The oral presentations are split into eight sessions and take place in five different rooms: Chittenden Room (413), Frank Livak Ballroom (417), Jost Foundation Room (422), Mildred Livak Ballroom (419), and Williams Family Room (403). For details, please see the schedule, below.
OR see the oral presentation schedule organized alphabetically.
Collaborations
Please note that the following students are part of collaborations and are listed under the name of their group:
SESSIONS
| Morning: | 8:00 - 8:45 | 9:00 - 9:45 | 10:00 - 10:45 | 11:00 - 12:00 |
| Afternoon: | 12:30 - 1:15 | 1:30 - 2:15 | 2:30 - 3:15 | 3:30 - 4:30 |
| 8:00 | Chelsea Davidoff | Creating Taste of Place for Vermont: An Analysis of Consumers’ Willingness to Pay (Advisor: Jane Kolodinsky) |
| 8:15 | Meagan Pharis | Evaluating Nutrition Intervention Programs: A Social Cognitive Theory Approach (Advisor: Jane Kolodinsky) |
| 8:30 | Matthew Putnam | Leverage Points for a Healthier Future: Using Structural Equation Modeling to Understand Obesity (Advisor: Jane Kolodinsky) |
| 8:00 | Frederick Naumann | Volatile Testing for Rapid Diagnosis of Tuberculosis (Advisor: Jane Hill) |
| 8:15 | Josh Tyler | Advanced and Integrative Model of Phosphorus loading from High Runoff Events to Identify Critical Source Areas (Advisor: Jane Hill) |
| 8:30 | Christina Syrrakou | Numerical Modeling and Experimental Investigation of the Local Hydrology of a Porous Concrete Site (Jennifer Fitch; Advisor: George Pinder) |
| 8:00 | Alexandra Miller | Laboratory Rearing of the Brown Marmorated Stink Bug for Biological Control Research to Benefit Vermont Growers. (Advisor: Bruce Parker) |
| 8:15 | Guorong Wang | Bonding strength, microstructure, and shelf life stability of whey protein-based glue sticks (Advisor: Ming Guo) |
| 8:30 | Kristen Leclerc | Relationship Among Physical Activity, Balance, Stress, and Coping in Adults with Multiple Sclerosis (Advisor: Susan Kasser) |
| 8:00 | Jordan Armstron | Ovipositional ability of geographic poulations of Colorado potato beetle Leptinotarsa decemlineata on native and novel host (Advisor: Yolanda Fanslow) |
| 8:30 | Jacqueline LeBlanc | Alternative Food Network Infrastructure: Food Hub Development in Vermont (Advisor: David Conner) |
| 8:30 | Victor Izzo | Plant-mediated diapuse initiation in Leptinotarsa decemlineata, the Colorado potato beetle. (Advisor: Yolanda Fanslow) |
| 8:00 | Bijoux Bahati | A Refugee Young Adult’s Acculturation Experiences and Processes in a United States High School: An Autoethnography (Advisor: Susan Comerford) |
| 8:15 | Sarah Bush | We're Not Made of Metal (Advisor: Cameron Davis) |
| 8:30 | Kelly Swindlehurst | A Statewide Survey of Response to Instruction (RtI) Implementation (Advisor: Katharine Shepherd) |
| 9:00 | Florence Becot | Economic Impact and Policy Implications of Food Safety Certification on Produce Farms in Vermont (Advisor: David Conner) |
| 9:15 | Laurel Valchuis | Exploring the Relationship between Engagement with the Food System and Healthy Eating (Advisor: David Conner) |
| 9:30 | Chloe Wieland | Evaluation of Growing Vermont Store (Advisor: David Conner) |
| 9:00 | Abigail Gurall | Emotional Vulnerabilities in Women Diagnosed with Infertility (Jessica Clifton; Advisor: Alessandra Rellini) |
| 9:15 | Kelsey Duquette | Endothelial Health and Vaginal Vasocongestion (Advisor: Alessandra Rellini) |
| 9:30 | Gena Zollman | Sexual Scripts Congruency and Sexual Responses in Women (Advisor: Alessandra Rellini) |
