: Victorian Literature (ENGL 352)
Professor J. Cadwallader
McGraw-Page Library, 1:00-2:15
Cheyenne Reynolds
“Save the Green Pastures!”: The Role of Industrialization in
Victorian England
Brittney Ingarra
“Sorrow”: The Fate of Illegitimate and Unwanted Children in
Victorian England
Austin Wash
“Fin de Siecle Malaise”: The Late-Victorian Fear of Dramatic
Progress and Societal Decadence
Stephen Aoun
Empirical Imperialism: The Sciences of Systematic Oppression in
Victorian-Era Britain
Joseph Vandersyde
“I Would be Master Still”: Dracula and the Individualist Villain
17 Marialena Gallagher
“At the End of the Day”: Telescopic Philanthropy and Social
Conditions in Victorian England
Tracie Mooneyham
“We’re All Mad Here”: A Look at Mental Illness in the Victorian
Period
Jake M. Connolly
Getting to Know Your Two-Face: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’s Split
Personality
Nick Powell
No Rosie the Riveters Here: A Study of Women in the Victorian
Period
Rachel Jacobsen
The Silent Struggle: Hardships of Being a Woman in the Victorian
Period
Cherie Doty
After Death in the Victorian Era
Laura Hazelwood
Children in Victorian Art: Ideals and Nostalgia for Lost Innocence
Alex Clark
Straddling the Social Classes: The Role of the Victorian Governess
Mathematics: Art of Mathematics (MATH 125)
Professor E. Torrence
McGraw-Page Library, 1:00-2:15
"Sierpinski Tetrahedron" balloon sculpture
Channing Allen, Breanna Bowles, Alexis Demers, Nicholas
Demers, Connor Diskin, Jacob Edwards, Dara Finley, Mia
Heydet, Alenna Jones, Kaitlyn McKay, Brittney Pacini, Clark
Reynolds, John Rodriguez, Peter Shaner, Ian Shelley, Alexyss
Stinson, Austin White, Caroline Young
18 Mathematics: Departmental Honors I (MATH
491)
Professor B. Sutton
McGraw-Page Library, 1:00-2:15
Julia Knapp
Analysis of Host-Guest Chemistry using Nonlinear Regression in
Mathematica
Philosophy
Professor D. Turney
McGraw-Page Library, 1:00-2:15
P.J. Dominiski
Nostalgia as Time Travel
Political Science: Research Methods (PSCI 301)
Professor E. Fullmer
McGraw-Page Library, 1:00-2:15
Bobby Trickett
Do State Restrictions Lead to Fewer Abortions?
Brian Jorgensen
Tobacco Use and Voting
Wendy Calderon
Predicting State Immigration Restrictions in the U.S.
Tom Lewis
High-School Drop-Out Rates and Violent Crime
Daniel Whitehead
Gender in Congress: How Gender Affects Voting on Social Policy
Elizabeth Blanco
Predicting Fear of Terrorism: A Survey Analysis
Michael Wallman
Gun Control and Gun Crime: Do Restrictions Work?
Blycie Bailey
High-School Civic Programs and Voter Turnout
19 Mattie Reynolds
Presidential Approval and Religion
May McNeil
Pulling on My Heart Strings? The Effect of Gender on Social
Media Appeals by Senate Candidates
Justin Truitt
The Effect of State Taxes on Tobacco Use
Gunter Chaffin
Immigration in the U.S. and the U.K.
Keifer Cosper
Demographics and Partisanship in the U.S.
Margaret Rigg
Military Concentration and Partisanship in the U.S.
Alex Jesmer
Education, Income, Religion and Partisanship in the U.S.
Calvin Davis
Democracy and Child Soldiers
Becca Liskiewicz
Young Republicans and Social Liberalism
Jordon Lee
Income Inequality and Voter Turnout
Christine Sellers
Urban Living, Wealth, and Environmental Performance
Khajae Hester
The Effect of Media on Fear of Terrorism
Political Science: Special Topics in Political
Science (PSCI 381)
Professor L. Bell
McGraw-Page Library, 1:00-2:15
John “JD” Rackey
Nuclear Fallout: The Effect of the Nuclear Option on the U.S.
Senate’s Legislative Productivity
20 Political Science: Senior Seminar in Political
Science (PSCI 401)
Professor R. Meagher
McGraw-Page Library, 1:00-2:15
Ali Ahmed
Putting out Fires with Flammable Material: U.S. Economic
Sanctions towards Somalia
Katherine Barthol
Strengthening Political Engagement: Overcoming Obstacles to
Professional Participation
Pierce Colley
The Limits of Gun Restrictions
Calvin Davis
The Impact of Democracy on the Use and Recruitment of Child
Soldiers
Ashley Dayton
Does Money Matter? The Relationship between Election
Outcomes and Spending
Umeki Funchess
Religious Freedom in China
Sid Harvey
Loyal Soldiers: The Effective of Military Service on Political
Partisanship
Clint Herrmann
International Athletic Success and Freedom
Elliot Meyer
Crashing the Tea Party
Joseph Siegel
Katrina and New Orleans: Federalism and Accountability
John Stallings
Changing of the Guard: A New Republican Party?
Olivia Vandeveer
Presidential Approval and Supreme Court Voting Behavior
21 Valeria Vargas Brenes
Second-Hand Imperialism: A Neo-Marxist Analysis of Goodwill,
Inc.
Lance Wall
The Price of Security: Law Enforcement Salary and Crime Rates
Parker Williams
Justified Military Intervention in Iraq
Sociology: Disabilities in America (SOCI 228)
Professor J. Trammell
McGraw-Page Library, 1:00-2:15
Service Learning in SOCI 228
Gerti Catharina Maria Beser, Kari Neal Davis, Logan
Elisabeth deTreville, Matthew Liam Doyle, Caroline Davies
Eglseder, Alexandra Morgan Franklin, Avery Rebekah
Hudson, Berkley Ann Isbell, Genevieve Sue Killian, Alexandra
Raleigh Lightfoot, Tyler Morgan Mason, Andrew Howard
Miller, Christopher Alan Moses, Wesley Bowden Orlosky,
Heather Marie Ramey, Julie Adams Schwarz, Rachel
Elizabeth Spencer, Abigail Allyn Spitz, Emerson Hailey
Storch, Courtney Lauren Taylor, Jordan Austin Taylor,
Dashonte Monique Temoney, Ryan Christian Wall, Isaak
Raines Wesselink, Frankie Isabelle Willing, Philip L.Wyatt Jr. Spanish: Second Language Acquisition (SPAN
435)
Professor L. Massery
McGraw-Page Library, 1:00-2:15
Naoko Branker
Frequency and Precision of Ser and Estar in L2 Spanish
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