Harriet L. Wilkes
Honors College Symposium
for Research and Creative Projects

Friday, April 9, 2004

 

Schedule
 

8:00

Registration, AD Lobby

8:30

Welcome, AD Auditorium

 

STUDENT PRESENTATIONS

AD 103

AD 104

AD 202

AD 204

AD 206

9:00 – 9:15

Rose Moon
Rejecting Motherhood:  The ramifications of ‘favorable’ defenses for ‘baby killers’ with respect to race and class

Jason Lane
Event Memory and Age

Morgan DeFranco
E-Raced:  The shift from the maker to the made

Laura Lynch
Factorization in the Ring Z[]

Tara Warrington
A Reevaluation of the Emergence of the Conspiracy Culture in the United States

9:20 – 9:35

Christine Mancuso
Female members of the Concrete Block Society

Erin Moore
Conscientiousness and Procrastination on Academic Tasks

Erin Brown
An Ironic “The Taming of the Shrew”

Andrew Donovan
Spectral Decomposition of Grid Data

Kathryn Nicole Lewis
Double Take:  Looking Beyond the First Glance at Bush v. Gore and the 14th Amendment

9:40 – 9:55

Peter Rauch
Videogames as Protected Speech

Susie Quintana
Extraversion and Procrastination on Dull Academic Tasks

Brooke Hall
Rave New World:  A Synthesized Generation

Shannon Jessie
Population Dynamics Beyond Classic Lotka-Volterra Models

Brian Pita
Litigation vs. Legislation in the Pursuit for African American Slavery Reparations

10:00 – 10:15

COFFEE BREAK

10:20 – 10:35

Walteria Tucker
Guns vs. Growth: Military Industrial Complex (MIC) Influence and the Economic Effects of Military Spending

Christina Oliver
Secular trends in expressions of positive emotionality:  A study of high school yearbooks

Michael Kerr
Everybody is a Student of Music: the Purposes of Copyright Laws and the Benefits of an Alternative System of  Compensation for Musicians

Shane Sandford
Deletion of SOD1 from Saccharamyces cerevisiae

Sarah M. Deutsch
Voice of the Willing:  Mormon Young Women’s Conceptions of Femininity

10:40 – 10:55

Steve Nicole
The Religious Market of Chile:  Causes for the Growth of Pentecostalism

Erik Pettersson
Decision Making and Personality:  Individual Differences in Prospect Theory

Joanna Bartell
Deconstruction and the Law

Jennifer McIvor
Everglades Restoration and the Ethics of Restoring Ecosystems

Caroline Taylor
Where are Women in Islam?

11:00 – 11:15

Charles Oerter
United States foreign policy:  The maintenance of a unipolar world and the “axis of evil”

Ari Rosenburg
The Structure of Attitudes Towards Civil Rights, Civil Liberties, and Security in Post 9-11 America

Nicholas Yanes
X-Men as a Reflection of Civil Rights in America

Sarah Callendar
Medieval Medicine, Public Health, and the Black Death

Alicia Harraway
Dream and Memory:  Representation of the 1937 Haitian Massacre in the Dominican Republic in Two Texts

11:30 – 12:30

Dr. Mustafa Abu Sway

Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence and Associate Professor of Philosophy and Islamic Studies

Al-Quds University in Jerusalem and the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College of Florida Atlantic University
”Islam and Women:  What paradigm?”
AD Auditorium

12:30 – 2:00

Lunch

2:00 – 4:00

 
POSTER SESSION
HC Building

Marie Barreto, Andrea Gagaoudakis, Maria Rodriguez
Where are the Ammonia Levels in Bait Shrimp Tanks?

Kristen Bunting, Jenna Goldberg, Jeff Meyer, Stephanie Sabshin
Chromatographic Determination of Gasoline Sources

M. Cable, S. Chaney, S. DeMond, S. Reid, J. Tabor, M. Vizcaino, A. Watts
Arson Analysis by Static Head Space Enrichment and Gas Chromatography using Simplex Optimization 

Matthew Carter, Erin Moore, Angelica Rodio, Theresa Smith
The Effect of Gasoline Evaporation in Arson Investigation

Alex Chery, Brian Ruiz, Rebecca Kapolka, Collin Hutton
Calcium-Magnesium Comparison

Alicia DeCicco, Christie Fera, Laura Owens, Melody Strattan
Developing a Mobile Fume Hood

Catherine Derewyanko, Janny E. Pena, Maria Riccardi, Rupa Venkatesh, Curtis Elliot
Biodegradation of Organophosphate Pesticides by Soilborne Microorganisms and its Inhibition

Tara Desrosiers, Heather Marchetti, Andrea Thomasson, Prem Jayanthan
Fun with Mastication:  An analysis of Teeth

Samantha F. Kane, Dr. Nancy A. Jones
Familial Influences on the Development of Empathy in Preschool Children

Kayley Malencia
Over-Expression of Yeast Manganese Superoxide Dismutase in E. coli

Diana Marti
Politics and Public Perceptions of Prescribed Fires in Senescent Scrub Habitat for Endangered Species Management

Paul McCurdy, Dr. Andrea L. Wetterer and Dr. James K. Wetterer
The Tropical Fire Ant, Solenopsis Geminata, on two Sea Turtle Beaches in Costa Rica

Kristen Morrell
Generation of Yeast Mn-SOD Mutants with Increased Activity by Error-prone PCR

Shaleene Persaud-Vasquez, Dr. Paul A. Kirchman
Construction of a Yeast Strain Containing an Allele of SOD2 with Increased Activity

Sonya Reid, Dr. Rakesh Mogul
Lanthanide chelates for protein detection

Kathryn Tiling, Walter Jean-Vertus, Glen Turner, Rachel Guillaume
Solubility Product Constant Trends of Group 2A

Daniela Tortora, Cynthia Danny, Alba Medrano, Elizabeth Jerome, and Long Troung Ho
Silicon content in Cladium jamaicanse and Carex thypha

Christin Upshaw, Becky Balter, Dr. Julie Earles, Dr. Alan Kersten
Memory for Events with Multiple Actors
 

4:00 – 4:30

Reception, HC Atrium

 

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