| 9:00 | Benjamin Vaughan | Synthesis and Characterization of Zinc Complexes and their Reactivity Towards Primary Phosphines (Advisor: Rory Waterman) |
| 9:15 | Karla Erickson | Explorations in main group mediated catalysis: phosphine dehydrocoupling and the search for silane activation (Advisor: Rory Waterman) |
| 9:30 | Neil Mucha | Catalytic Dehydrocoupling of Phosphines Towards the Preparation and Characterization of π-conjugated Materials (Advisor: Rory Waterman) |
| 9:00 | Daniel DePuccio | Synthesis and characterization of mesoporous tungsten oxide spheres (Advisor: Christopher Landry) |
| 9:15 | Alexandra Duncan | Gadolinium-Phosphate Complexes with Large Relaxivities Immobilized on Silica Particles for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) (Advisor: Christopher Landry) |
| 9:30 | Alden Clemments | Intracellular Trafficking of Silica Microparticles (Advisor: Christopher Landry) |
| 9:00 | Jon Black | Wearing My Veins (Advisor: Anthony Grudin) |
| 9:15 | Amy Goodnough | Explaining an exception: Generating Hungarian verbal affix order (Advisor: Emily Manetta) |
| 9:30 | Theodora Ziolkowski | Excavating Desire (Advisor: Major Jackson) |
| 10:00 | Xiaoxi Liu | Construction of N-Heterocycles via Aza-Prins Cyclization and 1,3-Dipolar Cycloaddition (Advisor: Stephen Waters) |
| 10:15 | Michael McCormack | Application of a 2-aza-Cope 1,3-Dipolar Cycloaddition Cascade Toward the Total Synthesis of VM55599 (Advisor: Stephen Waters) |
| 10:30 | Ali Bayir | Macrocycles through fragmentation of bicyclic ring systems (Nikolay P. Tsvetkov; Advisor: Matthias Brewer) |
| 10:00 | Kaitlyn Vitez | Reconsidering Female Circumcision (Advisor: David Houston) |
| 10:15 | Emily Jessep | Darker Shades of Green: The Dilemmas of Green Consumerism (Advisor: Luis Vivanco) |
| 10:30 | Alex Lehning | The "Jewish Question" in German-Italian Relations, 1933-1943 (Advisor: Francis Nicosia) |
| 10:00 | Yanting Zhang | Orthogonality Catastrophe in Quantum Sticking (Advisor: Dennis Clougherty) |
| 10:15 | Meghan Thompson | ENGINEERED LOG JAM DESIGN AND ITS IMPACT ON CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY: A FLUME EXPERIMENT (Advisor: Maeve McBride) |
| 10:30 | Zhao Li | Descriptive Clustering Meta Search Engine (Advisor: Xindong Wu) |
| 10:00 | Jacob Menken | Crystal Structure Study of Tourmalines from the Stewart Mine, California (Advisor: John Hughes) |
| 10:15 | Rebecca Calder | Expression and biological activity of recombinant bovine IL-22: a key cytokine in mucosal defenses (Advisor: John Barlow) |
| 10:30 | Todd Stanley | Evaluating the Nutritional Status of the Thru-Hiking Community (Advisor: Jean Harvey-Berino) |
| 10:00 | Yucan Zhang | Light Regulation of Nodulation Through Plant Hormone Signaling Network (Advisor: Jeanne Harris) |
| 10:15 | Ryan Melnichuk | Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Forest Invaders (Advisor: Josef Gorres) |
| 10:30 | Tharshani Nishanthan | Role of soil microbial extracellular enzymes in soybean cyst nematode suppressive soil (Advisor: Deborah Neher Weicht) |
| 11:15 | Karuna Jobanputra | Gender, dowry/brideprice, and land in southern Tamil Nadu and Southern Rajasthan: A participatory rural appraisal (Advisor: Stephanie Kaza) |
| 11:30 | Aaron Witham | Organizational Characteristics that Relate to a Central Presence in Hyperlink Networks in the Context of Sustainable Transportation (Advisor: Richard Watts) |
| 11:45 | Rebecca Pincus | Impact of Climate Change on US Coast Guard Strategy in the Arctic (Advisor: Saleem Ali) |
| 11:00 | Nicholas Allgaier | Reverse Engineering the Human Brain (Advisor: Christopher Danforth) |
