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To the Lake Forest College Community:I am delighted to welcome you to the 2009 Spring Student Symposium. This annual eventis a highlight of the academic year at Lake Forest College and an inspiring demonstrationof the breadth and depth of our intellectual community. Students from across the Collegepresent the fruits of many hours of research and scholarship to audiences of their peers,mentors, friends and families.This year’s presentations will feature a film based on a three-week trip to China by studentsand faculty last May, student readings of original fiction and poetry, a statistical analysisof attendance factors at Major League Baseball games, a study of the innovative RotatingSavings and Credit Associations in developing countries, a look at conservative politicsfollowing the administration of George W. Bush, an exploration of the science behindcolor perception, a student’s experience as a Marine Mammals Volunteer at John G. SheddAquarium, and many other fascinating presentations and panel discussions. A culminatingevent will highlight the excellent work of selected students in a classical academiccelebration.I eagerly look forward to this year’s presentations and hope to see you in the audience.Sincerely,Stephen D. SchuttPresident

Steven P. Galovich1945 – 2006A little more than a decade ago, Dean of Faculty, Provost, and Professor of MathematicsSteven P. Galovich proposed an idea that would highlight his passion for the academic workof students. He believed that Lake Forest College should devote a day during the academicyear to showcase students and their research. He was so committed to the idea that herecommended the cancellation of classes so students could freely attend and participate inall the events.The First Annual Student Symposium was held April 7, 1998. Nearly 1,000 membersof the College community attended 118 student presentations, poster sessions, musicconcerts, and other events throughout the day and evening. Never one to stay in hisoffice, a beaming Dean Galovich made a point to go to as many sessions as possible.Ten years later the Student Symposium — which has since stretched to two days toaccommodate growing interest and participation — is stronger than ever. This year, morethan 350 students and campus groups will present, perform, demonstrate, and share theirscholarship with the College community.While he would have never taken credit for the idea, Steven Galovich’s mark on this event isundeniable. When he died unexpectedly, Lake Forest College decided to honor his legacy byrenaming an occasion that has become an integral part of the College.We dedicate the annual Steven Galovich Memorial Student Symposium for his contributionsto academic discourse and his commitment to celebrating student research.

S t e v e n G a l o v i c h M e m o r i a lS t u d e n t S y m p o s i u mD 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 y9 : 3 0 - 3 : 0 0 W e l c o m e C e n t e rDonnelly and LeeLibrary Room 203Donnelly and LeeLibrary Room 205Donnelly and LeeLibrary Room 211Donnelly and LeeLibrary Lower LevelHotchkiss Hall 101 Meyer Auditorium Johnson 100 Johnson 20010:0010:1510:3010:4511:00China ThroughStudent Eyes10:00 - 10:50Real-world Learningfor Young Children10:00 - 11:00Religious Pluralismand Its Pitfalls10:00 - 11:00Model UN Teach-Inand Simulation10:00 - 11:00 Twentieth-CenturyPerformances10:00 - 11:20Neural Frontiers10:00 - 12:00Let’s Get Physical10:00 - 11:00Political andEconomic Trends inthe Third World10:00 - 11:4011:1511:30Perception andMemory11:00 - 12:00Doubt, Dissent andthe Number Three11:00 - 12:00PresidentialPower and U.S.Foreign Policy11:00 - 12:00Lily Reid HoltMemorial Chapel11:4512:00Hansel and Gretel11:30 - 12:1512:1512:3012:451:001:151:301:45Habitat forHumanity1:00 - 1:50Literature onthe Edge1:00 - 2:20Analyses ofU.S. Immigration1:00 - 2:00Race, Cultureand Stereotypes1:00 - 2:00Worms and WildDogs: Frontiers inOrganismal Biology1:00 - 1:40ResearchDevelopmentsin Physics1:00 - 2:002:002:152:302:45EnvironmentalPerspectives2:00 - 2:40Math: Theoriesand Series2:30 - 3:10Alternatives toNeoliberalEconomicDevelopment2:00 - 3:00Brain Function andTelemere Length2:00 - 3:00The Stories ofTom Johns2:00 - 3:00Parkinson’s Diseaseand Telomerase1:40 - 2:40Love, Marriage,Gender, andSexual Identity2:00 - 3:203:003:153:303:45L i ly R e i d H o lt M e m o r i a l C h a p e l4 : 1 5 - 5 : 4 5 C l o s i n g E v e n t

S t e v e n G a l o v i c h M e m o r i a lS t u d e n t S y m p o s i u mD 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 y9 : 3 0 - 3 : 0 0 W e l c o m e C e n t e rCalvin Durand HallPierson RoomsA and BJohnson 300Mohr SkyboxYoung Hall 117OutsideMohr SkyboxYoung Hall 320Reid Hall 10010:0010:1510:30The Jersey Boysand Girls10:00 - 10:50Betrayals,Constraints, andProof: Papers onShakespeare10:00 - 11:00StudiesOff-Campusand Abroad10:00 - 11:00Research in HighPerformanceComputing10:00 - 11:00Gender: UnderConstruction10:00 - 11:0010:4511:00Music Recital10:00 - 12:0011:1511:30“Welcome to theFriendly Confines.Tonight’s PaidAttendence is….”11:00 - 11:50SAACS ChemistryDemonstration11:00 - 12:00Richard Widmark :From Lake ForestCollege to Hollywood11:00 - 12:00Where Have Allthe Children Gone?11:00 - 12:0011:4512:00Biology Exhibit11:00 - 1:0012:1512:3012:451:001:151:301:45Eukaryon:A Five-YearReview1:00 - 2:00 EmergingMarket Analysis1:00 - 2:30Teaching the1950s and“Not For Teachers”1:00 - 2:00Nationalism andTransnationalism1:00 - 1:40Music Recital1:00 - 2:302:002:152:302:45PresidentialRhetoric2:00 - 3:20Go Fish2:00 - 3:20Studies in Deathand Dying2:00 - 3:203:003:15Mohr Stageand Café3:303:45Ice Cream Socialand Intl. DanceClub Performance3:30 - 4:00L i ly R e i d H o lt M e m o r i a l C h a p e l4 : 1 5 - 5 : 4 5 C l o s i n g E v e n t

STEVEN GALOVICH MEMORIAL STUDENT SYMPOSIUMMonday, April 6OPENING EVENTS4:00-5:30 Student Art Exhibit with Gallery Talks andReceptionSonnenschein, Albright, and Deerpath Art GalleriesDurand Art Institute and Deerpath HallModerators: Ann Roberts, Eli Robb7:00-9:15 Opening Event Festival of the Creative ArtsMohr Student Center and Reid HallTuesday, April 79:30-3:00 Welcome Center, Donnelley and Lee LibraryFirst Floor LobbyORAL PRESENTATIONSMorning SessionDonnelley and Lee Library Room 203Panel 1Moderator:China Through Student EyesProfessor Shiwei Chen10:00-10:50 Steven Barrow Sarah BassinsonAmy Chappuis Katherine EmeryChris Janjigian Ashlee NortonAllyson WeningerChina Through Student EyesPanel 2Moderator:Perception and MemoryProfessor Nancy Brekke11:00-11:20 Krista Miller“I’m Hungry for Wax Fruit”: An Exploration of theNon-Sequitur’s Communicative Value11:20-11:40 Siu Yin Lee Minxu ZhangTritone Paradox: A Study About How LinguisticDifferences Correlate with One’s Pitch RecognitionPattern11:40-12:00 Mario BaldassariA Phylogenetic Study of Mind Through CrayfishBehavior and Cultural Evolutionary TheoryDonnelley and Lee Library Room 205Panel 3Moderator:Real-world Learning for Young ChildrenProfessor Shelley Sherman10:00-10:50 Samantha Eckerling Kayla LordLisa NassinCharice WilczynskiBringing the Community into the Classroom: Real-worldLearning for Young ChildrenDonnelley and Lee Library Room 221Panel 4Moderator:Religious Pluralism and Its PitfallsProfessor Ronald Miller10:00-11:00 Timothy Hacker Fiorella LopezAustin StewartOther Religions: Competitors or Allies?Panel 5Moderator:Doubt, Dissent and the Number ThreeProfessor Ann Roberts11:00-11:20 Kristen CarpenterHow the Black Death Refocused Early Modern Piety11:20-11:40 Ashleigh PembrokeCeltic to Catholic: Art of the Irish Conversion11:40-12:00 Amy RunyonA Voice of Dissent: Kathe Kollwitz’s Work During NaziRuleDonnelley and Lee Library Lower LevelPanel 6Moderator:Model UN Teach-In and SimulationProfessor James Marquardt10:00-11:00 James Dunnigan Morgan EasterVirginia Grawey Mayely ImhoffPolina Nozdrina-PlotnizkayaIoana SircaFabricio SordoniModel United Nations - Global PlayersPanel 7Moderator:Presidential Power and U.S. Foreign PolicyProfessor James Marquardt11:00-11:20 Patrick CastenA Movement at the Crossroads: How the Bush ForeignPolicy has Railroaded the American ConservativeMovement11:20-11:40 Joel HainsfurtherThe Security Dilemma and U.S. - Iranian RelationsSince 9/1111:40-12:00 Kyle MeredithThe Undemocratic ExecutiveJohnson 100Panel 8Moderator:Let’s Get PhysicalProfessor Nathan Mueggenburg10:00-11:00 Bushra Alam Roshnika FernandoKosova KrekaThandeka MabuzaTimothy McNamee Nicole MurphyDawson NodurftLet’s Get Physical

Johnson 200Panel 9Moderator:Political and Economic Trends in the ThirdWorldProfessor Paul Orogun10:00-10:20 Anjali AjaikumarIndian Democracy: Questions of Stability10:20-10:40 Melanie QuallBolsa Familia: Focalized Policies for Poverty Alleviationin Brazil10:40-11:00 Erik WingoChad: Proxy Wars, Islam, and Petroleum Politics11:00-11:20 Chris JanjigianRegional Investment Disparity in China11:20-11:40 Morgan EasterPakistan: The Crisis of Governance and DemocraticConsolidationJohnson 300Panel 10Moderator:SAACS Chemistry DemonstrationProfessor Elizabeth Fischer11:00-12:00 Rebecca Brezinsky Danielle ClarkShaun DavisTimila DhakhwaJulian McLainEmily PospiechSaajidha Rizvydeen Quincy RobertsMadhavi Senagolage ’12 Mona Sobhani ’10Chris Tossing ’09 Ali Vetter ’10Maria Zawadowicz ’12 Xiaoyu Zhu ’12Flames, Fumes, and Flashes: Students Fired Up aboutChemistryHotchkiss Hall 101Panel 11Moderator:Twentieth-Century PerformancesProfessor Lois Barr10:00-10:20 Wilhemina HayfordThe Drama of Education: Chemistry Class10:20-10:40 Becca LelandAccepting a Gay Fantasia10:40-11:00 Rachiny SamekWilliam Inge: Redefinition of Masculinity andFemininity11:00-11:20 Craig ValstadEpic Theater: An Exploration into the DefamiliarizationTechniques of Bertoit BrechtMeyer AuditoriumPanel 12Moderator:Neural FrontiersProfessor Shubhik DebBurman10:00-10:30 Alexandra AyalaUnexpected Realm of Protein Folding: The Good, Bad,and Ugly10:30-11:00 Nicole FieldsCracking the Dogma: Stem Cells and Regeneration inthe Brain11:00-11:30 Michael FiskeReady, Set, Nogo!11:30-12:00 Stephanne LevinSMN Deficiency in SMA: Splicing Gone AwryYoung Hall 117Panel 13Moderator:Research in High Performance ComputingProfessor Anne Houde10:00-10:30 Scott JonesHigh-Performance Computing in the SciencesYoung Hall 320Panel 14Moderator:Gender: Under ConstructionProfessor Carolyn Tuttle10:00-10:20 Samantha Hartwig“Homosexuality” throughout History10:20-10:40 Kelly SmithSexuality and Context: Negotiating a Shifting Self10:40-11:00 Katherine CrockettBehavioral Economics: Risk Aversion, Power, Gender andGroup Decision-MakingPanel 15Moderator:Where Have All the Children Gone?Professor Kent Grote11:00-11:20 Bryan BurgAbortion and Female Labor Force Participation:Evidence Post Roe v. Wade11:20-11:40 Anum HaiderState Abortion Laws and its Association with Pill UsageCalvin Durand HallPanel 16Moderator:The Jersey Boys and GirlsAssistant Athletic Director Cheryl Behnke10:00-10:50 Mario Baldassari Jeremy BeyersdorfJill PfundDeepika RamachandranKatie RiceJames ZenderBeyond the Jersey: My Life as a Lake Forest CollegeStudent-AthletePanel 17Moderator:“Welcome to the Friendly Confines. Tonight’sPaid Attendence is….”Professor Robert Lemke11:00-11:50 Matt Leonard Kelebogile TlhokwaneCompetitive Balance and Major League BaseballPierson Rooms A and BPanel 18Moderator:Betrayals, Constraints, and Proof: Papers onShakespeareProfessor Richard Mallette10:00-10:20 Eder Jaramillo“Mislike Me Not For My Complexion”: Masculinity inThe Merchant of Venice

10:20-10:40 Emily Capettini“Give Me Ocular Proof”: The Problem of the Trinket inOthello and Cymbeline10:40-11:00 Paul HenneConstrained Women in Hamlet and Twelfth NightMohr SkyboxPanel 19Moderator:Studies Off-Campus and AbroadProfessor Janet McCracken10:00-10:20 Tracy SchwartzWashington Highlands: The Other D.C.’s Diamond inthe Rough10:20-10:40 Natalie TalbertFinding Myself in Costa Rica: Outcomes of the StudyAbroad Experience10:40-11:00 Joshua AndersonA New Look at the Plan of ChicagoPanel 20Moderator:Richard Widmark : From Lake Forest College toHollywoodProfessor Leslie Abramson11:00-12:00 Kelly Crook Alexandra FisherCecilia HayneKaren LarsonMelika MansouriRichard Widmark : From Lake Forest College to HollywoodBIOLOGY EXHIBITOutside Mohr Skybox11:00-1:00 Sadaf Ahmad Rebecca M. BrezinskyClare C. Conlisk Elina DilmukhametovaJessica DischSusan HedrickRebecca C. Krebs Max MeltserTerese E. NoeAlejandra RodriguezLaura ThilgenNatalia C. Wilkins150 Years of Studying EvolutionReid Hall 100Music RecitalModerator:Professor Donald Meyer10:00-12:00 Grace Dunford Jin-Houn “L” JouXiaoyu YinJoe YeoNate RhodesSun WenluNatalie Molina Phuc PhanPOSTER PRESENTATIONSMorning Session (10 a.m.-Noon)Simpson Balconies and CorridorSusan BeckerThe Impact of ColorCatherine CudahyThe Federal Theatre Project: Negro UnitsMura DominkoWilliam StonerThe Influence of Subliminal Priming on BehaviorAllison FallsAlex PirrottaThe Effect of Racial Markers on Perception: Can a Single Racial MarkerAlter the Perceived Race, Personality, and Facial Features of TwoOtherwise Identical Faces?Brittany GoldmanAdaptive Memory for Location InformationKatie GorgaMarie-Louise RussellIs Beauty Only Skin Deep? The Relationship Between Personality andAttractiveness RatingsMario MazzettiCostumes: An Exploration of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s DreamStacey ParrottDisparate Effects of Aging on Visual Search TasksAva PhisuthikulExploring the Methods and Processes Behind the Chicago PatientNavigation Research Program10:00-1:00 Nick LelandHuman PoetryAIKIDO DEMONSTRATION12:30-1:00 p.m.Mohr CafeteriaAfternoon SessionDonnelley and Lee Library Room 203PERFORMANCE OF HANSEL AND GRETELPanel 1Moderator:Habitat for HumanityCasey MalsamLily Reid Holt Memorial ChapelModerator: Kathleen van de Graaf11:30-12:15 Alaina Carlson Sonia AxelrodMargaret Golembiewski Justin CarreroMolly AuerSynneve YoderHansel and Gretel1:00-1:50 Kayla Ahlstrand Abbey CarneyRochelle Chambers Laurel EatherlyRobert Erickson Victoria GoldsmithAndrew Klawitter Allie LongeneckerLiz PimperNathan RhodesTony UngaroHabitat for Humanity: Local, Domestic andInternational

