Presenters for Steinmetz Symposium 2007
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Session I 9:00am – 10:20am (Friday)
Student Environments & Experiences |
ARTS BUILDING – 215
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| Risa Dubow | Understanding the growth of evangelical Christian colleges through studying the social, cultural, and political environments on evangelical college campuses |
| Oriana Eyllon | Understanding the growth of evangelical Christian colleges through studying the social, cultural, and political environments on evangelical college campuses |
| Lauren Foye | The psychology of death: a mock undergraduate course |
| Elizabeth Weiner | Student Experiences at College and Home |
Self-Monitoring Styles |
BAILEY HALL - 201
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| Lauren Brickman | A Correlational Study on Self Monitoring and Collegiate Athletes: Team, Individual, and Non-Athletes |
| Casey Chaffin | Self Monitoring and Product Name Preference |
| Karolina Cikowska | High and Low Self-Monitors: Who Makes a Better Friend? |
| Cara Murphy | Neuropsychological Effects of Alcohol on High-Self Monitor Undergraduate Students |
Neuroscience Biology |
BAILEY HALL – 312
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| Olivier Richard Bouchard | Characterization of leg movements associated with electrical stimulation of the wind induced escape system in the cockroach Periplaneta americana |
| Alessandro Carini | Characterization of leg movements associated with electrical stimulation of the wind induced escape system in the cockroach Periplaneta americana |
| Katie Matho | Visual tracking of prey by dragonfly larvae |
| Brian Oveson | Behavioral and Anatomical Deviance as a Result of Inducing Glaucoma in Rat |
| Kaitlyn Tagarelli | Coding for Velocity and Looming by Target-Selective Descending Neurons in Dragonflies |
Sin, the Soul, and Torture |
HUMANITIES BUILDING – 014
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| Regina Chiuminatto | Characters out of Context: Sketches from works by the masters |
| Gregory Ligon | Storytelling: The Process of Writing a Political Novel |
| Lauren Obst | The Crisis of the Soul: Discipline and Punishment from the Protestant Reformation to Present |
| Vincent Christina | "Sins of Virtue" – Stage Play |
Classics I |
HUMANITIES BUILDING – 019
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| William Dewey | The Ancient World in Film: Case Studies |
| Vanessa Hernandez | Transformation between Life and Death in Ovid’s Metamorphoses |
| Kelley Irmen | How has suicide changed? Political, literary, and philosophical suicides, ancient and modern |
| Doris Lo | The Greek Account of Persian Conquest |
French and Francophone Studies I |
HUMANITIES BUILDING – 112
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| Joseph Ciaburri | Shifting Dynamics of Power and Sexuality in French Film |
| Katherine Davies | Prestige and Knowledge: The System of Higher Education in France and "Les Grandes Ecoles" |
| Justin Silvestri | Resurrecting the French Revolution: From Historians to Popular Culture |
| Ashley Webster | Advertising in France |
Adventures in the Subatomic World |
SCIENCE & ENGINEERING BUILDING – N304
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| Richard Bonventre | Fiducial Cuts for the CLAS G3 Data Set |
| Bob Marvel | Development of a Relativistic Dynamics Experiment |
| Stephen Po-Chedley | EMuon Lifetime Measurements and Determination of the Weak Force |
| Christian Shultz | Momentum corrections for the CLAS g1c and g3a data sets |
Bioengineering & Fluidics |
SCIENCE & ENGINEERING BUILDING – N205
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| Alex Baumbach | A Novel Method to Evaluate Flow in a Prosthetic Bileaflet Heart Valve |
| Craig Ferguson | Modeling the Internal Flow of Droplets Undergoing Electro-capillary Propulsion |
| Brendon Keinath | Demonstrating Altered Kinematics from Ligament Injuries with a Three Dimensional Knee Model |
| Matthew Roginski | Bone Density Distribution in the Symphyseal Region of the Anthropoid Mandible Using Quantitative Micro Computed Tomography |
Applications of Synthetic Chemistry |
OLIN BUILDING – 106
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| Danielle Baldwin | Novel Synthesis of Dendrimers with exact substitution patterns |
| Lauren Carlson | Preparation of C2 Symmetric Transition Metal Complexes as Potential Chiral Catalysts |
| Long Nguyen | Epoxidation of trans-Stilbene with Dioxiranes |
| Jenna Welby | The Synthesis and Structural Characterization of Isotopically Labeled Asymmetric Metal Complexes through Metal Coupling of NMR Active Nuclei |
Cellular and Molecular Biology |
OLIN BUILDING – 107
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| Carolyn Castagna | Phagocyte Function during Death and Regeneration in a Colonial Sea Squirt |
