Showcase Brochure 2012

Fifth Annual

Student Showcase:An Exhibition of Liberal Arts in Practice

Friday, May 11, 2012

Hartwick’s day-long celebrationof student achievement

More than 200 Hartwickstudents will present their work

in sessions and displays.

Showcase includes art and science demonstrations,readings and performances, groups presenting

popular class discussions or projects,and senior project presentations.

Thisis it

Table of Contents

General Schedule 2

Introduction 3

Acknowledgements 4

Special Acknowledgements 5

Student Showcase Schedule 6

Student Showcase Schedule and Descriptions 26

Index 96

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2012 Student Showcase: General Schedule

8 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Oral Presentations, Performances and Readings, Golisano, Johnstone, and Yager Biology Senior Symposium Johnstone Science Center, Rooms 201 and 215 Mathematics Symposium, Golisano Hall, Room 303 Accounting Symposium, Golisano Hall, Room 201 Chemistry Senior Symposium, Johnstone Hall, Room 401 Computer and Information Science Symposium Johnstone Science Center, Room 301

Noon-1:30 p.m. Lunch at The Commons, Dewar Union Open to students, faculty, staff, and Hartwick guests

1:30-2 p.m. 2011-12 Freedman Prize Awards Ceremony Foreman Gallery, Anderson Center for the Arts with Dr. Allen H’00 and Judy Freedman, President Margaret L. Drugovich, and Vice President for Academic Affairs & Provost Michael G. Tannenbaum

2-4 p.m. Posters, Oral Presentations, Table Talks, Exhibitions and Performances, Anderson Center for the Arts Music Senior Symposium, Room 209 Art Senior Show, Foreman Gallery

4-4:30 p.m. Hartwick College Challenge Education Program Challenge Games Frisbee Field (open to the whole campus—weather permitting)

8-9:30 p.m. Theatrical Performance, Bresee Hall, Lab Theatre

www.hartwick.edu/studentshowcase

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Introduction

Congratulations to the many talented students who are sharing their accomplishments at our Fifth Annual Student Showcase: An Exhibition of Liberal Arts in Practice! Through an impressive variety of research, creative and applied projects, our students areclearly demonstrating the transformative power of melding a liberalarts education with experiential learning.

This year more than 250 students are presenting works that cover 188 topics. We hope you

enjoy the remarkable variety of presentations, poster displays, classroom sessions and panels,

performances, readings, table talks, exhibitions, and demonstrations.

Thank you to the many members of our Hartwick community, whose contributions have made

this celebration of student learning and achievement possible.

The Showcase Steering Committee

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Acknowledgements

Thank you to the following individuals and groups for their various contributions to the 2012 Student Showcase: An Exhibition of Liberal Arts in Practice.

The Showcase Steering Committee:Dr. David Griffing, Associate Professor of Geology & Environmental Sciences/Co-ChairStephanie Rozene, Assistant Professor of Art/Co-Chair

Dr. Zsuzanna Balogh-Brunstad, Assistant Professor of ChemistryDr. Penny Boyer, Associate Professor of NursingStephanie Brunetta, Associate Director of Communications for Web ServicesRic Chrislip, Senior Programmer/AnalystDawn Evarson, Administrative Assistant, Office of Academic AffairsMegan Fallon, Director of Campus Activities & Dewar UnionAlicia Fish, Senior Director of Donor and Alumni Relations Gladys Freeland, Office Coordinator, Center for Professional, Service & Global EngagementJames Jolly, Executive Director of Marketing & CommunicationsDr. Kristin R. Jones, Associate Professor of Economics/ChairDr. Mark Kuhlmann, Associate Professor of BiologyLouise Lansing, Head Volleyball Coach, PE InstructorChristopher Lott, Associate Writer, Department of Marketing & CommunicationsJennifer Nichols-Stewart, Associate Director of Communications for PublicationsDr. Lisa Onorato, Professor of Psychology/ChairTerry Slade, Sculptor in Residence & Professor of Art/ChairRachel Stevenson, Manager of Special EventsMalissa Kano-White, Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts

Ray Cesnavicius, Manager of Media ServicesJoe Mack, Aramark Facilities ServicesMeg Shivers, Aramark Catering Manager Student-Athlete Volunteers

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Special Acknowledgements

u The Freedman Prize | The Freedman Prize, established by Dr. Allen Freedman H’00 and Judy Brick Freedman in 2002, recognizes superior student-faculty collaborative research and creative projects. Proposals from students in all academic departments are solicited for competitive awards in three academic consortia, Natural Sciences, Cognitive Sciences and Theatre Arts.

u The duFFy Family ambassador awards | The Duffy Family Ambassador Fund was established in 1999 by former Hartwick Trustee John Duffy H’00, P’91, P’95 and his wife, Anne Duffy P’91, P’95. They are the parents of Hartwick graduates Hilary Duffy ’91 and Kevin Duffy ’95. The purpose of the Duffy Family Ambassador Awards is “to expand horizons, to see the world in unaccustomed ways, to get students out to places so that they can hear new languages, eat different foods, encounter unfamiliar people and situations.” The awards help students have the types of global experiences from which they are particularly likely to gain insights into themselves and others across national, cultural, and language borders.

u emerson inTernaTional inTernshiP scholarshiPs | The Emerson International Internship Scholarship was established in 1996 at Hartwick College to enable Hartwick sophomores, juniors, and seniors to expand their postgraduate career options through international internships. The Emerson International Internship Scholarship provides grants ranging from $3,000 to $5,000 for students from any major to pursue their interests in an international setting.

Freedman Prize winnersLita Benson ’12Alexandria Billington ’13Fawn Caplandies ’13Lauren Cipriano ’12Michael Easton ’12Kelly Fayton ’13 Kyle Greenberg ’13Tyler Hall ’13Victoria Halsted ’12Hope Irion ’13Jordan Liz ’12Samantha MacColl Garfinkel ’15Kyrie McCormick ’14Paul Patinka ’15 Ethan Staats ’13Molly Snelling ’14 Lindsay Wynne ’12

duFFy award winnersTanae Adderley ’13Desiree Fuller ’12 Victoria Halsted ’12

emerson award winnersKatherine Hadden ’13Tyler Hall ’13Carly Ramos ’12Ethan Staats ’13John Stuligross ’13 Anne Louise Wagner ’13

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Student Showcase Schedule

1u Freedman Prize winner8-8:20 a.m. | Golisano Hall, Room 103 | Oral Presentation

Concerning the Nature of Our Beliefs: Hume’s Skeptical ResponsePresenter: Jordan Liz ’12

28-8:20 a.m. | Golisano Hall, Room 104 | ReadingOceans and Eras: A Memoir

Presenter: Michael Easton ’12

38-8:20 a.m. | Golisano Hall, Room 203 | Oral PresentationMajor Polemics in Music of the 19th and 20th Centuries

Presenter: Kyle May ’12

48-8:20 a.m. | Golisano Hall, Room 301 | Oral PresentationProjecting Cranial Capacities Using Vertebral Foramina Circumferences

Presenter: Elizabeth Celata ’12

58:20-8:40 a.m. | Golisano Hall, Room 103 | Oral PresentationCemeteries and the Human Question: Educating Young People About Themselves

Presenter: Alyssa Failey ’13 | Co-presenter(s): Justin Deming ’12

68:20-8:40 a.m. | Golisano Hall, Room 104 | Oral PresentationPolitics, Performance, and the Paternal in Shakespeare’s King Lear

Presenter: Kate Vosburg ’12

78:20-8:40 a.m. | Golisano Hall, Room 203 | Classroom PresentationVocal Pedagogy for High School Musical Theatre Directors

Presenter: Paul Patinka ’15

88:20-8:40 a.m. | Golisano Hall, Room 301 | Oral PresentationInked: Tattoos and Male Groups

Presenter: Desiree Fuller ’12

98:30-8:45 a.m. | Golisano Hall, Room 303 | Classroom PresentationMathematics Symposium

Markov Chains: An Application for Today’s College StudentsPresenter: Elizabeth Allers ’12

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108:30-9 a.m. | Golisano Hall, Room 201 | Classroom PresentationAccounting Symposium

The Milford ProjectPresenter: Jayne Bolt ’12 | Co-presenter(s): Kaitlynn Ellis ’12, Daniel Flynn ’12, Zachary Hollinger ’12, John Pezzullo ’12, Jill Rotella ’12, Jordan Spirou ’12, Daniel Valliere ’12

118:40-8:55 a.m. | Johnstone Science Center, Room 201 | Classroom PresentationBiology Senior Symposium

The Impact of Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria on Microbiota RestorationPresenter: Brittany LaVaute ’12

12u emerson award winner8:40-9 a.m. | Golisano Hall, Room 203 | Oral Presentation

Exploring the Ethics of Volunteerism as Outsiders: What I Have Learned about Myself, Volunteerism, and the Difficult Questions that Must Be AskedPresenter: Anne Louise Wagner ’13


The Effects of Dietary Fructose on the Growth and Survival of Human PancreaticCancer Cells in Culture Presenter: Charlene Fleurinord ’12

148:40-9 a.m. | Golisano Hall, Room 104 | ReadingRaymond Carver’s American Dream: Shedding Light on What Makes Us

Recognizably HumanPresenter: Jherrett Maroney ’12

15u Freedman Prize winner8:40-9 a.m. | Golisano Hall, Room 301 | Oral Presentation

Hume’s Double Relation of Ideas and ImpressionsPresenter: Jordan Liz ’12

168:45-9 a.m. | Golisano Hall, Room 303 | Classroom PresentationMathematics Symposium

How Much are We Going to Earn After Ten Years?Presenter: Qin Ouyang ’12


Prevalence of Streptococcus Lancefield Group C on the Hartwick College CampusPresenter: Sierra Ruff ’12


Heart Regeneration in Notophthalmus viridescens: Where do the Stem Cells Come From?Presenter: Amanda Wilder ’12

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199-9:15 a.m. | Golisano Hall, Room 303 | Classroom PresentationMathematics Symposium

History of MathematicsPresenter: Dustin Gratto ’13

209-9:20 a.m. | Golisano Hall, Room 104 | Oral PresentationBodacious Bodice-Rippers: Feminine Desire and Feminist Intent in the

Contemporary Romance NovelPresenter: Kendra Shedina ’13

219-9:20 a.m. | Golisano Hall, Room 201 | Classroom PresentationAccounting Symposium

Labor Standards and Compliance Issues in a College TownPresenter: Jordan Spirou ’12

229-9:20 a.m. | Golisano Hall, Room 301 | Oral PresentationA Flawed Republic: The Role of Parliamentary Government in Weimar’s Demise

Presenter: Rachel Rhodes ’13

239-9:20 a.m. | Johnstone Science Center, Room 301 | Oral PresentationComputer and Information Science Symposium

Modern Web Development using ASP 4 and C# 2010Presenter: Francis Drapalski ’12

249-9:20 a.m. | Yager Hall, Slade Theatre | ReadingNew Plays Day: The Family Drink

Presenter: Shannon Turnbull ’14 | Co-presenter(s): Leslie Bruce ’14 | Additional Students: TBA

25u Freedman Prize winner9-9:40 a.m. | Johnstone Science Center, Room 401 | Classroom Presentation

Chemistry Senior SymposiumIdentifying Chemotaxis Protein-Protein Interactions in the Symbiotic Aquatic Bacterium Epulopiscium Sp. BPresenter: Julie Kessler ’12

269-10 a.m. | Golisano Hall, Room 103 | Classroom PresentationUnited Nations Simulation - International Arms Trade

Presenter: Bryce Leary ’14 | Co-presenter(s): Kayla Murphy ’14, Jennifer Davis ’13, Lauren Mausert ’12, John Burns ’14, Tyler Benjamin ’12, Ronak Sharma ’14, Robert Amberson ’12, Jona Tapia ’15, Laura Weig ’13, Anna Boardman ’14 | Additional Students: Shahzad Khan ’12

279-10 a.m. | Golisano Hall, Room 203 | Classroom PresentationLet’s Talk Hartwick: Assessment of High Impact Practices

Presenter: Kristen Stives ’12 | Co-presenter(s): Peter Jackson ’13, Abigail Wright ’12, Michael Dittman ’12, Joshua Morey ’12, Katelynn Collins-Hall ’12, Erin Doyle ’13, Sarah Saggese ’12, Jill Rotella ’12, Jennifer Schoch ’12 | Additional Students: Antonio Bell ’12, Alison Ferraro ’12, Brittany Morrissey ’12, Laura Orentlicher ’12, Christina Sorrentino ’11

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Malnutrition in Southeast Asia: A Comparison of Mainland and Maritime CountriesPresenter: Silvanna Esposito ’12


Origin of Stem Cells in Heart Regeneration in Red-Spotted NewtsPresenter: Jessica Rodriquez ’12


Investigating Game Theory and Human DecisionsPresenter: Gary Holeck ’12

319:20-9:40 a.m. | Golisano Hall, Room 104 | Oral PresentationWhat a Strange Trip It’s Been: The New Journalism of Hunter S. Thompson

and Tom WolfePresenter: Jessica Schwartz ’12

329:20-9:40 a.m. | Golisano Hall, Room 201 | Classroom Presentation Accounting Symposium

Implications of ‘Little GAAP’ in the Accounting ProfessionPresenter: Jayne Bolt ’12

339:20-9:40 a.m. | Golisano Hall, Room 301 | ReadingSarah Frew Davidson: One Woman’s Story of Her Evangelical Rebirth

Presenter: Sarah Bliss ’13

349:20-9:40 a.m. | Johnstone Science Center, Room 301 | Oral PresentationComputer and Information Science Symposium

The Internet Ran Out of Addresses, What Now?Presenter: Adnan Abdulai ’12


Map ColoringPresenter: Xinni Xie ’12


Effects of Lithium on the Muscle Contractile Apparatus in Glycerinated SkeletalMuscle FibersPresenter: Mark Blazek ’12

37u Freedman Prize winner9:35-9:50 a.m. | Johnstone Science Center, Room 215 | Classroom Presentation

Biology Senior Symposium

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Seasonal Cell Proliferation in Chemosensory Epithelium and Brain of the Eastern Newt, Notophthalmus viridescensPresenter: Nalisha Bascom ’12

389:40-10 a.m. | Golisano Hal, Room 104 | Oral PresentationAn Exercise in Gender Reversal and Neutrality in William Shakespeare’s

All’s Well that Ends WellPresenter: Anna Marfleet ’15


Fraudsters: Is it Greed or a Psychological Problem?Presenter: Kaitlynn Ellis ’12

409:40-10 a.m. | Golisano, Room 301 | Oral PresentationIndolent Wandering Habits: 1824 and the Concept of “Civilizing” in the

Chickasaw AgencyPresenter: Kelly Fayton ’13

419:40-10 a.m. | Johnstone Science Center, Room 301 | Oral PresentationComputer and Information Science Symposium

Programming Mobile Applications for Android DevicesPresenter: Vincent Chiuchiolo ’12

429:40-10 a.m. | Yager Hall, Slade Theatre | ReadingNew Plays Day: The Fish and the Bird

Presenter: Leslie Bruce ’14 | Co-presenter(s): Shannon Turnbull ’14, Michael Easton ’12Additional Students: Actors TBD

439:40-10:20 a.m. | Johnstone Science Center, Room 401 | Classroom PresentationChemistry Senior Symposium

Determining Critical Opalescence of Binary Liquid SolutionsPresenter: Catherine Weigel ’12


Hyperbolic GeometryPresenter: Shengzhe Xing ’12


The Effects of the Acyclic Nucleoside Drug Cidofovir on Blood Vessel GrowthPresenter: Courtney Cyr ’12 | Co-presenter(s): Ronald Russo ’12


Localization of the Expression of PAB3 and PAB5 in PollenPresenter: Devon Craft ’12

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4710-10:15 a.m. | Golisano Hall, Room 104 | Oral PresentationThe NCECA Experience On The Edge: Seattle 2012

Presenter: Kim DeMartino ’12 | Co-presenter(s): Samantha McFarland ’12

48 u emerson award winner10-10:15 a.m. | Golisano, Room 203 | Oral Presentation

A Summer in Slovakia: Eighty-day Internship at the Energy and Geoscience Institute in Bratislava, SlovakiaPresenter: Tyler Hall ’13


Mathematical Investments of the Efficient FrontierPresenter: Jayne Bolt ’12


Financial Fraud ... Here and AbroadPresenter: John Pezzullo ’12

5110-10:20 a.m. | Golisano Hall, Room 301 | Classroom PresentationMartin Luther as a Teacher of Matters of the Home: Hypocritical or Genuine?

Presenter: Rejoice Scherry ’13 | Co-presenter(s): Danielle George ’14


Mobile Security on the Android PlatformPresenter: Nathaniel Quinn ’12

5310:05-10:20 a.m. | Johnstone Science Center, Room 201 | Classroom Presentation Biology Senior Symposium

The Effects of Adefovir on Adenosine-induced Blood Vessel GrowthPresenter: Ronald Russo ’12 | Co-presenter(s): Courtney Cyr ’12


Localization of the Expression of Zm13 in Pollen Grains of Arabidopsis thaliana Using Green Fluorescent Protein Presenter: Andrew Kirkpatrick ’12

55 u emerson award winner10:15-10:30 a.m. | Golisano Hall, Room 203 | Oral Presentation

Ethical Implications in Biological Field ResearchPresenter: Katherine Hadden ’13

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56u Freedman Prize winner10:15-10:30 a.m. | Yager Hall, Slade Theatre | Reading

Solo Performance: An Adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ Suddenly Last SummerPresenter: Lauren Cipriano ’12

5710:15-10:45 a.m. | Golisano Hall, Room 104 | Oral PresentationTranscending Eroticism: A History in Clay

Presenter: Chrstopher Spinozzi ’14

5810:20-10:40 a.m. | Golisano Hall, Room 201 | Classroom PresentationAccounting Symposium

Economy and Revenue Recognition in the Virtual WorldPresenter: Daniel Valliere ’12

5910:20-10:40 a.m. | Golisano Hall, Room 301 | Classroom PresentationThe Relationship Between Parents and Children During the Reformation

Presenter: Danielle George ’14 | Co-presenter(s): Rejoice Scherry ’13


Artificial Intelligence—Neural NetworksPresenter: Jaime Taboada ’12

6110:20-11 a.m. | Johnstone Science Center, Room 401 | Classroom PresentationChemistry Senior Symposium

Determination of the Kinetics of UV Color-changing BeadsPresenter: Katie Lukens ’12

62 u duFFy award winner10:30-10:45 a.m. | Golisano Hall, Room 203 | Classroom Presentation

The View Through My LensPresenter: Victoria Halsted ’12


The Theory of GamesPresenter: Nicole Besancon ’12


Sarah: A Movement MonologuePresenter: Samantha MacColl Garfinkel ’15 | Additional Students: Jesse Elkins ’15,Tyler Smith ’15, and Emmanuella Brakye ’11

6510:30-11 a.m. | Johnstone Science Center, Room 215 | Classroom PresentationWhat is the Value of Scientific Research in a Liberal Arts Undergraduate Education?

Presenter: Aaron Griffing ’14 | Co-presenter(s): Jessica McCaffery ’14, Grace Mele ’14, Sheila Niedziela ’13, Molly Snelling ’14, Ethan Staats ’13 | Additional Students: Tyler Hall ’13, acting as panel moderator

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6610:30 a.m. to noon | Golisano Hall, Room 103 | Classroom PresentationPolitical Science Department Student Research Conference: Understanding War

in the 21st CenturyPresenter: Shane McHugh ’12 | Co-presenter(s): Brooke Ritchey ’13, Tyler Machia ’12, David Osokow ’12


Gender Issues in AccountingPresenter: Jill Rotella ’12

6710:40-11 a.m. | Golisano Hall, Room 301 | Oral PresentationRum Men: The Life and Work of New England Sailors in Long Distance Trade

During the Colonial EraPresenter: Molly Sloan ’12


Classic Game DevelopmentPresenter: Justin Sikora ’12

70 10:45-11 a.m. | Golisano Hall, Room 203 | Oral PresentationA Sociological Examination of the “Safe Space” at the Oneonta Teen Center

Presenter: Carrie Gauthier ’13 | Co-presenter(s): Tasha Bradt ’13


Knot Theory and RingsPresenter: Brian Heller ’12

72u emerson award winner11-11:15 a.m. | Golisano Hall, Room 203 | Classroom Presentation

Nakuru General Hospital: A Case Study for an Analysis of the Kenyan Healthcare SystemPresenter: John Stuligross ’13


Numbers of the Special FormsPresenter: Ruth Kahn ’12

7411-11:20 a.m. | Golisano Hall, Room 104 | Classroom PresentationThe Riverside Experience: A Collaborative Learning Experience Between

Prospective Teachers and Third Grade StudentsPresenter: Kalindi Naslund ’15 | Co-presenter(s): Jayme Bentley ’14, Nicole Murphy ’15


Technology’s Effect on the Accounting ProfessionPresenter: Daniel Flynn ’12

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7611-11:20 a.m. | Golisano Hall, Room 301 | Oral PresentationRumors and Riots: The 1857 Riot Between the Dead Rabbits and the Bowery Boys

Presenter: Jessica Schwartz ’12


Implementation of Encryption AlgorithmsPresenter: Diana Acker ’12

7811-11:30 a.m. | Yager Hall, Slade Theatre | Classroom PresentationWhy is Music Beautiful? The Physics of Music

Presenter: Kyle Murray ’15

7911-11:40 a.m. | Johnstone Science Center, Room 401 | Classroom Presentation Chemistry Senior Symposium

Investigations into Green Diels-Alder Reactions for the Undergraduate Organic LaboratoryPresenter: Lisa Bass ’12

8011 a.m. to noon | Golisano Hall, Foyer 2 | Poster PresentationHead Start Policy and Effectiveness: How Head Start Funding and Policies can be

Altered to Increase the Effectiveness of the ProgramPresenter: Carrie Gauthier ’13

8111 a.m. to noon | Golisano Hall, Foyer 2 | Poster PresentationThe Benefits of Acupuncture

Presenter: Megan Lefeber ’14

8211 a.m. to noon | Golisano Hall, Foyer 2 | Poster PresentationAmphibian Surveys in Cusuco National Park, Honduras

Presenter: Emily Lisborg ’13

8311 a.m. to noon | Golisano Hall, Foyer 2 | Poster PresentationBurnout in Nursing Students

Presenter: Jordan Nichols ’12

8411 a.m. to noon | Golisano Hall, Foyer 2 | Poster PresentationRecuerdos de mis Estudios en el Extranjero, en Granada, Espana

Presenter: Lia G. Roberts ’13

8511 a.m. to noon | Golisano Hall, Foyer 2 | Poster PresentationOneonta Housing Initiative

Presenter: Martina Shorkey ’13

8611 a.m. to noon | Golisano Hall, Foyer 2 | Poster PresentationA Recycling Pilot Study at Hartwick College

Presenter: Catherine Winters ’14

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8711 a.m. to noon | Golisano Hall, Foyer 2 | Table TalkAn Irish Experience

Presenter: Audrey Strong ’14


Is Exercise-Induced Colic a Consequence of Dehydration?Presenter: Sarah Goyer ’12


Hemoglobin Deficiency and its Effect on Cognitive FunctionPresenter: Christopher Sime ’12

90u duFFy award winner11:15-11:30 a.m. | Golisano Hall, Room 203 | Oral Presentation

Small Island SustainabilityPresenter: Tanae Adderley ’13


CryptologyPresenter: Dan Brainard ’12


Cloud Computing and its Effects on the Field of Public AccountingPresenter: Zachary Hollinger ’12

9311:20-11:40 a.m. | Golisano Hall, Room 301 | Classroom PresentationThe Lady’s Reformation: Anne Boleyn and Reformation England

Presenter: Danielle Alesi ’14

9411:20-11:40 a.m. | Johnstone Science Center, Room 301 | Oral PresentationPrevention and Management of Cardiovascular Disease in African

American WomenPresenter: Nanica Galette ’12


The Effect of Postural Position on Respiratory Flow and Ventilation While Treading WaterPresenter: Allyssa Analytis ’12


Competition for Shelter Between a Native and an Invasive CrayfishPresenter: Michael Phillips ’12

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9711:30-11:45 a.m. | Golisano Hall, Room 203 | Oral PresentationBiodiversity Monitoring in a Honduran Cloud Forest

Presenter: Ethan Staats ’13 | Co-presenter(s): Michael Itgen ’13


The Journey to the Discovery of CalculusPresenter: Andrew McCarthy ’12


The Thermal Effects of Equine Protective Sports Boots on the Equine Cranial Superficial Digital Flexor Tendon in Standardbred RacehorsesPresenter: Blair Snively ’12

100u Freedman Prize winner11:40 a.m. to noon | Golisano Hall, Room 104 | Oral Presentation

Theatrical Presentation and Edgar Allan PoePresenter: Lita Benson ’12


Mass Determination of Seeds by Black-capped ChickadeesPresenter: Adia Ferris ’12

10211:40 a.m. to noon | Johnstone Science Center, Room 301 | Classroom PresentationYoung, Wild and Free

Presenter: Sarah MacDougall ’13 | Co-presenter(s): Kelsey Kimble ’13, Ilona van der Ven ’13

10311:40 a.m. to noon | Johnstone Science Center, Room 401 | Oral PresentationThe Nurse’s Role in Monitoring and Protecting the Hospitalized Patient with

Obstructive Sleep ApneaPresenter: Elizabeth Scholl ’12

10411:45 to noon | Golisano Hall, Room 203 | Oral PresentationTwenty-Six Days Changed 20 Years: My Trip to Asebu, Ghana

Presenter: Emilie Solandt ’13

10511:45 a.m. to noon | Golisano Hall, Room 303 | Classroom PresentationMathematics Symposium

Topological GamesPresenter: Katharine Holmes ’12

10611:55 a.m. to 12:10 p.m. | Johnstone Science Center, Room 201Classroom Presentation | Biology Senior Symposium

A Review: The Factors, Characteristics and Treatments of Five Major Canine CancersPresenter: Rachele Anderson ’12

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10711:55 a.m. to12:10 p.m. | Johnstone Science Center, Room 215Classroom Presentation | Biology Senior Symposium

Examining the Antimicrobial Properties of Allspice and GarlicPresenter: Amanda VanBuren ’12

108u duFFy award winnerNoon to 12:15 p.m. | Golisano Hall, Room 203 | Oral Presentation

Museums and TruthPresenter: Desiree Fuller ’12

10912:10-12:25 p.m. | Johnstone Science Center, Room 201 | Classroom PresentationBiology Senior Symposium

A Re-assessment of the Successional Changes of a Tree Stand in Robert V. RiddellState ParkPresenter: Kristina Scaggs ’12

1102-2:15 p.m. | Anderson Center for the Arts, Room 209 | Classroom PresentationMusic Senior Symposium

Songs for a New WorldPresenter: Kristyn Knapp ’12 | Co-presenter(s): Bianca Tubolino ’12 | Additional Students:Paul Patinka ’15, Isaac D. Ofori ’12

1112-2:20 p.m. | Anderson Center for the Arts, Room 138 | Oral PresentationWhaling for Identity: How Culture Affects the International Whaling Commission

Presenter: Rebecka Flynn ’12

1122-2:20 p.m. | Anderson Center for the Arts, Room 207 | Oral PresentationHartwick College and the Viability of Solar Technology

Presenter: Rachel Rhodes ’13

1132-3 p.m. | Anderson Center for the Arts, Foreman Gallery | Art Senior ShowSenior Project Exhibition

Presenter: Jacqueline Jones ’12 | Co-presenter(s): Alanna Ranellone ’12, Amanda Medina ’11, Amanda Dockstader ’12, Kaitlyn Smith ’12, Luke Malone ’12, Kimberly DeMartino ’12, Lauren Morris ’12, Marin Fingerle ’12, Suzanne Robichaud ’12, Lindsay Worden ’12

1142-4 p.m. | Anderson Center for the Arts, Room 122 | Classroom PresentationDemonstrations in Glass Blowing

Presenter: Zachary Hollinger ’12

1152-4 p.m. | Anderson Center for the Arts, Room 122 | Classroom PresentationCeramics Demonstration, Exhibition, and Clay Club Spring Sale

