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1 1 t h a n n u a l A p r i l 7 - 8 , 2 0 0 8<br />
steven galovich memorial<br />
student symposium<br />
Artwork by Kamil Madjeski ’10
To the <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Forest</strong> <strong>College</strong> Community:<br />
I am delighted to welcome you to the spring Student Symposium. This annual event is a<br />
highlight of the academic year at <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Forest</strong> <strong>College</strong> and illustrates the breadth and depth<br />
of our intellectual community. Students from every academic discipline present the fruits<br />
of many hours of research and scholarship to audiences of their peers and mentors in an<br />
inspiring display of talent.<br />
This year’s presentations will feature a YouTube debate on the liberal arts, an impressive art<br />
exhibit, dramatic performances, a panel on nuclear power, studies on National Public Radio<br />
and on the molecular basis of Parkinson’s Disease, and still other panel discussions and<br />
individual presentations. A culminating event will highlight the excellent work of selected<br />
students in a classical academic celebration.<br />
I eagerly look forward to this year’s presentations and to seeing you in the audience.<br />
Stephen D. Schutt<br />
President<br />
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Steven P. Galovich<br />
1945 – 2006<br />
A little more than a decade ago, Dean of Faculty, Provost, and Professor of Mathematics<br />
Steven P. Galovich proposed an idea that would highlight his passion for the academic work<br />
of students. He believed that <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Forest</strong> <strong>College</strong> should devote a day during the academic<br />
year to showcase students and their research. He was so committed to the idea that he<br />
recommended the cancellation of classes so students could freely attend and participate in<br />
all the events.<br />
The First Annual Student Symposium was held April 7, 1998. Nearly 1,000 members<br />
of the <strong>College</strong> community attended 118 student presentations, poster sessions, music<br />
concerts, and other events throughout the day and evening. Never one to stay in his<br />
office, a beaming Dean Galovich made a point to go to as many sessions as possible.<br />
Ten years later the Student Symposium — which has since stretched to two days to<br />
accommodate growing interest and participation — is stronger than ever. This year, more<br />
than 350 students and campus groups will present, perform, demonstrate, and share their<br />
scholarship with the <strong>College</strong> community.<br />
While he would have never taken credit for the idea, Steven Galovich’s mark on this event<br />
is undeniable. When he died unexpectedly in December, <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Forest</strong> <strong>College</strong> decided to<br />
honor his legacy by renaming an occasion that has become an integral part of the <strong>College</strong>.<br />
We dedicate the 10th Annual Steven Galovich Memorial Student Symposium for his<br />
contributions to academic discourse and his commitment to celebrating student research.<br />
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11 th Annual<br />
Ste ven Galovich Memorial<br />
Student Symposium<br />
April 7-8, 2008<br />
April 7<br />
4 p.m.<br />
Student Art Exhibit with Gallery Talks and Reception<br />
Hugo L. Sonnenschein & Albright Art Galleries, Durand Art Institute<br />
Deerpath Gallery, Deerpath Hall<br />
7 p.m.<br />
<strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Forest</strong> <strong>College</strong> – YouTube Debate<br />
“Why Value your Liberal Arts Education?”<br />
Mohr Student Center<br />
Reception presented by Office of Student Affairs<br />
LAKE FOREST COLLEGE<br />
YOUTUBE★<br />
DEBATES<br />
1 1 t h a n n u a l A p r i l 7 - 8 , 2 0 0 8<br />
steven galovich memorial<br />
student symposium<br />
O P E N I N G E V E N T<br />
What Will YOU ASK THEM? Now It’s Your Turn!<br />
Come and Find Out Whose Questions Were Chosen<br />
Ask Your Own Questions of the Panel<br />
Hear Your Student Representatives’ Questions and<br />
Opinions<br />
Student Panel: Patrick Casten ’09, Noah Dion ’10,<br />
Tracy Schwartz ’10, Sarah “CeCi” Jones ’08, Justin<br />
Messmore ’10<br />
<strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Forest</strong> <strong>College</strong> Faculty and Staff Panel: President Stephen Schutt, Dean of Faculty and Professor of<br />
Philosophy Janet McCracken, Associate Dean and Professor of Mathematics DeJuran Richardson, Associate<br />
Professor of Politics Siobhan Moroney, Dean of Students Beth Tyler, Professor of History Dan LeMahieu<br />
Moderator: Assistant Professor of Communication Linda Horwitz<br />
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April 8<br />
10 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.<br />
Student Symposium<br />
Presentations on Middle Campus<br />
3:30 – 4 p.m.<br />
Jazz Ensemble and Ice Cream Social<br />
Mohr Stage and Mohr Café<br />
4:15 – 5:45 p.m.<br />
Symposium: A Convivial Gathering of the Educated<br />
Lily Reid Holt Memorial Chapel<br />
Presented by Students Educating Students<br />
Ben Simpson ’08, Physics<br />
Great Falls, Montana<br />
Shake It Up, Pat It Down: The<br />
Science of Granular Compaction<br />
under Pressure<br />
Sara Woodbury ’08, Art<br />
Wells, Maine<br />
Father Nature: Authority,<br />
Obedience, and the Animal Stories<br />
in the Saint Francis Altar<br />
Kathleen Austin ’08,<br />
Sociology and Anthropology,<br />
Politics<br />
Crossing the Border of Reality:<br />
Folk Monsters in the Everyday<br />
Lives of Mexican Immigrants in<br />
the United States<br />
Mithaq Vahedi ’08, Biology,<br />
Chemistry<br />
New Delhi, India<br />
All Chromosomes Come Down to<br />
the Ends: Measuring Telomere<br />
Length in the Fungus Aspergillus<br />
nidulans<br />
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S t e v e n G a l o v i c h M e m o r i a l<br />
S t u d e n t S y m p o s i u m<br />
D o n n e l l e y a n d L e e L i b r a r y F i r s t F l o o r L o b b y<br />
9 : 3 0 - 3 : 3 0 W e l c o m e C e n t e r<br />
Donnelly and Lee<br />
Library Room 203<br />
Donnelly and Lee<br />
Library Room 205<br />
Donnelly and Lee<br />
Library Room 211<br />
Donnelly and Lee<br />
Library Room 221<br />
Hotchkiss Hall 101 Meyer Auditorium Johnson 100 Johnson 200<br />
10:00<br />
10:15<br />
10:30<br />
10:45<br />
11:00<br />
Poverty and<br />
Healthcare<br />
in Developing<br />
Countries<br />
10:00 - 11:20<br />
International<br />
Relations<br />
in Theory<br />
and Practice<br />
10:00 - 11:00<br />
Philosophical<br />
Ponderings<br />
10:00 - 11:20<br />
The Americas:<br />
Politics,<br />
Economics,<br />
Culture,<br />
and Identity<br />
10:00 - 11:40<br />
Studying Nature:<br />
Evolution and<br />
Ecology<br />
10:00 - 11:20<br />
Molecular Insights<br />
in Biology<br />
10:00 - 12:00<br />
The Inner<br />
Person<br />
10:00 - 11:20<br />
Corporate Values<br />
and Ethics<br />
10:00 - 11:00<br />
11:15<br />
11:30<br />
11:45<br />
12:00<br />
Language,<br />
Dialect. and<br />
Intercultural<br />
Dialogue<br />
11:30 - 12:10<br />
Contemporary<br />
European<br />
Politics<br />
and History<br />
11:30 - 12:10<br />
The Physical World<br />
11:30 - 12:10<br />
Women’s Roles<br />
11:30 - 12:30<br />
The Evolution<br />
of the<br />
<strong>College</strong>’s Values<br />
11:30 - 12:20<br />
12:15<br />
12:30<br />
12:45<br />
1:00<br />
1:15<br />
1:30<br />
1:45<br />
2:00<br />
On Rhetoric<br />
1:10 - 2:30<br />
Terrorism<br />
and Political<br />
Violence<br />
1:10 - 2:10<br />
On the Nature<br />
of Mathematics<br />
1:10 - 1:50<br />
Topics in<br />
Development<br />
Studies<br />
1:10 - 2:30<br />
Immigration<br />
and Diversity<br />
1:10 - 2:30<br />
Biology of<br />
the Organism<br />
1:10 - 2:50<br />
Family and<br />
Society<br />
1:10 - 2:10<br />
Preparing for<br />
Performance<br />
1:10 - 2:30<br />
2:15<br />
2:30<br />
2:45<br />
3:00<br />
3:15<br />
New Insights<br />
on the Media<br />
2:30 - 3:30<br />
Asia on the<br />
World Stage<br />
2:30 - 3:30<br />
Back to<br />
the Future<br />
with Nuclear<br />
Power?<br />
2:40 - 3:20<br />
Issues in Middle<br />
East Politics<br />
and Economics<br />
2:40 - 3:40<br />
Approaches<br />
to Education<br />
2:30 - 3:30<br />
Sound and Vision<br />
2:40 - 3:20<br />
3:30<br />
3:45<br />
L i ly R e i d H o lt M e m o r i a l C h a p e l<br />
4 : 1 5 - 5 : 4 5 C l o s i n g E v e n t – S Y M P O S I U M : A C O N V i v i a l g a t h e r i n g o f t h e e d u c a t e d<br />
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S t e v e n G a l o v i c h M e m o r i a l<br />
S t u d e n t S y m p o s i u m<br />
D o n n e l l e y a n d L e e L i b r a r y F i r s t F l o o r L o b b y<br />
9 : 3 0 - 3 : 3 0 W e l c o m e C e n t e r<br />
Calvin Durand Hall<br />
Pierson Rooms<br />
A, B, C<br />
Johnson 300<br />
Mohr Skybox<br />
Mohr Hallway<br />
Outside<br />
Mohr Skybox<br />
Mohr Stage<br />
and Café<br />
10:00<br />
10:15<br />
10:30<br />
Prose, Poetry,<br />
and Shakespeare<br />
10:00 - 11:00<br />
10:45<br />
11:00<br />
Study Abroad<br />
Experiences<br />
10:00 - 12:00<br />
Poster<br />
Presentations<br />
10:00 - 12:00<br />
11:15<br />
11:30<br />
11:45<br />
12:00<br />
12:15<br />
Writing Club:<br />
Poetry Workshop<br />
11:30 - 12:30<br />
SAACS Chemistry<br />
Demonstration<br />
11:30 - 12:20<br />
Dramaturgy<br />
in Action<br />
11:30 - 12:30<br />
Tri-Beta<br />
Biology Exhibit<br />
11:00 - 1:00<br />
Dance<br />
Performance<br />
12:00 - 12:30<br />
12:30<br />
12:45<br />
Aikido<br />
Demonstration<br />
12:30 - 1:00<br />
1:00<br />
1:15<br />
1:30<br />
1:45<br />
2:00<br />
2:15<br />
The Visual Arts<br />
in Context<br />
1:10 - 2:50<br />
Poster<br />
Presentations<br />
1:10 - 3:10<br />
2:30<br />
2:45<br />
3:00<br />
3:15<br />
3:30<br />
3:45<br />
Jazz Ensemble<br />
and<br />
Ice Cream Social<br />
3:30 - 4:00<br />
L i ly R e i d H o lt M e m o r i a l C h a p e l<br />
4 : 1 5 - 5 : 4 5 C l o s i n g E v e n t – S Y M P O S I U M : A C O N V i v i a l g a t h e r i n g o f t h e e d u c a t e d<br />
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STEVEN GALOVICH MEMORIAL <strong>STUDENT</strong> <strong>SYMPOSIUM</strong><br />
Monday, April 7<br />
OPENING EVENTS<br />
4:00-5:30 Student Art Exhibit with Gallery Talks and<br />
Reception<br />
Sonnenschein, Albright, and Deerpath Art Galleries<br />
Durand Art Institute and Deerpath Hall<br />
Moderators: Beckie Goldberg, Martina Nehrling,<br />
Ann Roberts<br />
7:00-8:30 <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Forest</strong> <strong>College</strong> – YouTube Debate<br />
Why Value your Liberal Arts Education?<br />
Mohr Student Center<br />
Moderator: Professor Linda Horwitz<br />
Reception presented by Office of Student Affairs<br />
Tuesday, April 9, 9:30-3:30<br />
Welcome Center, Donnelley and Lee Library First Floor Lobby<br />
ORAL PRESENTATIONS<br />
First Morning Session (Panels starting at 10 a.m.)<br />
Donnelley and Lee Library Room 203<br />
Panel 1<br />
Moderator:<br />
Poverty and Healthcare in Developing Countries<br />
Professor Holly Swyers<br />
10:00-10:20 Kylie McGonigal<br />
A Weberian Understanding of the Institutionalization<br />
and Rationalization of Ghanaian Healthcare<br />
10:20-10:40 Karen Cone<br />
Hope for Haiti: A Survey of Developmental Solutions for<br />
the Impoverished Nation<br />
10:40-11:00 Lavinia Sinitean<br />
Iodine Status in Individuals from a Rural and Urban<br />
Area in Bolivia<br />
Donnelley and Lee Library Room 211<br />
Panel 3<br />
Moderator:<br />
Philosophical Ponderings<br />
Professor Ron Miller<br />
10:00-10:20 Jessica Ferrell<br />
Retribution and Respect: The Purpose of Punishment<br />
10:20-10:40 Eric Murphy<br />
“It ain’t all in the head!”<br />
10:40-11:00 Austin Stewart<br />
William James: An Argument for Religion’s Legitimacy<br />
11:00-11:20 Evan Bell<br />
Ethical Self-Consciousness and the Public: How Should<br />
We Act?<br />
Donnelley and Lee Library Room 221<br />
Panel 4<br />
Moderator:<br />
The Americas: Politics, Economics, Culture,<br />
and Identity<br />
Professor Amanda Felkey<br />
10:00-10:20 Kimberly Braden<br />
Costa Rica and the CAFTA-DR<br />
10:20-10:40 Patrick Nicholas<br />
El Supermercado Muy Grande: The Economic Impact of<br />
Wal-Mart in the United States and Mexico<br />
10:40-11:00 Laney Shaler<br />
Labor Migration and Policy Responses: The EU<br />
and NAFTA<br />
11:00-11:20 Kathleen Austin<br />
Duendes, Monitos, and Fantasmas: How the U.S.-<br />
Mexico Border Affects Cultural Perceptions of Reality<br />
11:20-11:40 Wendy Brinker<br />
Who is Latin America?<br />
Hotchkiss Hall 101<br />
11:00-11:20 Kelebogile Tlhokwane<br />
Could This Evil be Necessary? Child Labor in India<br />
Panel 5<br />
Moderator:<br />
Studying Nature: Evolution and Ecology<br />
Professor Anne Houde<br />
Donnelley and Lee Library Room 205<br />
Panel 2<br />
Moderator:<br />
International Relations in Theory and Practice<br />
Professor James Marquardt<br />
10:00-10:20 Alexandra David<br />
Kant’s Illiberal Liberalism and U.S. Democracy<br />
Promotion Policy: The Case of Iraq<br />
10:20-10:40 Carolyn Lowry<br />
Applications of Prospect Theory to International Relations<br />
10:40-11:00 Samantha Yozze<br />
Water Wars<br />
10:00-10:40 Margaret Bower<br />
Michael Feng<br />
Jeffrey Fox<br />
Elisa Luna<br />
David Piper<br />
Daniel Reiter<br />
Tasneem Salawaya<br />
Lorraine Scanlon<br />
The Origin of Species: Evidence from Nature<br />
10:40-11:00 Terese (Beth) Noe<br />
Age-dependent Stopover Ecology of Male American<br />
Redstarts during Spring Migration<br />
11:00-11:20 Jacqueline Fiala<br />
Divergent Spring Migration Fueling Strategies in North<br />
American Songbirds<br />
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Meyer Auditorium<br />
Panel 6<br />
Moderator:<br />
Molecular Insights in Biology<br />
Professor Shubhik DebBurman<br />
10:00-10:20 Michael Fiske<br />
Insight into Parkinson’s Disease: Is Alpha-Synuclein’s<br />
76th Amino Acid an Aggregate Inducer and Fat Lover?<br />
10:20-10:40 Mithaq Vahedi<br />
A Novel PCR Assay for Determining Telomere Length<br />
10:40-11:00 Lokesh Kukreja<br />
Insight into Parkinson’s Disease: Does Alpha-Synuclein<br />
Binding to Phospholipids Regulate its Toxicity?<br />
11:00-11:20 Ayala Alexandra<br />
Insight into Parkinson’s Disease: Unraveling the<br />
Complexity of Degrading Alpha-Synuclein<br />
11:20-11:40 Andrew Ferrier<br />
Mutagenesis Screen In C. elegans Suggests Role of Mor<br />
Genes in Pharyngeal Development<br />
11:40-12:00 Stephanie Valtierra<br />
Insight into Parkinson’s Disease: Properties of the Newly<br />
Discovered Mutant E46K Alpha-Synuclein<br />
Johnson 100<br />
Panel 7<br />
Moderator:<br />
The Inner Person<br />
Professor Naomi Wentworth<br />
10:00-10:20 Vernard Lockhart<br />
The Time of Our Lives<br />
10:20-10:40 Joseph Figliulo<br />
“What Kind of Men are These Good Men?”: Inquisition,<br />
Society and Dissent in Southern France, 1300-1325<br />
10:40-11:00 Caroline Fitz<br />
The Cognitive Costs of Suppressing One’s Thoughts:<br />
Emotion Regulation and the Ability to Delay<br />
Gratification<br />
11:00-11:20 André Meeks<br />
Beyond Personal Identity: An Inquiry Concerning<br />
Socially Mediated Individuality<br />
Johnson 200<br />
Panel 8<br />
Moderator:<br />
Corporate Values and Ethics<br />
Professor Jeff Sundberg<br />
10:00-10:20 Katya Balykina<br />
Ugly in Pink<br />
10:20-10:40 Greg Reger<br />
The Impact of “Green” Announcements on Firm Value<br />
10:40-11:00 Aaron Salmon<br />
An Ethical Examination of the Ford Explorer/Firestone<br />
Controversy<br />
Calvin Durand Hall<br />
Panel 9<br />
Study Abroad Experiences<br />
Moderator: Professor Cynthia Hahn<br />
10:00-10:40 Emma Bausch<br />
Whitney Brinker<br />
Max Falaleyev<br />
Asa Reynolds<br />
Maulik Vaishnav<br />
Research Abroad: How is it Different?<br />
Moderator: Chris Waugh<br />
10:40-11:20 Chris Bembynista<br />
Erin Black<br />
Armond Thigpen<br />
Internships: Busy Work or a Taste of the Real World<br />
(Wherever That May Be!)?<br />
Moderator: Jan Miller<br />
11:20-12:00 Samantha Hartwig<br />
Tara Haskins<br />
Nicole Nodi<br />
Kevin Russette<br />
Emily Shanahan<br />
The Study Abroad Experience: What Does It Mean?<br />
Pierson Rooms A, B, C<br />
Panel 10<br />
Moderator:<br />
Prose, Poetry, and Shakespeare<br />
Professor Richard Mallette<br />
10:00-10:40 Ruth Maynie<br />
Michal Sorensen<br />
Carlee Taggart<br />
Creative Writing from the English Department<br />
10:40-11:00 Michal Sorensen<br />
“I looked upon her with a soldier’s eye”: When Warriors<br />
Marry in “Othello” and “Much Ado about Nothing”<br />
Second Morning Session (Panels starting at 11:30 a.m.)<br />
Donnelley and Lee Library Room 203<br />
Panel 11<br />
Moderator:<br />
Language, Dialect, and Intercultural Dialogue<br />
Professor Carol Gayle<br />
11:30-11:50 Katie DuBois<br />
Shades of Gray: Defining the Line between Language<br />
and Dialect<br />
11:50-12:10 Wendy Rhodes<br />
Intercultural Dialogue in Higher Education and Its<br />
Impact on Social Justice<br />
Donnelley and Lee Library Room 205<br />
Panel 12<br />
Moderator:<br />
Contemporary European Politics and History<br />
Professor Dan LeMahieu<br />
11:30-11:50 Aleksandra Denisenko<br />
Realism and Russian Foreign Policy under Vladimir<br />
Putin<br />
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11:50-12:10 Emma Bausch<br />
The 1997 British Elections: American Influence and the<br />
Modernization of the British Labour Party<br />
Donnelley and Lee Library Room 211<br />
Panel 13<br />
Moderator:<br />
The Physical World<br />
Professor Nathan Mueggenburg<br />
11:30-11:50 Ben Simpson<br />
Granular Compaction under an Applied Force<br />
11:50-12:10 Doug Rank<br />
Electron Collisions with Supersonically-Cooled Molecules<br />
Hotchkiss 101<br />
Panel 14<br />
Moderator:<br />
Women’s Roles<br />
Professor Siobhan Moroney<br />
11:30-11:50 Alli Berry<br />
Falling Short of the Summit: Exploring Femininity and<br />
Intercollegiate Coaching<br />
11:50-12:10 Hayley Wolfcale<br />
Tutu or Briefcase? The Career Choices of Potential<br />
Ballerinas<br />
12:10-12:30 Jenny Murphy<br />
Women in Spain: A Historical Perspective and a Literary<br />
Analysis<br />
Johnson 100<br />
Panel 15<br />
Moderator:<br />
The Evolution of the <strong>College</strong>’s Values<br />
Professor Janet McCracken<br />
11:30-12:20 Richard Baynes<br />
Kim Bobier<br />
Elizabeth Carroll<br />
Kylie McGonigal<br />
David Ristau<br />
Tracy Schwartz<br />
Caitlin Stephan<br />
Zulie Zagrans<br />
The Evolution of the <strong>College</strong>’s Values<br />
Johnson 300<br />
Panel 16<br />
Moderator:<br />
Chemistry Demonstration<br />
Professor Elizabeth Fischer<br />
11:30-12:20 Danielle Clark<br />
Shaun Davis<br />
Timila Dhakhwa<br />
Gillian Knight<br />
Emily Pospiech<br />
Annada Rajbhandary<br />
Katie Rice<br />
Alayna Schoblaske<br />
Mona Sobhani<br />
Iulia Strambeanu<br />
Chris Tossing<br />
Mithaq Vahedi<br />
Sina Vahedi<br />
Nengding “Julie” Wang<br />
Flames, Fumes, and Flashes: Students Fired Up About<br />
Chemistry<br />
Student Affiliates of the American Chemical Society<br />
Pierson Rooms A, B, C<br />
Panel 17<br />
Moderator:<br />
Writing Club: Poetry Workshop<br />
Professor Carla Arnell<br />