| 11:15 | Suma Desu | The Happiness of Language (Advisor: Christopher Danforth) |
| 11:30 | Eitan Pechenick | Joining Words into Meaningful Phrases through Virtual Text Compression (Advisor: Peter Dodds) |
| 11:45 | Kameron Harris | Chaotic social contagion: From zombies to hipsters (Advisor: Peter Dodds) |
| 11:00 | Meagan Quinlan | Functional expression of wild type cGMP-dependent protein kinase Iα in E.coli (Advisor: Wolfgang Dostmann) |
| 11:15 | Whitney Roth | Women and Their Essential Role in the Development of Purgatory (Advisor: Vicki Brennan) |
| 11:30 | Ariel Robbins | Frenchwomen and the Vichy Ideal: Social Policy, Choice, and Daily Life under German Occupation in World War II. (Advisor: Steven Zdatny) |
| 11:45 | Daniel Garcia | Corporate Social Responsibility: A Panacea to an Economic Malaise (Advisor: Stephanie Seguino) |
| 11:00 | Catherine McGoldrick | Post-Relocation Analysis of Compost Runoff at the Intervale Composting Facility, Burlington, VT (Advisor: Donald Ross) |
| 11:15 | Thomas Gebhard | Monitoring E. coli levels throughout the Englesby Brook: Summer 2011 (Advisor: ) |
| 11:30 | Rachel Brooks | Proteomic Signatures of Experimentally Manipulated Pitcher Plant Communities and Their Corresponding State Changes (Advisor: Nicholas Gotelli) |
| 11:45 | Danika Frisbie | An Evolutionary Analysis of the “Organics Recycling” Industry in the U.S. (Advisor: Rocki-Lee DeWitt) |
| 11:00 | Eliza Gardner-Morse | Reproductive Division of Labor in Forced Associations of Pogonomyrmex barbatus Queen Ants (Advisor: Sara Cahan) |
| 11:15 | Allison Neal | How might transmission affect the sex ratio of malaria parasites? (Advisor: Joseph Schall) |
| 11:30 | Molly Morrissey | Assessing metabolic exertion during diel vertical migration of an omnivorous macro-invertebrate (Advisor: Jason Stockwell) |
| 11:45 | Liam Donnelly | 107 genes found to be upregulated in a phagocytic Entamoeba histolytica fraction may be upregulated in response to phagocytic stimuli (Advisor: Christopher Huston) |
| 12:30 | Mike Archer | Advertising Methods of Vermont Agribusiness Entrepreneurs (Advisor: David Conner) |
| 12:45 | Tad Cooke | Feedstock Development and Analysis for On-Farm Compost Energy Systems (Erick Crockenberg; Advisor: Allen Matthews) |
| 1:00 | Rachel Park | Galen and William Harvey: A Comparative Analysis of the Theories of the Circulatory System (Advisor: Barbara Saylor Rodgers) |
| 12:30 | Jake Williams | Eliciting the shape of human reasoning from its echo in text-frequency data (Advisor: Christopher Danforth) |
| 12:45 | Catherine Bliss | Twitter reciprocal reply networks exhibit assortativity with respect to happiness (Advisor: Christopher Danforth) |
| 1:00 | Lewis Mitchell | Finding novel applications for big data from social media (Advisor: Christopher Danforth) |
| 12:30 | Caitlin Patterson | Calibration of a Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer and a Perspective on the Importance of Vehicle Emission Testing Procedures (Advisor: Britt Holmen) |
| 12:45 | Qiong Liu | Examining spatial autocorrelation for obesity in northern new England (Advisor: Brian Lee) |
| 1:00 | Richard Nam | Intra-household Vehicle Allocation and Transportation System Efficiency (Advisor: Brian Lee) |
| 12:30 | Nikolaos Fytilis | A Bayesian approach to genetic data (PCR) to better understand fish disease dynamics (Advisor: Donna Rizzo) |
| 12:45 | Joseph Krupa | Consumer Survey Data Analysis for Market Adoption of Plug-in Hybrid Vehicles (Advisor: Donna Rizzo) |