Presenter: Cassidy Liebman ’13 | Co-presenter(s): Kimberly DeMartino ’12, Lee Fenner ’13, Lauren Morris ’12, Christopher Spinozzi ’14, Marin Fingerle ’12, Samantha McFarland ’12Additional Students: Hope Irion ’13, Josefine Vincents ’15, Carlee Hirt ’15, Hayley Dyer ’15, Erin Holladay ’13, Madeline Quick ’12, Amy Ronnerman ’15, Theresa Pietsch ’13, Erica Cantwell ’14, Amanda Dockstader ’12

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1162-4 p.m. | Anderson Center for the Arts, Room 129 | ReadingGame Programming in Flash - Lucid: Arena

Presenter: Jack Bauerle ’12

117u Freedman Prize winner2-4 p.m. | Anderson Center for the Arts, Foyer 2 | Table Talk

Technical Directing and Lighting Design: The Imaginary InvalidPresenter: Kelly Fayton ’13

1182-4 p.m. | Anderson Center for the Arts, Foyer 2 | Table TalkI.D.d

Presenter: Devon Gonzalez ’12

1192-4 p.m. | Anderson Center for the Arts, Foyer 2 | Table TalkAn Analysis of Three Types of Bit-Wear for the Archaeological Identification of

Domesticated Versus Wild HorsesPresenter: Chandler Guptill ’12

1202-4 p.m. | Anderson Center for the Arts, Foyer 2 | Table TalkBiological and Ecological Surveys of Robert V. Riddell State Park

Presenter: Liam Heiland ’13 | Co-presenter(s): Kristina Scaggs ’12

1212-4 p.m. | Anderson Center for the Arts, Foyer | Table TalkRayGuns! Student Showcase for Works in Glass

Presenter: Zachary Hollinger ’12 | Additional Students: Eric Pedersen ’11

1222-4 p.m. | Anderson Center for the Arts, Foyer 2 | Table TalkPermission to FLIP Out: Foreign Language Initiative Program

Presenter: Kalindi Naslund ’15 | Co-presenter(s): Emily Knapp ’13, Emilie Solandt ’13

1232-4 p.m. | Anderson Center for the Arts, Foyer 2 | Table Talk80 for a Day

Presenter: Kellyann Newman ’13 | Co-presenter(s): Abigail Hoffay ’13, Cassie Jonaitis ’13

1242-4 p.m. | Anderson Center for the Arts, Foyer 2 | Table TalkA Lost Loyalist Logo: A Remnant of the Revolutionary War

Presenter: Rejoice Scherry ’13

1252-4 p.m. | Anderson Center for the Arts, Foyer 2 | Table TalkMoments

Presenter: Alexandra Wood ’14

1262-4 p.m. | Anderson Center for the Arts, Foyer 2 | Table TalkModel United Nations: Our Experience

Presenter: Robert Amberson ’12 | Co-presenter(s): Jennifer Davis ’13, Tyler Machia ’12, Lauren Mausert ’12, John Burns ’14, Tyler Benjamin ’12, Ronak Sharma ’14, Robert Amberson ’12, Jona Tapia ’15, Laura Weig ’13, Anna Boardman ’14

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127 u Freedman Prize winner2-4 p.m. | Anderson Center for the Arts, First Floor Hallway Galleries | Table Talk

Managing the Menagerie of Freaks: Stage Managing Hartwick College’sThe Imaginary InvalidPresenter: Kyrie McCormick ’14

1282-4 p.m. | Anderson Center for the Arts, First Floor Hallway GalleriesPoster Presentation

Determining the Activation Energy of UV Color-changing BeadsPresenter: Katie Lukens ’12


Effective Transitional Care Planning for the ElderlyPresenter: Brittany Baughman ’12


Providing Safe Quality Care During Pregnancy for Women Who are ObesePresenter: Natasha Biltucci ’12


Pressure Ulcer Prevention in the ICU PopulationPresenter: Simonne Boswell ’12


The Influence of Music Therapy During the Postoperative Period on Pediatric Patients’ Pain and AnxietyPresenter: Kerry Brennan ’12


How Can Family Presence During Resuscitation Events be Best Managed to Achieve Desired Outcomes for Staff and Family?Presenter: Sarah Briggs ’12

1342- 4 p.m. | Anderson Center for the Arts, First Floor Hallway GalleriesPoster Presentation

The Women of Iceland: Goading, Blood Feuds, and Honor in Njáls SagaPresenter: Elizabeth Celata ’12


Effects of High Fat/High Sugar Diet on CognitionPresenter: Megan Clampitt ’13

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Role of the Nurse in Perinatal Substance AbusePresenter: Megan Conroy ’12


They’re Bringing Sexy Back: Sex After 65Presenter: Lauren Czyras ’13 | Co-presenter(s): Shelby McIntee ’13, Erin Bell ’13


Improving Family-Centered Nursing Care in the Pediatric Inpatient SettingPresenter: Staci Daddio ’12


Identifying Effective Complementary Nursing Therapies to Reduce Pain in Adult Oncology Patients in the Hospital SettingPresenter: Jaimie deJager ’12


Weathering and Aluminum Leaching in Granitic Rocks in the Swift River Watershed, New HampshirePresenter: Sierra Derby ’12


Does Religion Influence Criminal Behavior?Presenter: Erin Doyle ’13

142u Freedman Prize winner2-4 p.m. | Anderson Center for the Arts, First Floor Hallway Galleries

Poster PresentationWho Was H.P. Lovecraft?Presenter: Michael Easton ’12


Substance Abuse Prevention in the Pre-licensure Nursing Student PopulationPresenter: Elisa Ernstoff ’12


America’s Elderly Run on Too Many MedsPresenter: Emily Gates ’13 | Co-presenter(s): Frances Nesi ’13, Brittany Tyrrell ’12

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Facilitating Effective Coping Mechanisms for Families of Patients Diagnosedwith SchizophreniaPresenter: Nefertari Gray ’12


El Arte de Traducción / The Art of TranslationPresenter: Elizabeth Greco ’14


Analyzing the Role of Biofilm in Mineral Weathering Using ScanningElectron MicroscopyPresenter: Kyle Greenberg ’13


Changing Ecological Behaviors of Students in Residence Halls at Hartwick CollegePresenter: Lauren Johengen ’15


The Antimicrobial Properties of SpicesPresenter: Elizabeth Kelly ’12


Best Practices for Implementing Music Therapy in Patients with Alzheimer’s DiseasePresenter: Brittany Ladner ’12


Searching for the God-headPresenter: Ashley Larsen ’12


The Outcomes of Implementing Early Outpatient Palliative Care in Older Adult Patients with Chronic Progressive DiseasesPresenter: Alisha Lent ’12


The Wonders of Solitary WavesPresenter: Khadijah Marks ’15

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What’s in a Name? How Language is Used to Silence WomenPresenter: Krista Marzano ’12 | Co-presenter(s): Ryan McGovern ’13


The Effectiveness of Massage in Adult Hospitalized Clients in Reducing Pain and Promoting RecoveryPresenter: Kyla Mininger ’12


Determining Relationships Between Two Granite Bodies Using Chemical andOptical AnalysisPresenter: Hunter Morton ’12


Biofilm: a Transmission Electron Microscopy InvestigationPresenter: Sheila Niedziela ’13


A Photographer’s Approach to the Changed Lifestyles of Upstate New York Throughthe Images of BarnsPresenter: Michelle O’Dell ’14


Poster PresentationHI Deficiency Estimates in the AWM 3 Galaxy Cluster Presenter: Jaclyn Patterson ’13 | Co-presenter(s): Nathan Nichols ’14


The Use of Interpreters in Nursing and its Impact on the Quality of Care Receivedby Latino PatientsPresenter: Nevin Perez ’12


Oppositional Defiant Disorder and the Kazdin MethodPresenter: Carly Ramos ’12

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The Effectiveness of Animal-Assisted Therapy in Individuals with Physical/Psychological ImpairmentsPresenter: Jessica Shultz ’12


Poster PresentationNursing Through the Medium of TheaterPresenter: Molly Snelling ’14 | Additional Students: Kiara Goldwag ’14


Evaluation of the Seasonal Eutrophication of the Lower Portion of Black Lake, New YorkPresenter: Ellyssa Tennant ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Zsuzsanna Balogh-Brunstad


Study of a Third Grade Struggling Reader and Her Change in Reading Achievement Over TimePresenter: Samuel Tollen ’13


Barriers to Providing Family-Centered Care to Pediatric Oncology Patients andtheir FamiliesPresenter: Stephanie Washburn ’12


Promoting Growth and Development in Children and Adolescents with Congenital Heart DefectsPresenter: Lauren Weed ’12


Dynamical Mass Calculations for the WBL 509/AWM 3 Galaxy GroupPresenter: Catherine Weigel ’12 | Co-presenter(s): Jaclyn Patterson ’13, Nathan Nichols ’14


Poster PresentationPersonality and Music Performance: The Interactive and Main Effects of Optimism and Audience Composition on Music Performance Anxiety Presenter: Lauren Wetzel ’12

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Reducing Auditory Distractions for Students with Learning Disabilities:A Phenomenological StudyPresenter: Abigail Wright ’12 | Co-presenter(s): Jill Roth ’12


Old Masters in a New Skin: Kathleen Gilje’s RestorationsPresenter: Jami Zahemski ’12

1722:15-2:30 p.m. | Anderson Center for the Arts, Room 209 | Classroom PresentationMusic Senior Symposium

From Genre to Genre: Using Electronic Music in the ClassroomPresenter: Jessica Lane ’12

1732:20-2:40 p.m. | Anderson Center for the Arts, Room 138 | Oral PresentationUnequal Education: How the Brown v. Board of Education Decision can be

Applied in Rural West VirginiaPresenter: Rebecka Flynn ’12

1742:20-2:40 p.m. | Anderson Center for the Arts, Room 207 | Oral PresentationRebound Effects with Hybrid Vehicles: A Contradiction

Presenter: Patrick Thompson ’12


Connecting to Society: How Music Can Foster an Understanding of Emotion, Communications, and Social Rules in Students with AutismPresenter: Anna Carbone ’12

1762:40-3 p.m. | Anderson Center for the Arts, Room 138 | Oral PresentationTo Kill or Not to Kill? The Effectiveness of the Death Penalty

Presenter: Anthony Bonagura ’12

1772:40-3 p.m. Anderson Center for the Arts, Room 207 | Oral PresentationFaculty Salary and Compensation Study: An Econometric Analysis

Presenter: Danielle Freeland ’13

178u Freedman Prize winner2:45-3 p.m. | Anderson Center for the Arts, Room 209 | Classroom Presentation

Music Senior Symposium“You Say You Want a Revolution”: Integrating Music Education into Core CurriculumPresenter: Lindsay Wynne ’12

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Creating Cultural Competency Through Integrating the Filipino Kulingtang into the Music ClassroomPresenter: Maria Chavez ’12

1803-3:20 p.m. | Anderson Center for the Arts, Room 138 | Oral PresentationAl Jazeera: A Positive Addition to United States Media

Presenter: Eleanor Prisco ’13

1813-3:20 p.m. | Anderson Center for the Arts, Room 207 | Oral PresentationOptimism, Goal Obstruction, and Task Performance in an Online Game

Presenter: Fawn Caplandies ’13 | Co-presenter(s): Alexandria Billington ’13


The Dance of Death for Rock OrchestraPresenter: Kyle May ’12

1833:20-3:40 p.m. | Anderson Center for the Arts, Room 138 | Oral PresentationYoung Adults’ Political Ideology and Identity: Who Really Holds the Key?

Presenter: Robert Ploth ’12

184u Freedman Prize winner3:20-3:40 p.m. | Anderson Center for the Arts, Room 207 | Oral Presentation

The Effects of Homophobia on Eyewitness MemoryPresenter: Victoria Halsted ’12


We Are One: Motivating Students with Special Needs in the Music ClassroomPresenter: Natalie Yambor ’12

1863:45-4 p.m. | Anderson Center for the Arts, Room 209 | Classroom PresentationMusic Senior Symposium

Popular Music Pedagogy: Fundamentals of Music Theory Through Popular CulturePresenter: Brittany Maquet-Lambert ’12


The Music in You: Reviving Music in Urban SchoolsPresenter: Kristina Allen ’12

1888-9:30 p.m. | Bresee Hall, Lab Theatre | Theatrical ProductionSongs For A New World

Presenter: Bianca Tubolino ’12 | Co-presenter(s): Kristyn Knapp ’12

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Student Showcase Schedule and Descriptions

1u Freedman Prize winner 8-8:20 a.m. | Golisano Hall, Room 103 | Oral Presentation

Concerning the Nature of Our Beliefs: Hume’s Skeptical ResponseDiscipline: PhilosophyPresenter: Jordan Liz ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Stefanie A. Rocknak David Hume’s account of beliefs has been widely debated for years. On the standard reading, Humean beliefs follow from his account of causation. In fact, on this reading, the reason we acknowledge and perceive causal relationship is because of the beliefs we develop upon seeing a cause. For example, when we observe an ice cube near fire, we acknowledge (and believe) that the ice cube will melt. We believe this with as much conviction as if we were actually seeing it (having the impression of it). Thus, for Hume, beliefs are the vivacious idea of the effects that arise whenever we see a recognizable cause. In this paper, I aim to argue that although this definition of beliefs is correct, it does not capture Hume’s most fundamental definition of a belief—namely, that all of our impressions constitute a belief. Moreover, I will argue that Hume’s account of causation already presupposes the aforementioned meaning of beliefs and that his focus on ideas is intended to capture special types of beliefs that are not included in his actual definition of beliefs.

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Discipline: English and Theatre ArtsPresenter: Michael Easton ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Thomas J. Travisano For my senior project in creative writing, I wrote a non-fiction memoir about the two years I spent living in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, when I was a sophomore and junior in high school. The manuscript is written from my point of view, and tells my story of being overseas in a strange land and how I changed in the time I was there. My story is both emotional and comedic, as I recount my two years in Belgrade, dramatizing many of the memorable events that occurred. It was definitely a challenge to reproduce my emotions from this period, and it surprised me to see how hard it can be to write about yourself, as I really wanted the reader to bond with my character. I was amazed by how many memories I could recall as I wrote, and I am thrilled to be able to share my story.

3 8-8:20 a.m. | Golisano Hall, Room 203 | Oral PresentationMajor Polemics in Music of the 19th and 20th Centuries

Discipline: MusicPresenter: Kyle May ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Diane Paige An often underrated topic in musicology is the question “What is music?” In the 19th and 20th centuries, the arguments surrounding this question shaped the progress of music just as much as

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the compositions that caused musicians and audiences alike to ask themselves this very question. This presentation will explore the views of some composers, their compositions, and the impact that they had on the conceptualization of music. Composers discussed will include Hector Berlioz, Arnold Schoenberg, Igor Stravinsky, John Cage, Iannis Xenakis, and others.

48-8:20 a.m. | Golisano Hall, Room 301 | Oral PresentationProjecting Cranial Capacities Using Vertebral Foramina Circumferences

Discipline: AnthropologyPresenter: Elizabeth Celata ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. David W. Anthony The human spine, in particular the vertebral foramina, can be used to determine the approximate cranial capacity of a Homo sapiens specimen. This approximation is possible due to the relationship between the spinal cord and the brain. A formula for estimating cranial capacity was proposed based upon a number of ratios. These basic ratios include the circumference of the cranium, from the occipital lobe to the frontal lobe; the crest of the skull to the palate; and the circumference of each vertebral space. Understanding the ratio within Homo sapiens specimens could enable us to make predictions about our ancestors and the process of evolution within our species.

58:20-8:40 a.m | Golisano Hall, Room 103 | Oral PresentationCemeteries and the Human Question: Educating Young People About Themselves

Discipline: EducationPresenter: Alyssa Failey ’13 | Mentor(s): Dr. Johanna E. Mitchell, Dr. David C. Cody Co-presenter(s): Justin Deming ’12Tombstones and graveyards tell us a great deal about what it means to be human. In keeping with the campus theme, this presentation discusses the ways in which school-aged students can be taught to examine their own humanity through activities in local cemeteries. Aimed at an audience of future teachers, the session begins with photos of local tombstones and moves into a discussion of ways to use these public spaces to enlighten ourselves and our future students about what it means to be human. Participants will be provided with a packet of exciting ideas for use in the classroom.

68:20-8:40 a.m. | Golisano Hall, Room 104 | Oral PresentationPolitics, Performance, and the Paternal in Shakespeare’s King Lear

Discipline: English and Theatre ArtsPresenter: Kate Vosburg ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Lisa Darien In William Shakespeare’s King Lear, the featured father-child relationships are heavily influenced by the planned acquisition of a political title. Political titles necessitate public personas, the creation and maintenance of which require performances. King Lear allows us to view the consequences of successful and unsuccessful performances on families and politics. King Lear and the Duke of Gloucester do not understand the requirements of either politics or performance, which allows them to become the objects of their children’s manipulations. Ironically, Gloucester’s two sons become the most effective performers, but with opposed intentions: Edmund’s is evil and Edgar’s is honorable. The presentation argues that the fathers and children of aristocratic and royal families that are presented in King Lear demonstrate that effective performances on the part of both the father and the child are necessary in order to sustain successful father-child relations and to secure or maintain a political title.

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78:20-8:40 a.m. | Golisano Hall, Room 203 | Classroom PresentationVocal Pedagogy for High School Musical Theatre Directors

Discipline: Music EducationPresenter: Paul Patinka ’15 | Mentor(s): Dr. Diane Paige This project entails the creation of a manual that will help high school musical directors to better teach musical theatre. Often students of this age who are involved in musical theatre productions have little or no musical experience and/or private training. Time constraints often limit the ability of the teacher/director to provide students with individual lessons. Through research and interviews with professionals, I will compile this information into a practical manual. This guide will include vocal techniques used in warm-ups and in singing as a means to help alleviate common problems such as diction, breathing, microphone use, tone quality, and vocal hygiene.

88:20-8:40 a.m. | Golisano Hall, Room 301 | Oral PresentationInked: Tattoos and Male Groups

Discipline: AnthropologyPresenter: Desiree Fuller ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. David W. Anthony Tattooing is an ancient practice that reaches back to the Upper Paleolithic. This research focuses on three ancient groups that practiced tattooing. The context of modern militaries, gangs, and prisons provides an interpretative framework for the pre-modern tattoos. These two eras, the modern and the pre-modern, are connected through environments that are male-dominated and have a high potential for violence. Tattoos allow messages of mutual membership to be conveyed visually and permanently. They also serve as rites of passage that create strong bonds with fellow initiates. This rite of passage function of tattoos allows for trust and cooperative teamwork, even with people socially distant within the same group. In violent and unstable environments, visual identification of friend versus foe is often the difference between life and death. Ancient tattoos could have been used as a rite of passage and an indication of group membership in violent and masculine environments.


Markov Chains: An Application for Today’s College StudentsDiscipline: MathematicsPresenter: Elizabeth Allers ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Ronald M. Brzenk I am investigating Markov chains for my senior project in mathematics. I plan to study basic, general, and absorbing Markov chains. I will employ several different books that deal with Markov chains and mathematical modeling. The fundamental principle for Markov chains is the idea of “independence of the future from the past if the present is known.” In other words, one can determine the future regardless of the past if we have proper information for the present. My presentation will cover the most basic of the Markov chains, a two-state chain. An example of this would be: if you know how many people live in the city and the suburbs, you can use percentages to determine the population of each in years or decades to come, regardless of their previous populations.


The Milford ProjectDiscipline: Business Administration and Accounting

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Presenter: Jayne Bolt ’12 | Mentor(s): Mrs. Priscilla Wightman | Co-presenter(s): , Kaitlynn Ellis ’12, Daniel Flynn ’12, Zachary Hollinger ’12, John Pezzullo ’12, Jill Rotella ’12, Jordan Spirou ’12, Daniel Valliere ’12The best way to learn is to do. The members of the spring 2012 Contemporary Issues in Accounting course, the accounting majors’ capstone, embraced that philosophy when they submitted an Accounting Information System Recording and Reporting Project proposal to the Milford, NY Town Board. The project would convert the town’s current manual information system to an electronic system and prepare the 2012 annual financial report. The proposal was unanimously accepted, with project results presented to the Town Board at its March 21, 2012 meeting. This presentation will share student reflections on the differences between a classroom case and an actual consulting engagement and the value of experiential learning.


The Impact of Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria on Microbiota RestorationDiscipline: BiologyPresenter: Brittany LaVaute ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Mary E. Allen Antibiotics are used to treat bacterial infections. However, bacteria can develop resistance to antibiotics from mutations or by acquisition of genes from other organisms. The objective of this research project was to determine if antibiotic-resistant bacteria has an impact on microbiota restoration. Microbiota refers to the collective bacteria and other micro-organisms harbored by healthy individuals. Typically, there is a balance between potentially pathogenic and non-pathogenic organisms. The goal of microbiota restoration is to restore the balance after it has been disturbed. Published scientific literature was gathered for a review of microbiota restoration and antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Microbiota may be harmed by antibiotic treatment. If the bacteria causing disease develop resistance to antibiotics, it is more difficult to restore the microbial flora. Therefore, if antibiotics are needed to treat an infection and there are resistant strains of bacteria present, the microbial flora will not be reinstated as efficiently. The final conclusions demonstrate that the restoration of microbiota is necessary to help restore and maintain homeostasis in the body.

12u emerson award winner8:40-9 a.m. | Golisano Hall, Room 203 | Oral Presentation

Exploring the Ethics of Volunteerism as Outsiders: What I Have Learned About Myself, Volunteerism, and the Difficult Questions that Must Be AskedDiscipline: EducationPresenter: Anne Louise Wagner ’13 | Mentor(s): Dr. Elizabeth A. Bloom This presentation is a unique program that allows me to share my ideas, stories, and realizations based on my two recent volunteer experiences in a developing environment. I won the Emerson Scholarship to volunteer for the Mantay Center in Cusco, Peru during the summer of 2011. During January Term of 2012, I worked with Ghanaian volunteers of the Alliance for Youth Development organization based in Asebu, Ghana. While working with these two strong organizations, I was able to reflect on my own volunteer practices, to observe the practices of others, and to speak with the founding members of the organizations about their perceived roles in their communities as well as the roles of the foreign volunteers in relation to their overarching organizational goals. This presentation also enables me to begin a dialogue with the audience. I will extract my personal discoveries based on my experiences as an individual who volunteers as

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a newcomer or outsider to the community. In addition, I hope that audience members will share their experiences, observations, and opinions in response to critical questions regarding the role of volunteers participating as outsiders. Pressing questions must be considered. For example, what is the correct balance, or is there a correct balance, between the donation of time versus financial support? Or, does the internal damage on the citizen caused by the lost relationships formed with the volunteer outweigh the possible growth and benefits from their temporary relationship? Together, I hope that we can begin to develop conclusions regarding the positive and negative effects of volunteering as outsiders. Perhaps we can begin to unravel a small piece of this knotted topic. Please bring your own opinions, stories, and questions.


The Effects of Dietary Fructose on the Growth and Survival of Human PancreaticCancer Cells in Culture Discipline: BiologyPresenter: Charlene Fleurinord ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Stanley K. Sessions A major goal of cancer research is to understand the factors that control the growth and survival of cancer cells. Certain kinds of cancer, such as pancreatic cancer, appear to show enhanced growth in the presence of fructose and also quickly evolve resistance to chemotherapy. This resistance appears to involve autophagy, in which cells express an array of genes that allow them to feed on their own organelles, especially mitochondria. The relationship between fructose and autophagy, however, has not been explored. The purpose of this experiment is to analyze cellular growth and autophagy in pancreatic cancer cells that have been grown in fructose in the presence or absence of a common chemotherapy drug. Human pancreatic cancer cells will be grown in the Corning Tissue Culture Facility at Hartwick College in either plain medium or medium enhanced with fructose in the presence or absence of fluorouracil. Cellular growth will be monitored in experimental and control dishes using a Coulter Cell Counter, and autophagy will be determined by using a commercial detection kit that utilizes a monoclonal antibody against autophagy-specific proteins. This experiment may contribute to an understanding of the effects of dietary fructose on the growth and survival of pancreatic cancer cells, which could eventually lead to improved treatments.

148:40-9 a.m. | Golisano Hall, Room 104 | ReadingRaymond Carver’s American Dream: Shedding Light on What Makes Us

Recognizably HumanDiscipline: English and EducationPresenter: Jherrett Maroney ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Robert H. Seguin The American writer Raymond Carver explored the social landscape of America by writing about life from the bottom. His interest lay in the lives of his broken down characters, who were from a place where, as Carver noted, “ideas and ideals and people’s goals and visions” simply perished. His America is dark, but his honesty is what truly captivates readers. In this presentation I explore an underexamined aspect of Carver’s work: his analysis of the dreams and false hopes that American culture instills in working class citizens--the origins of Carver’s dark America.

15u Freedman Prize winner8:40-9 a.m. | Golisano Hall, Room 301 | Oral Presentation

Hume’s Double Relation of Ideas and Impressions

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Discipline: PhilosophyPresenter: Jordan Liz ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Stefanie A. Rocknak In Book II of the Treatise, Hume categorizes the passions in a manner parallel to his discourse of ideas and impressions in Book I. During the course of his discussion, Hume introduces the concept of the “double relation of ideas of impressions” to explain the mechanism by which intense emotions are developed within the body. Despite the enormous wealth of Hume scholarship, the double relation of ideas and impressions has received little attention. In 1980, R.W. Altmann wrote his “Hume on Sympathy,” where he provided a framework for understanding the relation. More recently, Amy Schmitter has contributed a different perspective. Comparatively, the latter is a better description than its predecessor is, however, a few modifications are still needed, given Hume’s vague description of “bodily pains and pleasures.” This paper will attempt to provide a thorough analysis of the double relation of ideas and impressions and the potential problems concerning the noted ambiguity. Specifically, Hume claims that pride is always the result of pleasure and that humility derives from pain. This, however, leads to a contradiction if “bodily pains and pleasures” are translated as physical pain and pleasure. For example, physical pain may result in pride given certain circumstances, such as protecting someone precious.


How Much are We Going to Earn After Ten Years?Discipline: MathematicsPresenter: Qin Ouyang ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Ronald M. Brzenk I am investigating regression and correlation for my senior project. Regression analysis is a technique for modeling and analyzing several variables between a dependent variable and one or more independent variables. It is widely used in predicting and forecasting. I will prove a number of theorems involving linear regression. Most of the time, in actual practice, we don’t know the joint distribution of the random variables, therefore we need to use the method of least squares.I will focus on this topic. I will then to do the difference between normal regression analysis and normal correlation analysis. For the Showcase presentation I will use regression analysis to predict the average of how much we are going to earn after 10 years out of school.


Prevalence of Streptococcus Lancefield Group C on the Hartwick College CampusDiscipline: BiologyPresenter: Sierra Ruff ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Mary E. Allen Streptococcus Lancefield Group C, Strep C, can cause sore throats in humans, although the bacteria may also colonize the skin, vagina, nose, and throat asymptomatically. Transmission is most common via direct contact with an infected human or non-human host. Local authorities (personal communication: Elizabeth Morley, RN, Director of Perrella Health Care Center of Hartwick College and Russell Grant, Director of Infection Control at A. O. Fox Memorial Hospital, Oneonta, NY) have noted diagnoses of Strep C pharyngitis common enough among students at Hartwick College to suggest the bacteria is endemic to the community. This study looked for associations between student residence, student activities (i.e. teams, clubs) and occurrence of asymptomatic infection with Strep C. Particular focus was on residency in Leitzell Hall, which a 2010 study suggested was related to asymptomatic infection, and on members of the equestrian team, because horses are known reservoirs of the bacteria. In spring 2011, 248

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student volunteers gave consent to have their throats swabbed and completed a short lifestyle survey. Bacteria from throat swabs were grown on sheep blood agar, and Streptococcus Lancefied Group C were detected by their ability to lyse red blood cells. Their identification was confirmed using a latex antibody agglutination test. Among student volunteers, 6.85% tested positive. Chi-square analyses and logistic regressions indicated no significant relationships with residence or the equestrian team. However, no prior diagnosis of Strep C pharyngitis was of particular interest (p=.034). Also suggestive was class year: juniors (p=.201), sophomores (p=.428) and first years (p=.329).