11:30-12:30 Erin Doughty<br />
Joanne Kim<br />
Rachel Leppert<br />
Ruth Maynie<br />
Alex Moisi<br />
Michal Sorensen<br />
Brittany Willes<br />
“There Once Was a Man from Nantucket…”<br />
Mohr Skybox<br />
Panel 18<br />
Moderator:<br />
Dramaturgy in Action<br />
Professor Richard Pettengill<br />
11:30-12:30 Kelly Crook<br />
Alexandra Fisher<br />
Michelle Foley<br />
Brittany Goodrich<br />
Ashley Hall<br />
Julianna Hincks<br />
Jacklyn Knutson<br />
Mario Mazzetti<br />
Lauren Stanek<br />
Kylie Trotman<br />
Mark Vinson<br />
Dramaturgy in Action: Shakespeare’s A Midsummer<br />
Night’s Dream<br />
POSTER PRESENTATIONS<br />
Morning Session (10 a.m. - Noon)<br />
Mohr Hallway<br />
Moderator:<br />
Professor Matthew Kelley<br />
Kumiko Akiyama<br />
Boni Cui<br />
Exploring the Traditional & Emotional Stroop Tasks<br />
Karen Bishop<br />
Rebecca Brezinsky<br />
Gilbert Reynders<br />
Retroactive Interference and Stimulus Similarity<br />
Mura Dominko<br />
William Stoner<br />
Exploring the Relationships between Personality,<br />
Intelligence, and Creativity<br />
Megan Doody<br />
Brittany Goldman<br />
Emily Venheim<br />
Exploring False Memories<br />
Michael Feng<br />
Elizabeth Pahomov<br />
Ping-Chung Ellen Wang<br />
Weijing Zhu<br />
Memory Recognition of Positive and Negative Words in<br />
<strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Forest</strong> <strong>College</strong> Students<br />
Brittany Goldman<br />
Ironic Effects of Censorship<br />
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Katie Gorga<br />
Caterina Newren<br />
Marie-Louise Russell<br />
Territoriality at the <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Forest</strong> <strong>College</strong> Crosswalk<br />
Katie Gorga<br />
Erika Torres<br />
Implicit Attitudes about Stereotypes<br />
Spenser Hicks<br />
Internship Project: Sexual Behavior in Female Western<br />
Lowland Gorillas at the Lincoln Park Zoo<br />
Caterina Newren<br />
Exploring Change Detection<br />
Samantha Pusateri<br />
Melissa Schramm<br />
Jennilee Wallace<br />
The Influence of Social Environment on Guppy Courtship<br />
Behavior<br />
TRI-BETA BIOLOGY EXHIBIT<br />
11 a.m. – 1 p.m.<br />
Outside Mohr Skybox<br />
Moderator:<br />
Professor Matthew Kelley<br />
Grace Dunford<br />
Sheiva Jahanban<br />
Lokesh Kukreja<br />
Krista Kusinski<br />
Brittany MacLeod<br />
Solmaz Shadman<br />
Sina Vahedi<br />
Expo on Biology: Teaching, Learning, & Exciting<br />
DANCE PERFORMANCE<br />
Noon – 12:30 p.m.<br />
Mohr Stage and Cafè<br />
Chantell Benjamin<br />
Basak Cavus<br />
Tenzin Dolkar<br />
Mariana Garciagodoy<br />
Daysi Vargas Gonzalez<br />
Safina Lavji<br />
Flora Lujana<br />
Milana Mensah<br />
Naa Quaye<br />
Deepika Ramachandran<br />
Kelebogile Tlhokwane<br />
Cristina Velasquez<br />
Emilie Vrbancic<br />
Jennille Wallace<br />
International Dance Club<br />
AIKIDO DEMONSTRATION<br />
12:30 p.m. – 1 p.m.<br />
Mohr Stage and Cafè<br />
Chloe Goya<br />
Robert Hendler<br />
Karen Larson<br />
Kamil Madejski<br />
Ben Tyler<br />
ORAL PRESENTATIONS<br />
First Afternoon Session (Panels starting at 1:10 p.m.)<br />
Donnelley and Lee Library Room 203<br />
Panel 1<br />
Moderator:<br />
On Rhetoric<br />
Professor Carrie Nordlund<br />
1:10-1:30 Kyle Endress<br />
Abraham Lincoln’s Timeless Rhetoric<br />
1:30-1:50 Cora Bryan<br />
Abraham Lincoln the Rhetorical Lawyer<br />
1:50-2:10 Bita Dadfar<br />
The Feminist Rhetoric of the Guerilla Girls<br />
2:10-2:30 Joel Hainsfurther<br />
George W. Bush’s Post-September 11th Rhetoric:<br />
Introducing the Bush Doctrine – 2002 West Point<br />
Commencement Address<br />
Donnelley and Lee Library Room 205<br />
Panel 2<br />
Moderator:<br />
Terrorism and Political Violence<br />
Professor Rand Smith<br />
1:10-1:30 Alyssa Wintermute<br />
The Internet and al Qaeda in Iraq<br />
1:30-1:50 Claire Anderson<br />
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and al Qaeda in Mesopotamia<br />
1:50-2:10 Emma Jo Chalverus<br />
The Israeli-Hizbollah Conflict<br />
Donnelley and Lee Library Room 211<br />
Panel 3<br />
Moderator:<br />
On the Nature of Mathematics<br />
Professor Ed Packel<br />
1:10-1:50 Sudin Kansakar<br />
Casey Tompkins<br />
Counting the Fibonacci Numbers<br />
Donnelley and Lee Library Room 221<br />
Panel 4<br />
Moderator:<br />
Topics in Development Studies<br />
Professor Paul Orogun<br />
1:10-1:30 Chris Janjigian<br />
The Monetary Failure of Zimbabwe<br />
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1:30-1:50 Julie Maskulka<br />
A Comparison of Informal Economic Activities in<br />
Developing and Industrialized Settings<br />
1:50-2:10 Anjali Ajaikumar<br />
NGOs’ Impact on Education and Women in Developing<br />
Countries<br />
2:10-2:30 Ashley Bunning<br />
Contradiction in the Philippines: Politics vs. Prostitution<br />
Hotchkiss 101<br />
Panel 5<br />
Moderator:<br />
Immigration and Diversity<br />
Professor Carolyn Tuttle<br />
1:10-1:50 Emma Chalverus<br />
Laurel Eatherly<br />
Jennifer Lindblom<br />
Justin Tardiff<br />
Perspectives on the Current Immigration Crisis<br />
1:50-2:10 Nelka Fernando<br />
The Local Economic Contribution of Day Laborers in<br />
Chicago<br />
2:10-2:30 Ellen Jefferys-White<br />
Sikhism and America<br />
Meyer Auditorium<br />
Panel 6<br />
Moderator:<br />
Biology of the Organism<br />
Professor Doug Light<br />
1:10-1:30 Carly Stickles<br />
The Role of Mycorrhizal Fungi in the Spread of Nonnative<br />
Plants into Prairies<br />
1:30-1:50 Shruti Pore<br />
Role of Calcium in Cell Volume Regulation by Alligator<br />
Erythrocytes<br />
1:50-2:10 Lital Silverman<br />
Arachidonic Acid and Cell Volume Regulation in<br />
Alligator Erythrocytes<br />
2:10-2:30 Nendging “Julie” Wang<br />
Understanding the Brain of a Sea Slug: 3-D<br />
Reconstruction of the Nervous System of Tritonia<br />
diomedea<br />
2:30-2:50 David Piper<br />
Dynamics of Tooth Decay<br />
Johnson 100<br />
Panel 7<br />
Moderator:<br />
Family and Society<br />
Professor Catherine Weidner<br />
1:10-1:30 Taylor Tuscherer<br />
Good Parents Stop Genital Warts: An Analysis of the<br />
HPV Vaccine Controversy<br />
1:30-1:50 Thomas McMahon<br />
The Visual Rhetoric of AIDS Activist Group Gran Fury<br />
1:50-2:10 Juli Zagrans<br />
Foster Care: Problems and Prospects for Reform<br />
Johnson 200<br />
Panel 8<br />
Moderator:<br />
Preparing for Performance<br />
Professor D Ohlandt<br />
1:10-1:50 Ashley Hall<br />
Ali Hoefnagel<br />
Aeschylus’ Agamemnon: A Critical Examination and<br />
Performance of a Scene<br />
1:50-2:30 Kate Witt<br />
Webster’s “The Duchess of Malfi”: Text, Context, and<br />
Performance<br />
Calvin Durand Hall<br />
Panel 9<br />
Moderator:<br />
The Visual Arts in Context<br />
Professor Ann Roberts<br />
1:10-1:30 Samantha Newman<br />
Domesticating Impressionism<br />
1:30-1:50 Cheryl-Lynn May<br />
Portraits in ‘Littell’: Women Miniaturists in Early<br />
America<br />
1:50-2:10 Tara Haskins<br />
A Social Attitude towards the Aesthetics of Thai<br />
Buddhism<br />
2:10-2:30 Sara Woodbury<br />
Authority and Obedience: The Animal Stories in the<br />
Saint Francis Altar<br />
2:30-2:50 Kathryn Parker<br />
Victorian Women in London’s National Portrait Gallery<br />
Second Afternoon Session<br />
(Panels starting at 2:30 or 2:40 p.m.)<br />
Donnelley and Lee Library Room 203<br />
Panel 10<br />
Moderator:<br />
New Insights on the Media<br />
Professor Dave Park<br />
2:30-2:50 Nick Rennis<br />
Space/Music: An Investigation of the Meaning of New<br />
Media to Music’s Relationship with Geography<br />
2:50-3:10 Chris Barnes<br />
This American Life: Three Theoretical Perspectives on a<br />
Different Kind of Journalism<br />
3:10-3:30 Meghan Grosse<br />
National Public Radio Goes Online: An Investigation of<br />
the Impact of the Internet on Public Radio in the U.S.<br />
Donnelley and Lee Library Room 205<br />
Panel 11<br />
Moderator:<br />
Asia on the World Stage<br />
Professor Cathy Benton<br />
2:30-2:50 Rahsaan Islam<br />
The Idea of Rising India in the 21st Century<br />
2:50-3:10 Jared Bieschke<br />
The End of Quiet Diplomacy? The Efficacy of Force and<br />
Finance in Japan’s Quest for a Permanent Seat on the<br />
U. N. Security Council<br />
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3:10-3:30 Maulik Vaishnav<br />
Beijing’s Urban Transformation to Host the 2008<br />
Summer Olympics<br />
Donnelley and Lee Library Room 221<br />
Panel 12<br />
Moderator:<br />
Back to the Future with Nuclear Power?<br />
Professor Lori Del Negro<br />
2:40-3:20 Margaret Bower<br />
Christina Condon<br />
Trent LaMonica<br />
Sarah Monroe<br />
Carly Stickles<br />
Lauren Wiggishoff<br />
Reviving an Old Friend: Nuclear Power as Alternative<br />
Energy for the Next 10,000 Years<br />
Hotchkiss Hall 101<br />
Panel 13<br />
Moderator:<br />
Issues in Middle East Politics and Economics<br />
Professor Ghada Talhami<br />
2:40-3:00 Daryn Cass<br />
The Economy of Dubai and Its Relations with the U.S.<br />
3:00-3:20 Syeda Haider<br />
Morocco and the Western Sahara<br />
3:20-3:40 Sarah Dallas<br />
The UAE: A Political and Economic View<br />
Johnson 100<br />
Panel 14<br />
Moderator:<br />
Approaches to Education<br />
Professor Rachel Ragland<br />
2:30-3:10 Velvet Dennis<br />
Elizabeth Milligan<br />
Applying Big Ideas in High School Humanities:<br />
Interdisciplinary Themes in Teaching<br />
3:10-3:30 Elizabeth Milligan<br />
Educating Students, Empowering Citizens<br />
Johnson 200<br />
Panel 15<br />
Moderator:<br />
Sound and Vision<br />
David Amrein<br />
2:40-3:00 Meg Golembiewski<br />
The Lodger and Leitmotifs: A Brief Glimpse of Scoring a<br />
Film for a Richter Project<br />
3:00-3:20 Angie Ma<br />
Transcription vs. Orchestration<br />
POSTER PRESENTATIONS<br />
Afternoon Session (1:10 - 3:10 p.m.)<br />
Margaret Bower<br />
Effect of Prairie Fire Frequency on Vegetation Coverage<br />
Margaret Bower<br />
Rebecca Krebs<br />
Inside the Vigilance Levels of Wild Turkeys (Meleagris<br />
gallopavo)<br />
Shaun Davis<br />
Searching for the DNA Protective Cap Machinery in a<br />
Fungus<br />
Timila Dhakhwa<br />
Chemistry, Computers, Calculations: The Convergence of<br />
Science, Technology and Math in Industrial Applications<br />
Caroline Fitz<br />
Gretchen Yehl<br />
Exploring the Influence of Cuing on Memory<br />
Nicki Larson<br />
Measuring Lamp Efficiencies<br />
Ava Phisuthikul<br />
Examining the Effect of Encoding-Retrieval Matches on<br />
Memory Performance: An Illustration of the Encoding<br />
Specificity Principle<br />
Hannah Stoltz<br />
Technical Writing: Creating Multi-Media Training<br />
Materials for Microsoft Office and Adobe Products<br />
Iulia Strambeanu<br />
Sonogashira Cross-Coupling Reactions of Substituted<br />
Pyridines<br />
Mithaq Vahedi<br />
Nengding “Julie” Wang<br />
A New Approach to Studying Telomere Length<br />
Sina Vahedi<br />
General Hydroxylation Reactions of Alkynes<br />
JAZZ ENSEMBLE AND ICE CREAM SOCIAL<br />
3:30 – 4 p.m.<br />
Mohr Café<br />
<strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Forest</strong> <strong>College</strong> Jazz Ensemble<br />
Mitch Paliga, Director<br />
Andrew Diehl ’08, guitar<br />
Nelka Fernando ’08, soprano saxophone<br />
Paul Henne ’11, drums<br />
Jin-Houn “L” Jou ’10, violin<br />
Michael Knish ’09, electric bass<br />
Angie Ma ’08, piano<br />
Devin McIntyre ’10, alto saxophone<br />
Jeff Raffaelli ’09, tenor saxophone<br />
Joe Yeo ’10, trumpet<br />
Mohr Hallway<br />
Moderator:<br />
Professor Pliny Smith<br />
Mohammed Ali<br />
Hunt for a Pharyngeal Mutation in Mutagenized F2,<br />
GFP-tagged Caenorhabditis elegans<br />
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CLOSING EVENT<br />
4:15-5:45 Symposium: A Convivial Gathering of the<br />
Educated<br />
Lily Reid Holt Memorial Chapel<br />
Presented by Students Educating Students<br />
Ben Simpson ’08; Great Falls, Montana; Physics<br />
“Shake It Up, Pat It Down: The Science of Granular<br />
Compaction under Pressure”<br />
Kate Austin ’08; Sociology and Anthropology,<br />
Politics<br />
“Crossing the Border of Reality: Folk Monsters in the<br />
Everyday Lives of Mexican Immigrants in the United<br />
States”<br />
Sara Woodbury ’08; Wells, Maine; Art<br />
“Father Nature: Authority, Obedience, and the Animal<br />
Stories in the Saint Francis Altar”<br />
Mithaq Vahedi ’08; New Delhi, India; Biology,<br />
Chemistry<br />
“All Chromosomes Come Down to the Ends: Measuring<br />
Telomere Length in the Fungus Aspergillus nidulans”<br />
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PARTICIPANTS AND ABSTRACTS<br />
(Coauthored and Group Projects at the End)<br />
These are arranged alphabetically by student last name, followed by presentations involving more than<br />
one student, arranged by first student’s last name (alphabetically within presentation).<br />
Anjali Ajaikumar ’09; Chicago, Illinois<br />
International Relations, Politics<br />
NGOs’ Impact on Education and Women in Developing Countries<br />
In Africa and India and other developing countries NGOs<br />
play a vital part in an attempt to improve the quality of life of<br />
rural people who are often ignored by their leaders. In recent<br />
years, attention to children and women’s equality has fallen on<br />
the shoulders of the NGOs. This presentation will focus on<br />
the functions of the NGOs and the vast influence which they<br />
have on society, economics and the political arena.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Ghada Talhami<br />
Kumiko Akiyama ’10; Psychology<br />
Boni Cui ’10; Psychology<br />
Exploring the Traditional & Emotional Stroop Tasks<br />
The current study explored the traditional Stroop and the<br />
Emotional Stroop effects. In Stroop task, participants<br />
were asked to identify the font colors of the color words in<br />
congruent (blue in blue font) and incongruent (blue in red<br />
font) conditions. Results were consistent with past research—<br />
reaction time was slower in the incongruent condition. In<br />
Emotional Stroop task, participants were asked to identify<br />
the font colors of emotional (fear-related) and neutral words.<br />
Typically, participants with phobias show slower reaction<br />
times in the emotional condition, however, the current study<br />
showed no significant difference in this task. Implications<br />
are discussed.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Matthew Kelley<br />
Mohammed Ali ’10; Biology and Chemistry<br />
Hunt for a Pharyngeal Mutation in Mutagenized F2,<br />
GFP-tagged Caenorhabditis elegans<br />
This poster describes my ten-week research experience with<br />
Dr. Pliny Smith and Andrew Ferrier ’08 on various strains of<br />
C. elegans. Our study seeks to provide insight into the genetic<br />
basis for tissue development using C. elegans as our model<br />
organism. We induced random genetic mutations in C. elegans<br />
and screened the grandchildren of these mutagenized worms<br />
for any sign of abnormality in the development of the organ<br />
called the pharynx, a part of the digestive tract. Then, in later<br />
steps we undertook to locate the genetic mutation responsible<br />
for the expression of an abnormal pharyngeal phenotype by<br />
the mutated worms.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Pliny Smith<br />
Claire Anderson ’11; Galesburg, Illinois<br />
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and al Qaeda in Mesopotamia<br />
Terrorism fueled by Islamic radicalism is a dangerous modernday<br />
phenomenon. Before his death, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi<br />
was at the forefront of Islamic jihad. Through analyzing al-<br />
Zarqawi’s personal history and his terrorist activities in Jordan<br />
and Iraq, this paper explores the sometimes difficult relationship<br />
between al-Zarqawi and al Qaeda. It suggests that America’s<br />
success in the struggle against radical extremism would benefit<br />
from identifying and exploiting difference among jihadists,<br />
rather than imagining them as a monolithic threat.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: James Marquardt<br />
Kathleen Austin ’08; Sociology and Anthropology, Politics<br />
Duendes, Monitos, and Fantasmas: How the U.S.-Mexico Border<br />
Affects Cultural Perceptions of Reality<br />
Mexican immigrants cross a border of reality every day. Once<br />
Mexican immigrants cross the border, personal experiences<br />
with Monstruos Folklóricos (folk monsters) become folktales<br />
of the homeland which consistently reinforce, and actually<br />
strengthen Mexican cultural values within the United States.<br />
U.S. culture contributes to this impulse in an interesting way<br />
because technology desensitizes the American people, which<br />
make them unable to see duendes and other Monstruos<br />
Folklóricos. This draws attention to the issue of assimilation,<br />
as language barriers and educational values, both institutional<br />
and cultural, prove to be incompatible with cultural perceptions<br />
of reality.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Holly Swyers<br />
Alexandra Ayala ’09; Caracas, Venezuela; Biology<br />
Insight into Parkinson’s Disease: Unraveling the Complexity of<br />
Degrading Alpha-Synuclein<br />
Alpha-synuclein misfolding and aggregation underlies the<br />
pathogenesis of Parkinson’s disease. An attractive hypothesis<br />
is that increasing alpha-synuclein degradation will reduce<br />
its aggregation and toxicity and that the lysosome is the site<br />
for degradation. To test this, we employed a yeast model<br />
to evaluate the whether the multivesicular body (MVB)/<br />
endosome pathway to the lysosome was the degradation route.<br />
We asked if alpha-synuclein would accumulate and increase<br />
toxicity in yeast lacking important MVB proteins, vps28 or<br />
mvb12. The absence of vps28, but not mvb12, altered alphasynuclein<br />
localization, indicating unexpected specificity in<br />
MVB regulation of alpha-synuclein degradation.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Shubhik DebBurman<br />
Katya Balykina ’08; Moscow, Russian Federation<br />
Economics and Business<br />
Ugly in Pink<br />
Imagine that you buy a product with a pink ribbon. Some<br />
of the money from your purchase will go to breast cancer<br />
research. So, you’ve done your part in saving women’s lives…<br />
Or perhaps not? Do the companies involved in pink ribbon<br />
campaigns spend more money advertising their efforts to fight<br />
breast cancer than they donate to cancer research? Do some<br />
pink ribbon products cause cancer? Are these companies more<br />
concerned about curing cancer or boosting profits?<br />
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These questions are crucial, for in the time it has taken you to<br />
read this abstract at least one American woman has died from<br />
breast cancer.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Steve Tammelleo<br />
Chris Barnes ’08; Albuquerque, New Mexico; Communication<br />
“This American Life”: Three Theoretical Perspectives on a<br />
Different Kind of Journalism<br />
“This American Life” is one of the most widely-programmed<br />
radio shows available via public radio in the U.S. In this paper, I<br />
examine “This American Life” from the vantage point of three<br />
schools of thought: Marxist theory, Deweyan pragmatism, and<br />
narrative theory. This multi-perspective approach to “This<br />
American Life” will allow me to demonstrate how the show<br />
