WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13th

8:30 9:00 BREAKFAST served in Conference Room C

9 9:50 SESSION
o Panel Gun Control
o Conference Room A
CHAIR: Kay Mizell
SPEAKERS: Trace Hughes, Nawal Ulhaq, Hannah Holland, Garron Weeks

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Panel Productive Frustration: Twentieth-Century Experimental Literature. An Honors

English Presentation
Conference Room B
CHAIR: Scott Cheney
SPEAKERS: Brittany Ginn, Marth Karugo, Jessica Bridges, Wilinia Hamilton, Flint
Willingham

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Panel Reevaluating Childrens Literature: From Picture Books to Harry Potter

Conference Room D
CHAIR: Sean Ferrier-Watson
SPEAKERS: Linda E. Carvajal, Steven Lovett, Bojan Radulovic, Monique Arissa A.
Esquillo

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Panel Reading Globally, Writing Locally: Overcoming Cultural Differences

Conference Room E
CHAIR: Marta Moore
SPEAKERS: Briana Bonilla, Randa Pearson, Dorothy Jackson, Jessica Alaniz,
Steven Halliday, Maryan Cabrera

10 10:50 SESSION
o Panel Amy Schumer Watching You. An Honors Communication Studies Presentation
BE ADVISED: Adult material will be covered in this panel.
o Conference Room A
CHAIR: Jenny Warren
SPEAKERS: Svetlana Lazutkin, Emmanuel Lindstroem-Eriksson, Jordan Ransom,
Ashley Roberts, Chisom Ogoke
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Panel Education Reform in America

Conference Room B
CHAIR: Kay Mizell
SPEAKERS: Melissa Coronado, Mischelle Slaton, Hongri Zhang, Anran Li

Roundtable Professional Practices for Artists. How to Build a Collective Body of Work,
both Visually and Conceptually, and Promote the Work in Todays Art Scene
Conference Room D
CHAIR: Jennifer Seibert
SPEAKERS: Julia Atkins, Austin Baur, Carol Cocking, Debbie Cole, Kaleigh Doyle,
Crystal Gonzalez, Joshua Jalowiec, Robert (Trace) McCaslin, Kelly Perez, Erica
Shea, Dannah Walter

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Panel Social Issues: ADHD Meds, Organ Donation, Reproductive Inequality, PhysicianAssisted Death, & Officer Irresponsibility
Conference Room E
CHAIR: Scott Cheney
SPEAKERS: Brynn Martin. An Epidemic of Competitive Generation
Matthew Pratt. Reproductive Inequality
Tracey Kennedy. Wake Up, America It is Time to Save Thousands of Lives
Valerie Jones. Taking a Look at Physician-Assisted Death
Conner Nelson. Officer Irresponsibility: How can it Come to a Stop?
Panel The Human Body: Synesthesia, Allergens, and Antibodies
Classroom BB-118
CHAIR: TBA
SPEAKERS: Xiaoling (Judy) Chen. A Call for Standards and Consistency in Allery
Tests

Sahil Noorani (University of Texas Dallas). Cost-Effective Strategy for Large

Scale Preparations of SR-B1 Antibody
Victoria Lambo, Dai Nguyen, & Celeste Watkins. Synesthesia: A Biological and
Cognitive Analysis

11 11:50 SESSION
o Panel Revisiting Fairy Worlds: History, Magic, Controversy, & Context within Fairytale
Traditions
o Conference Room A
CHAIR: Sean Ferrier-Watson
SPEAKERS: Timothy Shyu, Elena R. Bianco, Nathaniel Jensen

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Panel Societal Health Issues

Conference Room B
CHAIR: TBA
SPEAKERS: Gary Stone. Efforts to Improve Strategies for the Prevention of
Ventilator-Assisted Pneumonia
Dia Nguyen. Analysis of Lead in Tap Water using Voltammetry
Juhina Said Al Shamsi (University of North Texas). Emergency Operations
Center: May Flooding Case Study
Elizabeth Fetherman (University of North Texas). Quantifying Mild Blast-induced
Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI) through Acoustic Analysis
Jimmie Arbogast. Infectious Disease: A Pragmatic Appraoch to Solving our
Contemporary Problem