Heart Regeneration in Notophthalmus viridescens: Where do the Stem Cells Come From?Discipline: BiologyPresenter: Amanda Wilder ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Stanley K. Sessions, Dr. Andrew Piefer The purpose of this study was to investigate the origin of cardiomyocyte stem cells involved in the regeneration of heart tissue in Eastern newts (Notophthalmus viridescens). We tested the idea that new cardiomyocyte stem cells originate from the blood clot that forms at the site of injury. We used RT-PCR on RNA extracted from regenerating and non-regenerating newt heart tissue to analyze expression patterns of three cardiomyocyte stem cell specific genes known to be important in vertebrate heart development: crip2, fgf8, and nanog. We discuss the importance of our results in understanding the repair and regeneration in the heart tissue of vertebrates.


History of MathematicsDiscipline: MathematicsPresenter: Dustin Gratto ’13 | Mentor(s): Dr. Ronald M. Brzenk My senior capstone project will be on the history of mathematics. I plan to cover a long period of time starting from the period right after Euclid wrote his book Elements, and going right through the dead period of math and then finally into the 17th century. I plan to talk about the history of when things were developed and will select important theorems that were significant in math history. For the Showcase presentation I will not have time to present all the theorems, so I plan to address Napier and his invention of the logarithm. It is a very important development in math history because of how it helped solve so many future problems in calculus and other areas.

209-9:20 a.m. | Golisano Hall, Room 104 | Oral PresentationBodacious Bodice-Rippers: Feminine Desire and Feminist Intent in the

Contemporary Romance NovelDiscipline: English and Theatre ArtsPresenter: Kendra Shedina ’13 | Mentor(s): Dr. Susan J. Navarette Established as a popular literary form in the 18th-century, the romance novel enjoyed—paradoxically—a renaissance in the early 1970s when the feminist movement was in full force. One might have thought that the genre would be rejected by women readers; however, romance novels provided an imaginative vehicle through which women could embrace their emerging sexual freedom and could imagine a type of fulfillment that came through sexual conquest. Romance novels were “rediscovered,” becoming a pop culture sensation and a fixture on every woman’s book shelf. Decades later, the romance novel is still relevant to today’s culture. As women scale the

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power ladder in the professional world, they hungrily devour stories in which women are portrayed as willingly assuming submissive sexual roles. Although the intellectual elite tend to view such novels as trashy and non-literary, romances are read by huge numbers of women; it is therefore important to understand the basis for their popularity and cultural relevance. One might argue that these novels empower women and most certainly appeal to women of all ages. By examining different romantic plots, we can plot the coordinates of the female fantasy.


Labor Standards and Compliance Issues in a College TownDiscipline: Business Administration and AccountingPresenter: Jordan Spirou ’12 | Mentor(s): Mrs. Priscilla Wightman The Department of Labor sets employee wage and benefits standards for each state that must be followed strictly by all business owners. There are business owners who follow the laws of the Department of Labor to the fullest, and there are business owners who neglect to be in accordance with these laws. In reality, it is illegal to not be in accordance with these laws, and fraudulent activities can be committed by not being in full agreement with these laws. I will identify the opportunity that is presented to owners to commit fraudulent activities through research of these laws and surveys given to employees who have worked or are currently working in predominately cash businesses, such as bars and restaurants in downtown Oneonta. I will also explain the efforts and procedures of the Department of Labor to try to prevent the disregard of employment laws by business owners of bars and restaurants in downtown Oneonta.

229-9:20 a.m. | Golisano Hall, Room 301 | Oral PresentationA Flawed Republic: The Role of Parliamentary Government in Weimar’s Demise

Discipline: Political Science and HistoryPresenter: Rachel Rhodes ’13 | Mentor(s): Dr. Cherilyn M. Lacy In the aftermath of the political upheavals in the 19th and early 20th centuries, nations combined aspects of liberalism and conservatism to form what they hoped would be effective and stable governments. In the wake of World War I, the united German states formed a parliamentary government to create the German Weimar Republic. As the Weimar Republic spiraled into chaos in the late 1920s and early 1930s, many conservative politicians and intellectuals blamed the failure of democracy on the ineffectiveness of the parliamentary system. While it is true that the parliamentary system in Germany during the Weimar period undoubtedly contributed to the events leading up to the rise of Hitler and the Third Reich, can it be blamed wholly for the dissolution of German democracy in the Weimar era? The answer to this question remains extremely important, as nation building is still a concern in the international community, and new nations are often encouraged to implement democratic government systems, such as parliamentary government, despite their alleged failure in the past. This study will examine the factors contributing to the demise of the Weimar Republic and attempt to decipher the role that the parliamentary system played in its downfall.


Modern Web Development using ASP 4 and C# 2010Discipline: Computer and Information SciencePresenter: Francis Drapalski ’12

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Mentor(s): Mr. Howard M. Lichtman, Ms. Susan R. Carbone

Discussion will center on a Third Q & A Batman Symbol website that was developed and programmed in ASP.net 4 and Visual C# 2010. The website displays many of the things that can be done in the world of Web page development when you use all of the available tools. Interactive features of the site include the ability to comment on articles with responses and other ideas that help to facilitate conversation and discussion. Web development is a field in which creativity can flourish, and this site is an example of the possibilities that Internet development can provide. Features in progress include possible Facebook and Twitter integration, as well as the possible addition of a forum where users can discuss the gaming industry as they wish.

249-9:20 a.m. | Yager Hall, Slade Theatre | ReadingNew Plays Day: The Family Drink

Discipline: English and Theatre ArtsPresenter: Shannon Turnbull ’14 | Mentor(s): Dr. Marc E. Shaw Co-presenter(s): Leslie Bruce ’14 | Additional Students: TBA

The Family Drink is a 10-minute play written by the presenter. New Plays Day is a collaborative effort by Professor Marc Shaw’s Intro to Playwrighting course to showcase Hartwick’s talented playwrights and their wonderful works in progress, to help enhance the plays’ important features, and to allow our playwrights to hear their work and discover its many possibilities still to come. These playwrights have cast actors to read their scripts aloud in hopes of understanding the areas that still need to be worked on with the help of an audience’s input.

25u Freedman Prize winner9-9:40 a.m. | Johnstone Science Center, Room 401 | Classroom Presentation

Chemistry Senior SymposiumIdentifying Chemotaxis Protein-Protein Interactions in the Symbiotic Aquatic Bacterium Epulopiscium Sp. BDiscipline: ChemistryPresenter: Julie Kessler ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Andrew Piefer

The purpose of this project is to identify specific protein-protein interactions that occur during chemotaxis in the symbiotic aquatic bacterium Epulopiscium. Chemotaxis is the process by which cells respond to changes in their environment by triggering movement. This is comparable to how white blood cells migrate toward sites of infection. Several protein-protein interactions in Epulopiscium have been hypothesized based on protein sequence homology with chemotaxis proteins from other bacteria, though these interactions have never been experimentally confirmed. This project will test specific Epulopiscium chemotaxis protein-protein interactions through a two-part strategy (yeast-2-hybrid and GST pull-down assay) to confirm or refute hypothesized interactions and potentially identify Epulo proteins of unknown function. PCR was performed on genomic DNA from Epulo, and candidate regions of CheA and CheW orthologs were cloned to explore possible protein-protein interactions. Expected results will shed light on chemotaxis within this organism and further the “interactome” map of Epulo, which may help elucidate the symbiotic mechanism. This project was funded by a generous gift of the Freedmans to Hartwick College.

269-10 a.m. | Golisano Hall, Room 103 | Classroom PresentationUnited Nations Simulation - International Arms Trade

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Presenter: Bryce Leary ’14 | Mentor(s): Dr. Amy Forster Rothbart | Co-presenter(s): Kayla Murphy ’14, Jennifer Davis ’13, Lauren Mausert ’12, John Burns ’14, Tyler Benjamin ’12, Ronak Sharma ’14, Robert Amberson ’12, Jona Tapia ’15, Laura Weig ’13, Anna Boardman ’14 | Additional Students: Shahzad Khan ’12 A Model United Nations Simulation provides a small glimpse into the world of the United Nations. This showcase will examine the First Committee of the General Assembly, the Disarmament and International Security Committee. In this instance, observers will be able to see how the United Nations functions in its attempt to regulate the international arms trade. Students from the Model United Nations club will portray nations from all over the world as they attempt to stop illegal arms trading. We will also discuss the Model United Nations Conferences these students have attended throughout the year.

279-10 a.m. | Golisano Hall, Room 203 | Classroom PresentationLet’s Talk Hartwick: Assessment of High Impact Practices

Discipline: SociologyPresenter: Kristen Stives ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Lori M. Collins-Hall, Dr. Johanna E. Mitchell Co-presenter(s): Peter Jackson ’13, Abigail Wright ’12, Michael Dittman ’12, Joshua Morey ’12, Katelynn Collins-Hall ’12, Erin Doyle ’13, Sarah Saggese ’12, Jill Rotella ’12, Jennifer Schoch ’12 | Additional Students: Antonio Bell ’12, Alison Ferraro ’12, Brittany Morrissey ’12, Laura Orentlicher ’12, Christina Sorrentino ’11The presentation highlights the combined efforts of fall semester’s quantitative work and spring semester’s qualitative research. The fall capstone analyzed data from CIRP, NSSE, and FSSE. The findings from these analyses yielded several interesting results; the aim of the focus groups during spring semester is to further explore these findings. The focus groups will be centered on high impact practices and learning outcomes from students’ perspectives. Students from all class years and disciplines at Hartwick were invited to take part in this voluntary study. The focus groups were conducted over a three-week period in April with the analysis in May.


Malnutrition in Southeast Asia: A Comparison of Mainland and Maritime CountriesDiscipline: BiologyPresenter: Silvanna Esposito ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Allen R. Crooker, Jr. Malnutrition is one of the most debilitating diseases in the world, particularly in Southeast Asia, where 70% of malnourished children currently reside. To date, no singularly effective mechanism for eradicating or even diminishing malnutrition has been identified. It is necessary, therefore, to compare and contrast multiple countries in Southeast Asia to identify the causes and severity of malnutrition in this region, and to determine which methods to combat it have been the least and most effective. A literature review was conducted to examine malnutrition in three mainland and three maritime nations in Southeast Asia: Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand versus the Philippines, Indonesia, and Singapore. A general lack of knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, as well as little knowledge concerning clean water or proper sanitation, were found to be the most important factors contributing to malnutrition, especially among children from birth to age 5. Surprisingly, however, Singapore had few or no instances of childhood malnutrition, primarily due to industrialization and a successful public healthcare program. If the governments of other nations could adopt programs similar to those established in Singapore, it would be possible to greatly reduce malnutrition levels around the world.


Origin of Stem Cells in Heart Regeneration in Red-Spotted NewtsDiscipline: BiologyPresenter: Jessica Rodriquez ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Stanley K. Sessions The purpose of this experiment was to investigate the origin of cardiomyocyte stem cells in the regenerated heart tissue of Red-Spotted Newts (Notophthalmus viridescens). After amputation of the ventricle, the heart begins to regenerate by forming a blood clot that is filled with dividing cells. We hypothesized that the cardiomyocyte stem cells may originate from the blood clot, which is formed by the circulating blood. We tested this hypothesis by transfusing BrdU-labeled blood from a donor newt to a recipient newt with a regenerating heart. Histology and anti-BrdU immunocytochemistry were used to look for labeled cells in the regenerated heart tissue. The presence of labeled differentiated cardiomyocytes in the regenerated tissues of the recipient newt would support our hypothesis, since the only source of labeled cells is donor blood.


Investigating Game Theory and Human DecisionsDiscipline: MathematicsPresenter: Gary Holeck ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Ronald M. Brzenk My project will investigate various areas of game theory. I will investigate games involving two or more people, and those which are considered “non-zero sum games.” Specifically, I plan on examining contradictions within games and how players often act irrationally and contradict optimal solutions. Another factor in this is human psychology. A common occurrence in games is for the players to act in a seemingly selfish or illogical way to try to gain an edge. A classic example of this is the prisoner’s dilemma. Other times both participants are forced into a decision out of fear of their opponent’s choice. My presentation will focus on games in which the players make paradoxical or self-destructive decisions. I will give examples of a simple game and more sophisticated game and present their mathematical solutions.

319:20-9:40 a.m. | Golisano Hall, Room 104 | Oral PresentationWhat a Strange Trip It’s Been: The New Journalism of Hunter S. Thompson

and Tom WolfeDiscipline: English and Theatre ArtsPresenter: Jessica Schwartz ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Thomas J. Travisano During the 1960s, Hunter S. Thompson and Tom Wolfe began writing nonfiction pieces identified as New Journalism, a groundbreaking new genre that mixed elements of nonfiction journalism with fiction techniques. With this more freeform style, these authors were able to write creative, innovative pieces exposing groups of American counterculture of the mid-20th century, most famously including the Hell’s Angels and Ken Kesey’s Merry Pranksters. Tom Wolfe would quickly become known as the father of New Journalism, while Hunter S. Thompson would leave the genre behind in favor of his own, more extreme style of Gonzo Journalism. He adopted his alter ego of Dr. Gonzo and began examining the darker, more cynical world of the American dream in works such as Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Thompson became a writer who behaved like a rock star, and soon Dr. Gonzo emerged as one of the most radical figures of contemporary journalism, while Wolfe remained, in his later work, more connected to the mainstream.

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Implications of ‘Little GAAP’ in the Accounting ProfessionDiscipline: Business Administration and AccountingPresenter: Jayne Bolt ’12 | Mentor(s): Mrs. Priscilla Wightman While publicly held companies use accounting to inform shareholders of financial information, private companies use financial information for internal control and management activities. Questions have arisen over the last several years about whether the same accounting principles should apply to public and private companies. You may have heard the phrase “Big GAAP vs. Little GAAP.” This “Little GAAP” contains differences in recognition, measurement, and disclosure requirements that would help financial statement users understand this information more easily. I will present the implications that will be created by such a double standard. I contend that the accounting profession would change forever, possibly driving professionals out of the business and discouraging the study of the discipline.

339:20-9:40 a.m. | Golisano Hall, Room 301 | ReadingSarah Frew Davidson: One Woman’s Story of Her Evangelical Rebirth

Discipline: HistoryPresenter: Sarah Bliss ’13 | Mentor(s): Dr. Sean M. Kelley Sarah Frew Davidson: One Woman’s Story of Her Evangelical Rebirth is about a wealthy plantation woman with strong religious convictions who believed in racial inequalities of the earthly but not heavenly realm. Primarily using Sarah Frew Davidson’s journal as a source, this paper seeks to explain how one woman came to understandings about the people and events around her through religion. This paper also draws on secondary sources to place Davidson’s situation in the context of the other female slave owners. During the Second Great Awakening, the evangelical movement that began in northeastern America spread to southern states. For slaveholders, the new religious movement did not always coincide with their practice of slave owning. Davidson lived on a large plantation belonging to her father when she experienced her religious rebirth. Davidson had to find ways to keep a balance between her family’s slave ownership and her new evangelical faith. Religion greatly influenced the way Davidson lived her life and how she treated others, including slaves. Throughout her journal, Davidson struggled to make sense of the changing world around her by turning to her faith for answers. Her journal served as a way for her to reflect upon her behaviors and also allowed her to put into writing prayers she had for members of her community. She wanted to save not only her family, friends, and neighbors from eternal damnation, but also the slaves who worked for her. Her journal provides excellent examples of the emotional response provoked from evangelical followers.


The Internet Ran Out of Addresses, What Now?Discipline: Computer and Information SciencePresenter: Adnan Abdulai ’12 | Mentor(s): Mr. Howard M. Lichtman In the spring of 2011, the last of the available blocks of Internet addresses was given out. Most computers currently use a 32-bit Internet Protocol (IP) address, known as IPv4, to uniquely identify themselves and communicate with other computers and electronic devices on a network. As the global demand for more computing devices grows, IPv4 with its 32-bit address space cannot handle the increase. In anticipation of this occurrence, a new protocol, IPv6, which uses

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128-bit addresses for an address space of 340 undecillion (or 3.4x10^38) addresses, has been in development since 1998. This project seeks to uncover the workings of this new protocol and discuss its features and the technology needed in its implementation to allow for the successful transfer to IPv6.


Map ColoringDiscipline: MathematicsPresenter: Xinni Xie ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Ronald M. Brzenk I am investigating the four-color map theorem, which says that, given any separation of a plane into contiguous regions, producing a figure called a map, no more than four colors are required to color the regions of the map, so that no two adjacent regions have the same color. I will investigate the historical background of this theorem. In addition, I will also prove the five-color theorem. I intend to use graph theory, which states that the set of regions of a map can be represented more abstractly as an undirected graph that has a vertex for each region and an edge for every pair of regions that share a boundary segment. I will discuss how Guthrie first found we could use only four colors to color every map. I will also consider some people who tried to prove the four-color theorem but did not succeed, such as Kempe, Tait, Petersen and Heawood.


Effects of Lithium on the Muscle Contractile Apparatus in GlycerinatedSkeletal Muscle FibersDiscipline: BiologyPresenter: Mark Blazek ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Laura G. Malloy

This experiment attempts to advance the understanding of lithium’s effects on skeletal muscle at the level of the muscle contractile apparatus. Lithium, a treatment for bipolar disorder for more than 60 years (Malhi and Tanious, 2011), causes muscle fatigue as a side effect (Ehrlich et al., 1984; Tarnopolsky et al., 1996). Research has been directed at lithium’s neuromuscular interactions in both smooth muscle (Edbury et al., 1991) and skeletal muscle (Tarnopolsky et al., 1996; Abdel-Zaher, 2000), but no study has examined lithium’s direct impact on the contractile apparatus. Previous studies have shown that the build-up of hydrogen ions can impact contractile function in glycerinated muscle (Cooke et al., 1988; Chase & Kushmerick, 1988). Like hydrogen, lithium is a monovalent cation, and thus, it is reasonable to ask the question: Does the lithium ion directly interfere with the contractile apparatus in glycerinated skeletal muscle? This experiment evaluates the isometric contractile force generated by glycerinated rabbit skeletal muscle in response to increasing concentrations of adenosine triphospate (ATP) in the presence and absence of lithium. Contractile force is measured using a myograph apparatus which consists of a force transducer to measure contracting muscle force, a translation stage to adjust muscle length, and a temperature controlled, oxygenated water bath to create a physiological environment for muscle function. Dose response curves are generated from force measurements which are compared using analysis of variance with repeated measures. The results of this experiment will advance the scientific understanding of lithium’s relationship to the molecular mechanisms in skeletal muscle.

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37u Freedman Prize winner9:35-9:50 a.m. | Johnstone Science Center, Room 215 | Classroom Presentation

Biology Senior SymposiumSeasonal Cell Proliferation in Chemosensory Epithelium and Brain of the Eastern Newt, Notophthalmus viridescensDiscipline: BiologyPresenter: Nalisha Bascom ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Stanley K. Sessions For this project I plan to investigate the cellular changes in the chemosensory epithelium in the olfactory organ and other connecting nervous tissue specific to seasonal time periods for the Eastern (red-spotted) newt (Notophthalmus viridescens). Seasonal variation in cell proliferation in the olfactory organs is expected, based on the importance of the chemosensory epithelia during certain times of the year. Changes in cell proliferation will be analyzed using paraffin histology and Anti-BrdU immunocytochemistry. The result of this project could be helpful to future research on the neurophysiology of the Eastern newt and other related amphibians, with possible implications for broader questions. In particular, research on seasonal metaplasia in chemosensory epithelium of the Eastern newt could aid present research in human cancerous cells.

389:40-10 a.m. | Golisano Hal, Room 104 | Oral PresentationAn Exercise in Gender Reversal and Neutrality in William Shakespeare’s All’s

Well that Ends WellDiscipline: English and Theatre ArtsPresenter: Anna Marfleet ’15 | Mentor(s): Dr. Kim H. Noling This paper attempts to probe the relationship between Helena and Bertram in William Shakespeare’s All’s Well that Ends Well by proposing two mental exercises that would expose our preconceptions about gender and thereby afford a better understanding of these two characters. Even if typical gender roles of dominant male and subservient female do not fit Helena and Bertram’s relationship, we still unconsciously apply them. Because of this, we see the rude yet not particularly fearsome Bertram as dominating Helena, and Helena, whom we expect to be inactive, as a pleasant surprise when she takes initiative to win Bertram’s heart. However, what if a gender reversal is applied to their relationship? With Helena imagined as a man, and Bertram as a woman, they both play into their newly assigned gender stereotypes: Bertram takes no direct action against Helena, except fleeing, and Helena dominates him, first forcing marriage, then finding him when he tries to escape, then (as suggested by David McCandless) in essence raping him, only to then have Bertram subserviently accept her in the final scene. The second mental exercise that can help to better understand these characters is to imagine them in a gender-neutral production: with androgynous costumes, names, and pronouns. The problem now with Helena and Bertram’s relationship is not our preconceived ideas about gender roles, but the imbalance of the relationship: simply put, Helena is forcing something upon Bertram that he neither needs nor desires, and Bertram has no way to escape his fate.


Fraudsters: Is it Greed or a Psychological Problem?Discipline: Business Administration and AccountingPresenter: Kaitlynn Ellis ’12 | Mentor(s): Mrs. Priscilla Wightman Fraudulent activity has become common in our world today. It can be seen everywhere, from television to magazines to the Internet. This research will examine why the fraudsters are

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committing these acts. Is it greed or a psychological problem? This research project also analyzes fraudulent activity and the psychology behind the fraudsters. Furthermore, it will look at their history and what makes them tick. The fraudulent activity examined in this research project ranges from Madoff ’s Ponzi scheme to Enron’s “Smart Guys” to twice-convicted felon Barry Minkow, “the All-American Con Man”.

409:40-10 a.m. | Golisano 301 | Oral PresentationIndolent Wandering Habits: 1824 and the Concept of “Civilizing” in the

Chickasaw AgencyDiscipline: HistoryPresenter: Kelly Fayton ’13 | Mentor(s): Dr. Sean M. Kelley This presentation examines the confusion behind the policies of the United States government regarding the attempts at “civilizing” Native Americans during Jacksonian America. While the official policy of the United States was to promote “civilization” of Native American tribes, the constant correspondence between the Chickasaw Agents and the Department of War clearly indicated that the agents all disagreed upon the nature of its “civilizing” mission. Their respective beliefs clashed, muddling their actual attempts at “civilizing” the Chickasaws. This paper is based on varying correspondence maintained between lead Chickasaw Agent Benjamin Smith, Secretary of War John C. Calhoun, sub-agent Reodolphus Malbone, and Reverend Thomas C. Stewart, the superintendent of the missionary school associated with the Chickasaw Agency. The primary sources used in this paper are the unpublished correspondence of the Chickasaw Agency from the National Archives.


Programming Mobile Applications for Android DevicesDiscipline: Computer and Information SciencePresenter: Vincent Chiuchiolo ’12 | Mentor(s): Mr. Howard M. Lichtman Android is an operating system developed by Google that is utilized on many smartphone and tablet computers. Using the Java programming language and the Android Software Development Kit, this newly developed application provides several interfaces for a waiter and a bartender to communicate. On the waiter’s interface he or she can enter customer orders through an easy touch interface. Once the order and table number are supplied, the waiter can send the order to the bartender. The second interface is the bartender’s interface, where he or she can view all incoming drink orders. Once the orders are completed, the bartender will press a button on the interface to notify the waiter. The goal of this project was to create an application that would allow the wait staff and bartender to communicate orders digitally to save time and possible confusion.

429:40-10 a.m. | Yager Hall, Slade Theatre | ReadingNew Plays Day: The Fish and the Bird

Discipline: English and Theatre ArtsPresenter: Leslie Bruce ’14 | Mentor(s): Dr. Marc E. Shaw | Co-presenter(s): Shannon Turnbull ’14, Michael Easton ’12 | Additional Students: Actors TBDNew Plays Day is a collaborative effort by Marc Shaw’s Intro to Playwriting course to showcase Hartwick’s talented playwrights and their wonderful works in progress, to help enhance the plays’ important features, and to allow our playwrights to hear their work and discover its many possibilities still to come. These playwrights have selected actors to read their scripts aloud, in

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hopes of understanding the areas that still need to be worked on, with the help of an audience’s input.

439:40-10:20 a.m. | Johnstone Science Center, Room 401 | Classroom PresentationChemistry Senior Symposium

Determining Critical Opalescence of Binary Liquid SolutionsDiscipline: ChemistryPresenter: Catherine Weigel ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. John Dudek We used Vernier datalogging hardware and software to better understand the process of demixing and critical opalescence in binary solutions. These solutions were prepared at a constant total volume by varying the mole fractions of the components and then heating these solutions until one phase was observed. While the solutions cooled, an attenuated helium-neon laser was passed through these one-phase solutions to a Vernier light sensor. When the solution became opaque and the absorption dropped, critical opalescence was observed, and the critical demixing temperature for each solution was measured. The upper critical temperatures of several alcohol + hydrocarbon binary solutions were measured, and phase diagrams were generated for the binary solution system, based on measurements from solutions of differing mole fraction. Theory was then used to calculate the activity coefficient of the mixture at the critical opalescence point for each mixture.


Hyperbolic GeometryDiscipline: MathematicsPresenter: Shengzhe Xing ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Ronald M. Brzenk

In my showcase presentation, I will discuss the area of triangles in hyperbolic geometry. First of all, I will introduce the history and basic idea of hyperbolic geometry. After this, I will use the area formula of triangles in Euclidean geometry to begin my topic. I will consider the question: 1/2 * base * height is the area of triangles in Euclidean geometry, does this formula work equally well in hyperbolic geometry? I will introduce and prove the formula of triangles for the area in hyperbolic geometry. Finally I will introduce how this formula works in our real lives.


The Effects of the Acyclic Nucleoside Drug Cidofovir on Blood Vessel GrowthDiscipline: BiologyPresenter: Courtney Cyr ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Laura G. Malloy | Co-presenter(s): Ronald Russo ’12Acyclic nucleoside drugs such as Cidofovir have been found to inhibit the growth of tumors (Presta et al., 2002). The drugs inhibit the growth of tumors because they display the same shape as purines or pyrimidines, permitting them to inhibit DNA transcription, and thus tumor growth and cancer progression. Adenosine is responsible for causing a proliferation of blood vessels that mimics the growth of Hemangiomas, the benign blood vessel tumors that result from uncontrollable division of endothelial cells. Thus, adenosine inhibition suggests alternate explanation for the anti-tumor effects of cidofovir. This study explores the effects of cidofovir on adenosine-induced blood vessel growth. First, a dose response curve with six concentrations from 10-7M to 10-3M of Adenosine was established using the chick chorioallatoic model (CAM)

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for blood vessel growth (Vargas et al. 2007). Fertilized eggs at four days incubation were opened to create a window on the CAM and incubated for four more days. Drugs were then applied to CAMs using surgifoam pellets and, four days following pellet placement, large and small blood vessels were counted along an intersecting circle 1 mm from the center of the pellet. A 100um ion exchange bead was placed next to each pellet as a reference scale. Cidofovir concentrations were added with the Adenosine concentration to determine if it would inhibit the growth of blood vessels. Blood vessel growth in response to adenosine was evaluated in the presences/absences of cidofovir using a paired T test. It is expected that cidofovir will depress adenosine-induced blood vessel growth.


Localization of the Expression of PAB3 and PAB5 in PollenDiscipline: BiologyPresenter: Devon Craft ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Douglas A. Hamilton Poly(A)-binding proteins (PABPs) have many functions important to transcription and posttranscriptional regulation. They are essential for life in plants. Among other roles, they modify mRNA at the end of transcription prior to mRNA leaving the nucleus, facilitate the addition of the poly(A) tail, and are involved in mRNA turnover and translational initiation. There are eight known PABPs in the Arabidopsis thaliana plant, two of which, PAB3 and PAB5, are known to be pollen-specific (expressed only in pollen). To further understand their expression pattern, we are working to localize the expression of PAB3 and PAB5 in the 3-celled pollen grain. We first attached a nuclear localizing signal (nls) and marker sequence (GUS) to our PAB genes, to send each gene to the nucleus of the pollen cell in which it is expressed and allow us to view this expression. This attachment was done by Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR). After successfully creating our PAB/nls/GUS inserts, we are working to complete gateway cloning to create binary vectors in order to undergo Agrobacterium-mediated transformation (“Floral-Dip”). We will be transferring our plasmid to Agrobacterium, taking advantage of the bacteria’s invasive properties to import our PAB/nls/GFP constructs into Arabidopsis. When complete, we will be able to observe in which pollen cell these genes are expressed.