| 1:00 | Nathan Belz | Ridesharing and the Journey to Work in Vermont: Modeling Composition of Vehicle Occupancy using the 2009 National Household Travel Survey (Advisor: Lisa Aultman-Hall) |
| 12:30 | Maya Perry | Community Development from Theory to Practice (Advisor: Andrea Grayson) |
| 12:45 | Julie Williams | Increasing Disaster Resiliency in Mobile Home Park Communities Through Youth Disaster Preparedness Education: A Pilot Project (Advisor: Daniel Baker) |
| 1:00 | Jonathan Bond | Investigating Vermonters’ Disaster Preparedness Perceptions and Practices: Findings from a Statewide Survey (Advisor: Daniel Baker) |
| 1:30 | Joshua Bakelaar | Impacts of Season Extension Pasture Management in Vermont (Advisor: Deborah Neher Weicht) |
| 1:45 | Kristin Williams | Spatial effects of roads on soil nematode communities in forested areas of vermont (Advisor: Deborah Neher Weicht) |
| 2:00 | Rebecca Bourgault | Catchment-scale analysis of interactions between soils and water at Hubbard Brook, NH (Advisor: Donald Ross) |
| 1:30 | Sebastian Castro | Evaluation of sampling methods and statistical models for predicting fruit load on individual Coffee arabica trees (Advisor: Victor Mendez) |
| 1:45 | Lily Calderwood | Evaluation of mixed cover crop as organic, biological pest control in hops (Advisor: Heather Darby) |
| 1:30 | Kristina Lafferty | The Association between the Need to Belong and Relational Aggression: A Moderating Role of Rejection (Advisor: Dianna Murray-Close) |
| 1:45 | Leah Marvin-Riley | Gun Control and Policy Frames (Advisor: Alec Ewald) |
| 2:00 | Morgan Saunders | The Judicial Transformation of Political Immigration Questions (Advisor: Alec Ewald) |
| 1:30 | Benjamin Lindsey | "Organized Crime Against Civilization": The Congressional Investigation Of Liberated Concentration Camps In 1945 (Advisor: Nicole Phelps) |
| 1:45 | Michelle Sigiel | Creating the Alien Image: Roman Dmowski's Antisemitism in 20th Century Poland (Advisor: Francis Nicosia) |
| 2:00 | Gianna Vannelli | The correlation between breath-methane levels and the quantity and structure of methanogens in the human gastrointestinal tract (Advisor: Andre-Denis Wright) |
| 1:30 | Tommy Goldman | Escaping Irene (Three Points of View) (Alex Litwin; Advisor: Carol Williams Howe) |
| 1:45 | Adam Connor | The Poetics of Purification: Orestes' Spiritual Revival (Eum. 235-43) (Advisor: Mark Usher) |
| 2:00 | Brent Cohen | Morality Without Objective Value (Advisor: Terence Cuneo) |
| 2:30 | Jeffrey Tonn | Characterizing an Impact: Event Monitoring with a Wireless Sensor Network (Advisor: Jeff Frolik) |
| 2:45 | Alexander Hilshey | An Activity-Based Travel-Demand Modeling Approach to Estimating Electric Vehicle Charging Load (Advisor: Paul Hines) |
| 3:00 | Rachel Koh | Modeling Demonstrates that Gene Circuit Architecture Controls Phenotypic Variability in a Bacterial Persistence Network (Advisor: Mary Dunlop) |
| 2:30 | Kalyn Weber | The Relationship Between Twitter and Student Engagement and Exam Scores in An Advanced Nutrition Course (Advisor: Stephen Pintauro) |
| 2:45 | Kyle Bessette | Gender in the Kitchen (Advisor: David Houston) |
| 3:00 | Claudia Abbiati | Assessing the Validity of a Direct Measure of Attitudes of Preschoolers Who Stutter (Advisor: Barry Guitar) |
| 2:30 | Brad Lanute | Assessing Urban Sprawl Metrics and their Applicability to Chittenden County, VT (Advisor: Austin Troy) |
| 2:45 | David Kuhn | Agroforestry in the Atlantic forest region of Brazil: Providing framework for implementation through stakeholder participation (Advisor: Cecilia Danks) |
