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SUU Festival of Excellence 2018

9:00am MDT

Spinning Laramie: Engaging a community ED 215Scott Knowles The Art of Making Art: Learning to Collaborate BU 110Brandon Grayson Thunderground: Turning a crazy idea into a reality ED 102Billy Clouse A Blonde in China - Journey of Excellence ED 205Maura Knutsen Calling a Nazi on the Phone? Wolfgang Hildesheimer's Tynset as Imagined Dialogue between Holocaust Survivor and Perpetrator BU 102Rosa Perez • Corey Twitchell Civic engagement and conservation outreach in Colombia: SUU assists the 2017 International Congress for Conservation Biology ED 204Jacqualine Grant • Alyssa Marabella La Casa de Bernarda Alba as a reflection of Spain during the Francoist era ED 203Alejandra Portolés Colás Nanoparticle Fabrication and Microfluidic Devices ED 104Chris Monson The use of phosphatidylserine containing supported lipid bilayers as a method for separating copper binding proteins from non-copper binding proteins. BU 101Dylan Keiser • Nate Mitchell Using Exoplanet Transits to Calibrate the Great Basin Observatory LIB 002Katherine Wilcox Dance Therapy: Historical and Clinical Applications ED 202Ashlee Humphries Determining the Redox Potential of Erythrocytes via 19F NMR Spectroscopy ED 111Jacob Lambertsen Incorporating Place-Based Learning & Community-Based Research in Courses at SUU ED 103Elizabeth Olson The Effect of Algebra on Critical Thinking BU 103Edgar Judd

9:20am MDT

Peaches come in a can, but do elections decide who put them there? ED 215Brant Parker Kinesthetic Empathy and the Performing Arts: or a case for "Monkey See, Monkey Do." ED 102Megan Brunsvold Mercedes "Ka Mate" The Appropriation of a Cultural Icon ED 204Toanui Tawa Cross-Cultural Connections: Helping Chinese ESL Writers Find Their Writing Voice ED 205Lainey Cartwright • Alyssa Schurtz • Addy Southam • Christina Winters Curriculum Innovation: Globalizing the Second-Year Language Series in French and German--Two Case Studies BU 102Elise Leahy • Corey Twitchell España sin esperanza: La visión de Larra ED 203Kolton Pierson 'Gelding the Commonwealth': Shakespeare's Henry VI Plays and the Specter of Masculine Rule ED 104Jessica Tvordi An investigation into set partitions and their applications BU 103Josh Culver Building a Field-Deployable Cavity-Assisted Laser Absorption Spectrophotometer BU 101Matthew Rowley Positive Psychology: How Intentional Activities Can Increase Your Overall Happiness LIB 002Garth Frehner Effects of Exercise on GPA ED 202Sierra Chowen • Matthew Mauldwin • Jennie Taylor Pornography Use Among SUU Students: Predictors and Outcomes ED 111Daniel Hatch • Jim Mock

9:40am MDT

Out of work and out of votes: How Unemployment Affects Voting ED 215Will Peacock Who are the Refugees BU 101Terri Lindsay 'Spectres, Mysterious Voices, . . . Omens, Haunted Places': Why and How Hardy Smuggles 'Magic' into His Poetry ED 102Bryce Christensen In the Whites: Diversity in the Theatre BU 110Isabella Abel-Suarez A look at the Spanish Language Use of Bilingual Returned Mormon Missionaries in the US LIB 201 AJunice Acosta Cultures of London 1 ED 204Natalie Anderson • Alicia Arredondo • Sydnie Ashbrook • Kristin Brooksby • Kurt Harris El Encaje Roto: Ripping the Lace off of 19th Century Feminism in Spain ED 203Naomi Beatty French Identity: Integration and Cultural Clashes BU 102Elise Leahy • Rosa Perez Fulbright Opportunities for Faculty and Staff ED 205Stephen Allen • Jon Smith Asymptotic estimates for the number of set partitions without small parts BU 103Andreas Weingartner MEASURING SOLAR FLUX AND ABSORPTIVITY LIB 002David Armijo • Logan Evans The Worth of an MLB All-Star: Are MLB All-Star Players the Key to Wins, the Playoffs, and the World Series? ED 104Cassidy Mickelson Gotta Help Them All: Pokémon Go Can Alleviate Depression and Anxiety ED 202Joy Sterrantino Obesity: What is the cost? ED 111Grace Rose Developing a Stronger Sense of Self: a Curriculum Innovation Grant Report ED 103Kristopher Phillips

