| Oral Session 1A (8:00 - 9:00, Room 101) | |||
| Time | Author(s) | Abstract Title | Mentor(s) |
| 8:00 | Baker, Daniel | Precipitation chemistry at Mount Rainier Paradise Ranger Station collection site | Dr. Anne Johansen, Chemistry |
| 8:15 | Collar, Catharine | Molecular modeling and statistical analysis of HIV-1 protease inhibitors | Dr. Levente Fabry-Asztalos, Chemistry |
| 8:30 | Dawson, Brennan B. | Mechanisms of energy transfer and VUV-induced degradation in BaMgAl10O17:Eu2+ | Dr. Anthony L. Diaz, Chemistry |
| 8:45 | Mixon, Dustin | Complex measurement of presence | Dr. Tim Englund, Mathematics |
| Oral Session 2A (8:00 - 9:15, Room 147) | |||
| Time | Author(s) | Abstract Title | Mentor(s) |
| 8:00 | Hect, Krista | The mating & waiting series | Dr. Stephen Chalmers, Art |
| 8:15 | McGinnis, Kathryn | Re-visioning feminism: toward a unifying approach | Dr. Shari Stoddard, Art; Dr. Eric Bullock, Chemistry |
| 8:30 | Thomson, Jonathan | Absurd creation: Camus's role of the artist as detailed in his philosophy and displayed in his literary output | Dr. Webster Hood, Philosophy |
| 8:45 | Jendro, Bethany | Linguistic relativity and Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop | Dr. Xingzhong Li, English |
| 9:00 | Green, Mark | Consolation of time: fictionalized philosophy in the prison works of Boethius and Messiaen | Dr. Margaret Gries, Music |
| Oral Session 3A (8:00 - 9:15, Room 216) | |||
| Time | Author(s) | Abstract Title | Mentor(s) |
| 8:00 | Szymanska, Ewa | Abstract art: immediate visual stimulus supercedes textual information in students’ judgments of creativity | Dr. Robert Sorrells, Psychology |
| 8:15 | Phillips, Melissa | Examining Callimico goeldii (Goeldi’s monkey) social interactions between an “unfit” mother, a father, and the offspring | Dr. Megan Matheson, Psychology; Stephanie Forbes and Roz Sealy, Woodland Park Zoo |
| 8:30 | Ronning, Lisa | The child development theories of Lewis Terman and literary representations of children in the early twentieth-century: a comparison | Dr. Warren Street, Psychology; Dr. Christopher Schedler, English |
| 8:45 | Hanberg, Jackie | A study of the introduction of twin hand-reared Varecia variegata rubra infants to their father and an island exhibit | Dr. Megan Matheson, Psychology |
| 9:00 | Talbot, Brett; Tomaszewski, Erin; Martinez, Gerardo | Response competition in the shape domain: effects on response latencies | Dr. Wendy A. Williams, Psychology |
| Oral Session 1B (9:45 - 10:45, Room 101) | |||
| Time | Author(s) | Abstract Title | Mentor(s) |
| 9:45 | Musselman, Andrew | A study of randomness in the output of simple programs | Dr. Dan Curtis, Mathematics |
| 10:00 | Mixon, Dustin; Miller, Seth; Pickett, Jonathan | Rule of thumb: prints beat DNA | Dr. Stuart Boersma, Mathematics |
| 10:15 | Heinz, Steven and Curtiss, Mark | Plugflate: conflation using interprogram communication | Dr. Boris Kovalerchuck, Computer Science |
| 10:30 | Stefik, Andreas; Curtiss, Mark; Harris, Melissa | Genetic algorithm solutions for automatic conversion between microtonal music notation systems | Drs. Ed Gellenbeck and Razvan Andonie, Computer Science |
| Oral Session 2B (9:30 - 10:45, Room 147) | |||
| Time | Author(s) | Abstract Title | Mentor(s) |
| 9:30 | Arisawa, Kumiko | Three as a spiritual number in Japanese | Dr. Penglin Wang, Anthropology |
