ALL DAY - EMERSON LOBBY
Posters will be on display all day. The poster presentation session will be held from 3:00-4:00 p.m.
"Ancient Arithmetic"
Lara Christine Hoover
"Geometry in Culture: Mathematical Explorations of Infinite Patterns"
Jillian Marie Cavanna and Brett Hotchkiss
Sponsors: John Maceli, associate professor, mathematics
Osman Yürekli, professor, mathematics
"The Results of Hammond Health Center Patient Satisfaction Survey"
Jennifer Drollette, May Lin, Jane Semiz, and Mary Taylor
"A Community Assessment for the City of Ithaca: A Heart Health Profile"
Tara Libruk
Sponsor: Srijana Bajracharya, associate professor, health promotion and physical education
"Interdisciplinary Fieldwork in Antigua: Reflections on Culture and Special Education"
Nicole Buccieri, Jaclyn Darling, Kate Kimball, Emily Myers, and Kelly O'Mara
Sponsor: Christine Cecconi, clinical associate professor, speech-language pathology and audiology
"The Effects of Floral Scent on Cognitive Performance, Subjective Well-being, and Physiological Responses"
Kathryn Cooper and Diana Scott
"The Role of Gestures in Early Language Learning"
Colette Grosso, Nicole Petraglia, and Amanda Spyratos
Sponsor: Nancy Rader, professor, psychology
"Toward a More Sustainable Campus Part V: How do we Retrofit the Center for Natural Sciences?"
Lia Stelljes
Sponsors: Beth Ellen Clark Joseph, assistant professor, physics
Peter Melcher, assistant professor, biology
"Effects of Dietary Experience on Gene Expression in the Tobacco Hornworm Manduca Sexta"
Samantha Palmer
Sponsor: Marina Caillaud, assistant professor, biology
"The Relationship between Race, Diabetes Status, and the Believability of Health Information Sources"
Dane Hewlett, Dianna Lyko, Allison Robertson, Allison Trinker, and Chelsie Veilleux
Sponsor: Mary Turner DePalma, professor, psychology
"Balancing Work and Family: A Woman's Job"
Jennifer Gildea
Sponsor: Stephen Sweet, assistant professor, sociology
"The Relation between Self-assessed Personality Traits and Humor Competence"
KatherineLee Nagengast, Kweku Donkor, Justin Hull, and Megan Laport
"Conformity and Humor Appreciation"
Joann Agnitti
Sponsor: Bernard Beins, professor, psychology
"Original Research Conducted in the Course Sociology Research Methods II, Fall 2005"
Jessie Babiarz, Trish Camia, Molly Getz, Melissa Lulay, and Alexis Wojtanowski
Sponsor: Jim Rothenberg, associate professor, sociology
"Gender Socialization and Children's Picture Books"
Martha Drane
"Social Acceptance of Single Mothers"
Tschika McBean
"Attitudes Toward Parental Use of Child Corporal Punishment"
Michelle LeRoy
"Generational Transmission of Body Image and Eating"
Michelle LeRoy
Sponsor: Susanne Morgan, associate professor, sociology
"That's Not My Pyramid!"
George Figueroa, David Grant, Katrina Grosse, Brett-Ashley Hoffmann, Lauren Marko, Jenna Tong, Brendan Woodard, and the students from assistant professor Julia Lapp's Nutrition Class
Sponsor: Cynthia Scheibe, associate professor, psychology
"Physical Therapy in a Caribbean Nation"
Monica Lesslie
Sponsor: Kathleen Buccieri, assistant professor, physical therapy
"From Atheism to Zen: Religiosity, Spirituality, and Identity as Related to Levels of Anxiety"
Michael Bullock, Kyle Daley, and Andrew Pipher
"College Students in Transition: Contributions to Identity"
Maureen Casey, Allison Hunt, and Research Team 10
Sponsor: Andrea White, assistant professor, psychology
"Specific Inhibition of Histone Deacetylase 8"
Keris KrennHrubec
Sponsor: Scott Ulrich, assistant professor, chemistry
ALL DAY - CLARK LOUNGE
Art
Exhibition of works by Kevin Falkenberg
Nicholas Northrup
Gavin Pataki
Jeff zu Hone
Sponsor: Harry McCue, professor, art
9:00-10:15 a.m. - EMERSON SUITE A
Health Promotion and Physical Education
Sport Management and Media
Convener: Srijana Bajracharya, associate professor, health promotion and physical education
"A Needs Assessment of the Ithaca College Health Center: Students' Perspective"
Kimberly Capraro, Britton DuBois, and Katherine Hernandez
"Nutritional Assessment of City of Ithaca and the Ithacan Community: How do we Measure up to the Rest?"
