Performance and Poster Presentations 9:30-11:00 am Performance Presentations Prairie Lounge

11:00 am-1:30 pm Poster Presentations Grand Ballroom

12:00 noon Greetings and Remarks Grand Ballroom

1:00-3:00 pm Podium Presentations Fox and Capitol Rooms

3:00 pm Keynote Speaker Anne Millen, B.S., Biology, 2008 Assistant Scientist, DuPont Nutrition and Health Prairie Lounge

3:30 pm Award Announcements and Closing Prairie Lounge

Wednesday, April 16, 2014 • University Union

Thomas E. Helm

Undergraduate Research DayA Celebration of Research, Scholarship, and Creativity

The Centennial Honors College extends its appreciation to the Undergraduate Research Day Committee:

Patty Battles, Mark Boley, Minsun Doh, Rick Hardy, Scott Holt, Iraj Kalantari, Susan Martinelli-Feranandez, Jennifer McNabb, Winthrop Phippen,

Tammie Walker, and Linda Zellmer.

Thank you to the College of Arts and Sciences, College of Business and Technology, College of Education and Human Services, College of Fine Arts and Communication,

and the University Libraries for their support.

A special thank you to the podium and performance moderators and to the competition judges. The following individuals are recognized as judges for those presentations

competing in the final round: Podium – Larry Balsamo, Brian Clark, Kimberly Dodson, Jennie Hemingway, Hongbok Lee, Patrick McGinty, Chris Sutton, and Linda Zellmer;

Poster – Mark Boley, Mahyra Carncross, Seongchan Kim, Michael Romano, Sebastian Szyjka, and Soon Suk Yoon; and Performance – Randall Faust, Lysa Fox,

Todd Lough, John McMurtery, Kenneth Mietus, and Jeanne Stierman.

Undergraduate Research Day is named in honor of Thomas E. Helm, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Religious Studies and former Director of the Centennial Honors College. The endowment created to name this event, a reflection of the ongoing

commitment to the work of Dr. Helm, is gratefully acknowledged.

For more information, contact the WIU Foundation or visit wiu.edu/foundation.

E 100 Zachary Abbott with Esteban Araya, PHYSICS – Identification of Zeeman Pair Candidates in a Sample of Interstellar Maser Regions

C 49 Malaney Abel with Catherine Miller-Hunt, BIOLOGY – Measles Virus Inducted of Autophagy

E 93 Alexander Adams with Marcus Büker, METEOROLOGY – Idealized 3-D Numerical Simulations of Tornado-Like Multi-Vortex Systems: Comparison with Theory

D 87 Jonathan Adams and James Cundiff with Redina Herman, GEOGRAPHY – Organization of Side Lobe Structures from Doppler On Wheels 6 Mobile Radar

B 34 Tariq Ahmad with Tarab Ahmad, CHEMISTRY – Teaching the Applications of Supercritical Fluids in Analytical Chemistry

B 35 Tariq Ahmad with Sue Hum-Musser, BIOLOGY – The Response of Helicoverpa zea to Ozonated Tomato Plant Leaves

B 33 Tariq Ahmad with Timothy Helwig, ENGLISH AND JOURNALISM – Physician Shortage in the United States

H 166 Cierra Aiden with Holly Stovall, WOMEN’S STUDIES – Myths & Facts of Sojourner Truth

H 155 Casper Alexander with Barbara Harroun, COMMUNICATION – Four Years of a College Poet

C 53 Emily Banigan with Tom Vogel, BIOLOGY – Determining Possibility of Growing Giant Sequoia Trees in McDonough County, Illinois

B 27 Rachel Baraks with Everett Hamner, LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES – The Struggle Between the Modern and the Traditional in Whale Rider and Asher Lev

C 58 Desire Barker with Christopher Jacques, BIOLOGY – Evaluating Nest Site Selection by Southern Flying Squirrels in Northern Hardwood Forests of West-Central Illinois

F 113 Nadia Barrera with Tamara Bories, KINESIOLOGY – An Analysis of Spatio-Temporal Gait Kinematics for Three Types of Footwear

