Program

STUDENTPROJECTSPOSTERSESSION

Spring,2017

May9,2017RossinCampusCenterBallroom

AlphabeticalIndexofAuthorsisattheendoftheprogramSessionI(3:30-4:40)postersarelistedfirst

SessionII(4:50-6:00)postersarelistedsecond

SessionI:3:30p.m.–4:40p.m.Poster Class Title Author(s) ProjectAdvisor

1 BIO 320 Survey of moss and their habitat at Abernathy Field Station Nathan Lalli Dr. James March

2 BIO201 An analysis of genetic modification in soy-containing foods

Nathan Lalli, Zachary Lauer, and Zachary Pellis Dr. Alice Lee

3 FRN257 Modern French rebels in translation

Noah Alter, Emily Haglund, Elizabeth Klock, Aerotine

MacWhinnie, Chloé Magyari, Zoë Pienkoski, Hailey Treloar, and

Aprem Zaya

Dr. Susan Crampton-Frenchik

4 PSY 435The interactions between self-efficacy and

the big five with career motivation and aspirations

Elizabeth Klock Dr. Benjamin Seltzer

5 CHM365

Identification and quantification of halogenated organic compounds and other

organic contaminants in marine environments

Monica Ewansik Dr. Patricia Brletic

6 BIO201DNA barcoding of the cytochrome c

oxidase gene in commercially produced fish products

Nicholas Baker, Ryan Konek, and Hillary Pratt Dr. Alice Lee

7 CHM365 Developing methods for cancer detection and treatment Hillary Pratt Dr. Patricia Brletic

8 BIO/MTH 245 Personality and political party Chance Burchick and Tyler Miller Dr. Jason Kilgore

9 MTH311 The Miller-Rabin test Tyler Miller, Terrence Richardson, and Denver Stahl

Dr. Michael Woltermann

10 PSY 435 Personality, perfectionism, and burnout: testing an incremental model Alexandra Raulin Dr. Benjamin Seltzer

11 BIO/MTH 245

Effects of red LED lighting on stem elongation in tomato plants (Solanum

lycopersicum)Katrina Lenhart and Ian Leighton Dr. Jason Kilgore

12 BIO201 Dangerously drunken Drosophila Christopher Fiorina, Hannah Kennelley, and Ian Leighton Dr. Alice Lee

Poster Class Title Author(s) ProjectAdvisor13 COM401 Negative influences of animated films on

young viewers Juliet Duball Dr. Melissa Cook

14 PSY465 Started staying in less and goin' out more: Going out and friendship in college Juliet Duball and Rida Faridi Dr. Rebecca

McDonald

15 BIO 501Developing rapid and nondestructive

protocols for identifying old-growth in the Eastern Broadleaf Forest Province

Steven Munden Dr. Jason Kilgore

16 CHM365 Improving the lithium-sulfur battery Rachel Nye Dr. Patricia Brletic

17 COM401 Promotional video-world mission apparel: make it happen or watch it happen Justin Bauer Dr. Melissa Cook

18 EVS101 Evaluating the economic and ecological costs of paper use on campus Laura Barone and Alexandra Myers Dr. James March

19 BIO 320 Can ultrasonic frequencies deter White-Tailed Deer? Nicholas Beneke Dr. James March

20 BIO201 Drunken Drosophila Lea Faddis, Kirsten Mendel, and Jesse Stone Dr. Alice Lee

21 BIO 317 Piecing together the genetic map of D. eugracilis Kassandra Baron and Haley Kulas Dr. Emily Furbee

22 BIO201 What are you really eating? Hannah Fortini, Haley Kulas, and Grace McCarthy Dr. Alice Lee

23 PSY 435 The effects of narcissism on types of photos uploaded to Instagram Danielle Pelletier, Rachel Mandus Dr. Benjamin Seltzer

24 COM401 The many mediums of motion pictures Timothy Blair Jr. Dr. Melissa Cook

25 EVS101Examining the lead concentration in

drinking water at nine sites across W&J’s campus

Jacob Bayha and Nick Rodi Dr. James March

26 BIO 320Biomonitoring macroinvertebrate

populations in Abe's Creek, Abernathy Field Station.

Sydney Bynum Dr. James March

27 PSY 435

The Dark Triad and its influence on preferences for short-term vs. long-term

relationships in college students: are these individuals satisfied?