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Panel Philosophy, Metaphysics, and Lucidity

Classroom BB-118
CHAIR: Carl Hassler
SPEAKERS: Anna N. Cavnar. Lucid Dreaming as a Solution for Overcoming
Nightmares and Fears
David Barry. Truth, a Word in Context
Casey Niblett (Southwestern). Heidegger in the Inka Landscape. He Role of
Dwelling and Ontology in Architecture

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Panel
Conference Room D
CHAIR: Susan Grimland

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SPEAKERS: Madeline Keck, Kyla Reedy, Deniz Soysalan, Ekaterina Bryniarski,

Alysha Watkins

Panel Civil Rights

Conference Room E
CHAIR: Whitney Pisani
SPEAKERS: Stephen Dillard. Illegal Immigration in Texas
Miatta Albertha Jackson. Migrant Labor and the US Economy
Michael G. Knox. The Lost Cause: Fact, Heroic Legend, Myth, or Southern
Propaganda?
Zoe Astra. The Panic in Texas: Anti-Transgender Bathroom Bills
Genesis Canales. Sex Trafficking

11:50 12:50 LUNCH, TOP PAPER AWARDS, KEY NOTE SPEAKER

o Conference Room C

1 2:15 SESSION
o Panel Fool me Once..
o Conference Room A
CHAIR: Rebecca Harris
SPEAKERS: Kat Wilds, Rachel Taylor, Allison Smith, Josh Magnum, Hannah
Campbell, Claire Moutcastle, April Maher, Madison Adkins

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Panel RIP: Research in Progress

Conference Room B
CHAIR: Kerry Byrnes-Loinette
SPEAKERS: Interpersonal Communication class

Panel Let Me Entertain You: Challenging the Way Delicate Subjects are thought of and
Discussed through Stand-Up Comedy and Rhetoric. An Honors Communication Studies
Presentation
BE ADVISED: Adult material will be covered in this panel.
Conference Room D
CHAIR: Jenny Warren
SPEAKERS: Vince Venegoni, Paul Dumerer, Chalita Antommarchi, Harley Adolfo

Top Paper Panel The Best of the Best of the 2016 Collin College Undergraduate
Interdisciplinary Student Research Conference

Conference Room E
CHAIR: TBA
SPEAKERS: TBA

Panel Exploring Current Issues: Making Arguments about Race, Immigration, and
Fracking
Classroom BB-132
CHAIR: Lisa Kirby
SPEAKERS: Mona Azzo, Kristen Baxter, Dolunay Kirmizi, Maksym Lysun

2:30 3:45 SESSION

o Panel The Rhetoric of Disaster: Exploring Disasters and their Representation
o Conference Room A
CHAIR: Lisa Kirby
SPEAKERS: Hadar Bernstein, Priscilla Etim, Myriah Ford, Kristie Rogers

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Panel Social Circumstances and Aesthetic Achievement: Contextual Studies in Richard

Wrights Native Son
Conference Room B
CHAIR: James Duban (University of North Texas.). Undergraduate Research and
National Scholarships Program)
SPEAKERS: Stormie Garza (University of North Texas). Perceptual Misadventure:
Booming Rather than Enacting the Stereotype in Wrights Native Son and
Melvilles Benito Cereno
Nicholas Grotowski (University of North Texas). Specious Dialectic in Wrights
Native Son
Rachel Martinez (University of North Texas). The Cognitive Dissonance of Bigger
Thomas
Yacine Ndiaye (University of North Texas). Psychologically Rather than Physically
Dismembered: Reconsideration of Self-Conception in Native Son and Moby-Dick
Molly Riddell (University of North Texas). The Equal of Them: Violence and
Equality in Native Son and The Man Who Was Almost a Man
Rachel Torres . Through His Eyes: Critical Analysis of Wrights Native Son and
Dostoyevskys Crime and Punishment

Panel Damning Hetch Hetchy: The Politics and Controversy

Conference Room D
CHAIR: Thomas Pickens Jr.