| Eric D'Silva | Mutations in Melanocortin-1 Receptor (MC-1-R) Observed in Plethodon cinereus |
| Stacy Weinzoff | Mutations in Melanocortin-1 Receptor (MC-1-R) Observed in Plethodon cinereus |
| Kristen Laramie | Alternating DNA methylation and histone modifications to regulate gene transcription of luteinizing hormone receptor |
| Erika Selli | The role of Ppt1 during embryonic neural development in Drosophila melanogaster |
Continuity and Change in Middle East Politics |
OLIN BUILDING – 115
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| Kathryn Boucher | A New Reconciliation for the New Millennium: U.S.-Libyan Relations in the 20th and 21st Centuries |
| Michael Eisnach | Technology and Democratization: A Study of Satellite Television and the Internet in the Arab World |
| Maureen Hsia | The History of Judeo-Persian Relations |
| Steve Walker | The Other Side of the World: 13 weeks in the Middle East |
Computer Science & Computer Engineering |
OLIN BUILDING – 306
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| Susan Beckhardt | A Pedagogical Tool for Usability Science |
| Philip Brown | Key Detection of Musical Signals |
| Benjamin Jones | S.A.I.L.S. Sailing Autonomously using an Intelligent Logistician System |
| Michael Siekman | Seismic Octave Programming for Analog to Digital Data Acquisition |
| Kelly Testa | Visualizing Geometric Shapes |
Postwar New York History |
SOCIAL SCIENCES BUILDING – 012
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| Jonathan Thatcher | Losing a Local Identity: Decline and its Impact on Ticonderoga, NY |
| Sara Weiner | Deinstitutionalization and Development of Community Residential Services for the Mentally Disabled in New York |
| Colleen Donlan | The City that Lit Up the World: How General Electric Changed Schenectady |
Topics in Economics I |
SOCIAL SCIENCES BUILDING – 014
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| Stephanie Arango | The Impact of the Early 21st Century Financial Scandals on Socially Responsible Investing |
| Erin Campbell | How the End of the Cold War Changed the Politics of USAID Allocation |
| Michael Grady | To Grow or Not to Grow: The Impact of U.S. Bilateral Foreign Aid on GDP Growth |
| Mark Zagata | The Economic Impact of Casinos in Counties of Different Populations |
Musical Themes |
TAYLOR MUSIC CENTER – 120
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| Brian Card | Acoustical Characterization of Emerson Hall with Quantitative and Qualitative Comparisons to Memorial Chapel |
| Margaret Licht | Freedom Songs in the Civil Rights Movement in their Greater Historical Context |
| Kara McCabe | Lecture Recital of Benjamin Britton’s Song Cycle "Once on This Island" |
| Adam Young | An Analysis and Performance of Erik Satie’s "First Gymnopédie" |
Session II 10:30 – 12:10(Friday)
The Future Professors Present: Cultural Studies, Colonial Pasts and Questions of Race Today |
ARTS – 215
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| Amarilis Francisi | Black Britons: Recollecting West Indian Identity and History in Post-World War II Britain |
| Victoria Leonard | Persil or Perejil: A Study of the Concept of "Borders" between Haiti and the Dominican Republic in their Literatures and Histories |
| Jazmin Puicon | A cultural study of the rural people and working conditions throughout the generations in Del Cauca, Colombia |
Cognitive Psychology |
BAILEY HALL – 201
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| Erica Dean | The Effect of Conceptual and Perceptual Word Processing On False Memories in the RM Paradigm |
| Kelly Fitzpatrick | The Perception of Formal, Informal, and Kreeatif Names |
| Judy Ng | The Effect of Glucose on Relational and Item-Specific Processing as a Function of Glucose gulation Ability |
| Douglas Wald | Asymmetry of Facial Expressions |
| Arisa Yamazaki | Relationship between Desirability to Learn and the Speed of Learning Faces and Names |
Neuroscience Psychology |
BAILEY HALL – 312
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| Megan Abraham | The Effects of Repetitive Trans-Cranial Magnetic Stimulation on Patients with Chronic Bilateral Tinnitus |
| Daniel Andersen | Differential Activation of the Hippocampal Region Involved in Memory Encoding of Item-Specific vs. Relational Processes |
| Michele Goldman | Functional MRI and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing |
| Natasha Ludwig | Behavioral and Neuroimaging Study of Cognitive Skill Learning Related Neuronal Plasticity |
| Sophie Rosenbaum | Face Imaging: Do We Process Our Own Face Differently? |
A Selection of Presentations from Various Disciplines |
HUMANITIES BUILDING – 014
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| Bridget Austin | The Alula: Not just a Hawaiian Greeting: The Alula and its Aerodynamic Effect on Avian Flight |
| Charles Holiday | Building Absurdist Theater on a Conservative Coast |
| Samantha Seide | Visions, Traditions, and the Art of Hyperreality: Concluding Thoughts and Photographs |