Rachel Marx, Passion Williams Dr. Benjamin Seltzer

Poster Class Title Author(s) ProjectAdvisor28 COM401 Body image of female athletes: an audio

documentary Kelsey Bowman Dr. Melissa Cook

29 BIO/MTH 245

Music's effect on the growth rate of Vigna radiata Greg Fantaski and Krishan Sharma Dr. Jason Kilgore

30 BIO 317 Annotating and finishing: bioinformatic analysis of a Drosophila genome Aric Brown and Debra Kaplan Dr. Emily Furbee

31 BIO 320Population and size distribution of crayfish

in Abe’s Creek and Jefferson’s Run, Abernathy Field Station

Torre Carr Dr. James March

32 PSY465The friendships of assigned versus chosen roommates: should I stay or should I go

now?

Sara Gaskill, Jennifer Morris, Selena Suarez, and Cynthia Zaczyk

Dr. Rebecca McDonald

33 BIO 320Using macroinvertebrates to assess the health of two streams at the Abernathy

Field StationCassidy Costello Dr. James March

34 PSY465 You got an academic friend in me Lexi Hilzendeger, Kelly Knisel, and Claire Maxwell

Dr. Rebecca McDonald

SessionII:4:50p.m.–6:00p.m.Poster Class Title Author(s) ProjectAdvisor

1 BIO 320 Testing the potential of using essential oils to decrease herbivory and increase pollination Sue Tran Dr. James March

2 CHM500 Preparation of zeolitic materials from Western Pennsylvania coal fly ash Alexander Krol Dr. Deborah Polvani

3 EVS101The learning landscape: using W&J’s greenspaces to enhance learning and

ecosystem services

Melanie Cocco, Tiffany Dittrich, Alexis Glenn, Ian Iullucci, and

Elizabeth StofkoDr. James March

4 BIO 317 Sequence finishing and gene annotation of D. eugracilis genome segments Ran Wei and Michael Geshay Dr. Emily Furbee

5 FOR100 The bamboozling homicide of Pam DahJames Campese, Danielle

Medovich, William Oberschelp, and Jonathan Tkac

Dr. Elizabeth Bennett and Dr. Candy DeBerry

6 BIO 320How does macroinvertebrate community

composition differ in riffles vs. pools in Abe’s Creek?

Jacob Gordon Dr. James March

7 COM401 Pennsylvania's 1st hospital k-9 unit & k-9 officer training: a radio documentary Matthew Brunelle Dr. Melissa Cook

8 EVS101 Canacopia: Piloting an aluminum recycling program at W&J

Jacob McGuire, Nick Stasko, Alec Swartz, and Mary Wessell Dr. James March

9 FOR100 Case 1468 - Ms. Lamb homicide: forensic investigation

Hope Butterfield, Alteah Jappah, and Nicholas Jenkins

Dr. Elizabeth Bennett and Dr. Candy DeBerry

10 BIO 320 Spring mushroom abundance at Abernathy Field Station, Washington County, PA Ingrid Lexova Dr. James March

11 BIO 320Comparing leaf decomposition rates and

macroinvertebrate community composition between a stream and an adjacent vernal pool

Victoria Halula Dr. James March

12 COM401 Promotional video: collegiate marketing Adrian Elizondo Dr. Melissa Cook

13 PSY 435Relationship between risky behaviors, sexual

attitudes, and histrionic and borderline personality traits

Kelsey Brewbaker, Marissa Katic, Ann O’Connor Dr. Benjamin Seltzer

14 FOR100 Quacking down on M.R. Duck's murder Caitlynn Gilles, Tyler Mattes, Julia Mazich, and Brianna Meyer

Dr. Elizabeth Bennett and Dr. Candy DeBerry

Poster Class Title Author(s) ProjectAdvisor15 BIO/MTH

245 The effects of nitrogen on curly kale growth Dana Fiola and Veronica Komoroski Dr. Jason Kilgore

16 BIO 320 Mapping microhabitat use of pileated woodpeckers at Abernathy Field Station Hunter Hammil Dr. James March

17 PSY465 Friendship? It's all Greek to meHaley Ashner, Jessica Chalfant,

Kyla Feliz-Williams, and Matthew Ridge

Dr. Rebecca McDonald

18 FOR100 Bear-ial killer Matthew Dunlap, Victoria Hart, Rachel Johnson, and Maggie Zhang

Dr. Elizabeth Bennett and Dr. Candy DeBerry

19 BIO/MTH 245

Performance in reading comprehension with background noise Yiping Jiang and Kirsten Yatso Dr. Jason Kilgore