4710-10:15 a.m. | Golisano Hall, Room 104 | Oral PresentationThe NCECA Experience On The Edge: Seattle 2012

Discipline: Art and Art HistoryPresenter: Kim DeMartino ’12 | Mentor(s): Ms. Stephanie Rozene | Co-presenter(s): Samantha McFarland ’12This presentation will explore our experiences at the National Council on the Education of Ceramics Arts Conference (NCECA) On the Edge 2012. This year it was held in Seattle, WA. Seattle, as well as the entire Puget Sound region, is located in a unique geographical position; on the edge of the country and on the edge of the Pacific Rim. From this location on the edge, quite naturally, we have a broad perspective on objects, places and issues, and see great distances. We thrive on the intersection of old and new worlds. We respect distant and historic cultures: Asian, Pacific, Native American, and all of our neighbors in North America. Most of all, we appreciate how they have influenced our contemporary ceramic practices, and we will be sharing our perspective of how being on the edge influences our art making.

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48 u emerson award winner10-10:15 a.m. | Golisano, Room 203 | Oral Presentation

A Summer in Slovakia: Eighty-day Internship at the Energy and Geoscience Institute in Bratislava, SlovakiaDiscipline: Geology and Environmental SciencesPresenter: Tyler Hall ’13 | Mentor(s): Dr. David H. Griffing

During the summer of 2011, I spent 80 days performing research at the Energy and Geoscience Institute (EGI), in Bratislava, Slovakia. I found this internship through a post on an online forum (reddit.com/r/geology) and applied for an Emerson International Internship Scholarship. After arriving in Bratislava, I began work on mapping sedimentation patterns in a specific region along the margins of the Central Atlantic Ocean. I used seismic data to determine the thickness of specific sedimentary beds, placed those thicknesses on a map, and used contour lines to show the magnitude of sedimentation in an area. This method shows the regions where the potential kerogen concentration is highest, and therefore, where drilling for oil and gas would be most beneficial. For my second project, I managed a database of zircon and apatite fission track data detailing the uplift associated with the break-up of Pangaea, also included in EGI’s report. Throughout the internship, I learned how to use ArcGIS 10, Petrel 2011, CorelDraw X4, and the basics of seismic interpretation. It was hard to adjust to living completely on my own in a new country, but by the end of the 80 days, I learned the importance of independence and came back to Hartwick with a renewed view on American opportunity.


Mathematical Investments of the Efficient FrontierDiscipline: MathematicsPresenter: Jayne Bolt ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Ronald M. Brzenk Harry Markowitz created the idea of an “efficient frontier” in the 1950s to reflect investment optimization. The efficient frontier is the line created by a risk-return graph on a given stock portfolio. Any portfolio hopes to lay on this “efficient frontier”, for that is where return is maximized for the level of risk chosen by the investor. Diversification in a stock portfolio is extremely important, for these securities must “balance’” one another out. Extensive Excel spreadsheets are dedicated to the determination of an “efficient frontier” for any given portfolio. Excel is also used to help investors pick securities while striving to stay at the level of optimization. I intend to present some of the often overlooked mathematics of finance. It is mathematics that drives the investment market, and I propose to present some of the mathematics behind the calculation of the efficient frontier.


Financial Fraud ... Here and AbroadDiscipline: Business Administration and AccountingPresenter: John Pezzullo ’12 | Mentor(s): Mrs. Priscilla Wightman My research focuses on well-documented financial fraud in the United States as it compares to documented financial fraud on an international scale. The purpose is to uncover similarities based on a number of personal and broader factors ranging from age, education, and work relations of those involved to judicial systems and economic conditions within the country where the fraud took place. Most of the factors being researched were chosen to uncover trends in similarities

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that would shed light on a deeper reason for so many people involving themselves in fraudulent activities. The fraud research time frame begins with the bursting Internet bubble and continues to financial frauds of today.

5110-10:20 a.m. | Golisano Hall, Room 301 | Classroom PresentationMartin Luther as a Teacher of Matters of the Home: Hypocritical or Genuine?

Discipline: HistoryPresenter: Rejoice Scherry ’13 | Mentor(s): Dr. Peter G. Wallace | Co-presenter(s): Danielle George ’14The love story of Martin Luther and his wife Katherine Von Bora represents the journey of a man to discover life’s possibilities. The story began with a monk who cowered from the wrath of God, meditating in fear day and night. When he experienced new religious convictions, Martin Luther’s discoveries yielded an examination of the institution of marriage, into which the men and women of the Church had formerly been forbidden to enter. He came to realize that marriage might be God’s will for his life, especially when a destitute young woman begged his assistance to escape her convent. One might think that the couple would simply agree to marry and enjoy life, which they did, but the reality of the story is not as easy as that. It took time for Martin Luther to come to love his wife and discover the joys of fatherhood. He and Katherine had to struggle to find their happiness and define their relationship. Dr. Luther studied the word of God to learn of man’s governance over woman. Did Martin Luther easily employ his own ideas, or did he meet his match in the aristocratic Katherine and surrender?


Mobile Security on the Android PlatformDiscipline: Computer and Information SciencePresenter: Nathaniel Quinn ’12 | Mentor(s): Mr. Howard M. Lichtman Smartphone and tablet devices proliferate the modern computer landscape, with 2011 marking the first time that these devices have outsold traditional computers in the marketplace. Realizing that the standard security solutions designed for desktop and laptop computers are not appropriate for mobile platforms, the presenter sought to examine how these smartphones and tablets protected themselves from different kinds of malicious software. The focus of this project was on the Google Android platform, since it is one of the more popular operating systems for mobile devices. Research examined the potential security threats and what can be done do to prevent such a thing from happening.


The Effects of Adefovir on Adenosine-induced Blood Vessel GrowthDiscipline: BiologyPresenter: Ronald Russo ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Laura G. Malloy | Co-presenter(s): Courtney Cyr ’12The acyclic nucleoside Adefovir is prescribed to treat hepatitis B. The drugs belonging to this class of antivirals have also been found to inhibit tumor growth (Presta et al. 2002). It is thought that its inhibition of tumor growth results from obstruction of DNA transcription during cell division (Teodoro, Evans, & Green et al., 2007). Adenosine, a drug responsible for inducing cell proliferation, is used to mimic endothelial cell proliferation in benign blood vessel tumors. Both Adenosine and Adefovir share a purine group (NHS et al., 2006). The repression of Adenosine

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offers a plausible alternative explanation for the effects of Adefovir on tumor growth. This study examines the effects of Adefovir on Adenosine-induced blood vessel growth (Vargas et al., 2007). Fertilized eggs were opened after four days incubation and, four days after that, surgifoam pellets containing Adenosine and/or Adefovir were placed on the chorioallantoic models or CAMs. A dose response curve was established using 10-7M to 10-3M of adenosine. Four days after the application of adenosine, blood vessels were counted. A 100µm ion exchange bead was placed near each pellet as a scale reference. Adefovir and Adenosine concentrations were both applied to determine if Adefovir would inhibit the growth of blood vessels in the presence of Adenosine. A paired t-test was used to study the Adenosine-induced blood vessel growth in the presence and absence of Adefovir; it is thought that Adefovir will reduce adenosine-induced blood vessel growth on the CAM model.


Localization of the Expression of Zm13 in Pollen Grains of Arabidopsis thalianaUsing Green Fluorescent Protein Discipline: BiologyPresenter: Andrew Kirkpatrick ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Douglas A. Hamilton Zm13 is a gene found in the plant species Zea mays. It is a pollen-specific gene that is activated late in pollen development, primarily after mitosis of the microspore. Though the actual function of the protein remains a mystery, the most prominent hypotheses regarding the primary function of the Zm13 protein predicts that the protein is somehow involved in pollen tube growth into the style. The primary focus of this experiment is to determine the function of the Zm13 protein. In this experiment, the Zm13 protein will be hybridized with a visual tag called Green Fluorescent Protein or GFP. The first step in this process was accomplished by inserting the gene sequence for the GFP in frame of the coding region for the Zm13 protein. The next step in the process is to take constructed sequence for the protein hybrid and attempt to ligate the desired sequence into the binary plasmid PCGN 1557. The ultimate objective of this experiment is to be able to integrate the constructed Zm13 gene sequence into a plant species by means of Agrobacterium-mediated plant transformation and observe the gene expression and protein function of Zm13 in the plant itself.

55u emerson award winner10:15-10:30 a.m. | Golisano Hall, Room 203 | Oral Presentation

Ethical Implications in Biological Field ResearchDiscipline: BiologyPresenter: Katherine Hadden ’13 | Mentor(s): Dr. Peter T. Fauth Ethical questioning should be a fundamental part of the design of every research study involving animals, but it should not stop there. At every stage of study, researchers must be aware that they may be causing harm to the study animal on a level that they cannot perceive. If researchers do not consider the ethical implications of their work, then they are not only doing harm to their research subjects, but they are also doing harm to the quality of science. In this presentation I will briefly describe research I conducted in Honduras, which was funded by the Emerson Foundation. I will lead an interactive discussion of the ethical implications of scientific field research using my Honduras experience as a case study.

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Solo Performance: An Adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ Suddenly Last SummerDiscipline: English and Theatre ArtsPresenter: Lauren Cipriano ’12 | Mentor(s): Ms. Malissa A. Kano-White Tennessee Williams is one of the most influential American playwrights of the twentieth century, and I believe it is vital for students of my generation to experience these important dramatic works in performance. Therefore, I will perform a dramatic adaption of Tennessee Williams’ play Suddenly Last Summer as a solo piece which explores the central role, Catherine. Williams’ female characters are strong yet fragile emotional time bombs waiting to go off. Part of Williams’ genius is that he was able to capture their inner beauty within this explosive fragility. My goal in performing Catherine will be to make the beautiful raw emotions of this complex Williams character come alive on stage in order to introduce the Hartwick audience to these richly significant works of dramatic writing.

5710:15-10:45 a.m. | Golisano Hall, Room 104 | Oral PresentationTranscending Eroticism: A History in Clay

Discipline: Art and Art HistoryPresenter: Chrstopher Spinozzi ’14 | Mentor(s): Ms. Stephanie Rozene This presentation will be centered around the contention that works of erotic art are not simply intended as pornographic manifestations of a perverse mind; ultimately proving that the physical sex act portrayed in art is incidental to the implications. Furthermore, I will contend that erotic works are not specifically intended to arouse their audience. In arguing my point I will be taking a historical approach, by providing some notion of erotic pottery and its history. My aspiration is to allow one to see the basic developmental steps that helps one to fully grasp the genre with an open mind. The bulk of my research relies heavily on examples of Neolithic, Pre-Columbian and Greco-Roman pottery. I will mark the transcendence of the genre as it applies to modern works of erotic pottery, as well as where the line begins to blur in terms of the aesthetic and the pornographic. A complete bibliography of my research will be available upon request.


Economy and Revenue Recognition in the Virtual WorldDiscipline: Business Administration and AccountingPresenter: Daniel Valliere ’12 | Mentor(s): Mrs. Priscilla Wightman I will explore the interaction between virtual fiscal units in Second Life and real world currency. I will investigate which systems track these interactions and how this revenue is recognized and reported to participants and interested third parties. This will lead to a broader understanding about the interactions between real and virtual economies when the two are allowed to coalesce. I expect to find that the information is captured via user face interaction and stored by the company in cache files, with recognition and reporting to be determined as the result of my research.

5910:20-10:40 a.m. | Golisano Hall, Room 301 | Classroom PresentationThe Relationship Between Parents and Children During the Reformation

Discipline: HistoryPresenter: Danielle George ’14 | Mentor(s): Dr. Peter G. Wallace | Co-presenter(s): Rejoice Scherry ’13

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Originally, scholars believed that during the Reformation, parents did not take interest in their children. In the 1960s, French psycho-historian Philippe Aries wrote a seminal essay on early modern child rearing. He argued that parents had very little attachment to their children. At the time, about one in four children died before the age of 10. Aries believed that parents were distant from their children because it was easier to limit psychological involvement than risk becoming attached to children who would most likely die. Children were also dressed as miniature adults and were unable to act like children. Most advice literature stressed the importance of obedience, which made scholars following Aries believe that parents favored harsh corporal punishment over affection for their children. Finally, the use of wet nurses alienated children from the mothers. Aries’ model went uncontested until the 1970s, when historians began to uncover firsthand accounts containing complex images of early modern parent-child relationships. Scholars now believe that long before the 17th century parents developed strong attachments to their children. Many accounts show parents sitting at their ill child’s bedside and grieving the death of their children. Parents spared no expense when it came to their children’s well-being and health. They even made toys and sang lullabies for their children. Based on a study of a diverse set of primary sources from diaries to guidebooks, this paper will lay out the complexities of early modern child-rearing which resist simplification to any simple model such as Aries’.


Artificial Intelligence—Neural NetworksDiscipline: Computer and Information SciencePresenter: Jaime Taboada ’12 | Mentor(s): Mr. Howard M. Lichtman Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a branch within computer science that is continuously evolving. This thesis explores what Artificial Intelligence is and what it implies for society in the future. With super computers like Watson winning at Jeopardy, it is hard not to worry and at the same time be excited for the potential that Artificial Intelligence can have in our lives. Will computer scientists manage a way to develop machine intelligence that surpasses human intelligence? If so, what role would humans have in the future? Being aware of how broad and complex a subject AI is, I chose to focus on a subfield within AI known as neural networks. With neural networks, computer scientists aim to recreate the same model within our brains by creating programs that mimic how our neurons interact when we think and make decisions.

6110:20-11 a.m. | Johnstone Science Center, Room 401 | Classroom PresentationChemistry Senior Symposium

Determination of the Kinetics of UV Color-changing BeadsDiscipline: ChemistryPresenter: Katie Lukens ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. John Dudek The activation of ultraviolet color-changing beads was determined by measuring the first order rate constant at a variety of different temperatures. The experiment used beads that change colors when present in ultraviolet radiation. Using a tungsten lamp and a spectrometer, the reflectance of the bead at a given temperature was measured over time. By fitting the reflectance versus time, the first order rate constant was determined. Then the activation energy was found by using the Arrhenius equation and rate constants at different temperatures.

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The View Through My LensDiscipline: Art and Art HistoryPresenter: Victoria Halsted ’12 | Mentor(s): Ms. Katharine A. Kreisher Everyone sees the world in a different way. Come take a look at the world in the view through my lens. I received the Duffy Family Ambassador Scholarship to embark on a trip abroad. During August 2011, I traveled to England, Ireland, Scotland, France, and Italy over 35 days. A slideshow of images will represent my entire trip, whereas key places will be represented by a single image. Highlights of the trip include London, Stonehenge, Dublin, Edinburgh, Loch Ness, Paris, Venice, and Rome. Hostels, planes, trains, automobiles, boats, and a lot of walking defined my experience. Without a set path, you never know what you will find.


The Theory of GamesDiscipline: MathematicsPresenter: Nicole Besancon ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Ronald M. Brzenk Classical game theory is a branch of applied mathematics which involves players moving, betting, and strategizing simultaneously in a game. Game theory is a method of analyzing the decision-making process. Mathematical models are used to show the relationship between rational and strategic decision-makers. These models have many uses in economics and psychology. In this project, two-person, “zero-sum games” will be analyzed. These games are so called because the total losses and gains accumulated from a game will cancel each other out; that is to say that the winner’s gain or utility is balanced by the losing participant’s. This project will address randomized strategies within these zero-sum games, as well as strategic dominance. Expanding on two-person game theory, this research project will also address games with infinitely many players. One of the major problems used to explain this will be what is known as the “Garbage,” or “Rubbish,” game, which involves property owners and how they may choose to dump bags of garbage on another person’s lawn. Another problem that will be addressed is the “Drug Game,” in which an inventor is looking for a pharmaceutical firm to manufacture his drug. The basic theory around the “Garbage Game” will be discussed to show the decision-making process in games with an infinite number of players.


Sarah: A Movement MonologueDiscipline: English and Theatre ArtsPresenter: Samantha MacColl Garfinkel ’15 | Mentor(s): Ms. Malissa A. Kano-White, Mrs. Elizabeth F. Treadwell | Additional Students: Jesse Elkins ’15, Tyler Smith ’15, and Emmanuella Brakye ’11“Devised Theatre” is a performance form that often defies definition because the creative process for each project is as unique as the artists involved. The dictionary definition of “devised” means: “to form, plan or arrange in the mind; design or contrive,” with the archaic definition of “to suppose; imagine”. All of these definitions apply to this movement-monologue titled “Sarah,” which was created through the collaborative work of the entire creative ensemble. Based on the original text monologue written by Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts Malissa Kano-White, Sarah is the amalgamation of my directorial vision, the creative talents of lead actor/dancer Emmanuella Brakye, the media images of recent wars and the falling of the Twin Towers, all set the sound of dancers’ bodies as they move through space.

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6510:30-11 a.m. | Johnstone Science Center, Room 215 | Classroom PresentationWhat is the Value of Scientific Research in a Liberal Arts Undergraduate

Education?Discipline: BiologyPresenter: Aaron Griffings ’14 | Mentor(s): Dr. David H. Griffing | Co-presenter(s): Jessica McCaffery ’14, Grace Mele ’14, Sheila Niedziela ’13, Molly Snelling ’14, Ethan Staats ’13Additional Students: Tyler Hall ’13, acting as panel moderatorA collection of second-year S-STEM supported scholars (Griffing, McCaffery and Mele) and more established third-year students (Niedziela and Staats) reflect on their introduction to scientific research at Hartwick and discuss how opportunities for research have guided their understanding of science and career futures. In addition, a Theater Arts major (Snelling) relates how she became involved with a program to incorporate human subjects and theatrical techniques in the training of nursing students, and discusses the value of cross-disciplinary study. Subjects to be covered include learning laboratory techniques firsthand, the learning experiences related to writing research proposals, working with faculty mentors, as well as cultivating an open-mind and alternative viewpoints.

6610:30 a.m.-noon | Golisano Hall, Room 103 | Classroom PresentationPolitical Science Department Student Research Conference: Understanding

War in the 21st CenturyDiscipline: Political SciencePresenter: Shane McHugh ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Laurel E. Elder | Co-presenter(s): Brooke Ritchey ’13, Tyler Machia ’12, David Osokow ’12First Presenter: Shane McHugh ’12 “The Call of Duty: Justifying Modern Warfare and Terrorism.” Just War Theory is a longstanding school of political thought that addresses the justification and righteousness of war. McHugh’s research examines the tension between Just War Theory and modern warfare and terrorism. Discussant: Brooke Ritchey ’13 will offer analysis and commentary.Second Presenter: Tyler Machia ’12 “The Dogs of War: Private Military Contracting in the 21st Century.” A significant portion of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have been put in the hands of private contractors rather than the U.S. military. Machia’s research analyzes the role of private military contractors in 21st century wars and explores if private military contracting can be a cost-effective policy tool for the United States and, if so, under what circumstances.Discussant: David Osokow ’12 will offer analysis and commentary.


Gender Issues in AccountingDiscipline: Business Administration and AccountingPresenter: Jill Rotella ’12 | Mentor(s): Mrs. Priscilla Wightman

I will present on gender issues in the accounting industry and relate them to those in other industries. Gender issues in the workplace typically include advancement potential (i.e., “the glass ceiling”), the number of women vs. men in the workplace, and the compensation offered to and accepted by women vs. men. I will discuss the presence, frequency, and recognition of these issues in our society, focusing on their effects on the accounting industry. I will also discuss other issues that don’t necessarily happen in the workplace, such as additional benefits and the ability to balance a home and work life.

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6810:40-11 a.m. | Golisano Hall, Room 301 | Oral PresentationRum Men: The Life and Work of New England Sailors in Long Distance Trade

During the Colonial EraDiscipline: HistoryPresenter: Molly Sloan ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Sean M. Kelley This paper uses two slave ship logs to interpret and analyze the life of slave trade sailors. The primary document comes from a ship based out of Newport, RI, and is from 1773-1775. It was written by Isaac Carr, who was a mate under John Allen, and then James Nixon, for the first two voyages, then became the captain for the last. The supplementary slave ship log was based out of New London, CT, and chronicles voyages from 1757-1758. Its author is uncertain, but the best guess is a man named Sam Gould. He was a sailor first under the Captain John Easton, then Alexander Urqhart, and on the last leg of his log he was sailing under Captain William Tailor. The paper will argue that New England slave trade sailors, referred to as “Rum Men,” could be successful in the trade only if they possessed the technical know-how of navigation and sailing, personal connections, intimate knowledge of markets, and an overall toughness that was distinct to this branch of trade. To support this thesis, evidence from the primary source documents are matched up to specific aspects of being a slave trade sailor.

6910:40-11 a.m. | Johnstone, Room 301 | Oral PresentationComputer and Information Science Symposium

Classic Game DevelopmentDiscipline: Computer and Information SciencePresenter: Justin Sikora ’12 | Mentor(s): Mr. Howard M. Lichtman As a tribute to classic video games, I have created a classic-style video game with a few modern gaming features. The game was written in ActionScript 2.0 and illustrated in Adobe Flash CS5. The game features the player moving through levels and defeating enemies as the story progresses. Throughout the game the player will have opportunities to upgrade her/his skills to help with the increasing difficulty of the progressing levels.

70 10:45-11 a.m. | Golisano Hall, Room 203 | Oral PresentationA Sociological Examination of the “Safe Space” at the Oneonta Teen Center

Discipline: SociologyPresenter: Carrie Gauthier ’13 | Mentor(s): Dr. Cecelia C. Walsh-Russo | Co-presenter(s): Tasha Bradt ’13For this presentation, we plan to first overview our work with the Oneonta Teen Center (OTC) and describe our process of creating a group focused on teen girls. We will detail the surveys, discussion groups, activities and events that we hold while working with the girls. After the basis of the group has been established, we will discuss our findings regarding how focus groups such as these affect various aspects of the teenagers’ lives. This is likely to include; self-esteem, body image, academics, personal relationships with family and peers, and anything else that may come up during our time with the girls. Our personal observations will be supplemented with research and various literatures that we use throughout the internship to aid us in best assisting the teens. The main focus of our presentation will be the benefits that come from providing teen girls with safe spaces for them to share their issues and concerns and why it is important to do this. We will also discuss our future plans and hopes for the girls group at the OTC.

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Knot Theory and RingsDiscipline: MathematicsPresenter: Brian Heller ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Ronald M. Brzenk The scope of this research project is intended to make use of the theories of topology, specifically regarding the deformation of certain spaces under a constrained set of rules. By using knot theory to show the usefulness and intuitiveness of such deformations, a greater appreciation for the unification of mathematical fields may be understood. A look will be taken into a brief history of knots, followed by examples and applications of both knots and links. Particularly Brunnian links, a special type of link in which each member of the link must be present to keep from falling apart, will be discussed. Examples of specialized Brunnian links, called Borromean Rings, will be appraised in art, and applications in chemistry will be examined. A brief look will be taken at the restructuring of DNA and how this process may be modeled by knot theory.

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Nakuru General Hospital: A Case Study for an Analysis of the Kenyan Healthcare SystemDiscipline: Political SciencePresenter: John Stuligross ’13 | Mentor(s): Dr. Matthew Voorhees The Kenyan Healthcare System is currently ranked 140/188, according to the World Health Organization. Struggles with corruption, lack of monetary and material resources, as well as the skyrocketing levels of poverty (up to 50% in the 2000 census) make it difficult for citizens to access reliable healthcare. Unfortunately, with poor infrastructure, including limited access to education, poor police protection, and uncontrolled traffic, the Kenyan healthcare system is not expected to dramatically improve any time soon. During a six-week internship at the Nakuru Provincial General Hospital in Nakuru, Kenya, not only did I practice hands-on medical care, including dressing burn wounds, giving IV medications, taking patient history, and even helping to deliver babies, I also had the opportunity to interview many locals, family members, children, and policy makers related to healthcare and infrastructure of Nakuru, Kenya. With my experience, I have only begun to understand the intricacies involved in improving a healthcare system. In order to improve healthcare in Kenya, the biggest changes that must be made are, from my perspective, not an improvement in the practice and execution of better diagnosis and treatment of patients in a hospital setting, but rather the many facets of infrastructure that both allow and prevent citizens’ living a healthy and safe lifestyle. My presentation will discuss several of the factors that affect the healthcare system, through examples personally witnessed while at the hospital and living with the people in Nakuru. Photos, stories, and audience-directed discussion will drive my presentation.


Numbers of the Special FormsDiscipline: MathematicsPresenter: Ruth Kahn ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Ronald M. Brzenk Numbers of special forms will be discussed, including the perfect numbers, the Mersenne numbers and Mersenne primes, and the Fermat numbers. There will be theorems that will discuss and express the characteristics of the numbers of the special forms with their special equations. I will also focus on their extraordinary aspects when prime numbers occur in these types of

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numbers of the special forms. There will be studies not only of primes in general, but also on the special cases that happen when these numbers are odd versus even.

7411-11:20 a.m. | Golisano Hall, Room 104 | Classroom PresentationThe Riverside Experience: A Collaborative Learning Experience Between

Prospective Teachers and Third Grade StudentsDiscipline: EducationPresenter: Kalindi Naslund ’15 | Mentor(s): Dr. Elizabeth A. Bloom | Co-presenter(s): Jayme Bentley ’14, Nicole Murphy ’15This presentation will examine the educational and psychological principles and theories applicable to learning. We will especially focus on areas such as human growth and development, motivation and theories of learning and teaching, with an emphasis on the K-12 classroom. The Educational Psychology class provides a real-life experience in a classroom; the time spent in Mr. Ken Sider’s third grade class at Riverside Elementary School allows students to realize the effort and meticulous planning teaching requires, while simultaneously understanding the influence of developmental psychology in an elementary school environment.


Technology’s Effect on the Accounting ProfessionDiscipline: Business Administration and AccountingPresenter: Daniel Flynn ’12 | Mentor(s): Mrs. Priscilla Wightman Technology’s role in the accounting profession has revolutionized practices that accountants have used for decades. While technology aids accounting firms by simplifying work and allowing for accountants to be more efficient, it has placed a downward pressure on employment of these individuals, because one person can now do as much work as a group of accountants previously could. This problem, along with the introduction of software allowing people to complete their own taxes, challenges firms that rely on charging their customers by the amount of billing hours they took to complete their clients’ statements. Since the efficiency of accountants has increased exponentially over the last few decades, it has become a dangerous situation in the accounting profession. The current billing systems used by accountants reward inefficiency while penalizing efficiency. As technology becomes more efficient, accountants will be forced to adapt to the newly changing business environment or implement billing procedures that allow for efficiency and productivity to reap larger rewards. My research will explore how firms and the profession have evolved to meet the needs of a technology rich society.

7611-11:20 a.m. | Golisano Hall, Room 301 | Oral PresentationRumors and Riots: The 1857 Riot Between the Dead Rabbits and the Bowery Boys

Discipline: HistoryPresenter: Jessica Schwartz ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Sean M. Kelley Using a notorious riot as a window onto the time, this paper examines tensions between Irish immigrants and nativists in antebellum New York. During the weekend of Independence Day in 1857, tensions between Irish immigrant gang The Dead Rabbits and American nativist gang The Bowery Boys culminated in a major riot in the Sixth Ward of Manhattan. It was later established that the main causes of this conflict stemmed from internal corruption of the Metropolitan Police which included clear favoritism towards The Bowery Boys, resulting in more arrests of members of The Dead Rabbits and an evident bias in the way the immigrant gang was treated by political

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figures and law enforcement in the city of New York. Because of this a clash was imminent, and on the eve of July 4, 1857, the gangs collided in what would become a weekend-long riot that raged in the streets of Lower Manhattan, a district known for its violence and high concentration of Irish immigrants. It was later discovered that the heart of the conflict was not a petty argument of turf control, but rather Irish discontent for the new police force dominating the city. This riot would later appear to be a predecessor for the violence that would escalate in the 1860s in regards to nativism and the unfair treatment of the Irish in New York City in the mid-nineteenth century.


