Research and Creative Activities Poster and Performance Day

Twelfth Annual Research and Creative Activities Poster and Performance Day April 12, 2018

Thursday, April 13

Welcome to the Twelfth Annual Research and Creative Activities Poster and Performance Day The Faculty Senate, Graduate College, Graduate Student Association and Office of the Vice President for Research collaborate each year to sponsor this event. Today we celebrate the scholarly accomplishments of WMU graduate students from across the University through poster presentations and performances. Faculty judges evaluate the presentations and performances, and students with the highest scores are awarded prizes. We are pleased to welcome you to this exciting event highlighting the diverse research and creative activities of our graduate students.

Schedule of Events

THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 2018 | EAST BALLROOM, BERNHARD CENTER

8 a.m.

Continental Breakfast 9 to 10:45 a.m.

Graduate Student Static Poster Presentations Judging of Posters Faculty FRACAA Static Poster Presentations

10:45 to 11:15 a.m.

Graduate Student Creative Arts Performances Judging of Performances 11:15 to 11:30 a.m.

Break 11:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.

Lunch Buffet Recognitions, Awards, Closing Remarks

Due to confidentiality of poster content, no photography allowed.

Graduate Student Static Poster Presentations EAST BALLROOM, BERNHARD CENTER

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ezawit Teshome Agiro B Mentor: Dr. Wei-Chiao Huang ECONOMICS, COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES “Re-Examining the Effect of Maternal Employment on Child Obesity: The Case of School-Age Children”

2. B asil M. Ahmed Mentor: Dr. Gellert Mezei CHEMISTRY, COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES “Selective Incarceration and Extraction of Oxoanion Contaminants from Aqueous Media by Self-Assembled Nanojars” 3.

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F adi A. Alhomaidat Mentor: Dr. Valerian Kwigizile CIVIL AND CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING, COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCES “How Does an Increased Freeway Speed Limit Influence the Frequency of Crashes on Adjacent Roads?”

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abriel Almeida Alves G Mentor: Dr. John Spitsbergen BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES “The Effects of Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide on the Expression of Nerve Growth Factor and Glial Cell Line-Derived Neurotrophic Factor in Cardiac Cells” Mesfer Alrizq Mentor: Dr. Elise de Doncker COMPUTER SCIENCE, COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCES “Human Behavior Modeling for Residential Energy Consumption”

Graduate Student Static Poster Presentations EAST BALLROOM, BERNHARD CENTER

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M erfat Alsubaie Mentors: Drs. Lynn Nations Johnson & Nancy Mansberger EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP, RESEARCH, AND TECHNOLOGY, COLLEGE OF EDUCATION AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT “Ten Elementary School Teachers’ Voices: How They Build Effective Literacy Learning in the Lives of Their Second Grade Children”

7. E unice Ampah Mentor: Dr. Magdalena Niewiadomska-Bugaj STATISTICS, COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES “Assessing Treatment Efficacy in a Personalized Medicine Era” 8.

ustin Anderson D Mentor: Dr. Patricia Reeves EDUCATION LEADERSHIP, RESEARCH, AND TECHNOLOGY, COLLEGE OF EDUCATION AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT “School District View of Student and School Success”

9.

arl Backhaus K Mentor: Dr. Alan Kehew GEOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES, COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES “Geologic Mapping of the Bronson North and Bronson South 7.5-minute Quadrangle, Branch County, Michigan”

10.

N ardos Moges Beyene Mentor: Dr. C. James Hueng ECONOMICS, COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES “Illiquidity Contagion and the Pricing of Commonality Risk in the U.S. Stock Market: Evidence from the Dynamic Conditional Correlation (DCC) Model”

Graduate Student Static Poster Presentations EAST BALLROOM, BERNHARD CENTER

11.

Dweepobetee Brahma Mentor: Dr. Debasri Mukherjee ECONOMICS, COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES “Universal Immunization Program, Health Infrastructure and Immunization Coverage in India: A Lesson from Machine Learning”

12.

Tasia Bryson Mentor: Dr. Megan Kowalski MALLINSON INSTITUTE FOR SCIENCE EDUCATION, COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES “The Impact of Advisor Mentoring Styles on Black Female Advisees at Predominantly White Institutions”

13.

