11:00 a.m. –

12:30 p.m.

duPont Hall 313

Program Chair: Mr. Joe Di Bella

Presenters:

Davette Leonard (Studio Art), “Painting the Ephemeral with the Enduring” – abstract on page 21

Katherine Aren (Studio Art), “Exploration of Self Through Portraiture” – abstract on page 6

Stephanie Smith (Studio Art), “Peruvian Street Boys Wall Installations” – abstract on page 29

11:00 a.m. –

12:30 p.m.

duPont Hall 324

Program Chair: Dr. Claudine Ferrell

Presenters:

Philip Arnone (Sociology), “Terrorism as Political Violence” -- abstract on page 7

Sabrina Askari, Sarah Axelson, Samantha Staebell (Psychology), “Young Adults’ Ideal and Actual Expectations for Future Division of Feminine Chores Before and After Children” – abstract on page 8

Krishna Sinha (Business Administration), “Using Time Series Decomposition to Forecast Attendance of Historic Kenmore“ – abstract on page 29

Erin Hogan (Education), “How Does the Early Introduction of Join-Start Unknown Problems Effect Students’ Strategy Choices in Addition“– abstract on page 17

12:45 –

2:15 p.m.

duPont Hall 313

Program Chair: Dr. Susan Matts

Presenters:

Damon Lowery (Biology), “The Study of Ecological and Vegetation Responses Resulting from Two Dam Removals in a Tidal Wetland System” – abstract on page 22

Tanima Hoque (Biology), “Effect of Seed Predation on the Population Density of Aeschynomene virginica” – abstract on page 17

Katherine Mulrey (Physics), “Physics of Model Airplanes” - Abstract on page 23

Jonathan Pollak (Geography), “Towards a Digital Campus” – abstract on page 27

12:45 –

2:15 p.m.

duPont Hall 324

Program Chair: Dr. Terry Kennedy

Presenters:

Michael Man (Anthropology), “The Liberty Way: The Performance of Belief in a Southern Baptist University” – abstract on page 23

Andrew Uyehara (Anthropology), “Where Do Franks Belong?: The Liminality of Food at Ballparks” – abstract on page 30

Nichole Hudson (Anthropology), “Wigwams and WiFi: Conflicting Images at the National Museum of American Indian” – abstract on page 18

Molly Hendricks (Business Administration), “Socially-Responsive Funds, Investor Friendly?” – abstract on page 16

12:45 –

2:15 p.m.

duPont Hall 209

Program Chair: Dr. Thomas Fallace

Presenters:

Ellie Tiemann (Education), “Investigating History Through Cultural Universals” – abstract on page 30

Elizabeth Bromley (Education), “Using Readers Theater in a Kindergarten Classroom” – abstract on page 10

Mary Hester, Colin Biddle, Laura Gumkowski, and Nikole Wellman (History), “James Farmer Digital History Project” – abstract on page 17

Maggie O’Toole (Spanish/Psychology), “The Promised Land: A Short Story” – abstract on page 26

2:30 –

4:00 p.m.

duPont Hall 313

Program Chair: Dr. Janusz Konieczny

Presenters:

Amy Benjamin, Shannon Hauser, Whitney Holcomb, Jennifer Feldhaus, and Elizabeth Weaver (History), “Historical Markers: History That You Pass Everyday” – abstract on page 9

Kelly Wuyscik, Andrea Meyer, Lisa Meissner, and Talya Halpern (History), “The James Monroe Papers” – abstract on page 32

Molly Hendricks (Business Administration), “International Marketing: The Trinidad Perspective” – abstract on page 16

Juliann Boyles, Austin Cobb, Matthew Downs, Roxanne Ibinson, and Kellye Sorber (History), “UMW Alumni Oral History Interview Database/Website“– abstract on page 9

2:30 –

4:00 p.m.

duPont Hall 324

Program Chair: Dr. Debra Steckler

Presenters:

Robert Lynn (Studio Art/Art History), “Realism Meets Abstraction in Contemporary Painting/Drawing” – abstract on page 23

Eric Norman (Studio Art), “Post Modern Painting“– abstract on page 25

Erin O’Donovan (Psychology/Studio Art), “Mood Over Matter: Can Happiness Be Your Undoing?” – abstract on page 25

Justin Simeone (History), “American War Crimes Advocacy from Leipzig to Nuremberg: The Social, Legal, and Political Origins of International Criminal Legalism, 1919-1939” – abstract on page 28

2:30 –

4:00 p.m.

duPont Hall 209

Program Chair: Dr. Karen Anewalt-Cockrell

Presenters:

Juliette Zerick (Mathematics/Computer Science), “Computational Characterization of Basin Boundaries” – abstract on page 32

Nicholas Odhiambo and Roger Lamb (Computer Science), “Parole Office Web-based GIS Tracking Application” – abstract on page 24

Rebecca Voglewede (Business Administration), “How Does Wal-Mart Do It? An Examination of Recent Financial Performance” – abstract on page 30

Rebecca Henderson (Anthropology, Linguistics), “Oral Narratives of the High Atlas: A Sociolinguistic Perspective”– abstract on page 15

1:00 –

4:30 p.m.

