2012 Undergraduate Arts and Sciences Symposium winners announced
Winners of the 91直播视频 2012 Undergraduate Arts and Sciences Research and Scholarship Symposium have been announced. The symposium was held Friday, May 4, 2011 at the Biddeford Campus.
This annual symposium allows students to present their research, classroom projects, art work, or other work done at 91直播视频in either an oral presentation, poster presentation, or artistic display format.
2012 Arts and Sciences Symposium
Presentations
Forty-four oral presentations were made this year ranging from the "Desertion in the Seventeenth Maine Regiment during the Civil War" to "Recurrence of Punishment-as-Spectacle: Foucault and the UC Davis Pepper-Spraying," from "Targeting Novel FAAH Inhibitors for the Treatment of Chronic Pain" to "Steller Sea Lions, Will We Ever Know?"
There were also 70 poster sessions and art work displays ranging from "Effects of Music Styles on Task Performance and Frustration Levels" to "Food Preference and Foraging Behavior of Grey Squirrels." View a schedule of all the presentations.
Honors Presentations
Oral presentations included honors thesis presentations by: Tyler Brown (Aquaculture - Marine Science), "The Breeding and Microhabitat of Sandlance (Ammodytes americanus)"; Joseph Gousse (Political Science), "Institutionalized Racism and the Politics of Justice: Disproportional Incarceration of Native Americans in the State of Maine"; Vernon Chan (Chemistry & Physics), "Computational Investigation and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Analysis of 6_-Naltrexol Derivatives"; Margaret Hutton (Marine Science), "Substrate Analysis, Juvenile Lake Sturgeon, and the Taxonomic Identification of Macroinvertebrates in the Detroit River - East of Fighting Island"; Briana Chu (Education), "The Value of Cursive Writing: Teachers' Thoughts on its Current Usefulness"; Ryan Knotek (Marine Science), "Investigating Potential Reproductive Anomalies in the Spiny Dogfish (Squalus acanthias) along the United States East Coast"; Karson Couture (Marine Science), "Age and Size at Sexual Maturity of the Barndoor Skate, Dipturus laevis, based on Morphological Analyses"; Brittany Morley (Psychology), "The 'Go Grrrls' Program: A Look at Findings from a Local Female Empowerment Group"; Daniel Crear (Marine Science), "Age Distribution of Six Shark Species within the Mississippi Sound Nursery Ground"; Casey Toombs (Marine Science), "Differential Stress Tolerance of the Color Morphs in the Green Crab (Carcinus maenas)."
Award Winners
Each award winner will receive a certificate and monetary award from the Office of the Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences.
Oral Presentation for Original Research
First Prize: Caitlin Tetreau - Pecan Pies and Passion: 1940s Sexuality through the WWII Letters of Ruth Banfield Lowderback
Runners-up (tie): Brittany Morley - The Importance of Best Practices in Mentoring Relationships
Matthew Anderson - The Supreme Court's Resolution on Citizens United: Corporate Power and the Politics of Representation
Oral Presentation of Literature Review of a Topic
First Prize: Kelsey Thompson - Steller Sea Lions, Will We Ever Know?
Artistic Exhibit
First Prize: Michael D'Apice - Stakeholders of the Saco River
Runners-up: Kevin Connell & Stephen Barton - 3D Printing and Design
Poster Presentation
First Prize (tie): Julia Rich & Hadleigh Smith - The Effects of Text Distracters on Comprehension in Skilled- and Less-skilled Readers
Michael Huber - The Effect of Solute Polarity on Solubility in Polyethylene Glycol with Varying Concentrations of Supercritical Carbon