F 121 Kearston Barwegen with Sandra McFadden, PSYCHOLOGY – Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Effects of Anxiety on Emotional Stimuli

H 168 Abby Beck with Holly Stovall, SOCIOLOGY – Feminist Epistemologies

F 117 Kirsten Belisle with Jennifer McNabb, HISTORY – Historiography’s Hold on the Fourth Crusade

G 130 Dylan Bilyeu with Kristine Kelly, PSYCHOLOGY – Gender Role Stereotypes as a Function of Vicarious Mortality

G 135 Randy Bird with JoAnn Morgan, AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES – Dr. George Flippin: Life History of Early Civil Rights Pioneer

A 18 Seth Bleuer with Everett Hamner, ENGLISH AND JOURNALISM – The MaddAddam Trilogy, Humanity, and Other Species

F 112 Taylor Brace and Kyla Stancy with Jennifer Plos, KINESIOLOGY – Student-Athletes’ Satisfaction and Preferences of Athletic Training Services Provided by Same or Opposite Gender Athletic Training Students

D 83 Nicholas Breslin with Saisudha Mallur and P. K. Babu, PHYSICS – Measuring the Optical Band Gap of Varying Composition Lead-Borate Glasses with Cadmium-Selenide Nanoparticles

Poster PresentationsAlphabetically by Principal Presenter with Table Locations

11:00 am - 1:30 pm

Joshua Diaz and Hannah Drake with Diane Sandage, PHILOSOPHY – The 21st Century “Renaissance” Musician: A Presentation of the Value of a Well-Rounded and Versatile Musician

Jillian Escobar with Tammie Walker, MUSIC – A Study of Un Sospiro by Franz Liszt (1811-1886)

Andrew Gerske with Lynn Thompson, MUSIC – Musical Improvisations: Contextual Responding

Katie Kaminskas with Candace Winters-March, THEATRE AND DANCE – Longing For

Benjamin Rogers with James Stegall, MUSIC – A Comparative Analysis of Two Art Songs Set to Paul Verlaine’s Les Donneurs de Serenades

Performance PresentationsPrairie Lounge 9:30 - 11:00 am

Podium PresentationsFox Room and Capitol Rooms

1:00 - 3:00 pm

Ellen Bukvich with William Howard, ART – Photo-Sensitive Intaglio Plates: Bridging the Gap Between Abstract and Figurative Works

Matthew Cook with Xiang Yi and Samit Chakravorti, MANAGEMENT AND MARKETING – American Versus Chinese: Business Negotiation

Keyahna Curry with Erik Brooks, AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES – The Third Burden: Are There Disadvantages Associated with the African American Women Faculty on the Campus of Western Illinois University?

Kyle Davis and Jonathan Hoover with Jonathan Day, POLITICAL SCIENCE – Predicting Terrorists’ Next Move? – Applying Game Theory to One of Our Biggest Fears

Josh Dillon with Yong Tang, ENGLISH AND JOURNALISM – The Evolution of Canadian Press Freedom

Victoria Drews with Christopher Morrow, ENGLISH AND JOURNALISM – “Darkness and Devils”: Perspectives on Goneril and Regan in Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of King Lear

Elizabeth Dunn with Susan Czechowski, ART – The Decay of Classic Film Reflected in Silkscreen

Latrece Erving with Erik Brooks, AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES – Race Consciousness: The Importance of Studying Africans of the Diaspora

Amy Fogarty with Barbara Ashwood-Gegas, ENGLISH AND JOURNALISM – The Art of Memory

Morgan Fry with Meshack Afitlhile, BIOLOGY – A Mutant of Arabidopsis thaliana that Is Defective in the TOC 159 Gene Has Reduced Levels of Hexadecatrienoic Acid

Jamey Garth with Jonathan Day, POLITICAL SCIENCE – Applying Game Theory to Interrogation Situations

Andrew Gerske with Timothy Helwig, ENGLISH AND JOURNALISM – Historical Research Design and Discoveries: Sigma Tau Delta, Phi Delta Chapter

Jed Hill with Ute Chamberlin, HISTORY – The Jehovah’s Witnesses in Nazi Germany: A Confrontation Between History and Memory

Stephanie Jacobs with Matthew Blankenship, PSYCHOLOGY – Disruption of Acetylcholine and Habit Learning: A Lesser Known Effect of Alzheimer’s Disease?

