2016 Armstrong Students Scholars Symposium Program

Armstrong State University

Savannah, Georgia

12:15 PM - 6:00 PM

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A Preschool Case Study: An In-Depth Analysis of an Emergent Reader

Ashley Sullivan

Savannah, Georgia

12:15 PM - 3:30 PM

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Air Quality on Human Health

Vanessa Manning

Savannah, Georgia

12:15 PM - 3:30 PM

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Bioremediation of Copper with Duckweed

Esther Medrano
Catherine LaHaise
David Riechert

Savannah, Georgia

12:15 PM - 3:30 PM

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Buffering the Adverse Effects of Media Images Through Gratitude and Media Literacy Interventions

Alexia Charlot
Christina Miller

Savannah, Georgia

12:15 PM - 3:30 PM

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Carcinoma of the Prostate

Cheryl Armstrong
Emily Foster
Prestina Harris
Courtney Horne

Savannah, Georgia

12:15 PM - 3:30 PM

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Color Change in Larval Antlions in Response to Background

Abigail Johnson

Savannah, Georgia

12:15 PM - 3:30 PM

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DNA Methylation Patterns in Kenyan House Sparrows

Thomas Ewing

Savannah, Georgia

12:15 PM - 3:30 PM

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Evidence Based Support for Self-management of Hypertension Among Young Adults

Karuna Mary Bollam

Savannah, Georgia

12:15 PM - 3:30 PM

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Examining Phenotypic Plasticity in Hydrocotyle Bonariensis in Response to Variations in Soil Conditions

Savannah Chiarello
John Counts
Joshua Grier
Ester Medrano

Savannah, Georgia

12:15 PM - 3:30 PM

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For Individuals with Dementia, are Medications, Cognitive Training Therapies, or Both Used in Conjunction, More Beneficial for Preserving Cognitive Functions?

Maria Smith
Elizabeth Grant

Savannah, Georgia

12:15 PM - 3:30 PM

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Foraging Behaviors of the Fungus-growing Ant, Cyphomyrmex Rimosus

Julia de Amorim
Forrest Collins
Athena Downes
David Reichert
Kelsea Young

Savannah, Georgia

12:15 PM - 3:30 PM

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Green Synthesis and Reduction of Chalcones as Anti-Cancer Therapeutics

Maya Wallace

Savannah, Georgia

12:15 PM - 3:30 PM

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Heterocyclic N-Oxides as Lewis Bases for Investigating Halogen Bonding with Tetraiodoethylene

Sydney Toney

Savannah, Georgia

12:15 PM - 3:30 PM

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How can Communication Barriers Between Nurses and Physicians Affect a Patient’s Quality of Care?

Victoria Baldwin

Savannah, Georgia

12:15 PM - 3:30 PM

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Improving Memory in Individuals with Traumatic Brain Injury: A Comparison of Errorless Learning and Spaced-Retrieval Training

Ashley Jones

Savannah, Georgia

12:15 PM - 3:30 PM

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Investigating Spatial and Diurnal Patterns for the Sand Dune Shrub Croton Punctatus in Georgia

Esther Medrano
Savannah Chiarello

Savannah, Georgia

12:15 PM - 3:30 PM

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Method Development and Analysis of Alpha Acids in Beer Hops

Kyle Hutchins

Savannah, Georgia

12:15 PM - 3:30 PM

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Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma

Purvi Patel
Sierra Pekarski
Sara Webb

Savannah, Georgia

12:15 PM - 3:30 PM

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Race and the Color Red: Significant Determinants in Perceived Attraction?

Lauren Lott

Savannah, Georgia

12:15 PM - 3:30 PM

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Sexual Dimorphic Divergence in Rescued Hatchling Diamondback Terrapins, Malaclemys Terrapin

Athena Downes
Julia De Amorim

Savannah, Georgia

12:15 PM - 3:30 PM

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Social Goals for Elementary Students With ASD in the Classroom

Robin Perry

Savannah, Georgia

12:15 PM - 3:30 PM

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Synthesis and Antibacterial

Jessica Futch

Savannah, Georgia

12:15 PM - 3:30 PM

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The Lack of Access to Birth Control in Brazil is the Main Catalyst for the Increase of the Zika Virus in Reproductive Aged Women 18-35

Briauna Hill

Savannah, Georgia

12:15 PM - 3:30 PM

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The Wandering Spirit of Eliza de Feuillide: An In-depth Analysis of the Letters Written by Jane Austen’s Obscure and ‘Outlandish’ Cousin

