Grad Expo 2007
Thursday, March
1, 2007
William Pitt Union Assembly
Room, Ballroom, and Kurtzman Room
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| Schedule of Events |
| 8:45 am |
Breakfast |
| 9:15 am |
Opening Remarks
Dr. George E. Klinzing, Vice Provost for Research
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| 9:30 am |
Paper Session Ia: Interpreted Arts
Courtney Wilkes, Theatre Arts
Coontown: Utopian Longing and Reification in Black Suburbia
Ryan Pierson, English
Temporal Pleasures of Film Music
Rebekah Perry, History of Art & Architecture
Plague, Piety, and Portraiture: Giorgione’s "Boy with an Arrow"
and the Renaissance Tradition of Saint Sebastian Iconography
Ivan Jimenez, Music
Structural Depth in the First Movement of Gorecki's 'Symfonia
piesni zalosnych' [Symphony of Sorrowful Songs] Op. 36, for Soprano and Orchestra,
1976
Meredith Conti, Theatre Arts
At Face Value: Scientific Approaches to Ethnic Performance in
the Age of Physical Acting
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Paper Session Ib: Bioethical Issues, Bias, and the Environment
Thomas Cunningham, History & Philosophy of Science
Science, Policy, and Politics: How distortion and bias generated the
moratorium on cloning
Jared Coopersmith, Sociology
The Wise Use Movement: A Network Analysis of the Anti-Environmental
Counter Movement
April Randle, Biological Sciences
The Evolution of Reproductive Barriers among Species in the Tribe
Collinsieae
Ana Espinola, Economics
Green Auctions: A study of Mechanism Design with Externalities
Jonathan Livengood, History and Philosophy of Science
Why was M.S. Tswett’s Chromatographic Adsorption Analysis Initially
Rejected?
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| 10:45 am |
Poster Judging Begins
Suman Bhattacharya, Physics & Astronomy
Tale of Galaxy Clusters
Sushmita Biswas, Physics & Astronomy
Optical Nanoantennas
Suchetana Chatterjee, Physics & Astronomy
Sunyaev- Zel’dovich Effect From Quasars
Demetra Chengelis Czegan, Chemistry
Photophysical Study of Luminescent Lanthanide Complexes and Nanoparticles in Solution
Judy Day, Mathematics
Modulating Inflammation Using Nonlinear Model Predictive Control
Alejandro Dever, Anthropology
Community Formation and Specialization of a Tairona Coastal Village, Colombia
David Essary, Computer Science
Testing the Limits of Power and Latency Reductions by Predictive Data Grouping
Holly Gastgeb, Psychology
The Development of Categorization in Individuals with Autism: Do Individuals With Autism Process Categories Differently?
Baris Hancioglu, Mathematics
A Dynamical Model of Influenza A Virus Infection with Its Clinical and Epidemiological Relevance
Stephen Hancock, Biological Sciences
What Forces Drive DNA Bending?
Yi-Cheng Huang, Physics & Astronomy
The Implication of Milgrom's Relation for the Dark Matter Haloes
Christopher Hughes, Geology
Super-Resolving THEMIS Data for Improved Temperature, Composition, and Spatial Resolution
Elizabeth Irvine, History & Philosophy of Science
Neurophenomenology: Is it New and Does it Work?
Sherif Khattab, Computer Science
Live Baiting of DDoS Attackers in the Internet
Mary Elizabeth Kovacik, Anthropology
Orientation of Calvaria Trabeculae in Perinatal Rabbits with Familial Coronal Suture Synostosis
Jintao Liu, Physics & Astronomy
Molecular Dynamics simulations of Vortex Matter in high-T_c Superconductors with Columnar Defects
Qi Mi, Mathematics
One dimensional elastic continuum model of epidermal wound healing
Aimee Midei, Psychology
Do Anger, Anxiety, and Social Relationships Predict Central Adiposity in Adolescents Over Time?
Destiny Miller, Psychology
Sex Differences Along the Continuum of Exhibitionism
Annie Nagy, Anthropology
An Osteological Analysis of Human Cranial Remains from the Atlantic Watershed Region of Costa Rica
Juan Negri-Malbran, Political Science
Coalitions Under Presidentialism: An Institutional Explanation
Stephen Pellathy, Physics & Astronomy
Choosing Scientific Material for Integration
Keiran Rump, Psychology
Emotion Recognition in Children and Adults with Autism: Does Proficiency Increase With Age?
