CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
Thursday 11 August 2005
4:00–6:00 P.M.
WELCOME & PLENARY SESSION A
— 155 DWINELLE HALL —
Welcome Remarks:
Dr. Harold Campbell
UC Berkeley
Director, McNair Scholars Program
Keynote Speaker:
Professor Frank Worrell
UC Berkeley
Graduate School of Education
Falina Enriquez, Plastic Surgery: A Study on the Discourse of
Normalization
Ashanti Mitchell, Ethnic Identity and Institutional Identity in
Minority College Students
Dana Osborne, Proxemic Semiotics: Through the Lens of Structure
7:00 P.M.
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STAFF DINNER
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FACULTY CLUB
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Friday 12 August 2005
9:00–9:55 A.M.
PLENARY SESSION B
— 155 DWINELLE HALL —
Carmen Fortes, Myths and Enchantment Tales: Attraction and
Disillusionment in Same-Sex Romantic Relationships
Joella’Ann McKenzie, Increasing Cooperation in Counterterrorism Using
Game Theoretic Analysis
MODERATOR:
Harold Campbell, Ph.D.
10:00–11:20 A.M.
CONCURRENT SESSION A
156 DWINELLE HALL
MODERATOR:
Ruth Costantini
Edith C. Avendano
equine hypothalmus
Immunohistochemical location of leptin in the
Jonathan Reinig
River Specific Shell Morphology of Emydura Turtles
Marvin Robinson
Aspects of the Reproductive Ecology of the
Bluntface Shiner, Cyprinella camura (Jordan and
Meek), in a Channelized Creek and in an
Unchannelized Creek in the Upper Coastal Plain of
Northern Mississippi
River Ybarra
Investigation of multiple genes for the ZPC
glycoprotein involved in sperm binding in the frog
Xenopus laevis
160 DWINELLE HALL
MODERATOR:
Nili Kirschner
Nicholas Anderson
Coping and Social Support in Relation to
Problematic Internet Use
María José Herrera High Nicotine Dependence and Major Depressive
Episodes in SpanishSpeaking and English-Speaking Smokers Seeking to
Quit Via the Internet
Anitra Mallory
The Relationship Between
Maternal Depression, Alcohol Use and Child
Delinquency in Northern Midwest and Canadian First
Nation Peoples
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Myeshia Price
Ethnic Disparities in HIV
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Jessica Wall
(1972
Audrey Ward
April Willeford
MODERATOR:
Kimberly Bates
William Baird: The Man Behind Eisenstadt v. Baird
The Criminal Object:
Classification and Study of the Criminal Body in
the United States, 1900-1940
A Slippery Slope: Guantanamo Bay
and the Erosion of Legal Norms
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T.J. Huberg
MODERATOR:
Ken Haig
Narrative Criticism of the Queer Lyrical Hip-Hop
Story Told by Marshall Mathers, Eminem, and Slim
Shady
Juan Carlos Parrilla The Psycho Realm: Insight into the Barrio
Tam Tran
a Literary Form
The Narrative Behind Radiohead: Concept Albums as
Kanara Ty
Khmer Hip-Hop
Can't Stop Won't Stop: Exploring the Movement in
122 WHEELER HALL
MODERATOR:
Alison Kaufman
Angela Arriola
The Three 'R's of the California
State University System: Reading, Writing and
Remediation
Shirley Brenton
Constructing Learning: A Documentary Chronicling
the Development and Application of a NonTraditional Pedagogy in Physics Education
Othon Ontiveros
The Influence of No Child Left Behind on New
Mexico’s Classrooms
Sandra Ixa Potter
Developing Fertile Minds
2:00–3:30 P.M.