| 9:45 | Baker, Caleb | A phenomenological defense for religious experience | Dr. Webster Hood, Philosophy |
| 10:00 | Fernandes, Nuno | Being aware of consciousness | Dr. Jeffrey Dippmann, Philosophy |
| 10:15 | Charlton, Paul | Moral disagreement and moral dialogue: discourse ethics as an alternative to moral relativism | Dr. Cynthia Coe, Philosophy |
| 10:30 | Morris, Cindy; Hall, Maranda; Schultz, Erin; Davenport, Janette | The effect of forgiveness on physical, psychological, and spiritual well-being | Dr. Susan Lonborg, Psychology |
| Oral Session 3B (9:30 - 10:45, Room 216) | |||
| Time | Author(s) | Abstract Title | Mentor(s) |
| 9:30 | Hallows, Juliana | Training for multicultural competence in counseling: a review of programs and counselors in Washington | Dr. Neal Bowen, Psychology |
| 9:45 | Diebert, Marebeth | Using analytic hierarchy process in choosing a college major | Dr. Ozden Bayazit, Business Administration |
| 10:00 | Coonan, Kathleen | A policy analysis of able emergency health care in Kittitas County, Washington from 2001-2003 | Dr. Rex Wirth, Public Policy |
| 10:15 | Washines, Emily | Water, agricultural development, and the Yakamas | Dr. Rex Wirth, Public Policy |
| 10:30 | Casteel, Evan | Global management competency: perceptions of CWU students | Dr. A. Gregory Cant, Business Administration |
| Poster Session 1 (12:30 - 2:00, second floor) | |||
| Poster No. | Author(s) | Abstract Title | Mentor(s) |
| 1 | Horrell, Sarah | Impact of deregulation on air quality | Dr. Rex Wirth, Public Policy |
| 2 | Patrick, Devin | Forest management policy | Dr. Rex Wirth, Public Policy |
| 3 | Hammond, Naomi | Life patenting | Dr. Rex Wirth, Public Policy |
| 4 | Kojima, Mika and McGill, John | Public perceptions of police in a small university town | Dr. Charles Reasons, Law And Justice |
| 5 | Radford, Lillian; Giles, Joanna; Grant, Paul; Owen-Tara, Kupala; Rudorfer, Kimberly | An examination of restorative justice in Washington State Teen Courts | Dr. Yvonne Chapman, Law and Justice |
| 6 | O'Gara, Rebekah | Swearing and college | Dr. Natalie Lefkowitz, Foreign Languages |
| 7 | Larsen, Janae | Pregnant pauses: language the expecting can expect | Dr. Natalie Lefkowitz, Foreign Language |
| 8 | Richied, Donna | Louisiana French language death: blending of Creole and Cajun | Dr. Natalie Lefkowitz, Foreign Language |
| 9 | Jordan, Jeremy | The language of study abroad: attitudes and acquisition | Dr. Natalie Lefkowitz, Foreign Languages |
| 10 | Jones, David S. | Yanks and yokels: CWU students' subjective reactions to southern American English | Dr. Natalie Lefkowitz, Foreign Languages |
| 11 | Bianco, Britni | Decriminalization of marijuana in the United States | Dr. Rex Wirth, Political Science |
| 12 | Houlihan, Meggan and Balasundaram, Sara | Resampling the southern Washington Cascade archaeological record: are we representative yet? | Dr. Patrick McCutcheon, Anthropology |
| 13 | Gray, Ian | Native American toponyms in Chelan, Kittitas, and Yakima counties | Dr. Steve Hackenberger, Anthropology |
| 14 | Gray, Ian | Semantic patterns in Amerindian ethnonyms | Dr. Penglin Wang, Anthropology |
| 15 | Lawrence, Karlyn | A reexamination of Scheuer and Elkington's sex determination method | Dr. John Alsoszatai-Petheo, Anthropology |
| 16 | Vertz, Rene | Sexing and pairing the ulna | Dr. John Alsoszatai-Petheo, Anthropology |