Joshua Jefferson with Erik Brooks, AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES – Representation of Ethnic Superheroes in Popular Media

John Johnson with Greg Baldi, POLITICAL SCIENCE – Portrayals of Genocide in Secondary History Textbooks

Jill Larkins with Barbara Ashwood-Gegas, ENGLISH AND JOURNALISM – “I Do? I Did. Do You?”

Casandra Perchalski with Holly Stovall, WOMEN’S STUDIES – Debunking the Post-Abortion Syndrome Myth

Tuesdai Perry with Rachel Chaves, THEATRE AND DANCE – The Not-So-Distant Past: An Exploration of the Effect of Stereotypes Within Society

Michael Quigley with Kimberly Rice, POLITICAL SCIENCE – Does Justice Ideology Effect Supreme Court Decision Making?

Angel Samata, Noelle Johnson, and Chad Blair with Rebekah Buchanan, ENGLISH AND JOURNALISM – Online Classroom Novel Website: The Diviners by Libba Bray

Mikaela Simmons with Brian Locke, MUSIC – “As Fertilizing to an Artist as Life Itself”: Musical and Artistic Connections in Erik Satie’s Parade

Hannah Van Eendenburg with Heather McIlvaine-Newsad, ANTHROPOLOGY – Food Alienation: Distributors, Producers, and Consumers in Macomb, Illinois

Konnie Wells with Erik Brooks, AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES – Opposing Relationships: The Company the African American Woman Keeps

Quinnmesha Yearby with Erik Brooks, AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES – Front Porch Funerals (Tactics): The Invisible Mourning of Black Gay America

For full abstracts go to wiu.edu/centennial_honors_college/research_day/researchday.php.

G 145 Halie Brinkman with Marietta Loehrlein, AGRICULTURE – Helping to Further Our Horticulture Program with the MACHS Contest by Developing a Study Guide for Horticulture Plant Identification

G 138 Olivia Brooks with Erik Brooks, AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES – The Mind of a Man: Examining the Factors that Contribute to Black Males’ Attitudes on Relationships

G 141 Brittany Butkiewicz with Tim Piper, KINESIOLOGY – A Comparison of Orthopedic Injury Rates in a Rural Community to the National Norm

A 14 Osbaldo Castaneda with Yong Tang, ENGLISH AND JOURNALISM – The Mexican Media System

E 103 Rachel Caston with Brian Bellott, CHEMISTRY – Synthesis of a Convenient Palladium Starting Material

I 170 Kara Chicoine, Eliese Potocek, and Darrah Dunlap with Scott Holt, BIOLOGY – Detection of Carbon Catabolite Repression in Leuconostoc

G 134 Rhett Clampitt with Richard Hardy, POLITICAL SCIENCE – The Constitutionality of Filibusters for Judicial Nominations

B 37 Morgan Clark with Sue Hum-Musser, BIOLOGY – The Effect of Ozone on Corn Germination

G 142 Chris Corzatt with Mark Bernards, AGRICULTURE – Cover Crop Response to Corn and Soybean Residual Herbicides

E 105 Shelby Crawford with Brian Bellott, CHEMISTRY – Forensic Analysis of Lipstick Using Thin Layer Chromatography

D 86 James Cundiff with Ranbir Kang, GEOGRAPHY – Stream Characteristics of a Watershed—A Study of Sugarland Watershed in Loudon and Fairfax Counties, Virginia

D 82 Tyler Czarnecki with P. K. Babu and Saisudha Mallur, PHYSICS – Variation of Optical Band Gap in Lead and Bismuth Borate Glasses

G 132 Mark Dasher with Kimberly Rice, POLITICAL SCIENCE – How Is Judicial Independence Established and Maintained in Constitutional Democracies?