10:00am MDT

The Fine Line of Native American Dance Appropriation BU 101Madi Maynard "The Perfection of the Hideous": The New England Gothic Tradition BU 110Christopher Clark Classifying Schur Rings over the Integers ED 102Nicholas Bastian • Jaden Brewer A comparison of light and darkness as symbols in "Él sí de las niñas" by Leandro Moratín and "Don Juan Tenorio" by José Zorrilla ED 203Brayden Jackman Cultures of London 2 ED 204Kat Benally • Kaylee Broderick • Sierra Chowen • Kilee Cummings • Kurt Harris Developing Grassroots Chinese, American Friendship ED 205Shauna Mendini Variation of Dialectal Features in Spain According to Socioeconomics and Educational Levels LIB 201 AAlejandra Portolés Colás Heat Transfer of a Phase Change Material Thermal Energy System LIB 002Harley Glad • Ben Thrift • Daniel Ulrich Suspicious Patterning: Aesthetic Implications in Margaret Cavendish's Nature ED 215Tessa Brunnenmeyer The Body in Extremity: Sarah Kane and the effect of affect ED 111Scott Knowles The Reliability of the Standing Long Jump in NCAA Track and Field Athletes ED 202Corrina Reid Not-So-Secret Agent: The Teacher's Role in Social Justice ED 103Joel Judd

10:20am MDT

Bringing Health Education and Encouraging Independence in an Elder of the Cedar City Community. ED 215Kayla Smith Parking Problems at SUU: Aerial Drone Footage and Statistics BU 101Allie Maughan • Dillon Maughan • Kendal Maughan • Brandon Wiggins Breaking into The Baker Street Boys Club: Laurie King's Mary Russell Series and "The Game" BU 110Charla Strosser Inequality in Entertainment Media: Censorship, Erasure, and Gender Bias ED 102Carlee Jo Blumenthal A Glimpse Into Global Healthcare ED 205Jake Brown Cultures of London 3 ED 204James Caron • Zoe Chadwick • Kurt Harris • Toby Prettyman • Brenda Schuette Linguistic Differences between Men and Women LIB 201 AShawn Brady The Diathermometer and the Thermal Conductivity of Air LIB 002Casey Cooper Tidal Disruptions radius's around black holes ED 104Payton Christensen • Kyle Christiansen Evaluation of cultivatable rhizosphere-associated bacteria isolated from Manzanita (Arctostaphylos patula) in Southern Utah for plant growth promoters ED 203Michael Hope • Agueda Rodriguez The Effect of Terpinen-4- ol on Blood Vessel Diameter in Frogs ED 111Mark Albrecht • Brock Orme • Mary Jo Tufte The Third Week Survey: Understanding the Student Retention Forecast from the Beginning ED 202Evan Miller Emphasizing Identity and Culture in ENGL 2010 ED 103Laura Walker

10:40am MDT

'The Sturdiest of Footholds': A Comparative Analysis of the Affordable Housing Options Available to the Homeless Population in Salt Lake City, Utah ED 215Sadie Egbert The impact of financial aid on students performance BU 101Fanhankaha Coulibaly Applications of Calculus: The most economical shape of a can. BU 110Leon Weingartner ¿Me Puedes Ayudar? Tutoring Foreign Language Learners in Writing ED 102Donald Prunty Called to Serve...as Bilinguals LIB 201 AKolton Elmer Cultures of London 4 ED 204Adam Hall • Kurt Harris • Katie Johnston • Kiana Kamalu • Nick Schulthies The Birth of Islam ED 205Brad Cook Economic Impact of SUU Athletic Program Expenditures in Iron County BU 103Shay Bauman Exploring the Light-Harvesting Properties of Nature's Most Adaptive Pigments: Spectroscopy and Structural Studies of Bilins ED 104Jacob Dean Separating Organic Material Using a Microfluidic device LIB 002Anna Christensen • Megan Jensen Coral Reef Bleaching as a Result of Thermic Stress ED 203Patricia Reeves An Experiment to Evaluate the Deflection of a Beam ED 202Jacob Carter Curriculum Innovation: Honors Seminar- Just and Diverse ED 103Jayci Bash