| Alexandra Toney | Laponite/EviDot Nanocomposite White LEDs |
Latin-American Culture and Identity |
HUMANITIES BUILDING – 112
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| Jessica Cardinale | A Study of Political Cartoons in Latin America |
| Jennifer Dalenta | Ancient wonders for modern society: the Incas |
| Chelsea Hargis | Soccer’s Staggering Impact on Latin-American Cultures |
| Sidney Olefson | Our Vision: The Chicano Movement and Muralism |
| Jacob Shaffren | The Identity Crisis of Latin America |
Mechanical Engineering Designing for the Future |
SCIENCE & ENGINEERING BUILDING – N205
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| Brent Blythe | Magneto-Rheological Fluid in Automotive Systems |
| Gregory Kanagaki | Magneto-Rheological Fluid in Automotive Systems |
| James Doane | Active Surface Airfoil: Airflow Control through Moving Boundaries |
| Michael Kiefer | Design of a Light-Powered Space Elevator Prototype |
| Matthew Leibel | Design of a Light-Powered Space Elevator Prototype |
| Matthew Waddell | Design of a Light-Powered Space Elevator Prototype |
| Gordon Single, Jr. | Inventing a medical device and bringing it to market |
Chemical Biology |
OLIN BUILDING – 106
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| Aaron Almeida | The Synthesis and Evaluation of Novel Molecular Transporters |
| Megan Flahive | Cellular Uptake of Synthetic Molecular Transporters in MDCK Epithelial Cells |
| Katie Lee | The effects of the drug AFPep on the rat estrous cycle |
| Alexandra Paul | Determination of species identity of a previously uncharacterized Bacillus subtilis bacterium and the characterization of its antifungal properties |
| Felicia Spector | The Survival of the Allegheny woodrat: The Evaluation of a Possible Anti-Parasitic Compound in Paulownia tomentosas |
Mathematics I |
OLIN BUILDING – 107
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| Philip Biller | Using Polynomial and Normal Bases to Represent Finite Fields |
| Jessica DiMarco | John L. Drost’s Proof of Ramanujan’s Mod 7 Congruence Theorem |
| Thomas Mazur | Homology and Detector Networks |
| David Osei-Amoateng | Infinite Series and Approximations of Pi |
| Jacqueline Palermo | Public-key Encryption With Chebyshev Polynomials |
Topics in Political Science |
OLIN BUILDING – 115
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| Alla Abramov | Understanding through Experience: Research and Political Poetry in Europe's Last Dictatorship |
| Karyn Amira | Students for a Mine-Free World: A Grassroots Political Action Campaign |
| Jonathan Kurman | A Comparative Analysis of Medical Specialties’ Views Toward Health Care Reform |
| Jason Lager | The Debate over Medical Marijuana and Why the Federal Government has Denied Treatment to the Nation’s Sick |
| Max Zimbert | Idealism and Realism: The Rise, Peak, and Fall of Woodrow Wilson and the League of Nations |
New Advances in the Geosciences |
OLIN BUILDING – 307
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| Evan Bargnesi | Constraining depositional ages on detrital zircon in rocks of the San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth – SAFOD |
| Scott Brady | Dating thermal maximums of the Mosherville Sandstone Member of the Galway Formation of the Cambro-Ordovician Beekmantown Group using detrital zircon fission-track thermochronology. |
| Matthew Smith | A Paleoclimatic Record, Interpreted by Stable Isotope Ratios, Laguna Yuraicocha, Peru |
| Bethany Spence | Analysis of Oxygen and Carbon Stable Isotopes of Lake Yuraicocha Sediment Core, Peruvian Andes |
| Peter Wilson | Thermal history of the Potsdam Sandstone in the eastern Adirondacks determined by fission track dating of detrital zircons |
Topics in History |
SOCIAL SCIENCES BUILDING – 012
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| Benjamin Foster | The South Manchurian Railway Company |
| Emily French | A New Look at Early New England: A Fishing Plantation at Richmond Island, Maine, 1632-1642 |
| Hiu Ching Lo | Cha Chaan Teng: An Investigation into Hong Kong cultural politics |
| Megan Sesil | The Changing Face of Schenectady during its Successful Days: 1880-1930 |
| Christopher Zona | Fascism and Mafia: Italian Political Totalitarianism versus Sicilian Cultural Phenomenon |
Topics in Economics II |
SOCIAL SCIENCES BUILDING – 014
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| Carli McNeill | The Effect of the World Wide Web on Voting Behavior Among Young Adults |
| Lindsay Quereau | Understanding the Yield Curve as a Financial Indicator: Past to Present |
| Jeffrey Scheer | Are Immigrants Displacing Native U.S. Workers? An Econometric Study of the Impact of Immigration on Native U.S. Unemployment Rates |
| Nathaniel Standish | A Data Envelopment Analysis of Major League Baseball, 1998-2006 |
