Conference Schedule

8:30 - Registration Table Opens
Williams School Lobby

8:45 – 10:15 - Poster Session I
Elrod Commons Living Room

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Faculty Jurors: Dayo Abah, Chris Connors, Julie Woodzicka

Laura Adams - "Kinetics of the Hydrolysis of Bisacodyl"

Katherine Babcock - "Searching from the Top- Down: Attentional Changes associated with Aging"

Hans Carlson, Becky Clark - "Novel Chiral Ligand Studies in Asymmetric Catalysis"

Bethany Dannelly - "Individual Differences Associated with Non-Duchenne (False) Smiling"

Andrew Dewhurst, Ryan Coppersmith - "3D Survey and Analysis of Growth Strata Catalonian Coastal Ranges, Catalunya, Spain"

Meredith Donegan, Nick Schwartstein - "Valuation of the Mangrove Forest Ecosytem"

Tasia Fisher - "Ageism and Attitudes about Memory"

John Fitzpatrick - "Imaging Immiscible Polymer Blends"

Joseph Franzen - "Exploring Gender, Race and Socioeconomic Status Through Material Culture: An Analysis of 6 Residences at the Longdale Mining Complex"

Amanda Hughes, Tyler Hannah, Amy Bacastow - "Detailed Strain Analysis of a Large Exposure of the Antietam Formation, Southern Central Appalachains, Virginia"

Gavin Hart, Peter Miller, and L. E. Hurd - "Arthropod community succession: the influence of plant species richness on consumer trophic levels "

Julie Jackson - "The Effect of Paleoclimate Changes on the Dominance and Termination of Acropora cervicornis in Lago Enriquillo, Dominican Republic"

Nathan Jetter - "Salamander Movement Across Stream Barriers"

Amanda Lueders - "Presidential Foreign Policy (R.E. Lee Work)"

Jeffrey Lusk, Michael Whitecar, Emily Vander-Schaaf - "The Effect of Leptin on the Onset of Puberty in Diet-Restricted Rats"

Alexander Miltenberger - "Visualizations of Quantum Computation"

Michael Patterson - "Economic Impact of the Maury River"

Bibeka Shrestha, Yujia Song - "Foreign Responses to Hollywood"

Maryanne Simurda - "Serratia marcescens: Modes of Motility - Swimming, Swarmiing & Biofilm Formation"

Emily Vander-Schaaf, Jeffrey Lusk - "Immunotoxic destruction of catecholaminergic pathways disrupts the onset of puberty in the female rat"

10:30 – 12:00 - Breakout Room Session I: Reading Colloquia

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A Fragile Union: The Story of Louise Herreshoff - Williams 323
Discussion Leader: Holly Bailey

Colossus: The Price of America's Empire - Elrod Commons 116
Discussion Leader: Imran Naeemullah

Moneyball - Elrod Commons 214
Discussion Leader: Scott Sundby

Our Guys: The Glen Ridge Rape and the Secret Life of the Perfect Suburb - Williams 321
Discussion Leader: Alicia Martin

The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antartic Expedition - Williams 220
Discussion Leader: James R. Hart

The Future and Its Enemies - Elrod Commons 216
Discussion Leader: Allison Jetton

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down - Elrod Commons 206
Discussion Leader: Doug Cumming

The Two Cultures - Elrod Commons 114
Discussion Leader: Simon Levy

The Working Poor - Williams 324
Discussion Leader: Stacy McLoughlin

12:15 – 2:00 - Lunch and Keynote Speech
Evans Dining Hall

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2:15 – 3:30 - Breakout Room Session II: Panel Presentations

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Surprising Triumphs: Achieving Power from Humble Beginnings - Williams 221
Benjamin Hicks - "Judaea Capta et Vespasianus Imperator: The Jewish War and Vespasian’s Rise to Power"
Patrick Hastings - "Sylvia Beach, Shakespeare and Company, and the Epic of Modernism"
Faculty Juror: Teresa Herrera, Rod Smith

Identity Crises: Law, Genocide, and Post-Colonialism - Williams 230
Robyn Konkel - "Informing the Uninformed: People with Developmental Disabilities and the Legal System"
George Lozowski - "Conflicts of Cultural Identity in Confiant's _Mamzelle Libellule_"
Alexandra Schaerrer - "The loss of Identity through Genocide"
Faculty Jurors: Laura Galke, Kathleen Schowalter

Tragedy, Martyrdom, and the Death of Hope? - Williams 235
Amanda Lueders - "Violence as Creation: Anthropological Insights from a Historical Martyrdom"
Katherine Babcock - "Female Death in Greek Tragedy"
Liane Carlson - ""Plenty of hope but none for us": Lolita and the Death of Progress"
Faculty Juror: Ellen Mayock

Tradition and Reform: Perspectives on China and Turkey - Williams 301
Lain Wilson - "Ogier Busbecq's Perceptions of Ottoman Society in the Sixteenth Century"
Matthew Godfrey - "The Development of Tea Infusion in China and Its Export Throughout the World"
Susanna Hsing - "Xinhua Village: Lives of Silver, Family, and Fulfillment - A STudy of the Silvermiths in Heqing County's Xinhua Village"
Faculty Juror: Timothy Diette