11:00am MDT

Cultivating an Interfaith Culture on a University Campus BU 101Ashlyn Judd Thoughts of a Middle School Student ED 215Ashton Barney Animation Plus: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Creating an Animated Short BU 110Jaitee Pitts The Art of Portraiture in Neue Sachlichkeit ED 102Sara Schlagel Cultures of London 5 ED 204Kurt Harris • Bree Parkins • Darryn Ratliff • Declan Rosdahl • Kiersten Williams The Discourse Marker 'pues' among Colombian Spanish Speakers LIB 201 ASandra Overbey Translation of Culture-loaded Tourist Attractions from an Intercultural Communication Perspective ED 205Tingting Gu Analysis of Lipid Vesicles Resulting From Bilayer Stripping ED 104Stephen Smith Liberty. Equality. Fraternity: Comparison of the British and French Monarchies from 1643-1795 and the Impact on Modern Governments LIB 002Andria Burdick Is There a Gender Pay Gap Among Faculty at SUU? BU 103Jessica Mancuso Orientation of Paleostress of Raplee Ridge ED 203Loren Holyoak Trapped in a Paradox: Exploring Avoidant Personality Disorder ED 202Andrew Minkler Incorporating Undergraduate Research ED 103Joshua Price

11:30am MDT

Keynote - APEX Event: Bertice Berry Gilbert Great HallBertice Berry

1:00pm MDT

"High Crimes and Misdemeanors," The Constitutional Basis for Presidential Impeachment: A Tribute to the Work of Francis Dunham Wormuth ED 215G. Michael Stathis Exploratory Research of Artifact Management and Curation Practices BU 101Ammon Treasure The "Mythic Sublime" in Irish Mythology BU 110Morrigan DeVito Panel "The Impact of Social factors on Linguistic Variation" Talk: "Linguistic Differences between Men and Women" ED 204Shawn Brady • Alejandra Portolés Colás Religious Identity as a Component of National Identity in Post-Communist Europe ED 111Darra Deane • Matt Stead Athletic Training in the Community ED 102Sterling Rose Quantitative Determinations of Elements in Soil Using an X-Ray Fluorimeter ED 104Mikaila Cook • Daniel Forbes • Alex Peterson Sport Rock Climbing: Nutrition and Hydration Considerations for One of the Newest Olympic Events LIB 002Abigail Larson Too sexy for the Pell Grant? Nudging students toward applying for college and financial aid ED 205Joshua Price Quantifying the impacts of highways on genetic structure and diversity in two kangaroo rat species in the lower Sonoran Desert of Arizona ED 203Karl Jarvis The Impact of Psychology on Exercise - and vice versa ED 202Dallas Higginbotham Life or death by syllabus: Your choice BU 103Cynthia Kimball Davis • Michelle Miller Online & Graduate Education Incorporating and addressing Engaged and High Impact Practices. ED 103Tony Pellegrini

1:20pm MDT

Breaking Beyond Stigmas: Changing Terminology of Mental Retardation to Intellectual Disability ED 215Rowdy Miller The LGBTQ Community and how Allies Can Better Support Them BU 101Sarah Halligan Tenuous Tenure: Satan and Adam in Milton's Paradise Lost BU 110Rebekah Smith Looking for a Local Hero in Ancient Greece: Remembering Theagenes of Thasos LIB 002Dave Lunt When Saturday Night Live Mocks, Brand Back How Creating a Likeable Event Brand Based on Research Can Quell Community Crisis ED 102Melynda Thorpe A Successful Implementation of Quality Culture and Workers Job Satisfaction ED 205Azmi Ahmad Using Wildlife Cameras to Identify Ecological and Physical Factors Driving Wildlife-Vehicle Collisions in Utah ED 203Darby Adams • Natalie Barlow Mental Illness and the Workplace: How Your Environment Affects You ED 202Mariah Porter How Young Learners Can Benefit from Better Books ED 103Peyton Carter Strength of Identity in a Teacher Activist Organization BU 103Brianne Kramer The value of the biennial 2017 AASL National Conference and what the National School Library Standards mean for instruction in the School Library Media Program at SUU. ED 111Doug Wayman Stress Management ED 104Kaitlynn Kelley • Ellee Layton • Monica Venida

