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5th Annual
Honors in the Major Symposium

Tuesday, April 6, 2004
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Oglesby Union
Rooms 314A, 311B, 311C, 311E

The Honors in the Major Symposium provides an opportunity for outstanding Honors in the Major students to showcase their work in a professional, conference setting. Most student presenters are either approaching their thesis defense or have already completed it at the time of presentation.


The Honors in the Major Symposium is funded, in part, by a Phi Kappa Phi Promotion of Excellence Grant.

Room 314
Welcome and Overview of the Honors in the Major Program - 1:00 p.m.
Dr. Paul D. Cottle, Director, University Honors Program

 

Session One—1:30 pm
Room 311B
Axonal Targeting of the Olfactory Bulb Kv1.3 Knockout Mice
Randa Perkins, Department of Biological Sciences
Directing Professor: Dr. Debra Ann Fadool
Room 311C

Patriarchal Packaging: The Advertising of Sendero Luminoso
Allison Glendinning, Department of History
Directing Professor: Dr. Robinson Herrera

Room 311E The Effects of Early Self-concept on Social Adjustment in Adolescent Girls
Stephanie Feil, Department of Psychology
Directing Professor: Dr. Jeanette Taylor

 

Session Two—2:00 pm
Room 311B
Women, the State, and War: Feminist Formulations on the Lebanese Civil War
Mona Salib, Department of International Affairs
Directing Professor: Dr. Zeina Schlenoff
Room 311C In-stream Phosphorus Mechanisms
Samantha Danchuk, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Directing Professor: Dr. Amy Chan Hilton
Room 311E Structural and Thermodynamic Studies of Box C/D snoRNP Protein Fibrillarin Binding with Nop5p and the SMA related Protein SMN using Isothermal Titration Calorimetry and X-ray Diffraction Crystallography
Thomas Visone, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Directing Professor: Dr. Hong Li

 

Session Three—2:30 pm
Room 311B
Democracy in the Global Justice Movement: Decision-making on the Local and National Levels
Steven Payne, Department of Anthropology
Directing Professor: Dr. Joseph Hellweg
Room 311C Determination of Molecular Weights of Soil Humic and Fulvic Acids through Size Exclusion Chromatography with Online Electrospray Ionization and Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry
Andrew Nicholson, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Directing Professor: Dr. William T. Cooper
Room 311E Projective Drawing: Assessing Emotion in Children Who Stutter
Kaitlyn Wilson, Department of Communication Disorders
Directing Professor: Dr. Lisa Scott Trautman

 

Session Four—3:00 pm
Room 311B
The Supplication of Daniel the Prisoner: A Critical Translation and Concordance of the Texts
Matthew Herrington, Department of Modern Languages
Directing Professor: Dr. Robert Romanchuk
Room 311C
Dynamic Probabilistic Retransmission in Ad hoc Networks
Donald Scott, Department of Computer Science
Directing Professor: Dr. Alec Yasinsac
Room 311E Creating a European Identity Based on Shared Values: The Phenomenon of “Anti-Americanism”
Eric Reller, Department of International Affairs
Directing Professor: Dr. Harry F. Dahms

 

Session Five—3:30 pm
Room 311B
Evaluating the Inter-rater Reliability of a System for Classifying Seizures
Alicia Ranney, Department of Psychology
Directing Professor: Dr. Barbara G. Licht
Room 311C Lower Neogene and Upper Paleogene Calcareous Nannofossil Biostratigraphy and Age Constraints on a Middle Eocene Hiatus Associated with Seismic Horizon AU: A Progress Report
Sharon Audra Stant, Department of Geological Sciences
Directing Professor: Dr. Sherwood Wise
Room 311E Subcultures and Surveillance in the Writing of Oscar Wilde and Jean Genet
Hala Herbly, Department of English
Directing Professor: Dr. Barry Faulk

 

Poster Presentations 1:30-3:00 pm
Room 314 The Self-Perceptions of Adolescents Who Stutter
Mario Landera, Department of Communication Disorders
Directing Professor: Dr. Lisa Scott Trautman
Multi-species evolution in a Lotka-Volterra Community
Eric Powell, Department of Biological Sciences
Directing Professor: Dr. Thomas Miller
Pregnant with Power: Women and Authority in the Early Church Period
Meghan Steward, Department of Humanities
Directing Professor: Dr. Laurel Fulkerson
Narrative Skills in Late Talking, Precocious and Typically Developing Four-year olds
Jessica Spears, Department of Communication Disorders
Directing Professor: Dr. Lisa Scott Trautman

 

Poster Presentations 3:00-4:00 pm
Room 314 A Correlational Study of Perceived Burdensomness and Other Clinical Variables as Predictors of Suicidal Behavior
Meredith Lynam, Department of Psychology
Directing Professor: Dr. Thomas Joiner
Correlates of Schizophrenia Spectrum Personality Disorder in Young Adults
Joshua R. Shumen, Department of Psychology
Directing Professor: Dr. Jeanette Taylor
Investigating the Processes Involved with False Memories in the DRM Paradigm Using Protocol Analysis
Jamie Weitz, Department of Psychology
Directing Professor: Dr. Colleen Kelley

 

Room 314

Concluding Remarks -- 4:00 pm
Dr. Paul D. Cottle, Director, University Honors Program

 

 

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