St. Lawrence University
Thursday, April 21, 2005
4:00 – 7:30 pm
Eben Holden
Note that this is a change of venue
due to overwhelming participation
Schedule of Events
Session 1: Oral Presentations....................................... 4:00 – 5:00 P.M.
Session 2: Poster Presentations.................................... 5:00 – 6:30 P.M.
Session 3: Oral
Presentations....................................... 6:30 – 7:30 P.M.
(Pizza, wraps and other refreshments will be served during the poster presentations)
For full abstracts of all proposals, click here (Note this is a large file)
Session 1: Oral Presentations Time
Gabe Sataloff and Pat McLaughlin 4:00
Population Structure And Grazing Impact Of An Important Reef Herbivore, Diadema Antillarum, In San Salvador, Bahamas
Raluca Dragusanu 4:15
Get Connected: Understanding Reality through Small-World Graphs
Joseph Jablonski 4:30
Synthesis of Cyanoguanidines as Potential Vanilloid Receptor Ligands
Justin Keller 4:45
Classical Galois Theory
Session 3: Oral Presentations
Katherine Smith 6:30
An Assessment of Climber’s Perspectives of Resource Impact in the Adirondack Park
Jerilyn Krug 6:45
The Cold Fusion of Autism: Facilitated Communication
Ben Carr 7:00
On a conjecture of Erdos
Christine Granato, Kristin Ross, Doug Smith, and Andy Boyer 7:15
The Interfaces between Allopathic and Traditional Chinese Medicine
Session 2: Poster Presentations Poster Number
Adam Yagelski 1
Small Mammals In Fragmented Habitats: A Review And Synthesis
Erin Woodward 2
Low End Conductivity Tolerances Of The Round Goby Neogobious Melanstomus
William Wilson 3
Attitudes and Perceptions of Wilderness: A Comparison of Adirondack Skiers and Snowmobilers
Miles Waniga 4
Predicting The Spread And Impacts Of The Newly Invasive Species Dreissena Polymorpha In Black Lake, N.Y
Brenna Waibel 5
Recovering Repressed Memories
Nathan Vogan 6
Palynological Investigation of Massawepite Mire, Gale, NY, as a Climate Proxy for the Holocene St. Lawrence Lowlands and Adirondack Highlands
John Thorne-Thomsen 7
Bogus Heavy Elements
Stephanie St. Joseph 8
The Effects of Color on Creativity
Trisha Smrecak 9
Comparison of Missouri Valle Hell Creek Formation (Late Cretaceous) Fossil Floras with Megafloral Zones of the Willison Basin, North Dakota
Doug Smith, A.J. Bergeron and Pat Curran 10
Development of a rat model to study panic attacks
Evan Slater 11
Schematic Activation Influences Accuracy and Confidence in a Visual Change Detection Task
Emilia Seibert 12
Multiple Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria from Lettuce, Alfalfa Sprouts, Raw Milk, Turkey and Beef: Occurrence of Plasmid Bourne Resistance
David Schryver 13
Development of a System for the In Vitro Culture of Rat Ovarian Follicles
Gabe Sataloff 14
A Comparison of Clearance Rates of Crassostrea virginica and Crassostrea ariakensis spat: Can a Non-native Species of Oyster fill the same niche as a native species in the Chesapeake Bay?
John Rupp 15
Subsurface Investigation of the Internal Architecture of Massawepie Esker-Mire Complex, Gale, New York
Kristen Ross 16
Olfactory Recognition in Canines
Megan Roppolo 17
Expanding Versatility: Design, Synthesis, and Characterization of New Metallacrowns
Chris Reilly 18
Weight Loss: Is Hypnosis the Answer?
Megan Reeve 19
Energy Transfer in the pole vault
Rachel Putman 20
Postnatal Ontogeny of the Rat Brainstem: A Comparison of Rostral and Caudal Development and Differentiation
Meredith Pridgen 21
Exploring Change Detection Ability and Confidence of Decisions
Monica Phillips 22
Examining the effectiveness of Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis (BIA) to determine body condition in the North American Porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum)
Audrey Paule 23
The Importance of Tropical Field Margins as Reservoirs of Plant Diversity in Small-Scale Agricultural Landscapes
Terran Palmer-Angell 24
Exploring the Relationship Between Meditative Ability and Tennis Team Seed: Does Eastern Meditative Practice Enhance Athletic Performance?
