Temple Undergraduate Research Forum

and Creative Works Symposium

April 5, 2007

An overview of the day's program and presenters can be found below.  Abridged and full-length versions of the program are available in pdf format:

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2007 TURF- CreWS Program

8:15am-8:30am

Student Center 200 C

Welcome

8:40am-10:00am

Concurrent Sessions 1

Student Center 200 A

College of Liberal Arts

Engendered Realities: Historical Projections, Protections, and Proscriptions

Bethany Weed, "Marie Claire France and Marie Claire America: What Magazines Reveal about Cultural Values"

Monika McDole-Russell, "Stereotypes of Women During the English Renaissance"

Bex, "The Case of the Human Body: Literacy of Gender Signifiers"

Yuka Sakata, "The Japanese Sex Industry"

Student Center 200 C—

Ambler, Landscape Architecture & Horticulture

Changing Landscape, Changing Perceptions

Takashi Sato & Gabrielle Crowley, "Sandy Run Creek Watershed Landscape Restoration"

Michele Deery, Amanda Driscoll, Peter Emerson, Luke Keller, Anna Lavinia Schmitz, & Andrew Morgan, "Serious Play: The Playground Renovation at Gotwals Elementary."

10:10am-11:30am

Concurrent Sessions 2

Student Center 200 A

College of Liberal Arts

Does the Historian’s Craft Matter? History Honors Students Reflect On the Honors Thesis Process

Stephanie Sikora, "The Great Escape: 21st Century American Politics and the Kyoto Protocol"

Clay Boggs, "Jews Becoming Christians at the End of Time: Philo-Semitism and Supersessionary Fantasy in the Writing of Margaret Fell"

Matthew Rodrigue, "Rethinking Academia: A Gramscian Analysis ofSamuel Huntington"

Richard Jurnack, "'Huzzaing and Flourishing their Clubs': Sailors and The Philadelphia Riot of 1742"

Allyson McCreery, "Digging for Equality: Women in Archaeology in the Victorian Era"

Robin Marrone, "Race and Gender at the Philadelphia Exposition"

Student Center 200 B

College of Liberal Arts

Quality of Life & Health Research in the Social Sciences

Jacqueline Sanflippo, "Gender Role Orientation and Depressogenic Risk Factors in University Students"

Sarah Khan, "Enhancement Effects of ABT-418, an α4β2 Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Agonist, on Contextual Fear Conditioning in C57/BL6 Mice"

Kim Phuong Thi Nguyen, "MRI Assessment of Human Cerebellar Volume: Focus on the Anterior Lobe"

Ozlem Ayzit Doydum, "Development of Feature Binding in Working- and Long-term Memory During Early Childhood"

Katherine Arnson, "World-wide Genetic Variation in the Human Progesterone Receptor Gene"

Student Center 200 C

Fox School of Business & Management

Brendan McHugh, Moderator

Sonja Y. Claxton, "Non-governmental organizations role in development: West Africa" – Ronen Elyasiani (discussant)

Mohini Merchant, "With Wrinkles Comes Inefficient Marketing" – Marianne Ball (discussant)

Brooke Huttner, "Charitable Contributions, Volunteer Time, and Marriage" - Anuja Deshmukh (discussant)

Student Center Underground

School of Communications & Theater

Ashley Campbell, "Jam the Man"

Sarah Green, "[Pregnancy]"

Asaki Kuruma, "Costume Design for the opera Turn of the Screw"

Jason Grandelli, "Philadelphia Horror Film Festival Poster "

10:10am-11:30am

Student Center Atrium

Poster Session 1

College of Science & Technology

Lisa Di Yan, "Novel Nuclease Inhibitor"

 

Allison Pymer, "Nonlinear Optical Studies of the Surface Charge of Mesoscopic Colloidal Silica Particles"

 

Sony Chau, "A Method to Recognize Eicosanoids Extracted from Specimen "

 

Matthew Fenty, "Theoretical Model of Feshbach-stimulated Raman photoproduction of a Bose-Einstein condensate consisting of singlet molecules"

 

Tarlay Morlu, " Regulation of Complement C3 gene by HIV-1 induced IL-1 in promonocytes and astocytes."

 

Si Lam, "Edible Taste Strips for Identification of Human Taste Recognition Thresholds"

 

Andrew Yanaka & Hetvi Desai, "Recognition of Gustatory Stimuli with Edible Taste Strips"

 

 

College of Liberal Arts

 

Benta Samuelson, "Looking Inside the “Black Box” of the Juvenile Drug Court: Understanding the Role and the Influence of the Judge"

 

Elise White, "The Influence of Family Involvement on African American Males’ Progress in Juvenile Treatment Court"

College of Engineering

Gena Heng, "A novel method for early detection of tumors"

11:40am-1:00pm

Session 3

Student Center Underground

School of Communications & Theater

Lindsay Fasano, "The Oprah Winfrey/James Frey Episode: Fantasy Analysis on a Daytime Talk Show"

Joy Notoma, "Monologues from Shakespeare’s The Winter Tale and George C. Wolfe’s The Colored Museum"

Reuben Kramer, "Hawks and Doves: Examining the Debate over Iranian Nuclear Proliferation"

Griffin Stanton-Ameisen, "Excerpts from Ah, Wilderness, Measure for Measure, The Comedy of Errors, and Beggars in the House of Plenty

11:40am-1:00pm Luncheon

Student Center 2nd Floor Lobby

All TURF-CreWS presenters, faculty, and special guests are welcome.