functions (or fails to do so) as a different kind of journalism.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: David Park<br />
Emma Bausch ’08; Carbondale, Illinois; Politics<br />
The 1997 British Elections: American Influence and the<br />
Modernization of the British Labour Party<br />
The Labour Party’s coming to power in the 1997 British<br />
general election represented a fateful triumph of the Party’s<br />
‘modernizers’ over its strident leftists. Led by Tony Blair and<br />
Gordon Brown, Labour’s modernizers drew from the successes<br />
of the U.S. Democratic Party under Bill Clinton to develop<br />
the strategy of the ‘third way,’ a politics that positioned ‘New<br />
Labour’ between the Conservatives and Labour’s old guard<br />
and yielded, as in the United States, policy initiatives with<br />
wide appeal among the electorate. Successful adaptation of<br />
Clinton’s ‘third way’ enabled the Labour Party to enter a<br />
period of reform, and thus, achieve electoral success in 1997.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: James Marquardt<br />
Emma Bausch<br />
Whitney Brinker<br />
Max Falaleyev<br />
Asa Reynolds<br />
Maulik Vaishnav<br />
Research Abroad: How is it Different?<br />
What is the value of an internship? Is it a truly authentic<br />
experience? Does a student internship provide a real-life work<br />
experience and lessons what will be useful in future jobs or<br />
professional advancement? Listen to students describe their<br />
internships and explain how those experiences confirmed or<br />
changed their plans for the future and what they might do if<br />
they were hiring an intern.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Janet Miller<br />
Richard Baynes ’08; Overland Park, Kansas<br />
Economics and Business<br />
Kim Bobier ’10; Birmingham, Michigan; Art<br />
Elizabeth Carroll ’08; Oak Park, Illinois<br />
Foreign Languages and Literatures, History<br />
Kylie McGonigal ’10; Omaha, Nebraska<br />
Sociology and Anthropology<br />
David Ristau ’10; West Chester, Ohio<br />
Philosophy, International Relations<br />
Tracy Schwartz ’10; Elk River, Idaho<br />
Communication and Politics<br />
Caitlin Stephan ’08; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania<br />
Economics and Business, French<br />
Juli Zagrans ’08; Cleveland, Ohio; Politics<br />
The Evolution of the <strong>College</strong>’s Values<br />
In Philosophy 281, students have been researching various<br />
aspects of the <strong>College</strong>’s transformation from its local and<br />
traditional Presbyterian roots to its current status as a<br />
national and secular liberal arts institution. In this second<br />
year of the project we have been focusing on two points: (1)<br />
the connections between the <strong>College</strong>’s first few decades and<br />
the William Cole era in the 1960s and (2) the development<br />
of academic values concerning integrity and freedom in the<br />
period from the 1960s on. Student participants will present<br />
their research as well as their reflections on the process of<br />
examining the <strong>College</strong>’s evolution.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Lou Lombardi<br />
Evan Bell ’10; Olive Branch, Mississippi<br />
Politics and Philosophy<br />
Ethical Self-Consciousness and the Public: How Should We<br />
Act?<br />
How should we act in the public domain? What laws are<br />
essential to our participation in public activities? Are the<br />
laws in public forums the same as private, individual laws and<br />
vise versa? Regarding these matters, the philosopher G.W.F.<br />
Hegel used ancient Greek dramatist Sophocles’ play Antigone<br />
to illustrate fundamental premises of his phenomenological<br />
concept. Ethical self-consciousness, and its meaning,<br />
encompasses a set of principles that are always in flux and<br />
subject to interpretation; using Hegel and his concepts, the<br />
ethical self-consciousness is related to our public identities<br />
and what we value the most in our daily interactions.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Steve Tammelleo<br />
Chris Bembynista<br />
Erin Black<br />
Armond Thigpen<br />
Internships: Busy Work or a Taste of the Real World (Wherever<br />
That May Be!)?<br />
Is research the same no matter where you do it? Do you use<br />
the same strategies and techniques as you would if you were<br />
on campus? Why might it be necessary to use a different<br />
approach in a different culture? Students will describe their<br />
experiences abroad and how they gathered material or planned<br />
their course of study in a non-traditional setting or in a system<br />
unlike our own.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Janet Miller<br />
Alli Berry ’08; Communication, Economics<br />
Falling Short of the Summit: Exploring Femininity and<br />
Intercollegiate Coaching<br />
While Title IX has led to dramatic increases in participation of<br />
women in college athletics, ironically, it has led to a decline in<br />
women coaches and administrators in intercollegiate athletics.<br />
I explore this paradox through a case study of Pat Summitt,<br />
head women’s basketball coach for the University of Tennessee.<br />
I argue that media coverage wrongly attributes her successes<br />
to her role as a motherly figure to her basketball teams and in<br />
her personal life. This portrayal helps to maintain the current<br />
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gender order and positions Summitt within the traditional<br />
heterosexual feminine sphere.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Holly Swyers<br />
Jared Bieschke ’08; International Relations, Asian Studies<br />
The End of Quiet Diplomacy? The Efficacy of Force and Finance<br />
in Japan’s Quest for a Permanent Seat on the U.N. Security<br />
Council<br />
Post-war Japan has relied on Official Development Aid (ODA)<br />
as a principle tool of foreign policy. Desirous of greater<br />
prestige on the world stage, Japan is also building up its<br />
military forces to assume a leading role in regional collective<br />
security institutions and to participate fully in United Nations<br />
peacekeeping operations. Japan should continue to rely on<br />
aid as a foreign policy tool. It must also assuage fears on the<br />
Asian mainland that its military build-up spells a return to<br />
its expansionist past. By reclaiming its status as a “normal”<br />
country, one that is economically and militarily powerful,<br />
Japan hopes to win international acclaim and, ultimately, gain<br />
a permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: James Marquardt<br />
Karen Bishop ’11; Plattsmouth, Nebraska; Biology<br />
Rebecca Brezinsky ’11; Lombard, Illinois; Biology<br />
Gilbert Reynders ’11; St. Louis, Missouri<br />
Retroactive Interference and Stimulus Similarity<br />
This study explores the effect of similarity and dissimilarity on<br />
retroactive interference. <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Forest</strong> <strong>College</strong> students were<br />
randomly assigned to one of two groups. Both groups studied<br />
a list of words. Whereas one group also studied a second list<br />
of similar words, the other studied a second list of dissimilar<br />
words. The students in both groups were then asked to recall<br />
words from the first list. We hypothesized that the subjects<br />
given similar sets of information would remember fewer words<br />
from the first group than students who were given dissimilar<br />
sets of words. As hypothesized, the group with two sets of<br />
similar words recalled significantly fewer words.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Kathryn Dohrmann<br />
Margaret Bower ’08; <strong>Lake</strong> Bluff, Illinois<br />
Biology, Environmental Studies<br />
Effect of Prairie Fire Frequency on Vegetation Coverage<br />
Data on vegetation coverage were collected from surrounding<br />
prairies in <strong>Lake</strong> Bluff and <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Forest</strong>, Illinois. The data<br />
collected indicate that the greater the fire frequency the greater<br />
the percent coverage of vegetation. This conclusion could be<br />
helpful in determining how often prairies should be burned to<br />
achieve the most successful production of vegetation.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Lynn Westley<br />
Margaret Bower ’08; <strong>Lake</strong> Bluff, Illinois<br />
Environmental Studies, Biology<br />
Christina Condon ’08; Brookfield, Wisconsin<br />
Environmental Studies<br />
Trent LaMonica ’08; Winnetka, Illinois; Environmental Studies<br />
Sarah Monroe ’08; Wilmette, Illinois; Environmental Studies<br />
Carly Stickles ’08; Ridgeway, ON, Canada<br />
Environmental Studies<br />
Lauren Wiggishoff ’08; Franklin, Tennessee<br />
Environmental Studies<br />
Reviving an Old Friend: Nuclear Power as Alternative Energy for<br />
the Next 10,000 Years<br />
Nuclear energy has received renewed attention despite<br />
past problems with high cost, extensive regulation, and the<br />
aftermath of accidents. This panel addresses questions raised<br />
by nuclear power’s comeback. How long could the uranium<br />
resource sustain us? Can modifications be made to existing<br />
reactors to improve efficiency and reduce waste? What are the<br />
implications of the proposed Yucca Mountain long-term waste<br />
disposal? What are the potential health risks for individuals in<br />
the vicinity of nuclear power plants? How has public opinion<br />
on nuclear power changed? Is nuclear power a band-aid, or a<br />
sustainable energy to outlive the problems it creates?<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Lori Del Negro<br />
Margaret Bower ’08; <strong>Lake</strong> Bluff, Illinois<br />
Biology, Environmental Studies<br />
Michael Feng ’08; <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Forest</strong>, Illinois; Biology<br />
Jeffrey Fox Major; Biology<br />
Elisa Luna ’08; Highwood, Illinois; Biology, Spanish<br />
David Piper ’08; Roscoe, Illinois; Biology<br />
Daniel Reiter ’08; Woodstock, Illinois; Biology, Economics<br />
Tasneem Salawaya ’08; Darien, Illinois; Biology, English<br />
Lorraine Scanlon ’08; Zion, Illinois; Major; Biology, Music<br />
The Origin of Species: Evidence from Nature<br />
Throughout nature there is much evidence that evolutionary<br />
changes in populations can occur over time. Do these changes<br />
result in the formation of new species? Yes! We explore these<br />
ideas by looking at a variety of study systems ranging from<br />
sea urchins to sunflowers to sticklebacks. We emphasize<br />
sympatric and allopatric modes of speciation and examine<br />
evidence for the roles of sexual and ecological selection. Our<br />
aim is to enlighten you as to how small evolutionary changes<br />
result in endless possibilities for the origin of new species.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Anne Houde<br />
Margaret Bower ’08; <strong>Lake</strong> Bluff, Illinois<br />
Biology, Environmental Studies<br />
Rebecca Krebs ’09; Vernon Hills, Illinois; Biology<br />
Inside the Vigilance Levels of Wild Turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo)<br />
We studied vigilance behavior in wild turkeys and asked how<br />
sex and position in a group affects the amount of vigilance<br />
the turkey exhibits. The observations were performed at<br />
Crab Tree Farm in <strong>Lake</strong> Bluff, Illinois. We observed the wild<br />
turkeys for two to three hours each time. We observed how<br />
long a male or a female expressed vigilance in relation to its<br />
position in the group. Our predictions were supported by our<br />
observations; the male turkeys were more vigilant than the<br />
females, and the males were more vigilant on the outside of<br />
the group than inside.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Anne Houde<br />
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Kimberly Braden ’08; Beloit, Wisconsin<br />
Economics and Business, Spanish<br />
Costa Rica and the CAFTA-DR<br />
Of the five Central American countries to sign the Central<br />
American- Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement<br />
(CAFTA-DR), Costa Rica is unique in that it took almost four<br />
years to ratify the agreement. CAFTA-DR is the key to the<br />
economic liberalization that Costa Rica desperately needs to<br />
remain competitive with other Central American nations and<br />
China. The agreement will enhance the Costa Rican economy<br />
through increased foreign investment, heightened domestic<br />
consumption, and a rise in exports.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Carolyn Tuttle<br />
Whitney Brinker ’08; Omaha, Nebraska; Philosophy, Spanish<br />
Who is Latin America?<br />
This talk will explore the dynamic concept of Latin American<br />
identity encompassing a contemporary understanding of<br />
ethnicity. Does the concept of ethnicity exist and, if so,<br />
how should it be defined? The work of philosophers on the<br />
forefront of the issue will be explored including Jorge Gracia,<br />
Linda Alcoff, and Eduardo Mendieta in order to determine<br />
if there is, in fact, a Latin American identity. Using the<br />
framework of ethnicity, Nicaraguan immigration into Costa<br />
Rica and its impact will be analyzed incorporating research by<br />
relevant anthropologists and political scientists.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Steve Tammelleo<br />
Cora Bryan ’08; Apple Valley, Minnesota<br />
Communication, French<br />
Abraham Lincoln the Rhetorical Lawyer<br />
“Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise<br />
whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has the superior<br />
opportunity of being a good man.” Abraham Lincoln spoke these<br />
words about his many years as a lawyer in Springfield, Illinois,<br />
but they are also defining words for his years as president of the<br />
United States. Indeed, Lincoln’s steadfast belief in the power<br />
of legal rhetoric and his years of practice in honing the skills<br />
attached to it not only shaped his rhetoric as president, but have<br />
kept it relevant for over 150 years.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Linda Horwitz<br />
Ashley Bunning ’08; St. Louis, Missouri; International Relations<br />
Contradiction in the Philippines: Politics vs. Prostitution<br />
The Philippines have a major contradiction in gender equality.<br />
Filipinos elected a female president for the second time in their<br />
history and many women hold important political roles; yet,<br />
thousands of women are thrown into prostitution, domestic violence,<br />
and trafficking abroad. The current president of the Philippines,<br />
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, focuses her attention on other issues such<br />
as foreign policy when the informal economy of female prostitution<br />
reaches staggering numbers. How can a country that seems so<br />
forward thinking in some aspects of gender roles have such a large<br />
portion of its income come from selling women? This inconsistency<br />
and moral problem is one of many factors in the Third World status<br />
of the Philippines. Gender lines and women’s roles have always been<br />
controversial, but this case study will critically assess the contradiction<br />
of genders roles in the Philippines.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Paul Orogun<br />
Daryn Cass ’10; International Relations, Biology<br />
The Economy of Dubai and Its Relations with the U.S.<br />
The modern city of Dubai was created in 1971 with the<br />
formation of the United Arab Emirates. When the British<br />
left the region at this time a political vacuum was created.<br />
This paper explores how, despite Dubai’s vast oil reserves, its<br />
rulers are trying to focus attention away from oil and set it on<br />
making Dubai a strong international business hub for tourism,<br />
banking, insurance, and industries.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Ghada Talhami<br />
Emma Jo Chalverus ’11; Albuquerque, New Mexico;<br />
International Relations, French<br />
The Israeli-Hizbollah Conflict<br />
Hizbollah is a political party active in Lebanon and comprised<br />
of radical Shiite Muslims. This party has recently received<br />
much attention due to turmoil in the Middle East and<br />
its importance to the Western powers. Hizbollah’s main<br />
objectives include defending Lebanon against Israeli attacks,<br />
ridding the Middle East of Western influence, and creating<br />
an Islamic fundamentalist state. In order to do so, the party<br />
believes that it needs to eradicate all Western colonialism from<br />
Lebanon. Conflicts between this party and Israel will continue<br />
as long as the latter continue to occupy Palestinian lands with<br />
the help of the U.S.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Ghada Talhami<br />
Emma Jo Chalverus ’11; Albuquerque, New Mexico;<br />
International Relations, French<br />
Laurel Eatherly ’11; Cody, Wyoming<br />
International Relations, Communication<br />
Jennifer Lindblom ’11; Minneapolis, Minnesota<br />
Justin Tardiff ’11; Framingham, Massachusetts<br />
Economics and Business<br />
Perspectives on the Current Immigration Crisis<br />
Immigration to the United States has reached an all time<br />
high, prompting widespread debate about the impact of<br />
both legal and illegal immigrants on American society<br />
and institutions. This panel will address the facts and the<br />
myths about today’s immigrants. Topics will include the<br />
growth of the Latino population in Chicago’s suburbs;<br />
immigrants and healthcare services; political cartoons as a<br />
reflection of attitudes toward immigrants; and assimilation<br />
vs. acculturation.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Catherine Weidner<br />
Danielle Clark ’09<br />
Shaun Davis ’09<br />
Timila Dhakhwa ’10<br />
Gillian Knight ’11<br />
Emily Pospiech ’09<br />
Annada Rajbhandary ’10<br />
Katie Rice ’09<br />
Alayna Schoblaske ’11<br />
Mona Sobhani ’10<br />
Iulia Strambeanu ’08<br />
Chris Tossing ’09<br />
Mithaq Vahedi ’08<br />
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Sina Vahedi ’08<br />
Nengding “Julie” Wang ’09<br />
Flames, Fumes, and Flashes: Students Fired Up<br />
About Chemistry<br />
The members of the <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Forest</strong> <strong>College</strong> Student Affiliates of<br />
the American Chemical Society (SAACS) have been nationally<br />
recognized as an award-winning chapter because of their<br />
continuing commitment and involvement in the community.<br />
SAACS will demonstrate central chemical principles through<br />
a series of attention-grabbing experiments including freezing<br />
roses with liquid nitrogen, explosive hydrogen balloons, and a<br />
colorful ammonia fountain. Those in attendance will also be<br />
invited to join in a hands-on demonstration to make their very<br />
own “slime.”<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Elizabeth Fischer<br />
Karen Cone ’08; Deerfield, Illinois; Psychology, Economics<br />
Hope for Haiti: A Survey of Developmental Solutions for the<br />
Impoverished Nation<br />
Currently considered the poorest country in the Western<br />
Hemisphere, Haiti’s economic situation is dire. This presentation<br />
discusses the issues which have hindered Haiti’s development<br />
and focuses on potential solutions to improve its economy and<br />