Connor O'Loughlin 25
Alfred Wegner and Continental Drift
Tora Olafsen 26
Cerebral Localization of Language: A Review of Recent Literature on Bilingual Aphasics and Normals
Matthew Norton 27
Generalized Wilson Confidence Intervals
Christopher Nichols 28
Geo-Thermal Model of Lake effect on Permafrost
Jared Newell 29
GIS Applications in Monitoring Mountain Pine Beetle Infestations and Populations - San Isabel National Forest, Colorado
Eric Morgan 30
"Benveniste's Infamous 'Water Memory' Experiment
Megan Merrihew 31
Effects Of Odors On The Exercise Performance Of Subjects At Different Training Levels
Audrey Merriam 32
Expression of Anion Exchanges and Monocarboxylate Transporter Genes During Postnatal Development of the Rat Brainstem
Patrick Joseph McLaughlin 33
Assessment Of Nassau Grouper Population And Potential Spawning Aggregation On San Salvador, Bahamas
Petya Madzharova 34
Time Series Analysis of Music
Jaime Lyon 35
Judicial Decision Making Regarding Expression of Children's Preference in Contested Custody Cases: A Jurisdictional Comparison
Nicole Lopez 36
Analysis of Biometric Authentication Match Scores
Erin Lloyd 37
Linking Videogame Play and Adolescent Invulnerability to Risky Behaviors in Adolescence
Jennifer Kurasz 38
The ventilatory effects of impaired astrocytic-neuronal lactate shuttle in the rat
Gregory Kruper 39
Cell specific expression of GFAP, NFL, and NBC- in the postnatal development of the RTN and NTS in rats.
Kimberly Kernan 40
Defining Sense of Place on a College Campus: An ideographic analysis of physical characteristics and subjective experiences
Justin Keller 41
Bohm trajectories in quantum chaotic systems
Ben Hoglund 42
The Effect of Sand Deposition on Atlantic Salmon Eggs and Juveniles
Kevyn Hill 43
Wolbachia Endosymbiont Diversity in Insects and Arthropods
Mary Hever 44
The Effects of N and P presence on the symbiosis of Anabaena azollae and Azolla
Hilary Hartson 45
Sequential Analysis
Christine Granato and Jackie Donovan 46
The Effect of Hormones on Spatial Cognition and the Hippocampus in Pregnant Hooded Long-Evans Rats
Emily Gotta 47
Microbial Communities Associated With Rock Varnish: Sequence Analysis of Eukaryotic SrRNA Genes Amplified From Rock Varnish from Baker, CA
Melissa Glotzbecker 48
The Effect of the Tone of Feedback on Performance
Louise Gava 49
Interspecies Communication: It’s up to our Interpretation
Marina Funtik 50
The Effect of Sodium Fluoride (NaF) on Coaggregation in Oral Bacteria in vitro Using Fluorescence In Situ hybridization (FISH),Confocal Microscopy and a Flow-Cell Model
Ronak Desai 51
Effects of Oxytocin on Social Recognition in Male Rats
Tracey Damon 52
The ventilatory effects of impaired astrocytic-neuronal lactate shuttle in the rat
Alyson Courtemanch 53
Spatial and Temporal Land Cover Changes in a Pastoral Rangeland in Southern Kenya
Tim Chapp 54
Synthesis, Characterization and DNA Intercalation of Ru(Bpy)2(Dcbpy)
Elizabeth Chadwick 55
Probability Judgments and the Risky Decisions Children Make
Joanne Cavallerano 56
Growth Of The Dead Creek Distributary Of The Missisquoi River, Lake Champlain, Vermont, Between And 1950 And 2003
Ben Carr 57
Bible Codes: Divine Insight or Human Mistake?
Samuel Casella 58
Immunohistochemical Localization of Basement Membrane Proteins in Rat Ovarian Follicles
Matthew Burton-Kelly 59
An Analysis Of Multiple Trackways Of Protichnites Owen,1852 , From The Potsdam Sandstone (Late Cambrian)
Chad Burbank, Jasper Burch, Chelsea Byrnes, Amy Gardiner, Allison Hartnett, Elisabeth Henry, Eloise Hilarides, Chelsea Lemke, Sara Merrihew, Jessica Mott, Kimberly Parker, Karlin Revoir, Darcie Robinson, Sheila Rodriguez, Chelsea Sauve, April Spearance,Alexa Unser, Melinda Zocco 60
The Beauty Double Standard In World Folk Tales
Amy Gardiner 61
Children's Prioritization of Costs and Benefits in Risk Decisions Across Age and Risk Proneness
Liana Boop, Lance Branch, Daniel DeLorme, Mackenzie Ewing, John Forrette, Jared Fostveit, Erica Guralnick, Julia Jones, Sarah MacFarland, Maia Moyer, Kevin O'Connor, Spencer Paige, Ann Sargent, Linnea Smolentzov, Michael Stafford, Adam Tapply, Lindsey Taylor, Sammie-Jo Therrien Psychology 62
Romantic Love: Western Invention Or Human Universal
Andrew Boyer 63
Optical mapping of voltage changes in cells involved in respiratory control in medullary brain slice
John Beal 64
Road Salt Accumulation In North Country Waters
Molly Baker 65
Effects of Environmental Enrichment on Social Behaviors in Male Mice
Tricia Bacon 66
Video Games and Risky Behavior: Is Locus of Control a Mediator?
Travis Aubry 67
Statistical Analysis of Unionoid (Bivalve) Mussel Populations with emphasis on local Geology as Conditional Restraint for Specific Genus
John Tedesco 68
The Ecological Consequences of Round Gobies (Neogobius melanosto) on the St. Lawrence River