2015 Honors Symposium

2015 Honors Symposium
Student Name
Paper Title
University
Alexandra Harris
A Study of Existentialism in Literature and Art
UNCG
Stephanie Cooke
Structural Injustice and Political Responsbility:
Interpreted Through the Eyes of Women
UNCG
Taylor Strassburg
Jen Nelson
Eliminating Structural Injustices in the Future
Human Rights, Jus Cogens, and Humanitarian
Intervention
Nicole Schachter
The German Arms Industry and War Profiteering
in a Year of Anniversaries
Weltschmerz and Sehnsucht: Differences in
Perceived Suffering in German and American
Cultures
Ryan Baggett
A New Identity after the Fall of the Berlin Wall:
Neue Deutsche Härte
Daniel H. Foil
William Hueholt
Exploring the Epic Side of "The Lives of Others"
Time
Location
Philosophy: Living
the Examined Life
Dr. Verónica
Grossi
9:00-10:30
Cone A
Longing and
Suffering in
German Identity
Dr. Carola
Dietkus
9:00-10:30
Maple
Exploring AfricanAmerican
Literature
Dr. Tara T.
Green
9:00-10:00
Cone B
UNCG
UNCG
UNCG
UNCG
UNCG
Fredrick Smith Canada
UNCG
Jessica Matthis
Nella Larsen and Black Female Sexuality During
the Harlem Renaissance
UNCG
Cultural Relativism vs Universality
Chair
UNCG
Zora Neale Hurston: A Universal Voice Far
Removed From The Orgasms Of Harlem
Nisha Umesh
Session Title
UNCG
David Perez-Suarez
Software in the Cloud?: Benefits, Security
Concerns and Possible Solutions
Greater Mobility and Larger Neighborhood Size
Inhibit the Evolution of Cooperation
Vi Chuong
The Silent Epidemic: Female Sexual Dysfunction
Dusenge Yves
Shannon Neu
New Tradition-Bearers: Motivations of Young
Adults in North Carolina Old Time Communities
Rebel Girl: The Riot Grrrl’s Role in Third Wave
Feminism and the Punk Subculture
Jessica Quah
Lakiesha Nicole White
Songs from a Bard Immortal: Examining Three
Settings of Shakespearean Text in Late Romantic,
20th Century and Contemporary Art Song
Restoring Revolution Mills- Revolution Brewing
Holly Riley
Lasse S. Palomaki
A. Lynn Cochran
Jessica Straehle
Jazmin Bacilio
Jessica Matthis
Foreign Direct Investment Profile - Finland
The B. Everett Jordan Reservoir: Diseased Lakes,
Diseased Policy
Survival and Adaptation in Difficult Times: An
Analysis of Nature Protection Organizations in
North Carolina
Criticism of Representation of Latino Deportation:
In English vs. Spanish Online News Broadcast
The Politics of Disney
Guilford
College
UNCG
Durham
Technical
Community
College
Modern Slavery: Part of our Nation, Part of our
World
Dr. Bruce
Kirchoff
9:00-10:00 Dogwood
UNCG
UNCG
Greensboro
College
UNCG
UNCG
UNCG
UNCG
Where Words Fail,
Mary Krautter 9:00-10:00
Music Speaks
Business in
Practice
Environmental
Problems and
Environmental
Action in North
Carolina
Dr. Ambrose
Jones III
Cone C
10:10-11:10 Dogwood
Dr. William T.
