Symposium 2007 Schedule

12:30-1:00 p.m.
Introductory Remarks
Professor of Geology and Associate Dean of Undergraduate Research Patricia Manley; President Ronald D. Liebowitz; Erich Osterberg '99
Great Hall
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1:30-3:30 p.m.
Poster Presentations: Session I
Great Hall
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2:30-2:45 p.m.
Break I
A Capella Serenade
Great Hall
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2:45-4:00 p.m.
Oral Presentations: Session II
Rooms 104, 216, 219, 220
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3:00-5:00 p.m.
Poster Presentations: Session II
Great Hall
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4:00-4:15 p.m.
Break II
A Capella Serenade
Great Hall
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4:15-5:30 p.m.
Oral Presentations: Session III
Rooms 104, 216, 219, 220, 338
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5:30-5:45 p.m.
Presentation Performance
Great Hall, McCardell Bicentennial Hall
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5:45-7:30 p.m.
Reception
Great Hall
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Spring Student Symposium Schedule: Complete

12:30-1:00 p.m.
Introductory Remarks
Professor of Geology and Associate Dean of Undergraduate Research Patricia Manley and President Ronald D. Liebowitz will open the symposium with introductory remarks. Erich Osterberg '99, a Geology major, Fulbright Scholar, and doctoral candidate at the University of Maine Climate Change Institute will then offer comments on his own undergraduate and post-graduate experiences with research.
Great Hall, McCardell Bicentennial Hall

1:15-2:30 p.m.
Oral Presentations: Session I

Representations and Reality
Moderator: Cheryl Faraone, Professor of Theatre and Women’s and Gender Studies
McCardell Bicentennial Hall 104
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1. The Theater of Ramon Maria del Valle-Inclan between the Esperpento and the Irrepresentability:  Andreea Iulia Sprinceana ‘07
2. Madeline's Wedding: An Exploration of Motivation: David Wrangham ’08
3. The Popularizers in the Urban Folk Revival: Amanda Kleinman’07
4. Real Numbers, Imaginary World: Decoding the Creation of "The Five Hysterical Girls Theorem: Jackie Hurwitz ’07 and Catherine Vigne ’07

Community Development: Challenges and Opportunities
Moderator: Jon Isham, Economics and Environmental Studies
McCardell Bicentennial Hall 216
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1. Clam Collectors in Ecuador: A Case Study of Community, Identity, and Resource Use: Laura Kuhl ’07
2. From Platanos to Pesos: Local Development in the Dominican Republic: Leah Skahen ’09
3. Sheep Grazing and Scrub Oak Management on Nantucket: Karen Stahlheber ’07
4. Social Entrepreneurship: "Real World" Activations of the Liberal Arts Education: Noah Webb Walker ’07 and Rebecca Waters ’07

Health and the Human Body
Moderator: Grace Spatafora, Professor of Biology
McCardell Bicentennial Hall 219
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1. Effect of Ethanol Pre-treatment on Voluntary Consumption and Development of Tolerance in C57BL/6J Mice: Laverne Blackman ’07 and Megan Guarnier ’07
2. Characterizing the Role of Superoxide Dismutase in the Development of Good Quality Oocytes: David Walker ’07 and Louis Paolella ’07
3. Cavities 101: Thuy Dinh ’07, Pascal Losambe ’07, Erin McConocha ’07, Conor O'Neill ’07, and Lindsey Seldin ’07

The Natural Environment of Vermont
Moderator: Molly Costanza-Robinson, Assistant Professor of Environmental Chemistry
McCardell Bicentennial Hall 220
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1. Potential Ultramafic-Derived Arsenic Contamination in Bedrock Water Wells in North-Central Vermont: Colleen Sullivan ’07
2. Solar-Powered Scooter: A Study of Solar Power in Vermont: Alison Brown ’07
3. Mapping Middlebury: McConnell Franklin ’10
4. Sonar on Lake Champlain: The Whole Lake Survey: Ethan Lake ’08 Ethan Lake ’08
5. Investigation of Maple Syrup Flavor Compound Profiles and Possible Geochemical Determinants: Anna Chavis’08, Nick Dickerson ’08, Adam Lovell ’08, Walter Burwell ‘09, Elizabeth Kelley ’09

1:30-3:30 p.m.
Poster Presentations: Session I
Although all posters will be on display throughout the afternoon, those listed below will have the student authors on hand to present and discuss their research during this period. Great Hall, McCardell Bicentennial Hall