Panel 2Moderator:Environmental PerspectivesProfessor Jeffrey Sundberg2:00-2:20 Leah ScullClass Division Within the American EnvironmentalMovement2:20-2:40 Elina DilmukhametovaSpeciation in Plants Using a Monkeyflower ModelDonnelley and Lee Library Room 205Panel 3Moderator:Literature on the EdgeProfessor Chad McCracken1:00-1:20 Margaret Golembiewski“The King May Do This, and He May Not Do It”:Absolutism and Divine Right in “The Maid’s Tragedy”1:20-1:40 Danielle MarlerKingship in Shakespeare’s Second Tetralogy: TheAmalgamation of Divine Right and Might1:40-2:00 Nicole NodiA Work in Translation2:00-2:20 Mary VolkBeauty, Loss, and Value in The Picture of Dorian Grayand Zuleika DobsonPanel 4Moderator:Math: Theories and SeriesProfessor Edward Packel2:30-2:50 Sudin KansakarSurprising Properties of the Harmonic Series2:50-3:10 Daniel TietzerWhat is Special about 3,5,7…6,10,14,…12,20,28,…8,4,2,1?Donnelley and Lee Library Room 221Panel 5Moderator:Analyses of U.S. ImmigrationPresident Stephen D. Schutt1:00-1:30 Amanda GaulkeHispanic Immigration and U.S. Policy: Separating Mythfrom Fact1:30-2:00 Mariyana ZapryanovaImmigration to the United States: An InterdisciplinaryAnalysisDonnelley and Lee Library Lower LevelPanel 7Moderator:Race, Culture and StereotypesProfessor Cynthia Hahn1:00-1:20 Aleksa Dutko Anne NicholsonAustin StewartThe Threat of Fundamentalism1:20-1:40 Tatiana MooreChicago Teens vs. Suburban Teens: Is There a Difference?1:40-2:00 Hadley Skeffington-VosRecognizing Stereotypes and Becoming a Global CitizenPanel 8Moderator:Brain Function and Telemere LengthProfessor Douglas Light2:00-2:20 Daryn CassProlonged Withdrawal from Cocaine Affects FrontalCortical Activity in the Rat Brain2:20-2:40 Michael FiskeInsight Into Parkinson’s: Do Certain ProteinModifications Doom Cells?2:40-3:00 Nengding WangTelomere Length Regulation During Meiosis inAspergillus NidulansJohnson 200Panel 9Moderator:Research Developments in PhysicsProfessor Nathan Mueggenburg1:00-1:20 Samuel KotlerThe Magnetic Susceptibility of a Superconductor1:20-1:40 Timothy McNameeGranular Compaction1:40-2:00 Nicole MurphyPulsed NMRPanel 10Moderator:Love, Marriage, Gender, and Sexual IdentityProfessor Carol Gayle2:00-2:20 Anne-Marie AdamsAlice Paul-the Iron Jawed Angel of Victory2:20-2:40 Jessica ChiouFeminist Theory and Twin PeaksPanel 6Moderator:Alternatives to Neoliberal EconomicDevelopmentProfessor Les Dlabay2:40-3:00 Safina LavjiA Comparison of Power Dynamics in Prostitution andMarriage2:00-2:20 Rahsaan IslamCreative Capitalism: Harnessing Global CapitalMarkets and Social Ventures to Enhance InternationalDevelopment3:00-3:20 Amma Marfowaa-NuakoLove in the Time of CapitalismHotchkiss 1012:20-2:40 Amma Marfowaa-NuakoDevelopment with a Human Face: Challenging theNeoliberal ParadigmPanel 11Moderator:Worms and Wild Dogs: Frontiers in OrganismalBiologyAssociate Dean of Students Christopher Waugh2:40-3:00 Deepika RamachandranROSCAs — One Small Loan Can Make a Difference1:00-1:20 Alexandra CharronA Mutant Strain of Worms That Can’t Make theirMuscles Stick

1:20-1:40 Elaine GustafsonThe Effect of Social Hierarchy on Behavior in the AfricanWild Dog1:20-1:40 Jenna SasanfarTransnational Advocacy Networks and HumanTraffickingPanel 12Moderator:The Stories of Tom JohnsProfessor Joshua CoreyPanel 17Moderator:Studies in Death and DyingProfessor Siobhan Moroney2:00-3:00 Tom Johns—30—Meyer AuditoriumPanel 13Moderator:Parkinson’s Disease and TelomeraseProfessor Benjamin Goluboff1:40-2:00 Alexandra AyalaInsight into Parkinson’s Disease: Is Alpha-SynucleinDegraded by the Lysosome?2:00-2:20 Ray Choi Alina KonnikovaAutophagy’s Role as a Possible Cure for Parkinson’sDisease2:20-2:40 Shaun DavisIdentification of the Telomerase RNA in the FilamentousFungus Aspergillus oryzaeYoung Hall 117Panel 14Moderator:Teaching the 1950s and “Not For TeachersOnly”Professor Victoria Trinder1:00-1:40 Carlos Becerra Timothy HackerLauren LichtenbergerNot for Teachers Only1:40-2:00 Valentina GalliCreating a Secondary Education History Unit: TheDefining Decade: The 1950s and Their Role inAmerican Culture2:00-2:20 Meagan CassidyThe Argument for Physician-assisted Suicide2:20-3:00 Bushra Alam Mario BaldassariBenjamin Bienia Robert EricksonEmily LautenWilliam StaffordKelebogile Tlhokwane Shannon Ver WoertElizabeth Wait Weijing ZhuResponsibility in the Marketplace: Implications of theCoalition of Immokalee Workers Campaigns3:00-3:20 Amy StoutExploring Life Through the Lens of DeathCalvin Durand HallPanel 18Moderator:Eukaryon: A Five-Year ReviewProfessor D. Ohlandt1:00-2:00 Mohammed Ali Shaun DavisMichael FiskeStephanne LevinElizabeth PahomovEukaryon: A 5 Year ReviewPierson Rooms A & BPanel 19Moderator:Presidential RhetoricProfessor Caroline Nordlund2:00-2:20 Kristen DooleyThe Rhetoric of Third-Party Presidential Candidates2:20-2:40 Mary Ashley FedererInaugural Addresses: Words to Rally a NationPanel 15Moderator:Go Fish!Professor Karen Kirk2:40-3:00 Ashley HallAn Evaluation of Inaugural Addresses2:00-2:20 Melissa SchrammPlaying Your Cards Right: How Guppies, Poeciliareticulata, Alter Their Courtship Tactics in Varying SocialEnvironments2:20-2:40 Chris TossingSpeciation: The Genetics Responsible for Intrinsic Post-Zygotic Isolation2:40-3:00 Jennillee WallaceMode of Phenotypic Inheritance in the Guppy (Poeciliareticulata)3:00-3:20 Jillian OlejnikFollow the Leader: Effects of Female Responsiveness onMate-Choice Copying3:00-3:20 Jeni RobertsInauguration SpeechesMohr SkyboxPanel 20Moderator:Emerging Market AnalysisProfessor George Seyk1:00-1:40 Colby Friedeman Aaron SalmanThe Economic Stimulus Program and Its Potential Effectson the Navajo Nation1:50-2:30 Bushra Alam Max FalaleyevFlora LujanaDawson NodurftChina: Coal or Be Dammed?Young Hall 320Panel 16Moderator:Nationalism and TransnationalismProfessor James Marquardt1:00-1:20 Allison MaliaThe Modern Olympics: What Do They Reveal aboutNationalism, and Nation-State and Globalization?10

PARTICIPANTS AND ABSTRACTS(Coauthored and Group Projects at the End)These are arranged alphabetically by student last name, followed by presentations involving more thanone student, arranged by first student’s last name (alphabetically within presentation).Anne-Marie Adams ’12; Chicago, IllinoisAlice Paul—the Iron Jawed Angel of VictoryThe women’s rights movement began at the Seneca FallsConvention in 1848, when women started organizingthemselves in order to gain rights. While the beginningleaders were very influential and much of the movement wasstrong, it was Alice Paul’s activism that was the most successfulat advancing the cause of women’s suffrage. Her approachwas more effective because she vigorously demanded aconstitutional amendment rather than campaigning state bystate like the National American Woman Suffrage Association.Refusal to pause the movement after the outbreak of World WarI contributed to the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment tothe U.S. Constitution, which guaranteed women the right tovote.Faculty Sponsor: Siobhan MoroneyAnjali Ajaikumar ’09; Chicago, IllinoisInternational Relations, PoliticsIndian Democracy: Questions of StabilityThe stability of India’s young democracy has been questionablein various ways. This presentation offers an analysis of threecontemporary issues—health, education, and women’s rights—that bear on the legitimacy and stability of Indian democracy.Additionally, the presentation considers the impact of Indianfederalism on these issues.Faculty Sponsor: Chad McCrackenJoshua Anderson ’10; Fort Pierce, FloridaArt, American StudiesA New Look at the Plan of ChicagoThe Burnham and Bennett Plan of Chicago, 1909, is one ofthe crowning jewels of the City Beautiful movement and hasa tremendous impact on the terrain of the city. This year itis celebrating its centennial, truly the founding such plan formany U.S. cities, and a training ground for future planners.It’s important to know the motivations behind the Plan and itsimplications for the city of Chicago as it is and how it was thenenvisioned. New information from the Edward Bennett IIIand Marcia O. collection of co-author Edward H. Bennett’spersonal correspondence, drawings, photographs, and plans,received in the library’s Special Collections last Novemberadds significant new information necessary for understandingthe process of developing the Plan and also Burnham’srelationship to the young Bennett, who carried on his workin the new planning field. Through computer models andBennett’s sketches we will see how the city was envisioned in1909.Faculty Sponsor: Arthur MillerAlexandra Ayala ’09; Caracas, Venezuela; BiologyInsight into Parkinson’s Disease: Is Alpha-Synuclein Degradedby the Lysosome?Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disordercharacterized by the accumulation of the alpha-synucleinprotein. Enhancing alpha-synuclein degradation may preventaccumulation and protect cells against toxicity. For my thesis,I used a budding yeast model to understand if alpha-synucleinis degraded by the lysosome and if it uses the multivesicularbody (MVB) pathway to get there. Specifically, I evaluatedalpha-synuclein localization, accumulation, and toxicity in yeastlacking specific protein complexes (ESCRT-I, II, and III) thatmediate the MVB pathway. While our data indicates that theMVB pathway may be the degradation route, the extent ofESCRT involvement appears unexpectedly complex.Faculty Sponsor: Shubhik DebBurmanAlexandra Ayala ’09; Caracas, Venezuela; BiologyUnexpected Realm of Protein Folding: The Good, Bad, and UglyThe final project of BIOL 480 Senior Seminar was roleplayinga leading biologist in the field of neuroscience. I roleplayed protein folding pioneer Susan Lindquist who studieswhether altered protein shapes are detrimental or beneficialto life. Our lab showed the world that simple yeasts provideinsight into the unexpected world of protein folding. Wegenerated yeast models to discover molecules that combatneurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson, Huntington, andprion disease. Finally, we discovered that altered proteinshapes in yeast can act as genes (called “prions”) and promotethe survival of new, beneficial traits.Faculty Sponsor: Shubhik DebBurmanMario Baldassari ’11; Fort Wayne, Indiana; PsychologyA Phylogenetic Study of Mind Through Crayfish Behavior andCultural Evolutionary TheoryAre our behaviors and emotions our own, or are theseattributes innate? To find out, we are looking in depth atphylogenetics, from crayfish to people. What can crayfishlearn, how much can they remember, and how much of theirinstincts are wired by evolution? Furthermore, how muchcan we relate to humans? Crayfish may have complicateddigging processes as well as habitat preferences and memories.At the same time, we are reviewing a recent theoretical studyof human evolution of social behavior by Peter J. Richersonand Robert Boyd entitled Not by Genes Alone: How CultureTransformed Human Evolution.Faculty Sponsor: Robert Glassman12

