Research Presentations

COMMON HOUR
12:00 p.m.
APril 28, 2011
Senior Research Symposium
(Sponsored by the Office of Academic Affairs)

The following four seniors presented their research in the Stern Center, Great Room:

Alyssa Compeau, The Secret Life of Fat Talk: Consequences of Normalized Conversations of the Body

Megan N. Liberty, "But to Return to the Pictures": The Forgotten Photographs of Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

Anubhav Mohan, "Buczak": Linearity and Structure in Minimalism

Russell Toris, Evolving Robotic Desires: A New Approach to Bridging the Reality Gap

 COMMON HOUR
12:00 p.m.
April 29, 2010
Senior Research Symposium
(Sponsored by the Clarke Forum and the Office of Academic Affairs) 

The following six seniors presented their research in Rubendall Recital Hall:    (** indicates the winner)

Michael Biros, Altered Landscapes: Exploring the Relationship between Architecture and the Environment

Kaitlin Irvine, Starting from Scratch: Building College Cultural Capital for First Generation College Students at Dickinson
Ryan Koons, (Re)Place: Music as Environment at Pine Arbor Tribal Town
Ryan Shears, DEPAS of Mycenae Geovisualization and Database Development
Kristen Walker, Women’s Empowerment Through Social Movements
** Sarah Zaleski, A Model for Juvenile Sex Determination Using the Skeletal Collection from Bab-edh-Dhra’, Jordan


 

COMMON HOUR
12:00 p.m.
April 23, 2009
Senior Research Symposium
(Sponsored by the Clarke Forum and the Office of Academic Affairs) 

The following seniors presented their research:   (** indicates the winners)

Megan Conlon **. Debussy, French Nationalism and "Le Culte De Moi." 

Abby Frackenpohl. Connecting Cultures: From 12th century Italian Art to 20th century American Music. 

Alexis Henry. Can You See Me Now? Cultivating a Better Learning Environment for Students of Color. 

Laura Lyon **. Silence Language and Sharing: The Holocaust and Cambodian Genocide. 

Ritwi Niyogi. Synchronization and Hebbian Learning in a Network of Coupled Neural Phase Oscillators. 

Amanda Waugh **. "Willing Liberates:" Nietschean Heroism in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions. 

ROWS (Research on Women by Students)
6:45 p.m.
April 16, 2009 

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Open House - Dedication of Stuart and James Halls of the Rector Science Complex, Friday, October 24, 2008 

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The following were student presentations/demonstrations during the Open House: 

Joshua Lichtman '09. My Engage the World Experience: Water Quality Research in Guam. 

Jeff Rodgers '10. Student-Faculty Research in the Chemistry Program. 

Alejo Lifschitz '10. Introductory Chemistry Labs. 

William Winkler '10. Introduction to the Organic Lab. 

Yurina Shim '09. Instrument Suite Demonstration. 

Lauren Ashworth '09. Introduction to the Physical Chemistry Lab. 

Elyssa Prager '10. Welcome to the Laser Lab. 

Cemre Eren '10. Rats: Looking for Dinner. 

Lauren Solometo '10. This is Your Brain. 

Elizabeth Jeffress '09. This is Your Brain After a Traumatic Brain Injury. 

Keith Kleinman '09 and Allison Hall '10. Human Performance Lab Demonstration. 

Laura Dunn '09. Fluorescent Tract Tracing. 

Matt Manganaro '09. Gene Expression in the Fruit Fly Central Nervous System. 

Kelly LaRue '09. Microbial Diversity Research Poster Presentation. 

James Van Meerbeke '10. Listening to Neurons. 

Eric Johns '09. Confocal Microscope Demonstration. 

Kelly Lohr '10. Effects of Memantine on Reactivation of Memory Induced Amnesia in Day-Old Chicks. 

Undergraduate Research at the Capitol of Pennsylvania. Poster Presentations. Harrisburg, Capitol - East Wing Rotunda and Atrium
Tuesday, October 7, 2008 

Donald Sailer '09, Russell Toris '11 and Kelly Lohr '10 joined more than 80 students from other Pennsylvania colleges and universities for Undergraduate Research at the Capitol.

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COMMON HOUR
12:00 p.m.
April 24, 2008
Senior Research Symposium
(Sponsored by the Clarke Forum and the Office of Academic Affairs) 

The following seniors presented their research. ** indicates the winners :

Anabella Atach. The National Institute of Anthropology and History and "The Others:" Different Perspectives on Mexican Patrimony. 

Michael Comes. History of Collateralized Debt Obligations and 2007 Subprime Mortgage Crisis. 

Karen Kirner **. Perspectives Among Farmers and the General Public of Environmental Impacts of Biodiesel and Ethanol Development in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. 

Stacey Mardekian **. Assessment of the Cholinergic and Dopaminergic Systems in Mediating the Acquisition and Expression of Nicotine Conditioned Taste Aversion. 

Mark Veronda **. Applying a Genetic Algorithm to the Localization Problem Using an Extremely Sensing Limited Robot. 

Julia West. Stigma and Beliefs about Eating Disorders in Lay Persons and between Anorectics and Bulimics. 

ROWS (Research on Women by Students)
6:00 p.m.
April 17, 2008
Seven students from literature, history, sociology, American studies and women's studies will share their research on Girls at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, Breast Cancer and Pink Ribbons, Reggaeton, 20th century Irishwomen's contributions to their national struggle, Argentine women and Las Madres de Plaza de Mayo, Toni Morrison, and new model of care for pregnant Americans.

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Undergraduate Research at the Capitol of Pennsylvania. Poster Presentations. Harrisburg, Capitol - East Wing Rotunda
October 2, 2007Whitney Hoffman '09, Ezequiel Glicehgerrcht '08 and Kristin Jekielek joined more than 40 students from other Pennsylvania colleges and universities for Undergraduate Research at the Capitol.

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ROWS (Research on Women by Students)
6:30 p.m.
April 26, 2007
Eleven students from literature, psychology, women's studies, sociology, American studies and French departments presenting their research on women and gender in the U.S., Cameroon, Venezuela, France, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the Dominican Republic.
(Sponsored by the President's Commission for Women and the Women's Studies department. )

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COMMON HOUR
12:00 p.m.
April 26, 2007
Senior Research Symposium
(Sponsored by the Clarke Forum and the Office of Academic Affairs) 

The following seniors presented their research. ** indicates the winners :

Alexandria de Aranzeta. From Hippocrates to Adams County: Tracing Humoral Medicine in Literature and Practice 

Audrey Fisher**. Cultures of Farming in Perry County: Implications for Local Environmental Management 

Christine Huron. Bridging the Gulf: Feminist Consciousness on War and Gendered Space 

Tiffany Kimbrough**. The Effect of Memantine on the Glutamate Synapse in Learning 

Carrie Roush**. Great Writ, Great Power: Habeas Corpus and Prerogative in the Lincoln and Bush Presidencies 

Ryan Stearrett. Generation of Intrinsic Localized Modes in a Nonlinear Electric Transmission Line

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Undergraduate Science Research Symposium 
November 4, 2006
Supported by: The Central Pennsylvania Consortium (Dickinson, Franklin & Marshall and Gettysburg Colleges), The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and Dupont

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