CONCURRRENT SESSION B
205 DWINELLE HALL
MODERATOR:
Ruth Costantini
Marisa Bautista
Chuchupate on Breast Cancer Cells
Anti-Proliferative Effects of
James Cherwa
phiX174 external scaffolding protein
Structure-function analysis of
Phuc Nguyen
Using One bead one compound combinatorial
libraries to identify the compounds that can block
STAT3 signaling pathway
Daimeyon Williams
Osteogenic Differentiation of Adipose Derived
Mesechymal Stem Cells From Adult Human Lipoplasty
235 DWINELLE HALL
L. Ryan Burns
MODERATOR:
Kimberley Bates
Empirical Evaluation of a Novel Design for an
Electrostatic Quadrupole Triplet Ion Beam Lens
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Amos Judson
Optimizing Bit State Assignments in Sequential
State Machines (SSM)–With Applications in Digital
Vending Machines
Meredith Martin
Characterization of Convection Oven Heat Leakage
Kai Van Horn
Scheme
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Re-examining the Solar Power Control
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MODERATOR:
Nili Kirschner
Stephanie Alfaro
An Examination of the Relationship Between Child
Soldiers and Gang Membership in the Aftermath of
War: The Case of El Salvador
Dominique Amis
Child Witness Responses Reviewed: An Examination
of the Difficulties Children Display When
Questioned in Court
Anna Day
Child Sexual Abuse: What happens to families after
a disclosure of incest?
Sarah Mendoza
Animal Abuse in the Clinical Setting
182 DWINELLE HALL
Danyel Madrid
Dawn Oree
and Industry Trends
MODERATOR:
Ken Haig
Moving in the Magnetic Field: Joan Miró and the
Perforated Line in his Surrealist Paintings
Modern Furniture Design: Roots, Current Practices
Crystal Perl
Interviewing Stones: A Field Survey of Gravestone
Styles, Los Angeles County, 1850–1900
Aishah Saleh
Andy Warhol's Art and the Metamorphosis of Meaning
219 DWINELLE HALL
MODERATOR:
Alison Kaufman
Uche Anene
Legacy Points from 1991 to 2005: A Case Study of
the University of Southern California and its
Effects on Academic Caliber and Diversity of
Student Population
Laura Gutierrez
Self-Segregation: The Latino Floors and Their
Effect on the Formation of Ethnic Identity among
Latino Students at USC
Jaime Rodriguez
What Obstructs and What Advances?: Understanding
the On and Off Campus Experience of Latina and
Latino Community College Students
Michael Younger
Investigating the Phenomenon: The Increasing
College Enrollment of Low-Income African American
Students but the Failure to Obtain College Degrees
4:10 - 5:30 P.M.
CONCURRENT SESSION C
205 DWINELLE HALL
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Wendy Mata
Temporal Dependence of the Solar P-Mode
Oscillation Frequencies to Changes in Solar
Activity
Claudia Santiago
The Search for Complex Molecules in MKN 231
Tony Kelly
Simulations of CMS Silicon Tracking System at UNL
Tier-2 Computing Facility
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MODERATOR:
Ken Haig
Ebony Cunningham
God Cannot Survive Without Music: The
Indispensable Role Music Plays in Sustaining the
Institution of the Black Church
Dana Heatherton
Blood and Basketball: Defining Community through
Japanese American Basketball Leagues
Heidy Medina
Turning Culture into an Incubator for Success:
Understanding the Dynamics of Ethnic Enclaves in
Microfinance Replication
Cesar Rodriguez
Gangs and Community Empowerment
182 DWINELLE HALL
MODERATOR:
Nili Kirschner
Marissa Arango
The College Environment and Its Effects on College
Student Retention
Angie Cerezo
Exploring the Motivations, Aspirations, and
Scholastic Engagement of Latino and African
American Participants of the Fulfillment Fund in
South Los Angeles
Jaqueline Gutierrez Acculturation and Self-Esteem Among Latino/a
College Students
Oscar Mendoza
The Significance of Sense of Belonging in
Fostering Academic Success in Latino College
Students at CSU Sacramento
219 DWINELLE HALL
MODERATOR:
Kimberly Bates
Shareea Butler
An Examination of the Coverage of Suicide in
Essence Magazine: Discovering the Relationship
Between Increased Rates of Suicide in the African
American Community and Rates of Coverage in
Essence Magazine
Marie Krouse
Are we getting the whole picture?: The Absence of
Crime Data in Newspaper Reporting of School
Violence
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Erica Rogers
Intersection of Rhetorical Theory and Critical
Journalism: A Case Study of Public Discourse and
Government Policy
Leticia Williams
From Black and White to Color: Racial
Representation in Animated Children’s Television
235 DWINELLE HALL
Eileen Garcia
Across Generations
MODERATOR:
Gender Differences of Hispanic Cultural Values
Boravy Nhim
Needs in Cambodia
Nkauj Iab Yang
Alison Kaufmann
Discovering Deportee Adjustment
How Tourism Effects the Cultural Identity of the
Hmong Community in Sa Pa, Vietnam
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Saturday, August 13, 2005
9:00-10:00 A.M.