Susan Becker ’12; Des Moines, Iowa; Independent ScholarThe Impact of ColorAs you read this abstract, others are reading you. Color is apowerful tool. The colors you choose to wear and to decorateyour house with and the color of the car you drive and theenvironment in which you choose to study have a deep impacton your emotions and behaviors. This presentation exploresthe science behind color perception, differing culturalinterpretations of color, and the constant use and manipulationof color by the business world.Faculty Sponsor: Robert GlassmanBryan Burg ’09; Slinger, Wisconsin; EconomicsAbortion and Female Labor Force Participation: Evidence PostRoe v. WadeThe increase in the Female Labor Force Participation Rate(FLFPR) has been a well known market occurrence over thepast five decades. The number of women entering into thelabor force has progressively increased since the 1800s andfrom World War II has augmented greatly. Based on mystudies, I contend that one variable which directly contributedto this increase has been the legalization of abortion. I examinewhether the national liberalization of abortion using femalelabor rates data from the March Current Population Survey(CPS) will have a positive correlation with abortion rates postRoe v. Wade.Faculty Sponsor: Kent GroteEmily Capettini ’09; Batavia, Illinois; English, French“Give me ocular proof”: The Problem of the Trinket in Othelloand CymbelineOthello and Posthumus, both jealous husbands, relyobsessively on “ocular proof,” visual evidence of their wives’infidelity. The damning evidence in both cases turns on amere trinket: Desdemona’s handkerchief, Imogen’s bracelet.This paper examines the jealousies of the husbands, themiscommunications between husband and wife, and theterrible consequences of placing marital faith in trivialobjects.Faculty Sponsor: Richard MalletteKristen Carpenter ’09; Winnetka, Illinois; Art HistoryHow the Black Death Refocused Early Modern PietyThe Black Death, or Bubonic Plague, was one of the deadliestpandemics in human history, killing between 30 and 60 percentof Europe’s population. The widespread and permeating effectsof the disease changed many aspects of European culture,including art. By examining 14th and 15th century religiousItalian images, this paper argues that because popular thoughtblamed God for the plague, people turned their religious andartistic attention towards the Virgin and Saints for protection.As a result, earlier devotions to the Virgin were strengthened,and saints became more prominent figures in art.Faculty Sponsor: Ann RobertsDaryn Cass ’10; St. Charles, IllinoisBiology, International RelationsProlonged Withdrawal from Cocaine Affects Frontal CorticalActivity in the Rat BrainThis project was conducted at Rosalind Franklin University inDr. Kuei-Yuan Tseng’s lab. In order to determine how repeatedcocaine administration impacts the overal functional stateof the brain reward network, we assess cytochrome oxidase(CO-I) staining as a measure of brain activity. We found asignificant CO-I increase in several frontal brain regions afterthree weeks, not three days withdrawal from repeated cocaine.A change in function of these brain regions could lead tobehavioral deficits as they are involved in working memoryand decision making.Faculty Sponsor: Shubhik DebBurmanMeagan Cassidy ’12; East Hampton, New YorkEnglish, PoliticsThe Argument for Physician-assisted SuicidePhysician-assisted suicide has only gained attention only in thelast two decades, but it has quickly emerged as one of the mostcontroversial issues in modern day medicine. Few countriesin the world consider the practice legal. In the United States,only Oregon, and more recently, Washington State, allow forit. This presentation explores four reasons why people takeissue with physician-assisted suicide. It also explains the flawsin their arguments. The fight to legalize physician-assistedsuicide is a battle for basic human rights to one’s own body.Faculty Sponsor: Siobhan MoroneyPatrick Casten ’09; Wells, Maine; PoliticsA Movement at the Crossroads: How the Bush Foreign Policyhas Railroaded the American Conservative MovementThe Bush Administration has shattered the ConservativeMovement in the United States. From the wars in Iraq andAfghanistan and beyond, George W. Bush’s foreign policyhas split and divided a coalition forged a generation earlierduring the Reagan Revolution. It is my contention that theBush foreign policy has fundamentally changed the AmericanConservative Movement forever, and it may be decades beforethe movement will regain the political traction lost during thepast eight years.Faculty Sponsor: James MarquardtAlexandra Charron ’09; Calgary, Canada; BiologyA Mutant Strain of Worms That Can’t Make Their Muscles StickDevelopmental biology seeks to explain the fascinatingsequence of events that allows a single cell to develop intoa complex functional organism such as a person. Our labis particularly interested in the genes that control organdevelopment. We use the pharynx of the microscopic worm,Caenorhabditis elegans, as our model organ. We have selectedtwo mutant strains, M136 and M138, which are characterizedby extreme disorganization of the pharynx muscle. Wehypothesize these mutant phenotypes are a result of abnormaladhesion of cells. Our goal is to determine the location andidentity of the mutant alleles using a variety of methods.Faculty Sponsor: Pliny Smith13

Jessica Chiou ’09; Arlington Heights, Illinois; CommunicationFeminist Theory and Twin PeaksThe popular 1990s television show, Twin Peaks, representsa kind of divergence from many established regimes ofstorytelling and signification in American television. In thispresentation, I will analyze Twin Peaks in terms of feministtheory, examining the subversion at work in the show’s updatingof the police procedural, as it relates to portrayals of women.In particular, I will focus on how major characters from theshow—male and female—relate to gender, and in turn look athow these gendered roles renegotiate gender expectations.Faculty Sponsor: David ParkDanielle Clark ’09, ChemistryInvestigation of the Negishi Reaction: The Role of Zinc and theAmine BaseThe Negishi palladium cross-coupling reaction uses zinc toassist with the formation of carbon-carbon bonds. In thisthesis project, the role of zinc was examined by varying thequantity, ranging from catalytic to excess amounts. Theseresults were compared to the reactions run without a metal aswell. Zinc was found to only improve reaction rates when usedin quantitative or excess amounts. The role of the amine basein the Negishi reaction was also investigated. Both basicityand steric hindrance were found to affect the reaction rate,suggesting the base plays a significant role in the metal ligandformation.Faculty Sponsor: William B. MartinKatherine Crockett ’10; Tulsa, Oklahoma; EconomicsBehavioral Economics: Risk Aversion, Power, Gender, and GroupDecision-MakingCurrent literature supports the assumption that women tendto be more risk-averse and men tend to be more risk-seeking.Stereotypically, the man of the house has the largest influenceover financial decisions which would cause us to expect thatwhen “couples” make joint decisions they would reflect hispreference for risk. Moreover, when individuals are faced withrisk, it may be interesting to analyze what determines thatindividual’s risk preference and whether they are consistent.Determining risk preference and individual power within ajoint decision is accomplished by running an experiment thatsimulates a joint decision process.Faculty Sponsor: Amanda FelkeyCatherine Cudahy ’11; Draper, UtahElementary Education, TheatreThe Federal Theatre Project: Negro UnitsNegro Units of the Federal Theatre Project raised awarenessof African American issues and concerns while also providingopportunities for Negro performers. “This display presentshistorical information about the Negro Units as well aspublicity materials from the time.”Faculty Sponsor: D. OhlandtShaun Davis ’09; Shoreview, Minnesota; BiologyIdentification of the Telomerase RNA in the Filamentous FungusAspergillus oryzaeThe ribonucleoprotein, telomerase, has an RNA and a proteincomponent that maintains the repetitive sequences at the endsof linear chromosomes, the telomeres. As part of a largerproject to understand telomere length regulation in filamentousfungi, we are attempting to identify the telomerase RNA geneof the mold, Aspergillus oryzae. Since homology searches areunsuccessful with this gene, we searched the genome for the12bp that is part of the known telomerase template and haveidentified 24 candidate sequences. Using RT-PCR, I haveidentified one sequence that is strongly transcribed and amdetermining the complete length of this transcript.Faculty Sponsor: Karen KirkElina Dilmukhametova ’09, BiologySpeciation in Plants Using a Monkeyflower ModelWhile it is easy to conceive how new species of animals evolvedue to changes in behavior, ecological niche, or even climate,speciation in plants is less obvious. Come and learn how newspecies of plants can arise from an existing species in the samehabitat. A change in shape and color of flower, induced byan alteration in a single gene, can lead to pollinator shift.Two closely related species of monkeyflowers have differentpollinators and are thus prevented from interbreeding, ensuringstability of their separate species status. Many other plantsform intimate and exclusive plant-pollinator relationships.Faculty Sponsor: Anne HoudeKristen Dooley ’09; Meridian, Idaho; Communication, EnglishThe Rhetoric of Third-Party Presidential CandidatesThe rigid two-party political system in the US creates uniquechallenges and opportunities for third-party and independentpresidential candidates. This presentation will examine therhetoric of these candidates as they try to break into the twopartysystem, investigating the themes, strategies, audiences,and language of their speeches and essays. The ways in whichthese candidates relate to, subvert, build upon, and try to teardown the current political system offer important insights intoour government and our role in shaping it.Faculty Sponsor: Dan LeMahieuGrace Dunford ’09; Los Altos, California; Biology, MusicThe Fourth Annual Brain Awareness Week at Lake ForestCollege: A Community Outreach ProjectDuring Brain Awareness Week 2008 at Lake Forest College,FIYS 106 Medical Mysteries and BIOL 480 Neural Frontiersstudents partnered in a public outreach campaign informingthe community of current neuroscience research. This eventfor four years has taught research and communication onscientific topics and scientific collaborations and mentoring.After rigorous preparation, first year and senior seminarstudents publicly displayed their work throughout theweek. As the FIYS 106 peer teacher, I will address strategiesstrengthening both learning and teaching. I will also discussmy role in helping students work together to produce an arrayof presentations exhibits, teach-ins, and seminars.Faculty Sponsor: Shubhik DebBurman14

Morgan Easter ’09; Vancouver, WashingtonInternational RelationsPakistan: The Crisis of Governance and DemocraticConsolidationThe quest for nation-building in Pakistan and theconsolidation of a viable democratic government has provedto be precariously elusive. A legacy of military dictatorshiphas hampered the dynamics of democratic consolidation andyet, Pakistan continues to play a militarily formidable andgeo-strategic role in the region. Super power rivalry in theCold War era, the current War on Terror and the resurgenceof Islamic Fundamentalism has accentuated Pakistan’s rolein world affairs. This presentation contextualizes theseissues and examines the effects the crisis of governance hasengendered on human rights issues, economic developmentand India-Pakistan cross-border conflicts.Faculty Sponsor: Paul OrogunMary Ashley Federer ’12; Tucson, Arizona; PoliticsInaugural Addresses: Words to Rally a NationAs a president’s ceremonial first words to the nation, theinaugural must rhetorically and contextually fulfill certainelements in order to satisfy the needs of the eager Americanpublic and the expectations of history. My researchexamines the elements of an inaugural address and comparesPresident Obama’s and those of former President GeorgeW. Bush. This comparison exemplifies the key elementsof an inaugural and how a president can properly employthem to unify the nation.Faculty Sponsor: Caroline NordlundNicole Fields ’09; Libertyville, Illinois; BiologyCracking the Dogma: Stem Cells and Regeneration in theBrainThis talk represents the research I did by role-playing a worldfamous neuroscientist, Fred Gage, for BIOL 480 seniorseminar Neural Frontiers. The adult brain was thought tobe devoid of stem cells and incapable of regeneration afterinjury. Our lab made two fundamental contributions thatbroke that dogma. We demonstrated that stem cells existthroughout the brain and have broad potential to become avariety of brain cells. We also uncovered various factors andtools that aid in using stem cells as an effective therapy. Thecreation and understanding of these provide new potentialfor degenerative disease and regeneration biology.Faculty Sponsor: Shubhik DebBurmanMichael Fiske ’10; Northbrook, Illinois; BiologyInsight Into Parkinson’s: Do Certain Protein ModificationsDoom Cells?Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a devastating and incurableneurodegenerative disorder that afflicts over one millionAmericans. Large clumps of the protein alpha-synucleinare present in the brains of patients afflicted with PD, buthow these clumps contribute to cell death is unclear. Thealpha- synuclein inside these clusters is heavily modifiedthrough the attachment of phosphate groups, yet how thesemodifications contribute to alpha-synuclein dependenttoxicity is unresolved. Alpha-synuclein also associatesstrongly with the plasma membrane of cells, but the rolemembrane binding plays in cell death is undetermined. Iseek to answer these questions using two yeast PD models.Faculty Sponsor: Shubhik DebBurmanMichael Fiske ’10; Northbrook, Illinois; BiologyReady, Set, Nogo!This presentation is the culmination of research I did whilerole-playing a leading neuroscientist, Dr. Stephen Strittmatterfor BIOL480 senior seminar Neural Frontiers. Dr. Strittmatterstudies the molecular basis of the differential capacity forregeneration in the central (CNS) and peripheral nervoussystem (PNS). The PNS readily regenerates after injurywhile the CNS is inhibited by a number of different factors.My presentation during this years Student Symposium willexplain a significant contributor to this inhibited regeneration,the Nogo protein, and the numerous significant events thatled to its discovery.Faculty Sponsor: Shubhik DebBurmanValentina Galli ’09; Buffalo Grove, IllinoisHistory, Secondary EducationCreating a Secondary Education History Unit: The DefiningDecade: The 1950s and Their Role in American CultureTeachers must practice the elements and strategies ofsuccessful curriculum design. In the capstone course of theHistory/Secondary Education major, the culminating projectis the development of a three-week instructional unit planfor a hypothetical high school history classroom. Throughresearch about historical information, teaching strategies andcurriculum design, I created a unit on American culture in the1950s, which examined elements of 1950s culture, countercultureand their interactions. By engaging in this unit ofstudy, students would be able to achieve the ultimate goals ofunderstanding the elements above and their significance indefining a decade.Faculty Sponsor: Rachel Ragland15

Amanda Gaulke ’09; Hartland, Wisconsin; Economics, SpanishHispanic Immigration and U.S. Policy: Separating Myth fromFactMy research separates myth from fact on matters pertainingto immigration to the United States, including the educationlevels of immigrant adults and their children, the assimilationof immigrants into American culture, and the economic effectof immigration on wages, prices, and growth. Regressionanalysis is applied to the 2000 Census data to investigate howdifferent personal characteristics affect the earnings of Hispanicimmigrants and which country-of-origin characteristics havean immigrant’s economic success.Faculty Sponsor: Robert LemkeBrittany GoldmanAdaptive Memory for Location InformationNairne, Thompson, and Pandeirada (2007) reportedenhanced recall and recognition of words when participantsprocessed the words using a ‘survival’ scenario, as comparedto a ‘moving’ scenario or scenario is which they simply ratedthe pleasantness of the words. They suggested that this wasan adaptive feature of memory. The current experiments weredesigned to determine whether this memory benefit extendsto the memory of an object’s location in space. Preliminaryresults suggest that the benefit of ‘survival’ processing doesnot extend to location memory. Implications are discussed.Faculty Sponsor: Matthew KelleyMargaret Golembiewski ’10; Chicago, IllinoisEnglish Literature, Music“The King May Do This, and He May Not Do It”: Absolutism andDivine Right in The Maid’s TragedyHow can a play in which the actions of an absolutist Kingbring about corruption, misery, and the death of his subjects beseen as favoring the idea of Divine Right? Over the centuries,scholars have criticized Jacobean playwrights John Fletcherand Francis Beaumont for their tendency to appease andcondone the political tastes and policies of King James I andhis court through their plays. In The Maid’s Tragedy, however,a close examination of the text suggests that Beaumont andFletcher were actually critiquing the policies of Absolutismand of Divine Right.Faculty Sponsor: Richard PettengillElaine Gustafson ’10; Medinah, Illinois; BiologyThe Effect of Social Hierarchy on Behavior in the African WildDogThe species Lycaon pictus, has a strict male and female socialhierarchy which affects the behavior of individuals in the pack.I studied differences in behavior between alpha, beta, andlower pack members. I observed a four-member adult maleAfrican wild dog pack at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago,Illinois for two months. I measured spatial closeness, patternsin resting behavior, and the frequency of specific behaviorsamong individuals. The Alpha and Beta males showed morecloseness, a higher frequency of pacing behavior and standingand watching behavior than lower pack members.Faculty Sponsor: Anne HoudeAnum Haider ’10, Economics, HistoryState Abortion Laws and its Association with Pill UsageSeveral factors come into play when a woman opts to usebirth control pills or have an abortion, the latter of which hasbeen gradually declining in the United States. This projectinvestigates the factors causing the decline, with an emphasison increased birth control pill usage. The project reviews whatpast research indicates about changes in pill usage and inducedabortions. It also looks at factors affecting the decision to havean abortion, such as religiosity, educational attainment, andage. The ultimate goal of this ongoing project is to find outhow state laws affect birth control pill usage.Faculty Sponsor: Amanda FelkeyJoel Hainsfurther ’09; Highland Park, Illinois; PoliticsThe Security Dilemma and U.S. - Iranian Relations Since 9/11The competition for security under anarchy is a centraltheme of realist international relations theory. It provides aframework to describe and explain the deterioration in U.S.– Iranian relations and, since 9/11, Iran’s nuclear ambitions.President Bush’s designation of Iran as part of the “axis ofevil” and the U.S.’s subsequent invasion of Iraq elevated Iran’ssecurity concerns. Iran sought to improve its securitysituation by reaching out to friendly political parties in Iraqand providing funding and arms to militias opposed to theU.S occupation. Iran subsequently accelerated its efforts topursue a nuclear option. These activities raised U.S. securityconcerns in the Persian Gulf region. Realism is pessimisticabout the prospects of security cooperation between the twocountries.Faculty Sponsor: James MarquardtAshley Hall ’10; Tega Cay, South CarolinaAmerican Studies, TheaterAn Evaluation of Inaugural AddressesArthur Schlesinger argues, “The inaugural address is aninferior art form. It is rarely an occasion for original thoughtor stimulation reflection.” While the typical inaugural addressmay not offer shockingly new ideas, it is a ceremonial occasionwhere the incoming president gets the chance to unite hisaudience and rehearse the communal values of the Americanpeople. Both President George W. Bush’s inaugural addressin 2001 and the address given by President Barack Obama inJanuary rely heavily on these two essential tactics.Faculty Sponsor: Caroline NordlundSamantha Hartwig ’09; Belvidere, Illinois; Economics, French“Homosexuality” Throughout HistoryIn this presentation, I will examine the etymological history ofterms used to describe those individuals who engage in samesexrelationships, what we now refer to as “homosexuals”and the ways in which those labels have affected theirbehavior throughout history. I will suggest that the idea that“homosexuality” and the behaviors and perceptions aboutpeople who engage in homosexual activities has changed as thelabels used to describe them has changed. Through historicalaccounts, I propose that the modern notion of homosexualitycould not have existed before the late 19th century, becauseour ideas of sexuality were different.Faculty Sponsor: Steve Tammelleo16