10:10-11:10
Markham
Cone B
UNCG
UNCG
Durham
Technical
Community
College
Megan Valente
Science Potpourri
The Many Facets
of Justice
Dr. James
Anderson
11:20-12:20
Cone A
Tyra Noelle Callaway
Taylor Renee Kane
Alison Bean
Alyssa Mielock
Karys Normansell
Markeela Lipscomb
Andrew Byrum
Heather Alfano
Scientific Diplomacy
Something Creative: Developing the WellRounded Writer in the High School English
Classroom
UNCG
An Old-Fashioned Power Game
Assessment of Psychotic-like Experiences in Daily
Life
UNCG
Negative Interpretation Bias as a Mechanism of
the Relationship between Rejection Sensitivity and
Depression
Working Memory as a Moderator of Schizotypy
and Creativity
Mapping Inequality: Residential Segregation and
Educational Achievement Disparities in the
Gateway City
The Power and Pervasiveness of Group Identity: A
Comparative Analysis of Marxian & Capitalist
Consciousness
UNCG
Dr. Elizabeth
Natalle
11:20-12:20
Cone B
Psychology: The
Brain is Wider than Dr. John Lepri 11:20-12:20
the Sky
Cone C
UNCG
UNCG
UNCG
UNCG
Greensboro
College
Durham
Technical
Community
College
UNCG
Anna Gabrielle Warner
Revenge of the Alpha Nerd: the Recreation of
Hegemonic Masculinities within "Geek" Culture
The Gods and Man
Which Justice is Moral? Psychosocial elements of
the vengence and anger as portrayed in
Sophocles' Electra
Katya Davis
The Will of the Gods in the Trojan War and Helen
UNCG
Meghan Kuder
The Trojan War in Troilus and Criseyde : Love as
War
UNCG
Lois Triplett
Alison Bean
Liberal Arts
Potpourri
Sociology:
Revealing That
Which is Hidden
Dr. Sarah
Daynes
11:20-12:20
Maple
Trojan War
Narratives
Dr. Rebecca
Muich
12:30-2:00
Maple
UNCG
Emily Diane Wallace
An Overview of Urushiol in the Toxicodendron
Genus
Juan Emmanuel Collazo
The Role of Osteopontin in the Pathogenesis of
Age-related Macular Degeneration
Tyra Noelle Callaway
Annie Walker
Metallodrugs for Anti-Cancer Therapy
Application of Temperature-Word Use to Illustrate
Power Dynamics in Alice Walker's Possessing the
Secret of Joy
Jen Nelson
An Analysis of the Inversion of Western Poetry’s
Values Associated with Spring in T.S Eliot's The
Waste Land
Caroline Stamm
Conflict Through the Lens of Literature and Film:
Experimental Representations of Witnessing and
Humanity
Baekja: The Last Korean Pottery
Red in the Morning: A Costume Research and
Design for Moliere's "Tartuffe"
Emily Van Haneghan
Women And Peace: Assessing the Hypothesis That
Gender Equality Leads to Peace
Jessica Matthis
Sexual Violence in South Africa: Protecting the
Nation's Women and Children
Jessica Matthis
Camille Knudsen
Rebecca Oden
Rose Kim
William England
William Reingold
Villancicos: A Reflection of Religion and Racism
Musical Innovation in the Twelfth Century: The
Troubadours and the Trobairitz
Bright is the Ring of Words: Anglo-Saxons Live on
in Music
Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony and
Mendelssohn: A Study in Reception
UNCG
UNCG
Wonder is the
Seed of Science
Dr. Bruce
Kirchoff
12:30-1:30
Cone A
Literature: Adding
to Reality
Prof. Eloise
Hassell
12:30-1:30
Cone B
1:40 -2:40
Cone A
1:40-2:40
Cone B
2:15-3:45
Maple
UNCG
UNCG
UNCG
UNCG
UNCG
UNCG
Guilford
College
Viewing the World
Dr. Elizabeth
with an Artist's
Perrill
Eye
From the Margin
to the Center
Prof. Beth
Walker
UNCG
UNCG
UNCG
UNCG
UNCG
Music: A Higher Dr. Elizabeth L.
Relevation
Keathley
Greensboro
College
Sharon Dei-Tumi
Life or Death: Organ Donation Makes the
Difference
The Prevalence of Alzheimer's Disease in the U.S.
compared to India
A Review of Treatments for Irritable Bowel
Syndrome
Fast Food Consumption as a Factor in Ghanaian
Cardiac Health Decline
Eli David Cloonan
How the Schuman Plan Affected British Opinions
of European Integration: 1947-1959
Guilford
College
Melanie A. Smith
Fear and Science: A Comparison of the Works of
Giambattista Vico and Theodor Adorno
Randi Thompson
Mary Lincoln and Elizabeth Keckly: Friendship
Despite Adversity
Greensboro
College
Durham
Technical
Community
College
Bonnie Widenhouse
Krishnaveni Balakrishnan
Madison Peregoy
UNCG
Greensboro
College
Greensboro
College
Those Who Have
Health Have Hope
Dr. SeungHyun Lee
2:15-3:45
Cone C
Learning from
History
Joseph Ross
2:50-3:50
Cone A
New
Dr. Roy
Interpretations on
Schwartzman
the Holocaust
2:50-3:50
Cone B
New Approaches
to Ancient
Dr. Omar H. Ali
Religions
2:50-3:50
Dogwood
The Polish Perpetrators of the Jedwabne Pogrom
UNCG
Carolyn McClure
John W. Ruggiero
Siera Schubach
Andrew J. McCrae
Katie Fullerton
Ednah Chapman
The Memory of Jedwabne: A Challenge to
Holocaust Narratives
Living Resistance: The Reality of Jewish Rebellion
During the Holocaust
The Impact of the Discovery and Research of the
Dead Sea Scrolls
Neoshamanism and Empiricism: An Uneasy
Relationship
I Am Not A God: Secularism in the Byzantine
Empire
UNCG
UNCG
Durham
Technical
Community
College
Guilford
College
UNCG