C 62 Bryin Davis and Lauren Ward with Tarab Ahmad, CHEMISTRY – Adsorption Isotherms of Basic Drugs on Reversed Phase Liquid Chromatography Using Ionic Liquids as Mobile Phase Additives

F 111 Chelsea Davis, Seth Daniel, and Raquel Beckner with Jennifer Plos, KINESIOLOGY – Knowledge and Perceptions of Rural High School Coaches on the Profession of Athletic Training: A Pilot Study

A 5 Anthony DeCicco with John Schafer, LAW ENFORCEMENT AND JUSTICE ADMINISTRATION – Grammatical Differences Between Truthful and Deceptive Narratives Written by Native Spanish Speakers from Costa Rica

A 24 Elisabeth DeCrane with Everett Hamner, LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES – Is Gender Important for the Survival of the Human Race?

A 6 Ashley Dicosola and Chloe Li with Julie Baylor, NURSING – Bacterial Growth on Student Nurse Stethoscopes

D 78 Sarah Donnelly with Brian Bellott, CHEMISTRY – Exploratory Solid State Synthesis

H 153 Hannah Dorothy with Robert Quesal, COMMUNICATION SCIENCES AND DISORDERS – Effect of Delayed Auditory Feedback on Normal Speech

D 77 Hannah Drake with Brian Bellott, CHEMISTRY – Utilizing Spectroscopic Analysis to Studying Bonding

E 96 Jeff Draughan with Jongnam Choi, METEOROLOGY – 2011 Groundhog Day Blizzard

G 141 Brittany Dutkiewicz with Tim Piper, KINESIOLOGY – A Comparison of Orthopedic Injury Rates in a Rural Community to the National Norm

A 13 Sean Ellis with Yong Tang, ENGLISH AND JOURNALISM – Argentina: Government and Cultural Effects on Press Freedom

C 68 Amanda Ellison and David VanDerway with Lisa Wen and Jenq-Kuen Huang, CHEMISTRY – Evaluation of New Cathepsin K Inhibitors

E 104 Bethany Esterlen with Brian Bellott, CHEMISTRY – Forensic Discrimination of Lipstick

A 16 Amy Fogarty with Yong Tang, ENGLISH AND JOURNALISM – A Closer Look at Japan’s Media

C 66 David Forgas with Lisa Wen and Jenq-Kuen Huang, CHEMISTRY – Evaluation of New Cathepsin B Inhibitors

A 1 Dana Franklin with Sherry Lindquist, ART – Pseudo-Kufic

F 115 Andrew Gerske with Richard Ness, BROADCASTING – Two Filmmaking Techniques: One Self-Reflexive History

C 63 Abigail Gibson with Shaozhong Zhang, CHEMISTRY – Development of a New Method to the Synthesis of Biaryl Compounds by Detelluration

G 137 Mi’Ca Goldman with Erik Brooks, AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES – Not a Statistic

C 65 Amanda Hagen, Christine Bailey, and Morgan Conrady with Jin Jin, CHEMISTRY – Exploration of Heck Reaction Using a New Coupling Reagent

B 31 Amanda Hagen with Timothy Helwig, ENGLISH AND JOURNALISM – Teaching Our Children the Requirements for Success: A Class Analysis of Disney’s Pocahontas

F 110 Dwayne Hagenow, German Suncin, and Josh Shride with Jennifer Plos, KINESIOLOGY – The Effects of Kinesio Tape on Hamstring Flexibility

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Poster Presentations(continued)

A 15 Kyle Sallas with Yong Tang, ENGLISH AND JOURNALISM – Australian Culture and Press Freedom

A 22 Christina Sanders Ring with Everett Hamner, ENGLISH AND JOURNALISM – Inheritance and Influence in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth

B 38 Carly Seed, Alanna Griffin, Cole Hoerner, and Eric Butz with Richard Musser, BIOLOGY – Genes Altered in Unripe Tomato Fruits to Caterpillar Herbivory

H 152 Ashley Sell with Emily Shupe, DIETETICS, FASHION MERCHANDISING, AND HOSPITALITY – Flour Substitutes in Cakes for Celiac Patients

A 12 Sandra Sepaniak with Yong Tang, ENGLISH AND JOURNALISM – The Media in Spain

C 57 Lydia Smith with Shawn Meagher, BIOLOGY – The Effect of “White Grub” (Posthodiplostomum minimum) on snail fitness: Castrator or Killer?

