National Council - Alpha Chi

10:00 “Unique Ionic Liquid‐derived Silver Nanostructures for Surface‐enhanced Raman Scattering”
Quinton M. Bryant, Arkansas Mu
University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, Region II
10:15 [Poster] “Gas Chromatography‐Mass Spectrometry: Its Uses in Chemistry and Other Fields of Science”
in poster room Brittany A. O’Neil, Rhode Island Alpha
Roger Williams University, Region VI
Section 16 Communication & Literature _____________________________________________________ Chicot
Linda Garner, Lipscomb University, presiding
9:30 “Sports, Sports, and More Sports: The Impact of ESPN on American Culture”
Treasure Bacon, Ohio Beta
Defiance College, Region V
9:45 “What Do We Do with Do?”
Jonathan Coffee, Tennessee Delta
Carson‐Newman College, Region III
10:00 “A New World Order: Nihilism and Cultural Politics in Grigori Kosintsev’s Koral Lir”
Jeffrey Yeager, West Virginia Beta
Concord University, Region V
10:15 “Sarah Orne Jewett and the Supernatural: Another Side of the New England Writer”
Donna P. Franks, West Virginia Beta
Concord University, Region V
Section 17 American Literature ________________________________________________________ Harris Brake
Bethany Sinnott, Catawba College, presiding
9:30 “‘To Sing of Wars’ . . . and Parsley: Anne Bradstreet, Blogging, and Feminine Authority”
Bethany R. Brown, Tennessee Delta
Carson‐Newman College, Region III
9:45 “Similar Impacts of Style on Meaning in ‘I have never seen a Moor’ and ‘somewhere I have never
travelled’”
Rachel Paprocki, California Alpha
Pepperdine University, Region VII
10:00 “The Secret of the Sphinx: Masonic Symbolism from The Lost Symbol to Ralph Waldo Emerson”
Leslie McKiever, Arkansas Zeta (alumni member)
University of Arkansas at Monticello, Region II
10:15 “Better Together: The Synergetic Relationship Between Ecclesiastes and The Grapes of Wrath”
Katie McClung, Tennessee Kappa
Lipscomb University, Region III
Section 18 Biology ____________________________________________________________________ Lafayette
James Bray, Blackburn College, presiding
9:30 “Development of QRT‐PCR Protocols for Rapid Xylella fastidiosa Subspecies Differentiation”
Brittany K. Pierce, Texas Alpha Xi
University of Texas at Tyler, Region II
9:45 “Improved Position‐Dependent Sequence Motif Characterization and Automated Transfer for Gene
Prediction”
Justin M. Gardin, North Carolina Xi
Greensboro College, Region III
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