Melchers Hall 107

Art History Individual Study Projects

Presenters:

Dana Byrd, “Hermes and Dionysos…By Praxiteles? A Quest for Attribution” – abstract on page 11

Heather Carey, “The Influence of “Orientalism” in Nineteenth-Century French Painting:

Ingres and Delacroix” – abstract on page 11

Kerry Gavaghan, “Portrait of a Family: Dutch Paintings in the Seventeenth Century” – abstract on page 14

Emily Harrawood, “Painting and Prayer: The Influence of Counter-Reformation Rome on Caravaggio’s Monumental Paintings” – abstract on page 15

Alexis Hovanesian, “The Heroic Myth of the New Soviet Man and Woman in Socialist Realist Art Under Stalin, 1932-1953” – abstract on page 18

Elizabeth Huff, “Vittore Carpaccio’s Narrative Cycle of St. Ursula and Its Venetian Influences” – abstract on page 19

Rebecca Kraushaar, “A ‘Wildly Eccentric’ Undertaking: Charlotte Salomon’s Life? or Theatre?” – abstract on page 20

11:00 a.m.-

12:30 p.m.

Session #1

duPont Hall, second floor

Presenters:

Juliana Brown (Chemistry), “STM Studies of Coadsorption of Liquid Crystals on Graphite” – abstract on page 10

Layton Kuchinski (Theatre), “Dressing Constance: A Costume Technology Project from She Stoops To Conquer” – abstract on page 20

Samantha Davis (Chemistry), “Liquid Crystal Synthesis and Characterization” – abstract on page 12

Jonathan Williams (Chemistry), “Photochemical Fate of Biodiesel Spills” – abstract on page 31

Matthew Gallo (Geography), “Developing a GIS database for the city of Fredericksburg” – abstract on page 14

Donna Weber (Theatre), “Stage Managing Of A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum” – abstract on page 31

T. Morgan Riley (Historic Preservation), “Is This the Right Room?": An Analysis of Shifts in the Function of Spaces at the Mary Washington Campus: 1911 - 1941” abstract on page 27

Lindsay Easley (Theatre), “Scenic Art: She Stoops to Conquer” – abstract on page 13

Rebecca Funkhouser and Jennifer Yox (Chemistry), “Progress in the development of protecting group strategies for alkylguanidines” – abstract on page 13

12:45 -

2:15 p.m.

Session #2

duPont Hall, second floor

Presenters:

Erika Kamptner, Alexandra Mueller, and Michael Ford (Geology), “Stream Water Quality, Sediment Chemistry, and the Macroinvertebrate Population in a Steam Draining Abandoned Pyrite and Gold Mines in Louisa County, Virginia“– abstract on page 19

Katherine O. Oldham (Environmental Sciences), “Monitoring the Storm Water Management Ponds of the Central Park Development and an Off-Site Wetland Mitigation Projet” – abstract on page 25

Emma Clarkson (Biological Sciences), “Macroinvertebrate Biodiversity across Land Use in Sub Watersheds of the Rappahannock River” – abstract on page 12

Jenae Pinney and Rebecca Shapiro (Chemistry), “The Effect of Land Use on the Nutrients and Organic Contaminants in the Water and Sediment of the Rappahannock River” – abstract on page 26

Molly Barber, Andrew Uglow, and Bryan Clark (Geology and Environmental Sciences), “Sea Level History of the Rappahannock Estuary” – abstract on page 8

Evan P. Anderson (Geology), “Analysis of Fossil-Bearing (?) ~ 570 Ma Rocks from Boston Bay, MA” – abstract on page 6

Sherin V. Stephen (Physics), “Physics of Model Airplanes“ – abstract on page 29

2:30 -

4 p.m.

Session #3

duPont Hall, second floor

Kelly Landau (Environmental Science), “Application of Cs-137 in Soil Erosion Analysis” -- abstract on page 20

Gayle Armentrout and Virginia Brown (Chemistry and Environmental Science), “Sediment Influx Rates and Trace Metal Analysis for Lake Anna” -- abstract on page 7

Mary Pilger (Physics), “Study of Nitrogen Afterglow Emissions in a Molecular Beam Discharge” – abstract on page 26

Davis Hand (Physics), “New Automated Contact Resistance Test Station” – abstract on page 15

Christopher Lowery and Scott Smith (Environmental Sciences), “The Viability of Ostracoda as Proxies for Pleistocene-Holocene Climate Change at Mono Lake, California” – abstract on page 21

Amy Carfagno (Chemistry), “Investigating the Basis of Natural Organic Matter Photochemistry” – abstract on page 11

Joseph McMahon (Business), “The Facebook Effect” – abstract on page 24

Claire Tamaccio (Geography), “Mapping with Mobile GIS: Alum Spring Park, Fredericksburg” – abstract on page 29

Caitlin Lucia (Theatre), “Far Away Stage Management” – abstract on page 22