Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College Symposium

April 11, 2003

 

Tentative Schedule

 

9:00 – 9:15

Registration, MAC Lobby

9:15 – 9:30

Welcome, MAC Auditorium

 

 

STUDENT TALKS

 

 

MAC 102

MAC 202

MAC 104

9:40 – 9:55

Jake Leech

Synthesis and characterisation of dansylated polyaniline

Martha Staid

“Through Narrow Streets”:  Walking in Expatriate Modernist Literature

PANEL

 

Tiffany Barry 

(9:40-9:55)

A Legislator’s Decision to Restrict:  The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1995

 

Stephen Ewen 

(9:55-10:10)

High Modernist Development Praxis versus ‘Metis’ Among Haiti’s Popular Class

 

Anya Canache 

(10:10-10:25)

The Maya in Jupiter, Florida; Remittances and Immigrant Perceptions of Changes in the Home Community

 

Katharine Taylor 

(10:25-10:40)

Sex, Violence, and Corruption: The Politics of Cinema in Post-Transition Mexico

 

Questions & Discussion

(10:40-10:55)

10:00 – 10:15

Jessica Keith

Effects of mtDNA mutations on growth rates in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Allison DeWeese

“It wasn't our world anymore”: Fanfiction's Postmodernist Coup

10:20 – 10:35

Lyndsey Wheeler

Effects of Human Recreation on Sea Urchins

Alexis Komara

Man and Nature:  Reading Steinbeck through a Transcendental Lens

10:40 – 10:55

Adam Iglesias

Effect of Native Language on Event Perception

Kimberly Preston

Milton and the Sabbath

11:00 – 11:15

Ewana K. Balasis

Stereotypes And Memory: The Impact of Response Format On The Illusory Correlation Effect

Jake Leech

Free will, determinism, and responsibility

John Samuels

Fractal Dimension:  An Analysis of Different Definitions

11:20 – 11:35

Joseph Colucci

Ego Development and Tragedy: Personality and September 11th

Timothy Case

Aldo Leopold, the Land Ethic, and the Need for Pluralism in Environmental Philosophy

Sarah York

Factoring in a Timely Fashion

11:40 – 11:55

Dwight Forde

Personality & Child rearing Attitude

Autumn Widdoes

Reconfiguring the Gestalt of War:  Women's Collective Memory

and its Representations in American Vietnam War Films

Alfredo Palacio

Jorge Luis Borges's Immortalities

12:00 – 1:00

LUNCH

1:00 – 2:00

 

Honors College Forum, MAC Auditorium

 

2:15 – 4:00

 

POSTER SESSION

MHC Building

 

Austin Boyle, Holly Kopp, Katie Olds, Larissa Proscurshim, Jared Reilly

Mineral Content in Dining Hall

 

Susan Deeter, Jun Yan, Greg Springsteen, Binghe Wang*

The Relationship between the Pka of Phenyl Boronic acids and Their Binding Constants with Sugars

 

Dwight Forde

Personality & Child rearing Attitude

 

Adam Iglesias

Effect of Native Language on Event Perception

 

Elissa Klein, Samantha Kane, and Professor Earles' Research Methods Class

Confidence and Memory for Actors and Actions:  Do Eyewitnesses Accurately Remember People and Events

 

Jason C. Lane

Age Differences in Event Memory

 

Lauren Myers and Erin Kidwell

An Analysis of Iron Supplement Pills

 

Justin Pacific

The Effect of Distraction at Encoding or Retrieval on Event Recognition

 

Nadia Parchment-Lewis

Dissolved Oxygen Levels in Local Water Sources

 

Susana C. Quintana

Beneficial Effects of Gaze Aversion on Recall

 

Becky Richter, Amanda McAlister, Candice Aurelus

Total Phosphorus in Various Plants of the Greenway Ecosystem

 

Sandra Siller

Evolution of yeast MnSOD with improved activity via error-prone PCR

 

Alexis Stellner, Wendy Martinez, Sona Bhatti, Alexandraxis Reid

Calcium Carbonate in Limestone

 

4:00 – 4:30

 

Reception, MHC Atrium

 

 

 

 

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Updated 2 April 2003

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