| Eric Strader | The oil price-U.S. Macroeconomy Relationship: Has the United States been able to insulate itself from the effects of an oil shock? |
Classics II |
HUMANITIES BUILDING – 019
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| Catherine Caldwell | Subjugated Heroines: Women in Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita |
| Gianna Hegarty | Perceptions of Caesar: Past and Present |
| Jennifer Sacks | The Role of Food in Roman Literature |
| Margaret Southwell | Food as a Mechanism of Social Interaction in Ancient Rome |
| Albert Vanderlaan | American Empire and the Resulting Class Structure: A Roman Model to Explain a Modern Struggle. Departments of Classics and Political Science |
Session III 12:20 – 1:50(Friday)
Performance Arts |
NOTT MEMORIAL |
DANCE PERFORMANCES |
Faculty Sponsor & Show Director - Miryam Moutillet |
| Dance Experience Collaborative | |
| Propose, Process | Directed by Miryam Moutillet Created and performed by Randi Cerini, Sarah Coleman, Theresa Foito, Lorlette Haughton, Joseph Hunziker, Jamie Luguri, Lacey Morgan and Amelia Whitney |
| Dance Projects | |
| Boot Camp | Choreographed by Eliza Schlesinger Dancers: Randi Cerini, Lisa Crescenzo, Jen Fleisher, Oriana Ellyon, Katharine Gould, Adrienne Hart, Shauna Keeler, Kira Moldow, Kaitlyn O’Connor, Rachael Peters, Janielle Porter, Brittany Prescott, Jenny Riskin, Eliza Schlesinger and Sara Weiner |
| Lampellipodia | Choreographed by Janielle Porter Dancers: Kelsey Allen-Dicker, Janielle Porter and Eliza Schlesinger |
| Cairdéan | Choreographed and performed by Laura Hitchinson |
| Ballet II and III Students | |
| Rock’n Toes | Choreographed by Miryam Moutillet Assistant Choreographer: Rachael Peters Duet by Rachael Peters and Marcus Rogers Dancers: Carly Aimi, Gina Chiuminatto, Lisa Crescenzo, Risa Dubow, Colleen Easton, Oriana Eyllon, Anna Finlay, Theresa Foito, Laura Hutchinson, Shauna Keeler, Alexandra Lindsay, Kira Moldow, Kaitlyn O’Connor, Rachael Peters, Brittany Prescott, Marcus Rogers, Monica Tse, and Sara Weiner |
| Modern Dance Students | |
| Crimson Mode | Choreographed by Miryam Moutillet Dancers: Annie Benfield, Anna Finlay, Jen Fleischer, Shauna Keeler, Katie Newingham and Janielle Porter |
| Jazz II Dance Students | |
| Choreographed by Marcus Rogers Dancers: Carly Aimi, Kelsey Allen-Dicker, Valerie Angell, Randi Cerini, Lisa Crescenzo, Risa Dubow, Jen Fleischer, Amy Gold, Jessica Goldberg, Meryl Goldstein, Katherine Gould, Oriana Eyllon, Shauna Keeler, Kira Moldow, Katie Newingham, Kaitlyn O’Connor, Rachael Peters, Brittany Prescott, Eliza Schlesinger, Sara Weiner, and Sami Zayas |
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| Tap Dance Students | |
| New York New York | Choreographed by Marcus Rogers Dancers: Carly Aimi, Kelsey Allen-Dicker, Valerie Angell, Rachael Bennett, Lisa Crescenzo, Risa Dubow, Oriana Eyllon, Katie Newingham, Kaitlyn O’Connor, and Caileigh Warren |
| Tap Dance Students | |
| Against the Music | Choreographed by Amber Woemer Dancers: Randi Cerini, Lisa Crescenzo, Jen Fleischer, Amy Gold, Katharine Gould, Adrienne Hart, Allison Levy, Sara Mark, Kira Moldow, Rachael Peters, Brittany Prescott, Jenny Riskin, Eliza Schlesinger, and Katie Sofia |
| The Ballroom Dance Club | |
| Low Riders | Choreographed by Lisa Crescenzo, Lindsay Cohen, Kira Moldow, Rachael Peters and Eliza Schlesinger Dancers: Anna Bastian, Steven Boddorff, Emily Burgess, William Deegan, Laura Hutchinson, Megan Hyndman, Sarah Jensen, James Martin, Ben Miles, Thang Pham, Matthew Roginski, Casey Sheridan, Joshua Smith and Monica Tse |
| Independent Choreographers | |
| Status | Choreographed and performed by Marcus Rogers |
| Bhangra | Choreographed by Santos Avila and Jeffrey Avilash Dancers: Amit Jain, Jay Shah, and Santos Avila |
| Curtain | Full Cast |
| For this performance, we want to thank the Internal Education Foundation, David Hayes, Interim Dean of Arts and Sciences, and the Theater Program for their technical support. |
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SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS |
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Demonstration |
OLIN COURTYARD
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| Mark Angeloni | The Unveiling of the Union College 100 MPG Challenge Vehicle |
| Michael Guigli | The Unveiling of the Union College 100 MPG Challenge Vehicle |
| Justin Molé | The Unveiling of the Union College 100 MPG Challenge Vehicle |
SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS |
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Movie Premiere Showing |
BEUTH HOUSE GREAT ROOM
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| Daniel Amira | How Green is My Union? Sustainability at Union College |
Poster Presentations |
OLIN ROTUNDA
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| Tia Bumpus | Unraveling the Molecular Mechanism by which IgAc5 Protects Intestinal Epithelial Cells from Infection by Shigella flexneri |