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4. Radical Reactions of Acyclic Butadieneiron and Cyclohexadieneiron Tricarbonyl Complexes: Ming Chen’07

6. Comparison of Holocene Age Sediments: Four Bays on the Antarctic Peninsula: Annie Christopher ’07

8. Vermont Terroir: Investigating the Relationship between Maple Syrup Chemistry and Bedrock Lithology Lee Corbett ’07* *Located in First Floor Lobby

10. Reaction of Guanine Derivative and Ruthenium (III) Complexes: Joseph Della Rocca ’07 and Justin Bogart ’10

12. Uranium-enriched Ground Water, Knox Mountain Pluton, Vermont: Occurrence and Lithologic Controls: Michael Gleason’07

14. The Role of Hope in Coping with Collegiate Stress: Lok Man (Charlene) Lam’07

16. Ruthenium Promoted Radical Addition Reactions to Arenes: Daniel O'Mara’07

18. Radical Additions to Cyclobutadieneiron Tricarbonyl and its Derivatives: Scott Schwitz ’07

20. The Effect of Reduction Potential and Bridging Ligands on the Oxidation of 5'-dGMP by Pt(IV) Complexes: Livia Vastag ’07 and Michelle Personick ’09

2:30-2:45 p.m.
Break I
Refreshments; Poster Session I ongoing. Entertainment provided by the Bobolinks and Stuck in the Middle (SIM).
Great Hall, McCardell Bicentennial Hall

2:45-4:00 p.m.
Oral Presentations: Session II

Space
Moderator: Susan Watson, Associate Professor of Physics
McCardell Bicentennial Hall 104
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1. Measuring Air-Water Interfacial Areas Using Gas-Phase Interfacial Tracers: Ross Lieb-Lappen ’07
2. Artificial Molecules: The Key to Quantum Bits? Carolyn Stwerka ’07
3. Expanding Ejecta in the Core-Collapse Supernova Remnant G292.0+1.8, Cas A's Older Cousin: Karl Twelker ’07

Manifestations of Faith
Moderator: Ira Schiffer, Associate Chaplain and Rabbi
McCardell Bicentennial Hall 216
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1. Upsurge: Contemplation on Religious Life at Middlebury: Karina Arrue ’07
2. Understanding Evolutionary Theory: Issues of Epistemology and Conceptual Change: Alexander DeLisi ’07 and Chak Fu (Jeff) Lam ’07

Self and Identity
Moderator: Catharine Wright, Lecturer and Tutor in Writing
McCardell Bicentennial Hall 219
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1. How Much do People Worry? Worry and Perceptions of Worry in Students and their Parents: Katherine Belon’07
2. Queer "I"s: Negotiating Identity, Community and Power at Middlebury College: Tamara Vatnick’07
3. The State of Diversity at Middlebury: Chengcheng Xu ’09
4. "Exploding the Walls against the Pattern": Conversations and Consensus in Joanne Kyger's The Tapestry and the Web: Lauren Westerfield ’07

Mutual Reflections: Politics and the Arts
Moderator: Michele McCauley, Associate Professor of Psychology
McCardell Bicentennial Hall 220
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1. Politics, Architecture, and Identity in Rebuilding Germany's Cities after the Second World War: Gruia Badescu ’07
2. Gays at Play: A Critical History of San Francisco's Theatre Rhinoceros, 1977 - 1986: Paul Doyle ’07
3. Harriet Beecher Stowe's Feminism: How Uncle Tom's Cabin Empowered its Female Readers:  Kathryn Sherman’07
4. The Colombian Diaspora in Paris: A Study of Immigration through the Emergence of a Hybrid Colombo-Parisian Social Dance: Tatiana Virviescas Mendoza ’07

3:00-5:00 p.m.
Poster Presentations: Session II
Although all posters will be on display throughout the afternoon, those listed below will have the student authors on hand to present and discuss their research during this period. Great Hall, McCardell Bicentennial Hall

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Poster Number, Title, Presenter
1. Glutamine Phosphoribosylpyrophosphate Amdotransferase and Substrate Channeling in the de novo Purine Synthesis Pathway: Nicholas Arger

