Honors in the Major at Florida State University

7th Annual
Honors in the Major Symposium

Thursday, April 6, 2006
1:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Student Services Building
Rooms 201, 203, 208, & 218

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.

Dr. Paul D. Cottle, Director, University Honors Office

Session One—1:00 pm
Room 201	Comparison of victim-age based subgroups using different types of classification systems Kara Sujansky, Psychology & Child Development Thesis Director: Dr. Janet Kistner
Room 208	Effects On Demand: Investigating Participant Demand Characteristics Austin Nichols, Psychology Thesis Director: Dr. Jon Maner
Room 218	The Origins of the Schengen Agreement Aziza Arifkhanova, International Affairs & Economics Thesis Director: Dr. Dale Smith

Session Two—1:30 pm
Room 201	Pammachius’ Basilica: Aristocratic Patronage in a Christian Context Marrika Dandurand, Classical Archaeology Thesis Director: Dr. David Stone
Room 208	Relationship between African American English and Writing Expositions by 4th grade students Danielle Brimo, Communication Disorders Thesis Director: Dr. Shurita Thomas-Tate
Room 218	Establishment of a stable mammalian cell line supporting AAV infection without helper virus Pankaj Pal, Chemistry & Biochemistry Thesis Director: Dr. Michael Chapman

Session Three—2:00 pm
Room 201	Moderate exercise and the immune response in varying environments Natasha Spencer, Exercise Science Thesis Director: Dr. Emily Haymes
Room 208	Elucidation of the signaling pathways involved in polar cell specification and proliferation in Drosophila Li-Fang Shyu, Biological Science Thesis Director: Dr. Wu-min Deng

Session Four—2:30 pm
Room 201	An Exploration of Female Superheroes in Television Brian Myers, English Thesis Director: Dr. Leigh Edwards
Room 208	Prevalence of eating disorders among varsity and club athletes, independent exercisers, and non-exercisers Vanessa Scaringi, Psychology Thesis Director: Dr. Thomas Joiner
Room 218	What Influences college radio programmers to add music to their playlists? Rachael Desztich, Communication Thesis Director: Dr. Steven McClung

Session Five—3:00 pm
Room 201	The Effects of Worksheet Design on Student Performance Seth Amigo, Psychology Thesis Director: Dr. Jon S. Bailey
Room 208	Ghosts of People I’ve Never Met and other short stories Nicole Dietderich, English Thesis Director: Dr. Elizabeth Stuckey-French

Session Six —3:30 pm
Room 201	Negotiating Language and Power: Passive Responsibility as Social Action among Bilingual Salvadoran Immigrant Laboreres in Suburban Long Island Michael Como, Anthropology Thesis Director: Dr. Joseph Hellweg
Room 208	CB1 Expression in the Visual System of the Developing Chick Breyda Ortega, Psychology/Statistics Thesis Director: Dr. Richard Hyson
Room 218	Comparison of Human Cortical Surface Reconstructions from Magnetic Resonance Imaging Data Aaron Kline, Biological Science/Biomedical Mathematics Thesis Director: Dr. Monica K. Hurdal

Poster Presentations 1:00-4:00 pm
Room 203	Experiences of families who have children who are deaf Randi Jennifer Traub, Communication Disorders Thesis Director: Dr. Carla Wood Jackson
	The Relation of African American English and Spelling in Fourth Graders Stephanie Fountain, Communication Disorders Thesis Director: Dr. Shurita Thomas-Tate
	A Comparative Study of Reading Stimuli on the Discourse of People with Dementia Khalyn Iman Wiggins, Communication Disorders Thesis Director: Dr. Michelle Bourgeois
	Voice Onset Time in Women as a Function of Oral Contraceptive Use Kaileen Herring, Communication Disorders Thesis Director: Dr. Richard J. Morris

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