PLENARY SESSION C
— 2050 VALLEY LIFE SCIENCES BUILDING —
Kenia Perez, Analysis of Isotopic Perturbations in Linear Carbon
Molecules
Carmen Catacora, Residual Fatigue Strength of Aluminum 2024-T4 with
FOD
MODERATOR:
Timothy Randazzo
10:00–11:20 A.M.
CONCURRENT SESSION D
156 DWINELLE HALL
MODERATOR:
Ruth Costantini
Stephanie Lopez
Seasonal patterns of one-seed juniper intake by
sheep and goats with or without supplementation of
low or high degradable protein
Elaine Manzanilla
The pattern of expression of the plasma membrane
ion pump LHA2 during tomato root colonization by
endomycorrhizal fungi
Billy Li
Design and Construction of an Apparatus to Measure
the Mechanical Properties of Spider Silk in
Humidity-Controlled Chamber
160 DWINELLE HALL
Melissa Martinho
MODERATOR:
Vanessa Lyon
The Power and Beauty of Cauchy's Inequalities
Arturo Montanez
Random & Illusionary Motion Instrument Training
Simulator System (RIMITSS)
Carol Desiree Preussler
The War Against Spam: an Overview of
Different Spam Fighting Approaches
Joseph Smith
Analytical Modeling of Reinforced
Concrete Bridge Columns Including Variable Axial
Loads
182 DWINELLE HALL
A. Rowan Gard
Trade Routes
MODERATOR:
Nathan Dumas
Olivella Shell Beads and Prehistoric California
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Guadalupe Ramirez
The Postwar Subject: I-dentity Development of
Indigenous Peoples in Guatemala
Theresa Rodriguez
Leisure and Slavery: Surviving Life as an African
American Slave in Mississippi
Blanca Torres
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The Virgin of Guadalupe Among the Aztecs
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Ricardo Ortega
Loss
MODERATOR:
Ken Haig
Yo Soy Latino: 2nd Generation Latinos and Language
Julia Torres
Adjusting to the Rules
Ricardo Valencia
What 1st generation, low-income, Mexican parents
expect from their children and U.S. schools
242 DWINELLE HALL
Lorene Beaudette
MODERATOR:
Nili Kirschner
Traditional Family Systems and Child Delinquency
of Northern Mid-West and Canadian Indigenous
Peoples
Gazi Begum
Child Friendship Quality
Esroruleh Mohammed
Parental Responsiveness Predicts
Acculturative Stress Effects on Maternal Behavior
and Child Attachment in Afghan Families
11:30 A.M.–12:20 P.M.
PLENARY SESSION D
— 2050 VALLEY LIFE SCIENCES BUILDING —
Miguel Luz Sauceda, Repression and a Revolutionary Spirit: Community
Resistance in Early Los Angeles
Miriam Solis, Segregation and Annexation in Modesto, California
MODERATOR:
Nellie Haddad, Ph.D.
2:00–3:20 P.M.