Summer Chahin Mentor: Dr. Amy Damashek PSYCHOLOGY, COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES “Evaluation of the Talking About Safe Sleep Program”

14.

Abi Chamlagai Mentor: Dr. Priscilla Lambert POLITICAL SCIENCE, COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES “Breakdowns of Democracy in Nepal: A Comparative Study Between 1960 and 2005”

15.

Adam Channell Mentor: Dr. William Cobern MALLINSON INSTITUTE FOR SCIENCE EDUCATION, COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES “Science Teacher Experiences and Implementation of Next Generation Science Standards”

Graduate Student Static Poster Presentations EAST BALLROOM, BERNHARD CENTER

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Pearl Dai Mentor: Dr. David Rudge MALLINSON INSTITUTE FOR SCIENCE EDUCATION, COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES “Roslind Franklin and the Discovery of the Structure of DNA: Using History to Help Students Understand the Nature of Science”

17.

sayas Gebrekidan Gebremichael E Mentor: Dr. Mohamed Sultan GEOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES, COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES “Assessing Land Deformation and Sea Encroachment in the Nile Delta: A Radar Interferometric and Inundation Modeling Approach”

18.

Caitlin Leigh Halligan Mentors: Drs. Susan Carlson and Jesse Smith SOCIOLOGY, COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES “Religiosity and Spirituality as Protective Factors for Addiction Recovery”

19.

Nafiseh Jandaghijafari Mentor: Dr. Blair Szymczyna CHEMISTRY, COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES “The Assembly and Function of PWI Domain Containing Complexes and Poxvirus Protein”

20.

hristina Khim C Mentor: Dr. Udaya Wagle SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS AND ADMINISTRATION, COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES “Immigrant/Refugee Success in the United States: A Case of Burmese Residents in Battle Creek, Michigan”

Graduate Student Static Poster Presentations EAST BALLROOM, BERNHARD CENTER

21.

egan Kuk M Mentor: Dr. Steven Butt INDUSTRIAL AND ENTREPRENEURIAL ENGINEERING AND ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT, COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCES “Objectively Determining the Magnitude of In-Chair Movement by Seat Pan Pressure Distributions that Impact Dynamic Necessities in Extended Task Seating”

22.

aomingxin Lu Y Mentor: Dr. Christine Browning MATHEMATICS, COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES “Elementary/Middle School Pre-service Teachers’ Understanding of Variability and Use of Dynamical Statistical Software”

23.

Y e Luo Mentor: Dr. Dewei Qi CHEMICAL AND PAPER ENGINEERING “Study of Self-Propelled Swimming Body”

24.

Joan Y. Martinez Mentor: Dr. Steven Butt INDUSTRIAL AND ENTREPRENEURIAL ENGINEERING AND ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT, COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCES “A Machine Learning Approach for Categorizing User-Adjusted Seat Pan Contours During Extended Task Seating”

25.

Tara Maser Mentor: Dr. Andre Venter CHEMISTRY, COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES “Delayed Desorption Improves Protein Analysis by Desorption Electrospray”

Graduate Student Static Poster Presentations EAST BALLROOM, BERNHARD CENTER

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Harmony Risca Mentor: Dr. Lisa Baker PSYCHOLOGY, COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES “Monoamine Reuptake Inhibitors Potentiate the Discriminative Stimulus Effects of 3,4-Methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV) in Male Sprague-Dawley Rats”

27.

Manasa Satyanarayan Mentor: Dr. Yan Lu BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES “Analysis of Functional Redundancy Between Two Plastid-Targeted Iron-Sulfur Carrier Proteins”

28.

Y uqian (Jenny) Shen Mentor: Dr. Georgiana Onicescu STATISTICS, COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES “Spatial Analysis of Indoor Radon in Michigan”

29.

Neal Turluck Mentor: Dr. Duane Hampton GEOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES, COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES “Changes in Annual Rain, Snow and Temperatures in Michigan – Is Climate Change Evident?”

30.

Fehime Utkan Mentor: Dr. Tycho Fredericks INDUSTRIAL AND ENTREPRENEURIAL ENGINEERING AND ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT, COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCES “Objectively Determining the Language-Related Communication Challenges Between Pilots and Air Traffic Controllers”

Graduate Student Static Poster Presentations EAST BALLROOM, BERNHARD CENTER

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Susanna Var Mentor: Dr. Christine Byrd-Jacobs BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES “Microglial/Macrophage Response Patterns Following Damage to the Olfactory Bulb in Adult Zebrafish”

32.