Vahit Sametoglu, Physics & Astronomy
Observation of New Symmetry States on Alkali-Adsorbed Metal Surfaces by Photoemission
Jessica Smoker, Anthropology
Conestoga Town: Continuity and Change in a Native American Colonial Period Refugee Community
Tomas Singliar, Computer Science
Online Temporal Clustering for Outbreak Detection
Diana Whalen, Psychology
Caffeine Use and Sleep in Children and Adolescents
Botao Zhang, Physics & Astronomy
Ultrafast Dynamics of Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers
Jian Zhang, Chemistry
In Search of Photostable Near Infrared Emitting Luminescent Reporters: Lanthanide Complexes
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| 11:00 am |
Break |
| 11:15 am |
Paper Session IIa: Epistemology, Measurement,
and Disaster
Brent Saindon, Communication
Corporeal knowing: The limits of picturing and narrative in the
Jewish Museum Berlin
Jill Dione, English
From Global to Microscopic to ???--Positioning Visual Media on the
Axis of 9/11
Suddhashil Chattopadhyay, Physics & Astronomy
Measuring the Swimming Efficiency of Bacteria Using Optical Tweezers
Robert Bailey, History of Art & Architecture
Current Memory/Memorial Currents: Spectacle and Spectrality in the
Imaged Response to September 11
Tim Vining, Sociology
The Impact of Disasters on Social Movement Framing: Katrina &
Advocates of Louisiana Public Health
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Paper Session IIb: Social Phenomena:
Institutions, Agency, and Addiction
Sarah Taylor, Anthropology
The Emergence of a Centralized and Hierarchical Community in
Southern Ecuador
William Locascio, Anthropology
Tracing Social Change: Community Identity and Socioeconomic
Interaction at HE-4, Panama
Yang Zhao, Economics
Do Institutions Matter? Estimating the Effects of Institutions
on Economic Performance in China
Felix Munoz-Garcia, Economics
The importance of foregone options
Ana-Maria Iosif, Statistics
A Search for Genes Underlying Risks Associated with Alcoholism:
Development of a Nonhuman Primate M
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| 12:45 pm |
Lunch
Poster Judging Concludes
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| 1:30 pm |
Paper Session IIIa: Gender
Yu Yang, History of Art & Architecture
Female Uniform and Cement through the Male Gaze in Contemporary
Chinese Art
Diana Calderazzo, Theatre Arts
Memories of Moscow: Freudian Gender Theory in Anton Chekhov's
THREE SISTERS
Christopher Kurfess, Classics
A Serious Education for Women in Aristotle’s Politics?
Carly Woods, Communication
“Now I Can Feel Like Myself All Month Long” : Menstrual Pain as
Identity-Constituting & Preventing
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Paper Session IIIb: Ideology, Society, and
Politics
Alicia Ventresca, Anthropology
Andronovo Culture Child Burials and Social Complexity of the
Eurasian Steppe
Blaire Zeiders, English
"Read to Win": Warfighters, Intellectuals, and the United States
Marine Corps Reading Program
Joel Brady, Religious Studies
The Role of the Historical in the Ethnography of Byzantine Rite
Catholicism
Robert Crane, Theatre Arts
Rewriting the Soviet Theatre: American Newspaper Criticism in
the Early Cold War
James Johnson, Anthropology
Momentary Eddies: Framing Complexity in the Iron Age of the
Pontic Steppe |
| 3:00 pm |
Break |
| 3:15 pm |
Paper Session IVa: Language, Writing, and
Communication
Catherine Morrison, Communication
Letting Something Be Said to Us: A Phenomenological Approach to
Rhetoric and the Sensus Communis
Alexandra Valint & Kelly Ramsey, English
The Forensics of the Exquisite Corpse: Searching for the Fused
Pedagogies of Creative Writing and C
Maeve Eberhardt, Linguistics
Women's Stance-taking in Interaction: The Case of (ING)
Tamar Degani, Psychology
Meaning Connections Between a Bilingual’s Two Languages: The
Case of Hebrew and English |
Paper Session IVb: Global Movements
Xi Zhang, Sociology
Globalization, Internal Labor Migration, and Income Inequality
in China, 1993-2003
Melissanne K. Myers, Religious Studies
Globalization of a Symbol: The Ceremonial Use of Wedding Vases
Today
Ana Carolina Garriga, Polticial Science
Regime Type and Foreign Policy: Evidence from Latin America
(1950-1979)
Jianhua Zhao, Anthropology
The Cultural Economy of Fashion Design in China
Adam Carter, Geology
Explosive Volcanism at Bezymianny Volcano, Russia: Satellite-
and Ground-Based Observations |
| 4:45 pm |
Break All Judging Concludes |
| 5:00 pm |
Closing Remarks and Awards
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