SPEAKERS: Justin Holifield, Arcenia Johnson, Christopher Turner, Anatolie

Chernyakhorsky

Panel Crossing the Line: A Rhetorical Analysis of Amy Schumers Roasts of Charlie
Sheen and Roseanne Barr. An Honors Communication Studies Presentation
BE ADVISED: Adult material will be covered in this panel.
Conference Room E
CHAIR: Jenny Warren
SPEAKERS: Amanda Rozell, Brittany Shoemaker, Martha Ahmad. Michael Brady
Rogers, Natalie Mayoral

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Panel Health Issues: Bones and Teeth

Classroom BB-132
CHAIR: Sammer Tekarli
SPEAKER: Felicia Fairfield & Olive Njari. Genetics and Epigenetics Linkage to
Periodontal Disease
America Lince & Linda Tran. Care of Celiac Patients in the Dental Office
Hope Edmiston & Jasmine Friend. The Correlation of Sleep Disorders and Dental
Anxiety with Oral Manifestations
Raquel Jimenez (University of North Texas). Evaluation of TiO2 Nanoscaffolds for
Bicompatible Bone Implants

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Roundtable The Positive and Negative Effects of Texting

Classroom BB-133
CHAIR: Dulce De Castro
SPEAKERS: Kimberly Cepeda, Devin Dupree, Gwendolyn Moores, Anna Sulkova,
Bryan Vasquez, Michael Vasquez, Duncan Weinbender

EVENING SESSIONS for April 13

Unless otherwise indicated, these sessions include presentations by students in the Health
Sciences Academy Program at either Williams High School or Plano East High School. This will be the
first academic conference presentation for each of these high-achieving students!
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5:00 5:30 DINNER served in Conference Room C

5:30 6:20
o Poster Session Dallas Fort Worth Architecture: Research, Critique, and Creative
Response. An Honors Art History class Presentation
o Conference Room C or Hallway
CHAIR: Jill Foltz
PRESENTERS: Jennifer Greer, Jordan Ikeler, Merjen Ishankulyyeva, Laura
Lightfoot, Tori McCormack, Kristen Nickles, Valeriya Petrova, Madison Reeves,
Othman Saymeh, Tanner Severson, Bailey Strenger, June Yuek. Dallas Fort
Worth Architecture: Research, Critique, and Response.

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Panel Hospitals, Vaccines, Fast Food, and End of Life care

Conference Room A
CHAIR: TBA
SPEAKERS: Snipta Mallick. An In Vitro Investigation of into the Behaviors of E.
coli, S. epidermidis, and S. marcescens in the Presence of Type 1 Collagen in the
Extra Cellular Matrix (ECM) of Eukaryotes to Find Methods of Combating
Nosocomical Infections
Noel Baby. Fast, Not Filling
Marian Hamilton. Dying in America: Refuting Standard Medical Procedures for
End of Life Care

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Panel The Sun, Veins, and Saliva

Conference Room B
CHAIR: Judith Gardiner
SPEAKERS: Sarah John. Ray-Sins in the Sun
Andrew Mansour. Layered Man: The Slides of the Body
Steven John. Just Spit It

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Panel The Heart & The Brain

Conference Room D
CHAIR: Karrie Newby
SPEAKERS: Nga Nguyen, Divya Parmer
A Heart Healthy Lifestyle: Facts, Education, and Prevention
Mariyah Qazi. The Amygdala in All Aspects: Awareness Included
Nadia Khan. Lungs for Lifestyle
Michelle Chau. Mindful Movement

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Panel Four Essays in Search of a Theme A Collin College student Presentation

Conference Room E
CHAIR: Cheryl Clark
SPEAKERS: Erin Parker. Choice vs. Life
Mitchel Walker. Global Warming The Debates Heating Up
Shameem (Sam) Malizei. White or Brown?
Eyal Eliezer. Becoming a Cultural Chameleon