Implementation of Encryption AlgorithmsDiscipline: Computer and Information SciencePresenter: Diana Acker ’12 | Mentor(s): Mr. Howard M. Lichtman This project was an attempt to utilize computer-programming skills to implement popular encryption algorithms. I researched and created programs based on several different varieties of algorithms, and decided to write the programs utilizing an additive encryption algorithm and the Vigenère Square algorithm. The programs take a text file and transform the text into Cipher text so it is unreadable without the correct algorithm to convert it back. The programs also provide the required information to convert the text back through a decryption process. I then attempted to create a program that decrypts a Vigenère Square encrypted message without the proper decryption key by using code-breaking techniques. Finally, I attempted to put the first program (the additive cipher) on the cloud using force.com. Force.com is a platform that uses a language called Apex to build applications and websites on the cloud. The cloud allows users, and especially companies, to run their software from offsite servers using an Internet connection rather than onsite servers. Programs written on the cloud can be accessed from any computer with an Internet connection. Companies are beginning to integrate their software to the cloud to limit expenses on IT departments. As jobs become available utilizing programming applications based off the cloud, learning to write programs based on the force.com platform could prove to be largely beneficial.

7811-11:30 a.m. | Yager Hall, Slade Theatre | Classroom PresentationWhy is Music Beautiful? The Physics of Music

Discipline: Music and PhysicsPresenter: Kyle Murray ’15 | Mentor(s): Dr. Jason L. Curley Why does music sound the way it does? How do sounds seem consonant and dissonant to our ears? How does nature have so many intricate nuances that fit together perfectly? Physics explains everything through frequencies, harmonics, and mathematical relationships. Dating back to Greek philosophy, physics and music have been fundamentally connected. Without math, music does not exist. Mathematics describes why sounds propagate to our ears, how different pitches sound with each other, and why instruments have unique tones and timbres. Physics explains how the different sounds are created and produced. Physics plays a very significant role in music that most people do not think about or understand. This showcase will break down the physics behind music to clearly explain how music is created, why a piano sounds like a piano, why instruments have difficulty playing in tune together, how nature plays an important role in music and harmonics, the relationships in pieces and songs, and the impression music has on human beings.

7911-11:40 a.m. | Johnstone Science Center, Room 401 | Classroom PresentationChemistry Senior Symposium

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Investigations into Green Diels-Alder Reactions for the UndergraduateOrganic LaboratoryDiscipline: ChemistryPresenter: Lisa Bass ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Mark S. Erickson As part of our work to green the traditional Diels-Alder reaction for the undergraduate organic chemistry laboratory curriculum, the diene cyclopentadiene, which is classified as a volatile organic compound (VOC), was replaced with furfuryl alcohol, which is a less toxic and non-VOC diene. A series of dienophiles were reacted with furfuryl alcohol using aqueous and solventless reaction conditions. Furfuryl alcohol and the dienophole maleimide react rapidly at room temperature and atmospheric pressure to form the endo and exo isomers of 3a,4,7,7a-tetrahydro-4-(hydroxymethyl)-4,7-epoxy-1H-isoindole-1,3(2H)-dione. Several other dienophiles surprisingly did not react with furfuryl alcohol. Experimental evidence suggests that the dienophile dimethyl acetlyenedicarboxylate reacts with furfuryl alcohol to give a Diels-Alder adduct. Under solventless conditions, the reaction gave a 35% yield. The products were characterized using ¹H and ¹³C NMR spectroscopy. The reactions were monitored closely by TLC using 30% ethyl acetate and 70% hexane as the mobile solvent.

8011 a.m. to noon | Golisano Hall, Foyer 2 | Poster PresentationHead Start Policy and Effectiveness: How Head Start Funding and Policies can be

Altered to Increase the Effectiveness of the ProgramDiscipline: SociologyPresenter: Carrie Gauthier ’13 | Mentor(s): Dr. Reid M. Golden This project explores the inner workings of Head Start and how policy and funding can be changed so that the early intervention program works at its most effective level and is able to help the maximum number of people possible. It also looks into multiple reasons for why these changes should be made and how they benefit whole communities, not just those participating directly in the program. I have pulled in my personal experiences with the program and integrated what I learned at my internship with various sources that take an in-depth look at the funding and policies of Head Start. I will display my findings on a poster that outlines the most significant topics and will use these as jumping-off points to discuss my research and experience with those interested.

8111 a.m. to noon | Golisano Hall, Foyer 2 | Poster PresentationThe Benefits of Acupuncture

Discipline: Nursing and SpanishPresenter: Megan Lefeber ’14 | Mentor(s): Dr. Esperanza V. Roncero Acupuncture is a form of alternative medicine that is practiced around the world today. This presentation will share the foundation and basic principles of acupuncture that I have learned while shadowing an acupuncturist this past J Term. The journal I kept to document the vast amount of information I learned every day, as well as my experience as a whole as an observer and a patient, will be presented. The journal details the practice of an acupuncturist that I shadowed who worked in the alternative medicine program offered to inpatient and outpatient oncology pediatric patients at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. The hospital used acupuncture to successfully treat nausea, swelling, and post-surgery pain. Acupuncture has been shown to be safe and does not place patients at a higher risk for infection. As a nursing major, I have always focused on the traditional Western form of medicine. After this experience, I will strongly recommend acupuncture to my patients as a reliable and effective form of alternative medicine. I ultimately wish to share my experiences in hopes that others will realize the benefits that acupuncture holds.

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8211 a.m. to noon | Golisano Hall, Foyer 2 | Poster PresentationAmphibian Surveys in Cusuco National Park, Honduras

Discipline: ISPPresenter: Emily Lisborg ’13 | Mentor(s): Dr. Brian E. Hagenbuch Last summer I traveled to Cusuco National Park in northwestern Honduras with Operation Wallacea, an organization that conducts biodiversity surveys throughout the park. Cusuco Park is located near the border of Guatemala and is home to six endemic species of amphibians and more than 250 species of birds. The park has two core habitat zones that are threatened by recent encroachment for cattle grazing, resulting in deforestation and species loss. I surveyed amphibian populations in three distinct habitat types; montagne dwarf habitat, cloud forest, and lowland epiphyte woodlands. Results from surveys are compiled to form a satellite image used in tracking changes in species composition for the purpose of establishing an overall assessment of the park. Special focus on amphibian populations is necessary as chytrid fungus, which is lethal to many frog, toad, and salamander species, has been found in the area during recent years. Surveying included swabbing of these frogs in hopes of finding some corollary between habitat type and rate or prevalence of infection. The project is ongoing, but the main discovery is that the infected skin type is found only in the dermis layer comprising mouth tissue of tadpoles, explaining why most infected pre-metamorphose do not experience the same devastation as adults (which possess much higher quantities of susceptive tissue). This information is important in creating a more complete understanding of the fungus so that conservation methods may be carried out more effectively in the future.

8311 a.m. to noon | Golisano Hall, Foyer 2 | Poster PresentationBurnout in Nursing Students

Discipline: NursingPresenter: Jordan Nichols ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Penny Boyer Burnout among nurses has become an important topic in recent research. However, burnout in nursing students is also extremely prevalent and warrants research as well. Nursing students are the future of nursing, and high attrition rates in nursing programs negatively impacts the nursing profession, as well as the nursing shortage the profession is currently experiencing. A review was conducted on pertinent literature to find out if stress and burnout were prevalent in nursing programs and which are the most effective interventions to prevent or reduce stress and burnout among nursing students. Ten research articles were analyzed as part of the review. The results of these research articles were synthesized with interviews with a dean of a nursing program as well as two nursing students. The research and interviews revealed that stress and burnout do exist for nursing students and can be the cause of dropout rates in nursing programs. In addition, several interventions found a short-term decrease in stress and burnout, but none revealed a long-term decrease. More research is needed on the long-term effects of stress interventions. An educational counseling program was developed to be implemented in baccalaureate nursing programs in the hopes of decreasing stress and burnout among nursing students and retaining as many students as possible.

8411 a.m. to noon | Golisano Hall, Foyer 2 | Poster PresentationRecuerdos de mis Estudios en el Extranjero, en Granada, Espana

Discipline: SpanishPresenter: Lia G. Roberts ’13 | Mentor(s): Dr. Esperanza V. Roncero As a sophomore, from January to May 2011, I spent a semester abroad in Granada, Spain. Last

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summer, I created PowerPoint presentations of various activities and places I experienced during my time abroad, including the various excursions on which I went, the people I met, and my Spanish host family, with whom I lived with for five months in Granada. I will present photographs as an electronic poster and discuss my study abroad experience to help others learn what it is like to live and study abroad in a foreign country. I will discuss the benefits of studying abroad such as learning a new language, improving speaking skills in a foreign language, and improving self-confidence. I will highlight challenges faced while being abroad such as homesickness, time difference, and miscommunication.

8511 a.m. to noon | Golisano Hall, Foyer 2 | Poster PresentationOneonta Housing Initiative

Discipline: EconomicsPresenter: Martina Shorkey ’13 | Mentor(s): Dr. Laurence J. Malone The Oneonta Housing Task Force is involved in investigating strategies to solve vacancy, senior housing, non-student and student rentals, housing above Main St. businesses, and affordable housing issues. My job is to find data on these topics and relay them back to the sub-groups to discuss with members of the communities. This information will help the city decide what policies they would like to use to improve, based on what the people of the city feel is important.

8611 a.m. to noon | Golisano Hall, Foyer 2 | Poster PresentationA Recycling Pilot Study at Hartwick College

Discipline: Environmental ChemistryPresenter: Catherine Winters ’14 | Mentor(s): Dr. Brian E. Hagenbuch, Mr. Dan Morse Although Hartwick College promotes recycling, campus-wide recycling rates and the lack of accessibility to recycling bins have hindered our progress. This pilot study used the Admissions offices to determine if increasing accessibility to recycling would increase overall department recycling rates. During J-term, discussions with office staff were used to determine individual recycling habits, barriers to recycling, and how those barriers could be removed. Baseline data of recycling rates were also collected. The entire department then switched over to mainly recycling bins and fewer trash cans. Data were collected to determine recycling rates with the new setup, follow-up interviews were conducted, and surveys were sent out to the entire college community to receive more feedback about recycling. The project successfully increased awareness, visibility, and accessibility to recycling. Recycling rates in the Admissions offices increased by 85% as compared to before the project and became 75% better than the campus average. With the new system, the majority of admissions staff and Blue Key student workers felt recycling was more convenient, and they had a better understanding of zero-sort recycling. The method of adjusting the ratio of bins on campus to favor recycling was successful on a small scale in the Admissions offices and could be successfully expanded to the entire campus. Members of the Hartwick community want to recycle, they just need more information and more opportunity.

8711 a.m. to noon | Golisano Hall, Foyer 2 | Table TalkAn Irish Experience

Discipline: SociologyPresenter: Audrey Strong ’14 | Mentor(s): Mrs. Nancy C. Boulin-Golden There is a great difference between the educational systems of the United States and Ireland. Irish students tend to have a less rigorous workload, while remaining competitive within the major. At the National University of Galway, I learned that the class size is a bit larger than those

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at Hartwick, in that each student is more like a number than an individual. The student must be in the top 30 percent to continue on in the major after the first year. Being active in sports is a huge part of the college life at Galway University, where the social life seems to take precedence over academics. Trinity College in Dublin is quite different from Hartwick—more majors, more people, more competitive sports. Come listen to the similarities and differences about the college-level Irish education system and higher education in the United States.


Is Exercise-Induced Colic a Consequence of Dehydration?Discipline: BiologyPresenter: Sarah Goyer ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Laura G. Malloy The causes of equine colic are not well understood, but have been loosely associated with variables such as overeating, cribbing, a sudden change in diet, a heavy meal before work, and feeding or watering before proper cooling after work (Wittington, 2001). These parameters may alter the way that material moves through the digestive tract, thus placing the animal at a higher risk for colic. The term colic can refer to any gastrointestinal conditions which cause pain, but the most common forms of colic are often related to colonic disturbance. Some forms of equine colic can prove fatal (Peak, 2012). My literature review shows that water deprivation may contribute to impactions (Wittington, 2001). Impaction of the cecum and colon is common and results from the ingestion of poorly digestible material. This, coupled with inadequate water intake or exercise, will predispose horses to impaction (Fombelle et al, 1999) which may lead to colic. Thus, my goal is to determine the relationship between dehydration and colic. For this reason I chose to conduct an epidemiological study directed at horse owners, including assessment of the animal’s care that could evaluate the correlation between dehydration and colic. I was able to obtain information on 47 horses, 35 males and 15 females. Twelve of the 47 horses experienced colic. I will use non-parametric statistics to identify correlations in this data set to validate my hypothesis that exercise-induced dehydration is linked to equine colic.


Hemoglobin Deficiency and its Effect on Cognitive FunctionDiscipline: BiologyPresenter: Christopher Sime ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Mark L. Kuhlmann Cognitive function is an important part of a person’s everyday life. A major cause of decrease in cognitive function is a deficiency in hemoglobin. Hemoglobin deficiency affects up to 23% of the world’s population (World Health Organization, 2006) from a variety of causes. Increasing amounts of malnutrition and starvation, along with genetic predisposition, changes in pH balance, and changes in living conditions have driven up the amount of hemoglobin-related sickness. Hemoglobin deficiency decreases the circulatory system’s oxygen transport capability. These new conditions have decreased the effectiveness of hemoglobin, which may result in a change in cognitive function. This paper explores current and past research into how such a drastic decrease in hemoglobin affinity conditions can affect the cognitive function of humans. I will review studies of the cognitive function of patients with artificially lowered hemoglobin content, which examines effects on human subjects of different ages and environments. Finally, the review covers possible solutions to reverse and prevent a decrease in cognitive function.

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90u duFFy award winner11:15-11:30 a.m. | Golisano Hall, Room 203 | Oral Presentation

Small Island SustainabilityDiscipline: EconomicsPresenter: Tanae Adderley ’13 | Mentor(s): Dr. Carlena K. Ficano On the Caribbean island of Barbados, the need for alternative methods of development is imperative. The small size of the country magnifies the effects of coastal degradation and global warming, and there is an obvious dependence on the tourism industry that compounds these issues. This project analyzes the environmental and economic impact of the tourism industry on the island. In my analysis, I examine past, present, and proposed future policies related to the sustainable development of the country and its tourism industry. Specifically, I examine both diversification of the tourism product and diversification of the economy more broadly as possible solutions to promote sustainable development. The waste management/recycling industry and the solar energy industry are the alternative industries discussed in the project. This project was supported though a Duffy Research Scholarship from Hartwick College during summer 2011.I acknowledge and thank the College for its support.


CryptologyDiscipline: MathematicsPresenter: Dan Brainard ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Ronald M. Brzenk My project will take a deeper look into the processes and techniques used in cryptology, which is the study of codes, or the art of writing and solving them. Polyalphabetic and polygraphic substitution ciphers will be broken down and discussed. Also, I will prove some of the theorems used in these ciphers. Additionally, my project will include the proof of the RSA Algorithm. For this presentation, I will give a demo of the RSA algorithm, as well as a brief description of the Vigenère Square and its use to code and decode messages.


Cloud Computing and its Effects on the Field of Public AccountingDiscipline: Business Administration and AccountingPresenter: Zachary Hollinger ’12 | Mentor(s): Mrs. Priscilla Wightman The field of public accounting has changed significantly with the introduction of the computer and the many applications that have followed. I believe the next major technological shift in the business world is the innovation known as cloud computing. The cloud is composed of many third-party services which allow online storage of large amounts of data along with the ability to access stored information from anywhere with Internet capabilities. This new ability has the potential to increase efficiency and data collaboration immensely. However, there is concern for the security of information within the cloud and its ability to properly authorize users on the system without loss of or unpermitted access to client information. I will investigate the implications of using a system that allows mobile access to sensitive data and the impact it will have on the accounting profession as firms make the switch to real-time mobile data access for their employees.

9311:20-11:40 a.m. | Golisano Hall, Room 301 | Classroom PresentationThe Lady’s Reformation: Anne Boleyn and Reformation England

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Presenter: Danielle Alesi ’14 | Mentor(s): Dr. Peter G. WallaceAnne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII and mother of Elizabeth I, was by far the most influential queen consort England has ever had. This is due mostly to her substantial influence on and furthering of the Protestant Reformation that affected and altered England so drastically throughout the 16th century. My research has led me to conclude that Boleyn was a key player in, if not the sole catalyst of, the English Reformation. According to historian Maria Dowling, Boleyn was “regarded as a reformer by her own servants and associates” and, “in both her private life and public policy, she was a fervent and committed evangelical.” Another historian and champion of Boleyn and her effect on the reformation is Eric Ives, who claims that she “played a major part in pushing Henry into asserting his headship of the church.” Even Eustace Chapuys, the Imperial ambassador for the emperor at King Henry’s court and one of Boleyn’s greatest enemies and critics provides substantial evidence that Boleyn was a prominent reformist and the leading cause of the reformation. Whether or not Boleyn was a true evangelical may never be known; however, a large range of evidence from the people that knew her and had daily interactions with her leads us to believe she most likely was. Although, even if she were not truly an evangelical at heart, my essay will show how her actions and the events she caused still sparked and furthered the reformation and changed the course of history.

9411:20-11:40 a.m. | Johnstone Science Center, Room 301 | Oral PresentationPrevention and Management of Cardiovascular Disease in

African American WomenDiscipline: NursingPresenter: Nanica Galette ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Penny Boyer Cardiovascular disease is the number one killer of African American women. Cardiovascular disease is preventable and controllable with physical activity and diet modifications. A literature review was conducted to find the best research-based evidence of the causes and treatment of cardiovascular disease in African American women. Ten research studies were analyzed to determine interventions that can be held to decrease the risk of cardiovascular disease in African American women. The research revealed that women are at high risk because of their lack of awareness. The research also revealed that faith-based interventions are effective in changing the perception of African American women at risk. Nurses need to create informational programs to teach African American women about physical activity and diet that are usable in faith-based organizations. More research needs to be conducted regarding how to get African American women to modify their lifestyles so that they are no longer at risk. In conclusion, nurses should implement programs throughout communities to educate African American women about cardiovascular disease and how it affects them.


The Effect of Postural Position on Respiratory Flow and Ventilation WhileTreading WaterDiscipline: BiologyPresenter: Allyssa Analytis ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Laura G. Malloy When submerged in water, operation of the body’s respiratory system changes since there is additional pressure on the chest from the weight of the water. Further, treading water, or “egg beater,” can affect the respiratory system because bending of the neck and trachea can modify the resistance in the respiratory passages (Pendergast and Lundgren, 2009). These observations lead to the hypothesis that postural changes during swimming alter energetic demands of exercise.

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In compliance with Hartwick College IRB requirements, 10 female water polo players who are active on the Hartwick women’s water polo team offered their informed consent and participated in the study. Oxygen consumption, airway flow, tidal volume, and respiratory rate were measured in two different positions: upright and prone, using a respirometer and gas analyzer (GA-300 CO2/O2) at two different intensities. Heart rate was measured using a pulse plethysmograph in order to keep these exercise intensities consistent. Mean oxygen consumption and all respiratory measurements were evaluated using a paired t-test. Expected results from all participants are that ventilation is greater and oxygen consumption lower in the upright position. The data so far show a consistent trend toward increased tidal volume and lower respiratory rate in the upright position than in the prone position. If these observations are confirmed by analysis, I will conclude that body position definitely has a large role on the work of respiration due to water pressure.


Competition for Shelter Between a Native and an Invasive CrayfishDiscipline: BiologyPresenter: Michael Phillips ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Mark L. Kuhlmann One hypothesis for why introduced species are able to successfully invade and replace native species is superiority in resource competition. This experiment was designed to test whether an invasive species of crayfish, Orconectes rusticus (rusty crayfish) is a better competitor for shelter than a native species, Cambarus bartonii. I collected specimens of both species in the early fall from creeks surrounding Oneonta, New York. For the experiment, I placed one crayfish of each species in a plastic bin with a single shelter and checked throughout the day which species, if any, was occupying the shelter. If a crayfish was in the shelter, it was deemed the “winner” and was removed from the bin. The “loser” crayfish had 36 hours to occupy the shelter. If the crayfish was not observed in the shelter, the trial was discarded. In 85% of the successful trials, the rusty crayfish inhabited the shelter. Therefore, compared to Cambarus bartonii, the rusty crayfish is a better shelter competitor.

9711:30-11:45 a.m. | Golisano Hall, Room 203 | Oral PresentationBiodiversity Monitoring in a Honduran Cloud Forest

Discipline: BiologyPresenter: Ethan Staats ’13 | Mentor(s): Dr. David H. Griffing | Co-presenter(s): Michael Itgen ’13During July and August, 2011, I traveled to Cusuco National Park in Honduras with Operation Wallacea, an entirely participant-funded organization which monitors biodiversity throughout the world’s tropics. The park, primarily tropical pre-montane, montane, and mountain-dwarf forest, is threatened by deforestation and is home to a high density of endemic and endangered animals and plants. Cusuco National Park represents a potential source of ecotourism income for the impoverished rural area surrounding the park and for the country; however, it has not been thoroughly evaluated for its endemism and potential to be sustainably harvested for fuel, building, and food resources. Operation Wallacea’s purpose in the park is to conduct these evaluations and hopefully save the park from agricultural clearing. I spent 28 days in the park, participating in biodiversity monitoring studies alongside professional field biologists. I worked on projects involving: (1) long-term monitoring of the prevalence and spread of chytridomycosis (an infectious disease killing amphibians across the world) in Cusuco amphibians, (2) monitoring female response to extra-group calling activity in mantled howler monkeys, and (3) surveying and cataloging Cusuco arachnid species. The findings of Operation Wallacea’s Cusuco National

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Park expedition have contributed a great deal of knowledge on the nature and management of chytridomycosis, on the behavior of mantled howler monkeys, and discovered new and re-discovered presumed-extinct species of arachnids (as well as other groups of both plants and animals). As an aspiring tropical field biologist, first-hand field experience side by side with professional biologists was tremendous and invaluable to me.


The Journey to the Discovery of CalculusDiscipline: MathematicsPresenter: Andrew McCarthy ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Ronald M. Brzenk For my senior capstone I investigate the history of calculus. I review the works of Archimedes, Newton, Leibniz, Descartes, and whoever else contributed to this great discovery. Along the way, I will discuss some derivatives, proving trigonometric functions, linear Diophantine equations, and the basics of calculus through some other neat theorems. The sources I use are Mathematics Magazine: Volume 56, Sept. 83, and The College Mathematics Journal, Volume 18, Nov. 87.For this presentation, I will consider some things involving trigonometric functions.


The Thermal Effects of Equine Protective Sports Boots on the Equine Cranial Superficial Digital Flexor Tendon in Standardbred RacehorsesDiscipline: BiologyPresenter: Blair Snively ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Laura G. Malloy Controversy exists in the equine community regarding the safety of sports boots (Bryant, J.O., 2009) because boots may elevate limb temperatures; elevation of fibroblast cells in vitro to 42.5 deg. C results in fibroblast death (Hall, 1988). Such temperatures can be achieved during intense exercise alone (Goodship and Wilson, 1994). This study was undertaken to determine the effects of equine protective sports boots on the surface temperature of the superficial digital flexor tendon (SDFT) in the cranial limbs of Standardbred racehorses. I monitored five Standardbred geldings both booted and un-booted at rest, walk, and after moderate exercise, and recorded their temperature, pulse, and respiration (TPR). Although final statistical analyses are not complete, preliminary t-tests show significant increases in the booted tendon temperature at all phases of exercise. When surface temperature measurements were corrected to tendon core temperature (using Goodship and Wilson’s model), the highest temperatures ranged from 42.9 deg. C to 44.9 deg. C. Additionally, it appears that during exercise, the temperature of the right booted tendon increases more than the left. It is possible that this tendency is a result of stress placed on the right limb when exercising on an oval track in a counter-clockwise fashion. I also identified a trend of elevated TPR values in booted horses at rest, which may indicate a conditioned response of pre-race anxiety upon boot application, since the individuals tested are only booted to race. If the final analyses support my initial findings, I will conclude that sports boots do indeed elevate tendon temperatures to potentially dangerous levels.

100u Freedman Prize winner11:40 a.m. to noon | Golisano Hall, Room 104 | Oral Presentation

Theatrical Presentation and Edgar Allan PoeDiscipline: English and Theatre Arts

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Presenter: Lita Benson ’12 | Mentor(s): Ms. Malissa A. Kano-White, Dr. Thomas J. Travisano I will present the combined scholarly and creative research of my English and theatre arts thesis projects. For my English thesis this past J-term I researched the theatrical conventions utilized in Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories and poems. In particular, I looked at how Poe incorporated Shakespearean Melodrama and Greek Tragic forms, along with other theatrical influences in his work. I also examined how Poe’s own work has been brought to the stage. For my theatre arts thesis I created an original adaptation for the stage by writing, directing and designing Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” presented in the Lab Theatre of Breese Hall on April 12-15, 2012. This presentation will demonstrate how the combined research of my English and Theatre Arts thesis projects culminated in this original creative work.


Mass Determination of Seeds by Black-capped ChickadeesDiscipline: BiologyPresenter: Adia Ferris ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Peter T. Fauth Optimal foraging theory predicts that birds should make food decisions that maximize foraging benefits, such as calories consumed or nutrients acquired, or that minimize foraging costs, such as predation risk or time spent searching for food. Black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus) take seeds from bird feeders and fly off with them to peck them open in protected areas. Given the energetic demands and possible predation risks associated with this behavior, one would predict that chickadees should select the highest quality seeds from a feeder. Indeed, Heinrich et al. (1997) demonstrated that black-capped chickadees take sunflower seeds selectively and discriminate among them on basis of heft. From January to April 2012 I performed seed-choice experiments to determine how sensitive black-capped chickadees were to differences in the weights of striped sunflower seeds. I conducted three experiments during which chickadees could select seeds from two dishes on a platform feeder. In experiment one, chickadees were offered a choice between sham seeds (hulls were opened and glued back together) and empty seeds (hulls were opened, seeds were removed, and hulls glued together). In experiments two and three, chickadees were offered sham seeds and either ¼ or ½ full seeds (hulls were removed and ¼ or ½ of the seed was removed before gluing together the hulls). I used the number of seeds taken and discarded from each treatment per bird visit as measures of seed preference by chickadees. I will discuss the results of my experiments and suggest future research associated with seed selection by chickadees.

10211:40 a.m. to noon. | Johnstone Science Center, Room 301 | Classroom PresentationYoung, Wild and Free

Discipline: NursingPresenter: Sarah MacDougall ’13 | Mentor(s): Ms. Cynthia L. Ploutz | Co-presenter(s): Kelsey Kimble ’13, Ilona van der Ven ’13How do you perceive aging? Do you consider time to be inevitable, or rather an eternity? Many people recognize aging as a downfall to life, but we will prove just the opposite by identifying the glorifying aspects of growing older. This interactive presentation pertains to current perceptions of aging and changes that you can make to alter the common myths. Your personal insight has the power to control both your health and your aging process. Learn some unique tips and lifestyle changes that will assist you in staying young, wild, and free today.

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10311:40 a.m. to noon | Johnstone Science Center, Room 401 | Oral PresentationThe Nurse’s Role in Monitoring and Protecting the Hospitalized Patient with

Obstructive Sleep ApneaDiscipline: NursingPresenter: Elizabeth Scholl ’12 | Mentor(s): Ms. Theresa Turick-Gibson Approximately 80% of persons with Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) are undiagnosed. When patients with OSA undergo surgery, they are at an increased risk for post-operative complications. Despite knowledge about the complications of OSA, there is still no standardized protocol for treating patients with OSA in the perioperative period. A review of the literature was undertaken to find the best research evidence. Ten research studies were used to analyze the current state of knowledge in the management of patients with perioperative OSA. The analysis of these studies was incorporated with a narrative analysis of two interviews conducted with two registered nurses who work in a Post Anesthesia Care Unit. The research revealed that nurses need to have a more holistic view of patients assessing the effects OSA outside of the disease process. Nurses also need to improve education that patients receive to improve compliance with treatment health promoting behaviors. Nurses need to utilize technology to better monitor patient condition. Nurses also need to perform more thorough assessment of patients to identify patients at risk for complications from OSA. The research suggests that more research should be done to determine most effective monitoring. Additionally, nurses need to have more education to increase their knowledge and therefore better teach their patients. To this end, an online educational program can be aimed at educating nurses about OSA monitoring and treatment in patients undergoing surgery.

