Amherst Explorations: A Celebration of Student Research and Creative Work
Friendly Periodicals Reading Room, Frost Library
Friday, April 10, 2015
| 11 A | |||
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| Welcome | President Biddy Martin | ||
| Breaking Boundaries: A Creative Collaboration between the Hampshire County Jail and Amherst College |
Claire Drolen ’15, Gabriel Gonzalez ’15 Anders Karl Lindgren ’15 |
A showcase of creative works produced by students in “Life Is a Dream”, a course at the Hampshire County Jail. | |
| Thesis Confidential |
Gabriel Gonzalez ’15 Karen Smith ’15, Chen Jiang ’15 |
A discussion about writing an honors thesis: the thrill of intellectual discovery…the secrets to success…the ways to overcome obstacles…and the cold, hard facts these writers wish they had known earlier! | |
| Noon | |||
| Lightning Talks |
Rachel E. Tannenbaum ’15 | Children’s Understanding of True Negative Information | |
| Hope Wen ’15 | Shame, Sex, and Suttas | ||
| Marisa Dolmatch ’15 | Je Suis Charlie, Je Suis Juif: An Analysis of the “Dark Years” and the Contemporary Resurgence of Anti-Semitism in France | ||
| Coralie Pardo ’15 | Creating a Virtual Reality Game: The Process | ||
| Folger Fellowships |
Folger Fellowships support students whose academic work can most profit from intensive research at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. | ||
| Jiwoon Choi ’16 | Knowledge Production and Cross-Cultural Encounters | ||
| Caryce Tirop ’17 | My Journey at The Folger: Rare Materials, Research, and Tea | ||
| Sophie Chung ’17 | The Reactive Evolution of Form in English Printed News: 1620-1702 | ||
| 1 P | |||
| Lane Fellowships |
Nia James ’15 Lucas Lebovitz ’15 Katharine Rudzitis ’15 Christopher Tamasi ’15 Daniel Vitale ’15 |
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. | |
| Wind Chill Woodwind Quintet |
Krista Goebel ’18, flute Eunnie Lee ’18, bassoon Mindy Kim ’17, clarinet Victoria Luizzi ’17, french horn James Yang ’15, oboe |
Partita for Wind Quintet (1948) by Irving Fine (1914 – 1962) I. Introduction and Theme II. Variation III. Interlude IV. Gigue V. Coda |
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| 2 P | |||
| Show & Tell | Meghan McDonough ’16 Khalil Flemming ’16 Sarah Jordan ’16 |
A video series that wants to understand the people on this campus. It aims to close the gap between seeing and knowing, between surface and depth. By asking students, one at a time, to talk about objects that are meaningful to them, we humanize the faces that we walk past every day. | |
| Creative Writing Theses | Emmett Knowlton ’15 Marie Lambert ’15 Maddy Parsley ’15 Katharine Rudzitis ’15 |
How does writing a creative thesis differ from undertaking other honors projects? What does the process look like? Four seniors will discuss how they decided on a creative thesis, the roadblocks and rewards, and whether there's a perception of less intellectual rigor in creative writing than in other disciplines. | |
| 3 P | |||
| Cars, Customers, and Clicks: The Amazing Web Data Highway |
Team dplyr: Team Jo-Jo ToAlTrev: Team 95% Confident: Team Women in Black: |
Introduction: Amy Wagaman Car buyers use the World-Wide Web to gather information about the features and availability of various makes and models, and leave behind large, complex data sets of activity. Who are these buyers and what guides their choices? In a recent hackathon, seventy-nine Five College students in eighteen teams analyzed this real-world data. Four teams came from Amherst College and won three of six awards, for “Best Business Value”, “Best Use of External Data”, and “Best Pitch”. Representatives of each team will describe their fascinating results. |
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| Lightning Talks |
Uju Momah ’15 | Examining the American Healthcare System | |
| Hannah Gorman ’15 | Vaccine Conceptualizations and Their Influence on Immunization Practices in the United States | ||
| Samuel Tang ’15 | Points of Contact | ||
| 3:50 | |||
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Buckley Boys |
Matthew Chow ’18, Violin |
String Quartet No. 2 (1881) |
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| Posters | Thomas Enzminger ’15 | A New High-Resolution Speleothem Record of Late Pleistocene Tropical Climate Change from the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico | |
| Uju Momah ’15 | Examining the American Healthcare System | ||
| Rachel Tannenbaum ’15 | Children's Understanding of True Negative Information | ||
| Eileen Troconis Gonzalez ’15 | Studying Intensity Encoding in the Zebrafish Startle Response via Optical Stimulation of Hair Cells | ||
| Melody Owen ’17 and Wanjing Tang ’17 |
The Circadian Clock: A Simple Model with Complex Applications | ||
| John Kim ’15 Kelvin Chen ’16 Sean Rodriguez ’15 |
The Monteverde Logging Experience: Life Beneath Fallen Logs in the Tropics | ||
| Jenny Xu ’16 | Exploring Protein Folding and Unfolding with Graph Theory | ||
| Elizabeth Black ’16 Margaret Bogardus ’15 Madeleine Lobrano ’15 |
Differential Flower Pollination in the Premontane Forests of Monteverde, Costa Rica | ||
| Molly Levy ’15 Lorraine Evo ’15 Joely DeSimone ’15 |
Can’t Eat This: Observed Herbivory Rates in Relation to Plant Defense Mechanisms | ||