Session II • 10:45 a.m. to noon
Contemporary Identity • Olin 130
Panel Moderator: Tia Butler
Elle de la Cruz — Asian American Women and Dating: What Role Does Culture Play? 10:45 a.m.
Ariel Ruiz — Building Immigrant Persistence and Identity: An Analysis of Eastern Washington's Undocumented Dreams 11 a.m.
Griselda Guevara Cruz — Mexican Immigrant Men in the Songs of Los Tigres del Norte 11:15 a.m.
Tia Butler — Performance Art and the Search for Identity 11:30 a.m.
Geological Finds I • Olin 157
Panel Moderator: Karen Gastineau
Gabrielle Vance — Pleistocene Glaciation of the Eastern Sayan Range, Mongolia 10:45 a.m.
Elizabeth Rozar — Sourcing Prehistoric Chert Sources in Jordan's Eastern Desert 11 a.m.
Simon Pendleton — Ice, Water, and Polar Bears: Characteristics of a Glacio-Fluvial Environment, Svalbard, Norway 11:15 a.m.
Karen Gastineau — Sedimentological Analysis and Age Constraints of an Unusual Outcrop in the Palouse Hills, Southeastern Washington 11:30 a.m.
Encounters II • Reid Ballroom B
Panel Moderator: Michaela Lambert
Abigail Sloan — The Underlying Purpose of God's Plagues 10:45 a.m.
Nathan Radakovich — Trumping the Golden Calf: How God Made Himself Popular Again 11 a.m.
Cathryn Klusmeier — Comics and the Blurred Divisions of Time in Maus 11:15 a.m.
Michaela Lambert — Inconsistent Animals 11:30 a.m.
Biological Matters • Science 100 (Brattain)
Panel Moderator: John Zimmerman
Laura Quennoz — The Effect of Steroids on the Primate Corpus Luteum During Simulated Early Pregnancy 10:45 a.m.
Daniel Hart — Identifying Genes Required for Germ Cell Rearrangement in the C. elegans Gonad 11 a.m.
Rachel Sicheneder — Latitudinal Variation in Population Demography of the Lizard Uta stansburiana 11:15 a.m.
John Zimmerman — Characterization of Proteins for the Degradation of Environmental Pollutants 11:30 a.m.
Disease Studies II • Science 151
Panel Moderator: Brian Wakefield
Tiffany Choe — New Strategies for Diagnosing Retinal Diseases 10:45 a.m.
Brandon Fennell, Julia Warren — Search for the Cure: Designing New Enzyme Inhibitors 11 a.m.
Arianna Cortesi — Irreversible Inhibition of Protein Kinases 11:15 a.m.
Brian Wakefield — Aurora Kinase A and Pancreatic Cancer: In Vitro Studies of a New Drug 11:30 a.m.
Environmental Concerns • Science 165 (Gaiser)
Panel Moderator: Benjamin Serrurier
Kara McKay, James Muldoon — Freshwater Mussel Populations on the Middle Klamath River 10:45 a.m.
Mackenzie Gerringer — Whaling: The Facts Behind the Fight 11 a.m.
Bryant Fong — Environmental Assessment of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill 11:15 a.m.
Ariel Frink — Protect the Environment or Not? Conflicting Interpretations of the Public Trust Doctrine 11:30 a.m.
Benjamin Serrurier — Taking Emissions Off the Map: Carbon Markets and Climate Change Science 11:45 a.m.
blue moon/quarterlife • Kimball Theatre
Panel Moderators: Lara Mehling and Naomi Gibbs
Conflict and Resolution • Reid GO2
Panel Moderator: Alice Minor
Alyssa Fairbanks — Palestinian Identity, Integration in Jordanian Elections 10:45 a.m.
Kristine Unkrich — The Exclusion of Arabs and North Africans From France Due to Social and Political Framing of Islam 11 a.m.
Noah Lerner — A Library for Masiyile: Determining the Relationship Between NGOs and Government Organizations 11:15 a.m.
Alice Minor — U.N. Credibility and Effectiveness: the High Stakes of the Security Council Debate 11:30 a.m.
Literary Inquiry: Symbol, Myth, Story • Sherwood 222
Panel Moderator: Eleanor Gold
Alexandra Garnhart-Bushakra — Resistance, Unification, and the Popular Myth of Celtic Christianity, 630-735 B.C.E. 10:45 a.m.
Mikayla Hunter — The Best of Both Worlds: Two-Sword Theory and Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur 11 a.m.
Danielle Witt — Atala: Representing the Native American Feminine Voice in 18th Century French Literature 11:15 a.m.
Kelsey Kennedy — Medicine and Madness in Jane Austen's England 11:30 a.m.
Eleanor Gold — "The Fog Made Everything Deceptive": Noir, Genre Play, and Social Critique in the Novels of Robert Coover, Denis Johnson, Thomas Pynchon, and Mat Johnson 11:45 a.m.