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 2003 Symposium

Research Symposium


Colby Undergraduate Research Symposium 2003
May 1 & 2, Colby College, Waterville, Maine

Keynote Address - Dr. Robert Pennock
April 30th, 7:30 pm Olin 1


Research Presentations
    
Friday, May 2  
   
SESSION IX: BIOLOGY
Comparative Animal Physiology Projects
Olin 234
Session Chair: Professor Sharon Lynn
10:00-10:50 AM  
   
  Mike Jarcho ('03) and Nick Rohs ('03)
  Influence of Acclimation Temperature on Specific Dynamic Action of Emerald Swifts (Sceloporous malachiticus)
  Jeff Owen ('03) and Aaron Charniak ('05)
  Intracellular and Hormonal Influences on Color Change in Convict Cichlids, (Cichlasoma nigrofasciatum)
   
SESSION X: ECONOMICS
Economics Honors Presentations
Smith Room
Session Chair: Professor Randy Nelson
1:00-3:00 PM  
   
1:00 pm Benjamin S. Hoffman ('03)
  Environmental Regulation and Its Effect on Technical Change for Electric Utilities
2:00 pm Thomas V. Richardson ('03)
  The Effect of Competitive Balance on Individual Game Attendance in Major League Baseball
   
SESSION XI: BIOLOGY, GEOLOGY, AND MATHEMATICS
Whitney Room
Session Chair: Professor Herb Wilson
1:00-4:00 PM  
   
1:00 pm Brie A. Drummond ('03)
  The Selection of Native and Invasive Plants by Frugivorous Birds.
1:15 pm Mari Nishino ('03)
  B Cell Response by IL-4 Overproduction in Flaky Skin Mutant Mouse Spleen
1:45 pm Jill S. Wentzell ('03)
  Screening the Human Genome for Trinucleotide Repeat Expansions
2:00 pm Elizabeth Mayhall ('03)
  The Primary Immune Response of Landlocked Salmon (Salmo salar) to the Protein Antigen DNP-KLH
2:30 pm Sarah E. Pierce ('03)
  Investigation of the Gene Governing Gametophytic Self Incompatibility (the S-gene) in a Population of Witheringia solanacea (Solanaceae)
3:00 pm Douglas C. Melzer ('03)
  Three Cereal Grain Proteins,TaABF, TaWD40, and AFN1, Have Putative Roles in the Abscisic Acid-mediated Gene Expression Pathway
3:15 pm Beth Dushman ('03)
  Geochemical and Environmental Studies in the Belgrade Lakes Watershed, Central Maine
3:30 pm James D. H. Falk ('05)
  Hamiltonian Paths in Graphs
3:45 pm Lisa DeKeukelaere ('03)
  Fourier Transforms and the Age of the Earth
   
SESSION XII: ART
Vision and Experience in Late-Medieval Devotional Art
Hurd Room
Session Chair: Professor Veronique Plesch
1:00-3:00 PM  
   
1:00 pm Doan Trang T Nguyen ('03), Art
  St. Francis' Ideology and Its Franciscan and Clarissan Implementation
1:20 pm Elizabeth Urstadt ('03), Art
  Andachtsbilder: Aspiring to Become the Bride of Christ Through Images of Christ and St John and the Pietà
1:40 pm Nicole Russo ('03), Art
  Nuns and Devotional Objects, Images and Practices
2:00 pm Tracy Schloss ('03), Art
  The Allegorical and Artistic Use of Mirrors in Late Medieval Devotional Art
2:20 pm Kate Lydecker ('03), Art
  The Pilgrimage to the Sacro Monte at Varallo: A Journey in Personal Devotion
   
SESSION XIII: CHEMISTRY
Chemistry Senior Project Presentations
Keyes 105
Session Chair: Professor Rebecca Conry
3:00-5:30 PM  
   
3:00 pm Erik Lisk ('03)
  Mechanism of Hydrogen Peroxide Detection in Natural Waters
3:25 pm Joshua Weitz ('03)
  Photochemical Generation of an Oxiranylcarbene
3:50 pm Gregory Sawyer ('03)
  Flanking Sequences Modulate Diepoxide Cross-Linking Efficiencies at the 5'-GNC Site
4:25 pm Eric Nguyen ('04)
  Comparison of Stimulated Osteoclastogenesis in Two Mouse Strains
4:50 pm Matthew Courtney ('03)
  Evaluation of Fe(II) Analysis Techniques in a Range of Natural Water Types
5:15 pm Andrew Moraco ('03)
  Hydrogen Bonding in Discrete Base Pairing Complexes Containing 6-Thioguanine
   
SESSION XIV: GENERAL SESSION
Hurd Room
Session Chair: Professor David Firmage
3:00-5:00 PM  
   
3:00 pm Kathryn Spirer ('03)
  From Maine Farms to Maine Colleges: The Symbolism and Reality Behind the Local Purchasing Efforts at Colby, Bates, and Bowdoin
3:15 pm Amina McIntyre ('04)
  Gathering Together in His Name: An Analysis of the Christian Methodist Episcopal and African Methodist Episcopal Zion Churches' Pending Merger
3:45 pm Kimberly Niederberger ('03)
  The Paradox of Napoleon Bonaparte: A Fallen Genius
4:15 pm Nathaniel Arguelles ('03)
  Challenges to Developing Iraq's Oil in the Post-Hussein Era: International Law and Legacies of Hussein's Rule
4:30 pm Jonathan Silberstein-Loeb ('03)
  The Biography of a Man and a Magazine: Max Ascoli and The Reporter
   
SESSION XV: GENERAL SESSION
Smith Room
Session Chair: Professor Tamae Prindle
3:00-5:15  
   
3:00 pm James B. Cowan ('03)
  Unwilling To Explain: Deceptiveness in Robert Frost
3:30 pm Erin Hanrahan ('03)
  Media and the Use of English in Tanzania
3:45 pm Evan McGee ('03)
  Mishima Yukio's Short Stories
4:15 pm Elyssa Ford ('03)
  The Water-Babies: Changing Textual Meanings Through a Study of Illustrations
4:45 pm Alicia Ford ('03)
  William Blake and Popular Musical Interpretations of his Songs of Innocence and Experience
5:00 pm Jonathan Devers ('05)
  Shusaku Endo's Novel Silence is Fiction


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