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Panel Dance Performance

Classroom BB-124
CHAIR: Angela Payne
PERFORMERS: Mischaelle Buffington, Mornae Wallace, and Ensemble. Breathe
the Dance

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Panel Children
Classroom BB-125
CHAIR: Tanya Sanchez
SPEAKERS: Clarissa Arce, Karilyn Hutchenrider, Yushra Rashid, Adiva Sahar.
Understanding Bruises and Broken Smiles
Tara Desmond, Jaclyn Flores, Kristina Saldivar. Foster Care and its Societal
Function

6:30 7:20
o Panel Cultural Issues
o Conference Room A
CHAIR: Tanya Sanchez
SPEAKERS: Emmanuel Alvarez. Fast Fashion and its Impact on the Earth
Hamaad Akbar. The Effects of Basketball on American Culture and History
Tara Desmond, Sonya Jennings. You are a Tree: A Study in Justice
Ashley Olfield, Ahmad Ishaq. Human Trafficking in Texas
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Panel The Body

Conference Room B
CHAIR: TBA
SPEAKERS: Eden Foreman. Signature Organ Project: How You Ovaries Really Feel
Max Han. Not-So-Small Intestine Song
Gelila Kebede. Hydration 101
Estefania Del Angel. Rectum 101

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Panel Medicinal Issues: Antibiotic Resistance & Medical Marijuana

Conference Room D
CHAIR: Seema Endley
SPEAKERS: Prince Patel. Antibiotic Resistance
Tyreana Byrd, Sarah Orellena, Furyal Archad, Connie Huynh. 411 on the Medical
Marijuana

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Panel Abuse & Pet Therapy

Conference Room E
CHAIR: Karrie Newby
SPEAKERS: Sarah Zaidi, Emma Erskine, Page Lemont, Alex Do, Alanah Williams.
The Power of Silence
Salina Bein, Bryan Mitchell, Mary Nguyen, Desha Terry. Paws for Healing

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Panel Medical
Classroom BB-124
CHAIR: TBA
SPEAKERS: Mariyah Qazi, Yushra Rashid, Adiva Sahar. Connecting the
Unconnected: Brain to Bile
Tarod Anderson, Sonya Jennings, Emily Form, Maria Gonzalez. Scribble of
Thoughts: An Exercise in Art Therapy


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Laura Ochoa. The Un-Useless Appendix

Panel Creative Argument in Multiple Genres: A Collin College student Presentation

Classroom BB-125
CHAIR: Scott Cheney
SPEAKERS: ????? NEED NAMES
THURSDAY, APRIL 14TH

8 8:30 BREAKFAST served in Conference Room C

8:30 9:45 SESSION

o Posters
o Conference Room A
Anagha Krishnan (University of North Texas). Novel Earths Field Magnetic
Resonance Imaging of Copper Chloride
Emily Fuller (Texas Womans University). A Review of Articulation Disorders
Mohammad Salahi (National Science Foundation via UNT labs)
Bihan Jiang, Amber Lu, Sarah Cheeran (University of North Texas). Development
of Fragment Method doe Estimating Solubilities in Environmentally Friendly
Ionic Liquid Solvents
Amy Glazier (Austin College). Towards Understanding the Be Phenomenon:
Observations of Enigmatic, Massive Stars
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Fajhr Qureshi. Short and Long-Term Effects of Intervention by Speech-Language
Pathologists on Communicative-Participant Outcomes as Measured by the Focus
on the Outcomes of Communication Under Six
Frances E. G. Lewis, Tam G. Tran, Stanley C. Uche (University of Texas
Arlington). Search for the mechanism of action of Agelas conifer using bacterial
cytological profiling
Alex N. Sanchez. Twitch and the Growth of ESports
Ryan Albright. Generation of Permutations and Combinations
Rebecca Moore. Evaluating Scuti Variable Star V650 Tau: a review if current CCD
photometry data compared to two prior studies
Ashleigh Flanagan, Kim Ho, Timothy Shyu. Genetic Analysis of Antibiotic
Resistant Bacteria in Local Soil Samples
Collin College Humanities Department, sponsored by Peggy Brown.
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Panel History is Everything: Blood, Guts, and Outer Space

