2016_RCAF_Program(1)
- 1. March 12, 2016 University of Missouri MU Student Center Columbia, MO
- 2. Research and Creative Activities Forum Steering Committee Yue Hao, Chair Hallie Thompson Rachel Bauer Aashish Jagini Matt McCune Alex Howe Katie Steen Laura Satkowski GPC Programming Committee: Abbot Henderson Adam Bouras Agnieszka Dobrowolska Amanda Carr Anna Provo Dieu Trang Nguyen-Ha Kaitlin McDaniels Kristin Torres Mary-Kate Cone Morgan Halane Nurir Rohmah Rhiannon Koehler Sidharth Sen
- 3. Schedule 8:00am-9:00am Breakfast Registration Judges Welcome and Orientation Traditions Lounge 9:00am-12:00pm Presentations 12:00pm-1:00pm Judges’ Lunch Traditions Lounge 1:00pm-4:00pm Presentations 4:00pm-5:00pm Networking Reception Traditions Lounge 5:00pm-7:00pm Banquet and Awards Ceremony The Shack
- 4. Presentation Schedule Biological Sciences Room 2206C Session One (1:00pm - 2:10pm) Ellee Cook, Chair “Binding Behavior of Flavonols by Addition of Milk to Neem, Green and Black Tea with an Application to Ready-To-Drink (RTD) Beverages” Abhinandya Datta “Toxicity of Graphene Oxide on Intestinal Bacteria and Caco-2 cells” Trang Nguyen “A Habitat Suitability Analysis for the Red Wolf across Its Historic Range” Lauren Toivonen Session Two (2:25pm - 3:35pm) Hallie Thompson, Chair “Is Bigger Always Better? An Investigation of Female Territorial Behavior in Anolis Gundlachi Lizards in Puerto Rico” Ellee Cook “Building Bigger, Faster Neurons: Determination of Axonal Structural Properties by Target Size” Maria Jones “Treating Spinal Muscular Atrophy: Are All SMN Proteins Created Equally?” Madeline Miller
- 5. Creative Arts 2501 Leadership Auditorium Session One (9:00am - 10:20am) Teresa Milbrodt, Chair “The Unaccompanied Saxophone” Joseph E Rulli “Different Space(s) for Inspiration: Location as Germination in the Work of the Green House Theatre Project” Carrie E Winship Session Two (10:40am-12:00pm) Joseph E Rulli, Chair “Seeking Addie: An Auto-ethnographic Performance Confronting Race and the Historically Silenced of Lillian Hellman’s Little Foxes” Jennie J Pardoe “’Marbles’: A Fabulist Fiction Reading” Teresa Milbrodt Session Three (1:00pm - 1:35pm) Yue Hao, Chair “Great American Works: Two Cello Concertos and a Symphony” Rachel Czech
- 6. Engineering, Computer, and Information Sciences Room 2206A Session One (9:25am - 10:35am) Naphtali Mokgalapa, Chair “Advancements in Evaluation Reliability of Nondestructive Technologies for the Detection of Subsurface Fracture Planes in R.C. Bridge Decks” Ali A. Sultan “Development of a Total-Stress Measurement Instrument” Pedro Ruiz Fabian “Use of Infrared Thermography for the Detection of Subsurface Damage in Reinforced Concrete Bridges” James Dawson Session Two (10:50am – 12:00pm) Aashish Jagini, Chair “Adhesion Force Between a Silver Particle and Haynes-230: Role of Surface Conditions” Naphtali Mokgalapa “Fatigue Life of Unidirectional Carbon Fiber/Epoxy in Earth Orbit and Mars” Ali Anvari “3-D Printed Thermal Connector with Embedded Oscillating Heat Pipe & Indium Thermal Interface Material” Haolun Xu
- 7. Session Three (1:00pm – 1:45pm) Ali Anvari, Chair “Mobility Benefit for Evacuation Traffic Control in Autonomous and Connected Vehicle Environment” Yohan Chang “Traffic Flow/Speed Prediction for Special Events using Machine Learning” Yohan Chang Health Sciences, Medicine, and Veterinary Medicine Room 2205A Session One (9:25am - 10:35am) Kristin Torres, Chair “A Preliminary Study of Sleep Disturbances in Thai Elders” Chantra Promnoi “Complex Gut Microbiota Modulation of Colon Cancer Susceptibility” Susheel B Busi “Fiberoptic Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing (FEES) In Mice” Megan Haney
- 8. Session Two (10:50am – 12:00pm) Susheel Bhanu Busi, Chair “Through Student Eyes: Behaviors that Promote an Inclusive Learning Environment” Kelsie Coe “Thiamine” Rachel A Richardson “Memory deficits in a novel rat model of Alzheimer's disease” Diana Klakotskaia Session Three (1:00pm – 2:10pm) Megan Haney, Chair “Perceptions Regarding Adolescent Pregnancy Among a Group of Thai Adolescents in Sweden” Tipparat Udmuangpia “A Spatio-Temporal Investigation of Colorectal Cancer Incidence and Mortality Rates in Missouri” Jiang Du “Creating a Profile of Female Breast Cancer for Missouri Senatorial District #19” Awatef A Ben Ramadan
- 9. Session Four (2:25pm – 3:10pm) Sidharth Sen, Chair “Radiosurgery to the Post-Operative Tumor Bed for Metastatic Carcinoma Versus Whole Brain Radiation” Kristen M. Scheitler-Ring “An Underappreciated Leukocyte, the Basophil, in Neonatal Necrotizing Enterocolitis” Lila Wahidi Humanities St Louis Room Session One (9:00am - 10:20am) Rokeshia Ashley, Chair “Blues and Jazz” Meng Ren “A Practical and Systematic Approach to Cultivating a Global Awareness of Foreign Music Traditions: Utilizing a Concise Template and Systematic Process” Jeremiah G Rittel