20 COM401 Reality check: why 'their' reality is not 'your' reality Natalie Keenan Dr. Melissa Cook

21 BIO 320 Crayfish abundance and burrow density in relation to stream size and geomorphology Scott Hanna Dr. James March

22 PSY485 Effects of environment on behavior in Long-Evans Hooded rats Brady Brown and Julie Enright Dr. Lynn Wilson

23 MTH208 Kepler's first law Cecilia Fitzgerald, Justin Kulwicki, and Trang Phan

Dr. Michael Woltermann

24 BIO 320Change in bird species richness and

abundance at Abernathy Field Station, 2005-2017

Alexandra Hopkins Dr. James March

25 COM401 Video games: influential or inferior? Audra Spinnenweber Dr. Melissa Cook

26 BIO 320Assessing habitat choice and resource

partitioning among fishes at Abe’s Creek in Southwestern Pennsylvania, USA

John O'Bannon Dr. James March

27 PSY485Exogenous glucocorticoid-induced

hypercortisolism: A rat model of Cushing's Syndrome and anxiety

Samuel Florentino and Joseph Goltz Dr. Lynn Wilson

28 BIO 320 Effect of predatory scent (wolf udrine) on the visitation rates of White-Tailed Deer Ryan Osborn Dr. James March

29 PSY485Examining the effects of chronic high and low

does caffeine consumption on anxiety and learning

Scott King and Laura Travers Dr. Lynn Wilson

30 COM401 Negative effects of social media Emma Rose Dr. Melissa Cook

Poster Class Title Author(s) ProjectAdvisor31 BIO 320 Salamander population density in relation to

distance from streams Joseph Palumbo Dr. James March

32 MTH311 Pollard's rho-method Taley Dunaway, Sarah Shaw, and Marissa Sudar

Dr. Michael Woltermann

33 PSY485 The effect of maternal separation on learning behavior in rats

Morgan Leckie and Amanda Steffey Dr. Lynn Wilson

34 BIO201 DNA barcoding analysis of fast-food meat Brian Graytok, Austin Proudfit, and Nathanial Shaffer Dr. Alice Lee

CoursesParticipatinginthePosterSession–Spring2017Course# CourseName Instructor(s)BIO201 Genetics Dr.AliceLee

BIO317 Genomics Dr.EmilyFurbee

BIO245/MTH245 AppliedStatisticsfortheLifeSciences Dr.JasonKilgore

BIO320 Ecology Dr.JamesMarch

BIO501 BiologyIndependentStudy Dr.JasonKilgore

CHM365 ChemistrySeminar Dr.PatriciaBrletic

CHM500 ChemistryIndependentStudy Dr.DeborahPolvani

COM401 CommunicationArtsSeniorCapstone Dr.MelissaCookEVS101 IntroductiontoEnvironmentalStudies Dr.JamesMarch

FOR100 IntroductiontoForensicScience Dr.ElizabethBennettandDr.CandyDeBerryFRN257 ModernFrenchRebelsinTranslation Dr.SusanCrampton-FrenchikMTH208 MultivariableCalculus Dr.MichaelWoltermannMTH311 NumberTheory Dr.MichaelWoltermannPSY435 AdvancedLaboratoryinPersonalityPsychology Dr.ElizabethBennettPSY465 AdvancedLaboratoryinDevelopmentalPsychology Dr.RebeccaMcDonaldPSY485 AdvancedLaboratoryinNeuroscience Dr.LynnWilson

AuthorList(AlphabeticalbyLastName)Posternumberandsessionisspecifiedinparenthesis

Alter,Noah-(I-3)Ashner,Haley-(II-17)Baker,Nicholas-(I-6)Baron,Kassandra-(I-21)Barone,Laura-(I-18)Bauer,Justin-(I-17)Bayha,Jacob-(I-25)Beneke,Nicholas-(I-19)BlairJr.,Timothy-(I-24)Bowman,Kelsey-(I-28)Brewbaker,Kelsey-(II-13)Brown,Aric-(I-30)Brown,Brady-(II-22)Brunelle,Matthew-(II-7)Burchick,Chance-(I-8)Butterfield,Hope-(I-29)Bynum,Sydney-(I-26)Campese,James-(II-5)Carr,Torre-(I-31)Chalfant,Jessica-(II-17)Cocco,Melanie-(II-3)Costello,Cassidy-(I-33)Dittrich,Tiffany-(II-3)Duball,Juliet-(I-13,14)Dunaway,Taley-(II-32)Dunlap,Matthew-(II-18)Elizondo,Adrian-(II-12)Enright,Julie-(II-22)Ewansik,Monica-(I-5)Faddis,Lea-(I-20)Fantaski,Greg-(II-9)Faridi,RidaK.-(I-14)