standard of living. The positive implications of expanding<br />
policies such as microfinance, foreign direct investment, and<br />
export-oriented industrialization as well as suggestions to reform<br />
aid distribution are explored. If the international community<br />
and Haitian government both concentrate on ending poverty, a<br />
significant difference can be made.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Amanda Felkey<br />
Kelly Crook ’09; Fort Worth, Texas; Art, Religion<br />
Alexandra Fisher ’10; Collierville, Tennessee<br />
Michelle Foley ’09; Willow Springs, Illinois; Communication<br />
Brittany Goodrich ’09; Trevor, Wisconsin; Communication<br />
Ashley Hall ’10; Moreland Hills, Ohio<br />
American Studies, Theater<br />
Julianna Hincks ’10; Oak Lawn, Illinois; Theater<br />
Jacklyn Knutson ’10; St. Paul, Minnesota; Theater<br />
Mario Mazzetti ’10; <strong>Lake</strong> Zurich, Illinois; English,Theater<br />
Lauren Stanek ’10; Park City, Utah<br />
Kylie Trotman ’10; Palos Verdes Est, California<br />
History, Theater<br />
Mark Vinson ’10; South Pittsburgh, Tennessee; Theater<br />
Dramaturgy in Action: Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s<br />
Dream<br />
Students in Richard Pettengill’s THTR 255 Dramaturgy<br />
course will present research they have done into Shakespeare’s<br />
A Midsummer Night’s Dream in preparation for a campus<br />
production of the play in fall 2008. These student dramaturgs<br />
have researched Shakespeare’s biography; pertinent historical,<br />
cultural, and social backgrounds of the play; relevant critical<br />
points of view; significant past productions; and images designed<br />
to inspire the imaginations of the director and designers. In<br />
addition, they have produced study materials designed to help<br />
high school teachers prepare their students to see and fully<br />
appreciate the play. Together, they will discuss the challenges<br />
and rewards of this intensive, collective research process.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Richard Pettengill<br />
Bita Dadfar ’09; Fukuoka, Japan<br />
Communication, International Relations<br />
The Feminist Rhetoric of the Guerilla Girls<br />
Using the guidelines summarized in Karlyn Kohrs Campbell’s,<br />
“The Rhetoric of Women’s Liberation: An Oxymoron,” I<br />
argue that the Guerilla Girls are a feminist rhetorical artifact.<br />
I then draw on the Feminist Art Epistemologies (FAE) by Peg<br />
Brand to explain how the theory of humor and anonymity are<br />
used in their rhetoric to enhance their argument. Furthering<br />
my argument, I reference Gibson Cima’s study on Strategic<br />
Anonymity and Stephen Smith’s study on Humor as Rhetoric.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Linda Horwitz<br />
Sarah Dallas ’08; <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Forest</strong>, Illinois; Politics<br />
The UAE: A Political and Economic View<br />
Booming development, oil, and Islam are just a few topics that<br />
come to mind when thinking about the United Arab Emirates<br />
(UAE). This is a nation that is complex and where government<br />
policy is based on economics rather than on Wahhabism, the<br />
official Islamic sect in the state. Tension building between the<br />
U.S. and Iraq and Iran inevitably jeopardizes the UAE’s desire<br />
to remain neutral in the region. This paper will look into<br />
the history of the UAE, its internal economic and political<br />
systems, as well as its regional and international policies.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Ghada Talhami<br />
Alexandra David ’08; Hopkins, Minnesota<br />
International Relations<br />
Kant’s Illiberal Liberalism and U.S. Democracy Promotion Policy:<br />
The Case of Iraq<br />
Democracy promotion is a central goal of American foreign<br />
policy. Its importance has grown measurably under the<br />
Clinton and George W. Bush administrations. America’s<br />
advancing democracy abroad is inspired by the “democratic<br />
peace” thesis, which finds its inspiration in Immanuel Kant’s<br />
“Perpetual Peace.” This thesis maintains that no two mature<br />
liberal democracies will ever war with one another. Yet<br />
evident in Kant’s thinking and the democratic peace thesis<br />
is the notion that mature democracies can employ illiberal<br />
practices to coerce or compel dictatorships into becoming<br />
democracies. The Bush administration’s invasion of Iraq in<br />
2003 nicely captures the paradoxical nature of advancing the<br />
cause of liberalism through illiberal means.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: James Marquardt<br />
Shaun Davis ’09; Shoreview, Minnesota; Biology<br />
Searching for the DNA Protective Cap Machinery in<br />
a Fungus<br />
Telomerase is a ribonucleoprotein that maintains telomeres,<br />
the repetitive sequences at the ends of linear chromosomes.<br />
To understand how the telomeres are regulated, we look at the<br />
telomerase RNA in the filamentous fungus Aspergillus nidulans.<br />
The RNA sequence is unknown, and searching for the 6bp<br />
telomeric repeat sequence template in the genome produces<br />
too many sequences to test. However, a related organism,<br />
A. oryzae, has a 12 bp telomeric repeat, and a search of this<br />
genome gave us only 13 possible sequences. We now are using<br />
RT-PCR to determine if any of these are transcribed.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Karen Kirk<br />
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Aleksandra Denisenko ’09; International Relations<br />
Realism and Russian Foreign Policy under Vladimir Putin<br />
Russian foreign policy toward the United States has changed<br />
since Vladimir Putin became the president of the Russian<br />
Federation in 1999. Initially, Putin adopted the policies of<br />
his predecessor, Boris Yeltsin, which promoted closer ties<br />
between a liberalizing Russia and the U.S. As time went on,<br />
however, Putin sought to distance Russia from the U.S. He<br />
characterized the U.S. as an aggressive country and, therefore,<br />
a main source of global instability. Realist theory offers a<br />
compelling explanation for this change, focusing as it does on<br />
Russia’s resurgence as a great power and its determination to<br />
balance American power on the world stage.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: James Marquardt<br />
Velvet Dennis ’08; Northbrook, Illinois; Education, English<br />
Elizabeth Milligan ’08; Education, History<br />
Applying Big Ideas in High School Humanities: Interdisciplinary<br />
Themes in Teaching<br />
This presentation showcases two unit plans created for high<br />
school English and history classrooms. The units are framed<br />
around big ideas based on Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe’s<br />
Understanding By Design curriculum model. One unit<br />
focuses on text-on-text reading and English skills through an<br />
investigation of the Harlem Renaissance’s use of voice. The<br />
second unit is an exploration of the historical problem of<br />
Frank Sinatra on the World War II home front. We discuss<br />
the big ideas behind the construction of these units and offer<br />
our insights about the use of these units in the secondary<br />
school classroom.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Rachel Ragland<br />
Timila Dhakhwa ’10; Kathmandu, Nepal<br />
Chemistry, Computers, Calculations: The Convergence of<br />
Science, Technology, and Math in Industrial Applications<br />
Ansa-zirconocenes are an important class of catalysts in<br />
the chemical industry and the current syntheses of ansazirconocenes<br />
result in a product mixture of diastereomers<br />
and enantiomers. The enantiomers are separated from the<br />
product mixture because of their commercial value. Jordan et<br />
al recently reported that ansa-zirconocenes that contain chiral<br />
chelated ligands, groups of atoms, can be enantioselectively<br />
synthesized. Therefore, we are exploring the impact of<br />
changes made to the identity of the chiral chelating ligand on<br />
enantioselectivity. We seek to determine which chelated ligand<br />
favors the formation of our desired enantiomer and to develop<br />
a new, rapid screening, computational approach to determine<br />
which chelating ligand gives the best enantioselectivity.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Dawn Wiser<br />
Mura Dominko ’10; Psychology<br />
William Stoner ’10; Psychology<br />
Exploring the Relationships between Personality, Intelligence,<br />
and Creativity<br />
Many researchers agree that personality can be described<br />
using five traits (i.e., The Big 5): openness to experience,<br />
conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and<br />
neuroticism. In this study, we explore whether these<br />
personality traits correlate with a variety of intelligence and<br />
creativity measures. To assess this question, 15 subjects<br />
completed an abbreviated Big 5 personality test, followed<br />
by four brief intelligence/creativity tests (i.e., mathematical<br />
sequences, dynamic images, analogies, and spatial insight).<br />
Results and implications are discussed.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Matthew Kelley<br />
Megan Doody ’09; Psychology<br />
Brittany Goldman ’09; Psychology<br />
Emily Venheim ’09; Psychology, German<br />
Exploring False Memories<br />
For years, eyewitness testimony has been the driving force<br />
behind jury verdicts. Lawyers have relied on it to prove their<br />
clients’ innocence or guilt, but current research has found these<br />
testimonies can be tainted by suggestibility and inaccurate<br />
information. This experiment explored a laboratory analog<br />
of the false memory effect and illustrates the relative ease with<br />
which humans elicit false memories. Participants viewed lists<br />
of words (e.g., bed, night) related to critical non-presented<br />
words (e.g., sleep). On a later recognition test, participants<br />
routinely recalled (falsely) the critical lure and yet they were<br />
highly confident that the word was an original list item.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Matthew Kelley<br />
Erin Doughty<br />
Joanne Kim<br />
Rachel Leppert<br />
Ruth Maynie<br />
Alex Moisi<br />
Michal Sorensen<br />
Brittany Willes<br />
“There Once Was a Man from Nantucket…”<br />
Think that poetry just isn’t for you? Think again. Let the<br />
writing club teach you the basics of poetry and creativity<br />
through the ultimate expressive medium: refrigerator<br />
magnets. That’s right folks – we’re taking Playskool to a whole<br />
new level here. Teams will have a limited amount of time to<br />
construct the most creative poems they can, but be prepared<br />
to encounter a few obstacles along the way. Prizes will be<br />
awarded to the teams that demonstrate the most ingenuity, but<br />
our panel of judges will determine the ultimate winner. If you<br />
like chaos, prizes, and surprises than this is the event for you.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Carla Arnell<br />
Katie DuBois ’08; Champaign, Illinois; Independent Scholar<br />
Shades of Gray: Defining the Line between Language and<br />
Dialect<br />
Asked to differentiate between a language and a dialect, most<br />
might respond that a dialect is a variety of a language and a<br />
language consists of a multitude of varieties that share a degree<br />
a mutual intelligibility. Linguistically, however, the answer is<br />
not that clear. As part of my research into Old High German<br />
and Old English, I have sought to determine the factors<br />
that made these distinct languages, and not varieties of one<br />
language. Among these factors are not just linguistic reasons,<br />
but also social and political influences such as ethnicity and<br />
national sovereignty.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Richard Fisher<br />
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Grace Dunford<br />
Sheiva Jahanban<br />
Lokesh Kukreja<br />
Krista Kusinski<br />
Brittany MacLeod<br />
Solmaz Shadman<br />
Sina Vahedi<br />
Expo on Biology: Teaching, Learning, & Exciting<br />
The Tri-Beta Biological Honor Society’s goal is to share and<br />
exchange knowledge in the life sciences with the campus<br />
community. Our exhibit is on the diversity of life that exists on<br />
earth and showcases the following organisms: yeast, bacteria,<br />
protists, worms, guppies and bugs. We will talk about why<br />
sex is important to sustaining and diversifying life, and we will<br />
highlight the ongoing research at <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Forest</strong> <strong>College</strong> on this<br />
question. The exhibit will cover the depth and breadth of<br />
biology by focusing on ecology/evolution, molecular genetics,<br />
developmental biology, and cell and molecular biology.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Anne Houde<br />
Kyle Endress ’08; Highland Park, Illinois; Communication<br />
Abraham Lincoln’s Timeless Rhetoric<br />
My investigation of Lincoln’s “Young Men’s Lyceum Address,”<br />
the “House Divided Address,” the “Gettysburg Address,” and<br />
the “First and Second Inaugural Addresses,” finds that Lincoln’s<br />
use of metaphors and attention to structure in these speeches<br />
make them timeless and a resource for future generations.<br />
Specifically, I will prove how Lincoln was an excellent orator<br />
whose speeches were able to overcome temporal boundaries<br />
by encouraging unity, participating in rational decision making<br />
and instilling Christian values and morals.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Linda Horwitz<br />
Michael Feng ’08; <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Forest</strong>, Illinois<br />
Elizabeth Pahomov ’11; Vernon Hills, Illinois; Biology<br />
Ping-Chung Ellen Wang ’10; Taipei, Taiwan; Music<br />
Weijing Zhu ’11; Changsha, Hunan, China<br />
Memory Recognition of Positive and Negative Words in <strong>Lake</strong><br />
<strong>Forest</strong> <strong>College</strong> Students<br />
Your professor is evil. Your best friend is loyal. Do any of<br />
these adjectives jump out at you? Researchers have found that<br />
positive or negative words elicit improved memory response<br />
when compared to neutral words. To better understand<br />
how affectively valenced stimuli affect memory, a test was<br />
constructed to examine memory recognition of positive versus<br />
negative words in <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Forest</strong> <strong>College</strong> students. Through<br />
statistical analyses of the data, the relationship between<br />
memory and affective word choice will be explained, as well as<br />
potential differences between genders.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Robert Glassman<br />
Nelka Fernando ’08; Columbia, Missouri<br />
Economics and Business<br />
The Local Economic Contribution of Day Laborers<br />
in Chicago<br />
Day labor is commonplace in the United States. On street<br />
corners throughout the county, laborers congregate in the<br />
hope that passers-by will hire them to work in their homes and<br />
businesses. At these corners are people from different racial<br />
and ethnic groups. With the influx of immigrants into the<br />
U.S. from Central and South America and the increased media<br />
attention to undocumented immigrants, day labor corners<br />
have come under a great deal of public scrutiny. This paper<br />
studies the consumption habits of day laborers on Belmont<br />
and Milwaukee Avenues in Chicago to demonstrate the local<br />
economic benefits of day labor corners.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Carolyn Tuttle<br />
Jessica Ferrell ’08; Tijeras, New Mexico<br />
Philosophy, Sociology & Anthropology<br />
Retribution and Respect: The Purpose of Punishment<br />
In “Persons and Punishment,” Herbert Morris argues<br />
that respect for rationality requires a retributive system of<br />
punishment. In this view, lawbreakers have a right to be<br />
punished, and any system of government that denies this right<br />
implicitly denies all fundamental rights and treats lawbreakers<br />
as less than fully rational. I defend a modified version of<br />
Morrisian retributivism, drawing on a Hobbesian justification<br />
of rights and rationality. This form of retributivism is not<br />
vengeance-based, as it requires a rationally-developed set of<br />
penal institutions that administer punishment only to rectify<br />
the social imbalance created by the lawbreaker.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Chad McCracken<br />
Andrew Ferrier ’08; Statford, Prince Edward Island, Canada;<br />
Biology<br />
Mutagenesis Screen In C. elegans Suggests Role of Mor Genes In<br />
Pharyngeal Development<br />
Organogenesis is a complex process involving increasingly<br />
restrictive genetic programs that ultimately result in a single<br />
differentiated cell type. To study the genetic mechanisms<br />
orchestrating organ development, our lab studies the pharynx<br />
of Caenorhabditis elegans as a model system. Specifically,<br />
we used a pharynx muscle protein, myosin-2, tagged with<br />
green fluorescent protein as a visual assay for abnormal<br />
development. Thus far, our lab has successfully established<br />
chromosomal linkage for 10 different mutants. For instance,<br />
the shortened, rounded pharynx phenotype of mor-1 was<br />
mapped to chromosome III. Furthermore, we found another<br />
14 similar phenotypes, which may represent at least two other<br />
genes, mor-2 and mor-3.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Pliny Smith<br />
Jacqueline Fiala ’08; Vernon Hills, Illinois; Biology<br />
Divergent Spring Migration Fueling Strategies in North American<br />
Songbirds<br />
Recent growth in stopover biology research has yielded a<br />
wealth of information on weight changes and food acquisition<br />
by birds both prior to migration and en route. However, it is<br />
still unknown how much migratory energy is acquired prior to<br />
migration versus en route. In this study, we set out to better<br />
understand the proportional reliance on pre-bulking versus<br />
en route feeding, and the variation across species, genera, and<br />
families, of North American migrant songbirds. We conclude<br />
that migrant fueling strategies are complex based on the few<br />
number of species that actually employed typical capital and<br />
income based fueling strategies.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Caleb Gordon<br />
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Joseph Figliulo ’08; Evanston, Illinois; History<br />
“What Kind of Men are These Good Men?”: Inquisition, Society<br />
and Dissent in Southern France, 1300-1325<br />
Why do people believe in outlawed ideas if such ideas<br />
result in their imprisonment or death? What can we learn<br />
from records of the Inquisition, an institution dedicated to<br />
suppressing the people whose actions it records? My thesis<br />
examines why medieval peasants believed in and supported the<br />
Cathar heresy in the face of mounting Inquisitional pressure.<br />
I will focus here on the testimony of Bernard Clergue, a local<br />
potentate whose support of heretics was related to his family’s<br />
domination of the area. Clergue’s deposition is a site of<br />
contestation between his informal power and the Inquisition,<br />
