Undergraduate Conference Schedule
2019 Schedule
Check-in and Light Breakfast
Meldrum Foyer, 8:30 a.m.
Check-in opens in Meldrum Foyer at 8:30 a.m. and remains open all day. Croissants and breakfast beverages available courtesy of ASW.
Session 1: Paper Presentations
School Connectedness and Masculinity |
| Presenter: Luis Lopez Faculty Sponsor: Jamie Joanou and Ana Antunes |
School Was Never for Me: School Push-Out, Black Women, and the U.S. Public Education System |
| Presenter: Ebony M. Tyler Faculty Sponsor: Ana Antunes |
Monsters, Murder, and Mothers: Exploring the Alienated Narratives in School Shootings |
| Presenter: Angela Mock Faculty Sponsor: Giancarlo Panagia |
Race, Class, and Gender in After-School Programs |
| Presenter: Sophie Schreiber Faculty Sponsor: Ana Antunes |
All Colleges Created Equal? A Policy Analysis of For-Profit Higher Education |
| Presenter: Isaac Pitcher Faculty Sponsor: John Watkins & Cid Seidelman |
The Problem with Free Education in America |
| Presenter: Jay Burrows Faculty Sponsor: John Watkins & Cid Seidelman |
The LDS Religion and its Possible Correlation with Salt Lake City LGBTQ/GSM Homelessness |
| Presenter: Dawson Whitaker Faculty Sponsor: John Watkins & Cid Seidelman |
Utah's Juvenile Justice System through an Economical Lens |
| Presenter: Caleb Dye Faculty Sponsor: John Watkins & Cid Seidelman |
The State of Legal Protections of Bodily Autonomy With Regards to Mental Competency Determinations |
| Presenter: Calen Smith Faculty Sponsor: Lesa Ellis and Russ Costa |
Functional Brain Asymmetry Profiles as a Risk Factor for Depression |
| Presenter: Elizabeth Iazykova |
Explorations in Teaching Reproducibility Issues in the Behavioral and Neural Sciences for Undergraduate Students |
| Presenter: Ciera Woods Faculty Sponsor: Jonathan Amburgey and Brian Avery |
Linguistic Stigmas |
| Presenter: Yazmin Marin, Melissa Swedin and Latifia Yaqoobi Faculty Sponsor: Lesa Ellis |
Session 2: Paper Presentations
Acculturation vs. Assimilation: Analyzing Mexican Conservatism and Inmigración through Lotería |
| Presenter: Destina Bermejo Faculty Sponsor: Ana Antunes |
Borders of Illegality: How Neoliberal U.S. and Spanish Immigration Policies Exploit Undocumented Non-citizen “Others" |
| Presenter: Jessica Taghvaiee Faculty Sponsor: Giancarlo Panagia and Deyanira Ariza-Velasco |
Occupational Gender Stereotypes seen through Children's drawings |
| Presenter: Hazel Burnett Faculty Sponsor: Kristjane Nordmeyer |
Models for the Collaborative Management of Protected Lands between Indigenous Communities and Governmental Agencies |
| Presenter: Jack Jacob Faculty Sponsor: Xiumei Pu |
Information in the Modern Era: How Mass Data-Sourcing and Targeted Advertising Will Change Necessary Economic Policy into the Future |
| Presenter: Austin J. Anderson Faculty Sponsor: John Watkins & Cid Seidelman |
An Analysis of Modern US Tax Policy's Impact on Income Inequality |
| Presenter: Ryan Reese Faculty Sponsor: John Watkins & Cid Seidelman |
Benefits of Corporate Philanthropy |
| Presenter: Jeremy Cota Faculty Sponsor: John Watkins & Cid Seidelman |
Open Source |
| Presenter: Austin S. Anderson Faculty Sponsor: John Watkins & Cid Seidelman |
