LEAP Conference Presenters

Presenters, Project Title, Presentation Time: Oct. 16, 2009

Time Schedule (PDF)

Session I: Kendade Room 107

1:30 Mary Hansen ’10 - The Politics of HIV/AIDS Prevention in East Africa

1:45 Rebecca Engell ’11 - “I’m Positive. So What?” Volunteering with Africaid in Harare Zimbabwe

2:00 Hae Inn Woo ’11 - Experiencing Frontlines of Global Health in Ghana

2:15 Sarah Lince ’10 - Lemonade Out of Lemons: Women, Food Policy, and Informal Survival in Jinja Uganda

2:30 Mayesha Alam ’10 - Genocide Prevention in the Twenty-first Century: Issues of Consensus, Cooperation, and Capacity within the UN’s Response to Darfur

2:45 Asinath Rusibamayila ’10 - Supporting HIV-Positive Women in Africa

Break 3:00–3:15

3:15 Alia Wahid ’10 - Case Study: Fighting Breast Cancer and the Egyptian Healthcare System

3:30 Samrachana Adhikari ’11 - Working with Women in Rural India

3:45 Roshonda Degraffenreid ’10 - Speaking above a Whisper: Interning with the African Women’s Development Fund

4:00 Ariel Garfinkel ’10 - Examining Inequality in the Ugandan Education System

4:15 Judith Frank ’10 - Experiencing International Development in Rural Uganda

Session II: Kendade Room 203

1:30 Ashley Nichols ’10 - Visuoperceptual Processing in Autism: Face Inversion Effect and Eye Scanning Deficits of Emotional Faces, Neutral Faces, and Greebles

1:45 Cathy Kim ’10 - Exploring the Relationship between Korean American and Korean Parents

2:00 Silvia Marin ’10 - Perceptions in the Media of Individuals with Cancer

2:15 Mika Kie Weissbuch ’11 - Breaking Through: Empowering Middle School Students

2:30 Yaru Wu ’10 - Do Babies Have Specialized Number Sense before They Acquire Language? 

2:45 Ariel Sykes ’10 - Evaluating Children’s Philosophical Ability

Break 3–3:15

3:15 Elizabeth Carlson ’10 - The Female Community within Anglo-Spanish Relations between 1350 and 1650

3:30 Nora Mariano ’10 - Printed Texts and Incunabula in Late Fifteenth-Century England and the Low Countries

3:45 Lily Herman ’10 - Vietnam through Translation: My Editing Experiences at a Foreign Publishing House

4:00 Gergana Karadzhova ’12 - The Knights of the National Yiddish Book Center

Session III: Kendade Room 303

1:30 Hyo Rhi Kim ’11 - Remembering War: Tracing the Experiences of Korean Elderly

1:45 Jigyasa Sharma ’10 - The Politics of Threat and Violence: Identity Politics and Ethnic Conflict in Gujarat

2:00 Alexandra (Sasha) Williams ’10 - Interning as a Journalist at an Independent Newspaper in Egypt

2:15 Kalsang Tanzin ’10 - NGOs and the Provision of Social Services in East Asia Pacific Region

2:30 Alexandra Huebner ’11 - Interning at the EU: The Politics of the Committee of the Regions

2:45 Yiting Wang ’11 - Power to the People: Household Solar Appliances and Their Market in India

Break 3–3:15

3:15 Amalia Culiuc ’11 - Energy of Graphs and Matrices

3:30 Milka Doktorova ’10 - Studying Proteins and Viruses Using Tools from Math and Computer Science

3:45 Corietta Teshera-Sterne ’10 - A Software Engineering Approach to Scientific Data Provenance

4:00 Surabhi Gupta ’11 - Modeling Alzheimer’s Disease Etiology Using a Booelan Network

4:15 Cleo Schneider ’11 - Video Fingerprinting 

4:30 Jennifer Soltis ’10 - Adsorption of Gold Nanoparticles to Laser-Patterned Organic Monolayers

Session IV: Kendade Room 305

1:30 Carleigh Beriont ’10 - (Un)covering France: Identity, Immigration, and the Headscarf in Paris’s Muslim Communities

1:45 Jarin Chu ’11 - Retreat and Rebirth: Military Dependants’ Villages in Taiwan

2:00 Elizabeth Cooper ’10 - The Water Cooperatives of Cochabamba: A Grassroots Alternative to the State/Private Dichotomy of Water Management

2:15 Aviva Hannah Elzufon ’10 - Bridging the Gap: The Efficacy of Chile’s Social and Solidarity Fund

2:30 Raluca Ursu ’10 - News Posting by Strategic Users in a Social Network

2:45 Kathryn Jones ’10 - New Social Media and Political Participation

Break 3–3:15

3:15 Shaina Tantuico ’10 - Education to Empower: Narratives of Resilience in Underserved Filipino Youth

3:30 May Tulin ’10 - Transgender Men and Testosterone Therapy

3:45 Megan Durling ’10 - Learning the Left: Reflections on Ethnographic Fieldwork with Political Activists in New York City

4:00 Karina Hurtado Ocampo ’10 - ColombiaNQueens

4:15 Constanza Lombardi ’11 - The Student Immigrant Movement: The Narrative of Our Struggle for a D.R.E.A.M.

4:30 Consuelo Nelson ’10 - Sentencing and Recidivism for Juvenile Offenders

Session V: Cleveland L2

1:30 Rashmi Gunaratne ’10 & Rebekah Wieland ’12
The Role of Pectoral and Forelimb Muscles during Jumping in the Toad Bufo marinus

1:45 Shelly Hsiao ’10 - Self-Assembled Gold Nanoparticles Incorporated in Thin Poly(vinyl alcohol) Composites

2:00 Mignon Johnston ’10 - Evaluating Subduction Initiation Potential

2:15 Oana Ursu ’12 - Astrobiology: Viability of Anaerobic Clostridium Spores in a Simulated Martian Environment  

2:30 Barret Zimmermann ’11 - Temperature-Sensitive NICD and Its Role in Zebrafish Somitogenesis

2:45 Kaitlin Brooke ’10 - Summer Research in Cellular Biology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Break 3–3:15

3:15 Raheal Boadi-Yeboah ’11 - Designing a “Replication-Activated HIV Infection Reporter” (RAHIR) Using Sequence and Ligation Independent Cloning (SLIC)

3:30 Ebony Williams ’10 - Understanding Myosin 5 in Dictyostelium discoideum

3:45 Lorencia Chigweshe ’11 - Hydrothermal Growth of Sodium Bismuth Titanate (Na0.5Bi0.5TiO3) Piezoelectric Thin Films

4:00 Mitali Shah ’11 - The Use of Image Processing to Classify Salt Marsh Vegetation from AIMS-1 Imagery

4:15 Hexuan Wang ’12 - Flashing Summer With Light-Emitting Diodes

4:30 Tanya Thompson ’10 - Memory Performance in Aging