and also shows how Clergue’s beliefs relate to his standing and<br />
relationships in the community.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Anna Trumbore Jones<br />
Michael Fiske ’10; Northbrook, Illinois; Biology<br />
Insight into Parkinson’s Disease: Is Alpha-Synuclein’s 76th<br />
Amino Acid an Aggregate Inducer and Fat Lover?<br />
The misfolding and aggregation of the lipid-binding protein<br />
alpha-synuclein is thought to cause Parkinson’s disease, a<br />
devastating incurable neurodegenerative disorder. Why it<br />
misfolds remains a mystery. Recently, scientists mathematically<br />
modeled and predicted alpha-synuclein’s 76th amino acid<br />
(alanine) to be a key factor that mediates its propensity to<br />
aggregate and bind phospholipids, two properties linked<br />
to its toxicity. We tested this hypothesis by mutating this<br />
alanine to glutamic acid (A76E) and found that A76E-alphasynuclein<br />
aggregated less in fission yeast and bound the plasma<br />
membrane less in budding yeast. Our findings underscore<br />
the relevance of this amino acid in alpha-synuclein’s diseaselinked<br />
properties.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Shubhik DebBurman<br />
Caroline Fitz ’08; Westlake, Ohio; Psychology<br />
The Cognitive Costs of Suppressing One’s Thoughts: Emotion<br />
Regulation and the Ability to Delay Gratification<br />
What makes that bowl of ice cream so tempting after a fight<br />
with a loved one? More generally, why does impulse control<br />
break down during emotional distress? Ego depletion theory<br />
suggests that all acts that require self-regulation draw on one<br />
common, limited resource. By controlling our emotions<br />
during that fight with a loved one, this resource would be<br />
exhausted. Our self-control depleted, that ice cream looks more<br />
attractive than ever. But are there ways to deal with emotions<br />
without dipping into that limited self-control resource? My<br />
thesis research explored how different routes to dealing with<br />
emotions can conserve, or even facilitate, self-control.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Naomi Wentworth<br />
Caroline Fitz ’08; Westlake, Ohio; Psychology<br />
Gretchen Yehl ’09; Psychology<br />
Exploring the Influence of Cuing on Memory<br />
Given the choice to complete a memory test either with or<br />
without hints, most people would choose hints, assuming that<br />
the cues would facilitate recall. Unfortunately, hints often<br />
hinder our ability to recall desired knowledge—a phenomenon<br />
known as part-set cuing inhibition. Part-set cuing research has<br />
important theoretical implications but its ecological validity<br />
has been called into question. To explore the generality of this<br />
phenomenon, the current study examined part-set cuing in a<br />
variety of real-world situations (e.g., remembering grocery<br />
items while shopping, remembering locations from a campus<br />
tour). Results and implications are discussed.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Matthew Kelley<br />
Brittany Goldman ’09; Henderson, Nevada; Psychology<br />
Ironic Effects of Censorship<br />
When people are actively involved in generating information<br />
(e.g., solving a word fragment), they tend to remember that<br />
information better than when they process the information<br />
more passively (e.g., hearing a word). This phenomenon<br />
is known as the generation effect and the current study<br />
explored this effect within the context of lyrical censorship.<br />
Participants listened to and shadowed an original song which<br />
contained a mixture of partially or completely censored nouns.<br />
Participants were asked to repeat every word and generate<br />
the censored words throughout the song. Results showed an<br />
ironic effect of censorship: censored items were remembered<br />
significantly better than heard items.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Matthew Kelley<br />
Meg Golembiewski ’10; Chicago, Illinois; Music, English<br />
The Lodger and Leitmotifs: A Brief Glimpse of Scoring a Film for<br />
a Richter Project<br />
Where does one begin to compose a score for a ninetyminute<br />
film? The answer that Don Meyer, Dave Amrein, and<br />
I found over last summer was to approach the task by first<br />
considering the leitmotifs which we could employ to create<br />
a dialogue between the music and the action on the screen.<br />
The lecture will include a brief introduction to leitmotifs, an<br />
explanation of what leitmotifs we created, and the ways that<br />
we incorporated them into the music to create a score that<br />
could act both as narrative and commentary to Hitchcock’s<br />
1927 film, The Lodger.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: David Amrein<br />
Katie Gorga ’10; Omaha, Nebraska; Psychology<br />
Caterina Newren ’10; Chicago, Illinois; Psychology<br />
Marie-Louise Russell ’10; Portland, Oregon; Psychology<br />
Territoriality at the <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Forest</strong> <strong>College</strong> Crosswalk<br />
The present study explored whether <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Forest</strong> <strong>College</strong><br />
students exhibited territoriality while using the <strong>College</strong>’s<br />
primary crosswalk. Territoriality was operationally defined<br />
as (a) spending more time in the crosswalk in the presence<br />
of a car than in its absence and (b) choosing to walk in the<br />
presence of an approaching or stopped car instead of yielding<br />
the right-of-way. Seventy students were observed across two<br />
days and five time periods. <strong>College</strong> students exhibited some<br />
territoriality—they were more likely to walk rather than wait<br />
for a stopped or approaching car. Crossing time, however, did<br />
not differ significantly across conditions.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Matthew Kelley<br />
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Katie Gorga ’10; Omaha, Nebraska; Psychology<br />
Erika Torres ’10; Aurora, Illinois; Psychology<br />
Implicit Attitudes about Stereotypes<br />
The present study examined individuals’ implicit attitudes<br />
towards gender roles. In particular, we used the IAT (implicit<br />
association test) to explore the extent to which gender<br />
stereotypes are automatically activated in college students. The<br />
IAT compares differences in the speed of processing stereotypeconsistent<br />
information (e.g., man-career; woman-family) and<br />
stereotype-inconsistent information (e.g., man-family; womancareer).<br />
Results and implications are discussed.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Matthew Kelley<br />
Chloe Goya<br />
Robert Hendler<br />
Karen Larson<br />
Kamil Madejski<br />
Ben Tyler<br />
Aikido Demonstration<br />
The <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Forest</strong> Aikido Club would like to exhibit the results<br />
of their training this year. Aikido is a martial art developed<br />
by Morihei Ueshiba that focuses on self-defense through the<br />
redirection of an attacker’s energy.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Robert Hendler<br />
Meghan Grosse ’08; Fox River Grove, Illinois<br />
Communication and Politics<br />
National Public Radio Goes Online: An Investigation of the<br />
Impact of the Internet on Public Radio in the U.S.<br />
This presentation will explore the role of new media in the<br />
changing landscape of public radio stations. The rise of<br />
National Public Radio’s presence online, through webcasting<br />
and podcasting, and the increase in nationally distributed<br />
NPR programming has led to some significant changes (while<br />
also revealing consistencies over time). A historical analysis of<br />
NPR leads to a discussion of economic concerns, changes in<br />
the definition of community, and a shift in the understanding<br />
of what constitutes the public interest. Finally, an analysis of<br />
NPR member station websites and Chicago Public Radio’s<br />
Vocalo.org will outline specific trends in movement of public<br />
radio online.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: David Park<br />
Syeda Haider ’11; Chicago, Illinois<br />
Economics and Business, History<br />
Morocco and the Western Sahara<br />
Sovereignty over Western Sahara is one of the longest<br />
unresolved issues in modern African history. The dispute<br />
involves the Western Sahara whose people, the Sahrawis,<br />
are trying to achieve independence after Spain left the area<br />
and they were taken over by Morocco. The dispute involves<br />
Algeria and the African Union, which support the Sahrawis<br />
and the U.S., which supports Morocco.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Ghada Talhami<br />
Joel Hainsfurther ’09; Highland Park, Illinois; Politics<br />
George W. Bush’s Post-September 11th Rhetoric: Introducing<br />
the Bush Doctrine – 2002 West Point Commencement Address<br />
On June 1, 2002, President Bush delivered the commencement<br />
address at West Point in which he introduced the Bush<br />
Doctrine to the American people. Bush successfully garnered<br />
support for his policy by speaking exclusively in an epideictic<br />
voice. He relied on exaggeration and religious discourse as<br />
rhetorical devices which enabled him to speak solely in an<br />
epideictic manner. This strategy allowed Bush to speak as<br />
America’s voice and equate affirmation of his policy to support<br />
of America. Consequentially, Bush diverted Americans’<br />
attention away from the Bush Doctrine and towards himself,<br />
eliminating room for audience dissent.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Linda Horwitz<br />
Ashley Hall ’10; Moreland Hills, Ohio<br />
American Studies, Theater<br />
Ali Hoefnagel ’10; Theater<br />
Aeschylus’ Agamemnon: A Critical Examination and<br />
Performance of a Scene<br />
We will explore the classic Greek tragedy Agamemnon by<br />
Aeschylus. Following a brief overview of the play and its<br />
historical and mythological context, we will examine a specific<br />
scene – Clytemnestra convinces Agamemnon to step onto the<br />
red carpet – demonstrating how critical analysis can inform<br />
the choices one makes in staging the play.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Richard Pettengill<br />
Samantha Hartwig<br />
Tara Haskins<br />
Nicole Nodi<br />
Kevin Russette<br />
Emily Shanahan<br />
The Study Abroad Experience: What Does It Mean?<br />
Studying abroad is an enriching experience that can foster<br />
both academic and personal growth. One’s expectations<br />
are often challenged in encounters with foreign languages,<br />
unfamiliar environments, and cultural differences. How can<br />
a student meet these challenges, develop new coping skills,<br />
overcome seemingly negative encounters, and then integrate<br />
this experience into a deeper understanding of the foreign<br />
culture as well as of one’s own. What is the ultimate impact<br />
of such an experience, while it is occurring and immediately<br />
after? What will be remembered ten years later, and what will<br />
be different as a result of that experience?<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Janet Miller<br />
Tara Haskins ’08; St. Louis, Missouri<br />
Philosophy, Sociology and Anthropology<br />
A Social Attitude towards the Aesthetics of Thai Buddhism<br />
Much of the aesthetic analysis of Thai Buddhist art comes<br />
from a modern, Western, perspective that does it injustice.<br />
Instead, the role of the aesthetic as a religious category must<br />
be understood through its treatment as social phenomena.<br />
The temples, amulets and Buddha image in Thai Buddhism<br />
facilitate social interactions. The economic implications of<br />
the reproduction of amulets and Buddha images would suggest<br />
to most critics a blasphemous turn in the religious aesthetic.<br />
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However, by taking the aesthetic to be a social construct, we<br />
can understand how modern Thai Buddhist art and artifacts<br />
remain sacred.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Janet McCracken<br />
Spenser Hicks ’08; Glendale, Wisconsin; Biology<br />
Internship Project: Sexual Behavior in Female Western Lowland<br />
Gorillas at the Lincoln Park Zoo<br />
Western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) are a highly<br />
intelligent and social species of primates. Conservation of<br />
these animals has been a major project for zoos worldwide<br />
due to habitat destruction and hunting. In order to help<br />
maintain a stable population, it is necessary to understand<br />
variations in female sexual behavior. With the direction of<br />
Sue Margulis, the Curator of Primates at the Lincoln Park<br />
Zoo in Chicago, I participated in an observational study of<br />
female western lowland gorilla behavior. Data from this study<br />
will give zoos a better perspective on reproductive success and<br />
gorilla compatibility.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Lynn Westley<br />
Rahsaan Islam ’09; International Relations<br />
The Idea of Rising India in the 21st Century<br />
Much attention is being given to India’s emergence as a global<br />
actor. The country’s integration into the world economy<br />
in particular has led many to speak of a “natural alliance”<br />
between India and the United States. This discourse reflects<br />
the thinking of American and Indian elites who imagine their<br />
two nations as a common force for democracy and economic<br />
liberalization worldwide - and a counter-balancer to a rising<br />
China. This discourse misrepresents India’s strategic choices.<br />
India is indeed committed to improving ties with the U.S., but<br />
not at the expense of better ties with China and other powers.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: James Marquardt<br />
Chris Janjigian<br />
The Monetary Failure of Zimbabwe<br />
Zimbabwe currently suffers from one of the worst monetary<br />
crises in modern history, with annual inflation estimates as high<br />
as 150,000 percent. The national economy is contracting, the<br />
country is plagued by rampant famine, and the government<br />
is notoriously corrupt. Though international aid agencies<br />
periodically attempt to intervene, there is a notable paucity<br />
of research on how best to combat these staggering problems.<br />
This paper identifies the causes of stagflation (high inflation<br />
and negative GDP growth) and considers various monetary<br />
policy proposals to alleviate the country’s various and severe<br />
economic and social difficulties.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Les Dlabay<br />
Ellen Jefferys-White ’08; Arden Hills, Illinois<br />
Economics and Business, Religion<br />
Sikhism and America<br />
In 1968, a man named Harbhajan Singh Khalsa Yogiji arrived<br />
in the United States. He began teaching a form of yoga called<br />
Kundalini, but soon became a spiritual leader. He belonged<br />
to the Sikh religion, which originated in India 500 years ago.<br />
Through his teachings, a Sikh conversion movement took<br />
place in the United States throughout the 1970s. This talk<br />
will look at this movement and its followers. It will examine the<br />
communities of converted Sikhs, their relationships with ethnic<br />
Sikhs and the unique challenges faced by the practitioners.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Catherine Benton<br />
Sudin Kansakar ’09; Kathmandu, Nepal<br />
Economics, Mathematics<br />
Casey Tompkins ’08; Wheeling, Illinois; Mathematics<br />
Counting the Fibonacci Numbers<br />
We present a talk on the properties of the famous Fibonacci<br />
sequence. This sequence, defined by the simple rule that<br />
each term is the sum of the previous two, is widespread in<br />
mathematics and in nature. We show how several wellknown<br />
Fibonacci identities can be derived simply by counting<br />
something in two different ways.<br />
Lokesh Kukreja ’08; Highland Park, Illinois; Biology<br />
Insight into Parkinson’s Disease: Does Alpha-Synuclein Binding<br />
to Phospholipids Regulate its Toxicity?<br />
Parkinson’s disease is an incurable brain illness that fatally afflicts<br />
over a million Americans. The misfolding and aggregation of<br />
alpha-synuclein plays a ruinous role in this disease, but how<br />
the protein becomes toxic is unclear. Using yeasts as model<br />
organisms, my project explores the hypothesis that alphasynuclein<br />
toxicity depends on plasma membrane phospholipid<br />
binding. To test this, we stimulated cellular phospholipid<br />
synthesis in yeasts that expressed alpha-synuclein by treating<br />
them with increasing levels of dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO,<br />
a phospholipid inducer). Our preliminary observations<br />
demonstrated some DMSO-dependent toxicity, but its alphasynuclein<br />
dependence is still unresolved. These experiments<br />
are currently being repeated to obtain further clarity.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Shubhik DebBurman<br />
Nicki Larson ’10; Physics<br />
Measuring Lamp Efficiencies<br />
Energy consumption in the home is of chief concern to many<br />
of today’s consumers. One very simple way to lower energy<br />
costs is through one’s choice in home lighting. In this context,<br />
efficiency is measured as the ratio of useful light output as<br />
compared to how much energy the lamp requires to run. In this<br />
study, four main styles of lamps were compared: incandescent,<br />
fluorescent and halogen lights, as well as light emitting diodes,<br />
more commonly known as LEDs. LED technology is the<br />
most efficient; however, it remains unavailable on a large scale,<br />
leaving fluorescents as the next best option.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Scott Schappe<br />
Vernard Lockhart ’08; Chicago, Illinois; Philosophy<br />
The Time of Our Lives<br />
Temporality is a very important aspect of our life on earth. I<br />
will argue that despite the limits imposed on our life by time,<br />
we can overcome its victimization by drawing upon memory<br />
and anticipation through faith, love, and virtue, allowing us to<br />
transcend into eternity. I will explore the limits of time and<br />
eternity, with particular attention to St. Augustine, in order to<br />
analyze how we can measure our lives meaningfully.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Janet McCracken<br />
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Carolyn Lowry ’08; Ripon, Wisconsin<br />
International Relations, Economics<br />
Applications of Prospect Theory to International Relations<br />
Prospect theory, a theory of behavioral economics, is emerging<br />
as a means of analysis for international decision-making.<br />
Using concepts like risk behaviors, the status quo bias, and<br />
framing, prospect theory breaks the decision-making process<br />
into two phases, editing and evaluation. This presentation<br />
will examine the emergence of prospect theory, case studies<br />
of international relations, and a contemporary case study of<br />
Turkish foreign policy.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Amanda Felkey<br />
Angie Ma ’08; Edmonds, Washington; Music<br />
Transcription vs. Orchestration<br />
Transcription is the act of adapting live/recorded music to<br />