E 98 Mark Smith with Esteban Araya, PHYSICS – Velocity Gradients of Ionized Gas in Massive Star Forming Regions

H 159 Sara Stanford with Steve Bennett, GEOLOGY – Spatial and Temporal Relationships Between Rainfall Events and Nutrient Levels in the Spring Lake Watershed

H 163 Hunter Starr with Thomas Hegna, GEOLOGY – Extraction and Preparation of Jurassic Sauropod Fossil

D 88 Nicholas Stewart with Redina Herman, METEOROLOGY – The Effects of the Bishop Hill Illinois Wind Farm on Near-Surface Wind Patterns

H 161 Morgan Stice with Kyle Mayborn, GEOLOGY – Geochemical Trends in the Mineral Lake Intrusion, Iron County, Wisconsin

F 120 Kristen Stiger with Eugene Mathes, PSYCHOLOGY – The Benefits of Social Media Usage for Undergraduates

E 106 Brittany Stirmell and Jessica Baker with Brian Bellott, CHEMISTRY – Forensic Analysis of Lipsticks Using HPLC

E 94 Ryan Sutera with Jongnam Choi, METEOROLOGY – Factors Leading Hurricane Sandy to Make Landfall

D 81 Nicole Szabo, Jennifer Nelson, Jerold Young, and Logan Sauers with Pengqian Wang, PHYSICS – Birefringence of Crystals in Plants Observed by a Polarizing Microscope

D 80 Wallace Teixeira with Kishor Kapale, PHYSICS – Towards Quantum Dynamical Decoupling with Trapped Ions

D 75 Emily Thomas with Brian Bellott, CHEMISTRY – Double Perovskites: A Study of Solid State Chemistry

F 124 Jessica Tornabene with David Lane and Jill Myers, PSYCHOLOGY and LAW ENFORCEMENT AND JUSTICE ADMINISTRATION – Personality and Cell Phone Usage

A 20 Samantha Trei and Lauren Anderson with Everett Hamner, ENGLISH AND JOURNALISM – Prison Break: Max Berry’s Lexicon and the Confines of American Education

E 101 Deanna Valdebenito with Esteban Araya, PHYSICS – Discovery of a New Maser Flare System: G40.62-0.14

E 102 Deanna Valdebenito with Brian Bellott, CHEMISTRY – Reactive Flux Synthesis of Chalcogenide Metal Complexes

B 32 Kathryne Valentin with Timothy Helwig, ENGLISH AND JOURNALISM – Where Civilization Ends, Class Prevails: The Walking Dead

E 92 Jacob Vancil with Marcus Büker, METEOROLOGY – Numerical Simulations of Vorticity Generation Along an Idealized Rear-Flanking Downdraft

G 129 Shannon Wachter with Virginia Diehl, PSYCHOLOGY – The Relationship Between Confidence and Accuracy with Trivia-Like Questions

D 89 Brendan Wallace with Redina Herman, METEOROLOGY – Infrared Flux Comparisons between MODTRAN and CRM

B 40 Charles Ward with Richard Musser, BIOLOGY – Genes Altered in Tobacco Plants by Phytohormones

A 19 Maura Warner with Everett Hamner, ENGLISH AND JOURNALISM – Flooding, Apathy, and Class: The Makings of Apocalypse

B 39 Sarah Warren, Cody Grotts, William Hudson, and Eric Butz with Richard Musser, BIOLOGY – Genes Altered in Corn Plants to Caterpillar Herbivory

C 67 Antoinee Watson-Taylor with Lisa Wen and Jenq-Kuen Huang, CHEMISTRY – Cloning of a Putative L-3-Hydroxyacyl-CoA Dehydrogenase from Micrococcus Luteus WIUJH20