CONCURRENT SESSION E
156 DWINELLE HALL
MODERATOR:
Frank Torres
Nancy Stuebner
The Agonistic and Antagonistic Effects of the
Partial Agonist Terguride in the Striatum of the
Developing Rat
Maika Nguyen
ADAMTS Family and Its Effects on the Density of
the Synapses in the Central Nervous System
Alnecia Rumphs
Reducing the Effects of Ischemia in the Cortical
Neuron Sigma Receptors' REgulation of CA2+ RElaese
from Intracellular Stores
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Thao Tu
Identification of dendritic targeting motifs in
the neuron-specific cell adhesion molecule,
neuroligin
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MODERATOR:
Vanessa Lyon
China Medel
The Language of Food: Women's Culinary Subversion
of the Symbolic Order in Film
Marissa Mejia
Soviet Pop Culture
Nathan Palmer
The Portrayal of the Environment in Children’s
Picture Books Post WWII to the Present
Eric J. Shepard
Exploring the link between quality choral music
education and kinesthetic movement
182 DWINELLE HALL
MODERATOR:
Kimberly Bates
Armando Barragán
Pathways to Mental Health Treatment Among
Mexican/Mexican Americans with Schizophrenia
Vallery Lomas
Advertisements for Psychiatric Medication:
Targeting European American Audiences Differently
than African American Audiences
Vienna Mbagaya
Women’s Voices, Women’s Lives: The Experience of
Men Viewing an HIV/AIDS Prevention Education Film
By and Originally for Women
Jaye Sablan
Collective Experience and Cultural Competence:
Asian/Pacific Islander American Women’s Literature
as a Window to Ethical Practices in the Mental
Health Field
219 DWINELLE HALL
MODERATOR:
Nili Kirschner
Elizabeth Garcia
An Examination of the Relationship between Housing
Segregation and Educational Attainment Among
Dominican’s in New York
September Hargrove
The Impact of Proposition 36 on African American
Women: A Case Study of Alameda County
Dominique Nisperos
Voices of the Disappeared: Non-Governmental
Responses to Violence against Women in Ciudad
Juarez, Ciudad
Vanessa Salazar
Understanding Prosecutorial Decision Making of
Violent Crimes in Bernalillo County
242 DWINELLE HALL
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Biola Awopetu
The Effects of a Speaker’s Race and Gender on
Participants’ Response to a Persuasive Speech on
Multiculturalism
Esra Guleyupoglu
A Communcation Comparison of Native-Born American
Christians and Native-Born American Muslims
Communication Behaviors
Kasey Serdar
Multicultural Relations in Higher Education:
Students’ Perceptions of Professors’ Verbal
Immediacy as Impacted by Race
Jose Manuel Rodriguez
Satisfaction in Life: Higher
Education and Gender Difference on the Perception
of Satisfaction
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4:00-5:30 P.M.
CONCURRENT SESSION
F
160 DWINELLE HALL
MODERATOR:
Ellen Robert
Maya Alphonse
The Widespread Effects of Brazilian Pepper on its
Environment: Laboratory Bioassays with an Aquatic
Invertebrate
Ebony Cunningham
God Cannot Survive Without Music: The
Indispensable Role Music Plays in Sustaining the
Institution of the Black Church
Dahinys Diaz
The Impact of Extended Blackberry Use on the
Musculoskeletal System of the Hand and the Forearm
Emilio Gabbai-Saldate
Terrestrial Dispersal of Juvenile
Endangered Salamanders: The Last Cornerstone
182 DWINELLE HALL
MODERATOR:
Vanessa Lyon
Santos Contreras
The [Art]iculation of the Seemingly Desperate
Danielle Luther
Still Time: A Short Work of Fiction
Jessica Marsden
Religious Conversion in the Greco-Roman Period:
Comparing Jewish, Pagan and Christian Narratives
Alberto Urquidez
Jesus and the Imminent End of the Age
242 DWINELLE HALL
Erica Ginn
MODERATOR:
Kimberly Bates
Tolerance for Ambiguity: Exploring
the Relationship with Commitments, Job
Satisfaction, and Performance
Virginia Jativa
What’s Behind a Name? The Branding of Contemporary
Christian Music Artists
Chan Mang
Efficiency and the Aggregation of
Information: An Exploratory Look into the
Strengths and Weaknesses of Prediction Markets
Stacey Spencer
Finding a Niche: The Launching of a
Potential Magazine for Minority Women
219 DWINELLE HALL
Joshua Graehl
MODERATOR:
Nathan Dumas
A Non-Traditional Approach to
Comparative Economic Analysis: The Case of
Germany, Japan, and the United States
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Andria Parker
Accounting Standards
Japan’s Move Toward International
Derek Wong
Reform Drivers for Late Transition
Economies: A Case Study of Vietnam’s Doi Moi
Reforms
Trenise Wilson
U.S. Wage Inequality: Past, Present, and Future
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156 DWINELLE HALL
MODERATOR:
Nili Kirschner
Ashley Aleman
Phase 1 Cross-Analysis: Antecedents, Experiences,
and Effects of Quantum Change Transformations
Among College Freshmen
Frances Black
Spirituality As A Coping Mechanism
for Discrimination: A Social Psychological Study
Melissa Pognon
An Analysis of Resilience and Coping Mechanisms
Amongst First Generation Haitian-American
Immigrant Women
Gloria Reyes
The Correlation Between Religious
Intrinsic Faith and Educational Outcomes
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Sunday 14 August 2005
9:00-9:50 A.M.
