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Research Poster PresentationsP O S T E R 1 3How AmericansMemorialize TragediesDemetrius George DermanisFaculty Mentor: Dr. Catherine LavenderDepartment of HistoryI am looking at how Americans have memorializedtragedies, especially Pearl Harbor and 9/11. Usingthe memorialization of these events, I will look athow these attacks affected the lives of many peoplefor years to come. My focus is on visual memory,using images to really get the full effect of theevents and to get the viewer to understand howthese attacks affected people emotionally andphysically. I feel images have more of an effect on aperson than just reading it from a paper. Forcontext, I also will look at the memory of differenttragedies that took place in American History. Somememorializations I am going to look at are those ofthe Vietnam War, the Kennedy Assassination, and theChicago and Peshtigo Fires. To this day people stillvisit sites like the Vietnam Wall in Washington toread the names of those who lost their livesprotecting the freedom of Americans.P O S T E R 1 4Sea Urchin DevelopmentLisa LaMannaFaculty Mentor: Dr. Charles LiuDepartment of Engineering Science and PhysicsMetazoans have a life cycle that uses intermediatejuvenile or larval stages as a main mode ofdevelopment. These larval stages are characteristicof indirect development where larval cells partiallydifferentiate to give a different organismalphenotype than that of the adult form. The adultform is given after the larval form undergoes amorphogenesis, where larval tissues dedifferentiateand/or replace old tissues with adult tissues. Bothprotostomes and deuterostomes contain lineages oforganisms that develop directly and indirectly, butthe question of which method of development wasused by the protostomes and deuterostomesancestor (PDA) is still unanswered. Coremacroregulatory networks in larva control the bodyaxis and major developmental processes likegastrulation by invagination. Studying thesemacroregulatory networks among major metazoanspecies, particularly the role of histones in generegulation, would provide insight to thedevelopmental mode of the PDA.35