D 76 Daniel Whiteside with Brian Bellott, CHEMISTRY – Synthesizing Double Perovskites

B 46 Sarah Wilcer with Timothy Spier, BIOLOGY – Know Your Enemy: A Study of Invasive Common Carp (Cyprinus carpio) in Spring Lake

A 10 Robert Williams with Yong Tang, ENGLISH AND JOURNALISM – Israel’s Media System

H 154 Kylie Wilson with Nathan Miczo, COMMUNICATION – Distance in Romantic Relationships and the Effects of Interpersonal Needs

G 136 Alex Wyler with JoAnn Morgan, AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES – The Black Freedom Struggle of the 1960s

I 169 Jerold Young with Esteban Araya, PHYSICS – Monitoring of Methanol Masers in G45.57-0.12

E 99 Daniel Halbe with Esteban Araya, PHYSICS – Time Delay Between Molecular Maser Flares of Methanol and Hydroxyl Lines

B 43 Paris Hamm with Andrea Porras-Alfaro, BIOLOGY – A Study of Diversity and Abundance of Keratinophillic Fungi in Semiarid Grasslands

B 36 Morgan Hare with Sue Hum-Musser, BIOLOGY – Effects of a Reduced Calorie Diet on Health and Longevity in Helicoverpa zea

C 50 Brittany Havener with Catherine Miller-Hunt, BIOLOGY – Dissecting the Signaling Pathways Associated with WT-MV/SLAM-Mediated Binding and Entry in Human Antigen-Presenting Cells

B 28 Kathleen Hillyer with Tammy Werner, LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES – Female Genital Mutilation: A Worldwide Issue

A 9 Tyler Hintz with Yong Tang, ENGLISH AND JOURNALISM – Media and News Freedom in Afghanistan

B 30 Stephanie Hoover with Mark Mossman, ENGLISH AND JOURNALISM – The Monstrosity of the Modern Frankenstein

H 151 Linzie Horney with Emily Shupe, DIETETICS, FASHION MERCHANDISING, AND HOSPITALITY – Fat Replacers in Brownies

H 149 Allison Hoyle with Melinda Grimm, ELEMENTARY EDUCATION – Vietnam War Non-Fiction Text Set

C 64 Dillon Huff, Joshua Diaz, and Erica Kleckler with Shaozhong Zhang, CHEMISTRY – Exploration of Microwave Assisted Multi-Component Reactions

G 146 Allison Hulslander with Marietta Loehrlein, AGRICULTURE – McDonough County Extension Office Landscape Redesign

G 128 Haley Humes with Julie Herbstrith, PSYCHOLOGY – Like My Status: Differing Bystander Roles in a Facebook Bullying Situation

F 125 Emma Jack with David Lane and Jill Myers, PSYCHOLOGY and LAW ENFORCEMENT AND JUSTICE ADMINISTRATION – Cell Phone Dependency and Compulsive Shopping

F 126 Stephanie Jacobs with David Lane, PSYCHOLOGY – The Millennials: Does Narcissism Trump Social Justice?

B 42 Aleshia Johannsen with Andrea Porras-Alfaro, BIOLOGY – Diversity and Distribution of Yeasts in Arid Grassland Soils

F 118 Devin Johnson with Richard Hardy, MANAGEMENT AND MARKETING – Standardized Tests Being Used as Predictors of Student Success

A 11 Luke Johnson with Yong Tang, ENGLISH AND JOURNALISM – Sweden’s Press Freedom and How They Compare to Other Democratic Nations

G 127 Teresa Jones with David Lane, PSYCHOLOGY – Can You Spot a Psychopath?

H 164 Matthew Juron with Thomas Hegna, GEOLOGY – Sheltering Behavior of Silurian-Aged Trilobites

F 119 Katie Kaminskas with Eugene Mathes, PSYCHOLOGY – The Effects of Parenting on a College Student’s Promiscuity Levels

G 147 Victoria Kappel and Cally Keefauver with Stacey Macchi and Amy Burke, COMMUNICATION SCIENCES AND DISORDERS – Can You Hear Me Now?