Jaclyn Brisson, Jenna Englund, Amanda Smith, and Kaitlin Sweeney
Sponsor: Srijana Bajracharya, associate professor, health promotion and physical education
"Expanding the National Basketball Association (NBA) into Overseas Markets"
Uzma Rawn and Jared Weinberg
Sponsor: Wayne Blann, professor, sport management and media
9:00-11:45 a.m. - EMERSON SUITE B
Physics and Chemistry
Convener: Bruce Thompson, assistant professor, physics
"Observations of Stellar Occultations by Asteroids"
Tayza Yeelin
"Physics Meets Irrigation—Mathematical Contest in Modeling 2006"
Nitin Rajan, Elvis Shehi, and Maksim Sipos
Sponsor: Bruce Thompson, assistant professor, physics
"Comparison of Archaeological and Magnetic Methods for Identification of Subsurface Pre-historic Native American House Features"
Kevin Faehndrich
"Identifying and Reducing Positional Errors Encountered During Ground-based Magnetic Surveys"
Kristiyan Georgiev
Sponsor: Michael Rogers, assistant professor, physics
"Spectral Analysis of Dust and Gas in Protoplanetary Disks: Planet Formation around Large Stars"
Sweta Shah
Sponsor: Luke Keller, assistant professor, physics
"The Ithaca College Solar Trailer Project: A Mobile Power Source Concept"
Nitin Rajan
Sponsors: Beth Ellen Clark Joseph, assistant professor, physics
Ali Erkan, assistant professor, computer science
9:00-10:15 a.m. - EMERSON SUITE C
Art History
Convener: Jennifer Jolly, assistant professor, art history
"Portraying Paradise: How Gauguin's Self-Promotion Became and Integral Part of the Tahitian Tourist Industry"
Stacey Coburn
"The Power and Oppression of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner"
Shannon Hanrahan
"Egon Schiele and the Voyeurs of Puberty"
Emily Gallagher
Sponsor: Jennifer Jolly, assistant professor, art history
"Sustainable Architecture: Directions and Applications"
Joseph Wladkowski
Sponsor: Lauren O'Connell, associate professor, art history
9:00-10:45 a.m. - KLINGENSTEIN LOUNGE
Anthropology and Sociology
Convener: Joel Savishinsky, professor, anthropology
"Afro-Ecuadorians and Racism in Ecuador: Creating a National Black Identity"
Tobin Henschel-Ludwig
Sponsor: Joel Savishinsky, professor, anthropology
"Women in Contemporary Music Performance"
Danielle DiCiaccio
Sponsor: David Turkon, assistant professor, anthropology
"A ÔNew' Era of Health and the Conflicts Facing its Use"
Jessica Duncan
Sponsor: Brooke Olson, assistant professor, anthropology
"Tradition and Cultural Preservation in Belize: The Garinagu of Punta Gorda and Barranco"
Deborah Schober
Sponsor: Stacia Zabusky, assistant professor, anthropology
"Knowledge and Use of Female Controlled Contraceptives Among Women in Rural Nicaragua"
Marie Donaldson
Sponsor: Jim Rothenberg, associate professor, sociology
9:00-11:45 a.m. - CLARK LOUNGE
English
Conveners: Claire Gleitman, associate professor, English
Michael Twomey, professor, English
"Enacting History: Caryl Churchill and the (Re)Processing of Historical Narrative"
Joanna Patchett
Sponsor: Claire Gleitman, associate professor, English
"Questions of Intimacy in Hemingway's Fiction"
Alison Tully
Sponsor: Hugh Egan, professor, English
"Writing the Bible of Dreams: An Analysis of Sylvia Plath's Short Stories"
Beverly DiCocco
Sponsor: Katharine Kittredge, associate professor, English
"The Agnosticism of Louis MacNeice"
Andrew Dippell
Sponsor: Kevin Murphy, professor, English
"Adultery and Authorship in Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur"
Rebecca Rosenberger
Sponsor: Michael Twomey, professor, English
"Southern Writers in the Gothic Tradition"
Laura Hallar
Sponsor: Michael Stuprich, associate professor, English
"Re-Defining Identity: Family, Transformation and Irony in the Work of Gish Jen"
Abigail Crim
Sponsor: Kirsten Wasson, assistant professor, English
9:00-10:15 a.m. - NORTH MEETING ROOM
Politics
Convener: Charles Venator Santiago, assistant professor, politics
"In Transit: Immigration Problems in the Dominican Republic"
Jihae Chun
Sponsor: Charles Venator Santiago, assistant professor, politics
"Do Fences Make Good Neighbors?"