1:40pm MDT

Dilemmas and Decisions: A Case Study of Southern Utah University Women Professionals ED 215Rebekah Smith Food Sovereignty, Health, and Traditional Diets BU 101Shalise Jenkins Losing One's Selfie: Facial Obliteration in Contemporary Art ED 205Andrew Marvick Shakespeare as a Pastoral Artist: Pastoralism and Role Reversal in Shakespeare's 2 and 3 Henry VI BU 110Katie Meyers State of the State: Information Literacy Instruction across Utah BU 102Anne R. Diekema • Caitlin Gerrity • Paula Mitchell The Mystical Past and the Lucrative Present: New Age Archaeological Tourism in the Andes ED 204Emily Dean A Reflection of the Work of Douglass C. North and The New Institutional Economics (NIE) ED 102Ravi Roy An Old World Media, Revived LIB 002Chloe Howe Soil analysis of molybdenum metal near Milford, UT ED 104Matthew Harmon • Arsene Mugisha Progress on Evaluating Groundwater Flow Interactions between Basin and Range Faults and the Markagunt Gravity Slide: Implications for the Panguitch Municipal Watershed, Southwest Utah ED 203Zachary Smith Health During First Time Pregnancy ED 202Stephanie Bernstein • Randi Gallup • Sarah Graf • Abbey London Collaboration in the Arts: Writing a 20-Author Short Story Collection BU 103Chelsea Campbell • Rhett Steadman • Alexis Taylor Community Engaged Learning @ SUU ED 111Earl Mulderink Using Open Educational Resources and Project-Based Learning to Teach Research Methods and Statistics: a Student's View. ED 103Liz Cafferty • Abigail Larson

2:00pm MDT

Exploring Trans Identity - Unlearning Gender, Critical Allyship Practice, and Community Uplift ED 215Christopher Mendoza Pokémon: 20 years of digital culture BU 101Thomas M. Ruiz Self-Identity and Social-Identity: The Battle for Homogeneity BU 110Emma White Autism Awareness ED 102Tommy Ligman The Effectiveness of Sediment Removal from Coal Creek River ED 104Theresa Marie Bagaporo • Andria Burdick • Brett Clouse • Allison Hadley The Negative Repercussions of Penny-Pinching at the Gas Pump LIB 201 ACody Nielson Stripping Supported Lipid Bilayers LIB 002Michael Ornstead JSYK: Heart-based hope leaders communicate to create hopeful cultures ED 205Cynthia Kimball Davis Characterization of Major Anions of Coal Creek ED 203Chinedu Ahanonu • Kyle Christiansen • Jacob Painter Diastereoselectivity of the Nucleophilic Addition Reaction of the (±)-Menthylmagnesium Chloride Grignard Reagent with Phenyl Isocyanate ED 202Rebecca Maedgen • Myla Pereira • Nathan Werner Do re mi fa sing: Levels of engagement in secondary choral methods BU 103Krystal McCoy • Macey Naumann The Wonders of Mathematics with Desmos. ED 103Bryan Bradford

2:20pm MDT

Exploring UFO culture in Utah BU 101Vincent Montgomery Acting Methods and Musical Theatre ED 102Courtney McMullin The Dramatized Representation of Henry VI BU 110Maryn Hillman Measuring Oxygen in Anoxic Environments Using a Microfluidic Device LIB 002Brian Anderson • Mariah Clayson Social Deficiencies due to Social Media Technology Addictions LIB 201 ASage Hadley Structure and mechanism of an unusual TPP-dependent enzyme ED 104Elizabeth Pierce Achieving Credibility Through Professionalism ED 205Celesta Lyman Determination of Cations in Coal Creek ED 203Kylee Christiansen • Daphne Robinson Teaching Children Sex Education ED 202Jenessa Cozzens • Madeline Kauffman • Rakayla Tyler • Priscilla Verdine The Effectiveness of Online Videos in Improving Clinical Skills Involving Musculoskeletal Injury Assessment ED 103Nathan Slaughter Using Open Pedagogy in an Upper Division Mathematics Course BU 103Andrew Misseldine

2:40pm MDT

Marriage Enrichment ED 215Cassidy Evans • Caitlyn Glauser • Samuel Grow • Kaleen Sherman The Culture of Agriculture in Southern Utah BU 101Sixtus Johnson Hunting as Comedy In Shakespeare BU 110Kelsey Keener Concise Guide to Information Literacy: Contents or Process BU 102Scott Lanning Expectations of Emotion Alter Perceptions of Emotional Displays ED 104Anjelica Ashworth • Seth Barton • Vanessa Barton • Megan Golson • Quinn Simpson • Garrett Strosser How to Raise Respectful Kids. LIB 201 AAndrea Brandon Why are they here? Analysis and comparison of the functional characteristics of Quercus gambelii, Q. turbinella, and their interspecific hybrids LIB 002Skyler Porcaro How Big Data Affects the Four P's of Marketing: Product, Price, Place, Promotion ED 205Sarah Tullis • Kylee Wharton University of the Parks: Partnering to create hands on education opportunities ED 203Briget Eastep • Kevin Koontz Understanding Rejuvenation Tablets and Its Process in Using Magnesium as Source for Making Ingestible Molecular Hydrogen ED 202Preston Akagi • Aleksei Ananin • Kyle Clark • Steve Ipsen Silence and Sound: Blanchot and Beckett BU 103Nozomi Irei Updating the "Ghetto-Fabulous" Laser ED 103Matthew Rowley

