Amherst Explorations: A Celebration of Student Research and Creative Work
Friendly Periodicals Reading Room, Frost Library
Friday, March 28, 2014
| 11:00 |
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| Welcome | President Biddy Martin | ||
| Lightning Talks |
Chloe B. McKenzie ’14 | The Threat of Penetration: Rape in the Military | |
| Jaya B. Tripathi ’14 | Past the Point of No Return: How Pregnant Teenagers in Holyoke Massachusetts Navigate the Medical Field | ||
| Devin Pence ’14 | Redefining the Greatest Generation: Women Veterans of World War II and the G.I. Bill of Rights | ||
| Liya Rechtman ’14 | Evangelical Criticism of Christian Zionism: An Ethnography and Analysis of the “Radical Religious Middle” | ||
| 12:00 | |||
| Lane Fellowship Panel | Lane Fellowships support students engaged in projects in the arts, using historical and rare source materials from the Amherst College Archives and Special Collections as inspiration or content. Moderator: Sara Smith, Arts & Humanities Librarian. |
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| Criss Guy ’14 | B-Level: A Work of Historical Fiction | ||
| Jordan M. Hugh Sam ’14 | The Performance of Race and Identity in Early American Popular Song | ||
| Emma M. Rothkopf ’15 | Making Dresses as a Lane Fellow | ||
| Wangene R. Hall ’14 | Naked in Heels: Confessions of an Aspiring Pop Star | ||
| Mellon Tutorial Panel | The Mellon Tutorials are experimental, small-group experiences based on faculty research. These students investigated America's Death Penalty in the Alternative Press from 1971-1977. Moderator: Sara Smith, Arts & Humanities Librarian. |
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| Kyra Ellis-Moore ’15, Eli Harris ’15, Abraham Kanter ’15, Alex Southmayd ’15, Christina Won ’15, Abigail Xu ’15 | |||
| 1:00 | |||
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Geology Panel |
Moderator: David Jones, Assistant Professor of Geology | ||
| Benjamin D. Boatwright ’14 | Exploring the Morphometry of Martian Valley Networks and Drainage Basins Using the MARSSIM Landform Evolution Model | ||
| Cecilia K. Pessoa ’14 | Magnesium Isotope Systematics in Modern Dolomitic Sediments | ||
| Benjamin K. Otoo ’14 | Investigating paleoenvironmental and diagenetic controls on intrabasinal variability of stable isotope records in ancient limest | ||
| Digital Humanities Panel |
The Digital Humanities are the application of computing technologies in the disciplines of the humanities, either to content creation or to interpretion of traditional content. These students are investigating Scholarship, Technology, and Entrepreneurship: What Does It Mean to Bring New Technology to Our Scholarly Interests so They Are Interesting to Others? Moderator: Marisa Parham, Associate Professor of English and Director of the Five College Digital Humanities Program. |
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| Elizabeth Alexander ’14, Christian Aviles ’14, Helen Gaffigan ’14, Criss Guy ’14, Evelyn Kramer ’14, Jenny Li '16, Coralie Pardo '15, Sheila Chukwulozie '16, Kaleem Jones '15E, Louisa Holmberg '14 | |||
| 2:00 | |||
| Lightning Talks | Yilin Andre Wang ’14 | My Gut Tells Me He’s Lying: Cognitive Processing Style Affects Racial Bias in Lie Detection | |
| Elizabeth M. Alexander ’14 | Too Much for My Weak Frame | ||
| Carlos A. Gonzalez ’14 | Empowered Diaspora or Clientelist Politics?: An Analysis of Dominican Transnational Political Attitudes and Involvement | ||
| Roshard J. Bryant ’14 | Freire, Teaching, and Learning: Examining a Pedagogy for Democratic Education | ||
| Spotlight on Posters, Art, & Interactive Applications |
Henry R. Laney ’17 and Thais Correia ’16 | Gas Money | |
| Christopher Gerry ’14 | A Chemoenzymatic Formal Synthesis of Epoxyquinol A | ||
| Christine Bierema ’14 | A Palladium-Catalyzed Approach to Sulfone Synthesis | ||
| Kristen A. Harris ’14 | Bacterial Biochemistry | ||
| Jiajun Shi ’15 | Building a Direct Digital Synthesizer System for Laser Modulation | ||
| Victoria S. Turner ’14 | Complicating the Role of the Dorsolateral Periaqueductal Grey in Acquisition of Fear Learning | ||
| Owen Davis ’14 and Reilly A. Horan ’13 | Probably | ||
| 3:00 | |||
| Lightning Talks |
George N. Tepe ’14 | The Role and Effectiveness of Federal Reserve Press Conferences | |
| Madeline M. Marucha ’14 | Dimensions of Possibility: Dickinson's Spatial Self | ||
| Daniella F. Bassi ’14 | The Two Halves of Saxophone: A Performance Thesis | ||
| Folger Fellowship Panel | Folger Fellowships support students whose academic work can most profit from intensive research at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. Moderator: Mike Kelly, Head of Archives & Special Collections. |
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| Ricky Altieri ’15 | Todos los Quijotes de la Mancha: Translating Cervantes | ||
| David Dickinson ’16 | The Comedies of Terence in Early Modern Europe | ||
| Amar Makunda ’15 | Datamining Shakespeare | ||
| Sophia Padelford ’15 | The Roman Orator in Elizabethan England | ||
| Madelin Parsley ’15 | Behind the Arras: Depicting Eavesdroppers in “Hamlet” | ||