Conference Room B
CHAIR: Kyle Wilkison
SPEAKERS: Ashley Roberts. Folklores Dark Side: Murder Ballads, Warning Songs
Kori Jones. From Butcher to Suture: A History of Surgical Procedures
Jarrett Graham. From Enemies to Allies: Americans and Russians in Space

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Panel Mental illness

Conference Room D
CHAIR: Kay Mizell
SPEAKERS: Matthew Uselton, Hannah Hightower, McKenzie Parker

Panel Productive Frustration: Twentieth-Century Experimental Literature. An Honors

English Presentation
Conference Room E
CHAIR: Scott Cheney
SPEAKERS: Emily Gomez, Kyoungju Park, Matthew Pratt, Jacob Pena

Emma DeVine. Assessing Genetic Variation in an Unusual Fern

10 11:15 SESSION
o Panel Intuition: Self-Defense against Manipulation and Deception
o Conference Room A
CHAIR: Rebecca Harris
SPEAKERS: Garrett R. Zettel, Dani Mitchel, Nick Cutlip, Imani White, Kristen
White

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Panel Contemporary History: Singers, Dancers, Bankers, Spies

Conference Room B
CHAIR: Kyle Wilkison
SPEAKERS: Vince Leuterio. American Music is World Music
Marianne Lancy. There are Spies Among Us
Darhyl Stefan Mounienguet Bindzi Iboudah. The Banksters: Origins of the Great
Crash of 2008
Arianna Haynes. Lost Generation of Artists in the 1920s

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Panel TCU: Departmental Honors Projects across the Disciplines

Conference Room D
CHAIR: Wendy Williams (Texas Christian University, John V. Roach Honors
College)
SPEAKERS: Brien Twomey. Mobile Apps: privacy Attitudes, & User Behaviors
(TCU Business Information Systems student)
Victoria (Tori) Cress. Interact: A Theatre Experience for the Modern Audience
(TCU Chemistry, Theatre student)
Haley Schroer. Race versus Reality: The Creation and Extension of the Racial
Caste System in Colonial Spanish America (TCU History student)
Maddie Bailey. Legitimacy and Economic Shock: An Examination of PostCommunist Countries (TCU Political Science, Economics student)

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Roundtable Multimodal Digital Projects in the World Literature Classroom

Conference Room E
CHAIR: Gretchen Busl (Texas Womans University)
SPEAKERS: Kira Cheek (Texas Womans University). Themes of Justice in the
Odyssey and The Tempest
Elizabeth Headrick (Texas Womans University). The Heros Adventure Myth: A
Travel Blog
Bethany Powell (Texas Womans University). Loyalty vs. Servitude: Pinterest
Boards Curated from the Perspective of Odysseus, with comments from Don
Quixote
Nadiyah Suleiman (Texas Womans University). Conflicts of Family, Duty, and
Power using a Dictators Anonymous discussion board populated from the
perspective of Shahryar and King Creon
Megan Stacy (Texas Womans University). Female Agency using OK Cupid
Profiles Created from the Perspective of Miranda, Scheherazade, and Penelope

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Panel The Complexity of American Literature: Writers, Themes, and Ideas

Classroom I-116
CHAIR: Lisa Kirby
SPEAKERS: Ashley Jackson, Lindsey Kline, Michelle Leddon
11:30 12:20 STUDENT SUCCESS WORKSHOPS
12:25 12:45 LUNCH

1 2:15 SESSION
o Panel A Classless Society: Exploring Social Class in American Culture
o Conference Room A
CHAIR: Lisa Kirby
SPEAKERS: Emily Cavanaugh, Aude Dikosso-Seme, Stephanie Rojas

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Panel Adaptation and Appropriation: Fundamental to the Practice and Enjoyment of

Literature
Conference Room B
CHIAR: Ashley Bender (Texas Womans University)
SPEAKERS: Shellie Elliott, Saffyre Falkenberg, Jaclyn Kilman, Emily Nickles, Alexis
Pereira, Morgan Staskus (Texas Womans University)