James Drysdale, Mary Greiner, and Haley Singer
Sponsor: Beth Harris, assistant professor, politics
10:30-11:45 a.m. - EMERSON SUITE A
Park Scholars Program: "Media Making a Difference"
Convener: Matthew J. Fee, director, Park Scholar Program
"The Media and Public Opinion in Times of International Crises: The Tsunami vs. Crises in Africa"
Lindsey Knox
"Film and Collective Memory in Postwar Peru"
Jessica McCoy
"Depleted Uranium: The Battle at Home"
Kathleen Sheppard
Sponsor: Matthew J. Fee, director, Park Scholar Program
10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. - EMERSON SUITE C
Antigua Studies
10:30-11:45 a.m.
Documenting Ecosystems through Photography: An Intersession Course in Antigua and Barbuda (http://www.ithaca.edu/ecosystems/)
Conveners: John Confer, associate professor, biology
Janice Levy, associate professor, cinema and photography
"An Environmental History of Antigua and Barbuda"
Gemma Hazelwood and Taslim Gordon; course participants, web designers, and Antiguan residents
"The Values of Mangrove Estuaries"
Rachel Barker and Shannon Beyer
"The Extraordinary Natural Resources of Barbuda"
Mark Hager, Jennifer Cramer, and Andria Andria Mynders
"McKinnons Pond: Coastal Development and Environmental Transition"
Anneliese Doheny and Allison Krasnow
"The Nearshore Fisheries of Antigua and Barbuda"
Patrick Ryan and James Viola
12:00-1:15 p.m.
KEYNOTE SESSION: Study in Antigua and Realizing the College's Mission—"KnowledgeÉand competenceÉfor the benefit of others."
Welcome and Introductory Remarks
Garry L. Brodhead, associate provost and coordinator for the Ithaca College-Antigua Program
Guest Remarks
Kanika Simpson-Davis, program coordinator in Antigua
Ithaca College-Antigua Program
Student Panel
Comprised of members from the courses Documenting Ecosystems through Photography, Field Experience: Interdisciplinary Teamwork, Mobility Training, and Sport in the Caribbean: United or Divided
1:45-2:30 p.m.
"World Cup Cricket 2007 in Antigua: The Cost and Benefit of Hosting a World Class Sporting Event"
Convener: Stephen Mosher, professor, Sport Management and Media
Michael Crossen-Sills, Allison Dermer, Brendan Long, and Eli Stoughton
10:30-11:45 a.m. - NORTH MEETING ROOM
Legal Studies
Convener: Marlene Barken, associate professor, business administration
"Environmental Regulation of the Cruise Ship Industry"
Brittany Gibbs
"The Battered Woman Syndrome as a Defense"
Martha Drane
"Teaching Creationism and Intelligent Design in Public Schools"
Michael Palumbo
"Fox, FCC, and Freedom of the Press"
Raphael Golberstein
"Facebook, Email, and Privacy Issues on the Internet"
Talia Harari
Sponsors: Marlene Barken, associate professor, business administration
Gwen Seaquist, professor, business administration and coordinator of legal studies
11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. - KLINGENSTEIN LOUNGE
Writing
Convener: Gigi Marks, assistant professor, writing
"Mulberries"
"Grandma"
"Sundays with Daddy"
Monica Goldenberg
Sponsor: Sally Parr, assistant professor, writing
"A Heart is a Parabox"
Zachary Loeb
Sponsor: Katharyn Howd Machan, associate professor, writing
"Louis Owens' Mixedblood Consciousness: Renewing Representation in Native American Fiction"
Rebecca Troutman
Sponsor: Marlene Kobre, assistant professor, writing
"Breaks in the World"
Kelsi Oser
Sponsor: Elizabeth Lawson, assistant professor, writing
"The Narrow Part of the Creek"
Casey Carroll
"Growing Old"