| 17 | Lynch, Michelle and Badertscher, Kimber | Identification of mammal bones from the Grissom archaeological site in the Kittitas Valley | Dr. Patrick Lubinski, Anthropology |
| 18 | Shellenberger, Jon | Native American dance: A window on the past, present, and future | Dr. Tracy J. Andrews, Anthropology |
| 19 | Torres-Jenkins, Irene | Change blindness: unconscious or conscious memory? | Dr. Marte Fallshore, Psychology |
| 20 | Allen, Carlys | An exploration of domestic violence beliefs and attitudes | Dr. Karen R. Hendricks, Psychology |
| 21 | McCune, Elizabeth | Enhancing environmental conservation behavior | Dr. James Eubanks, Psychology |
| 22 | Durbin, Malissa | Contributions to the scholarship of teaching: effects of student self-assessment accuracy training on scientific writing effectiveness | Dr. James Eubanks, Psychology |
| 23 | Clem, Aimee; Hansen, Emily; Kutrich, Laurie; Wiseley, Laura | Elementary students eat more and waste less when recess is scheduled before lunch | Drs. Ethan Bergman and Nancy Buergel, Food Science Nutrition; Dr. Tim Englund, Mathematics |
| Oral Session 1C (1:30 - 3:45, Room 101) | |||
| Time | Author(s) | Abstract Title | Mentor(s) |
| 1:30 | Santangelo, Steven and Carmichael, Jeremy | Skin hosts the sex pheromones in the tailed frog | Dr. Lixing Sun, Biological Sciences |
| 1:45 | Mullen, Lindy and Buchan, Arthur | Respiration in mountain stream adapted salamanders: consequences for the evolution of lunglessness and conservation management. | Drs. Steve Wagner and Patrick Bryan, Biology; Dr. Tim Englund, Mathematics |
| 2:00 | Fine, Nichole L. Y. | A phylogenetic study of Podocarpaceae | Dr. Linda A. Raubeson, Biological Sciences |
| 2:15 | Paulk, Nicole K. | The effects of malathion and glyphosate on the survival and development of the Cascades frog (Rana cascadae) | Dr. R. Steven Wagner, Biology |
| 2:30 | Freih, Seana; Buchan, Arthur; King, Jeff; Weaver, Robert | Effects of castration on predator avoidance of lab rats, Rattus norvegicus | Dr. Lixing Sun, Biology |
| 2:45 | Ballou, Paul | Mint composting | Dr. Steven Verhey, Biology |
| 3:00 | Bonds, Noah | Testing phytotoxicity of mint waste | Dr. Steve Verhey, Biology |
| 3:15 | Phillips, Melissa | Discovery of novel transfer RNA (trn) gene locations in conifer chloroplast genomes | Dr. Linda Raubeson, Biology |
| 3:30 | Payton, Quinn; Husko, Tara; Lopez, Misael | Beating the odds: using a popular video game to bet on professional football | Drs. Yvonne Chueh and C.T. Lin, Mathematics |
| Oral Session 2C (1:30 - 3:45, Room 147) | |||
| Time | Author(s) | Abstract Title | Mentor(s) |
| 1:30 | Banyai-Riepl, Chris | “Cheerful as a morgue”: Tolstoy’s Sebastopol Sketches and reform in Russia, 1855-1861 | Dr. Roxanne Easley, History |
| 1:45 | Bradley, Michael | The Umtanum bridge: a case study | Dr. Beth Rogers, Industrial and Engineering Technology |
| 2:00 | Johnson, Rachel | “The spirit and the conscience must be free”: Catholic women’s response to the Protestant Reformation in the Holy Roman Empire | Dr. Roxanne Easley, History |
| 2:15 | Johnson, Rachel | Divine justification: the German peasants' revolt of 1525 | Dr. Roxanne Easley, History |
| 2:30 | Cole, Mark | Hors d'oeuvre of progress: the dynamic economy of eighteenth century Russia | Dr. Roxanne Easley, History |
| 2:45 | Charlebois, Mikelle | Workers, democracy and Tiananmen Square | Dr. James Cook, History |