3. Nonenzymatic Glycation of Equine Heart Myoglobin with D-Ribose-5-Phosphate: Magdalena Bokiej ’07

5. Fluvial Record of Land-use Change in Otter Creek Basin, Vermont: Carrie Childs ’07

7. Metalloprotein Co(II) Model Complexes and Magnetic Circular Dichrosim: Seung-An Chyun’07

9. Investigating Potential Protein Binding Interactions in Atherosclerosis: Tad Davenport ’07

11. Piper methysticum: Kava Culture and Drug Development in Fiji: Alexandra Garcia’09

13A and B. Creating Calibrated Images and Depth Maps for Stereo Vision Research: Bradley Hiebert-Treuer ’07 and Sarri Al-Nashashibi '08

15. Mechanism and Kinetics of the Reaction between Ribose 5-Phosphate and Amines (Maillard Reaction): Admire Munanairi ’07

17. Post-Glacial Lake Sediment Records from Northeastern Vermont: Chris Rodgers ’07

19. The Quality of the Student-Parent Relationship: The Role of Communication during the College Years: Nancy Fullman’07 and Connie Souder ’07

21. Creating Challenging Data Sets for the Evaluation of Stereo Vision Algorithms: Anna Blasiak ’07 and Jeff Wehrwein ’07

4:00-4:15 p.m.
Break II
Refreshments; Poster Session II is ongoing. Entertainment provided by the Mountain Ayres, the Mischords, and the Paradiddles.
Great Hall, McCardell Bicentennial Hall

4:15-5:30 p.m.
Oral Presentations: Session III

The Struggle for Justice
Moderator: Michael Sheridan, Assistant Professor of Anthropolgy
McCardell Bicentennial Hall 104
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1. Rethinking Environmental Justice in a Capitalist Society: Lemar Clarke’08
2. Privileged Property in the Incarceration Nation: White Women and the Prison Industrial Complex: Elizabeth Lyon ’07
3. Development Through Indigenous Knowledge: The Reintroduction of an Ancient Agricultural System in the Northern Altiplano: Robert Levine’08

Reflections of Sexual Identity
Moderator: Kevin Moss, Russian, Women's and Gender Studies
McCardell Bicentennial Hall 216
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1. Risky Business: Constructing Masculinity Through Risky Sexual Behaviors: Adam Fazio ’07
2. Invocation, Evocation, Provocation: Female Writers in the Beat Erotic Tradition: Rachel Greenhaus ’07
3. Dismantling Artificiality: Transvestism as a Critical Category in Latin American, Caribbean and "Other" Narratives: Amaury Sosa ’07

Community Stories
Moderator: Tiffany Sargent, Director, Alliance for Civic Engagement
McCardell Bicentennial Hall 219
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1. Feminine Footsteps: A History of Women at Middlebury Hallie Fox’07
2. Service Through Stories: Women and Global Peace, Middlebury College Television, the John Graham Shelter, and the Vermont Folklife Center: Jacqueline Antonson ’10; Garrett Baer ’10; Emma Cline’10; Brittany Coleman ’10; Komal Garewal ’10; Saila Huusko ’10; Kelly Janis ’10; Jessie Kissinger ’10; Cong Cong Li ’10; Erin Rokey ’10; Prerna Seth ’10; Allison Shaffer ’10; Yuki Yoshida ’10

How We Learn
Moderator: Gregg Humphrey, Lecturer in Teacher Education
McCardell Bicentennial Hall 220
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1. Teaching Abroad: Incorporating the Study of Foreign Languages into the Elementary Curriculum: Michelle Archambault '07
2. Children's Memory Project: The Effect of Sequential Recall Training on Children's Memory of an Event: Alexandra Citrin’07
3. The Myth of Desegregation in America: Angelica Towne ’08
4. The Effect of Question Type on Accuracy and Completeness of Children's Recall during Interview Situations: Heather Viani ’07
   

Warfare
Moderator: Guntram Herb, Geography
McCardell Bicentennial Hall 338
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1. The Boer War and London's Working Class: Scott Bulua ’07
2. Political Islam from the Caucasus to the Maghreb: Two Different Perspectives: Salim Saglam ’07 and Vani Sathisan’07

5:30-5:45 p.m.
Performance Presentation
Jazz! Tristan Axelrod ’08 and trio members Abel Fillion ’09 and Sasha Hirsch ‘10
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5:45-7:30 p.m.
Spring Symposium Reception
All members of the Middlebury community and Symposium guests are warmly invited to join us for a full-menu reception. All menu items are produced locally and/or through sustainable practices. Entertainment will be provided by Tristan Axelrod '08 and septet members Ross Bell 10, Daniel Sheron '10, Chris Lizotte '07, Reid Hansen '09, Dorothy Mitchell' 09, and Nick Barone '08.
Great Hall, McCardell Bicentennial Hall