Stander Symposium abstract book - University of Dayton

You Are Never Too Old To Learn
Presenter(s): Erich R Beyer
Advisor(s): Lori G Phillips-Young, Margaret M Strain
English - Independent Research
POSTER SESSION 2
The Sophomore Social Justice Learning and Living (SSJLLC) cohort has a twofold mission. The first is based on the Marianist principles of educating
the person as a whole by integrating education with leadership and service. The program mission is to improve literacy in the Miami Valley and
participating in activities that advance the cause of social justice. This year Project READ partnered with the SSJLLC and trained the sophomore
cohort to tutor reading to students in grades K-8, young adults, and the not-so-young adults. I was assigned a 60-year old man who is studying
to pass his GED. It was very interesting to tutor someone so much older than I and from such a different background than mine. Despite our age
difference, we still connected and were able to relax around each other and learn from one another. The majority of the time I helped him with his
reading comprehension, but I also helped him with his basic mathematics skills. This tutoring experience and our relationship has influenced my
thinking on the importance of education in this country and how important and necessary it is to increase education opportunities for everyone
regardless of geography, upbringing, or age. He showed me that no matter where we come from we all deserve the same amount of respect.
Tutoring this man really heightened my awareness and importance of our Marianist values of lead, learn, and serve.
Eamon de Valera and the Rise of Fianna Fail
Presenter(s): Andrew W Carter
Advisor(s): Julius A Amin
History - Course Project, 12_SP_HST_486_P1
The early 1900’s in Irish History was a time of great change. Eamon de Valera was the center to much of that change. With his insight and leadership,
the idea of a self governing nation was becoming a reality. Leaving the political party SInn Fein, de Valera decided it was time for a new voice.
This sparked the creation of the political party Fianna Fail and began a movement that has been prominent in Ireland since its creation.
Comparison of Numerical Methods for Analysis of the Diffusion of Soluble Proteins
Through Sensory Cilia
Presenter(s): Nicholas D Haynes
Advisor(s): Muhammad Usman
Mathematics - Course Project, 11_FA_MTH_555_01
A recent paper in the Journal of General Physiology disproved the hypothesis that the ciliary axoneme and the basal bodies of cilia impose selective
barriers to the movement of proteins into and out of the the cilium using a combination of numerical modeling and observation with confocal
and multiphoton microscopy. We compare the accuracy and computational efficiency of the numerical method used in the paper, known as the
method of lines, to another method, known as sinc collocation, and discuss the possible use of other methods for improving the algorithm.
Infectious Disease Mathematical Modeling of the 2001 Foot and Mouth Outbreak
Presenter(s): Michael W Ciesa
Advisor(s): Muhammad Usman
Mathematics - Course Project, 12_SP_MTH_445_01
This project is a mathematical analysis and computational study of the 2001 foot and mouth epidemic in the UK. This model includes an application
of the SIR model, developed by W. O. Kermack and A. G. McKendrick, with two additional factors: vaccination and incubation period infectives.
The incubation period infectives represent the population of individuals infected with the disease that do not show symptoms, but still have the
possibility of infecting other individuals.
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