10411:45 to Noon | Golisano Hall, Room 203 | Oral PresentationTwenty-Six Days Changed 20 Years: My Trip to Asebu, Ghana

Discipline: EducationPresenter: Emilie Solandt ’13 | Mentor(s): Dr. Mark R. Davies Asebu, a small town located in the Cape Coast region of Ghana, West Africa, is where I spent a month working with The Alliance for Youth Development’s “Children’s Home of Hope” and the HIV/AIDS Elect program. Before embarking on this adventure to a new country, I thought that it was something that I would enjoy and hoped that it would change my life. I never imagined that this month-long trip would have such a large impact. This experience allowed me to personally break barriers and grow as a future educator and, more importantly, as a person. Upon returning from Asebu, I was asked a very simple question which really made me think and will be thefoundation of my presentation: Why does someone who has “everything” have the desire to go somewhere where they have “nothing”?

10511:45 a.m. to noon | Golisano Hall, Room 303 | Classroom PresentationMathematics Symposium

Topological GamesDiscipline: MathematicsPresenter: Katharine Holmes ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Ronald M. Brzenk In my thesis, I will examine infinite positional games of perfect information such as the Hex game, the Sierpiñski game, the Ulam game, the Choquet game, and Banach-Mazur game. These are two-player games with a finite number of terms until one of the players wins. I will examine the topological theorems and properties involved in the theory of these games, such as the Brouwer Fixed Point Theorem and Baire spaces. I hope to shed light on how the Sierpiñski and the Banach-Mazur games are played and the basic topological theory behind them.

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10611:55 a.m. to 12:10 p.m. | Johnstone Science Center, Room 201 | Classroom Presentation

Biology Senior SymposiumA Review: The Factors, Characteristics and Treatments of Five Major Canine CancersDiscipline: BiologyPresenter: Rachele Anderson ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Linda A. Swift, Dr. Mark L. Kuhlmann The field of veterinary medicine has delved deeper into canine oncology research in recent years. This research has further benefited both veterinary medicine and the general study of cancer biology and therapy. I reviewed, analyzed, and summarized current research of the risk factors, causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of five major cancers commonly found in dogs. These cancers include lymphoma, mast cell tumors, melanoma, hemangiosarcoma, and mammary carcinoma. In addition, I evaluated how this research affects the comparative oncology approach to human medicine. Most studies in the veterinary field focus on canines due to the anatomic and physiologic similarities between canines and humans. Many of the cancers that affect canines have comparable factors, characteristics, and prognosis as cancers found to affect humans. Due to the accessibility to study canines rather than humans, information from canine oncology research can be procured to further our knowledge via comparative oncology.

10711:55 a.m. to 12:10 a.m. | Johnstone Science Center, Room 215 | Classroom Presentation Biology Senior Symposium

Examining the Antimicrobial Properties of Allspice and GarlicDiscipline: BiologyPresenter: Amanda VanBuren ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Peter T. Fauth, Dr. Mary E. Allen Spice use by humans in cuisine is hypothesized to be an evolved behavior that inhibits the growth of bacteria responsible for food-borne illness. A variety of microbiological tests have been used to quantify the antimicrobial effects of spices, but different tests can yield different results, making cross-study comparisons difficult. I will examine the antimicrobial properties of garlic and allspice, two of the most commonly used spices, using three microbiological tests: a disc-diffusion assay, a well-agar test, and a broth-model system. In all three tests I anticipate that the media with the spices will contain less E. coli than the control media, demonstrating the ability of allspice and garlic to inhibit microbial growth, as suggested by the antimicrobial hypothesis. I will compare the data from the three tests to determine if the method of measurement or the type of media used produces different results. Finally, I will recommend which of the three tests is best suited for testing the antimicrobial properties of spices.

108u duFFy award winnerNoon to 12:15 | Golisano Hall, Room 203 | Oral Presentation

Museums and TruthDiscipline: AnthropologyPresenter: Desiree Fuller ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Connie M. Anderson Studies have shown that people trust museums to tell the truth more than other authoritative social institutions, such as the government. Museums are ethically bound to present accurate information, but this can be more difficult than it seems. In a country with a contested past, how do museums present accurate information? Which perspective of history is the most accurate? How does the political environment affect the presentation of the past? All of these questions and more weigh heavily on the minds of museum professionals in a country where the truth of its history is often debated. South Africa is a country that fits these criteria. Less than 20 years

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ago, South Africa was still under the control of Apartheid. Blacks and whites were severely legally segregated. Before Apartheid was the imperialistic conquest of South Africa by the Dutch and then the British. With their relatively new-found freedom, South Africans want to display their history. Many new museums have opened their doors, but how do they present the past in their exhibits?

10912:10-12:25 p.m. | Johnstone Science Center, Room 201 | Classroom PresentationBiology Senior Symposium

A Re-assessment of the Successional Changes of a Tree Stand in Robert V. RiddellState ParkDiscipline: ISP/BiologyPresenter: Kristina Scaggs ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Peter T. Fauth Introduced pests and pathogens such as the American Chestnut Blight and Beech Bark Disease have altered the structure of deciduous forests throughout eastern North America. The first step in the effective management of such diseases is the identification of vulnerable forests through detailed tree inventories. I will re-survey the trees in the Deep Woods Study Plot established in 1996 by Dr. Michael Murphy. The plot is located in the newly established Robert V. Riddell State Park (RVRSP) in Davenport, NY. I will identify and measure the diameter of every tree (> 2.54 cm in diameter) within an 8-m radius of each of 50 grid points in the plot. I will then compare my data to those collected 16 years earlier to describe the successional changes that have occurred in the stand and assess the vulnerability of the plot to future introduced pests such as the hemlock woolly adelgid (Adelges tsugae) and emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis). My data will also be useful to state biologists as they make recommendations about the appropriate recreational uses and development of RVRSP.


Songs for a New WorldDiscipline: Music EducationPresenter: Kristyn Knapp ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Jason L. Curley | Co-presenter(s): Bianca Tubolino ’12 | Additional Students: Paul Patinka ’15, Isaac D. Ofori ’12I will provide musical direction for “Songs for a New World” and also perform as the female lead character. What I want to achieve from this experience is a growth and challenge in musical conducting, private vocal sessions, and the aspect of performance. I will be leading the vocal portion of the musical by providing weekly private lessons for each cast member, conducting rehearsals, altering voice parts that may need adjustment, and exploiting my talent on the stage. The project will have two residuals: (1) a written document that entails all of the aforementioned experiential and practical aspects, critically recorded in a daily journal; (2) a senior thesis Showcase presentation of 15 minutes that highlights the project to my peers, mentors, and the attending public.

1112-2:20 p.m. | Anderson Center for the Arts, Room 138 | Oral PresentationWhaling for Identity: How Culture Affects the International Whaling Commission

Discipline: Political SciencePresenter: Rebecka Flynn ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Amy Forster Rothbart Currently there is a great division within the International Whaling Commission. There is a split between whaling nations and anti-whaling nations; a split so deep that agreements are almost

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never reached by the commission, which is instead mired in controversy. Why does this occur? Why do nations who otherwise have many similar characteristics have such differing opinions on the issue of whaling? This presentation will discuss how culture shapes different countries’ votes in specific matters, either for or against whaling. Specifically, this presentation will look at America and Australia from the anti-whaling side and Japan and Norway from the pro-whaling group of states. These nations are all developed nations, which have been noted to be allies with one another on different issues, yet are bitter enemies within the International Whaling Commission.

1122-2:20 p.m. | Anderson Center for the Arts, Room 207 | Oral PresentationHartwick College and the Viability of Solar Technology

Discipline: Political Science and HistoryPresenter: Rachel Rhodes ’13 | Mentor(s): Dr. Brian E. Hagenbuch Institutions of higher learning such as Hartwick College have the ability to make use of new alternative energy solutions like solar power to create more sustainable campuses and set an example for other large businesses and institutions. Solar energy provides an alternative to traditional dependence on fossil fuels and is becoming increasingly affordable and convenient for homeowners as well as larger institutions. This study assesses the feasibility of integrating solar energy technology with the existing electrical grid at Hartwick College by examining photovoltaic energy options, installation and monetary requirements, and potential funding for colleges and universities. More specifically, this study offers an analysis of solar energy potential at Hartwick College and serves as a feasibility report on the financial and environmental benefits and barriers to the installation of solar technology. The cumulative result of the study indicates that Hartwick College possesses a campus conducive to hosting solar energy technology, especially innovative new technology such as solar streetlamps and solar garbage disposals.

1132-3 p.m. | Anderson Center for the Arts, Foreman Gallery | Art Senior ShowSenior Project Exhibition

Discipline: Art and Art HistoryPresenter: Jacqueline Jones ’12 | Mentor(s): Mr. Terry L. H. Slade | Co-presenter(s): Alanna Ranellone ’12, Amanda Medina ’11, Amanda Dockstader ’12, Kaitlyn Smith ’12, Luke Malone ’12, Kimberly DeMartino ’12, Lauren Morris ’12, Marin Fingerle ’12, Suzanne Robichaud ’12, Lindsay Worden ’12Senior Art Project, dedication to Troy Davis, is a reaction to the trial that occurred in early September, but is also a reaction on the subject of capital punishment as a whole, specifically the death penalty. It is questioning the morals of capital punishment, and how the feelings of the viewer would change if the subject of the Troy Davis trial was someone different, someone of a different age, sex, race, or gender. Hopefully by altering these images and scenarios, the viewer will question their perspective on capital punishment as a whole.

1142-4 p.m. | Anderson Center for the Arts, Room 122 | Classroom PresentationDemonstrations in Glass Blowing

Discipline: Business Administration and AccountingPresenter: Zachary Hollinger ’12 | Mentor(s): Mr. Erik J. Halvorson, Ms. Stephanie Rozene This time slot will give students, staff, and visitors the chance to come into the hot glass working facilities here at Hartwick College and get an up close and personal view of how art glass is created. The demonstrations will be carried out by a handful of safe and experienced glass students who have worked with the medium throughout their college careers. Hartwick College has provided

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its students with a wonderful and well-rounded liberal arts education, and we would like to use this period of time to showcase our understanding and passion for this medium and share it with anyone who wishes to come see our show.

1152-4 p.m. | Anderson Center for the Arts, Room 122 | Classroom PresentationCeramics Demonstration, Exhibition, and Clay Club Spring Sale

Discipline: Art and Art HistoryPresenter: Cassidy Liebman ’13 | Mentor(s): Ms. Stephanie Rozene | Co-presenter(s): Kimberly DeMartino ’12, Lee Fenner ’13, Lauren Morris ’12, Christopher Spinozzi ’14, Marin Fingerle ’12, Samantha McFarland ’12 | Additional Students: Hope Irion ’13, Josefine Vincents ’15, Carlee Hirt ’15, Hayley Dyer ’15, Erin Holladay ’13, Madeline Quick ’12, Amy Ronnerman ’15, Theresa Pietsch ’13, Erica Cantwell ’14, Amanda Dockstader ’12Ceramics is an extremely versatile medium which has been used for centuries to create functional, decorative, sculptural, and ceremonial wares. The ceramics students will host an open studio and ceramic ware sale, demonstrating how these techniques have evolved throughout the ages. Students from Ceramics I: Hand Building, Ceramics II: Wheel Throwing, and Advanced Ceramics will demonstrate techniques learned in each class, including wheel throwing, hand building and printmaking mixed media. Simultaneously the Hartwick College Clay Club will host an exhibition and sale of student work created this semester. All purchases benefit the Clay Club and student artists. Please join us throughout the day for the exhibition and sale. Demonstrations will be held from 2-4 p.m. with a raffle at 3:30 p.m.

1162-4 p.m. | Anderson Center for the Arts, Room 129 | ReadingGame Programming in Flash - Lucid: Arena

Discipline: Computer and Information SciencePresenter: Jack Bauerle ’12 | Mentor(s): Mr. Howard M. Lichtman, Mr. Joseph Von Stengel “Lucid: Arena” is the first step of an immersive role-playing game experience. In Lucid: Arena, players will be thrown into active, turn-based combat, similar to that of “Final Fantasy X.” There will be six playable characters, of which three may be used at one time. Each character has their own unique appearance, abilities, and back story. The game is drawn and animated in Adobe Flash CS5 on a two-dimensional plane. The game is coded in ActionScript 2.0. The final release of Lucid will feature a full-length storyline, complete with player-influenced endings and open-endedness featured in games like “Mass Effect” and “Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic”. However, “Lucid: Arena” is merely a showcase of the combat system utilized in Lucid. You will be able to fight, level up, learn new moves, customize your stats, and choose unique “master skills” for each character. You will find that in order to be victorious in “Lucid: Arena,” you will have to utilize your mind more than any other muscle. Choose your fighters carefully, your moves tactically. Welcome to Lucid.

117u Freedman Prize winner2-4 p.m. | Anderson Center for the Arts, Foyer 2 | Table Talk

Technical Directing and Lighting Design: The Imaginary InvalidDiscipline: English and Theatre ArtsPresenter: Kelly Fayton ’13 | Mentor(s): Mr. Gary P. Burlew There are many components to the production of a play. For this spring’s main-stage production,I am both the technical director and the lighting designer. This means that in addition to

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overseeing the construction of the set, I will draft, hang, and design lighting cues to go along with this adaptation of Moliere’s Imaginary Invalid. From a technical director point of view, I am tasked with managing work calls, drafting shop drawings, creating lumber and material estimates, sticking to a budget, and making sure that all technical aspects, such as light and sound, will be completed in a timely fashion. From a lighting perspective, I am in the process of collaborating with the costume and scenic designer to aid in creating a cohesive depiction of the director’s vision.

1182-4 p.m. | Anderson Center for the Arts, Foyer 2 | Table TalkI.D.d

Discipline: ISP (photojournalism)Presenter: Devon Gonzalez ’12 | Mentor(s): Professor Katharine A. Kreisher For my thesis I will continue to work with themes relating to personal identity through environmental portraits that have a narrative content. In unique locations that are part of their everyday lives, I have been making environmental portraits of people that I feel close to and know well. These images hint at open-ended narratives about the people in these places. My picture-stories will include text referencing both the photographic “facts” and the imagined narrative “truths” behind the images. Through my ISP in photojournalism with its current personal documentary components, I’ve moved on to a more direct approach through which different visual elements, both printed and projected, promote the storyline of each individual’s narrative and, in this way, help to define their particular identities.

1192-4 p.m. | Anderson Center for the Arts, Foyer 2 | Table TalkAn Analysis of Three Types of Bit-Wear for the Archaeological Identification of

Domesticated Versus Wild HorsesDiscipline: AnthropologyPresenter: Chandler Guptill ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. David W. Anthony This presentation will cover the analysis of several types of bit-wear (wear caused by a bit) on horse teeth, with the goal of aiding archaeologists in distinguishing between ridden horses and wild or never-bitted horses, both in the field and in the lab. The anatomical areas affected by the bit are the interdental space (diastema) on the mandible and the lower P2 teeth. Wear on these areas of modern domestic and archaeological specimens was examined and compared to the same areas on Dr. Anthony and Dorcas Brown’s extensive collection of feral horse skulls. Using techniques developed by Robin Bendry (2007) this presenter in coordination with Brown and Anthony examined the mandibles and teeth in order to refine the categorization of types of wear and provide other researchers an expanded sample of measured and quantified bit-related pathologies for future reference.

1202-4 p.m. | Anderson Center for the Arts, Foyer 2 | Table TalkBiological and Ecological Surveys of Robert V. Riddell State Park

Discipline: Biology and EducationPresenter: Liam Heiland ’13 | Mentor(s): Dr. Brian E. Hagenbuch Co-presenter(s): Kristina Scaggs ’12Hartwick College’s 840-acre “Upper Tract” property was recently (2008) sold to New York State in order to incorporate it into the state park lands and receive protections related to that title. However, before any further development could be planned for the park, baseline observational data and studies were conducted. We assessed Robert V. Riddell State Park during the summer of 2011 by collecting data on forest and soil composition, water quality, and biological diversity, and

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used mapping techniques to track current trails. At our table, we will describe the techniques we used, and we will have field samples for public viewing. We will also present our findings, including water quality data, forest classification maps, and recommendations for the future of the park.

1212-4 p.m. | Anderson Center for the Arts, Foyer 2 | Table TalkRayGuns! Student Showcase for Works in Glass

Discipline: Business Administration and Accounting Presenter: Zachary Hollinger ’12 | Mentor(s): Mr. Erik J. Halvorson | Additional Students: Eric Pedersen ’11The students in the glass studio would like to show off their soon-to-be-created glass art. As a student at Hartwick College, I would like to showcase the glass studio and show current underclassmen the possibilities of glass with instruction from our teacher, Erik Halvorson. Our project calls for students to create glass ray guns similar to those seen in comics and movies from yesteryear. Students have the freedom to design and imagine any ray gun they please, including purpose, function, etc. This project excites our current glass students and has promise to be quite interesting.

1222-4 p.m. | Anderson Center for the Arts, Foyer 2 | Table TalkPermission to FLIP Out: Foreign Language Initiative Program

Discipline: EducationPresenter: Kalindi Naslund ’15 | Mentor(s): Dr. Elizabeth A. Bloom | Co-presenter(s): Emily Knapp ’13, Emilie Solandt ’13Foreign Language Initiative Program (FLIP), founded by Meagan Lovelace, aims to introduce foreign languages to elementary schools. FLIP members Lovelace, Emilie Solandt, Emily Knapp, Thomas O’Leary, and Kalindi Naslund collaborate with Otego Elementary principal Mr. Tim Ryan and second grade teacher Mrs. Michelle Wilson to integrate French and Spanish into elementary education. The Otego Elementary students are excited about the program; they are eager to learn and even practice at home. Students’ enthusiasm provides a positive experience for everyone involved. As FLIP grows, we hope to work with other elementary schools in the area, because we recognize the importance of learning a foreign language at an early age.

1232-4 p.m. | Anderson Center for the Arts, Foyer 2 | Table Talk80 for a Day

Discipline: NursingPresenter: Kellyann Newman ’13 | Mentor(s): Ms. Cynthia L. Ploutz | Co-presenter(s): Abigail Hoffay ’13, Cassie Jonaitis ’13As we grow older, our sensory receptors age with us. We become less responsive to our five senses: taste, vision, hearing, touch, and smell. Our eyes and ears are the most noticeably and drastically changed senses. In the aging eye, there is a decrease in transparency, a decrease in visual attention, selective attention and divided attention, impaired color discrimination, and sensitivity to contrast. As we age, our hearing also becomes slightly impaired due to age-related changes, which include the cerumen getting dryer, the tympanic membrane stiffens, and the outer ear loses elasticity. Touch is one other sense that becomes debilitated as we grow older. A reduction in the blood flow to the somatosensory receptors occurs, causing a decrease in tactile and vibration sensations. These changes affect communication with elders, and it is important that we as a society understand, recognize, and know that changes like these are inevitable. This demonstration will give participants a first-hand experience in what it is like to deal with aging sensory deficits.

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1242-4 p.m. | Anderson Center for the Arts, Foyer 2 | Table TalkA Lost Loyalist Logo: A Remnant of the Revolutionary War

Discipline: HistoryPresenter: Rejoice Scherry ’13 | Mentor(s): Ms. Donna Anderson By 1777, the British mother country no longer saw the war in America as a brief tantrum of her child. The rebels were unwaveringly serious about their independence, challenging Britain’s stability and wealth. The colonies needed to return to the firm grip of King George in order for Britain to continue to profit from its New World enterprises. The time had come to bolster the regular army with militias formed of citizens loyal to the crown. This table will explore the history of the Butler’s Rangers Militia and examine a genuine cartridge box plate from a Ranger’s uniform. Learn the story behind one of the Yager Museum of Art & Culture’s treasures.

1252-4 p.m. | Anderson Center for the Arts, Foyer 2 | Table TalkMoments

Discipline: Studio ArtPresenter: Alexandra Wood ’14 | Mentor(s): Mr. Joseph Von Stengel, Ms. Katharine A. Kreisher “Moments” is a hybrid painting that explores the ever-changing moment. To create my work I utilize a process that involves direct observation, addition and removal, as well as layering of the paint. I look to create an atmosphere that will captivate and mesmerize the viewer. There is a tradition to this style of painting. It can be found in Minimalism as well as Abstract Expressionism. Paint is a slow medium. A painting can take me a couple of days to four months or longer to complete. While in the process of creating a painting, I grow and change as a person. These changes are reflected as marks from my brush on my painting each day. The visual changes are important to my understanding of the piece. I would like to share the experience of these daily changes in my paintings with my viewers. I found that the stillness of my final paintings do not seem to fully give this experience. I needed to expand and explore to solve this visual problem and discovered the digital medium. Through the projection of various color movements onto my paintings, I am able to morph and change the luminescence and colors perceivable to my viewers. By combining the movement found in digital media with the slowness of my final paintings, I am able to create a living moment that reflects upon the daily changes witnessed during its creation.

1262-4 p.m. | Anderson Center for the Arts, Foyer 2 | Table TalkModel United Nations: Our Experience

Discipline: Model United NationsPresenter: Robert Amberson ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Amy Forster Rothbart | Co-presenter(s): Jennifer Davis ’13, Tyler Machia ’12, Lauren Mausert ’12, John Burns ’14, Tyler Benjamin ’12, Ronak Sharma ’14, Robert Amberson ’12, Jona Tapia ’15, Laura Weig ’13, Anna Boardman ’14In order to better educate the campus as to exactly what Model United Nations is and to share our experiences from the year, we will have a table set up in order to provide the student body information about the United Nations simulations in which we participated. This will include information about the states we represented (including Belgium, the Bahamas, and Tajikistan) as well as some of the issues we covered. A display will summarize some of our research. Members of the Executive Board will be sitting at the table in order to discuss in further detail and answer questions.

127u Freedman Prize winner2-4 p.m. | Anderson Center for the Arts, First Floor Hallway Galleries | Table Talk

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Managing the Menagerie of Freaks: Stage-Managing Hartwick College’sThe Imaginary InvalidDiscipline: English and Theatre ArtsPresenter: Kyrie McCormick ’14 | Mentor(s): Dr. Marc E. Shaw My project is based on my position as stage manager for the faculty-directed main stage play The Imaginary Invalid. My presentation will be in a loose PowerPoint format, with excerpts of music and video from the play itself. I will explain the responsibilities a stage manager has within theatre and how my experiences will help my future career choice. I will also talk about the supportive infrastructure that theatre presents to those of us who work within it. During this process, I ran into a few family emergencies, but the play did not falter in its process. Ultimately, the presentation is to explain why a stage manager is important to theater, what one can learn from being a stage manager, and what theatre does for the world as a whole.


Determining the Activation Energy of UV Color-changing BeadsDiscipline: ChemistryPresenter: Katie Lukens ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. John Dudek The activation of ultraviolet color-changing beads is determined by measuring the first order rate constant at a variety of different temperatures. The experiment uses beads that change colors in ultraviolet radiation. Using a tungsten lamp and a spectrometer, the reflectance of the bead at a given temperature was measured over time. By fitting the reflectance versus time, the first order rate constant was determined. Then the activation energy was found by using the Arrhenius equation and rate constants at different temperatures.


Effective Transitional Care Planning for the ElderlyDiscipline: NursingPresenter: Brittany Baughman ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Penny Boyer Older adults are at risk for increased mortality and morbidity rates during the time of transition from care venues. Thorough discharge management is needed to address the complex health needs of this population. Ineffective discharge planning results in increased costs of health care. Ten research articles were analyzed and synthesized to determine effective interventions in discharge management and ways to improve patient health outcome. Hospital readmission rates, mortality and morbidity rates, patient satisfaction and quality of life were commonly tested in research. Results of the review were incorporated with themes revealed from a narrative analysis from three registered nurses with discharge planning experience with older clients. Research revealed that many interventions must be combined to accommodate the needs of the older clients and health professionals involved in care. Interventions revealed that a holistic and person-centered care approach was an effective perspective involved in discharge management. Strategies to improve patient health outcomes reflect improvement in communication, medication reconciliation, connection to assistive services and a strong support system. Nurses need to create a patient-nurse relationship to better understand patient needs and goals in discharge. Research suggests that healthcare professionals and patients need more information about the discharge process. To this end, an educational module is described for nurses on the complex needs of the elderly, barriers

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to address in discharge and interventions to assist nurses to meet patient needs and maximize positive health outcomes.


Providing Safe Quality Care During Pregnancy for Women Who are ObeseDiscipline: NursingPresenter: Natasha Biltucci ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Tina M. Engel Obesity has been around throughout the health care system for many years. It is a rather familiar concept of which many healthcare professionals and patients are aware. The goal of this thesis is to focus on obesity among a specific population--women of childbearing age. Obesity is becoming a growing concern among this general population. There are several adverse effects and complications that obesity can have on a women’s reproductive health and the health of her baby. However, research states that there is a deficit because some healthcare professionals are unfamiliar with how to provide such care. Ten research studies were analyzed to discover the effect obesity has on expectant mothers, babies and health care providers. Two key informant interviews were conducted with a certified nurse midwife and a professional registered nurse working on an obstetrical floor. Research findings suggested that nurses need to be intuitive and recognize that obstetric interventions need to be put into place. Additionally, the effect that mental status, anxiety, and fatigue have on postnatal women needs to be further explored. Obstetric nurses are at the optimal position to implement nursing interventions to provide the best quality care to obese pregnant patients during their pregnancy. A research translation project was designed based on the research findings that will focus on presenting a mechanism in which nurses may apply what they have been taught in regard to the impact obesity has throughout a women’s pregnancy. This project also allows the nurse the opportunity to truly advocate for her/his patients and integrate an evidence-based practice change.


Pressure Ulcer Prevention in the ICU PopulationDiscipline: NursingPresenter: Simonne Boswell ’12 | Mentor(s): Ms. Theresa Turick-Gibson Pressure ulcers (PU), often called bedsores, have been plaguing patients since the beginning of healthcare and are found within the intensive care unit (ICU). In this thesis, research literature was evaluated and synthesized to answer the research question: How can ICU nurses improve their ability to prevent PU formation in adult ICU patients? Two primary informants were interviewed to enhance the understanding of pressure ulcer prevention. Research included adult ICU patients - male and female patients ranging from 40 to 70 years of age who were receiving care in the ICU. The investigative methods used to examine this research question included a collection of studies from online databases ranging from 2009 to 2011 and talking with two primary informants. Applying the knowledge attained from literature, a project will be theoretically explained on theimplementation within an ICU on improving the ability of ICU nurses to prevent pressure ulcer formation in adult patients.


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Pain and AnxietyDiscipline: NursingPresenter: Kerry Brennan ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Penny Boyer A majority of children view pain from surgical procedures as one of the worst aspects of their medical condition. The anxiety felt by children could contribute to a heightened sense of pain in the postoperative period. In this thesis, the goal is to focus on the effects that music therapy has on reducing pain and anxiety in comparison to pharmacological methods with post-operative pediatric patients ranging from childhood into young adulthood. Ten research studies were analyzed to discover the effect music therapy has on children’s pain and anxiety levels. Two informant interviews were conducted with a holistic nurse and a licensed music therapist to get their views on nurse-implemented music therapy. Research findings suggested that music therapy has an effect on the reduction of pain and anxiety levels in postoperative pediatric patients. When comparing music therapy to other pharmacological methods, music therapy was shown to have no adverse effects on the patient and lowered the amount of medication administration in the pediatric patient population. An important suggestion from the literature was that the nurses need more education on non-pharmacological methods and how to implement them. Educating and implementing a music therapy program is a cost efficient way to improve nursing care and provide the pediatric patient with some control of their treatment regimen. A research translation project was designed based on the research findings for a nurse-implemented music therapy program and an educational program to teach about how to implement this method.