| 3:00 | Dmytro Karabchuk | Factors Influencing Aboveground Live Biomass of Carpathian Spruce (Advisor: William Keeton) |
| 2:30 | Pushwinder Kaur | To Determine the Concentration and Enrichment of Glutathione in Human Plasma using Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (Advisor: Dwight Matthews) |
| 2:45 | Nezar Al-Bataineh | Synthetic Methods for Diazenium Salts (Advisor: Matthias Brewer) |
| 3:00 | Pierre Galea | Identifying and Quantifying Volatile Fear Response in Humans (Advisor: Jane Hill) |
| 2:30 | Elizabeth Sander | Sampling Effects in the Estimation of Biodiversity Using Hill Numbers (Advisor: Nicholas Gotelli) |
| 2:45 | Michael Reardon | Interaction of Unstable Modes in a Solid Propellant Combustion Model (Advisor: Jun Yu) |
| 3:00 | Narine Manukyan | Automated Discovery of Multivariate Associations in Large Time-Varying data sets: a Healthcare Network Application (Advisor: Margaret Eppstein) |
| 3:30 | Naciim Benkreira | Cuba Skate: facilitating the cuban skateboard revolution in Habana, Cuba (Advisor: Joshua Farley) |
| 3:45 | Marigo Farr | Soil Quality and Climate Implications of Agroecological Practices on Vermont Farms (Advisor: Joshua Farley) |
| 4:00 | Brian Kelly | Governance Network Design: A Case Study Analysis of Vermont (Advisor: Joshua Farley) |
| 4:15 | Colin Arisman | Ecological and Economic Sustainability through Cooperative Agriculture: Scaling up agroecology through payments for ecosystem services in the Intag Region of Ecuador (Advisor: Joshua Farley) |
| 3:30 | Caitlin Campbell | Livestock depredation by large carnivores: An analysis of human-wildlife conflict in Ehi-rovipuka, Namibia. (Advisor: James Murdoch) |
| 3:45 | Kalle Fjeld | A Cinematic Perspective on the Children of North African Immigrants in France: Interpreting the Immigrant Experience through the Film Lens (Advisor: Meaghan Emery) |
| 4:00 | Emily Bird | The Socioeconomic Impact of Hydroelectric Dams on Developing Communities (Advisor: Saleem Ali) |
| 4:15 | Anya Gedrath-Smith | Time for Tea: The Sustainable Development of Tea Tourism in Nepal (Advisor: Pablo Bose) |
| 3:30 | Rebecca Standish | Importance of Biosecurity on Vermont Farms (Advisor: Julia Smith) |
| 4:00 | Hannah Facey | Examination and identification of bacterial species present in the forestomach of the Alpaca (Vicugna pacos) (Advisor: Andre-Denis Wright) |
| 4:15 | Ashley Jones | Does insecticidal spraying impact parasite prevalence in Chagas disease vectors? (Advisor: Lori Stevens) |
| 3:30 | Tera Fazzino | Daily Craving Reports from Drinkers Not in Treatment (Advisor: Gail Rose) |
| 3:45 | Ariel Baily | Face-name Recognition: A brain fMRI study (Advisor: Julie Dumas) |
| 4:00 | Joanne Kalisz | “Teen-ageism”: Adolescents’ Internalization, Acceptance, and Behavioral Confirmation of Stereotypes About Teens (Advisor: Carol Miller) |
| 4:15 | Andrew Philips | Public Assets Institute (Advisor: Frank Bryan) |
| 3:30 | Dirk Jonathan Rodricks | Cross Cultural Conundrum: Supporting students who live between worlds (Advisor: Dorian McCoy) |
| 3:45 | Jacqueline Drouin | Assessing the Long-term Impact of Participation in the Governor's Institute on Asian Cultures in China (Advisor: Holly Busier) |
| 4:00 | Ashley Michelle Fowler | "I Know I Can Be What I Wanna Be": Career Development for First-Generation College Students (Advisor: Robert Nash) |
| 4:15 | Saveta Saini | Use of Positive Behavioral Intervention Supports for Preschoolers in a Refugee Resettlement Community (Advisor: Jennifer Hurley) |