PLENARY SESSION E
— 145 DWINELLE HALL —
Trina Greene,
If You Got It, Floss It: How MTV
Cribs Influences African American Consumption
Jose Martinez,
Cultural to Substantive: The
Evolvement of Spanish-Language Television Advertisements
by the Republican and Democratic Presidential Campaigns of
2000 and 2004
MODERATOR:
Gerald Bryant
10:00-11:20 A.M.
CONCURRENT SESSION G
182 DWINELLE HALL
Dario Gutierrez
MODERATOR:
Kimberly Bates
Reactive Ion Exchange Properties of Perchlorate
Robert Manalu
Tosylation of Alcohol
Nhu Nguyen
Peptidomimetics
Synthesis of Amphilphilic Beta-Turn
156 DWINELLE HALL
MODERATOR:
Nili Kirschner
Kristie Cole
“Rise Up Ye Women”: Female
Representations in Frederic Douglass and Harriet Jacobs
Cherie Hill
Re-Identifying Big Butts and
Hypersexuality: An Analysis of Jawole Zollar’s
Batty Moves
Alexandria Lockett Sexualizing Oppression? Portrayals of Women of
Color in 21st Century Pornography
Delaenya Stapleton
Female Body Through Performance
Vaginal Discourse: Reconnecting The
160 DWINELLE HALL
Marisol Badilla
Migrant Women
MODERATOR:
Nathan Dumas
An Assessment of the Institutionalized Messages to
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Monical Deza
The Effect of Immigrants’ Time
Horizons on the Second Generation Human Capital
Nikolai Papa
Politically Correct Language: A
Study of Governmental Efficacy Among Spanish
Speaking Latinos
219 DWINELLE HALL
MODERATOR:
Jenna Berg
Issues
David Breinstein
Environmental Justice and Water
Ginamarie Lopez
Demonstrating the Policy-Making Process for
Jackson Demonstration State Forest
Jennifer Stevens
Forest
Management of Visitor Behavior in Angeles National
Laura Stevens
Efficient Homes in America
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Tracking the Trends of new Energy
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242 DWINELLE HALL
MODERATOR:
Vanessa Lyon
Jameze James
The Influence of the Generation
Effect on the Accuracy of Judgments of Learning
Jessica Orpilla
a Marathon
Getting High: How Runners Train for
Damien Sanchez
The Impact of Video Game Learning on Cognitive and
Learning Style Development: A Comparative Study of
Adult Learning Principles and Video Game Users
Patrick Williams
Are We So Rash?
Research Into Logic and Deductive Reasoning: Why
11:30AM-12:25 P.M.
PLENARY SESSION F
— 145 DWINELLE HALL —
Natalie Valencia, Multiple threat displays in the stomatopod,
Gonodactylaceus falcatus: identification and function
Jose Alvarez, The Red Mountain Archaeological Project: A Projectile
Point Analysis
MODERATOR:
Harold Campbell, Ph.D.
1:30-2:50 P.M.