| 3:00 | Birks, Rachael | The freedmen remember: an analysis of the Slave Narrative Collection's reliability | Dr. Daniel Herman, History |
| 3:15 | Laurent, Patrice | The wicked witch of Europe: female sexuality and witchcraft in the Middle Ages | Dr. Roxanne Easley, History |
| 3:30 | Roy, Alyson | Crisis in the west: agricultural legislation in 1930s Montana | Drs. Dan Herman, Ken Munsell and Karen Blair, History |
| Music performance (4:00 - 4:30, 1st floor lobby) | |||
| 4:00 | Dorsett, Katherine; Inglin, Aaron; Foerstel, Christopher; Leslie, Ben | Gestalt quartet | Drs. Carrie Rehkopf-Michel, John Michel, Scott Hosfeld and Sally Singer, Music |
| Poster Session 2 (3:30 - 5:00, first floor) | |||
| Poster No. | Author(s) | Abstract Title | Mentor(s) |
| 24 | Miller, Seth | Determining rate constants for pi-conjugated polymers using transient absorption | Dr. David Laman, Physics |
| 25 | Puzas, Mark | Development of a nanosecond transient reflectance spectrometer | Dr. David Laman, Physics |
| 26 | Schwab, Johnathan | Bose-Einstein condensates use in atom lasers | Sharon Rosell, Physics |
| 27 | Tinsley, Bronnie | Mode-locking of a dye laser | Dr. David Laman, Physics |
| 28 | Fernandez, Jared | Variable temperature virtual star | Dr. Michael Braunstein, Physics |
| 29 | Lam, Natalie | Basic adaptive optics: stabilization of a laser beam using a closed-loop servo system | Dr. David Laman, Physics |
| 30 | Wagner, Greg | An environmental study of wind farm noise | Dr. Andy Piacsek, Physics |
| 31 | Holiday, Jean L. and Venator, Sarah | Earthquake hazards and Quaternary geology of the Longitudinal Valley Fault, southeastern Taiwan | Dr. Charles Rubin, Geosciences |
| 32 | Mattos, Seth; Salisbury, Morgan; Ringdahl Stein, Malin; Pease, Victoria | Crystal size distribution evidence for magma recharge at Stromboli Volcano, Italy | Dr. Wendy Bohrson, Geological Sciences |
| 33 | Fetters, Jeff | Geomorphology of the Upper Naneum Creek Basin, Washington | Dr. Karl Lillquist, Geography |
| 34 | Marcell, Janielle; Sauermilch, Laura; Smith, Jessica | Stream channel dynamics | Dr. Lisa Ely, Geology; Dr. Daniel Beck, Biology |
| 35 | LaBar, Rebekah J. | A long-term balance between drought and wet years for hay crops in east central Washington | Dr. Anthony Abbott, Geography |
| 36 | Collar, Catharine; Trosper, Tabitha; Brenner, Shiran | Soil relationships in desert and tropical deciduous forest: temperature, moisture, and pH in relation to depth and distance from arroyos | Dr. Daniel Beck, Biological Sciences; Dr. Lisa Ely, Geological Sciences |
| 37 | Mixon, Dustin | Special cases of Dirichlet's Theorem | Dr. James Harper, Mathematics |
| 38 | Gossage, Chris; Moss, Dan; Grant, Taylor | An analysis of airline ticket pricing in the Seattle market | Dr. Yvonne Chueh, Math |
| 39 | Thompson, Dan | Comparison of construction scheduling software | Dr. William Bender, Construction Management |
| 40 | Hagen, Valerie | Web internationalization | Dr. Ed Gellenbeck, Computer Science |
| 41 | Leguizamo, Maria D. | A study on the clothing industry | Drs. Yvonne Chueh and Cen-Tsong Lin, Mathematics |
| 42 | Brewer, Matthew and Flaugh, Daryk | A quantitative model for assessment of undergraduate critical thinking | Dr. Ian Quitadamo, Biological Sciences And Science Education; Dr. Martha Kurtz, Chemistry And Science Education |
| 43 | Boettger, JJ | A comparison of the third grade ITBS scores to the forth grade WASL scores. | Dr. Yvonne Chueh, Mathematics |