How Can Family Presence During Resuscitation Events be Best Managed to Achieve Desired Outcomes for Staff and Family?Discipline: NursingPresenter: Sarah Briggs ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Penny Boyer, Ms. Theresa Turick-Gibson Although support and recognition for family presence during resuscitation has been made by many professional nursing organizations, the issue remains controversial. Health care providers continue to disagree on whether family members should be present during their loved one’s resuscitation. Only 5% of hospitals in the United States have written guidelines for family presence. Despite the research, little is known about ways to best manage family presence for both staff and family members. For this thesis, a literature review was conducted to identify the best research evidence. Twelve research articles were analyzed and synthesized to determine the current state of knowledge regarding family presence during resuscitation. The research revealed that family members should have the option to be involved during resuscitation events. In order to promote desired outcomes for both staff and family members, education and guideline development were imperative. The environment of the healthcare facility impacts the acceptance of family presence greatly and should be evaluated before and throughout implementation of a family presence project. Evaluation of healthcare providers’ attitudes and beliefs regarding family presence during resuscitation is needed prior to education and guideline development. The research suggests that, with education, attitudes of staff become more positive. Also, when guidelines are implemented, there is greater support for family presence from both staff and family members. An educational program on family presence during resuscitation for healthcare providers is described.

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The Women of Iceland: Goading, Blood Feuds, and Honor in Njáls SagaDiscipline: English and Theatre ArtsPresenter: Elizabeth Celata ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Lisa Darien The women of Medieval Iceland helped to maintain the strict honor society that held sway over the Norse world. These women fought to maintain their familial honor through blood feuds by goading their men to battle with blood tokens and insults to their honor. Hildigunn, Bergthora, and Hallgerd of Njáls saga will be my three examples of women’s influence in Icelandic society, specifically within the political and social realms of the blood feud. The three stood in contrast to their male counterparts rather than as less developed characters. The portrayals of these three women may be seen together as an interpretation of the cultural understanding of women and their place within Norse society.


Effects of High Fat/High Sugar Diet on CognitionDiscipline: PsychologyPresenter: Megan Clampitt ’13 | Mentor(s): Dr. KinHo Chan Several studies have found that rats fed a high fat diet show impairment relative to controls on a variety of cognitive tasks (Greenwood and Winocur, 2005; Kanoski et al., 2010). This impairment is believed to be more closely linked to the consumption of saturated than unsaturated fatty acids (Kanoski et al., 2011). However, in an experiment conducted by Kanoski et al. (2007), it was found that a high saturated fat diet with dextrose as the sugar caused significantly more cognitive impairment than a high fat diet with sucrose as the sugar. These results challenge the assumption that the saturated fat is indeed the primary cause of the impairments in learning and memory. This experiment investigated the effects of sugar and fat and combination of the two by utilizing a factorial design. Naïve rat pups were divided into four groups shortly after weaning: high fat high sugar (dextrose), high fat no sugar, low fat high sugar, and low fat no sugar. The rats in the high fat group received a diet high in saturated fat (Research Diets D03082706) while the rats in the low fat group received regular chow. The rats in the high dextrose group received a 30% dextrose solution in addition to water, while the rats in the no sugar group received regular tap water. All rats were maintained on their respective diets for 90 days prior to the cognitive test identical to that used by Kanoski et al. (2007). The results of this experiment will provide more conclusive evidence concerning the effects of fats and sugars on learning and memory.


Role of the Nurse in Perinatal Substance AbuseDiscipline: NursingPresenter: Megan Conroy ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Penny Boyer, Dr. Jeanne P. Westcott ’66 Over the past several decades, perinatal substance abuse has introduced controversy concerning legality and prosecution. Healthcare providers are faced with ethical dilemmas regarding how to best care for these women, along with the unborn fetus. Perinatal substance abuse results in devastating consequences pertaining to psychosocial, cognitive and physiological aspects for both the mother and infant. Ten research articles were analyzed to determine the best interventional strategies for delivering care to this population. Knowledge and attitudes of registered nurses toward perinatal substance users and the health beliefs of perinatal substance users were examined. Results of the literature review were incorporated with emerged themes from interviews with

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two obstetric nurses and an addiction counselor, all of whom care for perinatal substance users. The research revealed that perinatal substance users benefit most from nursing staff that foster a nonjudgmental and positive attitude. In addition, the importance of collaboration among the healthcare team and assisting perinatal substance abusers to connect with appropriate resources were found to be crucial. Furthermore, nursing staff with higher education or those with specialized training in perinatal substance use reported higher levels of knowledge and capability of caring for these women and infants. Implications for research refer to evaluation of educational methods concerning perinatal substance abuse, as research suggests that there is a deficit in education on this topic. An educational module for nurses on perinatal substance abuse is described, which incorporates findings from informant interviews and the literature review.


They’re Bringing Sexy Back: Sex after 65Discipline: NursingPresenter: Lauren Czyras ’13 | Mentor(s): Ms. Cynthia L. Ploutz Co-presenter(s): Shelby McIntee ’13, Erin Bell ’13Current trends in population in the United States predict an explosive growth in those considered elderly (65+). Society as a whole needs to adjust the often ageist attitudes to make a more inclusive community, focusing on abilities rather than limitations, and also to communicate the hope that love and physical intimacy do not have an expiration date. The understanding that human needs of love and affection are constant comes with a responsibility to our seniors to be conscious of sex’s consequences at all ages. STD awareness and romantic counseling should be accessible to all.

138 2-4 p.m. | Anderson Center for the Arts, First Floor Hallway GalleriesPoster Presentation

Improving Family-Centered Nursing Care in the Pediatric Inpatient SettingDiscipline: NursingPresenter: Staci Daddio ’12 | Mentor(s): Ms. Theresa Turick-Gibson The purpose of this thesis was to investigate the most effective interventions in assisting nurses to facilitate family-centered nursing with parents of a hospitalized child in a pediatric inpatient setting. This thesis will identify barriers to family-centered nursing, the perspective of nurses and parents regarding family-centered nursing, and tools that have been implemented to improve the practice of family-centered care. If family-centered nursing is not initiated, the nurse and the parents may work around each other instead of together in a partnership, leading to negative outcomes related to feelings of frustration or loss of power in the situation. A literature review was conducted in order to find 10 research studies that would best answer the research questions relating to improving family-centered nursing. Two key informant interviews were conducted in order to include the practice standards of registered nurses in the pediatric field. Findings showed a readiness to learn on the part of the nursing staff and the parents, as well as to initiate improvements in the family-centered care protocols of pediatric units around the world. The perceptions of nurses and parents have helped to shape the expectations regarding family-centered care over time. The literature supports the need for a concrete definition of family-centered nursing and the implementation of further education for the nursing staff or a tool to be implemented in practice. The utilization of the Negotiation Care Tool found in the literature could prove beneficial to nursing staff in facilitating family centered care.

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Identifying Effective Complementary Nursing Therapies to Reduce Pain in Adult Oncology Patients in the Hospital SettingDiscipline: NursingPresenter: Jaimie deJager ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Tina M. Engel The experience of undertreated pain for patients with cancer is a prevalent issue that many patients with cancer face in the inpatient setting. In order to overcome this issue, the use of complementary nursing therapies has been researched at length. Are complementary nursing therapies (music as therapy, guided imagery, and general/basic massage) effective in relieving pain in adult oncology patients in the hospital setting? A review of the recent literature was conducted, using myriad databases, and preference was given to nursing research. In addition, two key informant interviews were conducted. The research revealed that the three nursing complementary therapies studied are effective in decreasing cancer pain in adult oncology patients in the hospital setting. Experience and education of nurses in regards to these therapies were key factors in the implementation of the therapies. The information gained suggests that the complementary therapies studied are effective complementary therapies for reducing pain in patients with cancer. The literature concluded that the use of complementary therapies needs to be increased and more education of the therapies needs to occur. Further research needs to be done focusing on complementary therapies that can be implemented solely by the nurse without a therapist. The findings suggest that the use of complementary therapies is feasible, but there is a lack of experience and education in the use of these therapies among oncology nurses.


Weathering and Aluminum Leaching in Granitic Rocks in the Swift River Watershed, New HampshireDiscipline: Geology and Environmental SciencesPresenter: Sierra Derby ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. David H. Griffing, Dr. Zsuzsanna Balogh-Brunstad Recent study of aluminum levels in soils and surface waters of the Swift River watershed of central New Hampshire are relatively high. Leaching of aluminum from bedrock minerals into soils and surface water typically requires acidic weathering conditions. The source of the acidity is most likely from the extended acidic precipitation in the White Mountain region during the last few decades. However, it is currently unknown exactly what rock components contribute the aluminum ions and how this reaction occurs. The goal of this project is to determine the source of the elevated aluminum, in the Swift River watershed, by examining various alumino silicate minerals in thin section samples of the granitic bedrock that is exposed in the watershed. Through petrographic analysis of the thin sections, the mineral content and the textural relationships within the rock help determine which of several formally defined granitic bodies described in the region makes up the bedrock from the sample area. Mainly focusing on mica, feldspar, and other minerals that alter to clay and oxides, the study then examines mineralogical changes from exposed and heavily weathered portions of rock. The extent of aluminum weathering on the rocks can be determined in the thin sections by studying patches of mineral alteration typically found along crystal margins and cores of different minerals species under the petrographic microscope.


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Does Religion Influence Criminal Behavior?Discipline: SociologyPresenter: Erin Doyle ’13 | Mentor(s): Dr. Sarah G. Whiteford This study applies and extends different social theories such as social control theory, learning theory, and the social bond theory to determine whether an individual’s religious preference or level of religiosity has a significant influence on a youth’s criminal behavior. The National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 is a cross-sectional study with a sample size of 8,984 respondents that can be generalized to U.S. youth residents born between 1980 and 1984. The two independent variables I used were religiosity and religious preference, while my dependent variable was criminal behavior. Findings suggested that the relationship between religion and crime, though a direct relationship, was not found to be significant, due to the extremely small sample size available. Because of limited resources, my independent variable (“religiosity”) was a poor measure of level of religious importance. There was also no significant relationship found between religious preference and level of criminal behavior. Before accepting my null hypotheses, future research should include a physical involvement index to measure religiosity, and the sample collected should be much larger and more diverse.


Poster PresentationWho Was H.P. Lovecraft?Discipline: English and Theatre ArtsPresenter: Michael Easton ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Marc E. Shaw, Dr. David C. Cody Steven Walling wrote, directed, and acted in a one-man show for his senior thesis. The comedy that he wrote is based on “Sweet Ermengarde,” a comedic short story written by H.P Lovecraft, an American writer of strange horror fiction. My professor, Marc Shaw, asked me if I would be interested in doing a dramaturgical display of H.P Lovecraft for the performance, since he knew Lovecraft is one of my favorite writers. Researching him was a fun task for me, as it was great to broaden my knowledge of a writer I already enjoy reading so much. I feel that not many people are familiar with H.P Lovecraft and just how influential he has been on a lot of modern writers and film. My goal was to create a catchy-looking display that would be able to describe Lovecraft in a short amount of time.


Substance Abuse Prevention in the Pre-licensure Nursing Student PopulationDiscipline: NursingPresenter: Elisa Ernstoff ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Penny Boyer Substance abuse and chemical dependency among nursing students are issues of great legal, ethical and professional concern that merit investigation in order to develop procedures and policies geared toward reducing the prevalence and incidence of the issue within nursing schools. A literature review was conducted to find pertinent evidence-based research regarding the issue of substance abuse and chemical dependency in the nursing student population. Inclusion and exclusion criteria aided in narrowing the scope of literature to be reviewed. Ten research articles were selected that dealt most closely with this issue in the pre-licensure student population. The result of the literature review was then integrated with the results of a narrative analysis from three key informant interviews. Research found that there are varying responses among nursing schools,

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students and faculty regarding the impaired student. In regard to policy development, research has shown the importance and necessity of clear and objective evidence-based policies to guide faculty responses to the impaired nursing student. The research suggests that further studies take place to investigate the phenomenon of substance abuse and chemical dependency among nursing students, as well as policy development and implementation within schools for adequately dealing with the issue. A research translation project was formulated to address this issue, and a sample policy for substance abuse and drug testing of nursing students was developed.


America’s Elderly Run on Too Many MedsDiscipline: NursingPresenter: Emily Gates ’13 | Mentor(s): Ms. Cynthia L. Ploutz | Co-presenter(s): FrancesNesi ’13, Brittany Tyrrell ’12Are the elderly over-prescribed? In the United States the elderly consume one-third of prescribed medication. How do patients keep track of more than 10 medications, their time and frequency of administration, and their interactions with each other? Our presentation will focus on polypharmacy in the elderly and its impact on health and wellbeing. It will also focus on the financial impact of multiple prescriptions with regard to Medicare, the “donut hole” and limited incomes. What do you do when you cannot afford your medication?


Facilitating Effective Coping Mechanisms for Families of Patients Diagnosed with SchizophreniaDiscipline: NursingPresenter: Nefertari Gray ’12 | Mentor(s): Ms. Theresa Turick-Gibson Schizophrenia is a severe, disabling mental illness that strikes a person during the peak of their lives. Not only is this devastating to the patient, but this affects and can possibly destroy a family. This occurs because of the lack of effective coping mechanisms executed by the families. The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the issue of schizophrenia within a family. What are the most effective coping interventions a nurse can teach families who have a schizophrenic member? A literature review was done using CINAHL, SocINDEX, and Science Direct. Two key informal interviews were also conducted to answer the question. Findings indicate that families need to be incorporated into the treatment process and decision making. Nurses need to teach the families effective coping mechanisms, which are to remain action-oriented. They must promote positive thinking, provide knowledge on the condition/treatment, and offer support groups to aid the families during this process.


El Arte de Traducción / The Art of TranslationDiscipline: Spanish and EnglishPresenter: Elizabeth Greco ’14 | Mentor(s): Dr. Esperanza V. Roncero In reference to translation, and specifically the translation of Spanish poetry, there are two main schools of thought: ‘traductor traidor’ or translator traitor, and ‘traductor creador’ or translator creator. The first implies that when one translates poetry out of its original language, he or she

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betrays the poet and the poem through reproduction and alteration. The second suggests that when one translates poetry, he or she gives the poem new life by recreating the poem in a different language and employing poetic devices that work specifically in the new language. As a Spanish and English/creative writing double major, I designed this project to investigate the process and the art of poetry translation, while exploring how English and Spanish work together and deviate from one another, and acquiring a deeper understanding of creative expression in both languages. Also, through translating the work of various Spanish poets, I would be able to decide if I fell into the category of a “traidora” or a “creadora.”


Analyzing the Role of Biofilm in Mineral Weathering Using Scanning Electron MicroscopyDiscipline: Geology and Environmental SciencesPresenter: Kyle Greenberg ’13 | Mentor(s): Dr. Zsuzsanna Balogh-Brunstad Bacteria and fungi aid mineral weathering and nutrient uptake of plants. The role of biofilm in these processes is unknown. This study examines biotite and anorthite from the rhizosphere (root zone) of red pine that was grown in a growth chamber experiment at Washington State University. I focused on the interface of the biological components and the minerals. We hypothesized that 1) under limiting Ca and K conditions, thick biofilm cover develops to protect the mineral-fungus-bacteria interface and facilitate direct cation uptake from the minerals; 2) as Ca and K are made increasingly available in the input solutions, biofilm becomes thinner, patchy and less developed. The minerals were incubated for 1 and 3 months in treatments with varying Ca and K sources and with or without microbial components. Abiotic columns served as controls. The minerals were analyzed with helium ion microscopy and scanning electron microscopy coupled with energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy. Microscopy images show that after one month, bacterial colonization dominated the rhizosphere with few areas of fungal development. By the third month, abundant fungal hyphal cover of rhizospheric minerals developed in the treatments with low Ca and K concentrations. Bacteria are associated with fungal hyphae in some places, but do not form large biofilm colonies. Biofilm cover remained patchy through the three-month growth period in all treatments, but a slight decrease of cover was detected with increasing concentrations of Ca and K in the irrigation solutions. This indicates that biofilm is directly affected by Ca and K concentrations in input solutions, but minerals from later time points of this experiment need to be analyzed to support our hypotheses.


Changing Ecological Behaviors of Students in Residence Halls at Hartwick CollegeDiscipline: BiologyPresenter: Lauren Johengen ’15 | Mentor(s): Dr. Brian E. Hagenbuch As an on-campus resident, I have noticed several wasteful behaviors among students in residence halls: many leave faucets on as they brush their teeth, throw recyclables into the garbage, waste paper towels and leave lights on when not needed. In an effort to raise awareness about sustainable living practices, I identified specific behaviors in Smith Hall, designed and implemented community-based social marketing techniques (CBSMT) to change behaviors, and measured their effectiveness. I visited the bathroom three times a day to record instances of energy, water and/or paper waste. I also sent a survey out to the residents of Smith Hall to determine exactly

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what unsustainable behaviors the majority of residents practice. My campaign then focused on reducing energy consumption by turning off bathroom lights when not needed. I used CBSMTs such as prompts, posters, modeled behavior and a follow-up survey to raise awareness and change behaviors. I noticed significant changes in the frequency that the lights were on. Prior to implementing my campaign I observed the lights on when not needed 57% of the time. After applying CBSMTs, I observed that the lights were on when they were unnecessary 31% of the time. In addition, a comparison of data collected from the initial and follow-up surveys show that only 44.3% of people used to turn off the lights, whereas 80.0% turn off the lights after the study. It can be concluded that CBSMTs are successful in spreading awareness about campus sustainability and reducing college energy consumption.


The Antimicrobial Properties of SpicesDiscipline: BiologyPresenter: Elizabeth Kelly ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Mary E. Allen It has been hypothesized that spice use by humans evolved because it yields a health benefit; the antimicrobial properties of spices may cleanse food of microbes before it is eaten (Sherman et al., 2000). In laboratory tests, microbiologists and food-product developers have demonstrated that garlic, oregano, and allspice are among the best of 30 spices tested at inhibiting bacterial growth. This study tested the antimicrobial effects of the three spices using spectrophotometry to measure growth inhibition. Salmonella bacteria were grown in the presence and absence of the three spices at concentrations of .25 g of spice per 10 mL nutrient broth. Change in numbers of bacteria was measured with a spectrophotometer after 24 hours of growth. T-tests demonstrated that garlic had a significant inhibitory effect (p<.001) on the growth of Salmonella, as did oregano (p<.001). These results agree with other published studies that used different techniques than the one used for this study. In contrast, allspice appeared to improve the growth of Salmonella.

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Best Practices for Implementing Music Therapy in Patients with Alzheimer’s DiseaseDiscipline: NursingPresenter: Brittany Ladner ’12 | Mentor(s): Ms. Theresa Turick-Gibson, Dr. Penny Boyer, Ms. Cynthia L. PloutzAlzheimer’s disease has a negative, irreversible effect on the cognition of those who develop the disease. This impairment in cognition creates a greater risk for those who suffer from the disease to exhibit agitated behaviors. Agitated behaviors are known to have a negative impact on quality of life and can interfere with the quality of care given to the patient. Music therapy has been discussed in the literature as a way to reduce the agitation experienced by these individuals. There are many ways that music can be implemented into the lives of patients with Alzheimer’s disease, so it is important that the best ways are attained. The literature review found that the intervention of music therapy should be between twenty and thirty minutes; there are no known long-term benefits; music therapy should be personalized to the individual; staff should be oriented to the music therapy intervention, and; agitation levels should be assessed before, during, and after the intervention. The goal of this thesis is to determine the best practices for implementing music therapy in patients with Alzheimer’s disease. A research translation project is discussed as just one way to begin implementing these findings into practice.

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Searching for the God-headDiscipline: English and Theatre ArtsPresenter: Ashley Larsen ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Lisa Darien This poster presentation connects my research for my English thesis with my transcendental illustration, which represents the enchained society of man, who is restrained from searching his “inner garden” (biblical reference, the lost Garden of Eden) to find his inner “I,” the God-head within. I will also explain the related concept discussed in my senior thesis, titled “The All Seeing Eye and the Inner I; the Romantic Conceit of the God-head Within” which follows the historical arc of this concept starting with William Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey,” moving through an examination of Thomas Carlyle’s “Sartor Resartus” and finishing with Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Nature.”


The Outcomes of Implementing Early Outpatient Palliative Care in Older Adult Patients with Chronic Progressive DiseasesDiscipline: NursingPresenter: Alisha Lent ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Penny Boyer Palliative care is a relatively new concept in healthcare of which many healthcare professionals and patients are unaware. As the aging population increases, so will the number of people living with chronic progressive diseases. They may have questions and need guidance, support, and treatment to cope effectively. The goal of this thesis is to describe the effects of an outpatient palliative daycare center for those living with chronic progressive diseases. Ten research studies were analyzed and synthesized to discover the effects of outpatient palliative care on quality of life, as opposed to those that did not participate in a palliative care program. Two key informant interviews were conducted—one with a hospice nurse and the other with a palliative care physician. Research findings overall indicate that outpatient palliative care reduces pain and symptom intensity. Findings conclude that outpatient palliative care decreased pain, increased emotional wellbeing, and gave the sense of tremendous support from the clinics. The patient established friendships which generated peace of mind and comfort in a therapeutic environment. Outpatient palliative care programs are beneficial to patients and families living with chronic progressive diseases. They are cost-effective, can be easy to implement and provide support to those in need. A research translation project was designed based on the research findings. An outpatient palliative care program was theoretically developed and included plans for implementation.


The Wonders of Solitary WavesDiscipline: PhysicsPresenter: Khadijah Marks ’15 | Mentor(s): Dr. Lawrence Nienart The project will be displaying and demonstrating “solitons” or solitary waves. My academic advisor and I have built a tank to demonstrate solitary waves. There are two levels of water: on the bottom there is high salt content in the water, and on top there is less. There is also a wall that will be removed quickly to create the wave in the tank. If the calculations that we have made are right,

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we will be able to crash two solitary waves together. This project is based off the study of solitary waves in the ocean. Many times, it has been seen that a singular wave will be made under the surface of the water. The cause of this is the different salt content at different levels in the water.


What’s in a Name? How Language is Used to Silence WomenDiscipline: English and Theatre ArtsPresenter: Krista Marzano ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Susan J. Navarette | Co-presenter(s): Ryan McGovern ’13On February 23, 2012, a major controversy was sparked when Georgetown Law Student Sandra Fluke spoke at a meeting of the House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee regarding the issue of oral contraception (“the pill”) for women. Fluke stated “without insurance coverage, contraception can cost a woman over $3,000 during law school. For a lot of students who, like me, are on public interest scholarships, that’s practically an entire summer’s salary. Forty percent of female students at Georgetown Law report struggling financially as a result of this policy” (Stoll, The Wall Street Journal). On February 29, 2012, Rush Limbaugh, a conservative talk show host, degraded Fluke on his radio program. He called her a “slut” and categorized her as a prostitute because she was arguing that oral contraception should be covered under a woman’s health insurance. Limbaugh justified his use of the denigrating terms by claiming that women who request that contraception be covered by insurance companies are essentially asking to be “paid” to have sexual relations with men: hence, they are “prostitutes.” The notion that in 2012 a public figure could advance such a claim—and feel safe using such intimidating, assaultive language—is shocking. But, of course, women have long been subjected to degrading language and name calling, used in an attempt to keep them quiet. The Fluke-Limbaugh case has inspired us to research different situations in which “language” and “name calling” are used as a way to silence women. We will attempt to determine why, even as late as 2012, men think they have the right to degrade and belittle women publically, without fear of rebuke.


The Effectiveness of Massage in Adult Hospitalized Clients in ReducingPain and Promoting RecoveryDiscipline: NursingPresenter: Kyla Mininger ’12 | Mentor(s): Ms. Theresa Turick-Gibson, Dr. Penny Boyer What is the effectiveness of massage when used to promote recovery and pain relief in adult clients receiving care within the hospital setting? The purpose of this research is to determine the effectiveness of massage as an evidence-based practice that can and should be implemented by nurses. For the literature review, Internet databases were searched for nursing journals, complementary alternative medicine journals, massage therapy-based journals, advanced nursing journals, and those related to the subject. The databases used were Academic Search Premier found through EBSCOhost, Medline, ProQuest Direct & CINAHL. Criteria for inclusion in the literature review: articles whose subject population was at least 18 years of age, those published after 2005, studies in English, and literature written for either a medical, nursing, CAM, or massage therapy journal. Massage was found to be an effective intervention for multiple physical and emotional issues that clients in the hospital face. Nurses can give effective massages without a massage therapy certification. The evidence-based findings from my literature review help to

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answer separate pieces of my research question. Massage used in palliative care becomes both a physical pain reliever, comfort measure, and psychological symptom reliever. Findings relate massage as a way to connect caregivers and clients, and form lasting relationships. Massage is effective for those with orthopedic pain, those on palliative care with end-stage diseases, and for those with anxiety, depression, or other psychological issues.


Determining Relationships Between Two Granite Bodies using Chemical andOptical AnalysisDiscipline: Geology and Environmental SciencesPresenter: Hunter Morton ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. David H. Griffing, Dr. Eric L. Johnson The complex geologic history of Cape Ann, MA involves the emplacement of multiple types of granite, including the Cape Ann and Squam Granite bodies. However, these granites have not been accurately identified and mapped. The purposes of this study are to determine: 1) if the Squam Granite is genetically related to the surrounding Cape Ann Granite, and 2) the role of the Squam Granite in the regional development of the Cape Ann area, if any. Samples from the Cape Ann Granite and the Squam Granite were analyzed using optical microscopy and X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) to determine the mineralogy and chemistry of each sample. The chemistries were then compared to each other and to known values for various categories of granites. Preliminary results suggest that the Cape Ann and Squam Granites are not related and were formed independently.


Biofilm: a Transmission Electron Microscopy InvestigationDiscipline: Geology and Environmental SciencesPresenter: Sheila Niedziela ’13 | Mentor(s): Dr. Zsuzsanna Balogh-Brunstad While little is known about biofilm’s role in the rhizosphere, it is accepted that microbes and biofilm participate in nutrient uptake and enhance weathering rates. The goal of our study is to examine the characteristics of the fungus-biofilm-mineral interface under limitations of calcium and potassium using transmission electron microscopy (TEM). We hypothesized that tree-fungus-bacteria association increases biofilm formation under severe cation limitations that enhance mineral weathering rate and improve potassium and calcium retention and transport to trees. This was tested in samples from a growth column experiment that was conducted at Washington State University. After three months of growth, anorthite and biotite grains were collected from the rhizosphere of the 0% (no Ca/K added) treatment. An abiotic column was a control. Thin sections of each mineral were prepared using focused ion beam techniques, and analyzed with high resolution TEM coupled with energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy (EDS). Species diversity and abundance was also assessed among treatments with TEM using whole mount grids. Species diversity was highest in the 0% treatments, and the overall number of bacteria was highest in treatments without cation limitations. The presence of fungal hyphae was observed only with scanning electron microscopy. The chemical profiles generated by EDS under fungal hyphae and bacterial biofilm on the mineral thin sections show a slight depletion of base cations compared to the controls. These results suggest that Ca/K limitations promote species diversity and cation uptake directly from solid mineral phases. Additional work after six and nine months growth will help to further explore our hypothesis.

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1582-4 p.m. | Anderson Center for the Arts, First Floor Hallway Galleries Poster Presentation

A Photographer’s Approach to the Changed Lifestyles of Upstate New York through the Images of BarnsDiscipline: Art and Art HistoryPresenter: Michelle O’Dell ’14 | Mentor(s): Mr. Michael Forster Rothbart A sample of images from my honors challenge photo story. The project will illustrate, through images, the changing lifestyle of Upstate New York. Once a place where agriculture and farm lifestyle flourished has become a graveyard for skeletal barns. However, it will also highlight the hidden gems in Upstate New York that have managed to survive the years. I will be there to answer questions about my techniques, experiences, and opinion on the matter and about my photos in general.