| Fenghua Chen | Silent Alarm System |
| Su Huang | Silent Alarm System |
| Demorie Crawford | Andy Warhol as Sociologist and Activist Redefines Art |
| Molly Garrett | Garden Design |
| Michael Nolan Jr. | Nanoparticle Size and Self-assembly within Nanoclay Hybrid Films |
| Keith Rice | Design of a Human Powered Distillation System |
| Megan Smith | Female Figure Studies in Photography and Sculpture |
| Michael Topka | FTIR Studies of QD/PANI/Laponite Films for Nanophotovoltaics |
Session IV 2:00 – 3:20 (Friday)
Art History |
ARTS BUILDING – 215
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| Kaitlin Capobianco | The Stories Behind the Faces: The Link between UC Alumni Portraits and History |
| Cassandra Denefrio | Artistic Interpretations of Classical Texts: Renaissance illustrations of &qupt;pudor" (shame) in Ovid's metamorphoses |
| Hadley Planting | Contemporary American Landscape Painting |
Latina(o) Immigrants and Ethnic Identity: Contemporary Issues |
BAILEY HALL – 201
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| Leidy Colon | Latina Domestic Workers in New York City: Cleaning and Caring in the City that Never Sleeps |
| Colin Foard | Mexican New Jersey: Pueblan Immigrants in Non-traditional Locales |
| Allyson Pereyra | The Possible Relationship between Ethnic Identity and Academic Motivation |
Topics in Psychology and Neuroscience |
BAILEY HALL – 312
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| Amanda Carpenter | Examining Improgan’s Mechanism of Action Using the Cannabinoid Tetrad Test and CC12 Antagonism |
| Julie Condit | The Effects of Adult Attachment Style On Jealousy Within Close Relationships |
| Caroline Majsak | The Effects of Smiling and Attractiveness on Persuasion |
| Heidi Millar | Entering the Workforce: an analysis of early employment initiatives for foster youth in care |
A Selection of Presentations from Various Disciplines |
HUMANITIES BUILDING – 014
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| Michael Bono | Union Encounters: Sophomore Project in Intaglio Printmaking |
| Matthew Carlson | Improving Dynamic Difficulty in Video Games |
| William Deegan | Graphic Novel Art Technique |
| Ursula Williams | The Popular Perception of Science and its Grounding in Junior High School Science Education |
English Honors Thesis: Critical Approaches |
HUMANITIES BUILDING – 019
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| Hillary Benoit | Jane Austen’s Balance between Surrender and Provocative Rebellion |
| Robin Soule | A Mother’s Voice: The Search for Maternal Representation in Women’s Novels |
| Lauren Foye | Surviving the land and man: the realist metaphor in Western American literature |
| Kathryn Kaufman | Fighting the Male Gaze in the Novels of Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë |
Transatlantic Identity: France and Beyond |
HUMANITIES BUILDING – 112
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| Katherine Crosby | L’Américanisation de la France/ The Americanisation of France |
| Matthew Smith | The Globalization of Horse Racing: A Comparative Look at the "Sport of Kings" in the United States and France |
| Kaitlyn Tagarelli | French Creole Language in Martinique and its Role in Cultural Identity in a French Department |
| Alexandra Valenti | The Cuisine of Martinique: Influences of Yesterday and Today |
Environmental Awareness, Sustainability & Analysis |
OLIN BUILDING – 115
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| Daniel Amira | Environmental Sustainability at Union College |
| Kate Swartz | Promoting Environmental Awareness Amongst College Students |
| Amanda Mishler | Sorption of Ultra-Violet Filter Chemicals to Natural Sediments |
| Alexander Krickx | Mercury Detection and Concentration in Seafood by PIXE (Proton Induced X-Ray Emission) Using Union College’s Pelletron Particle Accelerator |
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology |
OLIN BUILDING – 106
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| Melissa Fox | Cloning and Expression of a Putative Metacaspase from Schizophyllum commune |
| Brian Gulack | Cloning and Expression of a Truncated Metacaspase from Schizophyllum Commune |
| Jason Ortolano | Ubiquitination of the Follicle Stimulating Hormone Receptor |
| Brianne Phillips | The Cloning of the Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) Natural Killer Cell Marker CD56 Gene |
Organisms and Their Environment |
OLIN BUILDING – 107
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| Mamadou Fall | The effect of pH on Tick development |
| Ashleigh Schaublin | The Role of Visual Motion in Eliciting Attention in the Lizard Anolis sagrei |
| Michael Smirnov | The Role of Visual Motion in Eliciting Attention in the Lizard Anolis sagrei |
| Sarah Webb | Moss Canopy Structure as a Influencing Factor on Photosynthetic Capacity and Evapotranspiration |
