Presentations for URCAD 20117 will take place in the University Center (UC) in the rooms listed below. Please be respectful of the presenters as you enter and exit the rooms. Make sure all cell phones and other noise – making devices are turned off. Presenters have 10 minutes to present, 3 minutes for Q&A, and there are 2 minutes in between presentations to change rooms and upload presentations. If you need assistance, please locate the room moderator.
1st Concurrent Oral Presentations (Morning Session)
UC 310
Moderator: Ms. Jess Myers
10:00 – 10:15 a.m.
Caleb Metcalf
Boy Meets Girl, Boy, Girl: Subverting Master Narratives in the Web – Series MANN/FRAU
10:15 – 10:30 a.m.
Kristofer Castro
Mediating and Moderating Processes in the Association Between Asian – a.m.erican Mothers’ Acculturation and Parenting Styles
10:30 – 10:45 a.m.
Alexander Sievers
The Question of “Left – Wing Fascism” within the British Union of Fascists in the 1930s
10:45 – 11:00 a.m.
Cara Borja
The Emergence of Biculturalism in First – generation Latino/a and Hispanic Immigrants
11:00 – 1:15 a.m.
Sohrob Ganjbaksh
British Healthcare: Socialist Roots
11:15 – 11:30 a.m.
Marina Mizell
The Effect of Maternal Depressive Symptoms on Child Early Head Start and Head Start Enrollment
11:30 – 11:45 a.m.
Debbie Farthing
Unpacking Margaret: The Other Life of Margaret Patricia Killian
11:45 – 12:00 p.m.
Nimasha Fernando
Latin a.m.erican Immigrants’ Health in the Baltimore Area: A Qualitative Study of the Hospital to Home Transition in Care
UC 312
Moderator: Dr. Simon Stacey
10:00 – 10:15 a.m.
Isabel Geisler
The Success and Shortcoming of Fair Trade in Combatting Gender Inequality: Coffee in Central a.m.erica
10:15 – 10:30 a.m.
Yun Zheng
Broadcasting Eating: An Ethnography of Mukbang Consumers
10:30 – 10:45 a.m.
Maniraj Jeyaraju
Ethnographic Study of Cardiovascular Attitudes a.m.ong Adolescents in India
10:45 – 11:00 a.m.
S. Riley Auer
Through the Eyes of a Maia
11:00 – 11:15 a.m.
Zachariah Thomas
Composers – Performer Communication Methods in Contemporary Classical Music: A Case Study
11:15 – 11:30 a.m.
Nathaniel Croll
From Oral Tradition to Cinema: An Examination of the Adaptation of Indigenous a.m.erican Culture in Film
UC 204
Moderator: Dr. Ryan White
10:00 – 10:15 a.m.
Da’Kuawn Johnson
Functional Characterization of Glycoside Hydrolase Family 43 in Plant Cell Wall Degrading Bacteria
10:15 – 10:30 a.m.
Rebekah Rashford
Ribosomal Protein Binding to Ribosomal RNA in Stress – free Conditions
10:30 – 10:45 a.m.
Daniel Ocasio
UV – Driven Antibiotic – to – Antibiotic Transformation Pathways and Kinetics of Sulfonamides
10:45 – 11:00 a.m.
Robyn Jasper
Development of a CRISPR/Cas9 Genome Editing System for Green Algae
11:00 – 11:15 a.m.
Austin Maduka
Examining the Role a.m.P – activated kinase Plays in Stress – Dependent O – GlcNAc Signaling
11:15 – 11:30 a.m.
Matthew Orellana
Analyzing the Monomeric Conformation of the HIV – 1 5′ – Leader RNA Using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
11:30 – 11:45 a.m.
Aishwarya Iyer
The Effects of a Native Cap on the Structure of RNA Using NMR Spectroscopy
11:45 – 12:00 p.m.
Michael Wolfe
Improved Fidelity for Quantum Gates with Spin Qubits
2nd Concurrent Oral Presentations (Afternoon Session)
UC 310
Moderator: Dr. Diane Alonso
1:00 – 1:15pm
Marshal Golden
Respectable Violence: Boxing and the Old a.m.ateur Ethic in Late – Georgian and Victorian Britain
1:15 – 1:30 p.m.
Daniela Mujica – Martorell
More Than Just Pretty: Analyzing the Influence of Globalization on the Role of Design in South Korea
1:30 – 1:45 p.m.
Olivia Park
The Cultural and Societal Characteristics of Elder Abuse in South Korea
1:45 – 2:00 p.m.
Rosa Rada
Information Flows and Food Assistance: Challenges to SNAP Program Provision in Baltimore City
2:00 – 2:15 p.m.