G 133 Alexis Kathalynas with T. C. LaFrance, POLITICAL SCIENCE – No Smoking Policies on College Campuses and Their Implementation

E 107 Ashley Kennedy with Brian Bellott, CHEMISTRY – Solid State Synthesis of Perovskite Analogs

C 61 Aaron Kerkemeyer, Kelsey Engle, and Tariq Ahmad with Tarab Ahmad, CHEMISTRY – Effect of 1-Butyl -3-Methyl Imidazolium Terafluoroborate Ionic Liquid on the Peak Asymmetry and Resolution of Basic Drugs on RPLC

H 160 Brian Knecht with Leslie Melim, GEOLOGY – Stable Isotope Analysis of Pool Finger Fabrics from Cottonwood Cave and Hidden Cave, Lincoln National Forest, New Mexico

G 131 Melissa Kolb with Kimberley McClure, PSYCHOLOGY – Mock-Detectives’ Perceptions of Witness Reliability Are Influenced by Witness Confidence

A 2 Stephanie Kroll with Sherry Lindquist, ART – Medieval British Seals in Different Social Classes

D 74 Andrea Lacriola and Danielle Sausaman with Brian Bellott, CHEMISTRY – Determination of the Caloric Content of Gluten Free Pasta via Bomb Calorimetry

F 114 Michael Lazzar, Marek Sak, and Elizabeth Skotowski with Tammie Bories and Randal Hyllegard, KINESIOLOGY – The Relevance of Upper Body Cues Compared to Lower Body Cues for Recognizing Gait Patterns

G 144 Sarah Le’Jeune with Mark Bernards, AGRICULTURE – Corn Response to Manganese Rates

E 95 Alexander Leslie with Jongnam Choi, METEOROLOGY – Differences in Surface and Atmospheric Conditions Between Spring and Fall Tornadoes in the State of Illinois

B 26 Antoinette Leveille with Everett Hamner, LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES – Paradise Lost, Perfection Found: Pleasantville, Genesis, and the Beauty of Conflict

H 162 Nick Liming with Thomas Hegna, GEOLOGY – Silicification Conundrum: Trilobites of the Weeks Formation

A 21 William Lind with Everett Hamner, ENGLISH AND JOURNALISM – The Tiger Within: Faith, Divinity, and Life of Pi

D 72 Adam Link with Brian Bellott, CHEMISTRY – The Optimization of Fe(CO)3(PPh3)2

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B 44 Shiloh Lueschow with Andrea Porras-Alfaro, BIOLOGY – Phylogenetic Relationship Between Human Opportunistic Pathogens and the Causative Agent of White Nose Syndrome in Bats

A 7 Ashley Luke with Mohammad Siddiqi, ENGLISH AND JOURNALISM – Macomb City Hall Public Relations Campaign

C 69 Ryan Mason and Shonda Gaines with Lisa Wen and Jenq-Kuen Huang, CHEMISTRY – Cloning of Oleate Hydratase Gene from Nocardia Cholesterolicum 5767

C 56 Shane Mason with Shawn Meagher, BIOLOGY – Does Anatomical Variation in White Grub (Posthodiplostomum minimum centrarchi) Suggest Unrecognized Species?

B 25 Emma McCreary with Everett Hamner, LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES – Odd Adaptations: A. S. Byatt and the Source of Life

B 45 Megan McGlone with Scott Holt, BIOLOGY – Chemically Defined Medium as a Set Standard for Growth of Leuconostoc

A 17 Julia McMeekan with Everett Hamner, ENGLISH AND JOURNALISM – Octavia Butler’s Dawn and the Mistake of Colorblindness

C 55 Brittany Miller and Christine Smith with Laura Barden-Gabbei, BIOLOGY – The Effects of Organic Herbicides on Pogonomyrmex occidentalis (Western Harvester Ant) Populations

F 109 Usbaldo Montoya with Jennifer Plos, KINESIOLOGY – Athletic Training Students’ Accuracy in Diagnosing Fractures Using the Tuning Fork and Stethoscope Technique Versus the Percussion and Stethoscope Technique