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Performance Inmates, a new play by Sam Kumpe

ALT Theatre B-148
CHAIRS: Brad Baker & Gail Cronauer
PERFORMERS: Nioaka Banuelos, Hayden Chauffe, Theresa Keller, Cameron
Khoshgam, Sam Kumpe, Aaron Pareli, Shelby Weems

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Panel Dropout Rates across the United States

Conference Room D
CHAIR: Kay Mizell
SPEAKERS: Jose Trejo-Trejo, Jake Morales, Jai Neliameli

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Panel Justice in America: Considerations on Prisons, Police, and Mental Health

Conference Room E
CHAIR: Michael Schueth
SPEAKERS: Matthew Meyer. A Perpetual State of Crisis: The Ethical problems
of Prisons Summary
Jessica Reedy. The Destitute Mental Health Care Treatment of Prisoners in
Americas Correction System
Regina Bianco. Fixing the System: Training Reform for Police Officers and the
Disabled
Sean Atkinson. The Irrational nature of White Collar Crime Sentencing
Guidelines

2:30 3:45 SESSION

o Panel History is Unafraid: Equality and Justice for All
o Conference Room A
CHAIR: Kyle Wilkison
SPEAKERS: Peter Whitfield. Henry George and Catholicism: A Rocky Relationship
Brittany Shoemaker. Breaking and Entering: Women in the American Courtroom
Jason Riley. AIM for Equality: Americans and the American Indian Movement
Mphatso Queency Kachete Preachers on the Other Side: MLKs Opponents
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Panel "Mapping the Terrain of Struggle: Research Topics in Early American Literature"
Conference Room B
CHAIR: Lisa Roy-Davis
Courtney Rohde: "The Black Hoof: Sarah Kemble Knight and the
Dehumanization of Enslaved People"
Philip Galuban: "The Struggle for Black Women in the First Wave Feminist
Movement"
Marzia Mariwala: "Perception of Power and Ego: Edgar Allan Poe's Obsessive
Character in "The Telltale Heart""
Robin Thompson: "Analyzing "The Raven" through the Lens of Elizabeth KblerRoss's Stages of Grief"
Griffin McMillin: "The Success and Failure of the Black Hawk Biography"

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Panel University of Texas at Dallas. Papers of Jewish Persecution

Conference Room D
CHAIR: Debra Pfister (University of Texas at Dallas)
SPEAKERS: Daniel Dunham (University of Texas at Dallas). Amidah: Jewish
Resistance to the Holocaust
Tazeen Rizvi (University of Texas at Dallas). Rising Against Atrocity: Medicine
during the Holocaust
Kaitlyn Boone (University of Texas at Dallas). Jiri Weils Writings: Resistance in
the Face of Jewish Persecution
Rebekka Michaelson (University of Texas at Dallas). Representing Guilt: A
Review of Judgement at Nuremberg (1961)

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Panel Media & Literature: A Connection

Conference Room E
CHAIR: Michael Baker
SPEAKERS: TBA, Herman. Romeo & Juliet, Version 2.0
Hildaluz A. Enriquez. The Role Media Plays in War: Military Sources vs. Civilian
Media

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Alan Skelton (University of North Texas). Topological Performance. Kader Attias

Arab Spring, 2015
Anna Minna Shupp (Texas State University). Western Pop Culture Depictions of
Jinn. You Aint Never Had a Friend Like Me
Meghan Kajihara (University of North Texas). Star Trek and the Non-Binary
Individual

Panel Applications for Math & Science

Classroom BB-132
CHAIR: TBA
SPEAKERS: Naomi Beltrand. Radars in Stealth Technologies and the Algorithms
that Bring them Success
Ellen Beth Robinson (Texas State University). A New Interpretation of the Matric
Tree Theorem Using Weak Walk Contributors and Circle Activation
Madeline Sensebe. Exterminating the Trolls and Griefers: A Look into
Harassment in Online Gaming and What can be Done About it.
Yogesh Shah. Cyber Crimes, their Effect and our National Plans for Cybersecurity