8:30 - 9:15 am

Registration for Participants and Guests

Rooms 205 and 206

Continental Breakfast

ENGR II

Presentation set-up in Assigned Rooms

9:30 - 10:20 am

Welcome and Introductions

Rooms 205 and 206

Andrew J. Grosovsky

ENGR II

Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education

Keynote Address

France A. Córdova, Chancellor

"People of the Earth, Life among the Stars -- a Researcher's Perpective"

10:30 - 11:50 am

Oral Presentations

Assigned Rooms

ENGR II

11:50 am - 12:30 pm

Poster Presentations

Second Floor Courtyard

ENGR II

12:30 - 1:30 pm

Luncheon and Awards

Second Floor Courtyard

Andrew J. Grosovsky

ENGR II

Oral Presentation Session A - Room 202, ENGR II

Time

Presenter/ Major

Project Title

Faculty Mentor(s) /Department

10:30-10:50am

Linidsay Young History

"I was, I am, I will be." Rosa Luxemburg's legacy in the German Democratic Republic.

Dana Simmons Department of History

10:50-11:10am

Jin Hee Yoo Music and Culture

Locating the Exotic and the Authentic in Javanes Gamelan Ensemble.

Rene Lysloff Department of Music

11:10-11:30am

Brian Jew Business Administration

A Successful approach for Developing an Online Statistics Instruction Tool.

Daniel R. Jeske Department of Statistics

11:30-11:50am

Kelly Wu Art History and Studio Art

Forgotten Sites: Transforming Nature through the use of Art.

Jim Isermann and Jon Pestoni Department of Studio Art

Oral Presentation Session B - Room 203, ENGR II

10:30-10:50am

Greg Goalwin Political Science/International Affairs and History

Conflict, Consensus, and the Cross: Christianity and its Role in State Politics.

John C. Laursen Department of Political Science Michele R. Salzman Department of History

10:50-11:10am

Adam Sanford Sociology/Law and Society

The Role of Memetics in Evolutionary Social Processes.

Robert Hanneman Department of Sociology

11:10-11:30am

Tiffany Abrego Psychology

Children's Ability to Transfer from Fantasy to Reality through Media Presentation.

Reberkah Richert Department of Psychology

11:30-11:50am

Natalie Medina Psychology

The Influence of Semantic and Perceptual Features in Categorization Task with Autistic Children.

Curt Burgess Department of Psychology

Oral Presentation Session C - Room 205, ENGR II

Time

Presenter/ Major

Project Title

Faculty Mentor(s) /Department

10:30-10:50am

Daniel Hasegawa Biochemistry Joceline Lam Biology

Feeding Manduca sexta (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) an Artificial Diet Containing Dyes to Mark Insect Parasitoid Eggs and Larvae of Cotesia congregata (Hymenoptera: Braconidae).

Nancy Beckage Department of Entomology

10:50-11:10am

Eric McDaniel Biochemistry and Biology

Double Knockout of E3 ligases in the Ubiquitin Proteasame System.

Karine LeRoch Department of Neuroscience

11:10-11:30am

Samantha Natvidad Biochemistry

Life histories of Fish in the Subgenus Limia.

David Reznick Department of Biology

11:30-11:50am

Moni Bhattacharya Botany and Plant Sciences

Genetic and Molecular Mechanism that Regulate Organ Boundaries during Reproductive Development in Arabidopsis Thaliana.

H.M.S Smith Department of Botany and Plant Sciences

Oral Presentation Session D - Room 206, ENGR II

10:30-10:50am

Joseph Olinga Biological Sciences

Protein Purification.

Katie Defea Department of Biological Sciences

10:50-11:10am

Barbara Williams Peter Kierstand Biology

The Cigarette Additives 3-Ethylpyridine and 4-Methylpyridine Increase Spreading Rate of Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cell in Vitro.

Prue Talbot Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience

11:10-11:30am

Natasha Harrell Mathematics

How to Tie your Shoe: A Mathematical Approach.

Sam Nelson Department of Mathematics

11:30-11:50am

Oliver Losón Neuroscience

DsRed E5-Synaptobrevin 2 May Elucidate Temporal Dependence in Segregation and Trafficking of Astrocytic Neurotransmitter Vesicle Populations.

Changman Ha Vladimir Parpura Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience

Oral Presentation Session E - Room 215, ENGR II

10:30-10:50am

Matthew Hudgins Desalegne Teweldebrhan Physics and Applied Mathematics

Epitaxial Growth of Ultrathin Graphene Films on Silicon Carbide.

Roland Kawakami Department of Physics and Astronomy

10:50-11:10am

Gregory Quiroz Physics and Applied Mathematics

Quantum Coherent Control of a Qubit System Coupled to an Oscillator.

Leonid L. Pryadko Department of Physics and Astronomy

11:10-11:30am

Billy Phan Chemical Engineering

High Temperature Sulfure Removal for Synthetic Diesel Production.

Chan Seung Park Ki Seok Kim Department of CE-CERT

11:30-11:50am

Evan Davis Environmental Engineering

Real-World Hybrid Electric Vehicle Energy Efficiency Analysis.

Matthew Barth Department of Electrical Engineering

Time: 11:50 - 12:20 pm

Second Floor Courtyard

Poster #

Presenter/Major

Project Title

Faculty Mentor(s)

# 1

Ndeye Sesay Political Science and International Affairs

The role of diamonds in conflict

Bronwyn Leebaw Department of Political Science

# 2

Diana DeLaCruz Anthropology

A case study: Reexaminig the null hypothesis of Hypervitaminosis A in KNM-ER 1808 and other possible causes of Death.

Sang-Hee Lee Department of Anthropology

# 3

Allison Tackman Psychology

The Effect of Trait Visibility on the Relationship Between Nonverbal Sensitivity and Judgmental Accuracy.

David Funder Department of Psychology

# 4

Paula Kassouf Medical Biology

Molecular approaches to understanding CNS Neurodegeneration.

Monica Carson Benoit Melchoir Jonathan Doose Danielle Worrill Department of Biomedical Sciences

# 5

Alex Mamaril Biology

Evolution of placentas in the fish family Poeciliidae: The Southern vs. Northern Clade of Poeciliopsis.

David Reznick Department of Biology

# 6

Linh Vuong Biology

The Effect of Sperm Activating Peptides on Sea Urchin Sperm Motility.

Richard Cardullo Department of Biology

# 7

Priscilla Ebersole Jeff Oleny Doug Obana Neuroscience

Feeding but not drinking is elicited by GABAa Antagonist Injected into the Lateral Hypothalamus.

Glenn Stanley Department of Psychology

# 8

Dorian Perkins Computer Science

A Continously Perfused 3-D Tissue Culture Microdevice to Improve Hepatocyte Drug Tolerance Testing.

Luke Lee Department of Bioengineering University of California , Berkeley

# 9

Neil Zimmerman Sally Pederson Jason Grubbs Mechanical Engineering

Measurement of Surface Fluxes Along Rural-Urban Transect.

Marko Princevac Akula Venkatram Department of Mechanical Engineering