Wilhemina Hayford ’12, Accra, GhanaThe Drama of Education: Chemistry ClassIn Richard Schechner’s theory of Performance Studies, he definesperformance as “...whether in performing arts, or everyday life,[anything] consist[ing] of ritualized gestures and sounds.” In ourTHTR 110: Origins and Theories of Theatre class, we appliedSchechner’s theory to a case study. I chose a chemistry class toobserve for the various elements of performance, and foundvarious facets such as conflict, character and denouement, and inthis presentation, I share my findings.Faculty Sponsor: D. OhlandtPaul Henne ’11; Waterbury, Connecticut; English, PhilosophyConstrained Women in Hamlet and Twelfth NightIn their focus on virtuous, obedient, and therefore moral womencharacters, Hamlet and Twelfth Night, both staged around1600, lay bare what we might regard as misogynistic societalstructures. The comedy dramatizes women’s subordinationwith relative benevolence; the tragedy highlights consequencesof women’s autonomy and insubordination. More specifically,Twelfth Night portrays and endorses women’s subordination,while Hamlet illustrates the unhappy consequences of womencharacters’ attempts to defy male authority and the necessityof women’s inferior role.Faculty Sponsor: Richard MalletteRahsaan Islam ’09; Lisle, IllinoisEconomics, International RelationsCreative Capitalism: Harnessing Global Capital Markets andSocial Ventures to Enhance International DevelopmentThe traditional pathways to international development havebypassed millions of people. Institutions with stated missionsto alleviate poverty have failed to enable the poor to improvetheir standard of living. Social business is the key to enhancinginternational development. By channeling capital available forsocial investment efficiently and subsequently creating soundand sustainable social business models, there is much potentialto harness the current capitalist framework to include world’spoor population in today’s globalization phenomenon. Doingso will improve the standard of living throughout the worldand will provide a better alternative to the classic neo-liberalapproach to development.Faculty Sponsor: Les DlabayChris Janjigian ’10Regional Investment Disparity in ChinaChina’s explosive growth in the past two decades has createdwhat may well be the single most rapid expansion of the middleclass in history. Following the economic reforms introducedafter the death of Mao Zedong, China’s poverty rate fell from60 to less than 10 percent. This coincided with dramaticincreases in quantitative measures of quality of life. Despitethese successes, imbalances in development mean that many ofthose still in poverty suffer worse conditions now than duringthe pre-reform era. This presentation will discuss the natureof infrastructure development and international investment inChina from both an historical and economic perspective, witha particular focus on regional disparities.Faculty Sponsor: Shiwei ChenEder Jaramillo ’09; Grayslake, Illinois; English Literature“Mislike Me Not For My Complexion”: Masculinity in TheMerchant of VeniceThis study shows how characters perform gender as they seekto meet the demands of their setting. In the fairy-tale-likeworld of Belmont, where men come “from the four corners ofthe earth” to seek the “lady richly left,” Portia’s suitors mustput on their best suits as wooers. The choice of caskets bythe three suitors-—Morocco, Aragon, and Bassanio—showshow each plays the part that best suits his peculiar masculineidentity. Portia recognizes and catalogs the different types ofmasculine behavior, which she later uses successfully to playthe part of a young lawyer at the court.Faculty Sponsor: Richard MalletteTom Johns ’09; Chicago, Illinois; English—30—Tom Johns’ —30— is a collection of creative writing thatprimarily includes realistic and satiric short stories, creativenon-fiction, and parodies. Themes common to the works inthe collection are human need, fallibility, and yearning. Mostof the works also ruminate on the effects of media and popularculture and how these forces permeate the lives of modernAmericans; some works focus on parasocial relationships(indirect but intimate one-way relationships people form withmedia figures). In examining contemporary Western cultureand its existential crises, the collection sometimes employs aconfessional and self-referential style. —30— includes explicitcontent and language.Faculty Sponsor: Benjamin GoluboffScott Jones ’09; Computer Science, PhilosophyHigh-Performance Computing in the SciencesThe increased availability of powerful computers is changingthe face of scientific research. New drugs can be testedwithout have to mix real chemicals. Physics experiments canbe performed without the need for physical objects. Otherexamples include simulating the spread of disease and theeffectiveness of a potential cure, the human genome project,and the big bang theory. The good news is that our existinglab computers can be tied together to form powerful “cluster”computers. The bad news is that developing software forthese computers is difficult. This talk will present work fromthe Computer Science Senior Seminar in High-PerformanceComputing.Faculty Sponsor: Joe HummelSudin Kansakar ’09; Nepal, MathematicsSurprising Properties of the Harmonic SeriesWhile the infinite sum known as the harmonic series may seemelementary in form, it provides fascinating mathematics andinteresting applications. We will discuss a variety of surprisingaspects of the harmonic series and provide a “meta-proof” ofits divergence. We will also discuss a remarkable property ofthe alternating harmonic series.Faculty Sponsor: Edward Packel17

Samuel Kotler ’09; Fountain Valley, California; Physics, SpanishThe Magnetic Susceptibility of a SuperconductorI will discuss the experimental design of an AC susceptometerand its use in measuring magnetic susceptibility. Magneticsusceptibility is a dimensionless constant of proportionalitythat determines whether a material enhances a magnetic field(paramagnetic) or diminishes a magnetic field (diamagnetic).We are particularly interested in measuring the magneticsusceptibility of a superconductor. When a superconductor iscooled below its critical temperature its magnetic field becomeszero (the Meissner Effect). Under these conditions there is adramatic change in the susceptibility and, as a result, we canaccurately determine its critical temperature.Faculty Sponsor: Scott SchappeSafina Lavji; Toronto, CanadaLatin American Studies, Sociology/AnthropologyA Comparison of Power Dynamics in Prostitution and MarriageAlthough prostitution and marriage are two seeminglyincongruent spheres of human interaction, my research ledme to conclude that there are significant similarities in powerdynamics and kinship structures between these spheres. Thedominance men have over women and the sexualization ofpower by our culture are the two most striking findings frommy research and fieldwork. This paper focuses on these powerdynamics between men and women, and demonstrates thatprostitution and marriage are two ends of the same spectrum:men “exploit” women in prostitution and “protect” women inmarriage.Faculty Sponsor: Holly SwyersBecca Leland ’12; Arlington, VirginiaAccepting a Gay FantasiaThis paper asserts that despite regional politics, society hadan overwhelmingly positive reception of Tony Kushner’s“Angels in America.” The paper analyzes reviews from NewYork, Chicago, San Francisco, Salt Lake City, and Clearwater,Florida. In 1991, the San Francisco Chronicle claimed thatthe show has “a vital mix of lyricism and impetuous humor,impassioned argument and a magical sense of wonder.” SaltLake City’s Desert News published a review of the show, warningthat “the play features swearing, crude talk and strong sexualthemes.” Each city had its view of the play’s themes because ofthe regional politics, but in the end, each praised the show.Faculty Sponsor: Benjamin GoluboffNick Leland ’09; Dallas, Texas; EnglishHuman PoetryMy project involves a pair of models — one male, one female— wearing clothing similar to bathing suits — though slightlymore concealing. Upon these two models, I will paint longpoems. Both poems will be about the nature of being anobject, illustrating the way in which people interact withliterary works and encouraging viewers to question the wayin which they interpret poetry. In addition, there will be anaccompanying explanation to facilitate the understanding ofthe work.Faculty Sponsor: Joshua CoreyStephanne Levin ’09; Northbrook, Illinois; BiologySMN Deficiency in SMA: Splicing Gone AwryThis talk represents the research I did while role-playinga world famous neuroscientist, Gideon Dreyfuss, forBIOL480 senior seminar Neural Frontiers. Spinalmuscular atrophy (SMA) is the most common motor neurondegenerative disease and is the principal genetic cause ofinfant mortality. The survival of motor neurons (SMN)gene has been implicated as the disease-causing gene inSMA. We have found that SMN is important in RNAsplicing, and defects in splicing are seen in SMA patients.It is unclear, however, why only motor neurons die inSMA patients despite the fact that splicing aberrations arepresent in all cells throughout the body.Faculty Sponsor: Shubhik DebBurmanAllison Malia ’09; Sacramento, CaliforniaSociology/AnthropologyThe Modern Olympics: What Do They Reveal aboutNationalism, the Nation-State and Globalization?Historically, the Olympics are structured around thenation-state. In my thesis, I analyze the nation-statepolitically to understand how it functions in an increasinglyglobal society. I then examine the Olympics as a site ofnationalism and self-aggrandizement. I consider thiscontradiction: The Olympics are structured as promotingglobal understanding, but they are also a competitioncreating inequality between nations. With the pressureto succeed via the Olympics, global athletes are recruitedto the cause of individual nations. I explore the extent towhich the Olympics reveal the status and fate of both thenation-state and globalization.Faculty Sponsor: Holly SwyersAmma Marfowaa-NuakoDevelopment with a Human Face: Challenging the NeoliberalParadigmFor the past 30 years, neoliberals in the form of theWashington Consensus have presented the dominate theoryfor third-world development. However, privatization,deregulation, and free trade have not improved levels ofdevelopment in areas around the world such as Africa andSouth America. So are these places in the South destinedto be poor forever? Is there an alternative developmentmethod to the neoliberal paradigm? The answer comesfrom plans put forth by the Global Justice Movement inthe form of sustainable development and production.Faculty Sponsor: Les Dlabay18

Amma Marfowaa-Nuako ’09International Relations, Sociology/AnthropologyLove in the Time of CapitalismDrawing on themes of the rationalization andcommodification of love under capitalism, I examine howpeople present themselves for relationships in Internetdating. According to sociologists the self is presentedthrough dramaturgy or as a manufactured package. Fromthis theoretical understanding, I conducted an experimentby creating a resume based on emotions for fictional peoplelooking for love online. Based on the responses I receivedfrom this experiment, I discovered that love has becomecalculating and predictable and that emotions and the selfhave become manufactured commodities that are packagedand sold as love online.Faculty Sponsor: Holly SwyersDanielle Marler ’09; Hillsboro, Missouri; Politics,PsychologyKingship in Shakespeare’s Second Tetralogy: TheAmalgamation of Divine Right and MightThis presentation analyzes how a sovereign legitimizeshis authority, the central motif of Shakespeare’s RichardII, Henry IV Parts I and II, and Henry V. While RichardII’s sole justification of divine right ultimately led to hisdownfall, Henry IV’s emphasis on military power provedequally deleterious to his reign. Henry V’s blending ofthese two justifications brought stability to the Englishthrone. Though military power is an obvious necessity tomaintaining a stable kingship, Richard II’s incorporationof the divine into the kingship proves to be a necessarycomponent of a healthy kingdom in Shakespeare.Faculty Sponsor: Chad McCrackenMario Mazzetti ’10; Lake Zurich, Illinois; English, TheaterCostumes: An Exploration of Shakespeare’s A MidsummerNight’s DreamAfter having taken Theater Design: From Page to Stage, Idelved into the fast-paced world of costume design at LakeForest College. A first-time designer, I worked closely withDirector Richard Pettengill, Technical Director DennisMae, and Costume Director Janice Pytel to research andcreate costumes which garnered a nomination for theBarbizon Award for Technical Design Excellence. Thecostumes explored the different worlds within the play, andused color and period style to distinguish between them.Consideration was taken in regard to time, materials,and budget to create a design that fit our cast and ourproduction.Faculty Sponsor: Dennis MaeTim McNamee ’09; Winter Haven, Florida; PhysicsGranular CompactionA granular material is any group of large particles such asa bag of potato chips or a box of cereal. When a granularsystem is repeatedly shaken, the particles that make up thatgranular system rearrange and pack more closely together.This process of granular compaction is rather complex. Sometheories suggest the use of two time scales to explain thesecomplexities. In my experiments I attempted to separatelyobserve these time scales by applying a downward force to agranular system while vertically shaking it. In this presentationI will discuss the effects of this confining force on granularcompaction.Faculty Sponsor: Nathan MueggenburgKyle Meredith ’09; Tampa, Florida; Politics, SociologyThe Undemocratic ExecutiveThe Presidency has gone through numerous changes in thescope of its power and its responsibilities over time. Theboundaries of the Chief Executive’s power have been in fluxsince the founding of the Republic. It is undeniable thatPresidential powers have expanded dramatically since then,with only moderate and infrequent periods of diminishedpowers. It is my finding that wartime and civil unrest havejustified the expansion of presidential powers, and thatCongress and the courts have been unwilling to check theadvance of these new powers in most cases.Faculty Sponsor: Caroline NordlundKrista Miller“I’m Hungry for Wax Fruit”: An Exploration of the Non-Sequitur’s Communicative Value“I haven’t received that package.” “Smell my hands!” Thenon-sequitur, Latin for “that which does not follow”, is anabsurd response to a comment. It is ambiguous because itsintention can be interpreted in multiple ways. Is it simplyridiculous or can it be used to communicate something? Thisresearch will examine some factors that may influence how anindividual perceives the communicative value of a non-sequiturcomment and how effective the speaker is in conveying hisintention. Factors to be explored include: level of absurdity,length of pause between the two comments, and personalitytraits of the non-sequitur speaker.Faculty Sponsor: Matthew KelleyTatiana Moore ’12; Highland Park, IllinoisChicago Teens vs. Suburban Teens: Is There a Difference?This presentation is based on a film documentary project Iinitiated in my First-Year Studies class. The film investigatesthe similarities and differences between Chicago andsuburban teenagers through interviews with teenagers andadults. My documentary includes clips of visual interviews,music, and pictures. It offers some eye-opening insightinto the thoughts of teenagers, how the location of theirhome affects them, and how others perceive them.Faculty Sponsor: Les Dlabay19

