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8:00

Registration, AD Lobby

 

Student Presenters

 

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9:00 - 9:15

 

Tyler  Stubbs
Municipal Privatization: A Case Study of Sandy Springs, Georgia

 

 

 Pierre  Louis        Pentecostalism, Development, and Democracy in Latin America

 

9:15 - 9:30

Jessica  Mahoney
Identification of Gene Expression Patterns during T-Cell Development

Rebeca  Campos
The Private Provision of Public Goods in the Voluntary Carbon Market in the United States

Savannah  McClelland
"He is dead": an examination of sacrifice and Modern Rites of Passage in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway

Jarred  Reiling          Domestic Violence and Native American Women: Disrupting Colonialism and (Re)claiming Sovereignty

Matthew  Saccento
The Tolan Committee and the Internment of Japanese Americans

Olivia  Carollo
The relationship between proactive coping and PTSD symptom severity in a college student sample

9:30 - 9:45

Ashley Hydrick
Overexpressing dynactin's microtubule domains to determine their function

Joann  Skaria
Are Homeowner’s Associations “Environmentally Friendly?” An Analysis of HOA rules in residential
communities of Jupiter, Florida

Jaime  Neudecker
A Search for Self: DeLillo’s Americana, Mao II, and Falling Man

Victoria   Ryan
Death and Insanity in Shakespeare: Feminine Sexuality and Masculine Immortality

Mark  Goldberg-Foss
"They Forget I am an Irishman": Socialist Internationalism and the Question of Nationality in Ireland, 1896-1916

Raquel  Borges-Garcia
Gender Differences in Self-Reported Proactive Attitudes, Coping, Self-Efficacy, and Posttraumatic Stress
Disorder Symptoms

9:45 - 10:00

Kevin  McCaffrey
The Genetic Alteration of Superoxide Dismutase in Order to Increase Longevity in Yeast Cells

Stephanie  Lucas, Hank Smith
Status of the Gull-billed Tern in Florida

Joel  Simundich
“The Depths of an English Heart”: Wittgensteinian Private Language in Ford Madox Ford's The Good
Soldier

 

Lauren  Bimmler
The Grassroots Gospel: How Spirituals and Freedom Songs Democratized the Civil Rights Movement

Jodi-ann  Thomas, Dr. Laura Vernon
Relations Among Positive and Negative Emotional Responses to Trauma and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms

10:00 - 10:15

Jovonia  Washington, Nicholas Quintyne Ph.D
Dichloroacetate: A Potential Treatment for Cancer

Benjamin  Ross
Relationship between individual size and number of internal symbiodinium in the larger algal bearing
foraminifera Sorites dominicensis

Natalie Clair  Stetson
America’s Flawed Dream: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s View of the American Dream in the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression

Kathryn  Cruikshank
Frailty, Thy Name is Orsino: Appetite, Bestiality, and Femininity in Hamlet and Twelfth Night

Peter  Salomone
A Fistful of Facts: Reconsidering Dziga Vertov's Cinematic Truth

David  Martin
Fear, Hope, and Personality: An Emipirical Study of Political Persuasion

10:15 - 10:30

Rebecka  Epps
Your Teacher was Right: You Can’t Get an A if You Don’t Show up to Class and Do Your Homework

Samantha  Fow
The Political Economy of Domestic Corn Ethanol Production

Michelle  Cannon
The Painful State of Pleasure in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre

Amanda  Puehn
Twinship and Doublness As It Relates to Twelfth Night

Maria  Thompson
The Security of America's Fourth Amendment: A Study on National Security Letters

Justin  Bright
You Should Be Ashamed of Yourself: A Study of Moral Development and the Moral Emotions

10:30 - 10:45

Break

10:45 - 11:00

 Richard Scherle            Delivery Failure Close-Out: An Event Study on the Effects of Newly Adopted Regulation SHO Amendments

Cara  Piccirillo
How Green is the Mouse?

Randi  Gingerich
The Evolution of Beauty in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon, Tar Baby, and Jazz

Ryan  Raska
The Philosophy, Science, and Culture of Early Modern European Gardens

Cynthia  Avari
A Comparative Analysis of the French and American Judicial Systems and the Cultural Effects of Judicial
Decisions

Sara  Klco, Dr. Laura Vernon
Reappraisal and Suppression: An examination of adaptive and maladaptive coping mechanisms

11:00 - 11:15

Peter  Pantina
Nuclear and Mitochondrial Interactions in S. cerevisiae

Julie  Schnee
Property Tax Levy Limits: Reducing Horizontal Inequities in Florida’s Tax System

James  Capp
Telling the Truth: Creative Nonfiction in Capote’s In Cold Blood & Mailer’s The Executioner’s Song

Caitlin  Currie
An Empirical Look at Identity Politics and the Liberal Arts Curriculum: The Hispanic Literature Example

LauraLynn  Kirk
Collective Memory of Japanese Naming Rituals Through the Incorporation of Anime and Manga

 Kristin  Schwab
The Importance of Individual Characteristics in Determining Liking for Art

11:15 - 11:30

Don  Pham
Antidepressant Mediated WNT Neurogenesis: An Insight Into How Antidepressants Work

Echo  Keif
Logrolling In the Supreme Court

Jenna  Fitzgerald
The Gentle Gender?: Shakespeare’s Tamora and Lady Macbeth as Models of Revenge

Ian  Depagnier
Supreme Court Politics: Opinion Assignment During the Rehnquist Era 1986-2004

Sandra  Lazo de la Vega
The Activism of the Catholic Church on Immigrants’ rights in the United States: Catholic Social Teaching and Rational Choice Theory

Jeanette  Carney
City Space, Crowds, and Masks: James Ensor’s Critique of Modern Urbanization

11:30 - 11:45

Titilola  Sode
The effects of Active Telomerase in Yeast Mitochondria

Sarah  Fannin
Toward Climate Neutrality: Florida Atlantic University’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory, 2004-2007

Kyle  Ashby
Transforming Transgender: The Re-Gendering of American Media

Alan  Saladrigas
Deterrence and Guns

Alan Manuel  Peña
Secularism in Latin America? Looking at the Effects of Social Welfare and Leftist Parties on Religiosity.

 

11:45 - 12:00

Daniel  Gopman
Mythical Strings and Glass Beads: Metaphysics and Transcendentalism in Modern Physics

Jana  Seidl
Deconstructing the Politics of Culture Jamming: True Cost Economics

Kathleen  Schindler
Postscripts to Paradise:  Wonder Woman and the Problems of Feminist Iconography

David Skyler  Smith
An Empirical Examination of the President as a Policy Entrepreneur: Health Care (1959-2004)  

Michael  McMillan
The Role of Church-State Conflict in the Growth in Religious Pluralism in Latin America

Kelley   McKee
An Illustrated Guide to the Abacoa Greenway

12:00 - 1:00

Lunch Break

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