Feliz-Williams,Kyla-(II-17)Fiola,Dana-(II-15)Fiorina,Christopher-(I-12)Fitzgerald,Cecilia-(II-23)Florentino,Samuel-(II-27)Fortini,Hannah-(I-22)Gaskill,Sara-(I-32)Geshay,Michael-(II-4)Gilles,Caitlynn-(II-14)Glenn,Alexis-(II-3)Goltz,Joseph-(II-27)Gordon,Jacob-(II-6)Graytok,Brian-(II-34)Haglund,Emily-(I-3)Halula,Victoria-(II-11)Hammil,Hunter-(II-16)Hanna,Scott-(II-21)Hart,Victoria-(II-18)Hilzendeger,Lexi-(I-34)Hopkins,Alexandra-(II-24)Iuliucci,Ian-(II-3)Jappah,Alteah-(I-29)Jenkins,Nicholas-(I-29)Jiang,Yiping-(II-19)Johnson,Rachel-(II-18)Kaplan,Debra-(I-30)Katic,Marissa-(II-13)Keenan,Natalie-(II-20)Kennelley,Hannah-(I-12)King,Scott-(II-29)Klock,Elizabeth-(I–3,4)Knisel,Kelly-(I-34)

Komoroski,Veronica-(II-15)Konek,Ryan-(I-6)Krol,Alex-(II-2)Kulas,Haley-(I-21,22)Kulwicki,Justin-(II-23)Lalli,Nathan-(I-1,2)Lauer,Zachary-(I-2)Leckie,Morgan-(II-33)Leighton,Ian-(I-11,12)Lenhart,Katrina-(I-11)Lexova,Ingrid-(II-10)MacWhinnie,Aerotine-(I-3)Magyari,Chloé-(I-3)Mandus,Rachel-(I-23)Marx,Rachel-(I-27)Mattes,Tyler-(II-14)Maxwell,Claire-(I-34)Mazich,Julia-(II-14)McCarthy,Grace-(I-22)McGuire,Jacob-(II-8)Medovich,Danielle-(II-5)Mendel,Kirsten-(I-20)Meyer,Brianna-(II-14)Miller,Tyler-(I-8,9)Morris,Jennifer-(I-32)Munden,Steven-(I-15)Myers,Alexandra-(I-18)Nye,Rachel-(I-16)O'Bannon,John-(II-26)O'Connor,Ann-(II-13)Oberschelp,William-(II-5)Osborn,Ryan-(II-28)

Palumbo,Joseph-(II-31)Pelletier,Danielle-(I-23)Pellis,Zachary-(I-2)Phan,Trang-(II-23)Pienkoski,Zoë-(I-3)Pratt,Hillary-(I-6,7)Proudfit,Austin-(II-34)Raulin,Alexandra-(I-10)Richardson,Terrence-(I-9)Ridge,Matthew-(II-17)Rodi,Nick-(I-25)Rose,Emma-(II-30)Shaffer,Nathanial-(II-34)

Sharma,Krishan-(II-9)Shaw,Sarah-(II-32)Spinnenweber,Audra-(II-25)Stahl,Denver-(I-9)Stasko,Nick-(II-8)Steffey,Amanda-(II-33)Stofko,Elizabeth-(II-3)Stone,Jesse-(I-20)Suarez,Selena-(I-32)Sudar,Marissa-(II-32)Swartz,Alec-(II-8)Tkac,Jonathan-(II-5)

Tran,Sue-(II-1)Travers,Laura-(II-29)Treloar,Hailey-(I-3)Wei,Ran-(II-4)Wessell,Mary-(II-8)Williams,Passion-(I-27)Yatsko,Kirsten-(II-19)Zaczyk,Cynthia-(I-32)Zaya,Aprem-(I-3)Zhang,Maggie-(II-18)

Ifyouhaveanycommentsorsuggestionsabouthowwemightimprovethepostersession,pleasegetintouchwithoneofthemembersofthePosterSessionOrganizingCommittee:

Dr.KellyWeixel,Biology

Dr.BenjaminSeltzer,PsychologyDr.ElizabethBennett,Psychology

Dr.CandyDeBerry,Biology

IfyouareinterestedinjoiningtheCommittee,pleasecontactoneofthememberslistedabove.

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