Nicole Murphy ’10; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; PhysicsPulsed NMRMarlan Scully’s group at Texas A&M University recentlymade theoretical predictions that there would beunexpectedly large transition probabilities for off-resonanceexciting pulses of only a few cycles. This behavior ispredicted for true, two-level systems and it is our intentionto use a pulsed NMR to study the predicted behavior inthe two-level system of protons in a magnetic field. Thispresentation will show the progress of building an NMRsystem that is sensitive enough to test, and possibly prove,this important theory.Faculty Sponsor: Bailey DonnallyNicole Nodi ’09; Chicago, Illinois; EnglishA Work in TranslationThere are many great works that were not written inEnglish, so many works that without literary translators,they would be largely inaccessible: Homer’s Iliad, Virgil’sAeneid, Dante’s Divine Comedy, Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales,and the list goes on. Yet, we often take the work of a literarytranslator for granted. In my Spanish Poetry Translationtutorial, I have been working with Professor David Georgeto learn how to balance transliteration, interpretation, andcreative writing. By sharing the process by which I translatedPablo Neruda’s “Walking around,” I plan to illuminate theimportant and arduous work of a literary translator.Faculty Sponsor: David GeorgeJillian Olejnik ’09; Rockford, Illinois; BiologyFollow the Leader: Effects of Female Responsiveness on Mate-Choice CopyingDarwin suggested two mechanisms for sexual selection:intrasexual competition, in which males compete with oneanother, and the more socially influenced female choice.My experiment uses guppies to take a closer look at thesocial factors affecting female mate-choice copying, whenthe presence of a “model” female near a male makes himmore attractive to other females. I studied the effects ofmodel female responsiveness to male courtship behaviors.I found that when females are shown two model female/male pairings, they prefer the male paired with the moreresponsive female. Therefore, female responsiveness is anadditional factor influencing mate-choice copying.Faculty Sponsor: Anne HoudeJillian Olejnik ’09; Rockford, Illinois; BiologySea Lions, Penguins, and Fish, Oh My!During the Fall 2008 semester, I was a Marine MammalsVolunteer at John G. Shedd Aquarium. Each week, I spentone full 10-hour day at the aquarium helping the interns andtrainers care for the penguins and sea lion. I learned a lot aboutthe animals’ diets as well as their needs within an aquariumsetting. Most exciting were the animal training sessions I gotto observe and even frequently take part in. I also got to seewhat it would be like to be an animal husbandry trainer on adaily basis.Faculty Sponsor: Lynn WestleyStacey ParrottDisparate Effects of Aging on Visual Search TasksThe present study explored the disparate effects of agein visual search tasks and provides an extensive literaturereview as well as a replication experiment. Many researcherssuggest that older adults may perform poorly on visualsearch tasks because of age-related memory impairment,while others argue that general slowing or attentionaldeficits are to blame. The project provides a criticalanalysis of the evidence for these various explanations. Inthe replication study, college students performed a visualsearch task (i.e., feature or conjunctive) and yielded datathat are consistent with the stages delineated by Treisman’sFeature Integration Theory.Faculty Sponsor: Matthew KelleyAshleigh Pembroke ’09; Valley View, Texas; Art HistoryCeltic to Catholic: Art of the Irish ConversionUsing formal, literary, and archaeological analysis toexamine the use of the number three in Pre-Christianand post-Christian art created in Ireland, found thatthe symbolism of the number three and designs thatwere based around it persisted well into the Medievalperiod. The continuity of visual symbols implies that theiconography of the early Irish Christians maintained muchPagan symbolism and that this symbolism imbued the newChristian religion, providing significance for the earlyconverts. The presentation will follow the transmutationof these forms from their origins in myth and stone carvingsto their use in Christian art, highlighting their unchangingstatus.Faculty Sponsor: Ann RobertsAva PhisuthikulExploring the Methods and Processes Behind the ChicagoPatient Navigation Research ProgramThe Chicago Patient Navigation Research Program aimsto improve the timeliness of diagnostic resolution, and ifapplicable, treatment initiation for underserved patientswith an abnormal screen of the breast, cervix, or prostate.Recently, patient navigation programs have grown inboth popularity and demand. Little information existsconcerning the processes and methods used to implementthese programs, however. My research fills this void in theform of qualitative interviews I have conducted with withpatient navigators in Chicago. It provides a comprehensiveoverview of the scope of work of Chicago patient navigatorsand describes the methods used by them to implement theprogram in the Chicago VA hospital.Faculty Sponsor: Kathryn Dohrmann20

Emily Pospiech ’09; Hawthorn Woods, Illinois; ChemistrySubstituent Effects of Aryl Halides in the Sonogashira ReactionThe Sonogashira Reaction is a powerful synthetic tool inorganic chemistry that allows for the formation of carboncarbonbonds using alkynes and halogenated aryl substrates asreagents in a palladium catalyzed reaction. For substituted arylhalides, the substituents can introduce electronic effects intothe aromatic system that influence reactivity. To examine theeffects of various electron donating and electron withdrawinggroups, a competitive reaction between iodobenzene andmeta- or para- substituted aryl iodides was used to comparerelative reaction rates. Using the Hammett relationship,the electronic effects were correlated with the relative ratesobtained to examine the reaction mechanism.Faculty Sponsor: William B. MartinMelanie Quall ’09; International RelationsBolsa Família: Focalized Policies for Poverty Alleviation in BrazilBrazil’s Bolsa Família is the world’s largest conditional cashtransfer program. This program is a prominent exampleof the “social safety net” policies that the World Bank andother international organizations have been eager to support.Countries such as Mexico, Colombia, and Nicaragua have alsoadopted similar initiatives. Brazil’s Bolsa Família is supposedlydesigned to improve the conditions for their nation’s poor.Paradoxically, in the current political system, Bolsa Família hasbeen manipulated for electoral purposes, and the deterioratingquality of the educational and healthcare services to whichthe 11 million beneficiaries of the program have access is notbeing addressed.Faculty Sponsor: Paul OrogunDeepika RamachandranROSCAs—One Small Loan Can Make a DifferenceAccess to basic financial services among the more than 4 billionpeople in the world today who live on $2 or less a day is vital toeradicating poverty. In most developing countries, banks andother traditional financial services enterprises are not typicallyavailable to the extreme poor. Rotating Savings and CreditAssociations (ROSCAs) have emerged recently to fill thisvoid. Sometimes called “the poor man’s bank,” ROSCA’s arecomprised of groups of individuals who for fixed periods oftime, collectively save and borrow. Micro-financing schemesof this sort operate under a variety of names in Africa, Asia,and Latin America.Faculty Sponsor: Les DlabayKatie Rice ’09; Centennial, Colorado; ChemistrySynthesis of New Molecules in Ionic LiquidsNew technology is driven by the synthesis of new materials.In order to understand the properties and application of thesenew materials, they first must be made in the laboratory.Expanding on recent results with nickel, phosphorous, andsulfur that yielded the completely new salt [EMIM] 7Ni 4P 13S 36,we explored reactions in the ionic liquid, [EMIM] + [BF 4] - .More recently, we have begun to explore reactions of nickel,sulfur, and antimony (a cousin of phosphorous) in a differentionic liquid, 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium methyl sulfate.Faculty Sponsor: Jason CodyJeni Roberts ’10; Buffalo Grove, Illinois; EconomicsInauguration SpeechesInaugural addresses are an important ritual for an incomingPresident. They are memorable to the American publicbecause in them the President can show that he will protecttheir shared principles and because the words can transcendtime. Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama delivered stronginaugural addresses, yet Ronald Reagan’s inaugural addresswas ultimately more successful because it is memorable andcan be a morale boost for America in hard times like today.Barack Obama’s speech failed to be timeless and his words didnot ensue confidence like Ronald Reagan’s.Faculty Sponsor: Caroline NordlundAmy Runyon ’09; Richmond, Indiana; Art HistoryA Voice of Dissent: Kathe Kollwitz’s Work During Nazi RuleThis thesis explores the conditions under which Twentiethcentury German printmaker and sculptor, Kathe Kollwitz,persisted in her work as a pacifist artist under Nazi rule. As theNazis repressed the arts, Kollwitz took solace in the writingsof Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The phrase from one of hisbooks, “seed for the planting must not be ground,” inspiredKollwitz as she created a well known and influential print in1942, the culmination of a lifelong fight for peace and socialjustice. Kollwitz’s work continues to resonate with viewers todaywho question the conceptions of war and social structure.Faculty Sponsor: Ann RobertsRachiny Samek ’12; East Lansing, Michigan; PhilosophyWilliam Inge: Redefinition of Masculinity and FemininityAn eminent American playwright, William Inge, wrote manysignificant plays, such as Picnic and Bus Stop. The majority ofInge’s plays are set in either the 1920s or the 1950s, particularlyin small Midwestern towns. Notorious for reacting slowly tochange, the Midwest serves as a contrasting setting for Inge’splays as he attempts to explore and redefine the meaning ofmasculinity and femininity. Through the regional locationof his characters and the time period of the play, Inge createsnew identities for his characters, constantly shifting any ofthe reader’s preconceived notions of the established genderstereotypes.Faculty Sponsor: Benjamin GoluboffJenna Sasanfar ’09International Relations, Latin American StudiesTransnational Advocacy Networks and Human TraffickingThis project applies the model of the Transnational AdvocacyNetwork (TAN) to global human trafficking. The modelidentifies a particular causal mechanism in international relationsby which non-state actors, working across national boundarieswith select states and intergovernmental organizations, forgenew global movements to advance controversial internationalpolicy initiatives. My research studies the activities of Notfor Sale, a transnational group committed to ending humantrafficking worldwide, and considers whether this group’scampaign—as played out in countries around the world—can be explained by the model’s basic predictions about howtransnational networks are formed, operate, and advance theirpolicy agendas.Faculty Sponsor: James Marquardt21

Melissa Schramm ’09; Gurnee, Illinois; BiologyPlaying Your Cards Right: How Guppies, Poecilia reticulata,Alter Their Courtship Tactics in Varying Social EnvironmentsThis study examined whether or not guppies, Poeciliareticulata, vary their courtship behaviors upon encounteringdifferent social environments, a potentially valuableadaptation. I found that male’s increased their courtshipdisplay rate in a social environment in which other maleswere present, increased “sneak” copulation attempts inall-male and all-female environments, and decreasedcourtship behaviors after first introduction to a female.Virgin females were more sexually responsive in a socialenvironment with other individuals than when alone witha focal male. These results suggest that guppies mayimprove mating success by adjusting their courtship tacticsin different social environments.Faculty Sponsor: Anne HoudeTracy Schwartz ’10; Elk River, Idaho; Communication,PoliticsWashington Highlands: The Other D.C.’s Diamond in theRoughThe best views of Washington, D. C. are east of theAnacostia River in the community of WashingtonHighlands. This neighborhood offers the most splendidviews of the monuments and museums. It is also hometo some of the highest crime, teenage pregnancy, andpoverty rates in the city. Out of sight and out of mind,this old dumping ground for public housing is gentrifyingand therefore serves as a lesson to community developersand politicians. Washington Highlands can have a brightfuture. For all the bad in the community there is still thepromise of much good.Faculty Sponsor: Caroline NordlundLeah Scull ’09; Newport News, VirginiaEnglish, Environmental StudiesClass Division within the American Environmental MovementIs there a class effect on the concern for environmentalquality? In general, members of the urban working classshow the same amount of concern for environmentalproblems as the affluent class, and it is the issues the twoclasses rally around that marks their difference in concernfor environmental quality. An examination of the Americanenvironmental movement since the 1970s shows a split inthe environmental movement among class lines, with amergence in more recent years around the issues of globalwarming and energy diversification.Faculty Sponsor: Benjamin GoluboffGabriela Siszer ’09, ChemistryExpression of Cancer Vaccines in Suicidal Leishmania forImmunotherapyLeishmania is a protozoan that naturally infects antigenpresentingcells. Because it is defective in hemebiosynthesis, heme must be acquired from the parasite’shost. Transfection of the wild type Leishmania withenzymes needed in heme biosynthesis stimulates formationof uroporphyrins that make the parasite sensitive to light.Light exposure results in the production of freeradicals that will kill the parasite. When uroporphyricLeishmania is transfected with any antigen, the antigenis processed for immunological presentation. Five genesencoding melanoma antigens were transfected intoLeishmania and the expression of the genes were assessedby active PCR and Western Blot.Faculty Sponsor: Lynn WestleyHadley Skeffington-Vos ’10; Minburn, IowaFrench, International RelationsRecognizing Stereotypes and Becoming a Global CitizenMy Symposium presentation discusses cultural stereotypesof Europeans and how awareness of cultural ‘otherness’ canhelp us to become global citizens. I will draw stereotypesfrom student surveys and dialogues, focusing on the threecountries in which I studied abroad: Greece, Switzerland,and France. First, I will discuss the typical Americanstereotypes of these countries, what I discovered about thepeople and culture of each country through my studies andpersonal experiences, and how this differs/confirms thecultural stereotype. I will conclude with how an awarenessof cultural stereotypes when abroad can help overcome thebarriers of cultural difference.Faculty Sponsor: Janet MillerKelly Smith ’11; Sociology/AnthropologySexuality and Context: Negotiating a Shifting SelfHow much of your personality do you show in society?What about when part of your identity is regarded as deviantin some sectors of society? Each of us know our whole self,but in front of society we show different portions. Becauseof the stigma produced by non-heteronormativity, queerpeople learn strategies for navigating situations in whichthey are regarded as scary, wrong, or dangerous. Thispaper explores the cases of the Stonewall Riots, MatthewShepard, and California’s Proposition 8 as events, whichhave altered what constitutes “queer safe” environmentsand affected how queer people manage their identities.Faculty Sponsor: Holly Swyers22