| Jessica Zima | The Effect of Surface Roughness on Light Attenuation in Moss Canopies |
Mechanical Engineering: Engines |
SCIENCE & ENGINEERING BUILDING – N205
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| James Arner | Thermoelectric Heat Recovery from an Automobile Engine |
| Michael Bogino | Setting up a Diesel Test Bed to Compare Bio-Diesel with Petro-Diesel |
| Brian Feldman | Tracer Experimentation in a Hydrogen Fueled Internal Combustion Engine |
| Stephen Frymire | Development of an Electrically Powered On-Demand Supercharger for a Small Displacement Engine |
Exploring Galaxies, Nebulae and Black Holes |
SCIENCE & ENGINEERING BUILDING – N304
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| Nathaniel Hawes | Theoretical Modeling of Exploding Black Holes |
| James Read | Mapping the Magnetic Field of a Compact Radio Galaxy |
| Crystal Smith | The Analysis of Proton- and Neutron-rich Elemental Abundances created in Outflows from Gamma-Ray Burst Accretion Disks |
| Joshua Smith | Spectroscopy of the Orion, Eskimo, and Ghost of Jupiter Nebulae at the Union College Observatory |
US Sports History |
SOCIAL SCIENCES BUILDING – 012
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| Michael Kissane | Major League Baseball During World War II: The Positive Effects of Major League Players on the Battle Field and of Baseball’s Charitable Efforts on the Home Front, Compared to the Impact of the War Felt by Baseball |
| Jason Lager | Ty Cobb and His Infamous Behavior |
| John Letizia | Why Can’t We Play Anymore? Are Men Being Discriminated Against in College Sports and by Whom? |
| Kyle Murphy | The D`ecline of African American participation in baseball: 1970-2007 |
Health Economics |
SOCIAL SCIENCES BUILDING – 014
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| Mathew Cyriac | Do physicians spend less time with Medicaid patients than they spend with private insurance patients? |
| Amit Rajput | The Potential Future of Health Care Policy: A Demographic Analysis of the Effects of Health Care Factors on Life Expectancy |
| Michael Wolf | The Economic Impact of an Influenza Pandemic in New York State |
| Jonathan Young | Vaccinating the Next Generation: Are Children with Foreign-Born Mothers Less Likely to Receive Recommended Immunizations? |
Photography Exhibit |
SOCIAL SCIENCES LOUNGE (ACROSS FROM ROOM 215)
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| Nancy Borowick | Maintaining Tradition in America: The Guyanese of Schenectady |
Session V 3:30 – 5:10(Friday)
Social Psychology |
BAILEY HALL – 201
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| Michael Epstein | Moderating Attitude Resilience under Valence Framing Effects using Relevance Manipulations |
| Leigh Ann Holterman | The Effect of the Ease of Retrieval Phenomenon on Resistance to Persuasion and Attitude Certainty |
| Kara Huston | Effect of plastic surgery on males’ perceptions of women with hourglass figures |
| Shirel Kozak | Effects of Straw Man Arguments on Persuasion: The Moderating Role of Personality |
| James Shand | Osama Obama and the Gravity of Motivation: The Innuendo Effect Revisited |
Developmental Psychology |
BAILEY HALL – 312
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| Heather Bernstein | The Effect of Self-Monitoring on Adolescents’ Susceptibility to Peer Pressure and Interest in Romantic Relationships |
| Kate Domnarski | Children’s Stereotypes of Others with Exceptionalities Based on Appearance |
| Sandra Mandell | Personality factors and parenting styles that predict alcohol related problems |
| Joseph Nimon | The effects of an osteoporosis exercise program on executive function and quality of life in older adults |
| Jessica Steger | Parental Influences on Adolescents’ Occupational Aspirations |
English Honors Thesis: Creative Writing |
HUMANITIES BUILDING – 019
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| Stephanie Spano | Highway Through Cholame: A Portrait of James Dean |
| Ross Marvin | Approaching the American Cliché |
| Michele Curiale | Not That Kind of Girl |
French and Francophone Studies II |
HUMANITIES BUILDING – 112
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| Danielle DeNufrio | Gender Performance in France and Japan |
| Gregory d'Otreppe | The Origins of Flemish Hostility towards Francophone Culture |
| Abbey Massoud-Tastor | France and the Jews: A Tumultuous Relationship |
Gallery Talk |
NOTT MEMORIAL
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| Stephanie Berlind | IInfinite Images: Technologies of Printmaking and Beyond |
Anthropological Research Around the Globe |
OLIN BUILDING – 106
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| William Dewey | The Impact of International Tourism on the Economy and Culture of Kyrgyzstan |
| Vanessa Dumonet | Coping With Loss: Grieving after Miscarriage, Stillbirth and Abortion |
| Daniel Felder | Food Choice in America: The Social Factors Which Determine What We Eat |