- 10. Session Two (10:40am-12:00pm) Anna Valiavska, Chair “Examining the Ferguson Protests” Fred Jennings “Holy Commodities: Transforming the Material and Social Nature of Roman Catholic Altar Bread in the United States and the Liturgical, Social and Economic Repercussions of Machine-made Bread” Mark F Nicolais Session Three (1:00pm - 2:20pm) Abbot Henderson, Chair “’There ought to be a law’: Rough on Rats, Advertising, and Progressive Era Health Reform, 1874-1906” Paula Hunt and Sarah Lirley-McCune “Only Men and Women Allowed: How Folksongs Have Developed a Binary System of Gender Expectations in the Region of the Ozark Mountains” Erin M Schlabach (presented by Nathan Fratzke)
- 11. Physical Sciences Room 2206C Session One (9:00am - 10:35am) Matthew McCune, Chair “On Some Topological Deformation of Stationary Spacetimes” Arka Prabha Banik “Neutron Scattering and ESEM Study of Water Near a Cupric Oxide Surface” James Torres “Polarization-Induced Transport in TIPS-Pentacene Field-Effect Transistors” Amrit Prasad Laudari “Mechanical Investigation on Protein-Lipid Interactions at the Single Molecule Level” Tina R.Matin Session Two (10:50am – 12:00pm) Tina R. Matin, Chair “Comparative Study of the Dynamics of Lipid and Water Molecules in Free and Supported Lipid Bilayers” Matthew McCune
- 12. “Deep-UV Resonance Raman Spectral Properties of Aromatic Residues of Membrane Proteins” Anahita Zare “The Interplay between MT1-MMP, Collagen and the Cell Surface” Tara Marcink Social Sciences (Qualitative) Room 2205B Session One (9:25am - 10:35am) Elena Galata, Chair “The Lived Experiences of Marginalized Agricultural Education Professionals” Ben Weikert “Narrative Thematic Analysis of Food Insecurity Stories at a Food Pantry” Megan Koch “Conceptualizing the Process of CDE Preparation” Amanda Bowling
- 13. Session Two (10:50am – 12:00pm) Sara Schlemper, Chair “Unveiling Extreme Metal Festival Producers: The Emergence of Narrative Identities” Mark Kloeppel “Intercultural Communication between Local and Global Dynamics” Yassine Dguidegue “A Look at the Science in the Media - GMO Impact” Elena Galata, Maria Kalaitzandonakes and Daphne Yu Session Three (1:00pm – 2:10pm) Megan Koch, Chair “White Ain’t Right: Framing Analysis of Oppositional Media Coverage of Colorism and Skin Whitening Practices in Sudan” Rokeshia Ashley “Defining and Managing Crisis Grounded in Campus History” Anna Valiavska “Visualizing Complex Adaptive Systems: a Case Study of the Missouri Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program” Sara Schlemper
- 14. Social Sciences (Quantitative) Room 2206B Session One (9:00am - 10:35am) Cassie Boness, Chair “Facebook and Rumor” Fred Jennings “’She Chose Us to be Your Parents’: Exploring the Content and Process of Adoption Entrance Narratives Told in Families formed through Open Adoption” Alexie Hays “Price Competition in Retail Gasoline: New Evidence from Korea” Taehwan Kim “The Economic Impact of the 2015 Avian Influenza Outbreak on U.S. Egg Prices” Agnieszka Dobrowolska Session Two (10:50am – 12:00pm) Agnieszka Dobrowolska, Chair “The Analysis of the Relationships among Professional Training Factors, Personal Literacy Preferences, Professional Literacy Attitudes and Classroom Practices of Current Agriculture Teachers” Laura Hasselquist
- 15. “Exploring Visitor Perceptions of Climate Change: Differences by Income” Hongchao Zhang “Perceptions of Workplace Fairness among Missouri State Government Employees” Darima Butitova Session Three (1:00pm – 2:10pm) Darima Butitova, Chair “Psychological Reactance of Intermittent vs. Heavy Smokers: Effects of Message Framing on College Students’ Compliance with Smoke- Free Campus Ordinances” Yitian Gu “Assessment of Withdrawal and Hangover are Confounded in the AUDADIS: Potential Cause of Overdiagnosis” Cassie Boness “Waste Separation and Fan Behavior at the Mizzou Football Stadium” Hannah Peterson
- 16. Banquet and Awards Ceremony The Shack Dinner University Catering Hallie Thompson GPC President Welcome and Introduction of Keynote Speaker Dr. Mark McIntosh Professor and Chair of Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology Interim Vice Chancellor for Research, Graduate Studies and Economic Development University of Missouri - Columbia Keynote Address Rachel Bauer GPC Vice-President Introduction of Awards Presenters Dr. E. Louis Lankford Judge in Creative Arts category Des Lee Foundation Endowed Professor in Art Education University of Missouri – St. Louis Dr. Mark McIntosh Presentation of the Awards
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- 20. The University of Missouri Graduate Professional Council would like to thank all who made this year’s RCAF a success. We would especially like to thank our judges: Cheryl Hardy Mihail Popescu E. Louis Lankford Mohammed Ali Frank L. Somer Nicole L. Nichols Gary Homann Peggy Wright Iris Zachary Prasad Calyam James M. Amos-Landgraf Tim Langen Jason Telford Tony Castro Jeni Hart Yngve Digernes Maya C. Gibson Ze Wang Megan McKinstry