| 44 | Goedecke, Patricia | Intonation of exclamatory questions, sincere or sarcastic? | Drs. Yvonne Chueh and C.T. Lin, Mathematics; Dr. Loretta Gray, English |
| 45 | Gimlin, Justin and Smith, Gabe | Micotil -vs- Nuflor: does Nuflor's performance warrant the extra expense? | Dr. Yvonne Chueh, Actuary Science |
| Poster Session 3 (3:30 - 5:00, first floor) | |||
| Poster No. | Author(s) | Abstract Title | Mentor(s) |
| 46 | Schwarz, Sarah | Herbicide effects on Western Toad (Bufo boreas) survivability and metamorphosis. | Dr. Steve Wagner, Biology |
| 47 | Dean, Eric | Conservation and phylogeography of Van Dyke’s salamander (plethodon vandykei) | Dr. R. Steven Wagner, Biology |
| 48 | Cauble, Katherine | Herbicide effects on the metamorphosis of amphibian larvae (Rana cascadae). | Dr. Steven Wagner, Biological Sciences |
| 49 | Layman, Jacob | Respiration effects of malathion and glyphosate on Western Toad (Bufo boreas) metamorphs. | Dr. Steven Wagner, Biological Sciences |
| 50 | Layman, Jacob | Distribution of Hawaiian Shrimp Gobies on the windward and leeward sides of Coconut Island, Kaneohe Bay, Oahu, Hawaii | Dr. Paul James, Biology |
| 51 | Bauer, Blake; Guyette, Lawrence; Clubb, Matt | Lizard species along an elevational gradient in Tropical Dry Forest of Sonora Mexico | Dr. Daniel Beck, Biology |
| 52 | Phillips, Melissa | Microstructural variation in the trnH-psbA region of the chloroplast genome of conifers | Dr. Linda Raubeson, Biology |
| 53 | Ansingh, Meagan and Smith, Gayle | Discovery towards novel HIV/AIDS therapies: molecular modeling of HIV-1 protease inhibitors | Dr. Levente Fabry-Asztalos, Chemistry |
| 54 | Jackson, Stephanie | Temporal changes of microbial life in a water column of Soap Lake | Dr. Holly Pinkart, Biology |
| 55 | Hartney, Sierra | Techniques to identify haloalkaliphilic algae in Soap Lake, Washington | Dr. Holly Pinkart, Biology |
| 56 | Simonson, Brita | Mineral precipitating bacteria of Soap Lake, WA | Dr. Holly Pinkart, Biology |
| 57 | Inman, Matthew; Skanse, Laura ; Hunn, Sam | Coral reef water quality | Drs. Patrick Bryan and Paul James, Biology |
| 58 | Mullen, Lindy; Lannoye, Jennifer; Schuenemann, Bob | Distribution of invertebrate communities among coral rubble on windward and leeward sides of a reef flat in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii. | Drs. Patrick Bryan and Paul James, Biology |
| 59 | Namihira, Yukihiro | Information content in chemical signals: why do beavers respond to a wrong species? | Dr. Lixing Sun, Biological Sciences |
| 60 | Flaugh, Dayrk and Collins, Derek | Rodent burrow orientation and structure | Dr. Daniel Beck, Biology |
| 61 | Jackson, Lindsey and Saulibio, Dana | Burrow size preference of the Stomatopod, Gonodactylus mutatus | Dr. Patrick Bryan, Biology |
| 62 | Freih, Seana and Yourkowski, Eden | Investigation of substrate preference by the Conspicuous Sea Cucumber, Opheodesoma spectabilis | Drs. Paul James and Patrick Bryan, Biology |
| 63 | Werner, Lacey | Hawaiian Cleaner Wrasse and their client fish species | Drs. Paul James and Patrick Bryan, Biology |
| 64 | Cheshier, Joshua and Jacobsen, Jill | A survey of percent ground cover of three coral species around coconut island | Dr. Patrick Bryan, Biology |
| 65 | Betz, Jonathan | Seed rain composition of fire disturbed forests | Dr. Tom Cottrell, Biology |