| Andrew Maryniuk | Tasmanian Aboriginal Identity |
| David Shulman | Access to antiretroviral medicine and the social and economic well-being of Sub-Saharan Africa |
Mathematics II |
OLIN BUILDING – 107
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| Susan Beckhardt | Graphs with Knotted Hamiltonian Cycles |
| Giselle Parrelli | Germain’s Theorem |
| Jaclyn Siedlecki | Incommensurable Magnitudes, Irrational Numbers, and the Pythagoreans |
| Peter Wright | Relating Functions to Relations |
| Leah Ziamandanis | Ancient Greek Mathematics: A look at the first notions of calculus |
Mechanical Engineering: Things That Go |
SCIENCE & ENGINEERING BUILDING – N205
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| Zack Cramer | Design and Fabrication of a Custom Gearbox for Union SAE Baja |
| Adam Danaher | Pneumatic Anti-Flip Mechanism for an All Terrain Vehicle |
| Manfred Rojas | Design of a Remote-Controlled Airplane for the SAE AERO East Design Competition |
| Todd Sifleet | Design of a Remote-Controlled Airplane for the SAE AERO East Design Competition |
| Jacob Zwaik | Design of a Remote-Controlled Airplane for the SAE AERO East Design Competition |
| Price Williams | Development of drag reducing boat-tail plates for use on tractor trailers |
Shedding Light on Light, Atoms and Art |
SCIENCE & ENGINEERING BUILDING – N304
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| Steve Herron | Laser Ablation in Art Restoration |
| Matthew Lockwood | Anti-Reflective Coating of a Diode Laser System |
| Mike Mastroianni | Radioactive Background Measurements using Atom Trap Trace Analysis |
| Thomas Mazur | Exploring the Quantum Behavior of Light Experimentally Via Spontaneous Parametric Downconversion |
| Luther Vucic | An Introductory Look at Sonoluminescence: Converting Sound into Light |
Feminism, Femininity and Women's Writing |
SOCIAL SCIENCES BUILDING – 012
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| Mary Berkery | The Role of Gender in the Vietnam Antiwar Movement and the Shift to Feminism, with an Emphasis on Union College, Skidmore College, Williams College, and St. Lawrence University |
| Elizabeth Gustafson | Universal Feminism |
| Stephanie Hadcock | Shiva as depicted throughout various Jewish women writers’ texts in comparison to Catholic funerals |
| Kate Isler | The Norms of Femininity and their Manifestation on the Female Body: A Cross-Cultural and Historic Critique of Female Subordination |
| Allegra Lanzara | They All Write About the Same Thing, Right? The Myth of Jewish Women’s Writing |
Income Growth Across Countries |
SOCIAL SCIENCES BUILDING – 014
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| Kelly Bayne | Productive Health: Behavioral health as a significant determinant of human capital and its effect on GDP per capita |
| Simi Koshy | Democracy, Divisions, and Divergence: A Study of Economic Growth in Indian States |
| James Martin | Foreign Direct Investment and the Growth in Income of the Poor |
| Vishal Patel | Impact of Trade Liberalization on Income Inequality: Cross Country Analysis |
Aerogels |
OLIN BUILDING – 115
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| Matthew Ernst | Optimization of aerogels for transparent insulation in a window design |
| John Ferrarone | Spectroscopic Analysis of Oxygen Sensing Aerogels |
| Jason Melville | Preparing Hydrophobic Silica Aerogels via the Rapid Supercritical Extraction Technique |
| Adam Reeve | Characterization of Silica-based Aerogels: Surface Area, Pore Size Distribution, Density, and Infrared Spectroscopy |
Electrical Engineering |
OLIN BUILDING – 306
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| Daniel Fishman | Automatically Tuned MP3 Transmitter for Vehicles |
| Saim Jafri | Automatically Tuned MP3 Transmitter for Vehicles |
| Michael Thylur | Automatically Tuned MP3 Transmitter for Vehicles |
| Timothy Jayko | Design, Implementation, and Application of a Microstrip Patch Antenna Array |
| Andrew Lockwood | Autonomies Infrared Guidance System |
Session VI 9:30 – 10:50(Saturday)
A Selection of Presentations from Various Disciplines |
HUMANITIES BUILDING – 014
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| Cooper Hammarlund | Skiing Faster: Application of Drag reduction Techniques to the Design of a More Aerodynamic Ski Helmet |
| Julia Mathew | Attitudes toward Arranged Marriage among Second-Generation Indian-Americans |
| Katie Matho | Should military physicians force-feed detainees at Guantánamo Bay? |
| Margaret Southwell | The Book: Publishing an Exploration of the History of Publishing |
Assessment of the Minerva System and Union's Campus Culture |
HUMANITIES BUILDING – 019
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| Christopher Backlund | Assessment of the Minerva System and Union’s Campus Culture |
| Rachel Fitz | Assessment of the Minerva System and Union’s Campus Culture |