Modern Monetary Theory: An Introduction and Historical Analysis |
| Presenter: Koby Sobremesana Faculty Sponsor: John Watkins & Cid Seidelman |
True Rape Myths, Trauma Comparison, and Insufficient Resources: Factors Contributing to Female Survivors’ Guilt When Accessing Resources on a College Campus |
| Presenter: Mary Grace Lewis Faculty Sponsor: Nicole Bedera |
Using the Arts in the Prevention, Intervention, and Treatment of Sexual Violence |
| Presenter: Emily Bagley Faculty Sponsor: Peggy Cain |
Rhetoric Surrounding Salt Lake City’s Unhoused Community |
| Presenter: Kiana Avlon Faculty Sponsor: Ana Antunes |
Doula Care for Positive Birth Outcomes in the U.S.: Better Serving Neglected Demographics through Greater Focus on the Bearer |
| Presenter: Lila Weller Faculty Sponsor: Colette McAffee & Eileen Chanza Torres |
Break 11:15 AM–12:15 PM
Session 3: Poster Presentation
Great Salt Lake Halophilic Archaea: A Model for Mineral-Entrapment of Life |
| Presenter: Adrik Da Silva Faculty Sponsor: Bonnie Baxter |
Past, Present, and Future: Earthquake Risk and Preparedness at Westminster College |
| Presenter: Anna Beyer & Aurora Amundsen Faculty Sponsor: Han Kim |
Exploring Earthquake Awareness and Preparedness at Westminster College |
| Presenter: Anne-Solene Bregou & Megan Fairchild Faculty Sponsor: Tiffany Rivera & Jonathan Amburgey |
Water Quality and Macroinvertebrate Diversity Within and Among Wasatch Streams |
| Presenter: Annette Donald Faculty Sponsor: Giancarlo Panagia |
Plane Crash Analysis |
| Presenter: Austin Anderson Faculty Sponsor: Sean Raleigh |
An Evaluation of the Association between Postpartum Depression, Social Support and Child Interval Births |
| Presenter: Bert Merrill, Naomi Shapiro & Madison Paulson Faculty Sponsor: Colette McAfee |
Project Whisk(e)y |
| Presenter: Cheyli Sylvester Faculty Sponsor: Giancarlo Panagia |
Water Quality and Macroinvertebrate Diversity Within and Among Wasatch Streams |
| Presenter: Annette Donald Faculty Sponsor: Sean Raleigh |
The Impacts of Urbanization on Wasatch Stream Biota |
| Presenter: Chloe Fender Faculty Sponsor: David Kimberly |
Behavioral Response of Medicinal Leeches to Different Intensities of UV Light |
| Presenter: Ciera Woods & Logan MacLennan Faculty Sponsor: Krista Todd |
Homework Helper: Empowering Users to Schedule their Schoolwork using Hierarchical Modeling |
| Presenter: Cole Polychronis Faculty Sponsor: Sean Raleigh & Helen Hu |
Online Advertisement Image Prediction and Analysis |
| Presenter: Diwas Poudel Faculty Sponsor: Sean Raleigh |
Characterizing Mortality across Four Utah Counties |
| Presenter: Erin Gaykowski & Amy Richards Faculty Sponsor: John Contreras |
Supra-Esophageal Loop Neurons Receive Information from Visual Receptors of Hirudo Verbena |
| Presenter: Grace Padilla Faculty Sponsor: Krista Todd |
Skyport Planning & Design Standards for Urban Unmanned Aircraft Operations |
| Presenter: Isabella Gold & Hayley O'Brien Faculty Sponsor: Ryan Leick |
Peace in the World |
| Presenter: Jen Rowley Faculty Sponsor: Cliff Hurst |
Survival Rates and Infant Mortality among Those Born with Critical Congenital Heart Defects |
| Presenter: Jillian Ronay and Emily Halliday Faculty Sponsor: Han Kim |