Poster PresentationHI Deficiency Estimates in the AWM 3 Galaxy Cluster Discipline: PhysicsPresenter: Jaclyn Patterson ’13 | Mentor(s): Dr. Parker Troischt | Co-presenter(s): Nathan Nichols ’14The Undergraduate ALFALFA (Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA) Team Groups Project is a collaborative undertaking of faculty and students at 11 institutions aimed at investigating properties of galaxy groups surveyed by the ALFALFA blind HI survey. As part of this project, we examine HI deficiency in the region surrounding galaxy group AWM 3 using HI fluxes from ALFALFA and optical data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The galaxy group includes 165 galaxies, of which 66 have 21cm line detections. The HI deficiency calculations reported here are based on comparisons to a sample of 1,624 reference galaxies in low-density environments recently reported by other members of the ALFALFA team. Their sample is taken from the alpha.40 data release and has several advantages over previous HI samples, including a large number of high-quality detections and homogeneously measured HI fluxes. It provides a reliable set of reference galaxies for the HI deficiency calculations performed here. This work has been supported by NSF grants AST-0724918, AST-0725267 and AST-0725380.


The Use of Interpreters in Nursing and its Impact on the Quality of Care received by Latino PatientsDiscipline: NursingPresenter: Nevin Perez ’12 | Mentor(s): Ms. Theresa Turick-Gibson Many Latino patients primarily speak Spanish. Patients with limited English proficiency (LEP) often receive poor quality healthcare services. Little is known about the impact of the use of interpreters on the quality of care received by LEP Latino patients. A literature review was conducted to find the best research evidence. Ten research studies were analyzed to determine the current state of knowledge regarding the use of interpreters in nursing and its impact on the quality of care received by LEP Latino patients. Results of the review were incorporated with the themes from a narrative analysis of interviews conducted with two bilingual nurses who are often used as interpreters. Healthcare providers, including nurses and physicians, underestimate

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the complexity of interpretation work and the importance of having a qualified trained medical interpreter. Professionally-trained medical interpreters were associated with higher patient satisfaction levels and a higher quality of care. There is a lack of knowledge of how to properly use an interpreter, resulting in providing low levels of care to LEP Latino patients. Nurses, physicians, and interpreters need to be trained together so that they understand each other’s role and provide the best possible quality of care to LEP Latino patients. To address this issue, a grand rounds presentation led by a trained interpreter is described.


Oppositional Defiant Disorder and the Kazdin MethodDiscipline: NursingPresenter: Carly Ramos ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Penny Boyer, Dr. Jeanne P. Westcott ’66There are many different treatment options discussed in the literature for school-aged children with oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) resulting in confusion about which treatment methods are the most cost-effective, result in increased therapeutic change, and are consistent with patient and parent satisfaction. Kazdin of the Yale Parenting Center has created his own parent training treatment technique for parents hoping to decrease negative behaviors in children at home and at school. This thesis is an effort to answer the following research question: Is the Kazdin Method a more effective method of teaching parenting practices to parents of children with oppositional defiant disorder than other methods? Ten peer-reviewed articles gleaned from searching various databases were analyzed and critiqued to answer the research question. The research evidence suggests that parent training programs are the most effective treatment methods for children with oppositional defiant disorder. The Kazdin Method is the most effective parent training program because it results in patient satisfaction, increased therapeutic outcomes in children, and it is cost-effective. Participation in parent training programs is low due to the barriers parents experience during treatment. Nurses need to ensure participation in parent training programs. Nurses can increase parent participation in these programs by screening for and addressing barriers to treatment before the start of parent training programs.


The Effectiveness of Animal-Assisted Therapy in Individuals with Physical/Psychological ImpairmentsDiscipline: NursingPresenter: Jessica Shultz ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Penny Boyer, Dr. Jeanne P. Westcott ’66 Animal-Assisted Therapy (AAT) has been historically used as an effective holistic nursing intervention. Despite the safety and effectiveness of this therapy, it is not regularly used in patient care settings. Numerous research documents explore the effectiveness of AAT in various patient populations. It is well established that this therapy can be used for individuals with physical and/or psychosocial difficulties, but the characteristics which assist in the achievement of these outcomes have not been clearly identified. A literature review was conducted to more clearly establish the outcome characteristics of AAT that make the intervention therapeutic, and the amount of time and frequency of use that is necessary to achieve these outcomes. The findings suggest multiple themes. The outcome characteristics that most frequently contribute to the effectiveness of AAT included: increased sense of well-being, decreased sense of anxiety, a more therapeutic healing environment and an improved client-caregiver relationship. Based upon these findings, the use

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of AAT as a nursing intervention can promote a sense of well-being in both pediatric and adult patients. This research will be utilized to create a change in protocol in a pediatric hospital setting, in order to promote the safety and efficacy of AAT as a holistic pediatric nursing intervention.


Poster PresentationNursing Through the Medium of TheaterDiscipline: NursingPresenter: Molly Snelling ’14 | Mentor(s): Dr. Peggy O. Jenkins, Ms. Malissa A. Kano-White Additional Students: Kiara Goldwag ’14The goal of this project is to develop an interdisciplinary approach to teaching nursing students through the medium of theater. Theater students will act as patients in different scenarios, and nursing students will be expected to assess and intervene as appropriate for each case. The purpose behind the scenarios is to determine if the sophomore nursing students enrolled in NURS 234 Medical/Surgical Nursing I in the Fall of 2012 will have a change in their confidence and cognitive learning of the respiratory disorders. The sample will be approximately 50 sophomore students enrolled in NURS 234. Professor Jenkins and I have created five scenarios of patients who have respiratory disorders based on concepts taught in this course. Currently, many schools use high-fidelity simulation mannequins to teach nursing students to care for patients with specific symptoms. Mannequins are very helpful to learn skills; however, they have limited ability to teach students about communication. The plan is to have theater students create character sketches of the patients and then act in the role of the patient with the assigned disorder. Students will be expected to physically and psychosocially assess the patient to determine the respiratory issue and to initiate care for the identified problems. Depending on the case scenario, the actor will adapt to the path of the nursing student’s thinking. The ability of an actor to convey emotion, changes in facial expressions and communicate their problems provides an added advantage over the use of high-fidelity mannequins.


Evaluation of the Seasonal Eutrophication of the Lower Portion of Black Lake, New YorkDiscipline: Geology and Environmental SciencesPresenter: Ellyssa Tennant ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Zsuzsanna Balogh-Brunstad The lower portion of Black Lake, NY goes through eutrophication as the summer progresses. The lake is surrounded primarily by farms and small camps on the northern shore and by wetlands on the southern shore. Runoff from the nearby farms contains fertilizers, and small seasonal camps have poor septic systems that leak. The goal of my research project was to assess the water quality in the lower portions of Black Lake. I hypothesized that humans introduced excess nutrients, causing the lake to progress to a eutrophic state by end of the summer. Lake water samples were collected from eight locations by boat every other week during the summer of 2011. Standard field parameters were recorded on-site such as water temperature, dissolved oxygen, pH, electrical conductivity, and turbidity. Chloride, nitrate, sulfate, and phosphate concentrations were determined with ion chromatography, and potassium concentration was analyzed with inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectroscopy. As the months progressed, water temperature, pH, electrical conductivity and the amount of vegetation cover increased in the lake. Potassium, nitrate and phosphate concentrations stayed below detection limit, but chlorine and sulfate

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levels slightly increased over time. The results suggest that fertilizer inputs are insignificant, but the lake ecosystem is affected by the leaky septic systems that increase the sulfate and chloride concentrations. Overall, the eutrophication process of the lake is most likely the result of invasive plant species rather than the increased nutrient levels. Further research on the subject is necessary to investigate the cause of the seasonal eutrophication.


Study of a Third Grade Struggling Reader and her Change in Reading Achievement Over TimeDiscipline: EducationPresenter: Samuel Tollen ’13 | Mentor(s): Mr. F. Blake Tenore The purpose of this presentation is to describe my experiences tutoring a third-grade struggling reader. I completed this study as a requirement for Education 341, Developmental Literacy Skills. Every student is required to tutor a struggling reader and assess his or her strengths and needs through Miscue Analysis and observation. Through my initial assessments I determined that she was reading at the late second-grade level. My goal was to have her improve her reading as much as possible and, at minimum, have her reading independently at the third-grade level. To accomplish this, I met with her once a week for one hour and read two different books, one at the independent level and one at the instructional level. I documented the reader’s miscues during each session and analyzed them to determine exactly what types of miscues occurred. I used multiple assessment tools to track the progress she made in different aspects of reading, and I used the assessment data to inform my instructional choices. I hope to be able to show that the tutoring intervention has raised the reader’s achievement.

166 2-4 p.m. | Anderson Center for the Arts, First Floor Hallway GalleriesPoster Presentation

Barriers to Providing Family-Centered Care to Pediatric Oncology Patients andTheir FamiliesDiscipline: NursingPresenter: Stephanie Washburn ’12 | Mentor(s): Ms. Theresa Turick-Gibson Cancer is the number one cause of disease-related death among children and, though the incidence of cancer in children is still increasing, the number of childhood deaths due to cancer is declining. When a child is diagnosed with cancer, the family is turned upside down; the child and family are faced with sadness, anxiety and confusion. One specific factor that families struggle with during this time and throughout the child’s cancer course is their involvement in their child’s care. To determine why this is a struggle for parents and families, a review of the literature was conducted to find the best research evidence. Ten research studies were analyzed to determine the barriers of registered professional nurses providing family-centered care to pediatric oncology patients and their families. With the findings gathered through the literature review, registered professional nurses and other health care professionals will be better able to facilitate family-centered care to pediatric oncology patients and their families. Registered professional nurses will be more apt to tailor care specifically to the needs of the family and also to communicate more effectively with the family to identify their needs. Though more research is needed on the education of RNs and other healthcare professionals related to providing family-centered care, the current research is beneficial to proving that family-centered care is a significant part of pediatric oncology care.

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Promoting Growth and Development in Children and Adolescents with Congenital Heart DefectsDiscipline: NursingPresenter: Lauren Weed ’12 | Mentor(s): Ms. Theresa Turick-Gibson The heart is often referred to as the powerhouse of the human body. When the heart does not function properly, there are many complications that affect each organ system in the body. A congenital heart defect (CHD) is present at birth and unlike other heart diseases that can possibly be avoided with lifestyle modifications and drug therapy, CHD cannot. Nurses need to be aware of how to promote normal growth and development in children and adolescents to prevent further complications from CHD. A review of the literature was undertaken to discern the best strategies to achieve this. Results of the review were incorporated with themes from interviews done with two participants with congenital heart defects. The research revealed that there is a growth and developmental deficit in children and adolescents with CHD. These deficits range from motor and cognitive development to their self-concept and psychosocial support. Nurses need to identify these and use all levels of prevention to aid in lifestyle adjustments to support a healthy and normal life for these individuals. More research is needed on specific ways nurses can promote growth and development in these children. Nurses need to provide holistic care and education to their patients in an age-appropriate manner, as well as reference community services such as support groups available to patients with CHD. A research translation project was developed based on these findings. An educational workshop for nurses about ways to promote growth and development was developed.


Dynamical Mass Calculations for the WBL 509/AWM 3 Galaxy GroupDiscipline: PhysicsPresenter: Catherine Weigel ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Parker Troischt | Co-presenter(s): Jaclyn Patterson ’13, Nathan Nichols ’14The Undergraduate ALFALFA (Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA) Team Groups Project is a collaborative undertaking of faculty and students at 11 institutions, aimed at investigating properties of galaxy groups surveyed by the ALFALFA blind HI survey. The Hartwick College team is analyzing two 6x6 degree regions of the sky where galaxy groups WBL 368 and WBL 509/AWM 3 are centered. Dynamical masses were calculated for the two groups using four mass estimator methods: the Virial Theorem Mass Estimator, Projected Mass Estimator, Median Mass Estimator, and the Average Mass Estimator. Star Formation Rates (SFRs) are also being calculated for these galaxy groups, and a progress update will be given here. This work has been supported by NSF grants AST-0724918, AST-0725267 and AST-0725380.


Poster PresentationPersonality and Music Performance: The Interactive and Main Effects of Optimism and Audience Composition on Music Performance Anxiety Discipline: PsychologyPresenter: Lauren Wetzel ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Justin A. Wellman

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Our research assessed the role of optimism and observers on music performance anxiety in college-aged vocal students. The purpose of our research was to allow music educators to obtain knowledge about factors influencing a student’s music performance such that they could help students exhibit less performance anxiety and subsequently perform with greater confidence. Anxiety levels were evaluated while singing “The Star Spangled Banner” in two within-subject experimental conditions, whether an experimenter was present in the audience or not. Heart rate, visual signs, and self-evaluation measures including the Life Orientation Test, an unrealistic optimism questionnaire, the Musical Performance Anxiety Inventory, the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory and the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule were used to determine levels of anxiety and optimism in each participant.


Reducing Auditory Distractions for Students with Learning Disabilities:A Phenomenological StudyDiscipline: EducationPresenter: Abigail Wright ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Gregory W. Smith | Co-presenter(s): Jill Roth ’12Researchers in the fields of cognitive psychology and education have been studying the negative effects of noise on human performance for more than a century. A new qualitative inquiry (phenomenology) was conducted with students with learning disabilities that utilized noise-reducing headphones during an academic assessment. Twenty-one elementary students with learning disabilities were interviewed to offer the opportunity to describe their lived experience when wearing the noise-reducing headphones during an academic assessment.

1712-4 p.m. | Anderson Center for the Arts, First Floor Hallway Galleries Poster Presentation

Old Masters in a New Skin: Kathleen Gilje’s RestorationsDiscipline: Art and Art HistoryPresenter: Jami Zahemski ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Douglas R. Zullo Kathleen Gilje is an artist who takes the works of artists such as Ingres, Manet, Degas, and Thomas Eakins and copies or, to use her terminology, “restores” them to express her views on modern issues such as body modification, political movements, and current art history scholarship. Though some critics have accused her of “defiling” great works of art, a closer look at this series of paintings in their cultural contexts reveals layers of information and challenges the viewer to consider how replacing elements of previously existing works of art with contemporary visual references can result in a surprising and nuanced understanding of issues such as body modification, gender, and race.


From Genre to Genre: Using Electronic Music in the ClassroomDiscipline: Music EducationPresenter: Jessica Lane ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Diane Paige The purpose of this project is to explore aspects of different popular musical genres including those from the United States and around the world. As a means to explore these styles, I will create an electronic piece using “Garage Band” computer software, which contains musical genres such as salsa, rock, calypso, and bhangra. This composition will serve as an example of how music

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educators can use electronic works as a teaching tool. This presentation will include a discussion of selected musical genres and the strategies used to meld disparate styles into one cohesive musical composition.

1732:20-2:40 p.m. | Anderson Center for the Arts, Room 138 | Oral PresentationUnequal Education: How the Brown v. Board of Education Decision can be

Applied in Rural West VirginiaDiscipline: Political SciencePresenter: Rebecka Flynn ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Laurel E. Elder There are many cases of environmental injustice taking place in Appalachian Coal Country against the people of Appalachia by the coal industry. This presentation looks in-depth at one instance of possible environmental injustice: the case of Marsh Fork Elementary School located at the heart of Appalachian Coal Country, West Virginia. At this school, students attend class in a building located next to a coal processing plant and coal sludge dam and reservoir. Using the principles explained in Brown v. Board of Education, this paper analyzes whether or not the school has met its obligations to the children who attend the school. The paper focuses on whether having a coal processing plant and coal sludge dam and reservoir next to the school was a violation of the children’s rights set forth in that decision and whether the school district was obligated by these principles to give the students a new school, not located next to the coal processing plant and coal sludge dam and reservoir.

1742:20-2:40 p.m. | Anderson Center for the Arts, Room 207 | Oral PresentationRebound Effects with Hybrid Vehicles: A Contradiction

Discipline: EconomicsPresenter: Patrick Thompson ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Carlena K. Ficano The “green” movement toward a more energy-efficient economy, which gained momentum when the Obama Administration took office in January 2009, has prompted a multitude of policies to decrease foreign oil demand and domestic CO2 emissions. Vehicle fleet efficiency improvements are important, considering that 33% of U.S. CO2 emissions come from the transportation sector. The “Cash for Clunkers” policy implemented in the summer of 2009 reveals the government’s desire to curtail the presence of inefficient vehicles on American roads, and corporate advertisements demonstrate that fuel efficiency improvements are gaining importance in consumers’ purchasing decisions as motor vehicle companies flaunt improved fleet efficiency. Do these efforts actually provide the results we desire? Some skeptics believe that with greater fuel efficiency comes an incentive to consume more transportation, a concept known as the rebound effect. Specifically, as a car’s fuel efficiency improves, the owner may have an incentive to drive rather than walk or use public transportation, thereby increasing rather than decreasing total vehicle miles. This paper empirically tests for the presence or absence of a rebound effect by observing vehicle miles travelled for hybrid vehicles in comparison to other vehicles. To do this, I used the U.S. Department of Transportation’s 2009 National Household Travel Survey and instrumental variables and fixed effects techniques to model vehicle level miles travelled as a function of hybrid status and other individual and vehicle level covariates.


Connecting to Society: How Music Can Foster an Understanding of Emotion, Communications, and Social Rules in Students with Autism

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Discipline: Music EducationPresenter: Anna Carbone ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Ann M. Deisler My research considers the possibility that music has the potential to assist students with autism in learning communication skills. My first goal for this project was to present a review of research supporting my thesis. There has been extensive research on this topic, and much of it has shown music to be effective in reaching students with autism. Based on this literature review, I developed the hypothesis above, created lesson plans based on my research and carried out these plans with students. Successful communication skills can help autistic students function in society more effectively. Music can evoke emotions and serve as a means of communication, allowing autistic students to become better-functioning members of society. For these students, being able to function in society can lead to better opportunities for jobs and help them present themselves better to others. Therefore, I believe that music can be an effective tool in teaching communication skills to students with autism in order to help them contribute to society.

1762:40-3 p.m. | Anderson Center for the Arts, Room 138 | Oral PresentationTo Kill or Not to Kill? The Effectiveness of the Death Penalty

Discipline: Political SciencePresenter: Anthony Bonagura ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Laurel E. Elder Over the course of our country’s history, political scientists and the general population alike have argued over the morality of capital punishment. A key development in this debate was the Supreme Court case of Furman v. Georgia in 1972, in which the Supreme Court forced states to rewrite their capital punishment laws in order for them to abide by the eighth amendment of the Constitution. This ruling resulted in our country’s capital punishment laws significantly differing on a state-to-state basis. My research entails a cross-sectional analysis of the death penalty as a deterrent, using data from 2010. It is intended to be a continuation of work previously done in this field by updating it with more recent data. In my research, I also considered other variables that were not previously considered in other studies, such as the strictness of the state’s capital punishment laws and the strength of the state’s gun control laws. This research finds that the existence, as well as the use, of the death penalty does not produce lower murder rates. I will conclude by considering why some states continue to use the death penalty despite no statistical evidence that it acts as a deterrent.

1772:40-3 p.m. | Anderson Center for the Arts, Room 207 | Oral PresentationFaculty Salary and Compensation Study: An Econometric Analysis

Discipline: EconomicsPresenter: Danielle Freeland ’13 | Mentor(s): Dr. Carlena K. Ficano At all levels of education, there is concern over administrative bloat, whereby administrators represent a growing share of an educational institution’s total employment numbers and compensation spending. In this study, I use a panel dataset of all US four-year bachelor’s degree-granting colleges and universities, both private and public, over the period 2000 to 2010, to evaluate the extent of the problem in higher education and its development over time. The data include school-level characteristics (acceptance rate, graduation rates, religious affiliation, Carnegie classification, endowment level, number of major and minor offerings) as well as employment data (the number of faculty and staff and the level of salary and compensation they receive based on job category), allowing me to identify common attributes of those schools with the least and most administrative bloat. Using OLS regression techniques, I then examine factors associated with increasing reliance on administrative staff in colleges and universities.

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178u Freedman Prize winner2:45-3 p.m. | Anderson Center for the Arts, Room 209 | Classroom Presentation

Music Senior Symposium“You Say You Want a Revolution”: Integrating Music Education into Core CurriculumDiscipline: Music EducationPresenter: Lindsay Wynne ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Ann M. Deisler, Dr. Marc E. Shaw This is an oral presentation of a musical written about the Revolutionary War that incorporates the core standards from fourth grade social studies, English and music. There will be excerpts from the script and sound clips from the musical score. The presenter will discuss the process of writing the music and script, as well as why she feels integrating music and the other content areas is important. This musical was intended for a New York State fourth grade class, but can be used in any state grades three and up to learn about the Revolutionary War. This musical is an original work.


Creating Cultural Competency through Integrating the Filipino Kulingtang into the Music ClassroomDiscipline: Music EducationPresenter: Maria Chavez ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Diane Paige This project involves an overview of Filipino folk music, particularly the Maguindanaos Kulingtang ensemble and how it might be integrated into the secondary music classroom. After exploring the history of this ensemble, I will create a series of lesson plans that use this musical style and its instruments as a pedagogical approach. By bringing this Filipino style of music into the classroom, the music educator will be able to use it as a means to explore issues of race, class, and gender as well as to increase cultural awareness. This presentation will also include a short performance of Kulingtang.

1803-3:20 p.m. | Anderson Center for the Arts, Room 138 | Oral PresentationAl Jazeera: A Positive Addition to United States Media

Discipline: Political SciencePresenter: Eleanor Prisco ’13 | Mentor(s): Dr. Laurel E. Elder While enrolled in Media and Politics this past fall, I learned of ways in which a democracy could be affected, both positively and negatively, by different forms of media, as well as the coverage media provides for the population. As I have a strong interest in international relations, I started looking at the role international media sources held in the United States. As I examined this topic further, I came to the conclusion that an increase in the presence of foreign media would be a positive addition to the United States media environment; I focused this research on the media source Al Jazeera. In my presentation, I argue that many widely held negative beliefs about Al Jazeera are in fact unfounded, and that the inclusion of an Al Jazeera station in cable television news offerings would be a positive addition to the United States media landscape.

1813-3:20 p.m. | Anderson Center for the Arts, Room 207 | Oral PresentationOptimism, Goal Obstruction, and Task Performance in an Online Game

Discipline: PsychologyPresenter: Fawn Caplandies ’13 | Mentor(s): Dr. Justin A. Wellman | Co-presenter(s): Alexandria Billington ’13

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Task difficulty may differentially influence optimists’ and pessimists’ task performance. The presence of a goal obstruction may actually help optimists perform better. Our study examined the performance of undergraduate students using an online gaming interface in which they completed a virtual fishing task. Participants’ avatars in the experimental condition received virtual alcohol that impaired the avatar’s coordination and vision. As predicted, there was a positive relationship between optimism and performance, but only in the obstruction condition. Results in the present study highlight the importance of perceived obstacles in the performance of optimists. As expected, optimists actually performed best when their goal performance was obstructed or challenged in some way. This study is the first we are aware of that examined the task performance of optimists and pessimists in a virtual environment. As our society becomes increasingly technologically dependent and enmeshed in virtual communities, it is important to understand how these environments and factors within these environments may alter performance on various tasks.


The Dance of Death for Rock OrchestraDiscipline: MusicPresenter: Kyle May ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Jason L. Curley This presentation will offer an explanation of the compositional techniques I employed in writing a symphony for Rock Orchestra 2012. The presentation will explain how I combined both classical/counterpoint styles and rock music styles to write for a combination of the two ensembles. I will also address the difficulties I encountered while combining these two styles and recommend techniques which worked well for others who may be interested in undertaking a similar project. The purpose of this composition and subsequent presentation are to show the feasibility of combining classical and modern pop culture musical styles.

1833:20-3:40 p.m. | Anderson Center for the Arts, Room 138 | Oral PresentationYoung Adults’ Political Ideology and Identity: Who Really Holds the Key?

Discipline: Political SciencePresenter: Robert Ploth ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Matthew Voorhees The main focus of the project is to provide support for the life-long persistence model in relation to political ideology and identity among young adults. The life-long persistence model essentially states that what the young adult learns in his/her childhood is the foundation for his/her entire life. In order to obtain support, I performed a literature review of well-established authors who both support and discredit the life-long persistence model. I also created a survey through which I collected original data. My survey was broken into two parts. The first part focused strictly on the subject’s parents and their political identification and ideology along a range of key political issues. The second half of the survey is formatted the exact same way except the questions are strictly about the student. By doing it this way I was able to see if there is a correlation between how parents feel and how the student feels. Essentially it allowed me to support or discredit my thesis. After gathering all my data I was finally able to run cross tabulations to see if my hypothesis was supported. I found that in the end my hypothesis was supported when it came to ideology, but when it came to identity my hypothesis was not supported because the life-long persistence model did not hold true.

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184u Freedman Prize winner3:20-3:40 p.m. | Anderson Center for the Arts, Room 207 | Oral Presentation

The Effects of Homophobia on Eyewitness MemoryDiscipline: PsychologyPresenter: Victoria Halsted ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Katharine A. Blackwell People are notoriously bad witnesses to crimes. Previous research has focused on universal factors such as how individuals are asked questions, what causes false memories, how victims and eyewitnesses to a crime focus on weapons, and how all of these factors lead to inaccurate or misleading witness statements. Although science may be catching up to the way investigators process crimes, less research has been done on internal or unconscious biases that may factor into a witness’s recall of a crime. Biases against the victim could lead to a lessened perceived violence of the crime. This study investigates how homophobia may lead to lesser perception of violence in hate crimes.


We Are One: Motivating Students with Special Needs in the Music ClassroomDiscipline: MusicPresenter: Natalie Yambor ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Diane Paige The power of music to motivate and educate has been well documented. It is a powerful tool that educators can use to engage all students, regardless of ability. Students with special needs present particular challenges in the music classroom. I will explore several theories of motivation, the particular needs of students with special needs, and pedagogical approaches to teaching in the special needs music classroom. As a result of this study, I will present a series of recommendations for the music teacher that can be applied in the classroom.

1863:45-4 p.m. | Anderson Center for the Arts, Room 209 | Classroom PresentationMusic Senior Symposium

Popular Music Pedagogy: Fundamentals of Music Theory through Popular CultureDiscipline: Music EducationPresenter: Brittany Maquet-Lambert ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Ann M. Deisler A class of music theory through popular music culture is exactly what the students of today need. Yes, students should be given a chance to experience classical music, but on first glance, some students are not going to be enthralled by the works of Mozart or Beethoven. The music that students experience outside of the classroom is what they are interested in and is what teachers can use to teach the fundamentals of what they need to know. Students will be more apt to retain when teachers use music that is relative to their students’ everyday lives. Once a foundation is laid, bridges can be built from pop culture to the classical genre, and this bridge can be crossed as necessary to teach all values necessary to truly know the material and gain a true appreciation for the world of music.


The Music in You: Reviving Music in Urban SchoolsDiscipline: Music EducationPresenter: Kristina Allen ’12 | Mentor(s): Dr. Ann M. Deisler

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To many young students in urban schools, music class can be perceived as “boring” or a “waste of time.” The primary reason for this is that music lessons in urban classrooms are often not designed to cater to the students’ interests. As the students in urban school settings confront problems such as low socioeconomic status and family instability, it is necessary that lessons in school work engage the students in positive ways. This senior thesis project, inspired by the students at School #2, in the city of Troy, NY, is designed to provide urban elementary general music educators with a semester-long curriculum that connects students’ lives outside of the classroom with their lives inside. The goal of this curriculum is to meld musical concepts with the students’ interests, allowing the students to find a new interest in music. Two unit plans for students grades four through six, form the core of this curriculum, the first combining street drumming and rap techniques, with the second focusing on the students themselves, allowing self-expression through music. Students at School #2 will be taught a condensed version of one of these units, and video footage of the students’ musical compositions and reactions will be part of the presentation of this thesis. The overall intention of this project is to provide urban educators with resources for making music in their classrooms worthwhile and motivating for their students.

1888-9:30 p.m. | Bresee Hall, Lab Theatre | Theatrical ProductionSongs For A New World

Discipline: TheatrePresenter: Bianca Tubolino ’12 | Mentor(s): Ms. Malissa A. Kano-White, Dr. Jason L. Curley Co-presenter(s): Kristyn Knapp ’12This combined senior thesis production brings together students from the music and theatre programs to present the musical theatre production; Songs For A New World written by Jason Robert Brown. Set in a subway in New York City, each song weaves the different life experiences and perspectives of the show’s characters into a tapestry of story and song. Each song is musically distinctive and dramatically effective. Tubolino and Knapp served as co-artistic collaborators and directors for this unique musical theatre performance which is “neither musical play nor revue, [but] is closer to a theatrical song cycle”.

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Showcase Brochure 2012