Colin Stricklin
Sponsor: Sally Parr, assistant professor, writing
"Longview: Enhanced Assisted Living Facility Programming"
Rebecca Troutman
Sponsor: Patricia Spencer, assistant professor, writing
"Grandma's Half Truths"
Elizabeth Nolan
Sponsor: Sally Parr, assistant professor, writing
"I Carefully Watch"
"Really Foolish"
Helen Mercedes
Sponsor: Gigi Marks, assistant professor, writing
"The Piano Reminds Me"
Maria Leone Karastergiou
Sponsor: Sally Parr, assistant professor, writing
"Coming Clean"
Jeffrey Cohen
Sponsor: Barbara Adams, assistant professor, writing
"Portraits of Plants in Place"
Elizabeth Quill
Sponsor: Elizabeth Lawson, assistant professor, writing
"Life in a Pocket"
Emma Flemer
Sponsor: Joan Marcus, assistant professor, writing
"Questions and Observations on a Life I Haven't Yet LivedÉ"
Michael Rose
Sponsor: Gigi Marks, assistant professor, writing
"Girl"
Jennifer Watkins
Sponsor: Sally Parr, assistant professor, writing
"Advocacy Center Shelter Enhancement Grant"
Kathryn Wozencroft
Sponsor: Patricia Spencer, assistant professor, writing
"Meditation"
Katherinelee Nagengast
Sponsor: Sally Parr, assistant professor, writing
"Descent into the Canyon"
G. Jonathan West
"Twilight Studies: Exploring the Transitory"
Michele Bar-David
Sponsor: Elizabeth Lawson, assistant professor, writing
"Saving Gonzo"
Liam Collins
Sponsor: Barbara Adams, assistant professor, writing
12:00-1:15 p.m. - EMERSON SUITE A
Gerontology
Convener: Patricia Lynott, assistant professor, gerontology
"Aging and National Security"
Graham Sterling
"HIV/AIDS and AgeismÉA Growing Crisis"
Paola Acosta
Sponsor: Mary Ann Erickson, assistant professor, gerontology
"The Aging Consumer"
Emily Keppler
"Advanced Directives: An Option to Retain Autonomy and Control When the Circumstances Prevent It"
Daniel Gutkoski
"Aging Policies and Programs in Disaster Preparedness"
Trinity Bigford
Sponsor: Patricia Lynott, assistant professor, gerontology
12:00-2:45 p.m. - EMERSON SUITE B
Business Administration
Convener: Vigdis Basson, assistant professor, business administration
"The Jigga Monkies: Investment Project"
Justin Briggs
"Financial Ratios and the Soft-Drinks Industry"
Wei Chen, Andreas Lindblom, and Jason Moy
"Financial Ratios and the Pharmaceutical Industry"
Manabu Akashi, Rachelle Cohen, Jared Cutler, Jenifer Haak, and Taketoki Isobe
"Radio Broadcasting Industry"
Angel Angelov, Andre Cepeda, Benjamin Hayes, Eugene Slepak, and Vitaly Vovk
"Office Appliance Industry"
Kreg Adamsen, Michael Behr, Mary Carosa and Jonathan French
"The Airline Industry: American vs. Southwest"
Dilyana Bogoeva, Kenneth Hoffman, Edward Risk, and Tammi Flanders
Sponsor: Vigdis B—asson, assistant professor, business administration
"From Planned Economy to Market Economy: The Lessons from the Bulgarian Experience in Privatization"
Georgi Shopov
Sponsor: Raquib Zaman, professor, business administration
"Analysis of Ordinal Data by Categorical Rank Using an Information Theoretic Measure"
Jennifer Tastle
"Applying an Information Theoretic Measure to the Ranking of Likert Scale Evaluations"
Jennifer Koo
Sponsor: William Tastle, associate professor, business administration
"Identifying Consumer Segments for Finger Lakes Wine Tourism"
Melissa Choiniere
Sponsor: Mark Cordano, assistant professor, business administration
"Do Cash Flows Help Predict Returns?"
Tendai Masaya
Sponsor: Joseph Cheng, associate professor, business administration