Law and Order: Protecting Society, its Borders, and Children - Williams 321
Trey Hart - "The Challenges Facing the United States Coast Guard"
Kasee  Sparks - "Struggling in the “New South” – Juveniles and Poverty in Geneva County"
G.J. Corey Harmon - "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: The Effects of the Mafia on Russian Society"
Faculty Jurors: Leslie Cintron, Linda Hooks

Telling the Stories: Strategies of Expression and Repression - Williams 323
Kristin Collins - "A Telling of Telling: An Analysis of Patricia Weaver Francisco's Memoir of Rape and Recovery"
Page  Thomas - "Stuffed with Activity; Hollowed by Inactivity: The Crisis of Expression in T.S, Eliot's "The Hollow Men""
Susan Somers - "Feminsm and Equality"
Faculty Jurors: David Novack, Lad Sessions

Gender Myths Inspiring Exhaultation and Degradation - Williams 327
Matthew Miller - "Apollo and The Iliad: From Foreign God to Hellenic Archetype in the Hands of Homer"
Emma Burris - "'You put your foot on the tender buds': An Exploration of Domestic Abuse and Society's Role in its Perpetration"
Annie Rochfort - "Picture Perfect: The Gendered Role of Females During the Renaissance"
Faculty Jurors: Wendy Orrison, Lesley Wheeler

3:00 – 4:00 - Book Signing
Bookstore

3:30 – 4:45 - Poster Session II
Elrod Commons Living Room

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Faculty Jurors: Elizabeth Cox, Lisa Greer, John Knox

Mustafa Alpman - "An Investigation of Course Management Software Log Files: Analysis Techniques, Patterns in Student Usage, and The Relationship to Performance Outcomes "

Michael Baracco - "Experimental Synchronization of Chaos in Diode Lasers with Polarization-rotated Feedback and Injection"

Michelle Chastain, Allyson Selby - "GREATER SUPERFICIAL PETROSAL TASTE NERVE TERMINAL FIELD IN HAMSTER"

Johnathan Coleman, Jessica Lloyd, Jared Meyer, Matthew Reilley - "Synthesis and Characterization of Polyamide Macrocyclic Ligands and Their Iron Complexes"

Whitney Doss - "Timing and Paleoclimate Significance of Serpulid Worm Tube Aggregates in the Dominican Republic"

Jessica Good, Lylan Crites - "Hidden Curriculum: The Effects of Stereotypical and Counter-stereotypical Textbook Images on Stereotype Threat"

Blake Hastings - "An Analysis of the Organizational Vision of the Corcoran Gallery of Art"

Walter Hoyt - "Fine-Structured Cocontinuous Polymer Blends"

Claiborne Irby - "The Calculation of a Weak Quantum Orbit"

Andrew Manett - "Differential Scanning Calorimetry / Copolymer Blends"

Steven Martinenza - "Why the Fake Smile? Awareness and Perceptions of Smiling as a Function of Interpersonal Power"

Christopher McNamara - "The Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues"

Lisa Miller - "THE PETROLOGY OF CENOZOIC ALKALIC IGNEOUS ROCKS: AN EXAMINATION OF THE LITHOSPHERIC MANTLE SOURCE FROM THE HYPOTHESIZED WESTERN EDGE OF THE NORTH AMERICAN LITHOSPHERIC KEEL "

Yo Miura - "Determining the Equilibrium Constant of NO2 and N2O4 using CRAS"

Clint Oakley, Brian Fishero - "Biodiversity and Tri-trophic Interactions in an Assembling Ecosystem"

Nana Ohene-Baah - "Predicting Defibrillation Success in the Virtual Rabbit Heart"

Zahra Parker - "Analysis of the DSRBDs of the Dosage Compensation Protein MLE in Transgenic Drosophila melanogaster"

Laura Pontier - "Spring monitoring in Rockbridge County, Virginia"

Priscilla Powell - "Water water everywhere... but not a drop to spare"

Jessica Remmert - "Structure and Properties of Immiscible Polymer Blends"

Lauren Rowe, Julianne Shelley, Kelly Jo Larsen, Professor Ted DeLaney - "Desegregation in Western Virginia"

Kierstin Schmidt - "In Search of Precision: A Fluid Dynamics Analysis of and Approach to a CRDS System "

Norman Senior - "Do borders disrupt market arbitrage?"

Jitendra Shrestha, Peter Djalaliev - "Parallelizing a Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithm on a Beowulf Parallel Cluster"

John Tsoukalis - "The Effect of the European Union on Bilateral Trade: The Case of the UK"

Jill Waity - "Foodways and Culture: Conclusions Based on Faunal Bone Analysis at Longdale Furnace "

Laura Westerman - "Knowing Your Nose: Finding a Respiratory Index of Odor Hedonics"

4:00 – 5:30 - Breakout Room Session III: Reading Colloquia

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Brave New World - Elrod Commons 116
Discussion Leader: Frederick Townes

BULL! - Elrod Commons 206
Discussion Leader: Derek Colla

Einstein's Dreams - Williams 323
Discussion Leader: Tom Williams

Godel, Escher, Bach - Williams 321
Discussion Leader: John Bovay

Life of Pi - Elrod Commons 214
Discussion Leader: James Dick

October - Elrod Commons 216
Discussion Leader: Lesley  Wheeler

Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron - Elrod Commons 114
Discussion Leader: William James

The Da Vinci Code - Williams 220
Discussion Leader: Laura Turner

The Silmarillion - Williams 324
Discussion Leader: Marc Conner