10-11:45 a.m.

Registration

Langroise Foyer

12:30 p.m.

Opening Remarks: President Marvin Henberg

Langroise Recital Hall

12:35 p.m.

Stories of Australia 2013: A 5-part wildlife documentary

Students of the Winter 2013 Australia Field Biology Course

Langroise Recital Hall

Kaitlyn Stewart

Food Ideology, Regulations and Sense of Place: A Cross-cultural Comparison of Italian and American Cheese-Making

Katie Grohs

Dynamics of Stratification in the Veterans Administration

Sara Davis and Tanya Greenwood

The Nesting Preferences of Black Noddy Tern Anous minutus Based on the Circumference, Height, and Horizontal Zonation of Nests in Pisonia grandis on Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia

Camille Flournoy and Jessica Hansen

Size and Abundance of Holothurians on the Reef Flat of Heron Island (Queensland, Australia)

Thao T. Ha and Sara J. Heggland

Mechanisms of Cadmium Toxicity in Bone: Involvement of Calmodulin-dependent Pathways

Kyle B. Quinney

Effects of cadmium and the antioxidant N-acetylcysteine in Saos-2 osteoblast-like cells

Katrine Franks, Mindi Price, and Steven Birkinbine

The Effects of Stress on Emotional Attention

Karissa Tatom

The Impact of Oral Language Strategies on Second Grade Students’ Skills in the Areas of Reading and Writing

W. Shea Wright and Dannen D. Wright

Antioxidant N-Acetylcysteine Protects Against Cadmium-Induced Damage to Bone Extracellular Matrix

Laura Barbour, Betsaida Chavez Garcia, and Eric Yensen

Probable causes for the increase of alders in Succor Creek Canyon over the last 40 years

Azra Cickusic

Prisoner’s Dilemma of the European Union

Stephen Anderson

Jorinde Voigt: Blueprints for Nothing

Necia Hunter

Victim and Victimizer: The Ongoing Legacy of Colonization in Teju Cole's Open City

Conor Harris

Exploration of Poetic Form

Dharmjeet Rattan, Kushil Samarasekera, and Greg Johnson

Android Application Development: Dungeon Raid

Laura Barbour, Donald H. Mansfield, and James F. Smith

Morphological, ecological, and genetic analyses of the rare endemic mustard Lepidium papilliferum (Brassicaceae) and closely related taxa

Seth Graham

Musical Readings of Shel Silverstein

Sean-Patrick Valentine Dahlman

A Compositional Study and Experiment Involving Unaccompanied Homogenous Duets

Courtney Hill and Christina Hepworth

Do Mounds of American badger (Taxidea taxus) increase productivity in shrub-steppe communities of Southwestern Idaho?

Kitt Lindberg-Connor, Joseph Pickett, and Jose Rodes

VLA Observations of Infrared Dark Cloud G10.74-0.32

Sebastian Sturdevant, Brodi Etheredge, Kalee Jones, Miraiah Acosta, Erica Martens, Peilin Sun, and Baylee Burchers

The “Go On” Challenge: Examining internal and external factors that affect college-going in high school students

Julia Henrie, Oksana Sklyarov, Callie Wiggins and Kevin Starkand

Personality Differences and Sexual Behaviors

Austyn Gumm and Aldina Okanovic

Marketing Research on the Awareness of the Reinstated Football Program at The College of Idaho

Blake Nass

Morphological and ecological evidence for varietal distinction among populations of Eriogonum calcareum (S. Stokes) Grady & Reveal (Polygonaceae)

Joseph Pickett, Jose Rodes and Kitt Connor

Very Large Array Observations of Infrared Dark Cloud G22.56-0.02

Ben Tjaden

Equal Access: The Role of Discrimination in Ethnic Conflict

Rachel Campbell and Ellen Town

Humbug Damselfish (Dascyllus aruanus) Cohabitation and Territoriality with Other Fishes on the Great Barrier Reef of Heron Island

Levi Smith

Evaluation of the effectiveness of biology-oriented labs in general physics

Natasha Pence and Anne F. Farawila

Reprocessing Spent Nuclear Fuel Using Supercritical Carbon Dioxide for Uranium Extraction

Shelby Richins and Kare Tonning

Tidal Influence on Parrotfish (Scaridae) Abundance On Heron Reef Flat

Christina Younggren and Elizabeth Tuel

Orientation Preference and Mantle Color of Tridacna gigas at Two Sites (reef flat and fore reef) of Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia

Betsaida Chavez Garcia and Donald H. Mansfield

Morphological analysis of small- fruited varieties of Astragalus purshii (Fabaceae) confirms varietal distinction

Luis Reyes

From the “Sustainability” of the North to the “Sumaq Kawsay ” of the South: An alternative proposal to the Western concept of Sustainability

Daisy Ambriz, Elizabeth Valdez, Don Mansfield, and Carolyn Dadabay

Variation in Polyphenol Content in Permanent Leaves among Individuals, Populations and Species of Artemisia Section Tridentatae

Kushil Samarasekera and Mehrdad Arvin

Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos

Olivia Poland

Application of Vector Mechanics to the Stresses within Human Cortical and Trabecular Bone Tissue

Charles Parker Waddell

A Comparison of the Total Polyphenolic and Antioxidant Capacity of Different Species and Subspecies of Artemisia Sagebrush

Maxwell Hampton and Dr. Ann Koga

Discovery, characterization, and genomic analysis of novel mycobacteriophages

Kaitlyn Eckert

Intracellular Glutathione Levels Increase in Response to Whole and HPLC Fractionated Polyphenolic Extracts from Artemisia tridentata ssp. tridentata in Cultured HepG2 Cells

Necia Hunter

An Exploration of the Photo-Catalytic Properties of Graphitic Carbon Nitride

Brittni J. Brown and Donald H. Mansfield

Evidence of edaphic control of endemic plant speciation in southeastern Oregon and southwestern Idaho

Ellen Gott, Makenzie Ellsworth, Jacob Mamer, and Kelley Fitzpatrick

The Effects of Mindfulness Meditation on Stress and Personality Variables in College Students: A Pilot Study

Jacob Reyes

The Significance of REM Sleep and Implications for Evolutionary Biology - Is REM Sleep the Difference Between Thinking and Instinctual Animals?

Laura Holden, Zachary Nowak, and Rachel Campbell

Validation of Toxicological Biomarker Assays in Signal Crayfish (Pacifasticus Leniusculus)

Alycia Dickman

Idaho Freshwater Mollusk Project: Ancylidae

Ryan Summers

Idaho Freshwater Mollusk Project: Eastern Idaho Surveys

Rahul Sharma

On The Creation of Salted Paper Prints

Renee Howells

Eurydice Set Design