a notated form. Orchestration is the act of composing and<br />
arranging music for an orchestra. I learned the art of both<br />
this year, from transcribing Sufjan Steven’s “Illinois” album<br />
with Instructor Dave Amrein for the orchestra and chorus,<br />
then composing and orchestrating my own song cycle. The<br />
two seem like very similar components within the process of<br />
writing down music, but actually call for diametrically opposed<br />
skills and mindsets: listening down through layers of timbres<br />
and rhythms, versus building and creating layers of timbres<br />
and rhythms that do not exist yet.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: David Amrein<br />
Julie Maskulka<br />
A Comparison of Informal Economic Activities in Developing and<br />
Industrialized Settings<br />
Starting in the early 1970s, an approach for studying<br />
unstructured business activities developed among sociologists<br />
and economists. An array of terms and descriptions for informal<br />
economic activities surfaced, indicating the heterogeneity<br />
among these unregistered business enterprises. Most often,<br />
the informal sector is an economic response to the political<br />
inequities of a society. As a result, the extent of informal<br />
business is usually related to the absence of jobs provided by a<br />
nation’s industrial base.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Les Dlabay<br />
Cheryl-Lynn May ’08; Skokie, Illinois; Art<br />
Portraits in ‘Littell’: Women Miniaturists in Early America<br />
American art historiography has traditionally illustrated the<br />
founding of our nation’s art history as a purely masculine<br />
enterprise. Contemporary research reveals the names of<br />
women artists who played their own role in establishing the<br />
fine arts in America. These artists seized the opportunities<br />
available to them in ingenious ways. Their stories enlarge<br />
the history of early American art. Focusing on the portrait<br />
miniature, I explore the contributions of women artists to<br />
the evolution of American art. Grounded in American social<br />
history, with close attention paid to gender, this analysis<br />
examines the impact of a developing national identity on<br />
creative representations.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Ann Roberts<br />
Ruth Maynie ’10; Chicago, Illinois; English<br />
Michal Sorenson ’08; Libertyville, Illinois<br />
English, Communication<br />
Carlee Taggart ’10; Buffalo, New York<br />
Sociology and Anthropology<br />
Creative Writing from the English Department<br />
This panel will feature three students reading from their<br />
creative work. Michal Sorensen will read a memoir from<br />
her senior thesis in creative nonfiction, which explores the<br />
conflicting theories of fate and free will and the ways in which<br />
they have influenced her own decisions. Ruth Maynie will<br />
read “Witch Hunt,” a piece that exemplifies her desire as a<br />
writer to raise her voice about that which is not discussed.<br />
Carlee Taggart will read a poem about her hometown that<br />
manifests “some constant internal need to prove to the rest<br />
of the world that Buffalo is a legitimate city mixed with mild<br />
obsession with its flaws.”<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Joshua Corey<br />
Kylie McGonigal ’08; Omaha, Nebraska<br />
Sociology and Anthropology<br />
A Weberian Understanding of the Institutionalization and<br />
Rationalization of Ghanaian Healthcare<br />
Medical care in Ghana was dominated by a system based on<br />
religious beliefs in spirits and ancestors until the colonial era<br />
when Christianity and missionaries introduced westernized<br />
medicine. A chasm between the two systems resulted. In<br />
the middle 1960s, the two systems attempted to work<br />
together to form one system which combined traditional and<br />
western techniques. The conflicts and compromises can be<br />
viewed fruitfully through Weber’s eyes. Weberian models<br />
of rationalization and reinstitutionalization specific to the<br />
development of the legal system parallels the development of<br />
the health care system in Ghana.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: David Boden<br />
Thomas McMahon ’08; Campbell, California<br />
Art and Psychology<br />
The Visual Rhetoric of AIDS Activist Group Gran Fury<br />
Although the growing epidemic of AIDS had resulted in<br />
23,174 diagnoses by 1985, the U.S. government response was<br />
silence. AIDS activists shattered this silence in 1986 by using<br />
the visual arts as a rhetorical weapon. Mass-produced images<br />
offered both shock value and the opportunity to direct clear<br />
messages to people of all classes. This paper examines how<br />
the AIDS activist collective Gran Fury utilized visual rhetoric<br />
to both educate the public and call individuals to action.<br />
Examining their work and its influence, I argue that the group<br />
had achieved their goal by the time they retired in 1995.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Ann Roberts<br />
André O. Meeks ’08; Aurora, Illinois<br />
Graduate Program in Liberal Studies<br />
Beyond Personal Identity: An Inquiry Concerning Socially<br />
Mediated Individuality<br />
Many philosophers and social theorists have taken the position<br />
that due to the anarchy of the natural world man created a civil<br />
society. If this holds true, then one is lead to ask what role<br />
individuality plays in the larger social context. Specifically, is<br />
society a composite of autonomous individuals or does<br />
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the individual arise once socialized? I pose that, contrary<br />
to popular thought, society is not a product of voluntary<br />
cohesion but an inevitability of human existence, and that<br />
individuals garner their sense of individuality through their<br />
social/cultural/historical contexts.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Ahmad Sadri<br />
Elizabeth Milligan ’08; Westminster, Colorado<br />
Education and History<br />
Educating Students, Empowering Citizens<br />
This presentation will address the purpose and goals of<br />
social studies education, specifically within the social<br />
reconstructionist theoretical framework. The thesis puts forth<br />
a “4 E” framework, outlining the philosophy and application of<br />
social studies and citizenship education. The 4 E framework<br />
calls on social studies educators to educate, engage, equip,<br />
and empower students as learners and citizens. The 4 E<br />
framework is explored in a 21st Century context through a<br />
case study on the Darfur student movement, examining the<br />
effects of student civic participation on learning and teaching<br />
in the high school.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Rachel Ragland<br />
Eric Murphy ’08; Vernon Hills, Illinois; Independent Scholar<br />
“It ain’t all in the head!”<br />
Where (or where isn’t) consciousness? In what conceptual or<br />
physical space does consciousness spread its influence? How<br />
does asking the Mind/Body question this way relate to the<br />
increasing complexity of reality and knowledge that (I believe)<br />
occurs over history, teleologically? How can we use the tools<br />
of philosophy of mind, literary criticism, and religious studies<br />
to answer these questions?<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Janet McCracken<br />
Jenny Murphy ’08; Skokie, Illinois; English, Spanish<br />
Women in Spain: A Historical Perspective and a Literary<br />
Analysis<br />
During my semester abroad in Seville, Spain, I studied Spanish<br />
women from a literary and historical perspective. Because of<br />
the country’s constant battle between tradition and progress,<br />
dictatorship and democracy, contemporary Spanish women<br />
particularly interest me. Lucía Graves’ memoir discusses<br />
women’s lives directly preceding and during Franco’s Catholic<br />
dictatorship while Soledad Puértolas’ novel Queda la noche<br />
treats the remarkable and rapid modernization of Spain after<br />
Franco’s death in 1975. I also examine more recent changes<br />
through my interviews of Spanish and American women who<br />
have lived in Spain.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Lois Barr<br />
Samantha Newman ’08; Berea, Kentucky; Art<br />
Domesticating Impressionism<br />
Nineteenth-century Paris experienced an increase in the<br />
visibility of prostitution both in the streets and in the arts. As<br />
a result, potentially any woman who was seen in public had<br />
her values and identity questioned. Male Impressionists were<br />
free to represent prostitution, but the subject is absent in the<br />
work of Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, and Eva Gonzalès.<br />
This paper explores the themes in the paintings of these three<br />
women compared to those of their male counterparts and how<br />
they balanced their public careers and the social mores that<br />
confined females to domestic roles.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Ann Roberts<br />
Caterina Newren ’10; Chicago, Illinois; Psychology<br />
Exploring Change Detection<br />
This study explored the phenomenon of change blindness.<br />
Participants viewed two alternating pictures and were asked to<br />
detect any differences in the scenes as quickly as possible. Half<br />
the trials were ‘flicker’ trials in which the pictures were separated<br />
by a grey screen, whereas the remaining trials contained no<br />
intervening grey screen (i.e., no flicker). Consistent with past<br />
research, participants were faster and more accurate when<br />
detecting changes in the no flicker condition because the grey<br />
screen effectively masked the changes in the flicker condition.<br />
Implications are discussed.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Matthew Kelley<br />
Patrick Nicholas ’08; Beloit, Wisconsin<br />
Major: Economics and Business, Spanish<br />
El Supermercado Muy Grande: The Economic Impact of Wal-<br />
Mart in the United States and Mexico<br />
Wal-Mart has the reputation as a mega-retailer whose<br />
aggressive, price-cutting strategy has come at the expense<br />
of the many communities in which it operates. Focusing on<br />
the savings offered to consumers, wages paid to employees,<br />
industry effects, and philanthropic endeavors, this paper<br />
demonstrates that Wal-Mart has had an overall positive impact<br />
on the economies of the United States and Mexico.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Carolyn Tuttle<br />
Terese “Beth” Noe ’10; Gurnee, Illinois<br />
Pre-Health and Biology, French<br />
Age-dependent Stopover Ecology of Male American Redstarts<br />
during Spring Migration<br />
Previous studies suggest that in the American Redstart, a small<br />
migratory bird, older individuals are more suited to the task of<br />
migration each spring than younger individuals, which should<br />
be reflected in physiological characteristics, such as decreased<br />
fat stores, increased feather wear, and poor condition indices.<br />
Using data from birds mist-netted at SWAMP in <strong>Lake</strong><br />
<strong>Forest</strong>, Illinois, I investigated whether second-year birds are<br />
at a physiological disadvantage to older birds during spring<br />
migration, and found that on the contrary, fat stores and<br />
condition indices are similar. This suggests younger birds<br />
may have mechanisms to compensate for their disadvantages,<br />
such as delayed departure from wintering grounds.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Caleb Gordon<br />
Kathryn Parker ’08; Franklin, Tennessee; Art<br />
Victorian Women in London’s National Portrait Gallery<br />
In 1856, a group of prominent men founded Britain’s National<br />
Portrait Gallery to create and establish a national identity. It<br />
celebrated Britain’s power, past and present, and attempted to<br />
control rising social revolutions through examples of proper<br />
behavior provided by the portraits. Proper behavior entailed<br />
the Trustees’ beliefs about the appropriate roles for women in<br />
society, including moral guide, mother, queen, and model of<br />
feminine beauty. The Museum Board’s acceptance and<br />
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ejection of particular portraits expose their bias regarding the<br />
ideal woman of the Victorian Era.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Ann Roberts<br />
Ava Phisuthikul ’10; Seattle, Washington; Psychology<br />
Examining the Effect of Encoding-Retrieval Matches on Memory<br />
Performance: An Illustration of the Encoding Specificity<br />
Principle<br />
The Encoding Specificity Principle states that the ability to<br />
remember an event depends on the degree of match between<br />
encoding and retrieval conditions. Participants viewed short<br />
sentences in which an adjective and a noun were capitalized<br />
(e.g., the cow jumped over the moon made of GREEN<br />
CHEESE). On a later memory test, participants viewed<br />
noun-adjective pairs and indicated whether they had seen the<br />
noun earlier in the experiment. Adjectives were varied so that<br />
on some trials they matched the study phase, whereas on other<br />
trials they did not. Participants recall accuracy was best when<br />
the encoding and retrieval conditions matched.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Matthew Kelley<br />
David Piper ’08; Roscoe, Illinois; Biology<br />
Dynamics of Tooth Decay<br />
Many people go to the dentist, brush, floss, and avoid certain<br />
foods in order to prevent cavities, however many do not<br />
understand the biology behind the disease. While dental<br />
caries is arguably the most common disease of teeth, its<br />
pathology is not well understood by individuals outside the<br />
field of dentistry. This presentation will not only explain<br />
the pathology, but also emphasize how and why the specific<br />
preventive practices are important. My goal is to explore this<br />
topic that is relevant to everyday life by discussing the biology<br />
behind dental caries and to reinforce proper dental hygiene.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Lynn Westley<br />
Shruti Pore ’08; Gurnee, Illinois; Biology, French<br />
Role of Calcium in Cell Volume Regulation by Alligator<br />
Erythrocytes<br />
Animal cells exposed to dilute media swell as a result of water<br />
influx. To recover, they initiate regulatory volume decrease<br />
(RVD) whereby cells selectively lose osmolytes and water. The<br />
control and signal transduction processes of RVD are not well<br />
understood and vary among species and cell types. The purpose<br />
of my study was to elucidate pathways involved in RVD by<br />
American alligator erythrocytes. My results are most consistent<br />
with a swelling-activated, calcium-dependent, P2 receptormediated<br />
potassium efflux during RVD. Future studies will<br />
continue to assess the role of calcium in RVD and also examine<br />
intracellular levels of calcium using fluorescence microscopy.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Douglas Light<br />
Samantha Pusateri ’09; Elk Grove Village, Illinois; Biology<br />
Melissa Schramm ’09; Gurnee, Illinois; Biology<br />
Jennilee Wallace ’09; Portland, Jamaica; Biology<br />
The Influence of Social Environment on Guppy Courtship<br />
Behavior<br />
Male guppies use two strategies when pursuing females:<br />
sneak copulation attempts and sigmoid displays. We asked<br />
the question “does social environment affect male courtship<br />
strategy?” We observed focal males in social environments<br />
consisting of exclusively males, exclusively females, both males<br />
and females, and only a focal male and female. Our results<br />
suggest that social environment does affect male courtship<br />
behavior; displays were more frequent in a social environment<br />
with females, displays to a focal female were more frequent<br />
in a social environment without other individuals present,<br />
and sneak copulation attempts were more frequent in social<br />
environments containing males.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Anne Houde<br />
Doug Rank ’08; Des Plaines, Illinois; Physics, Math<br />
Electron Collisions with Supersonically-Cooled Molecules<br />
Emission cross sections can tell us what proportion of light<br />
we can expect to see molecules emit at some wavelengths<br />
versus others. The emissions of very cold sources result in a<br />
less cluttered spectrum that is easier to analyze. In supersonic<br />
expansion, gas exits a reservoir into a vacuum through a small<br />
aperture. The gas cools drastically as it expands, reaching less<br />
than 10 degrees Kelvin in our experiment. We observe the<br />
fluorescence of nitrogen using this method and confirm the<br />
presence of the cooled gas.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Scott Schappe<br />
Greg Reger ’08; Overland Park, Kansas<br />
Economics and Business<br />
The Impact of “Green” Announcements on Firm Value<br />
Doesn’t it seem as though every company is “going green?” Are<br />
companies giving in to tree-huggers’ propaganda, or is there a<br />
financial boon from going the way of Kermit the Frog? This<br />
presentation is a summary of an independent study project<br />
from last semester wherein I sought to discover what happens<br />
to a company’s stock price when the company “goes green.” By<br />
utilizing a combination of econometric models, mathematical<br />
probability, financial data from a variety of firms, and organic<br />
energy beverages, I determined the result of this initiative over<br />
a one-day announcement period, in comparison to the relative<br />
market index.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Jeffrey Sundberg<br />
Nick Rennis ’08; Grayslake, Illinois; Communication<br />
Space/Music: An Investigation of the Meaning of New Media to<br />
Music’s Relationship with Geography<br />
This paper will investigate how music composition,<br />
performance, production, and distribution relate to space/<br />
geography, and how this relationship changes with the<br />
introduction of new media. In particular, the focus here will<br />
be placed on how the internet and other recent technical<br />
innovations have adjusted how ‘locally’ produced music<br />
operates, as the media that are used to propagate this music<br />
begin to relate differently to space.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: David Park<br />
Wendy Rhodes ’09; Deerfield, Illinois<br />
Graduate Program in Liberal Studies<br />
Intercultural Dialogue in Higher Education and Its Impact on<br />
Social Justice<br />
Over the past three years, a freshman seminar at <strong>Lake</strong><br />
<strong>Forest</strong> <strong>College</strong>—Intercultural Awareness and Dialogue—has<br />
demonstrated that dialogue among students of different<br />
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cultures can yield significant results. How does the <strong>College</strong>’s<br />
program fit into the bigger picture? What other programs<br />
are in place in higher education? What preceded them? And<br />
do they have an impact on social justice? My research seeks<br />
to understand educational initiatives promoting intercultural<br />
dialogue in higher education and their impact on social<br />
justice through classroom observation, review of secondary<br />