Qian Wang Mentor: Dr. Brooks Applegate EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP, RESEARCH, AND TECHNOLOGY, COLLEGE OF EDUCATION AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT “Challenges and Solutions Paths for the Analysis of Ipsative Data”

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Qingyi Zhang Mentor: Dr. Arezoo Rojhani FAMILY AND CONSUMER SCIENCES, COLLEGE OF EDUCATION AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT “Dietary and Health Related Behaviors of WIC-Enrolled Pregnant Women”

Faculty FRACAA Static Poster Presentations EAST BALLROOM, BERNHARD CENTER

1.

D r. Pnina Ari-Gur MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING, COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCES “Energy Harvesting Power for the Smart White Cane”

2.

D r. Luigi Andrea Berto HISTORY, COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES “Among Empires and Dangerous Neighbors: The Formation of the City State of Naples”

3.

Karen Bondarchuk M.F.A. FROSTIC SCHOOL OF ART, COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS “Nightingales and Bombers”

4.

Cat Crotchett, M.F.A. FROSTIC SCHOOL OF ART, COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS “Giving Pattern Dimension: A Study in Encaustic Painting”

5.

Dr. Todd Ellis MALLISON INSTITUTE FOR SCIENCE AND GEOGRAPHY, COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES “Partnering GLOBE Environmental Observation with the Kalamazoo Nature Center to Develop K-12 Teachers’ Science Skills”

6.

Dr. Denise Keele POLITICAL SCIENCE, COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES “Climate Change Litigation, Policy and Governance”

7.

D r. Mariana Levin MATHEMATICS, COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES “Exploring Perspectives on the Transition to Proof in Collegiate Mathematics”

Faculty FRACAA Static Poster Presentations EAST BALLROOM, BERNHARD CENTER

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driane Little, M.F.A. A FROSTIC SCHOOL OF ART, COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS “Virginia Woolf Was Here” Dr. Yan Lu BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES “A Plant-Derived Zinc-Finger Protein Increases Light Tolerance and Cell Growth in Cyanobacteria”

10.

D r. Yirong Mo CHEMISTRY, COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES “The Activation of CO by B2(NHCR)2: HOMO-LUMO Swap Without Photoinduction”

11.

r. Lisa Paulius D PHYSICS, COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES “Compound Defects in High Temperature Superconductors”

12.

Dr. James Springstead CHEMICAL ENGINEERING, COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCES “Estimation of Lipid Vesicles and Lipoprotein Aggregate Size for Correlation with Critical Properties”

13.

Dr. Luchara Wallace SPECIAL EDUCATION AND LITERACY STUDIES, COLLEGE OF EDUCATION AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT “The School Connection Program: Strengths, Challenges, and Next Steps”

14.

Dr. Kristina Wirtz SPANISH, COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES “Play Across Linguistic Boundaries in the Stabilization of Student and Teacher Roles in Dual Language Classrooms”

Graduate Student Creative Arts Performances EAST BALLROOM, BERNHARD CENTER

K aitlin Hosey Mentor: Dr. Lin Foulk MUSIC, COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS Performance: Songs of the Wolf by Andrea Clearfield I. Wolf Night II. Loba Kaitlin Hosey, horn Helen Lukan, piano T ahmoures Tabatabaei Mentor: Prof. Lori Sims MUSIC, COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS Performance: Op. 116 by Johannes Brahms I. Capriccio, Presto energico II. Intermezzo, Andante III. Capriccio, Allegro passionato

Notes

Sponsored by College of Arts and Sciences College of Aviation Office of Diversity and Inclusion College of Education and Human Development Graduate College Graduate Student Association, SAF-Funded Graduate Studies Council Haworth College of Business University Libraries Office of the Vice President for Research

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Event Planning Committee Mark Wheeler Committee Co-Chair Economics Christine Byrd-Jacobs Committee Co-Chair Graduate College Carla Chase Occupational Therapy Timothy Michael Human Performance and Health Education Paige Warner Graduate College

A very special ‘thank you’ to Diana Berkshire-Hearit Office of the Vice President for Research for her efforts in creating this booklet.

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