3:00pm MDT

Domestic and Interpersonal Violence ED 215Sumer Graff • Madeleine Horne • Andrea Ramhoff • Alyson Tilby Why should America care about the effects of climate change on the Marshall Islands? BU 101Damon Swain The Blind That Truly See: An Investigation of Sight Within Oedipus Rex BU 110Kathryn Wilcken 508 Accessibility Testing: Are you compliant? BU 102Jocelyn Bojorquez • Cassidy Mickelson Developing a Cheap and Efficient DNA Purification Method LIB 002Bryan Pearson First Comes Love, Then Comes Marriage, Then comes Comunication Issues ED 104CieJae Briggs • Michaela Call • Jasey Wyatt Philosophy of Geology: An Under-Developed but Promising Interdisciplinary Research Program ED 111Johnny MacLean • James Sage "The Handmaid's Tale" and "Herland": Analyzing Gender through Dystopia and Utopia ED 102Hanna Dawson Virtual Offices: The Workplace of the Future ED 205Teigen Judd • Andrew Phelps Determination of Chlorophyll Concentration in Coal Creek by Spectrofluorometry ED 203Jacob Lambertsen • Kyler Radmall • Rachel Radmall Synaptotagmin Localization in Zebrafish Embryos ED 202Emily James Classroom-based experiential education at the site of the 2017 Brian Head fire BU 103Rachel Bolus • Matt Ogburn Curriculum Innovation Grant (CIG) Report: Creating a research community in the genetics lab at SUU ED 103Jacqualine Grant • Karl Jarvis

3:20pm MDT

The Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television: A short lesson on the linguistics of profanity through the lens of stand-up comedy BU 101Stephen Schwanz The Multicultural World in Zadie Smith's White Teeth BU 110Klarissa Williams Net Neutrality: Yay or Nay (Net in the Neutral Zone) BU 102Daniel Lauper Stability of Collision-Based Periodic n-Body Problems ED 104Skyler Simmons Sun Fire on Earth: The Hydrodynamics of Kiloton Explosions LIB 002Tanner Gamble Science Matters ED 102Megan Abel Bills Become Laws: An Interns Perspective In Legislation. ED 205Kailey Ellis Outdoor Leadership: Building a Crew Program ED 203Briget Eastep • Danny Strand Meeting the Mental Health Needs of Gen Y College Students ED 202Amy Thorpe Project-based instruction in an Intensive English Program BU 103Silvia Kozlovska The Study of a Brusselator Model ED 103Parker Evans • Morgan Taylor Synecdoche on the American Stage: The Remarkable Life of James Stark, or, Meet the Forrest Gump of the 19th Century ED 215Matthew Nickerson

3:40pm MDT

Angels: Extinct, Endangered, or Merely Forgotten? ED 104Caleb Deane Erasure in America ED 202Ayleen Perry Feed Hope: How Childhood Hunger is Experienced in Cedar City, Utah BU 101Sadie Egbert Heart of Darkness: Morality and Universality in the Jungle and London BU 110Collin Shurtleff Whose Bride Is She Anyway? Developing the Monstrous Feminine in Frankenstein Adaptations ED 102Kyle Bishop English 2010/Library Media 1010 Mashup: Helping Students and Learning in a Meaningful Way BU 102Phil Roche • Jennifer Sorensen Asymptotic behavior of the numerical solution for a symbiotic model LIB 002Jianlong Han Bridging the Gap: Pacific Island Students in Higher Education ED 205Toanui Tawa • Anu Tufuga Using the Chemical Composition of Coal Creek to Better Understand the Lack of Biodiversity ED 203Steve Ipsen Communicating with Generation Z BU 103Ryan Bailey • Heather Garcia • Madi Maynard Involving General Education Students with The Great Basin Observatory ED 103Cameron Pace