2nd Annual Academic Symposium

2nd Annual Wiggins Memorial Library Academic Symposium March 15, 2012

The 2nd Annual Wiggins Memorial Library Academic Symposium will showcase exemplary undergraduate and graduate research. This event is open to all students, faculty, staff, and guests. The symposium is floating in nature, so visitors may participate in sessions that best fit their schedule. All visitors are invited back for the reception from 4:00pm-5:00pm in the 24-Hour Study Area.

Oral Presentations– 9:30am - 3:00pm

Time (Location) Student Presenter(s) Presentation Title Faculty Mentor
9:30 am - 10:00 am
(Room 224)		 Jonathan Lee Prayer and the Divine Economy: Some Insight from Origen of Alexandria Dr. Cameron Jorgenson
10:00 am - 10:30 am
(Room 312)		 Shekanah Solomon Joseph Goebbels' Use of Propaganda in Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany Dr. Michael Smith
10:30 am - 11:00 am
(Room 224)		 Melinda Autry "Let the Little Children Come": Not Letting Modern Theories Hinder Them Dr. Cameron Jorgenson
11:00 am - 11:30 am
(Room 312)		 Jonathan Bridges No More Marlboro Man: What Tobacco Companies Failed to Consider in Advertising Dr. Michael Smith
11:30 am - 12:00 pm
(Room 224)		 Ben Dyer God in Frost's 'Once by the Pacific' and 'Design' Prof. Shirley Jefferds
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
(Room 312)		 Katelyn St. Clair Cloning of Mouse Calpain 2 and Development of Laboratory Exercises to Teach the Transfer of Genetic Information and Biotechnology Dr. Karen Guzman
 
1:30 pm - 2:00 pm
(Room 312)		 Johnathan Lomick Blake's Artistic Work on the Book of Job Dr. Kathy Lopez
2:00pm - 2:30 pm
(Room 312)		 Chris Walk The Land As Character: The Idea of Progress in American Agriculture, and the Christian Narrative Dr. Cameron Jorgenson
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
(Room 312)		 Hannah Parson Utopian Fantasies and Paganism in The Scarlet Letter Dr. Gina Peterman
2:30pm - 3:00 pm
(Room 303)		 Maria Sadler Medication errors: What is flagged by pharmacy computer systems? Dr. Robert Cisneros

Posters– 3:00pm - 4:00pm (Main Lobby)

Student Presenter(s) Presentation Title Faculty Mentor
Raja Reddy Bommareddy Formation and Characterization of Amoxicillin and Cyclodextrin Inclusion Complexes Dr. Daniel Shin & Dr. Paul Johnson
Alexander Chatham Preliminary Analysis of Population Genetic Diversity Among Viola maviensis in Molokai's Pepeopae Bog Dr. J. Chris Havran
David Citron & Chris Teeter Isolation and Identification of a Microorganism from Soil Sample of an Environmentally Importance Dr. Taek You
Bharath Kumar Gowdampally Physical-Chemical Characterization of 1, 2-Dihexadecanoyl-sn-Glycero-3-Phosphocholine (DPPC-Dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine) Dr. William C. Stagner
Andres Lam Study of SulfoNHS-LC-LC-Biotin for Cell Surface Protein Affinity Isolation and MS Characterization of Angiotensin II-(SS-Biotin)2 Dr. Sarah Liu
Krystal Piotrowski Floral Morphological Comparison of Two Closely Related Hawaiian Violets Dr. J. Chris Havran
Katelyn St. Clair Cloning of Mouse Calpain 2 and Development of Laboratory Exercises to Teach the Transfer of Genetic Information and Biotechnology Dr. Karen Guzman
Lauren Stutts A Quantitative Analysis of the Foliar Morphology of Planchonella Sandwicensis Dr. J. Chris Havran
Jennifer Tacke Distinctions in Physical Activity Habits Amongst Academic Major and Year in Undergraduate Students Dr. Jennifer Bunn
Ramya Yadavalli Physical–Chemical Characterization of the Phospholipid DMPC, Myristic Acid, Methyl Myristate and 1-Tetradecanol Dr. William C. Stagner

Reception– 4:00pm - 5:00pm (24-Hour Study Area)