B 29 Theodore Mueller with Barbara Harroun and Jeannie Woods, ENGLISH AND JOURNALISM and THEATRE AND DANCE – Oklahoma!: An Ethnographic Study on the University Theatre Discourse Community

H 167 Jessica Myland with Holly Stovall, WOMEN’S STUDIES – Investigating Feminist Perspectives on the Mind and Body Split in Western Discourse

A 23 Caitlen O’Day with Everett Hamner, LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES – Steven Spielberg’s Schindler: A Fusion of Biblical Archetypes

C 54 Daniel Olsen, Scott Valenta, and Kaitlin Chapman with Laura Barden-Gabbei and James Rabchuk – BIOLOGY and PHYSICS – Magneto Receptors in Crickets

H 150 Jacob Osman with Emily Shupe, DIETETICS, FASHION MERCHANDISING, AND HOSPITALITY – Fat Replacement in Pie Crusts: Characteristics of Z Trim and Maltrin M100

C 60 Stefan Ososky with Victoria Livingston, BIOLOGY – Range of Motion in the Appendicular Skeleton in Struthio camelus

D 79 Stefan Ososky with Thomas Hegna, GEOLOGY – Green Bryozoans: A Look at Glauconite in the Fossil Preservation

E 97 Justin Palmer with Jongnam Choi, GEOGRAPHY – Does Weather Have an Effect on WIU Campus Crime Incidents, and Locations of Highest Density Crime Areas?

B 41 Dylan Pate, Bart Pienkowski, Matthew Pittner, and Angela Walker with Richard Musser, Andrea Porras-Alfaro, and Jason Tetor, BIOLOGY – Verification of Genes Altered in Corn Plants to a Fungus

B 47 Haley Patterson with Meshack Afitlhile, BIOLOGY – A Mutant of Arabidopsis thaliana that is Defective in Toc159 Receptor Accumulates Highly Reduced Levels of Pigments

B 48 Haley Patterson with Meshack Afitlhile, BIOLOGY – The Effect of Elevated Levels of Ozone on the Accumulation of Glycerolipids in the Leaves of Arabidopsis thaliana

F 123 Ryanzo Perez with David Lane and Jill Myers, PSYCHOLOGY and LAW ENFORCEMENT AND JUSTICE ADMINISTRATION – Attached to Our Phones: The Relationship Between Adult Attachment Styles and Cell Phone Reliance

D 73 Terrence Petry with Brian Bellott, CHEMISTRY – Solid State Synthesis of New Ba2MnRuO6 Double Perovskite Crystal

G 143 Haley Pfaffe with Mark Bernards, AGRICULTURE – Weed Mechanism of Action Database

C 52 Lindsey Poore with Kenneth McCravy, BIOLOGY – Nematode Parasitism of Orthopterans in Relation to Grassland Age and Host Species

F 122 Christina Prahler with Sandra McFadden, PSYCHOLOGY – Predictors of the Onset of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Alexithymia and Peritraumatic Dissociation

H 148 Vanessa Redpath and Ashley Gerard with Mary Jensen, SPECIAL EDUCATION – Bully Behavior: Impact on Students with Disabilities

D 85 Sally Riccardi with Ranbir Kang, GEOGRAPHY – Environmental Impacts of Oil Pipelines: Two Case Studies

G 139 Connor Riley with Cathy McMillan and Tim Piper, KINESIOLOGY – Self Directed Learning and Participants of Ultra Endurance Obstacle Races

G 140 Connor Riley with Cathy McMillan and Tim Piper, KINESIOLOGY – Incidence of Hallucinations During an Ultra-Endurance Event

A 4 Alexander Rodela and Koffigan Vonor with Zhigiang Yan, ACCOUNTANCY AND FINANCE – Traditional IRA vs. Roth IRA

C 59 Shelby Rogers with Brian Peer, BIOLOGY – Brood Parasitism Acceptance—Is the Cowbird Mafia to Blame?

Poster Presentations(continued)