Nathaniel Mesekale
Pilgrim, Scholar, Traveler: The Global Islamic World as Described in the Travel Narrative of Ibn Battuta
2:15 – 2:30 p.m.
Elena Beck
Nightwish: The Global Fan Culture of a Finnish Symphonic Metal Band
2:30 – 2:45 p.m.
Kha – Ai Tran
How Trashcan Availability Shapes Environmental Health and the Perception of Environmental Pests in West Baltimore
2:45 – 3:00 p.m.
Brittany – Lauren Todd
The Assassination of Berta Cáceres: The Death of Indigenous Liberties, or the Birth of an Environmental Revolution?
3:00 – 3:15 p.m.
Gabriela Roberts
Communication Between Immigrant Patients and Health Care Providers in a Local Clinic: An Ethnographic Study
3:15 – 3:30 p.m.
Jasper Barnes
Finding the Target: Pre – service Teachers’ Perspectives about Culturally Responsive Practices
3:30 – 3:45pm
Flora Kirk
More Than Just Money: Second and Third Century Coin Circulation in Roman Britain and the Influence of Emperors
3:45 – 4:00 p.m.
Alyson Griese
Social Movements, Social Media: Decoding Modern Protest Rhetoric
UC 312
Moderator: Prof. Eric Brown
1:00 – 1:15 p.m.
Viniceia Carter, Michelle Nyden
The Impact of Poverty on Crime in Montgomery County: Understanding Ways to Break the Poverty – crime Cycle
1:15 – 1:30 p.m.
Kelly Dunn
Narrative Constructions of Collective Memory: Representing the Armed Conflict in Colombia
1:30 – 1:45 p.m.
Takreem Zulfiqar
When East Dates West: A Study of Asian a.m.erican Interracial Relationships in a.m.erican Television Comedies
1:45 – 2:00 p.m.
Rebecca Gale
Cigarettes, Sororities, and Sailors: Student Scrapbooks and the Female Experience at National Park Seminary, 1902 – 1942
2:00 – 2:15 p.m.
Renee Booker
9/11 Through the Eyes of the Millennial Generation
2:15 – 2:30 p.m.
Deirdre Lohrmann, Ashley Patchett
Collection Management in the Digital Age
2:30 – 2:45 p.m.
Dylan Elliott
Robbing Peter to Pay Paul: The Balancing Act of Maryland’s Intendant of the Revenue
2:45 – 3:00 p.m.
Mahlet Gebre – Egziabher
The Hunger of a Child: Shaping Identity through Illusive Consumption
3:00 – 3:15 p.m.
Richard Elliott
It’s Just a Jump to the Right: The Tea Party’s Influence on Conservative Discourse
3:15 – 3:30 p.m.
Allison Feeney
Here We Go Again: Comparison of Prejudice Against Irish Catholics and Muslims
3:30 – 3:45 p.m.
Emma Barnes
The Borderlands: How the Alien’s Territory Becomes Productive Literary Space
3:45 – 4:00 p.m.
Jessica Willis
Sticks and Stones: A Conversation Analysis of the Pragmatic Tools used in Emotionally Abusive Language
UC 204
Moderator: Prof. Amy Everhart
1:00 – 1:15pm
Jonathan Werner
An Analysis of Hinge Points within the Neural Tissue of Zebrafish Embryos: a Reevaluation of Zebrafish Neurulation
1:15 – 1:30 p.m.
Daniel Stonko
New Documentation of Pine Forest Nesting by the Critically Endangered Bahama Oriole (Icterus northropi)
1:30 – 1:45 p.m.
Anna Gifty Opoku – Agyeman
Evaluating an Ultra – Sensitive Method to Detect Malaria in School Children in Malawi
1:45 – 2:00 p.m.
Andreas Seas
The Effect of Stenting on the Shape of the Human Femoropopliteal Artery
2:00 – 2:15 p.m.
Anton Yanker
International Review of Trampoline Injury Frequencies
2:15 – 2:30 p.m.
Himadri Patel
Brain Mechanisms of Stress Induced Analgesia
2:30 – 2:45 p.m.
Sarah Pollock
Implementers’ Attitudes about Health Homes for People with Serious Mental Illness in Psychiatric Rehabilitation Programs
2:45 – 3:00 p.m.
Edward Hanson
Community Resilience: Measuring Economic Benefits of Planning for Natural and Manmade Hazards
3:00 – 3:15 p.m.
Marina Congedo
The Language of Science Education in Newton’s Principia Mathematica
3:15 – 3:30 p.m.
Hannah Carter
Probing the Structure of the HIV – 1 5′ – Leader Dimeric Conformation