Amy Stout ’09; Littleton, ColoradoCommunication, Independent ScholarExploring Life through the Lens of DeathAs the formerly taboo subject of death becomes moreprevalent in the public sphere through media such astelevision, lectures, books and museum exhibits, oursociety’s view and understanding of what it means to liveand die has evolved. Conversely, it appears the subjectof death still has taboo facets within the private sphere.Using Goodnight’s sphere theory to shed light on thisdeath controversy, this presentation explores the subject ofdeath within each of the three spheres (public, private, andtechnical) and its role in finding the meaning of life.Faculty Sponsor: Rachel WhiddenNatalie Talbert ’10; Grand Rapids, MichiganPsychology, SpanishFinding Myself in Costa Rica: Outcomes of the Study AbroadExperienceHaving returned from a semester in Costa Rica, I havereflected on the positive outcomes of my experience. Myawareness of cultural diversity increased, but I also grewpersonally. I became more confident and independent, andI learned the importance of making time for friendships inaddition to academics. I have applied these new lessonsto my life here at Lake Forest, and this semester has beenmy best so far. Because study abroad removes a studentfrom his/her cultural context, it is a unique opportunityfor personal growth and a valuable part of the educationalexperience.Faculty Sponsor: Janet MillerDaniel TietzerWhat is Special about 3, 5, 7, ..., 6, 10, 14, ...12, 20, 28, ...8, 4,2, 1?After introducing the ideas of function iteration, fixed pointsand periodic orbits, we state and illustrate Sarkovskii’sTheorem. This surprising theorem furnishes wide-rangingresults in the categorization of orbits for functions on thereal line and has exciting implication for Chaos Theory(alias Dynamical Systems). We then apply basic resultsfrom calculus to sketch a proof of the theorem. The proofoffers interesting insights into the relationships betweeneven and odd numbers and the complexity of nonlinearsystems. The simplicity of the theorem and the subtletyof its proof make Sarkovskii’s Theorem arguably one ofthe most beautiful and elegant results of the twentiethcentury.Faculty Sponsor: Edward PackelChris Tossing ’09, Biology and ChemistrySpeciation: The Genetics Responsible for Intrinsic Post-Zygotic IsolationIntrinsic post-zygotic isolation (sterility or inviability ofhybrids between two species) is an intriguing, yet complexcomponent of speciation. While the effects of postzygoticisolation have been observed for years, the directcause has remained unclear. However, advances in moderngenetics have been able to elucidate some of the questionssurrounding both the cause and function of post-zygoticisolation. By using Drosophila as the ideal model researchershave been able to characterize and identify genes that maybe responsible for both the hybrid sterility and inviabilityassociated with this type of isolation.Faculty Sponsor: Anne HoudeCraig Valstad ’11Epic Theatre: An Exploration into the DefamiliarizationTechniques of Bertolt BrechtIn the early to mid-20th century, German theorist,playwright, and director Bertolt Brecht pioneered anew movement in theatre often referred to as EpicTheatre (although Brecht preferred the term “dialecticaltheatre”). Brecht rejected the naturalistic approach ofhis predecessors and instead sought to utilize theatre asa means of social reform. In order to accomplish thesegoals, Brecht employed his theory of Verfremdungseffekt,or the distancing effect. By preventing the audiencefrom being immersed in the spectacle of the theatre andthe characters created on stage, audiences were forced tobecome conscientious critical observers.Faculty Sponsor: D. OhlandtDaysi Vargas ’11; Panama; Biology (Pre-Health), Economics“The Ends of a Fungal Sex Life: Finding the Telomere Lengthof Aspergillus nidulans Sexual Spores.”The telomere is a nucleoprotein complex that caps andprotects the chromosome ends of eukaryotic organisms.Previous research shows that cells with high replicativecapacity, such as germ cells, have longer telomeres thanthose of somatic cells. In our laboratory, PCR has beenused to measure the telomere length of Aspergillus nidulans,a filamentous fungus. We hypothesize that the telomeres ofthe germ cells, or ascospores, of A. nidulans are longer thanthose of somatic cells. I have tried opening the ascosporesusing physical and enzymatic approaches and I will usePCR on the DNA to determine the telomere length.Faculty Sponsor: Karen Kirk23

Mary Volk ’09; Sewickley, Pennsylvania; EnglishBeauty, Loss, and Value in The Picture of Dorian Gray andZuleika DobsonBeauty differs from other kinds of value, in part because beautyfades—its value depends on loss. I consider the value of beautyin two novels: Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray andMax Beerbohm’s Zuleika Dobson. Both novels present beautyas something separate from any sort of planned acquisition.Beauty cannot be bought, earned, stolen, or bartered. Thepurity of its existence precludes any credit due in ownership,and I discuss how that distinguishes beauty from other kindsof value.Faculty Sponsor: Chad McCrackenJennillee Wallace ’09; Portland, Jamaica; BiologyMode of Phenotypic Inheritance in the Guppy (Poeciliareticulata)The extensive phenotypic polymorphism displayed in theguppy, Poecilia reticulata has been studied by those curiousabout how natural and sexual selection can maintain variationwithin organisms. I examined color pattern inheritance byanalyzing the phenotypes of male guppies and their offspring.We hypothesized that male phenotypic traits can be Y-linked,X-linked, or autosomal depending on the specific trait. Theresults suggest that there are orange body colors that arestrongly Y-linked, and also orange and black body spots thatare linked together on the Y-chromosome. Additionally, wefound maternal but not paternal contributions to tail pattern.Faculty Sponsor: Anne HoudeNengding Wang ’09; Chongqing; BiologyTelomere Length Regulation during Meiosis in AspergillusNidulansIn mammals, telomeres in germ cells are found to besignificantly longer than those in somatic cells. We areinterested in developing a simple model organism to studythis phenomenon. Our lab uses the fungus Aspergillus nidulansdue in part to its exceptionally short telomeres observed invegetative cells. The telomeres in sexual cells have not beenstudied. We hypothesize that in this fungus, the sexual sporeshave longer telomeres than the vegetative cells, analogous towhat is seen in higher eukaryotes. A sensitive PCR assay thatwe developed will determine the telomere length in the sexualcells.Faculty Sponsor: Karen KirkErik Wingo ’09; Denver, Colorado; International RelationsChad: Proxy Wars, Islam & Petroleum PoliticsLike many post-colonial African nations, Chad is an artificiallycreated cluster of ethnic groups. The interests of those groupsare not necessarily congruent, which is detrimental to statestability when only a handful of groups are represented ingovernment. Ethnic factions are especially problematic in thiscase because Chad has been fought over by external powerssince independence. Between pan-Islam movements anddisputes over oil revenue, the Chadian government has beenunable to establish sufficient control over the nation.Faculty Sponsor: Paul OrogunMariyana Zapryanova ’09; Plovdiv, BulgariaEconomics, MathematicsImmigration to the United States: An Interdisciplinary AnalysisThe United States took in more than a million immigrantsannually in the late 1990s, more than at any other time in itshistory. In my senior thesis, I research past immigration lawsand the economic impact of immigration. I show that thecharacteristics of immigrants since 1990s were substantiallydifferent from those who came earlier. In the currenteconomic climate—which is less conducive to mass immigrationof unskilled labor than past eras—I argue for and develop anew immigration policy that would return immigration to thelevels of the 1970s (roughly 500,000 annually) and favor moreskilled immigrants by implementing a point system similar tothat of Canada and Australia.Faculty Sponsor: Robert LemkePascal Accoh ’12; Chicago, Illinois; BiologyRiley Kloss ’12; Mount Prospect, Illinois; UndecidedReema Upadhyaya ’12; Kathmandu, Nepal; BiologyFIYS 106: The Thinking BrainThis research project was completed for the 2008 BrainAwareness week. Our group researched the biology of how thebrain produces thought and how thought disorders happen.During Brain Awareness week, we gave two presentations: acampus education outreach at the student commons and ananatomy lab exhibit open to the public. At the Symposium,we will reproduce our campus outreach. Specifically, we willpresent posters on the biology of the frontal, temporal andparietal brain lobe areas linked to planning, recognition, andattention, and brain hemispheric specialization. We will alsohighlight medical mysteries linked to each lobe’s functions.Faculty Sponsor: Shubhik DebBurmanKayla AhlstrandAbbey CarneyRochelle ChambersLaurel EatherlyRobert Erickson ’10; North Aurora, IllinoisEnglish, PhilosophyVictoria GoldsmithAndrew KlawitterAllie LongeneckerLiz PimperNathan RhodesTony UngaroHabitat for Humanity: Local, Domestic and InternationalHabitat for Humanity is an international organizationdesigned and run to provide affordable housing to the lessfortunate. At Lake Forest College we have an organizationdevoted to the goal and assistance of Habitat for Humanity.This presentation will explain the broader goal of Habitatfor Humanity and how our organization assists locally,domestically and possibly internationally to further the visionof Habitat For Humanity.Faculty Sponsor: Casey Malsam24

Sadaf Ahmad ’09Rebecca M. Brezinsky ’11Clare C. Conlisk ’10Elina Dilmukhametova ’09Jessica Disch ’09Susan Hedrick ’09Rebecca C. Krebs ’09Max Meltser ’09Terese E. Noe ’10Alejandra Rodriguez ’09Laura Thilgen ’09Natalia C. Wilkins ’11150 Years of Studying EvolutionThrough the collective efforts of TriBeta and the Spring2009 Biology Senior Seminar, this exhibit celebrates the200th birthday of Charles Darwin and the 150th anniversaryof the publication of his monumental and world-viewchanging book, The Origin of Species. On exhibit will beskulls of human ancestors, other biological specimens andthe ideas of evolution.Faculty Sponsor: Anne HoudeKumiko AkiyamaBasak CavusBita DadfarTimila DhakwaTenzin DolkarYuu ImaiThandeka MabuzaDeepika Ramachandran; Mumbai, IndiaIrene Baba RuizKavita SeshanBia SiddiquiMona SobhaniMichelle StronerKelebogile TlhokwaneToni VelikovaJennillee WallacePatricia ZumwaltInternational Dance ClubInternational Dance Club is an open group that aims topromote cultural diversity, integration, and awarenessthrough dancing. Since we are now an established group,we are determined to work towards our main objective– to raise money for philanthropic organizations such asinvisible children.Bushra Alam ’10; Dhaka, Bangladesh; Economics, PhysicsMax Falaleyev ’09; Marina, CaliforniaAsian Studies, EconomicsFlora Lujana ’09; Nairobi, Kenya; EconomicsDawson Nodurft ’10; Plato Center, Illinois; Economics, PhysicsChina: Coal or Be Dammed?China is one of the fastest developing economies of theworld. To sustain this economic growth, the country needsunprecedented amounts of energy. Does it burn coal until itruns out or are there other viable economic, yet environmentallyfriendly, alternatives? Recently, China built one of the world’slargest hydro-electric dams as an environmentally sound sourcefor long-term mass energy. But, this project has already beencited for problems and even accused of causing an earthquake.In a land of 1.3 billion people, is such an approach sustainableor are there hazards waiting to happen? Come and see.Faculty Sponsor: George SeykBushra Alam ’10; Dhaka, Bangladesh; Economics, PhysicsRoshnika Fernando, PhysicsKosova Kreka ’12Thandeka Mabuza ’12Timothy McNamee ’09Nicole Murphy ’10Dawson Nodurft ’10Let’s Get PhysicalThe physical world is full of phenomena. Throughdemonstrations of experiments, we would like to welcome, andin some cases introduce, everyone to the many wonders of thephysical world. What seems impossible we can explained byphysics. Demonstrations will defy gravity with spontaneouslyjumping rings, superconducting trains, and a walk on “water.”We will explain the physics behind shooting a target throughprojectile motion, the manipulation of pressure, and muchmore. Our goal is to qualitatively explain physics in a friendlyenvironment because physics is fun!Faculty Sponsor: Nathan Mueggenburg25

Bushra Alam ’10; Dhaka, Bangladesh; Economics, PhysicsMario Baldassari ’11; Vernon Hills, Illinois; PsychologyBenjamin BieniaRobert EricksonEmily LautenWilliam StaffordKelebogile TlhokwaneShannon Ver WoertElizabeth WaitWeijing ZhuResponsibility in the Marketplace: Implications of the Coalitionof Immokalee Workers CampaignsStudents in the Ethics Center research course will report ontheir investigation of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers’efforts to improve wages and working conditions forfarmworkers. The CIW has organized campaigns targetingfast food corporations (e.g., McDonalds, Burger King, andTaco Bell), seeking an extra ‘penny per pound’ for tomatoespurchased from Florida growers. These campaigns suggestan expansion of the ethical dimension of market decisions.Students have focused on the debates over (1) a corporateresponsibility to improve the conditions for employees ofsuppliers and (2) a responsibility of consumers to considersocial issues in purchasing decisions.Faculty Sponsor: Lou LombardiMohammed AliShaun DavisMichael FiskeStephanne LevinElizabeth PahomovEukaryon: A 5 Year ReviewEukaryon is a student-produced scientific journal from LakeForest College. Each year, we publish a range of studentscholarship by accepting articles from First-Year Studiescourse up to senior theses. Eukaryon consists of three boards.The Review Board reads each article and accepts or rejectsthem. The Copy-Editing Board corrects grammatical errors.The Publishing Board formats the articles for print and onlineversions. In addition to the journal, Eukaryon has a morebroad impact on the biology department. We have recentlyconducted an assessment to determine our influence on theLake Forest College biology community.Faculty Sponsor: Pliny SmithMolly Auer ’09; Savannah, GeorgiaSonia Axelrod ’11; Ripon, WisconsinAlaina Carlson ’11; Racine, WisconsinJustin Carrero ’09; Tinley Park, IllinoisMargaret Golembiewski ’10; Chicago, IllinoisSynneve Yoder ’09; Omaha, NebrakaHansel and GretelThe Lake Forest College Music Department will present anabbreviated version of Engelbert Humperdinck’s “Hanseland Gretel.” This performance will be fully staged andcostumed.Faculty Sponsor: Kathleen Van De GraafMario Baldassari ’11; Vernon Hills, Illinois; PsychologyJeremy Beyersdorf ’09; Neenah, Wisconsin; BusinessJill Pfund, Morenci ’10; Michigan; BiologyDeepika Ramachandran ’10; Mumbai, IndiaKatie Rice ’09; Centennial, Colorado; ChemistryJames Zender ’09; Fishers, Indiana; BusinessBeyond the Jersey: My Life as a Lake Forest College Student-AthleteThrough the eyes of the student-athletes themselves, thispanel will take a look at the student behind the jersey… Whydid they choose Lake Forest College? What drives them?What role do they play on campus? How do they balancebeing a student and an athlete? and What does this balancingact teach them? These questions, among many others, will beanswered in this informative panel discussion.Faculty Sponsor: Cheryl BehnkeSteven BarrowSarah BassinsonAmy ChappuisKatherine EmeryChris JanjigianAshlee Norton ’10; Dallas, Texas; Business, EnglishAllyson WeningerChina Through Student EyesIn the spring of 2008, a group of Lake Forest students traveledto China. The three-week trip took place at a crucial juncturein the country’s modern history. In May, a major earthquakedevastated southern Sichuan province, killing nearly 70,000,injuring many more, and leaving millions homeless. Severalmonths later, Beijing played host to its first ever SummerOlympic Games. We present a film and a slide show of picturesof our experiences in China for the purpose of enhancingawareness about China today to the College community.Faculty Sponsor: Shiwei ChenCarlos Becerra; Highland Park, Illinois; BiologyTimothy Hacker; Morton Grove, IllinoisLauren Lichtenberger; Zion, IllinoisNot for Teachers OnlyIn this session, three students—with majors in biology andSpanish, communication, and religion—present research onEducational Studies topics that have particular relevance toeach of them. With the advent of the new Educational Studiesminor and new course offerings in the Education Department,students such as those presenting in this session have beenable to pursue interests and issues that resonate with ongoingdebates surrounding the world of education today outsideof teacher certification. These presentations also highlightthe importance of including Educational Studies within theframework of a liberal arts curriculum.Faculty Sponsors: Shelley Sherman and Victoria Trinder26

