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Arts & Humanities Undergraduate Oral Presentations 8:45 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. UC, Room 215-216 Enas Elmohands Art and Human Rights Elise Helmers ‘To Wake the Dead’: Memory and Mourning in the American Art of the Late 19th - Early 20th Century Melissa Waldvogel A Knight, His Wife, Their Arms, and Their Grave Marker: An Image of a 16th-Century Flemish Gravestone from the Adelphi University Art Collection David Campmier Anglo-Catholicism and Orientalism as the Foundations of Alfred Thayer Mahan's Sea Power Cailin Giard How Popular Culture Condones and Perpetuates Human Trafficking UC, Room 313 Catherine Jermolowitz Enforcing Modernity: Spatial Determinism in the Post- War Period Jennifer Lin EAM-ELAS: Examining the Proliferation of the Greek Civil War’s First Two "Rounds" Mahnoor Misbah East Meets West: An Examination of Ibn Khaldun's Influence on Western Thought David Perrotto The Agency of Iroquois Women through Corn David Perrotto Grain Tax and Revenue in Roman Egypt

Life Sciences & Physical Sciences Undergraduate and Graduate Oral Presentations 8:45 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. Science, Room 03 North Emily Dernbach (G) Wave exposure, available prey density, and predator cues elicit variable foraging behavior in Nucella lapillus Candice Marcos (G) From ice to ocean: Changes in the thermal function of harp seal fur with ontogeny Halvor Adams (UG) Latitudinal Gradient of Reproductive Investment in the Marine Snail Nucella lapillus Carlos Ballon (UG) Stress affects mud crab consumption rates Cassandra Bianco (UG) A head start begins at the vertebral column: The correlation between vertebral development and sprint speed in Oncorhynchus mykiss Science, Room 156 Gabrielle Bruno (UG) The Effects of Temperature Range on the RA Pathway in Danio rerio Dana Buckholz (UG) The Spiders of Heron Island: The Impacts of Location on Web Characteristics Arthur Fain (UG) Programming Java-based Software for Determining Period Length of a Sinusoidal Signal in Biological Systems Frances Fan (UG) Rapamycin as a potential treatment for succinate dehydrogenase mutants in Drosophila melanogaster Tamanna Gandhi (UG) Investigating Sequence Variation in the Intelectin-1 Gene Science, Room 157 Stephanie Monroe (UG) The Examination of the Use of Push-points During Aquatic and Terrestrial Locomotion in Elongate Fishes Lauren Tesoriero (UG) Development of Microsatellite Markers for the Study of Spider Argiope aurantia Samantha Zukowski (UG) 19F-NMR as a Reaction Monitor of 7-methoxy-4- trifluoromethylcoumarin Conversion to 7-hydroxy-4- trifluoromethylcoumarin by CYP19A1 Daniel Stewart (UG) Programmed Game Michael Trietsch (UG) Development of an extremely sensitive sensor for NO2 employing cavity enhanced absorption spectroscopy and an LED source

Nursing & Public Health, & Social Work Undergraduate and Graduate Oral Presentations 8:45 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. UC, Room 211-212 Kathleen Brush (G) Clinical Data Interchange & Decision Support Steven Siciliano (G) Should Health Educators “Make More Noise” About Noise? Ohiro Oni-Eseleh (G) Relationship Between Quality of Internship and the Degree of Post-Graduation Job Readiness: A Case Study of Master of Social Work Graduates Erica Conde (UG) An analysis of nurse-conducted pain assessment in nonverbal patients in critical care settings: How can pain be better identified and managed in patients who cannot self-report? Kathryn Richardson (UG) Strength and Conditioning Programming and Its Effect on Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reinjury Elisabeth Counselman- The cat ate my consent form: strategies for managing Carpenter (UG) unexpected challenges while conducting qualitative interviews at home UC, Room 213-214 Kimberly Garrett (UG) Am I My Brother's Keeper? Investigating the Incidence of Sibling Violence in American Families Eunkyung Lee (UG) Who supports social welfare? : Americans’ welfare attitudes Henshaw Lisa (UG) Reciprocity and Relief: A Historical Analysis of Psychosocial Trauma and the Social Work Profession Kristina Monti (UG) The Social Work Professions’ Role in the Racialization of Substance Users: 1920 – Present Colleen Smalley & Joanna The Relationship Between Violence and Reproductive Contreras (UG) Health Among Immigrant South Asian Women Survivors of IPV

PSYCHOLOGY Undergraduate and Graduate Oral Presentations 8:45 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. Campbell Lounge 1 Alyssa Conigliaro (G) Differential Relationships of Implicit and Explicit Self- Esteem to Interpersonal Dependency and Detachment Tara Curran (G) Factors Related to Attitudes and Behaviors of Non- Faculty Employees of Universities Hillary Depowski (G) The Relationship in Psychotherapy and its Association to Therapist Interventions and Client Attachment Style Laura Eidlitz (G) Assessment of Treatment Efficacy for Patients with Child and Adult Abuse Onset Rachel Hartmann (G) Trauma and Quality of Life among individuals with Military Experience Cambell Lounge 2 Philip Kaplan (G) Examination of Early Child-Parent Relationships from a Clinical Freudian Perspective Caitlin Lapine (G) Social Media and Text Messaging: Romantic Relationships in the 21st Century Andrew Osso (G) Video Games and Math Achievement: Is There a Relationship? Lakena Outlaw (G) Coding Parent-Child Videotaped Interactions using the Crowell Method Josephine Chuah (UG) Exploring the Effects of the Sino-Japanese War Sarah Stevens (UG) Gender Discrimination: A Global Perspective

Multidisciplinary & Other Social Science Undergraduate Oral Presentations 8:45 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. Campbell Lounge 3 Susanna Novick Non-renewable Resources and Development in Africa: A Blessing or a Curse? Catherine Rudell Adderall: A "Performance Enhancing Drug" For Your Brain? Erica White The Status of Women in West Africa - A Comparative Study Desiree Mitchell Archaeological Survey of the Volkmar & Goodpaster River areas of the Middle Tanana Valley, Alaska Michael Manzo The Underrepresentation of Women in U.S Political Institutions Campbell Lounge 4 Kimberly Rieger On the Extinction of Neandertal in Eurasia: With implications for the northern expansion of modern humans Catherine Rudell Partisanship, Gridlock, and One-Party Domination Melissa Salama The Plight of Africa's Last Colony: International Legality v. Political Expediency Alexa Savino The Complications of Catastrophe: An Analysis of Sandy Relief Efforts through the Lenses of Utilitarianism and Luck Egalitarianism Joanna Wells Middle Susitna Valley Archaeological Survey Report from Project Years 2011-2013