| Andrew Kantor | Assessment of the Minerva System and Union’s Campus Culture |
| Sarah Krammen | Assessment of the Minerva System and Union’s Campus Culture |
| Cara Murphy | Assessment of the Minerva System and Union’s Campus Culture |
| Erin Plasse | Assessment of the Minerva System and Union’s Campus Culture |
| Carl Winkler | Assessment of the Minerva System and Union’s Campus Culture |
The Yin and Yang of Reproductive Endocrinology |
OLIN BUILDING – 106
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| Olga Davydenko | Mutagenesis Analysis of the 14-3-3 Tau with Endoloop Two of the FSH Receptor |
| Tabitha Manero | Investigation of Signal Transduction for an FSH Receptor Mutant |
| Sarah Shea | Investigation of the G-protein coupled receptor (GPCR) spare receptor hypothesis |
| Jonathan Young | Transducing Signals Through the Follicle-Stimulating Hormone Receptorh |
New Orleans Service Trip: December 2006 |
OLIN BUILDING – 115
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| Aaron Goldman | Student Service Trip to New Orleans, Round II: Giving Voice to What We Saw, Heard…and Learned |
| Mary Berkery | Student Service Trip to New Orleans, Round II: Giving Voice to What We Saw, Heard…and Learned |
| Risa Dubow | Student Service Trip to New Orleans, Round II: Giving Voice to What We Saw, Heard…and Learned |
| Bilal Mahmood | Student Service Trip to New Orleans, Round II: Giving Voice to What We Saw, Heard…and Learned |
Voting, Political Participation and Leadership |
SOCIAL SCIENCES BUILDING – 014
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| Fields Donegan | Politics and the Punk Movement: a study of the punk subculture, how the subculture has influenced politics and how politics has in turn, influenced the subculture |
| James Ortmann | Values, Frames and Party Identification: A Look at Voting Behavior and How it Can Be Predicted |
| Walter Roesch | Leadership, Fear and the Constitution |
| Heidy Sanchez | How and Why Youth Political Participation Matters |
Session VII 12:30 – 2:00(Saturday)
Poster Presentations |
REAMER CAMPUS CENTER ATRIUM
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| Sarah Britton | A Mathematica Model of the CNO Cycle |
| Philip Brown | Key Detection of Musical Signals |
| Lauren Carlson | Heterocyclic Schiff Bases: Study of the Effects of the Heteroatom on Cyclization and Oxidation |
| Jenna Welby | Heterocyclic Schiff Bases: Study of the Effects of the Heteroatom on Cyclization and Oxidation |
| Vanessa Dumonet | "Sights, Tastes, and Change: The Transformation of Napa Valley and its Wine Industry" |
| Sara Melton | "Sights, Tastes, and Change: The Transformation of Napa Valley and its Wine Industry" |
| Sam Madden | SHG Characterization of NLO Dyes included within Laponite Nanoclay Films |
| Rachael Peters | Direct amide aldol reactions with aldehydes: Surprising Weinreb amide reactivity |
| Andrew Rariden | Throttling an Internal Combustion Engine with Variable Valve Timing |
| Jessica Reichbind | Suitability of silica aerogels as platforms for sensors based on phosphorescent probes |
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Visual Arts Exhibition - May 4th and 5th
Burns Arts Atrium Gallery |
Arts Building |
| DRAWING AND PAINTING EXHIBITION Faculty Sponsors – Sandy Wimer and Andrea Hersh |
PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION Faculty Sponsor – Martin Benjamin |
DRAWINGS
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| SCULPTURE EXHIBITION Faculty Sponsor – Chris Duncan |
PRINTMAKING EXHIBITION Faculty Sponsor – Sandy Wimer |
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| DIGITAL EXHIBITION Faculty Sponsor – Fernando Orellana |
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Union College Jazz Ensemble 1:00 – 2:00(Saturday)
Professor Timothy Olsen, Director
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The Union College and Community Orchestra
and the Union College Choior
STEINMETZ CONCERTFriday, May 4, 2007 8:00 p.m. – Memorial Chapel Victor Klimash, Conductor |
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PROGRAM |
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I |
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Zadok the Priest |
George Fideric Handel |
| Zadok the priest | |
| And all the people rejoiced | |
| God save the king | |
| The Union College Choir | |
| The Union College and Community Orchestra | |
II |
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Romance in F major for Violin and Orchestra, Opus 50 |
Ludwig van Beethoven |
| Colin Foard ’07, violin | |
| The Union College and Community Orchestra | |
INTERMISSION |
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III |
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Carmen Suite No. 1 |
Georges Bizet |
| Prelude | |
| Aragonaise | |
| Intermezzo | |
| Segedille | |
| Les dragons d' Alcala | |
| Les Toreadors | |
| The Union College and Community Orchestra | |