1:10pm-2:30pm

Concurrent Sessions 4

Student Center 200 A

College of Liberal Arts

Preeminent Domains: The Politics of Control

Jesse Staab, "Explaining US Action During the Formation of the New Human Rights Council"

Alicia Greenidge, "Latin America's Left Turn to Populism"

Chloe Gartside, "Japan: A Case Study of an Oil War in North East Asia"

Justin Collins, "Turning Land into Property: the Case of Kumasi, Ghana"

Student Center 200 B

College of Liberal Arts

See, Say, Solve: Utilizing Empirical Research and Critical Theory to Shape Social Change

Drew Subits, "Foucault, Panopticism and Control at the Hillside School"

Julia Elise Hillengas, "Philadelphia's Next Step: Lessons from Our Progressive Schools and Applications in Our Public Schooling At-Large"

Sara Getz, "Towards a Counter-Hegemonic Framework: Studying Women in the Zaptista Movement"

Peter Chomko, "On the Giants’ Shoulders: A Non-Technical Overview of the Evolution of Field Theory"

Student Center 200 C

Fox School of Business & Management

Pranav Amin, Moderator

Lisa Gibbings, "Consumer Acculturation" - DeMaris Trapp (discussant)

Shawn P. Emrich, "The Impact of Ethics and Spirituality in the Workplace" – Susan Shields (discussant)

Corrie Buff, "The Banking Relationships of Women-Owned Businesses" – Michael Slutsky (discussant)

Andrew Atkins, "The Impact of Potential Social Security Reform Scenarios on Employer Provided Retirement Plans" - Joseph Milicia (discussant)

Student Center 220

Tyler School of Art

Michael T. Cole, "At a Safe Distance: Paintings, Drawings and Sculptures of a Nuclear Culture"

Talia Shabtay, "Interpreting Spaces"

Student Center Underground

School of Communications & Theater

Matthew Chachula & Jared Berezin, "Quoth the Milkman: The Origin of Dr. Gamma Fist"

Margaret Rusek, "Accessible Art: Reactions to the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program"

Lauren Rooney, "'Back to Before' from Ragtime, 'On the Steps of the Palace' from 'Into the Woods,' and a monologue from "Look Homeward, Angel."

Amy Pyles, "Temple University Advertising Booklet"

1:10pm-2:30pm

Student Center Atrium

Poster Session 2

See 10:10am-11:30am for a complete listing of student names and poster titles.

2:40pm-4:00pm

Concurrent Sessions 5

Student Center 200 A

College of Liberal Arts &

School of Social Administration

Works in Progress

The following research projects are currently underway among undergraduate seniors in the Departments of African American Studies and Social Work.

Shasheena Bray, “The Philadelphia Public Housing Residents’ Quality of Life Survey"

 

Mukaji Ambila, “Where is the Community’s Center?: Examining the Effects of Attending Community Centers on the Social and Academic Development of Teens, Ages 13-18"

 

Renard Mackall, "The Relationships among Neighborhood Income, Dietary Patterns, Grocery Store Inventory, and Health Issues among a Sample of Philadelphia Residents"

 

David Brown & Darasia Selby, "Community Factors Affecting the Social and Emotional Health of Residents"

 

Christine Iko, "Parental Influences on Adolescent Social and Academic Behavior"

 

Brian McGahee, "'Drop it Like it’s Hot': Perceptions of Five Popular Black Entertainers among Young Adults, Ages 18-35"

 

Brille Kinner, "The Impact of Neighborhood Life on the Social and Emotional Health of Women"

 

April Eagan, "The Impact of Parental and Teacher Involvement on 6th, 7th and 8th Grade Students’ Academic Achievement"

 

Kiana Curry, "Deconstructing Mental Health Taboos in the Black Community: Toward the Provision of Culturally Relevant Solutions and Services"

 

Erin Grant, "Laptop effectiveness for homeless street outreach teams."

Student Center 200 B

College of Liberal Arts

Sovereignty, Morality, Identity

Jeremy Shinefeld, "Issue-Based Legitimacy: Human rights in the Private Sphere and State Sovereignty"

Justin Murphy, " Skepticism, Necessita, and Morality in Machiavelli"

Clay Boggs, "‘The Jews’ and ‘The Pharisees’ in Early Quaker Polemics"

Student Center 200 C

College of Engineering

Josiah Quaye Oppong Bio, " Mechanical Properties of Gelatin Gels, Silcone Rubbers, and Polyurethane Elastomers"

Luis Breziner, "Influence of Harsh Environmental Conditions on CFRP-Aluminum Single Lap Joints."

James Andrew Visker, "Using Macromedia Flash to Distribute Large Programs."

Student Center Underground

School of Communications & Theater

(All first place awardees will be honored at the close of the final panel.)

Reuben Kramer, " Traditionalists, Radicals, and Reformists: The Historical Dynamic Between Iran’s President and Supreme Leader"

Alexandra Miller, "Frame by Frame"

Katrina Cooper & Da’Vine Randolph, "Excerpt from Our Lady of 121st Street, Act 1, Scene 6."

7:00pm-8:30pm

Concert & Closing Session

Rock Hall—Boyer College of Music & Dance

Paul Sulzer, "Three Latin Jazz Inspired Arrangements for Cello Quintet: ' Groovin’ High' by Dizzy Gillespie; Arranged by Arturo Sandoval; ' Watch What Happens' by Michel Legrand; and 'A Mis Abuelos' by Arturo Sandoval."

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