Abigail Meert

Savannah, Georgia

12:15 PM - 3:30 PM

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You Got a Bae or Nah? Relationship Status and the Effect on Perceived Attractiveness

Keri-Ann McGinn

Savannah, Georgia

12:15 PM - 3:30 PM

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Carl Jung and the God of Job

Cynthia Stevenson

Savannah, Georgia

9:30 AM - 9:50 AM

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Intermolecular Interactions Between Iodine and Oxygen in the Solid State

Andrew Goetz

Savannah, Georgia

9:30 AM - 9:50 AM

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Mezzos in Opera: Witches, Old Woman, and Pants Roles

Rebecca E. Brown

Savannah, Georgia

9:30 AM - 9:50 AM

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Search for Wolbachia in Insects on Armstrong State University

Mary Carpenter

Savannah, Georgia

9:30 AM - 9:50 AM

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Writing Awards

Armstrong State University

Savannah, Georgia

9:30 AM - 10:45 AM

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Cumulative Aggression Study

Elias Frazier

Savannah, Georgia

9:50 AM - 10:10 AM

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Studies on Selenium-Iodine Halogen Bonding

Melina Raymundo

Savannah, Georgia

9:50 AM - 10:10 AM

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The Verification and Organization of BIOL 1107L Student Insect Samples Infected with Wolbachia

Cicely Curtis

Savannah, Georgia

9:50 AM - 10:10 AM

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Composing a Piece for Voice and Loop Pedal

Daniel Garneau

Savannah, Georgia

10:10 AM - 10:30 AM

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Examining the Construction of Potential Coordination Polymers with Mercury(II) and Aromatic N-oxides

Michael Tran

Savannah, Georgia

10:10 AM - 11:00 AM

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Using in Class Debates to Enhance An Honor’s Introduction to Psychology Course

Lane Knight
Sara Kuehn
Bethany Panhorst
Kaley Powers

Savannah, Georgia

10:10 AM - 10:45 AM

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Noah Purifoy’s Inner Self Surfaced in the Mojave

Christine Powell

Savannah, Georgia

10:30 AM - 10:50 AM

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Conforming to Patriarchal Superiority in a Feminist Motivated Storyline: Grey’s Anatomy

Andrew Bradford

Savannah, Georgia

11:00 AM - 11:20 AM

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Epigenetic Variation in Aspidoscelia Sexlineata Across Different Fire-Dependent Habitats

Christian Jarboe

Savannah, Georgia

11:00 AM - 11:20 AM

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Understanding the Molecular Details Behind Human Perforin’s Function

Kimberly Mandigo
Amy Neely
Rebekah Robinson

Savannah, Georgia

11:00 AM - 11:20 AM

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The Synthesis of Novel Chalcones via the Aldol Condensation Reaction

Michon Craig

Savannah, Georgia

11:20 AM - 11:40 AM

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Variation in DNA Methylation Among Florida Scrub Lizards in Response to Fire

Mario Johnson

Savannah, Georgia

11:20 AM - 11:40 AM

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Matrix Group Representation of Music Compositions

Jack Wagner

Savannah, Georgia

11:40 AM - 12:10 PM

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Using MS-AFLP to Investigate Ecological Epigenetics of Bluegill Sunfish

Alexandria Ragsdale

Savannah, Georgia

11:40 AM - 12:30 PM

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Detecting a Homologue of Human Arc Protein in the Brains of Adult Zebrafish

Kyle Hinton

Savannah, Georgia

12:30 PM - 12:50 PM

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Kubric, Porn, and the Importance of Literary Analysis in Education

Luke Lyman-Barner
Michelle Kanke

Savannah, Georgia

12:30 PM - 12:50 PM

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The Making of the American Dust Bowl

Ana Beasley

Savannah, Georgia

12:30 PM - 12:50 PM

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Transnational Organized Crime in Latin America: An Insidious National Security Threat

James Marye

Savannah, Georgia

12:30 PM - 12:50 PM

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No Picture Can Capture This

Elizabeth Rhaney

Savannah, Georgia

12:50 PM - 1:10 PM

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The Construction of NexusPrime: A Recyclable Vector for Mammalian Cell Engineering

Sean Jackewicz

Savannah, Georgia

12:50 PM - 1:10 PM

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Who Belongs and Who Doesn’t: Exploring the Racial Politics of Orange Crush at Tybee Island

Jeffrey Finney

Savannah, Georgia

12:50 PM - 1:10 PM

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The American Delusion

Edna Trujillo

Savannah, Georgia

1:10 PM - 1:30 PM

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The Effects of Remittances on Female Secondary School Enrollment in Developing Countries

Sebastian Hernandez

Savannah, Georgia

1:10 PM - 1:30 PM

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The Independent Spirit Tunisia

Michelle Ramos

Savannah, Georgia

1:10 PM - 2:00 PM

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The Role of Social Media in the Egyptian Revolution

Mary Dillard

Savannah, Georgia

1:10 PM - 1:30 PM

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The Relationship between Religious Indifference and Young Marriage in the U.S.