Danielle G. BodenheimerMichelle J. EverstVictoria FloresNiharika JainPeri KepraioJerrica L. KrzywickiKamil MadejskiSamantha C. ParkisonRachiny S. SamekSarah K. SpotoChelsea A. YannelloArt Club Presents CHANGEChange. Regression and progression. Diffuse.Metamorphosis. Modification. Alteration. Becomingone thing where before there was another. How can change,dynamic and constant, be captured? Art Club will endeavor toanswer this question through the presentation of the art piecesbased on the ambiguous, but often personal, concept.Faculty Sponsor: Eli RobbRebecca Brezinsky ’11Danielle Clark ’09Shaun Davis ’09Timila Dhakhwa ’10Julian McLain ’11Emily Pospiech ’09Saajidha Rizvydeen ’12Quincy Roberts ’09Madhavi Senagolage ’12Mona Sobhani ’10Chris Tossing ’09Ali Vetter ’10Zawadowicz ’12Xiaoyu Zhu ’12Flames, Fumes, and Flashes: Students Fired Up About ChemistryThe members of the Lake Forest College Student Affiliates ofthe American Chemical Society (SAACS) have been nationallyrecognized as an award-winning chapter because of theircontinuing commitment and involvement in the community.SAACS will demonstrate central chemical principles througha series of attention-grabbing experiments, including freezingroses with liquid nitrogen, explosive hydrogen balloons, and acolorful ammonia fountain. Those in attendance will also beinvited to join in a hands-on demonstration to make their veryown “slime.”Faculty Sponsor: Elizabeth W. FischerDaniella Brutman ’12; Vernon Hills, Illinois; BiologyGrace Dudlicek-Bright ’12; Orland Park, Illinois; UndecidedAndrew Glass ’12; Colorado Springs, Colorado; UndecidedNatasha Poulopoulos ’12; Northbrook, Illinois; UndecidedNaeem Walji ’12; Mercer Island, Washington; UndecidedFIYS 106: Medical Mysteries: Drugs and the BrainThis collaborative group project was done for 2008 BrainAwareness Week. We educated the campus community onhow the brain interacts with drugs to produce normal behavioror cause dysfunction. Our group researched the effects ofnatural chemicals, toxins, prescription drugs, and addictivedrugs on human brain function, with a focus on currentmedical mysteries. We conveyed our information throughnot only posters, short lectures, and an anatomy exhibit in apublic lab, but also pamphlets, three dimensional models, andan inebriation simulation activity. At the Symposium, we willreproduce our campus outreach, primarily by discussing ourposters.Faculty Sponsor: Shubhik DebBurmanAlaina Carlson; Racine, WisconsinEmily Hilgenberg; Bloomingdale, IllinoisBrian KedzorskiMatt Kistler; Crystal Lake, IllinoisMichael Knish; Laporte, IndianaJohn Termaat; Naperville, IllinoisCole Thornton; Fresno, CaliforniaNew and Experimental Music Group: Videogame interface inmusic makingThe Experimental Music Group will perform new music usingvideo game hardware and software (the Nintendo DS andNintendo Wii remote controls) as a tool for improvisation. Theperformance will include audience members to demonstratethe ease of making interesting music with these tools.Faculty Sponsor: Donald MeyerRay ChoiAlina KonnikovaAutophagy’s Role as a Possible Cure for Parkinson’s DiseaseParkinson disease (PD), an incurable neurodegenerativedisease, results from the loss of select dopaminergic neuronsin the substantia nigra. The misfolding and aggregation of theprotein alpha-synuclein is the likely cause of PD. A popularhypothesis is that increasing the degradation of alpha-synucleinmay protect the cell from its toxicity and aggregation. Wetested the hypothesis that autophagy protects cells from alphasynucleintoxicity. Autophagy is an ancient self cannabilizingprocess that cells use to get rid of old, damaged, or toxic parts.Our ongoing analysis suggests that autophagy regulates somealpha-synuclein properties, while its effect on toxicity appearsminimal.Faculty Sponsor: Shubhik DebBurman27

Kelly Crook ’11; Little Rock , Arkansas; TheaterAlexandra Fisher ’10; Memphis, Tennessee; TheaterCecilia Hayne ’11; St. Helena, California; CommunicationKaren Larson ’11; Lakewood, Colorado; EnglishMelika Mansouri ’09; Tuscon, Arizona; Film StudiesRichard Widmark: From Lake Forest College to HollywoodThis Symposium presentation will focus on the researchcompleted by the fall 2008 Richard Widmark Practicum.The presentation will discuss Lake Forest College alumnusRichard Widmark’s life and Hollywood career based oninformation found in the archives, alumni files, and othersources. The presentation will consist of a panel discussion bythe five students from the class and a screening of the class’sculminating project: a student-made documentary recountingthe life and acting career of Richard Widmark, including hisyears at Lake Forest College.Faculty Sponsor: Leslie AbramsonMura Dominko; PsychologyWilliam StonerThe Influence of Subliminal Priming on BehaviorPast research has shown that subliminal priming can havean effect on attitudes and later produce overt behavior. Thepresent study examined the influence of subliminal primingon behavior by attempting to replicate and extend previousresearch. Using a sentence unscrambling task, participantswere exposed to stereotypic words from one of three categories(thirsty, young, or elderly). Based on previous research,we predicted that the elderly words would promote slowerwalking after the experiment and thirsty words would promptpeople to take and open a complimentary beverage. Resultsand implications will be discussed.Faculty Sponsor: Matthew KelleyGrace Dunford ’09; Los Alton, CA; Biology, MusicJin-Houn “L” Jou ’10; Wynnewood, PA; MusicNatalie Molina ’09; Las Vegas, NV; MusicPhuc Phan ’09; Hanoi, Vietnam; Education, FrenchNate Rhodes ’09; Okemos, MI; PoliticsSun Wenlu ’11; Beijing, China; ChemistryJoe Yeo ’10; Skokie, IL; Spanish, MusicXiaoyu Yin ’11; Shanghai, China; MathematicsMusic RecitalA performance of students taking music lessons during the2008-09 academic year, including piano, flute, violin, cello,and other instruments.Faculty Sponsor: Donald MeyerJames Dunnigan ’12Morgan Easter ’09, International RelationsVirginia Grawey ’10Mayely Imhoff ’12; Bremen, Germany; International RelationsPolina Nozdrina-Plotnizkaya ’09, International RelationsIoana Sirca ’11Fabricio Sordoni ’11Model United Nations—Global playersThe Lake Forest College Model United Nations team wouldlike to share its experiences with students and faculty. Wewould like to give a short presentation about the conferencewe attended last semester as well as a information on the UNand her bodies, give a demonstration of how the UN as well asModel UN sessions work; their purpose, rules, procedures andsuccesses. Moreover, we would like to invite our audience toparticipate in the debate and thus get a first-hand experienceand furthermore information on the topic of debate.Faculty Sponsor: James MarquardtAleksa DutkoAnne NicholsonAustin Stewart ’10; Edmond, Oklahoma; ReligionThe Threat of FundamentalismThe threat of religious fundamentalism is real.Fundamentalism is extremely inimical to dialogue becauseof its three basic characteristics; it is static, selective, andsimple. Fundamentalism is static because it does not takehistory seriously, selective because it uses only certain texts,and simplistic because it sees those texts through a black/whitelens. Furthermore, forms of fundamentalism exist at differentlevels — one more dangerous than the other. The religiousfundamentalist’s mindset does nothing but increase thechances for conflict and widespread ignorance in the UnitedStates and in the world.Faculty Sponsor: Ronald MillerSamantha Eckerling ’10; Denver, Colorado; Education, SpanishKayla Lord ’10; Waukegan, Illinois; Education, TheaterCharice Wilczynski ’10; Long Grove, IllinoisEducation, HistoryBringing the Community into the Classroom: Real-worldLearning for Young ChildrenStudent interns in Waukegan schools are developingmeaningful projects for their students using informationabout the Waukegan community and its students’ families andcultures. They are building curriculum around their students’lives, drawing from liberal arts experiences in politics, history,economics, theater, and Spanish. This model differs fromtraditional curriculum that requires all students to be learningthe same content; it also assumes sophisticated disciplines canbe taught to young children in developmentally appropriateways. Presenters will discuss their journeys as beginningteachers who strive to motivate young students, build literacyskills, and engage students in rich content area learning.Faculty Sponsor: Shelley Sherman28

Allison Falls ’10; Elmhurst, Illinois; PsychologyAlex Pirrotta ’10; Manchester, Massachusetts; PsychologyThe Effect of Racial Markers on Perception: Can a SingleRacial Marker Alter the Perceived Race, Personality, and FacialFeatures of Two Otherwise Identical Faces?This study examines the extent to which the perceived raceof a person affects perceptions of that person’s physical andpersonality traits. Pairs of computer-generated ambiguousracefaces, which differed only in hairstyle, were displayed ona computer screen, one at a time. Participants rated the race,personality, and physical features of each face. Results showedthat a single stereotypical racial marker (hair style) can changethe racial classification of a face (from African American toWhite), and this classification impacts both perceptions offacial features and inferences about personality. Practical andtheoretical implications will be discussed.Faculty Sponsor: Nancy BrekkeColby Friedeman ’10; Lake Forest, Illinois, BusinessAaron Salman ’09; Santa Fe, New Mexico; BusinessThe Economic Stimulus Program and Its Potential Effects on theNavajo Nation“The Navajo people’s wealth is not measured by itssavings or retirement account, but what’s in theirsheep corral or held in a bordertown pawn shop.”- Navajo Nation President Joe Shirley, Jr.Surrounded by the booming economies of the Southwest, theNavajo Nation has deteriorated into third-world conditionswith unemployment around 50 percent. Struggling todevelop its economy and infrastructure while providing forits people’s needs, the Navajo have become part of the recentU.S. Economic Stimulus Program. Learn about the Navajoand what possible effects the expected $2.9 billion in federalaid may have for their future.Faculty Sponsor: George SeykDina Froustis ’11; BiologyMichael Orrison ’10; BiologyHoyt Rees ’10; BiologyBiodiversity in the Shooting Star SavannahMeasuring the diversity, species richness, and distribution ofa community can provide insight on environmental impactsand species interactions. Sampling and measurement of thebiodiversity of the Shooting Star Savannah was done using theShannon-Weiner Index. Sampling occurred from the edgeof the meadow, located near a road, progressively changinginto a forested environment. The results show an unevendistribution and diversity of species. Human impact had thelargest effect on diversity, resulting in a considerable differencein the composition of the species found in these areas. Larger,K-selected organisms develop with wide variety in areas withlow human impact.Faculty Sponsor: Terry GatesPenina T. Green ’10David Konefal ’10; Mundelein, Illinois; Biology, ChemistryEliot Vildaver ’10, ChemistrySpecies Composition and Biodiversity in the Meadows of LakeForest, IllinoisSpecies composition and biodiversity are essential in orderto understand the intricacies of any ecosystem. We collecteddiversity data on various plant species within the Ravine Forest ofLake Forest, Illinois through two different methods: ten separatesquare meter plots and one collective 100 square meter plot.We demonstrated that sample area directly impacts biodiversitymeasures. The separate plots’ cumulative H’ (a measure ofdiverstiy) was nearly double that of the single, larger plot. Thisimplies that there are ecological limitations for species’ abilityto diversify and that the use of larger sample areas is the idealmethodology for attaining an ecosystem’s species composition.Faculty Sponsor: Terry GatesTimothy Hacker ’09Fiorella Lopez ’12Austin Stewart ’10; Edmond, Oklahoma; French, ReligionOther Religions: Competitors or Allies?The world we live in contains a variety of religions, but arethey meant to cooperate or compete, be adversaries or allies?This panel will discuss three basic ways of looking at “otherreligions.” Exclusivism argues that if my religion is right,yours is wrong. Inclusivism concedes that your religion maycontain some truth but mine is best. Pluralism operates on thehypothesis that your religion does for you what mine does forme. How can these three approaches live on one planet? Howcan their proponents dialogue with one another?Faculty Sponsor: Ronald MillerWhitney Hales ’11, Environmental StudiesRobert (Bobby) Hodges ’10, BiologyMarty LaBelle ’11; Chicago, Illinois; ChemistryAn Inquiry into the Biodiversity of a Ravine ForestBiodiversity is declining across the globe as pollution levelsrise and climates continue to shift. To demonstrate howsubtle changes in the environment can alter the biodiversityof an area, this study sampled plots across a ravine-forestenvironment. By observing the total number of differentspecies, along with how many individuals of each specieswere found within a plot, we calculated the Shannon-WeinerIndex as a measure of species richness within each plot. Thisstudy demonstrated how varying sampling methods, as well asdifferent environments, can affect biodiversity.Faculty Sponsor: Terry Gates29