literature, and interviews of faculty and staff at <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Forest</strong><br />
<strong>College</strong> and other institutions. The talk will address<br />
preliminary results.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Rob Flot, Carol Gayle<br />
Aaron Salman ’09; Santa Fe, New Mexico<br />
Economics and Business, Spanish<br />
An Ethical Examination of the Ford Explorer/Firestone<br />
Controversy<br />
At the end of the 1980s and early 1990s, Ford and Firestone<br />
collaborated with one another in preparation for the launch<br />
of the new Ford Explorer. However, the success of the new<br />
Explorer was plagued with a series of fatal roll-over accidents<br />
caused by faulty Firestone tires and the flawed design from<br />
the Explorer itself. Despite the initial string of fatalities, both<br />
Ford and Firestone purposefully hid the information from<br />
consumers, resulting in more than 200 deaths worldwide.<br />
From an ethical standpoint, both Ford and Firestone clearly<br />
violated Milton Friedman’s Limits of Business by knowingly<br />
misleading consumers.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Steve Tamelleo<br />
Laney Shaler ’08; Woodstock, Illinois<br />
Economics and Business, International Relations<br />
Labor Migration and Policy Responses: The EU and NAFTA<br />
This presentation explains the policy responses of European<br />
Union (EU) and North American Free Trade Area (NAFTA)<br />
countries to increased labor immigration. The EU allows<br />
for the free movement of peoples between many of its<br />
Member States, and labor migration into an EU country<br />
(e.g., Germany) from a non-EU country (e.g., Turkey) is<br />
only moderately coordinated among the EU’s Member<br />
States. By comparison, NAFTA does not allow for the free<br />
movement of labor among its Member States, and there is<br />
no policy coordination among them. I address differences in<br />
immigration policy of the EU and two NAFTA nations, the<br />
United States and Mexico. Given that borders are porous in<br />
both instances, I consider the impact migrants have on labor<br />
markets and wages.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Carolyn Tuttle<br />
Lital Silverman ’08; Buffalo Grove, Illinois; Biology<br />
Arachidonic Acid and Cell Volume Regulation in Alligator<br />
Erythrocytes<br />
Normal cell metabolism may cause cells to swell and burst<br />
through osmotic changes. To maintain homeostasis, cells<br />
undergo regulatory volume decrease (RVD), in which specific<br />
ions exit the cells. By exposing American Alligator red blood<br />
cells (RBC) to a variety of extracellular environments and<br />
measuring their size electronically, our lab has found that<br />
the RVD response depends on both Ca2+ influx and K+<br />
efflux. In addition, inhibition of phospholipase A2 reduced<br />
RVD. This, along with studies using other pharmacological<br />
agents, indicate that Ca2+ influx leads to a signaling pathway<br />
involving arachadonic acid, which in turn stimulates K+<br />
efflux, thereby leading to RVD.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Douglas Light<br />
Ben Simpson ’08; Great Falls, Montana; Physics<br />
Granular Compaction under an Applied Force<br />
A granular material is any system made of lots of macroscopic<br />
particles. They are as familiar as table salt and rockslides,<br />
but the physics behind their behavior is analogous to subjects<br />
as diverse as traffic flow and the creation of planets. A<br />
collection of grains will become more dense if it is disturbed<br />
by tapping. Curiously, a granular system needs to expand<br />
slightly before it can compact. By preventing a system of<br />
tapped grains from expanding, we separated two previously<br />
unobserved compaction processes. These results are relevant<br />
to engineering, pharmaceutical production, and other<br />
industrial processes.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Nathan Mueggenburg<br />
Lavinia Sinitean ’08; Chicago, Illinois; Biology<br />
Iodine Status in Individuals from a Rural and Urban Area in<br />
Bolivia<br />
In this study, I evaluated the urinary iodine concentration of a<br />
population in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. I hypothesized that iodine<br />
deficient values would be more common in a rural population<br />
compared to an urban one. In the summer of 2006, urine and<br />
blood samples were collected from approximately 183 rural and<br />
110 urban patients. Iodine concentrations in the samples were<br />
determined using the Sandell-Kolthoff method. My results<br />
indicate that iodine deficiency still persists in both populations<br />
in Santa Cruz. Consequently, a national study on the overall<br />
status of iodine nutrition in Bolivia would be beneficial.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Douglas Light<br />
Michal Sorensen ’08; Libertyville, Illinois<br />
English and Communication<br />
“I looked upon her with a soldier’s eye”: When Warriors Marry<br />
in Othello and Much Ado about Nothing<br />
Othello and Claudio treat the women they claim to love with<br />
extraordinary cruelty. This paper argues that both plays<br />
suggest that when soldiers turn from waging battle against<br />
physical enemies, they channel their hostilities to conquering<br />
the domestic sphere—specifically the battles of courtship and<br />
marriage. When they are gulled into believing their lovers are<br />
unfaithful, Claudio and Othello embrace a distorted martial<br />
mentality that convinces them that their innocent women are<br />
“traitors” deserving severe punishment.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Richard Mallette<br />
Austin Stewart ’10; Edmond, Oklahoma; Religion, Philosophy<br />
William James: An Argument for Religion’s Legitimacy<br />
Even non-physicists are willing to admit that physics is a<br />
legitimate discipline. But what about religion? If we are<br />
talking about religious organizations and the number of their<br />
adherents, then we have some standards for objectivity. But<br />
William James is interested neither in membership statistics<br />
nor in any of the more objective aspects of religion. His book,<br />
The Varieties of Religious Experience, by its very title exposes<br />
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his focus on the most subjective aspect of religion: someone’s<br />
experience of what they consider to be divine or holy. And this<br />
is precisely where religion’s subject matter becomes a matter<br />
of controversy.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Ron Miller<br />
Carly Stickles ’08; Environmental Studies<br />
The Role of Mycorrhizal Fungi in the Spread of Non-native Plants<br />
into Prairies<br />
Mycorrhizal relationships between fungi and plants involve<br />
contact between the underground fungal mycelia and plant<br />
roots, but the fungi do not parisitize the plants. Greenhouse<br />
and field experiments were used to test arbuscular mychorrizal<br />
fungi (AMF) dependency in exotic and native prairie species,<br />
and the relationship between AMF diversity and the<br />
susceptibility of prairie communities to invasion by non-native<br />
plant species. I stained roots collected from multiple prairie<br />
sites and prepared slides of each; analyzed the samples and<br />
counted hyphae, vesicles, arbuscules, coils, and non-colonized<br />
roots. Louise Egerton-Warburton at the Chicago Botanic<br />
Garden will use these data to analyze the role of AMF in exotic<br />
species invasions.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Lynn Westley<br />
Hannah Stoltz ’10; Louisville, Kentucky; English<br />
Technical Writing: Creating Multi-Media Training Materials for<br />
Microsoft Office and Adobe Products<br />
End-User technical training is a necessary component of<br />
optimum performance and productivity in every computer<br />
process and system. <strong>Lake</strong> <strong>Forest</strong> <strong>College</strong> has invested a great<br />
deal of money in various software programs, the most widely<br />
used of which are Microsoft Office and Adobe products.<br />
Commercial training systems are costly and add up over time.<br />
Therefore, we are customizing our own Microsoft Office and<br />
Adobe training materials for use in instructor-led sessions,<br />
as well as for online reference. These tutorials include<br />
instructions for level one lessons in Microsoft Office 2003,<br />
2007, and Adobe Photoshop and will be used in coming years<br />
for teaching students, staff, and professors at the college.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Connie Corso<br />
Iulia Strambeanu ’08; Chemistry<br />
Sonogashira Cross-Coupling Reactions of Substituted Pyridines<br />
Cross - coupling of some five different terminal alkynes to the<br />
heterocyclic molecule pyridine by the Sonogashira reaction<br />
provides an interesting group of compounds that are of value<br />
as precursors for the potential monoamine oxidase inhibitors.<br />
Coupled pyridines and aminopyridines have been successfully<br />
prepared using this synthetic route. All of the examples to date<br />
have shown great dependence on the specific set of reaction<br />
conditions used such as type of catalyst, reaction temperature<br />
and reaction time. The majority of these reactions also formed<br />
side products and homo—coupling products, the formation of<br />
which will be described.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: William Martin<br />
Kelebogile Tlhokwane ’11; Gaborone, Botswana<br />
Economics and Business, French<br />
Could This Evil be Necessary? Child Labor in India<br />
If it is known that the benefits of some actions outweigh the<br />
costs, could it ever be acceptable to allow obvious violations<br />
of human rights to continue in the short term? This difficult,<br />
morally driven question is that which I address in my research<br />
concerning the prevalence of child labor in sweatshops in<br />
India. Usually, multinational corporations immediately recall<br />
items that have been produced by child laborers and many<br />
people would agree that this is the best humanitarian response.<br />
This paper examines the implications of such actions for those<br />
workers left jobless.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Steve Tammelleo<br />
Taylor Tuscherer ’10; Sioux Falls, South Dakota; Psychology<br />
Good Parents Stop Genital Warts: An Analysis of the HPV<br />
Vaccine Controversy<br />
On June 8th, 2006 the FDA approved Merck-manufactured<br />
Gardasil, the first vaccine designed to protect against HPV.<br />
Merck’s marketing campaign with its invasive lobbying and<br />
highly-visible mass media advertisements had the effect<br />
of moving a private issue into public space. Minimal in its<br />
campaign was the sexually-transmitted nature of HPV and in its<br />
stead was rhetoric designed to heighten fears of HPV and cast<br />
parents’ unwillingness to vaccinate their children as careless<br />
and irresponsible. While Merck’s argument that ‘good’ parents<br />
vaccinate is not inherently tenable it nevertheless proved to<br />
be extremely difficult to refute. This research explores the<br />
implications of this campaign and insights it provides.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Rachel Whidden<br />
Mithaq Vahedi ’08; New Delhi, India; Biology, Chemistry<br />
A Novel PCR Assay for Determining Telomere Length<br />
Telomeres are DNA-protein structures that cap chromosome<br />
ends and provide stability to the chromosomes, by preventing<br />
them from fusing to each other. Cancer cells have telomeres<br />
that are widely studied, since they are often aberrant. We<br />
have designed a novel PCR assay to determine telomere<br />
length in the fungus Aspergillus nidulans. The advantages<br />
of this assay include its sensitivity to changes in telomere<br />
length, applicability to small numbers of cells, and the ease<br />
of performance relative to traditional Southern blotting.<br />
This PCR assay is a powerful tool to study telomere length<br />
and can be used by other scientists using A. nidulans to<br />
study telomeres.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Karen Kirk<br />
Mithaq Vahedi ’08; New Delhi, India; Biology, Chemistry<br />
Nengding “Julie” Wang ’09; Biology<br />
A New Approach to Studying Telomere Length<br />
The ends of eukaryotic chromosomes are protected by<br />
nucleoprotein structures termed telomeres. We have developed<br />
a PCR assay to determine telomere length, specifically in<br />
the filamentous fungus Aspergillus nidulans. The advantages<br />
of this assay include its sensitivity to changes in telomere<br />
length, applicability to small numbers of cells, and the ease of<br />
performance. This method uses a terminal transferase tailing<br />
procedure on genomic DNA and results in the analysis of<br />
small changes in differences in telomeric<br />
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length. With this assay, we can study the changes in telomeric<br />
length of A. nidulans mutants, for example in POT1, known to<br />
regulate telomere length.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Karen Kirk<br />
Sina Vahedi ’08; New Delhi, India; Chemistry, Biology<br />
General Hydroxylation Reactions of Alkynes<br />
Reactions that lead to the formation of new carbon-carbon<br />
bonds are the backbone of organic synthesis. The Sonogashira<br />
reaction is a powerful reaction of this kind since it introduces<br />
an alkyne at the site of the new C-C bond. This alkyne<br />
can be hydrated to a more reactive ketone capable of a vast<br />
number of reactions. The most powerful hydration reaction<br />
requires the use of acidified mercury as a catalyst leading to<br />
toxic byproducts. This work explores the hydration of alkynes<br />
under more benign conditions using transition metals as<br />
catalysts. Furthermore, hydration by non-catalytic amounts<br />
of formic acid has been investigated.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: William Martin<br />
Maulik Vaishnav ’08; Bhuj, India<br />
Independent Scholar, Mathematics<br />
Beijing’s Urban Transformation to Host the 2008 Summer<br />
Olympics<br />
Summer Olympic Games are one of the most watched world<br />
events. The media attention, the bidding process, selection,<br />
and implementation of the Games bring the most possible<br />
attention to a single place for a short period of time. After<br />
seeing the success of Los Angeles, Barcelona and Atlanta<br />
Games in recent history, Beijing is geared up to host the 2008<br />
Games. In order to present the best Olympics ever, the city<br />
has got a remarkable face lift. I will present on the urban<br />
transformation Beijing has gone through in the past decade and<br />
discuss the consequences of the changes on local residents.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: George Speros<br />
Stephanie Valtierra ’08; Libertyville, Illinois; Biology<br />
Insight into Parkinson’s Disease: Properties of the Newly<br />
Discovered Mutant E46K Alpha-Synuclein<br />
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a fatal neurodegenerative caused<br />
by the death of midbrain dopaminergic neurons, which<br />
accumulate an aggregated and lipid-associated protein, alphasynuclein.<br />
Using a fission yeast model, our lab analyzed the<br />
expression, localization, and toxicity of E46K alpha-synuclein,<br />
a recently discovered mutant form. We tested two hypotheses:<br />
(1) the mutation will be toxic to yeast and the mutant form will<br />
display both plasma membrane binding and aggregation; and<br />
(2) it will aggregate more aggressively than wild-type alphasynuclein.<br />
While E46K alpha-synuclein aggregated more<br />
rapidly than the wild-type form, it did not display toxicity nor<br />
membrane localization, suggesting that membrane localization<br />
is key to alpha-synuclein toxicity.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Shubhik DebBurman<br />
Nengding “Julie” Wang ’09; Chongqing, China; Biology<br />
Understanding the Brain of a Sea Slug: 3-D Reconstruction of<br />
the Nervous System of Tritonia diomedea<br />
Tritonia diomedea is a marine mollusk used as a model to study<br />
neuronal mechanisms mediating learning and memory. The<br />
S-cell sensory neuron cluster triggers the animal’s escape swim<br />
behavior. To facilitate optical recording studies of this key<br />
neuron group, I created a 3D computer reconstruction of the<br />
S-cell cluster from a series of 250 brain sections that had been<br />
taken at 2 micron intervals. This rotatable reconstruction<br />
allows us to view the cluster from any angle, to count the<br />
total number of neurons, and to determine the number of<br />
layers of S-cells being viewed during optical recordings of<br />
cluster activity.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Lynn Westley<br />
Alyssa Wintermute ’11; Belmont, Ontario, Canada<br />
The Internet and al Qaeda in Iraq<br />
The Internet has become crucial to the development and<br />
growth of Al Qaeda-in-Iraq. Arabic and English language<br />
web forums assist this transnational terrorist organization in<br />
recruiting members for jihad. They are important conduits<br />
for fundraising. The Internet makes it possible for Al Qaedain-Iraq<br />
to communicate its message of jihad to its supporters<br />
and the world and, most importantly, enables it to construct<br />
an identity for itself as the liberator of the Iraqi people and<br />
the legitimate authority of a Muslim caliphate in post-U.S.-<br />
occupied Iraq.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: James Marquardt<br />
Kate Witt ’08; Darlington, Indiana<br />
Sociology and Anthropology, Theater<br />
Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi: Text, Context, and Performance<br />
Written in 1612 and first performed the following year,<br />
John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi features a strong and<br />
independent female character that was threatening to the<br />
dominant patriarchal society of the time. I will provide a<br />
presentation focusing on the historical context of the play,<br />
along with similarities and differences between the Duchess<br />
and actual female leaders in English Renaissance society. I will<br />
also survey past productions of the play and will discuss how<br />
their designs either reflect or work against Webster’s themes.<br />
Finally, I will present a performance of the Duchess’s death in<br />
Act IV.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Richard Pettengill<br />
Hayley Wolfcale ’08; Sociology and Anthropology<br />
Tutu or Briefcase? The Career Choices of Potential Ballerinas<br />
Ballet holds court in the dance world as one of the most<br />
prestigious and competitive professions. Often enchanted<br />
from a young age with pointe shoes, tutus, and tiaras,<br />
young dancers face what is perceived as a highly insular and<br />
intimidating world of uncertain rewards. What aspects of<br />
professional ballet life affect dancers’ choices? How do the<br />
public’s perceptions of ballet affect these choices? Exploring<br />
issues surrounding personal agency and socially acceptable<br />
life paths, this paper seeks to discover how today’s potential<br />
ballerinas make the difficult decision to pursue ballet, leave it<br />