Thomas Kavoori

Savannah, Georgia

1:30 PM - 2:00 PM

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The Sino-Russian Energy Relationship: It’s Impact on International Politics

Matthew Hunt

Savannah, Georgia

1:30 PM - 2:00 PM

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Ibn Khaldun and the Berber Empires: The Creation and Triumph of Maghribi-Andalusi Civilization

Christian Pye

Savannah, Georgia

2:00 PM - 2:20 PM

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Moot Court Argument Simulation

Elly Estrada
Angelo Fernandez
Roxanne Simons
Jasmine Stellers
Gill Watts

Savannah, Georgia

2:00 PM - 2:45 PM

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The Psychometric Properties of the Single-Arm Seated Shot Put Test as an Open Kinetic Chain Upper Extremity Functional Outcome Measure in Subjects with Healthy and Painful Shoulders: Correlation between Peak Force and Distance

Tamara Cowart
Sara Morris
Mary Beth Price
Rachel Putman
Laura Thomas

Savannah, Georgia

2:00 PM - 2:20 PM

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The Right to Flourish – The Water Crisis

Lucy Jones

Savannah, Georgia

2:00 PM - 2:20 PM

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The Supreme Court and Student’s Rights

Dixie Richards

Savannah, Georgia

2:20 PM - 2:40 PM

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White, Affluent, and Happy: Print Media’s Representation of Post World War II American Families

Grace Klein

Savannah, Georgia

2:20 PM - 2:40 PM

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Syrian Refugee Crisis in Europe

Joshua Ricks

Savannah, Georgia

2:40 PM - 3:30 PM

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The Phrenology Cabinet

Victoria Do

Savannah, Georgia

2:40 PM - 3:00 PM

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The Pathology of the Powerless: The Effects of the Masculine and Class Ideals of Edwardian England on World War One Shell-Shock Patients

Amanda Seabolt

Savannah, Georgia

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

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“It’s Toasted”: Mad Men Takes on “The Feminine Mystique,” the Mad Women of the 1960’s, and the Burn of Social Conformity

Michelle Kanke

Savannah, Georgia

3:30 PM - 3:50 PM

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Mainstream Pornography is a Major Component of Rape Culture

Leena Ali

Savannah, Georgia

3:30 PM - 4:10 PM

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The Rise and Fall of the Women’s Battalion of Death and the Undoing of Russian Feminism

John Trainor

Savannah, Georgia

3:30 PM - 3:50 PM

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U.S. Relations with Cuba: Why it Matters

Ted Welsh'Lupica

Savannah, Georgia

3:50 PM - 4:10 PM

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Mentoring and Teaching through ‘I am Malala’: A Collaboration between the Armstrong College of Education Living- Learning Community and the East Broad Street School ‘Teens for Literacy’ Program

Jasmin Laney
Adrianne Moore
Lucy Simkins

Savannah, Georgia

4:10 PM - 4:30 PM

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Remind Me Again, Who Am I?: Exploring Identity through Literature, Social Discourse, and Narrative

Mari Glover

Savannah, Georgia

4:10 PM - 4:30 PM

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The Phantom of the Limbs: An in Depth Look at PLP

Darby Wiggins

Savannah, Georgia

4:10 PM - 4:30 PM

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A Multimodal Writing Project: Middle School Students Collaborate with a Local Author

Camella McBrayer

Savannah, Georgia

4:30 PM - 4:50 PM

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Obesity and Academic Achievement

Martin Smith

Savannah, Georgia

4:30 PM - 4:50 PM

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Introduction of a Research Study: Effect of the Smartphone Technology on the Adult Student Academic Achievement

Irina Demina

Savannah, Georgia

4:50 PM - 5:20 PM

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The Association Between Neck Muscle Endurance and Computer Use in College Students

Taylor Benton
Hawley Emanuele
Molly Rush
Stefanie Ortiz

Savannah, Georgia

4:50 PM - 5:10 PM

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