Conference Grants 2003-2004

The following students were awarded conference grants for the 2003-04 academic year:

Anjali Arora (Adviser: David Green). "Investigation of the holding time limits of a number of semi-volatile organic compounds." Presented at the American Chemical Society annual meeting, March 28 - April 1, 2004, Anaheim, CA.

Rebekah Beall (Adviser: Zulema Moret). "Nube Oscura: sources and effects of air pollution in Santiago de Chile and Mexico D.F." Presented at the 7th Conference on the Americas, October 11, 2003, Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, MI.

Nicole Casey (Adviser: Dean McCurdy). "The tramatode Himasthla quissetensis commonly infects soft-shell clams Mya arenaria and alters their burying behavior." Presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society of Zoologists, May 10-16, 2004, Wolfville, Nova Scotia.

Steven Celmer (Adviser: Michael Anes). "Automatic hemispheric activation for affect after presentation of major and minor chords: evidence from an affective word-evaluation task." Presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, May 27-30, 2004, Chicago, IL.

Amber Chenoweth and Josh Hodges (Adviser: Jeff Wilson). "Differentiation of CS+ and CS- by rats in a runway-based Pavlovian conditioning task." Presented at the Pavlovian Society conference, September 25-28, 2003, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

Elizabeth Crabb (Adviser: Trisha Franzen). "Sex in black and white: prostitution in progressive-era New York City." Presented at the GLCA Women's Studies Conference, April 16-17, 2004, Kenyon College.

Darcy Crain (Adviser: Barbara Keyes). "The impact of race and gender on children's choice of playmates." Presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, May 27-30, 2004, Chicago, IL. [Student Lindsay Sander also attended.]

Darcy Crain (Adviser: Barbara Keyes). "Children's stereotypes based on skin color: an innovative approach." Presented at the American Psychological Association annual meeting, July 28 - August 1, 2004, Honolulu, HI.

Erica Dudas (Adviser: Ronney Mourad). "The annunciation of hope for justice on Earth: the feminist response of Rosemary Radford Ruether to Karl Marx's critique of religion and the hermeneutics of suspicion." Presented at the Midwest Regional meeting of the American Academy of Religion, April 2-3, 2004, Chicago, IL.

Rachel Fonstad (Adviser: Zulema Moret). "Los Desastres Naturales." Presented at the 7th Conference on the Americas, October 11, 2003, Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, MI.

Kristine Freeman (Adviser: Jeff Wilson). "Differential effects of ephedrine and caffeine on locomotion and anxiety in rats." Presented at the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting, November 8-11, 2003, New Orleans, LA.

Kris Gauthier (Adviser: Drew Christopher). "The need for cognition, religious doubt, and life satisfaction." Presented at the American Psychological Association annual meeting, July 28 - August 1, 2004, Honolulu, HI.

Shari Gross (Adviser: Dale Kennedy). "Do male House Wrens sing the same songs year to year?" Presented at the joint meeting of the Association of Field Ornithologists and the Wilson Ornithological Society, April 22-25, Ithaca, NY.

Eric Grunow and Stephanie Clark (Adviser: Molly Scheel). "Netrins: creating divergent axon morphologies." Presented at the Mid-Atlantic meeting of the Society for Developmental Biology, May 20-22, 2004, Pittsburgh, PA.

Morgan Haugen (Adviser: Dale Kennedy). "Comparison of feather and fecal material for molecular sexing of nestling House Wrens." Presented at the joint meeting of the Association of Field Ornithologists and the Wilson Ornithological Society, April 22-25, Ithaca, NY.

Kimberly Illg (Adviser: David Green). "Can low-temperature plasmas be used to modify surface properties? Making hydrophobic membranes hydrophilic with H202 plasmas." Presented at the American Chemical Society annual meeting, March 28 - April 1, 2004, Anaheim, CA.

Taki Johnson (Adviser: Zulema Moret). "Day of the Dead: a look into the history behind the celebration." Presented at the 7th Conference on the Americas, October 11, 2003, Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, MI.

Maggie Keller (Adviser: Drew Christopher). "The effects of victim self-presentational style on attributions of blame in a rape incident." Presented at the American Psychological Association annual meeting, July 28 - August 1, 2004, Honolulu, HI.

Michael Kopec and Sean Logan (Adviser: Dean McCurdy). "The functional significance of intersexes in the intertidal amphipod Corophium volutator." Presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society of Zoologists, May 10-16, 2004, Wolfville, Nova Scotia.

Diana Lancaster and Sean Logan (Adviser: Dean McCurdy). "Site selection by flatfish foraging on the intertidal amphipod Corophium volutator." Presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society of Zoologists, May 10-16, 2004, Wolfville, Nova Scotia.

Sean Logan and Diana Lancaster (Adviser: Dean McCurdy). "Impacts of fish predation on demography of the intertidal amphipod Corophium volutator." Presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society of Zoologists, May 10-16, 2004, Wolfville, Nova Scotia.

Kelly Luytjes (Adviser: Zulema Moret). "Women in Latin America." Presented at the 7th Conference on the Americas, October 11, 2003, Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, MI.

Kimberly Mann and Elizabeth Vogel (Adviser: Lynne Chytilo). "Ceramic pediment project - special topics discussion." Presented at the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) annual conference, March 17-21, 2004, Indianapolis, IN. [Students Libby Bollinger, Hannah Burdick, and Matt Grissom also attended.]

Michael Marvin (Adviser: Christopher Rohlman). "Thermodynamics of the Anabena group I intron." Presented at the Michigan RNA Society regional meeting, November 8, 2003, Lansing, MI. [Students Brianna Granlund, Dana Sauter, and Erin Toth also attended.]

Michael Marvin (Adviser: Christopher Rohlman). "Thermodynamic characterization of the Anabena pre-tRNAleu group I intron." Presented at the American Chemical Society annual meeting, March 28 - April 1, 2004, Anaheim, CA.

Alyssa Montgomery (Adviser: Len Berkey). "American dreams: the intersection of race, class, and gender in Albion's African-American community." Presented at the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity, June 1-5, 2004, Miami, FL.

Nicholas Morgan (Adviser: Len Berkey). "African-American/black identity: stressors and techniques for succeeding on a predominately white campus." Presented at the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity, June 1-5, 2004, Miami, FL.

Marci Nelson (Adviser: Selva Raj). "The Pineapple Story: exploring the use of narrative in New Tribes Mission." Presented at the Midwest Regional meeting of the American Academy of Religion, April 2-3, 2004, Chicago, IL.

Craig Streu (Adviser: Andrew French). "Progress toward the synthesis of novel constrained heteroaromatic chiral hypervalent iodine reagents." Presented at the American Chemical Society annual meeting, March 28 - April 1, 2004, Anaheim, CA.

Sara West (Adviser: Jeff Wilson). "Conditioned inhibition of already-elicited autoshaped CRs in the rat." Presented at the Pavlovian Society conference, September 25-28, 2003, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

Jaymie Whitson (Adviser: Zulema Moret). "After Salvador Allende: the years of Pinochet in photos." Presented at the 7th Conference on the Americas, October 11, 2003, Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, MI.