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

Friday, April 15, 2005

 

Preliminary Program

8:30 – 9:00

Registration
AD Lobby

9:00

Welcome
AD Auditorium

 

 

Student Presentations

 AD 102

AD 103

AD 104

AD 205

9:20 – 9:35

Jeremiah Owens
Go, and come no more…: Fyodor Dostoevsky and Friedrich Nietzsche set the stage for a world without God

Christin Upshaw
Complexities in Eyewitness Testimony – Memory is not Perfect, Especially when Observing Events with Multiple Actors

Nicole Neubauer
The North American Free Trade Agreement as a Two-Level Game and Implications for the Free Trade Area of the Americas

Rachel Chamberlain
Beyond Cultural Relativism?  The Implications of Moving Past the Culture Concept in Anthropology

9:40 – 9:55

Ariana Magdaleno
La identitad sexual de las mujeres en la literatura caribena (Women’s Sexual Identity in Caribbean Literature)

Paul McCurdy
Isolation and Structure Elucidation of Bioactive Compounds from a Marine Fungus Cultured from a Plakortis Sponge

Mindy McLester
An Ocean Apart:  Campaign Finance in the United States and Great Britain

Michael Degani
Rituals of Revolution:  Anarcho-Primitivism and Globalization

10:00 – 10:15

John Reck
Hell Broke Loose:  The Evolution of English Radicalism From Skepticism to Antinomianism

Morgan Cable
Developing Novel Methods for the Detection of Bacterial Spores in Extreme Environments

Karla Gabriela Dominguez
Comparative Immigration Policy:  Out of the country or out of Society?  Case study of the United States and Spain

Sarah Bourget
Hot-Cold Medicine Revisited

10:20 – 10:35

Break

10:40 – 10:55

Matthew Snyder
Monism, Mortalism, and Milton

Valentine Sobirov
Embarking on DSP, DFT, and DWT

Rachel Braun
Silvio Berlusconi and Italian Democracy:  Challenge and Consolidation

Chauncey Graham
Them Niggers Ain’t Black…:  African Americans, the U.S. Communist Part, and the Construction of a Cultural and Political Identity

11:00 – 11:15

Savannah McClelland
Nudity in 17th Century England and Milton’s Paradise Lost

Laura Lynch
Numerical Integration of Linear and Nonlinear Wave Equations

Rigers Gjyshi
Democratization Challenges in Post-Communist Europe:  The Case of Albania

Gretchen Myers
Clothing and Gender Identity in Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness and Sarah Waters’ Tipping the Velvet

11:20 – 11:35

Niina Pollari
Openness and Putrefaction:  The Ear as a Symbol of Female Vulnerability in Milton’s “Comus” and Paradise Lost

Stacy Crawford
Mitochondrial localization of telomerase in yeast may bring about increased mitochondrial mutations

Noemi Coltea
Good Morning America:  Television’s Role in Political Election Campaigns 

Margaret Bichler
Suspicious Closets:  Gay Marriage, the Perverse Implantation and Suspect Classification

 

 

Lunch

 

1:00 – 2:00

Honors College Forum, AD Auditorium
Dr. Teresa Reyes, Scripps Florida
Immune and Central Nervous Systems Interactions:  Implications for Appetite and Metabolism

2:00 – 4:00

 

Poster Session, HC Building

 

Hiyam Ahmad, Dr. Paul Kirchman
A comparison of the effects of manganese and copper-zinc superoxide dismutases on Saccharomyces cerevisiae growth and survival.

Amanda Kennedy
Just Reproductive Vessels? A Feminist Critique of Gendered Technology

Emily Allard
Listeners’ Perceptions of Speech And Language Disorders

Erin Kidwell    
The Induction and Resuscitation of Various Escherichia coli Strains into and from the ‘Viable but Non-Culturable’ State

Rebecca Balter
The Five-Factor Model and Contemporary Attitudes Towards Marginalized Groups

Atalia Lapkin
The Construction of Gender through Corsets and Brassieres.

Gabriela Botta and Dr. Paul Kirchman
Copper supplementation extends yeast life span 
under conditions requiring respiratory metabolism

Gretchen Myers
Technologies of Changing/Blurring Genders, From Drag Performance to Transsexual Surgery

Heather J. Boyer
Cosmetics and the Composition of Femininity

Annemarie K. Phelan, Julie L. Earles, Ph.D., Alan W. Kersten, Ph.D.                                           
Does context affect event memory?

Morgan Cable
Developing Novel Methods for the Detection of Bacterial Spores in Extreme Environments

Bianca Pintado, Jennifer Becker, Alan Kersten, and Julie Earles
Verb Learning in Young Children

Satu Correa
Cultural/Social Practices and the Naturalization of Gender Roles

Danielle R. Reis and Shelia M. Kennison, Ph.D.
The Effect of Trigram Frequency on Second Language Acquisition: Learning French Vocabulary

Shannon DeMond, Edmund Malinowski, and Eugene Smith
Reduction Potential of FAD Determined by Spectroelectrochemistry using Factor Analysis

Stephanie Sabshin
The Big Cat Barrier    

Kari Edelson   
The Effect of Mitochondrial Mutations and Membrane Potential on Metabolic Activity of Yeast

Sara C. Tippins
Creative Fanaticism: Fan Art in the Information Age           

Katie Glatthorn, Misty Hudelson, Julie Earles, and Alan Kersten
Actor Similarity and Unconscious Transference in Eyewitness Memory

Daniela Tortora and Dr. James Wetterer
Ants in myrmecophytic orchids (Caularthron spp.) of Trinidad

Chauncey Graham
Men, Women, and Cooking:  Household Technology and the Construction of Gender

Jessica A. Wassung; Tory Nicole Spokane; Danielle L. Boutte
Memory Errors of Older Adults: The Prevalence of Unconscious Transference Related to Age

Nikki Grottano
G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero? 

Erica J. Young and Patrick Monnier
Subthreshold Inducing Patterns can cause Shifts in Color Appearance

Meghan D. Hoffman
Development’s Impact on Sea Turtle Nesting Beaches Along Florida’s Atlantic Coast: The Effects of Artificial Lighting, Beach Renourishment, and Beach Armoring
 

4:00 – 4:30

Reception
HC Atrium

 


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