Physical Movement in the Elementary Classroom: Benefits for Learning and Behavior |
| Presenter: Mara Kushner Faculty Sponsor: Ana Antunes |
Sources of Variability in Mid-Paleozoic Rugose Coral Colonies |
| Presenter: McKenna Holliday, Megan Fairchild, Caelan Pike Meter, Ben Stover, Mariah
Slagle & Jakob Hartmann Faculty Sponsor: Dave Goldsmith |
General Aviation Airport Business Models of the Future |
| Presenter: Noelle Johnson Faculty Sponsor: Ryan Leick |
Teacher Perceptions on Current Human Sexuality Instruction in Secondary Special Education Classrooms in Northeast Utah |
| Presenter: Ocean Candler & Quinn Z. Visher Faculty Sponsor: Colette McAfee |
Quantitative Analysis for Ecological Stability of Silver Lake |
| Presenter: Tyler Roberts Faculty Sponsor: Robyn Hyde |
Evaluation of Alternative Methods of Quantifying the Force Involved in a Long Jump |
| Presenter: Yongtai Li, Michael Greenwald, Julianna Manseau, Adrik Da Silva & Ciera
Woods Faculty Sponsor: Peter Conwell & Julia Kamenetzky |
Session 4: Paper Presentations
Healthy Lake, Happy City |
| Presenter: Jake Tallman Faculty Sponsor: Robyn Hyde |
Utilization of Maltotetraose during a Nine Generation Serial Repitching Experiment |
| Presenter: Aaron D. Smith Faculty Sponsor: Will Deutschman |
The Infinite Value of All Living Beings |
| Presenter: Polina Lyubavina Faculty Sponsor: Cliff Hurst |
Evolutionary Psychology and Mental Illness: Explanatory Models on Eating Disorders |
| Presenter: Amy Richards Faculty Sponsor: Gretchen Siegler |
Comics, Tweets as Political Knowledge |
| Presenter: Jaedri Wood Faculty Sponsor: Jake Hoskins & Stephanie Santarosa |
Public and Private Communication in the Age of Social Media |
| Presenter: Will Gregorak Faculty Sponsor: Michael Popich |
Falsifiability in Developmental Policy |
| Presenter: Paul Nasca Faculty Sponsor: Michael Popich |
Economic Justice and the Subprime Mortgage Crisis and the Collapse of Justice the Subprime Mortgage Crisis |
| Presenter: Elizabeth Johnson Faculty Sponsor: Michael Popich |
Session 5: Paper Presentations
Losing my Religion: Causes of Individual Conversion During the Protestant Reformation |
| Presenter: Kaitlin Bradley Faculty Sponsor: Mary Jane Chase |
The Henry Mountains Project |
| Presenter: Katie Saad Faculty Sponsor: Jeff Nichols |
Advocating for Our Human Resources |
| Presenter: Kealey Gill Faculty Sponsor: Susan Arsht & Shamby Polychronis |
Ezra Schofield Creative - Demo Reel & Business Plan |
| Presenter: Ezra Schofield Faculty Sponsor: Erin Coleman |
Racism in America Today |
| Presenter: Kaytlynn Scott Faculty Sponsor: Michael Popich |
The Philosophy of Gender Identity |
| Presenter: Joaquin N Colman Faculty Sponsor: Michael Popich |
Speciesism, Interconnected Oppression, and Alternative Worldview |
| Presenter: Polina Lyubavina Faculty Sponsor: Michael Popich |
Reconfiguring Identity: An Ecofeminist Approach |
| Presenter: Madison Klein Faculty Sponsor: Michael Popich |
Senior Art Exhibit Gallery Stroll
Tanner Atrium, Jewett Center, 1:00 pm–2:00 pm
- Jack Benton (JB)
- Regina Carey
- Olivia Dawson
- Roya Hedlund
- Erika Hill
- Katerina Mantas
- Clay Maxwell
- Abby Rinquist
- Adam Tarr
- Arianna Wittel