Kathleen Gillespie ’12; Omaha, Nebraska; PsychologyKristina Johnson ’12; Sheridan, Illinois; UndecidedSaajidha Rizvydeen ’12; Chicago, Illinois; BiologyMadhavi Senagolage ’12; Colombo, Sri Lanka; BiologyShabana Yusufishaq ’12; Des Plaines, Illinois; BiologyFIYS 106 Medical Mysteries: Sleep and the BrainBrain Awareness Week at Lake Forest College is dedicated toeducating the public about the anatomy and functions of thehuman brain. As students of FIYS 106 Medical Mysteries:Neuroscience in Chicago, we researched the brain biologyand dysfunctions of sleep. We presented our findings to thepublic through informational posters, pamphlets, interactiveactivities, and a human brain anatomy lab. We will reproducethis outreach at the Symposium by discussing how specific brainregions regulate sleep, dreams, circadian rhythm, and sleepwakecycles. Additionally we will explain the malfunctionsthat arise from these regions and lead to complex disorders.Faculty Sponsor: Shubhik DebBurmanKatie Gorga; Omaha, Nebraska; PsychologyMarie-Louise Russell; PsychologyIs Beauty Only Skin Deep? The Relationship BetweenPersonality and Attractiveness RatingsThe present study examined whether positive and negativepersonality traits influenced attractiveness ratings for picturesof men and women. In phase one, 52 participants rated 80photographs of men and women solely on their attractiveness.Two to four days later, the same participants were asked tolearn and remember four personality descriptions paired withfour photos from phase one. Following the learning task,participants were given a surprise attractiveness rating task.When positive personality traits were paired with the photos,attractiveness ratings increased significantly for both attractiveand unattractive pictures; whereas, attractiveness ratingsremained stable in the negative trait condition.Faculty Sponsor: Matthew KelleyScott Jones ’09Karen Larson ’11; Lakewood, Colorado; EnglishAlyssa Ritchie ’12Stacey Rubin ’12Ben Tyler ’11AikidoMorehei Ueshiba, the creator of Aikido, once said, “To controlaggression without inflicting injury is the art of peace.” Fueledby this philosophy, he created a martial art which focuseson blending with the energy of an attacker. Rather thanfight force with force, Aikido aims to diffuse a situation byaccepting an attack and fluidly redirecting its energy to gaincontrol. Aikido relies on a combination of pins and joint lockswhich are learned through “katas,” or a series of sequentialmovements. In our presentation, we intend to demonstratevarious self-defense techniques for several different attacks.Faculty Sponsor: Jennifer SaylorMichael Knish ’09, MusicJin-Huon Jou ’10, MusicCole Thornton ’10, MusicJoseph Yeo ’10, MusicSenior Seminar CompositionsCompositions from the Senior Seminar in Music, presentedlive by students from the class.Faculty Sponsor: Donald MeyerSiu Yin Lee ’11; Hong KongMinxu Zhang ’12Tritone Paradox: A Study About How Linguistic DifferencesCorrelate with One’s Pitch Reconition PatternCognitive scientist Roger Shepard theorized that everyperson’s perception of pitch can be described as a circleof dominant (higher-sounding) and subordinate (lowersounding)tones. Cognitive scientist Diana Deutsch, usingstrange-sounding tone combinations called “tritones,”developed Shepard’s idea with regard to native speakers ofdifferent languages. In our experiment we asked 9 Chinesespeakers and 13 English speakers to make comparative highlowjudgments of sets of inherently ambiguous tritone pairs.Our new finding was that despite showing a pitch circle, asdescribed by Shepard and developed by Deutsch, Chinesespeakers’ discriminative pitch perception patterns were morehomogeneous.Faculty Sponsor: Robert GlassmanMatt Leonard ’11; Arlington Heights, Illinois; EconomicsKelebogile Tlhokwane ’11; Gaborone, BotswanaEconomics, FrenchCompetitive Balance and Major League BaseballMajor League Baseball sanctioned a report authored by formerSenator George Mitchell and George Will raising concern thatcontinued competitive imbalance would severely weaken theleague. Whereas previous studies compared attendance acrossseasons, our contribution comes from analyzing demand forindividual games. Our results indicate that teams in differentsized markets must address different challenges in attendance.We also find that playoff contention and interleague rivalriesaffect attendance. A cultural shift in fan preferences isalso present—whereas attendance used to fall off for gamesexpected to be a blowout, attendance increased in 2007 withthe home team’s chance of winning.Faculty Sponsor: Robert Lemke30

Erika Rodriguez ’12; Crystal Lake, Illinois; PsychologyKristina Rodriguez ’12; Crystal Lake, IllinoisEnvironmental SciencesCarbon Footprint ’09: Starting on the Path to a Carbon-FreeCampusThe first step in the process of reducing greenhouse gasemissions at Lake Forest College is to create a thoroughinventory of the campus carbon footprint, the sum of allemissions and activities that have an impact on climate. Thisposter presents current results for the College for the 2009fiscal year, the process of collecting the necessary data, andguidelines for expanding the inventory in the future. Somepotential strategies for reducing emissions in future years willalso be presented.Faculty Sponsor: Lori Del NegroNatalie Simak ’11; Vernon Hills, Illinois; Biology, PsychologyBrittany Stern ’11; Kildeer, Illinois; Biology, ChemistryPollen Dispersal in Helianthus maximilianii and PotentialImplications on Genetic VariationSunflowers rely on insects like bees and butterflies to pollinateflowers and to help maintain genetic diversity in populations.We examined pollen flow in a population of sunflowers inLake Forest, Illinois. The data suggest that the great majorityof pollen is distributed in a small range, within an individualflower patch. In a second project, we examined the effect ofnectar sucrose concentration on the frequency of pollinatorvisitation, by augmenting flowers with sugar water. While ourfindings do not provide definitive results, they suggest thatbees may have a preference in which flowers they visit.Faculty Sponsor: Lynn Westley31

AAccoh, Pascal ...........................................................11, 23Adams, Anne-Marie ..................................................9, 12Ahlstrand, Kayla ........................................................8, 24Ahmad, Sadaf .............................................................8, 24Ajaikumar, Anjali .......................................................7, 12Alam, Bushra .................................................6, 10, 24, 25Ali, Mohammed ......................................................10, 25Anderson, Joshua .......................................................8, 12Auer, Molly ................................................................8, 25Axelrod, Sonia ...........................................................8, 25Ayala, Alexandra ..................................................7, 10, 12BBaldassari, Mario .......................................6, 7, 10, 12, 25Barrow, Steven ..........................................................6, 25Bassinson, Sarah ........................................................6, 25Becerra, Carlos ........................................................10, 25Becker, Susan .............................................................8, 13Beyersdorf, Jeremy ....................................................7, 25Bienia, Benjamin .....................................................10, 25Brezinsky, Rebecca ....................................................7, 26Brutman, Daniella ...................................................11, 26Burg, Bryan ...............................................................7, 13CCapettini, Emily ........................................................8, 13Carlson, Alaina ..............................................8, 11, 25, 26Carney, Abbey........................................................... 8, 24Carpenter, Kristen ....................................................6, 13Carrero, Justin ...........................................................8, 25Cass, Daryn ...............................................................9, 13Cassidy, Meagan ......................................................10, 13Casten, Patrick ....................................................6, 13, 33Chambers, Rochelle ..................................................8, 24Chappuis, Amy ..........................................................6, 25Charron, Alexandra ...................................................9, 13Chiou, Jessica ............................................................9, 14Choi, Ray .................................................................10, 26Clark, Danielle ..............................................7, 11, 14, 26Conlisk, Clare C. .......................................................8, 24Crockett, Katherine ..................................................7, 14Crook, Kelly ..............................................................8, 27Cudahy, Catherine ....................................................8, 14DDavis, Shaun ............................................7, 10, 14, 25, 26Dhakhwa, Timila ......................................................7, 26Dilmukhametova, Elina ..................................8, 9, 14, 24Disch, Jessica .............................................................8, 24Dominko, Mura ........................................................8, 27Dooley, Kristen .......................................................10, 14Dudlicek-Bright, Grace ..........................................11, 26Dunford, Grace ............................................8, 11, 14, 27Dunnigan, James ......................................................6, 27Dutko, Aleksa ...........................................................9, 27EEaster, Morgan ...............................................6, 7, 15, 27Eatherly, Laurel ........................................................8, 24Eckerling, Samantha ................................................6, 27Emery, Katherine .....................................................6, 25Erickson, Robert ..........................................8, 10, 24, 25FFalaleyev, Max ........................................................10, 24Falls, Allison .............................................................8, 27Federer, Mary Ashley .............................................10, 15Fernando, Roshnika .................................................6, 24Fields, Nicole .................................................................7Fisher, Alexandra ......................................................8, 27Fiske, Michael ..........................................7, 9, 10, 15, 25Friedeman, Colby ..................................................10, 28Froustis, Dina .........................................................11, 28GGalli, Valentina .......................................................10, 15Gaulke, Amanda .......................................................9, 15Gillespie, Kathleen .................................................11, 28Glass, Andrew ........................................................11, 26Goldman, Brittany ...................................................8, 15Goldsmith, Victoria .................................................8, 24Golembiewski, Margaret ...............................8, 9, 16, 25Gorga, Katie .............................................................8, 28Grawey, Virginia ......................................................6, 27Green, Penina T. ....................................................11, 28Gustafson, Elaine ...................................................10, 16HHacker, Timothy ..........................................6, 10, 25, 28Haider, Anum ...........................................................7, 16Hainsfurther, Joel .....................................................6, 16Hales, Whitney ......................................................11, 28Hall, Ashley ............................................................10, 16Hartwig, Samantha ..................................................7, 16Hayford, Wilhemina ................................................7, 16Hayne, Cecilia ..........................................................8, 27Hedrick, Susan .........................................................8, 24Henne, Paul ..............................................................8, 16Hilgenberg, Emily .................................................11, 26Hodges, Robert (Bobby) ........................................11, 28IImhoff, Mayely .........................................................6, 27Islam, Rahsaan ..........................................................9, 17JJanjigian, Chris ...............................................6, 7, 17, 25Jaramillo, Eder .........................................................7, 17Johns, Tom .............................................................10, 17Johnson, Kristina ....................................................11, 28Jones, Scott .........................................................7, 17, 29Jou, Jin-Houn “L” .................................................... 8, 2732

KKansakar, Sudin ........................................................9, 17Kedzorski, Brian .....................................................11, 26Kistler, Matt ...........................................................11, 26Klawitter, Andrew ....................................................8, 24Kloss, Riley .............................................................11, 23Knish, Michael .................................................11, 26, 29Konefal, David .......................................................11, 28Konnikova, Alina ....................................................10, 26Kotler, Samuel ..........................................................9, 17Krebs, Rebecca C. ....................................................8, 24Kreka, Kosova ..........................................................6, 24LLaBelle, Marty .......................................................11, 28Larson, Karen .....................................................8, 27, 29Lauten, Emily .........................................................10, 25Lavji, Safina ..............................................................9, 18Lee, Siu Yin ..............................................................6, 29Leland, Becca ...........................................................7, 18Leland, Nick .............................................................8, 18Leonard, Matt ..........................................................7, 29Levin, Stephanne .........................................7, 10, 18, 25Lichtenberger, Lauren ...........................................10, 25Longenecker, Allie ...................................................8, 24Lopez, Fiorella .........................................................6, 28Lord, Kayla ............................................................... 6, 27Lujana, Flora ..........................................................10, 24MMabuza, Thandeka ...................................................6, 24Malia, Allison .........................................................10, 18Mansouri, Melika .....................................................8, 27Marfowaa-Nuako, Amma ........................................9, 18Marler, Danielle .......................................................9, 18Mazzetti, Mario ........................................................8, 19McLain, Julian ..........................................................7, 26McNamee, Timothy ............................................6, 9, 24Meltser, Max .............................................................8, 24Meredith, Kyle .........................................................6, 19Miller, Krista ............................................................6, 19Molina, Natalie ........................................................8, 27Moore, Tatiana .........................................................9, 19Murphy, Nicole ..............................................6, 9, 19, 24NNassin, Lisa ....................................................................6Nicholson, Anne ......................................................9, 27Nodi, Nicole ............................................................9, 19Nodurft, Dawson ...............................................6, 10, 24Noe, Terese E. ..........................................................8, 24Norton, Ashlee .........................................................6, 25Nozdrina-Plotnizkaya, Polina .................................6, 27PPahomov, Elizabeth ...............................................10, 25Parrott, Stacey ..........................................................8, 20Pembroke, Ashleigh .................................................6, 20Pfund, Jill ..................................................................7, 25Phan, Phuc ...............................................................8, 27Phisuthikul, Ava .......................................................8, 20Pimper, Liz ...............................................................8, 24Pirrotta, Alex ............................................................8, 27Pospiech, Emily ............................................7, 11, 20, 26Poulopoulos, Natasha ............................................11, 26QQuall, Melanie ..........................................................7, 20RRamachandran, Deepika ..........................7, 9, 20, 24, 25Rees, Hoyt ..............................................................11, 28Rhodes, Nate ............................................................8, 27Rice, Katie ....................................................7, 11, 20, 25Rizvydeen, Saajidha ......................................7, 11, 26, 28Roberts, Jeni ...........................................................10, 21Roberts, Quincy .......................................................7, 26Rodriguez, Alejandra ...............................................8, 24Rodriguez, Erika ....................................................11, 29Rodriguez, Kristina ................................................11, 29Runyon, Amy ...........................................................6, 21Russell, Marie-Louise ..............................................8, 28SSalman, Aaron ........................................................10, 28Samek, Rachiny ........................................................7, 21Sasanfar, Jenna ........................................................10, 21Schramm, Melissa ..................................................10, 21Schwartz, Tracy ........................................................8, 21Scull, Leah ................................................................9, 21Senagolage, Madhavi ...................................7, 11, 26, 28Simak, Natalie ........................................................11, 29Sirca, Ioana ...............................................................6, 27Siszer, Gabriela .......................................................11, 22Skeffington-Vos, Hadley ..........................................9, 22Smith, Kelly ..............................................................7, 22Sobhani, Mona ...................................................7, 24, 26Sordoni, Fabricio .....................................................6, 27Stafford, William ....................................................10, 25Stern, Brittany ........................................................11, 29Stewart, Austin ...............................................6, 9, 27, 28Stoner, William ........................................................8, 27Stout, Amy ..............................................................10, 22OOlejnik, Jillian ............................................10, 11, 19, 20Orrison, Michael ....................................................11, 2833

TTalbert, Natalie ........................................................8, 22Termaat, John .........................................................11, 26Thilgen, Laura .........................................................8, 24Thornton, Cole ................................................11, 26, 29Tietzer, Daniel .........................................................9, 22Tlhokwane, Kelebogile ..........................7, 10, 24, 25, 29Tossing, Chris ...............................................7, 10, 22, 26UUngaro, Tony ...........................................................8, 24VValstad, Craig ...........................................................7, 23Vargas, Daysi ..........................................................11, 23Ver Woert, Shannon ..............................................10, 25Vetter, Ali .................................................................7, 26Vildaver, Eliot ........................................................11, 28Volk, Mary ................................................................9, 23WWait, Elizabeth .......................................................10, 25Walji, Naeem .........................................................11, 26Wallace, Jennillee .............................................10, 23, 24Wang, Nengding ......................................................9, 23Weninger, Allyson ....................................................6, 25Wenlu, Sun ...............................................................8, 27Wilczynski, Charice .................................................6, 27Wilkins, Natalia C. ..................................................8, 24Wingo, Erik ..............................................................7, 23YYeo, Joe .....................................................................8, 27Yoder, Synneve .........................................................8, 25Yusufishaq, Shabana ...............................................11, 28ZZapryanova, Mariyana .............................................9, 23Zawadowicz, Maria ........................................................7Zender, James ...........................................................7, 25Zhang, Minxu ...........................................................6, 29Zhu, Weijing ..........................................................10, 25Zhu, Xiaoyu ..............................................................7, 2634

1 2 t h A n n u a lS t e v e n G a l o v i c h M e m o r i a lS t u d e n t S y m p o s i u mA P R I L 6 - 7 , 2 0 0 9Symposium Committee:T. R. BellHead Women’s Soccer Coach and Director of ConferencesLindsay BellerSpectrum Editor and Communications CoordinatorEdward PackelErnest H. Volwiler Professor of MathematicsSaajidha Rizvydeen, ’12BiologyKaren BlockerAcademic Technology Specialist, LITHarriet H. DoudDepartment SupervisorAcademic SupportAlexander Q. Gilbert, ’12International Relations, PoliticsBenjamin GoluboffStudent Symposium Co-ChairAssociate Professor of EnglishTodd HarrisAssociate Dean of StudentsDirector of Residence LifeAnne HoudeFoster G. and Mary W. McGaw Professor in the LifeSciencesJames MarquardtStudent Symposium Co-ChairAssociate Professor of PoliticsSpecial ThanksAramarkFacilities ManagementLibrary and Information TechnologyPanhellenic CouncilStudent GovernmentVisual Communications35

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