URECA Celebration Schedule:

Tuesday - May 2 - Student Activities Center (SAC)

URECA POSTER EXHIBITION -SAC Ballroom A &
VIP SHOWCASE  - SAC Ballroom B
Session I: 10:00 am-12:00 noon; Session II: 1:00-3:00 pm

Index of Posters/ exhibits >> click here. 

URECA’s Celebration of Undergraduate Research & Creativity features undergraduate research posters, talks, senior design projects; and new for 2023, a showcase of VIP/Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP)!   Join us in recognizing the accomplishments of undergraduates working with faculty in all disciplines. All welcome to attend! 

PSYCHOLOGY/PSI CHI SYMPOSIUM- SAC 302 
11:30 AM - 12: 30 PM

• View Psi Chi Schedule
  11:30 AM - The late positive potential and psychopathology symptoms in adolescent females - Phillip Mayer; Advisor: Dr. Brady D. Nelson 
  11:40 AM - Pathological Personality Dimensions and Punishment-Enhanced Error Related Negativity -  Marcela Gallardo; Advisor: Dr. Brady D. Nelson
  11:50 AM - Error-Related Brain Activity in Mothers and Their Adolescent Daughters - Melanie Navarro; Advisor: Dr. Brady D. Nelson
  12:00 Noon - Correlation of Startle Reflex and Error Related Negativity to Unpredictable and Predictable Threat -  Ankita Gupte. Advisor: Dr. Brady D. Nelson.
  12:10 PM - Comparison of Visuospatial Ability &White Matter Integrity of the Splenium in Parkinson's Disease - Roma Kidambi; Advisor: Dr.Hoi-Chung Leung.
  Closing remarks.
  12:20 PM - Childhood Depression and Social Anxiety Symptoms Predict Development of the Error-related  Negativity across Adolescence - Sidney John; Advisor: Dr. Brady D. Nelson.

For additional events highlighting undergraduate research & creativity during the week of the URECA Celebration, see also:

URECA ART exhibition: April 22- May 12, Zuccaire Gallery
Opening: April 25 - 4:30-6:00 PM

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT SYMPOSIUM: May 3, 2023
Session I: 11:30 AM-1:00 PM; Sesson II: 2:30-4:00 PM
Location: Humanities Building Poetry Center

• View schedule - English Department Symposium
  Session One (Poetry Center, Humanities Building), 11:30am-1:00pm

  1.  Ashley Tin: TBA

  2. Victoria Ng: TBA

  3. Karen Gonzalez: "She Had a Marvelous Time Ruining Everything": The Interconnection of Jane Austen and Taylor Swift through Contracts" (faculty director: Justin Johnston)

  4. Sarah Murphy:  "The Fantasy Genre and Reality: Finding Common Ground in C.S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia"(faculty director: Bente Videbaek)

   

  Session Two(Poetry Center, Humanities Building), 2:3opm-4:00pm

  1.  Daniel Pariseau: TBA

  2. Gina Zazzi: "The Truth Behind the Curtain: How Science Plays Experiment with Structure" (faculty directory: Ken Weitzman)

  3. Christina Demeo:TBA

HISTORY DEPARTMENT - URECA SYMPOSIUM: May 4, 2023
SBS  N-320

• View Schedule - History Department Symposium -Session I (11:15 am - 1 pm)
  Session I (11:15 am - 1 pm)
  11:15 am
  Welcome from Profs. April Masten, Alix Cooper, and Lori Flores
  11:20-11:35 am 
  CJ Burgardt, “The Catholic Church and the Illiberal Regimes of Spain
  and Italy”
  (Advisor: Janis Mimura)
  11:35-11:50 am
  Josie Lapinski, “Performance and Perversion: Folk Dancing, Socialist
  Realism, and Solidarity in the People's Republic of Poland”
  (Advisor: April Masten)
  11:50 am-12:05 pm
  Amali Nunez, “Samuel Sewall: The First Anti-Slavery Man in America”
  (Advisor: Paul Kelton)
  [Coffee/tea refill and stretch break]
  12:10-12:25 pm
  Thomas M. Brennan, “The Fascist Portrayal of Francesco de Pinedo's Flights”
  (Advisor: Janis Mimura)
  12:25-12:40 pm
  Peiyao Guo, “An Analysis of the Declassified State Department Files
  on the Indonesian Genocide”
  (Advisor: Shirley Lim)
  12:40-12:55 pm
  Emily Monteleone, “The Internal Factors: How Brazilians Contribute
  to Climate Change”
  (Advisor: Christopher Sellers)
  1-2 pm LUNCH catered by History Department
• View Schedule - History Department Symposium -Session II (2-3:30 pm)
  Session II (2-3:30 pm)
  2-2:15 pm 
  Thomas F. Brennan, “Educating Black Children with Disabilities in
  Post-Civil War America”
  (Advisor: Lori Flores)
  2:15-2:30 pm
  Patrick Doherty, “Compliance and Collaboration: The German
  Catholic Church during the Third Reich”072583
  (Advisor: Janis Mimura)
  2:30-2:45 pm
  Juliet Romano, “Climate Change: The Beginning of the End?” 
  (Advisor: Christopher Sellers)
  2:45-3:00 pm
  Kelcie Eberharth, “Medical Ethics, Consent, and Coercion in a
  Colonial Setting: The Polio Vaccine Trials in the Belgian Congo”
  (Advisor: Eric Zolov)
  3:00-3:15 pm
  Natacha Castillo, “Bachata: From Political to Social, the Voice of the ‘Bateys’”
  (Advisor: April Masten)
  3:15-3:25 pm 
  Deliberation by Judges
  Prof. Joel Rosenthal and PhD student Francisco Rodriguez 
  [Audience coffee/tea break]
  3:25-3:30 pm 
  Announcement of Best Research and Best Presentation Awards,
  and Certificates to All Participants

HONORS COLLEGE SENIOR SYMPOSIUM: May 3, 2023
6:00pm-8:00 PM
Wang Center Theatre lobby