CONCURRENT SESSION
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242 DWINELLE HALL
MODERATOR:
Gerald Bryant
Kaci Hoover
Predicting Aquatic Toxicities Using
the Abraham General Solvation Model
Gabriel Jasso
Historical Mine Mystery: Mercury
Deposits in San Bernardino, California
Mat Leonard
Isotopic Effect in Bond
Rearrangement Caused by Sudden Single and Multiple
Ionization of Water Molecules
Linda Ostos
An Analysis of K40, Th232, U238, and
Cs137 Concentrations in Sediment Samples Taken
From Evey Canyon in the San Gabriel Mountains
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Kimberly Hudson
MODERATOR:
Kimberly Bates
Adult Edcuation and Welfare Policy: Work
Activities, Participation Rates, and the
Reauthorization Debate
David Jimenez
Framing Proposition 71: The Debate
Over Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research
Elizabeth Recharte
Tools of Hegemony: How AbstinenceUntil-Marriage and Pledge Programs Perpetuate
through Heterosexism and Sexism
Maggie Wang
Healthcare: A GIS Analysis
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MODERATOR:
Vanessa Lyon
Aaron Allen
The Boondocks in Black and White:
Exploring Biracial Identity Through the Character
Jasmine Dubois
Matthew Andrews
(Re)Examining (Multi)Racial Identity: BlackFilipino Multiracials in the San Francisco-Bay
Area
Erika Noriega
Get In, Where You Fit In: Studying
the Effects of the Socialization Process on SelfIdentification among Biracial Individuals of
Mixed-Minority Groups Only
Kimberly White
Women
Colorism: How Skin Tone Affects African American
156 DWINELLE HALL
Tommy Cavanagh
MODERATOR:
The Effect of Skin Conductance Levels on
Participant Awareness in a Classical Conditioning
Experiment
Ilmo Kotaja
Goodness in the Heart
Elizabeth Mora
Nathan Dumas
The Biology of Compassion: Locating
Does Feigning Amnesia Cause Forgetting?
Gurminder Sandhu
Effects of a Repetitive Security Prime on WellBeing: Long-Term Aspects
160 DWINELLE HALL
Alfonso Martin
Bay Area
MODERATOR:
Nili Kirschner
Discrimination among Latino Day Laborers in the
Maria Reyes
Female Street Vendors in Los
Angeles: Survivors in an Economic Crisis or Entrepreneurs?
Annette Rodriguez
Designed for Production: Copper Mining and the
Racialized Landscape of Southern New Mexico
3:30 - 4:50 P.M.
HALL
CONCURRENT SESSION I—DWINELLE
182 DWINELLE HALL
MODERATOR:
Nathan Dumas
Ortiz Enrique
Preparation of Size Selected Au
Nanoparticles Using Inverse Diblock Copolymer Micelles
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Chong (Mike) Lee
Zinc Sulfide Nanoparticle Precipitation Through a
Sulfate Reducing Bacteria Desulfovibrio Gigas
Jonathan Rose
Steps Toward the Chemical Synthesis of a C6v
Symmetric [6,6] Carbon Nanotube
Anthony Hildoer
Molecule Analysis by Examination of Current Flows
and Multi-Relational Data Mining
160 DWINELLE HALL
MODERATOR:
Vanessa Lyon
Frank Cruz
No Goin’ Back: In-Betweenness, Home
and the Unhomely in The Grapes of Wrath
Bret Nickerson Watching God
Loss and Mourning in Hurston’s Their Eyes Were
Karen Perez
Don Quixote’s White Armor: The
Relationship between Don Quixote and Jesus Christ
Robert Reyes
Animal Imagery in Acosta’s The
Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo and The Revolt of
the Cockroach People
156 DWINELLE HALL
MODERATOR:
Ellen Robert
Summer Gray
The Culture of Science in Education
Research: Evidence-Based Policies and the
Consequences for Minority Students
LaShanna Jones
Mexico
The Untold Contributions of African Descendents in
Holly Roose
Science and Racism: The Transition
from Religious Justifications to Scientific
Justifications of Racism in the Western Hemisphere
Spanning the 18th and 19th Centuries
Wesley Saavedra
Towards a Black Ecological Ethics: Discerning the
Phenomenon of Blackness from the Environment Using
Levinas
242 DWINELLE HALL
Nana Ama Acquah
MODERATOR:
Kimberly Bates
International Election Monitoring
Juan Carlos Alvarez The European Union: A Constitution for Europe
Luiz Batista
Marcella García-Castañon
Deconstructing The Latino Vote: A
Comprehensive Look at Mexican-American, Puerto
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Rican, and Cuban-American Political Participation
and Identity
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