2007 Presenters

SPRING 2007 STUDENT PRESENTERS


Patrick Armstrong, Economics '07
"The Effects of US and EU Agricultural Subsidies on Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa"

Paul Carleton Atwater, English '07
"The Visual Representation of Trauma in the Modern Novel"

Serenity Banden, Behavioral Neuroscience '08
"Visual Adaptation in Mice"

Irene Bukh, Behavioral Neuroscience '08
"Behavioral Ontogeny in Captive Western Lowland Gorillas (Gorilla g. gorilla) and Their Personality Characteristics"

Shawna Calhoun, Behavioral Neuroscience '07
"Increasing Activity of PHOSPHODIESTERASE I from Crotalus Adamanteus Venorm for Removal of Bulky DNA Adducts"

Elizabeth Fang, Doctor of Pharmacy '08
"Development and Characterization of a Novel Suppository Dosage Form Against Human Colorectal Carcinoma"

Kimberly Galione, Criminal Justice '07
"The 1.5 Children No One Cares About: The Effects of Incarceration on Prisoner's Children"

Anna Gartsman, Computer Science/Cognitive Psychology '07
Laura Hughes, Linguistics/Psychology '07
"Introductory Linguistics Study Guide"

Nichole Greenberg, Nursing '08
"Girl Talk: The Process by Which African American Late Adolescent Females Make Sexual Decisions"

Brian Guthrie, Computer Science '07
"Special Computer Science Project"

Boyan Kovacic, International Affairs '07
"Media Coverage of Domestic Terrorism: A Contact Analysis of U.S. and U.K. Newspapers"

Elise Laflamme, Biology '08
"Maternal Hemoglobin Concentration and Pregnancy Outcome: A study of the effects of elevation in El Alto, Bolivia"

Marisa Landau, Psychology '07
"Creating a Template of Nonverbal Cues for Immobile Recipients to use in Communicating with Service Dogs"

Wendy Lewis Kesl, Nursing '07
"Increasing Global Awareness of Nurses: Exploring Similarities and Differences in Advanced Nursing Practice"

David Magargee, Industrial Engineering '07
"Facilities Planning: Course Software Selection and Lab Development Project"

Margot Morse, Communication Studies '07
"Is Paris Burning? Media Coverage of the Crisis on French National Identity during the Paris Riots of 2005"

Christina Mulka, Political Science '08
"An Analysis of Sugar Subsidies in the United States"

Kimberly Nichols, Multimedia Studies '07
"Exposing Social Subliminal Messages in Print Media Today and the Shaping of Modern Self Image"

Katherine Peel, Criminal Justice '07
"Death Row Incarceration and the Effect on Family Relationships"

Alice Saunders, History '07
"Vietnam Vets Against the Vietnam War: The People's House in Clarksville, Tennessee (1970-1971)"

Toby Shepherd, Political Science '07
"Buying Growth or Selling Out? A Study of Massachusetts’ Economic Development Incentive Program (EDIP)"

Amy Stachowski, Nursing '08
"Nature of Communication: Voices of 11-14 Year Old African American Girls & Their Mothers Talking About Sex"

Christopher Yarsawich, English & Russian Studies '07
"Vladimir Nabokov as a Multilingual Writer"

Jennelle Yopchick, Psychology '07
"The Effects of Causal Information on Treatment Choice"


Honors Seminar Research

HNRU302 - A History of Espionage
Prof. Jeffrey Burds

Laura Carey, Civil Engineering '10
"Her Majesty’s Spymaster: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage"

Jay Cinq-Mars, History '10
"Soviet Secrets & Spanish Blood: The Comintern, the NKVD, the Spanish Civil War"

HNRU302 - Technology and Philosophy
Prof. Yang Lee

Samuel Chase '07, Jonathan Fisher '10, Jonathan Simons '08, Andrew Leinung '10, Dillon McDowell '10, Michael Paradiso '10, Chris Yarsawich '07
"Context Embedded Information Product Maps"

HNRU341 - Popular Culture, Business, and the Cold War
Prof. Bert Spector

Samuel Chase, Human Resource Management '07
"Opposition to the Original GI Bill of WWII"

HNRU342 - Eating and the Environment
Prof. Jennifer Rivers Cole

Seth Housman, Criminal Justice '09
"Integrated Pest Management"

HNRU342 - Social Fact from Fiction
Prof. David Rochefort

William Neff, Psychology '10
"Writing about Social Problems"


Special Guests

Mariko Howe, Psychology '07
Dean James Stellar, College of Arts and Sciences
"Regulation of ionotrophic glutamate receptors by contingent and non-contingent brain stimulation"

Sarah Robey, History '08
Prof. Jeffrey Burds and Prof. Harvey Green
"Migrant Mother: An American Icon"


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