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                                                                                                                                   

Low End Conductivity Tolerances Of The Round Goby Neogobious Melanstomus

 

William Wilson                                                                                                                                     

Attitudes and Perceptions of Wilderness: A Comparison of Adirondack Skiers and Snowmobilers

 

Miles Waniga                                                                                                                                    

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