for another life path, or try to combine their love of the dance<br />
with another career.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Holly Swyers<br />
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Sara Woodbury ’08; Wells, Maine; Art<br />
Authority and Obedience: The Animal Stories in the Saint<br />
Francis Altar<br />
Francis of Assisi is promoted today as a patron of ecology,<br />
but how have other societies viewed this iconic figure? One<br />
work demonstrating the adaptability of Francis’ image is the<br />
Saint Francis Altarpiece, created in Cologne at the turn of<br />
the sixteenth century. Showing two of Francis’ most famous<br />
animal stories, the altarpiece appears to promote harmonious<br />
relations with nature. An analysis of the work within the context<br />
of the early sixteenth century, however, suggests that the Saint<br />
Francis Altarpiece is intended to demonstrate Francis’ control<br />
over nature, promoting unity within the Franciscan Order by<br />
underscoring its founder’s authority.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Ann Roberts<br />
Samantha Yozze ’08; Lemont, Illinois; International Relations<br />
Water Wars<br />
The degradation of the global environment poses a<br />
serious threat to international security. Scholars widely<br />
view international conflict as the consequence of military<br />
competition between states and the fear states have about<br />
each other’s military intentions. Some also recognize a place<br />
for economic variables, such as poverty, as causes of conflict.<br />
Only recently have scholars come to the conclusion that<br />
resource scarcity and environmental crises are also causes of<br />
war. This presentation investigates why and how the world’s<br />
dwindling supplies of fresh water is emerging as an acute cause<br />
of international conflict.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: James Marquardt<br />
Juli Zagrans ’09; Cleveland, Ohio; Politics<br />
Foster Care: Problems and Prospects for Reform<br />
The American foster care system is growing rapidly—over<br />
500,000 children in the U.S. are currently in foster care, up<br />
roughly ninety percent since 1987. Yet the system does not<br />
work very well. It is perennially underfunded and treated as a<br />
depressing afterthought, by policymakers, the public, and the<br />
media. No one, it seems, expects the foster care system to<br />
succeed. This lack of success is costly for foster children and<br />
society. I will discuss these costs and offer recommendations<br />
as to how foster care might be improved in the short-term and<br />
over the long-term.<br />
Faculty Sponsor: Chad McCracken<br />
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A<br />
Ajaikumar, Anjali ....................................................12, 15<br />
Akiyama, Kumiko ...................................................10, 15<br />
Ali, Mohammed .....................................................13, 15<br />
Anderson, Claire .................................................... 11, 15<br />
Austin, Kathleen ...................................................5, 8, 15<br />
Ayala, Alexandra ...........................................................15<br />
B<br />
Balykina, Katya .........................................................9, 15<br />
Barnes, Chris ..........................................................12, 16<br />
Bausch, Emma ....................................................9, 10, 16<br />
Baynes, Richard ......................................................10, 16<br />
Bell, Evan .................................................................8, 16<br />
Bembynista, Chris ....................................................9, 16<br />
Berry, Alli ...............................................................10, 16<br />
Bieschke, Jared .......................................................12, 17<br />
Bishop, Karen .........................................................10, 17<br />
Black, Erin ................................................................9, 16<br />
Bobier, Kim ............................................................10, 16<br />
Bower, Margaret .................................................8, 13, 17<br />
Braden, Kimberly .....................................................8, 18<br />
Brezinsky, Rebecca .................................................10, 17<br />
Brinker, Whitney ...............................................9, 16, 18<br />
Bryan, Cora ............................................................11, 18<br />
Bunning, Ashley .....................................................12, 18<br />
C<br />
Carroll, Elizabeth ...................................................10, 16<br />
Cass, Daryn ............................................................13, 18<br />
Chalverus, Emma Jo ..............................................11, 18<br />
Clark, Danielle .......................................................10, 18<br />
Condon, Christina .................................................13, 17<br />
Cone, Karen .............................................................8, 19<br />
Crook, Kelly ...........................................................10, 19<br />
Cui, Boni ................................................................10, 15<br />
D<br />
Dadfar, Bita ............................................................11, 19<br />
Dallas, Sarah ...........................................................13, 19<br />
David, Alexandra ......................................................8, 19<br />
Davis, Shaun ...............................................10, 13, 18, 19<br />
Denisenko, Aleksandra .............................................9, 20<br />
Dennis, Velvet ........................................................13, 20<br />
Dhakhwa, Timila .......................................10, 13, 18, 20<br />
Dominko, Mura .....................................................10, 20<br />
Doody, Megan ........................................................10, 20<br />
Doughty, Erin ........................................................10, 20<br />
DuBois, Katie ...........................................................9, 20<br />
Dunford, Grace ......................................................11, 21<br />
E<br />
Eatherly, Laurel ......................................................12, 18<br />
Endress, Kyle .........................................................11, 21<br />
F<br />
Falaleyev, Max ..........................................................9, 16<br />
Feng, Michael ...............................................8, 10, 17, 21<br />
Fernando, Nelka ..............................................12, 13, 21<br />
Ferrell, Jessica ..........................................................8, 21<br />
Ferrier, Andrew ..................................................9, 15, 21<br />
Fiala, Jacqueline .......................................................8, 21<br />
Figliulo, Joseph ........................................................9, 22<br />
Fisher, Alexandra ....................................................10, 19<br />
Fiske, Michael ..........................................................9, 22<br />
Fitz, Caroline .....................................................9, 13, 22<br />
Foley, Michelle .......................................................10, 19<br />
Fox, Jeffrey ...............................................................8, 17<br />
G<br />
Goldman, Brittany ...........................................10, 20, 22<br />
Golembiewski, Meg ...............................................13, 22<br />
Goodrich, Brittany .................................................10, 19<br />
Gorga, Katie ...............................................10, 11, 22, 23<br />
Goya, Chloe ...........................................................11, 23<br />
Grosse, Meghan .....................................................12, 23<br />
H<br />
Haider, Syeda .........................................................13, 23<br />
Hainsfurther, Joel ...................................................11, 23<br />
Hall, Ashley ................................................10, 12, 19, 23<br />
Hartwig, Samantha ..................................................9, 23<br />
Haskins, Tara ......................................................9, 12, 23<br />
Hendler, Robert .....................................................11, 23<br />
Hicks, Spenser ........................................................11, 24<br />
Hincks, Julianna .....................................................10, 19<br />
Hoefnagel, Ali ........................................................12, 23<br />
I<br />
Islam, Rahsaan ........................................................12, 24<br />
J<br />
Jahanban, Sheiva ....................................................11, 21<br />
Janjigian, Chris .......................................................11, 24<br />
Jefferys-White, Ellen .............................................12, 24<br />
K<br />
Kansakar, Sudin ......................................................11, 24<br />
Kim, Joanne ............................................................10, 20<br />
Knight, Gillian .......................................................10, 18<br />
Knutson, Jacklyn ....................................................10, 19<br />
Krebs, Rebecca .......................................................13, 17<br />
Kukreja, Lokesh ...........................................9, 11, 21, 24<br />
Kusinski, Krista ......................................................11, 21<br />
L<br />
LaMonica, Trent ....................................................13, 17<br />
Larson, Karen .........................................................11, 23<br />
Larson, Nicki .........................................................13, 24<br />
Leppert, Rachel ......................................................10, 20<br />
Lindblom, Jennifer .................................................12, 18<br />
Lockhart, Vernard ....................................................9, 24<br />
Lowry, Carolyn ........................................................8, 25<br />
Luna, Elisa ................................................................8, 17<br />
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M<br />
Ma, Angie ...............................................................13, 25<br />
MacLeod, Brittany .................................................11, 21<br />
Madejski, Kamil .....................................................11, 23<br />
Maskulka, Julie .......................................................12, 25<br />
May, Cheryl-Lynn ..................................................12, 25<br />
Maynie, Ruth ................................................9, 10, 20, 25<br />
Mazzetti, Mario ......................................................10, 19<br />
McGonigal, Kylie .........................................8, 10, 16, 25<br />
McMahon, Thomas ...............................................12, 25<br />
Meeks, André O. ..........................................................25<br />
Milligan, Elizabeth ...........................................13, 20, 26<br />
Moisi, Alex ..............................................................10, 20<br />
Monroe, Sarah ........................................................13, 17<br />
Murphy, Eric ............................................................8, 26<br />
Murphy, Jenny ........................................................10, 26<br />
N<br />
Newman, Samantha ...............................................12, 26<br />
Newren, Caterina .............................................11, 22, 26<br />
Nicholas, Patrick ......................................................8, 26<br />
Nodi, Nicole ............................................................9, 23<br />
Noe, Terese “Beth” ......................................................26<br />
P<br />
Pahomov, Elizabeth ...............................................10, 21<br />
Parker, Kathryn ......................................................12, 26<br />
Phisuthikul, Ava .....................................................13, 27<br />
Piper, David ..................................................8, 12, 17, 27<br />
Pore, Shruti ............................................................12, 27<br />
Pospiech, Emily ......................................................10, 18<br />
Pusateri, Samantha .................................................11, 27<br />
R<br />
Rajbhandary, Annada .............................................10, 18<br />
Rank, Doug ............................................................10, 27<br />
Reger, Greg ..............................................................9, 27<br />
Reiter, Daniel ...........................................................8, 17<br />
Rennis, Nick ...........................................................12, 27<br />
Reynders, Gilbert ...................................................10, 17<br />
Reynolds, Asa ...........................................................9, 16<br />
Rhodes, Wendy ........................................................9, 27<br />
Rice, Katie ..............................................................10, 18<br />
Ristau, David ..........................................................10, 16<br />
Russell, Marie-Louise ............................................11, 22<br />
Russette, Kevin .........................................................9, 23<br />
S<br />
Salawaya, Tasneem ...................................................8, 17<br />
Salman, Aaron ..............................................................28<br />
Scanlon, Lorraine .....................................................8, 17<br />
Schoblaske, Alayna .................................................10, 18<br />
Schramm, Melissa ..................................................11, 27<br />
Schwartz, Tracy ..................................................4, 10, 16<br />
Shadman, Solmaz ...................................................11, 21<br />
Shaler, Laney ............................................................8, 28<br />
Shanahan, Emily ......................................................9, 23<br />
Silverman, Lital ......................................................12, 28<br />
Simpson, Ben ................................................5, 10, 14, 28<br />
Sinitean, Lavinia .......................................................8, 28<br />
Sobhani, Mona .......................................................10, 18<br />
Sorensen, Michal ....................................9, 10, 20, 25, 28<br />
Stanek, Lauren .......................................................10, 19<br />
Stephan, Caitlin ......................................................10, 16<br />
Stewart, Austin .........................................................8, 28<br />
Stickles, Carly .............................................12, 13, 17, 29<br />
Stoltz, Hannah .......................................................13, 29<br />
Stoner, William ......................................................10, 20<br />
Strambeanu, Iulia .......................................10, 13, 18, 29<br />
T<br />
Taggart,Carlee ..........................................................9, 25<br />
Tardiff, Justin .........................................................12, 18<br />
Thigpen, Armond ....................................................9, 16<br />
Tlhokwane, Kelebogile ......................................8, 11, 29<br />
Tompkins, Casey ....................................................11, 24<br />
Torres, Erika ...........................................................11, 23<br />
Tossing, Chris .........................................................10, 18<br />
Trotman, Kylie .......................................................10, 19<br />
Tuscherer, Taylor ...................................................12, 29<br />
Tyler, Ben ...............................................................11, 23<br />
V<br />
Vahedi, Mithaq .............................5, 9, 10, 13, 14, 18, 29<br />
Vahedi, Sina ..........................................10, 11, 13, 19, 21<br />
Vaishnav, Maulik ..........................................9, 13, 16, 30<br />
Valtierra, Stephanie ........................................................9<br />
Venheim, Emily ......................................................10, 20<br />
Vinson, Mark ..........................................................10, 19<br />
W<br />
Wallace, Jennilee ....................................................11, 27<br />
Wang, Nengding “Julie” ............................10, 13, 19, 29<br />
Wang, Ping-Chung Ellen ......................................10, 21<br />
Wiggishoff, Lauren ................................................13, 17<br />
Willes, Brittany ......................................................10, 20<br />
Wintermute, Alyssa ......................................................11<br />
Witt, Kate .....................................................................12<br />
Wolfcale, Hayley ..........................................................10<br />
Woodbury, Sara ..................................................5, 12, 14<br />
Y<br />
Yehl, Gretchen .......................................................13, 22<br />
Yozze, Samantha .......................................................8, 31<br />
Z<br />
Zagrans, Juli ...........................................................12, 16<br />
Zhu, Weijing ..........................................................10, 21<br />
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1 1 t h A n n u a l<br />
S t e v e n G a l o v i c h M e m o r i a l<br />
S t u d e n t S y m p o s i u m<br />
A P R I L 7 - 8 , 2 0 0 8<br />
Symposium Committee:<br />
Dawn Abt-Perkins<br />
Interim Director of Writing Programs<br />
Writing Center<br />
Alexandra Andreeva, ’11<br />
International Relations, Philosophy<br />
Lois Barr<br />
Associate Professor of Spanish<br />
Lindsay Beller<br />
Spectrum Editor and<br />
Communications Coordinator<br />
Karen Blocker<br />
Academic Technology Specialist, LIT<br />
Patrick Casten, ’09<br />
Politics<br />
Noah D. Dion, ’10<br />
History, Politics<br />
Harriet H. Doud<br />
Department Supervisor<br />
Academic Support<br />
Heather Everst, ’08<br />
Business, Spanish<br />
Carol Gayle<br />
Associate Professor of History<br />
Associate Director of the M/LS Program<br />
Director of Community Education<br />
Jacalyn Gillis ’10<br />
Communication, Sociology/Anthropology<br />
Anne Houde<br />
Foster G. and Mary W. McGaw Professor in the<br />
Life Sciences<br />
Todd Harris<br />
Associate Dean of Students<br />
Director of Residence Life<br />
Sarah Jones, ’08<br />
Communication<br />
Ashley M. Legel ’10<br />
Biology, Religion<br />
Robert Linder, ’08<br />
Economics, Politics<br />
James Marquardt<br />
Assistant Professor of Politics<br />
Justin Messmore, ’10<br />
Philosophy<br />
Pavel Ondreicsik ’09<br />
Computer Science<br />
Edward Packel<br />
Ernest H. Volwiler Professor of Mathematics<br />
Levi Paul ’09<br />
Computer Science<br />
Tracy E. Schwartz, ’10<br />
Communication, Politics<br />
Rachel Whidden<br />
Assistant Professor of Communication<br />
Special Thanks<br />
Aramark<br />
General Assembly<br />
Library and Information Technology<br />
Students Educating Students<br />
Residence Life<br />
Visual Communications<br />
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