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Celebration Schedule

April 24th, 2013

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Posters/ Exhibits,
SAC Ballroom A, 10 -4

Welcome remarks. 12:30:

Dr. David Bynum, Director of the Center for Science and Mathematics Education
Dr. Charles Robbins, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education


*LUNCHES available at ~ 12:45/1 pm

Closing - deinstall/wrap-up, 3:45:



Oral Presentations:

CEAS Nanotechnology (SAC 305, 9 am)
CEAS Senior Design (SAC Ballroom B, 10:30 am-12:30 pm)
CEAS / Goddard Family Charitable Scholars Presentations (SAC 305, 2pm)

 

English (SAC 304, 2:30-3:30 pm)
History (SAC 305, 11:00 am- 1 pm)
Psychology (SAC 302, 1-2:30 pm )


 

CEAS Nanotechnology Presentations, SAC 304, 9:00-10:30 am

9 am, Welcome & Introductory remarks, Gary Halada, Materials Science & Engineering

Schedule & presenations, TBA

 

 


 

CEAS Senior Design Presentations, SAC Ballroom B, 10:30-12:20

Biomedical Engineering

Chemical & Molecular Engineering

Design and Fabrication of a Miniature PEM Fuel-Cell Car using On-Board Hydrogen and Chemically Triggered Stopping Mechanism
Weida Zhang, Andrew Sung, Stephanie Song, Mohammed Rahman, Abhik Giri, Lixin Han, Nicole Libretto, Temi Olonilua;
Faculty advisors: Tae-Jin Kim, Vladimir Zaitsev, Miriam Rafailovich, Devinder Mahajan, Chemical & Molecular Engineering


Electrical & Computer Engineeering

A Remote Monitoring Systems for Laboratories
Ramanpreet Singh, Yingmian Chen, Steven Imperiale, Sangwoo Park; Faculty advisor: Michael Gouzman, Electrical & Computer Engineering


Engineering Science


Mechanical Engineering

Regenerative Braking System Retrofittable to Any Vehicles
Shubin Chen; Yanhong He; Faculty advisor: Lei Zuo, Mechanical Engineering


*Note: order of presentations may vary.

 

Goddard Family Charitable Foundation Scholars Presentations, SAC 305, 2pm

Model system to study microfluidics with flowing blood
Debapria Das; Faculty advisor: Molly Frame, Department of Biomedical Engineering

Comparison of Saccades and Eye Blinks in fMRI Recorded Visual Search
Arely Clavel: Faculty advisor: Hoi-Chung Leung, Department of Psychology

Cognitive Decline and Oxytocin’s Effect on Sleep Architecture
Yukti Abrol; Faculty advisor: Lilianne Mujica-Parodi, Department of Biomedical Engineering

Separation of Glial and Neuronal uptake of Rhod2 in Brain
Sowmya Sundaresh: Faculty advisor: Congwu Du, Department of Biomedical Engineering & BNL

 

 


English, SAC 304, 2:30-3:30

 

Welcome:
Benedict Robinson, Department of English
 
Of Lions and Bears: The Culture War between Great Britain and Imperial Russia in the 19th Century
Bryan Gamble; Faculty advisor: Michael Tondre, Department of English

Studies in Love and Logic: Summer Sonnets
Lily Ting-Hsu; Faculty advisor: Ayesha Ramachandran, Department of English

Fifty Forward: Science Fiction Literature’s Role in Promoting Participatory Planning
Rachel Jaffe; Faculty advisors: Peter Manning, Bente Videbaek, Department of English

Building a Setting: An Introduction to Rosevale"
James Mason; Faculty advisors, Department of English

 



History, SAC 305, 11 am -1 pm

Welcome:
Wilbur Miller, Department of History

11:00   The politics of yellow fever during the Civil War
Elizabeth Early; Faculty advisor: Wilbur Miller, Department of History

11:20   Divine love and double standards: an examination of Marguerite Porete and Medieval female mysticism
Melissa Rose Kavanah; Faculty advisor: Sara Lipton, Department of History

11:40  The relation between sexuality and heresy in the Middle Ages
Sarah Hussain; Faculty advisor: Sara Lipton, Department of History

12:00  Giordano Bruno: Scientific martyr and the perfect heretic
Kenneth Walter Morlock; Faculty advisor: Sara Lipton, Department of History

12:20  Canine reinvention: Nineteenth Century cultural attitudes and domestic dogs
David Purificato; Faculty advisor: Jared Farmer

12:40  Horses and status in Medieval Europe
Katrin Boniface; Faculty advisor: Sara Lipton, Department of History

 


 



Psychology - SAC 302 -1-2:30

Introductory remarks,  Psi Chi Coordinator, Misha Mehta

1 pm
Stay Focused! Fixations to arousing regions of an unpleasant image during attentional deployment increases subjective negative affect
Simon Huang; Faculty advisor:  Faculty advisor: Turhan Canli, Department of Psychology

1: 15pm
A neuroscientific approach to somatic experiencing
Tabashshum Islam; Faculty advisor: Jacqueline Carleton, International Body Psychotherapy Journal, National Inst. for the Psychotherapies-Integrative Trauma Treatment Program

1:30pm
Histrionic Personality disorder and attachment
Misha Mehta; Faculty advisor: Jacqueline Carleton, International Body Psychotherapy Journal, National Inst. for the Psychotherapies-Integrative Trauma Treatment Program

1:45pm
Anger, approach, and the downstream consequences for memory
Jonathan O’Rawe; Faculty advisor: Patricia Whitaker-Azmitia, Department of Psychology

2:00pm
Anger’s effect on boundary extension and contaction
Sara Miller; Faculty advisor: Nancy Franklin, Department of Psychology

2:15 pm
Unintended pregnancy as a risk factor for higher prenatal distress
Raquel Rose; Faculty advisor: Marci Lobel, Department of Psychology