Oral Presentations at SOURCE are grouped together into blocks of three to four related talks. Faculty or students may speak about various types of research projects, including work completed as part of their senior seminar or master's programs. They may present descriptive, correlational, or experimental research; independent studies; or creative capstone projects. Powerpoint or Prezi presentations typically accompany these fifteen-minute talks.

Below you can find abstracts describing 2013's Oral Presentations. All presentations took place at the Student Union and Recreation Center--noted as SURC in the schedule.

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Schedule
2013
Thursday, May 16th
8:00 AM

Messier Marathon Scheduler: A Software Tool for Novice Star-Gazers and Experienced Astronomers

Katherine Moore

SURC 140

8:00 AM - 8:20 AM

8:00 AM

Open Governance: Trends from "Cutting Edge" Governments in the US and Abroad

Sarah Schacht

SURC 137A

8:00 AM - 8:20 AM

8:00 AM

Psychological Studies on “Molyneux’s Question” Do Not See All the Points

Maxwell Davis

SURC 202

8:00 AM - 8:20 AM

8:00 AM

Russian Revolutionary in London: S.M. Stepniak and the Appeal to Foreign Sympathizers

Kristopher Owens

SURC 271

8:00 AM - 8:20 AM

8:00 AM

Women and Roller Derby

Andrea Eklund
Barbara Masberg

SURC 201

8:00 AM - 8:20 AM

8:20 AM

Creation Assistant for Easy Assignment

Hank Burton
Marshall Brooks
Justin Canada

SURC 140

8:20 AM - 8:40 AM

8:20 AM

Food Security in the Aftermath of Relocation: Community Adaptations and Resilience in Kivalina, Alaska

Markus Chishom

SURC 201

8:20 AM - 8:40 AM

8:20 AM

Komsomol Participation in the Soviet Antireligious Campaign, 1918-1932

Rebecca Hastings

SURC 271

8:20 AM - 8:40 AM

8:20 AM

Sex Trafficking In the Middle East: An Untold Story

Salam Awad

SURC 137A

8:20 AM - 8:40 AM

8:20 AM

The Epistemic Value of Live Theatre: A Dramatic Response to the Question of Knowledge

Hannah Hicks

SURC 202

8:20 AM - 8:40 AM

8:40 AM

An Essay on the Natural Law and Republican Form of Government

Robert Taylor

SURC 202

8:40 AM - 9:00 AM

8:40 AM

Examining the Relationship Between Farmers' Markets and Obesity Rates in Washington State

Taylor Steele

SURC 201

8:40 AM - 9:00 AM

8:40 AM

"My dear white sisters...I want my agency moved back": Female moral authority in the service of reservation reform, 1920s-1930s

Talea Anderson

SURC 271

8:40 AM - 9:00 AM

8:40 AM

Ontogenetic Variation in the Thermal Biology of Northern Pacific Rattlesnakes

Caleb Loughran

SURC 137B

8:40 AM - 9:00 AM

8:40 AM

Preventing student drop out at CWU

Suvarna Arakh

SURC 140

8:40 AM - 9:00 AM

8:40 AM

Social Science and the Law: The Influence of Social Science on the Eighth Amendment Jurisprudence of the Supreme Court

Alec Schmidt

SURC 137A

8:40 AM - 9:00 AM

9:00 AM

Barriers Student Face When Cooking in the Dorms

Catherine Shepler

SURC 201

9:00 AM - 9:20 AM

9:00 AM

College Students Underage Drinking, the Law, and the Police: A Survey Study.

Saeed Mohamed

SURC 137A

9:00 AM - 9:20 AM

9:00 AM

Evidence of Self Recognition Using Olfactory Cues in the Coastal Giant Salamander (Dicamptodon tenebrosus )

David Reavill
Steven Wagner
Brandon Fessler
Robert Weaver

SURC 137B

9:00 AM - 9:20 AM

9:00 AM

Massively Parallel k-NN using CUDA and MARS

Joshua Smithrud
Patrick McElroy

SURC 140

9:00 AM - 9:20 AM

9:00 AM

Robert E. Lee and Southern Memory

Kellie Hedgers

SURC 271

9:00 AM - 9:20 AM

9:00 AM

The Role of Socially Engaged Monks in Burma

Hillary Matson

SURC 202

9:00 AM - 9:20 AM

9:30 AM

Creating a CWU Institutional Repository (IR) to Showcase Students’ Research and Scholarly Work

Ping Fu

SURC 140

9:30 AM - 9:50 AM

9:30 AM

Florence v. Board of Chosen Freeholders of County of Burlington et. al.

Saeed Mohamed
Alison Wassell

SURC 137A

9:30 AM - 10:50 AM

9:30 AM

Inside the Fish Bowl: Application of Sociological Theory to Observations of State Government

Aleisha Sebastian

SURC 201

9:30 AM - 9:50 AM

9:30 AM

Insurance Premium Comparison among Different Countries

Vicky Dyer

SURC 202

9:30 AM - 9:50 AM

9:30 AM

Jardines v. Florida

Caless Davis

SURC 137A

9:30 AM - 10:50 AM

9:30 AM

Lies, Valor Lies,and The First Amendment

Jonathan Umana
Nicole Smith

SURC 137A

9:30 AM - 10:50 AM

9:30 AM

Miller v. Alabama: Juveniles and Eighth Amendment

Edward Welch

SURC 137A

9:30 AM - 10:50 AM

9:30 AM

One Fin, Two Fin, Red Fin, Eroded Fin: Fin Erosion and Its Relationship to Juvenile Chinook Salmon Health

Kelsey Martin
Katie Wagner
Christa Woodley

SURC 137B

9:30 AM - 9:50 AM

9:30 AM

Songs of Manifest Destiiny: A cultural reflection

Brock Wolitarsky

SURC 271

9:30 AM - 9:50 AM

9:30 AM

United States v Windsor - Should Federal Law Define Marriage?

Jordyn Ashford

SURC 137A

9:30 AM - 10:50 AM

9:50 AM

Evaluating dispersal and culvert passage performance of juvenile coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) in urban streams

Ethan Green

SURC 137B

9:50 AM - 10:10 AM

9:50 AM

Gender Representations and Stereotypes on Gamers and Games

Neko Phillips

SURC 201

9:50 AM - 10:10 AM

9:50 AM

Life Insurance Pricing

Drew Heber
Andy Conaway
Dustin Nakamichi
Jinlong Cheng

SURC 202

9:50 AM - 10:10 AM

9:50 AM

Medieval Folklore: A Representation Of The Cultural Shift And Development Of The “Hero” In Medieval Society

Renae Harvey

SURC 271

9:50 AM - 10:10 AM

9:50 AM

Status Update: A Theoretical Look at Social Media

Melinda Miracle

SURC 140

9:50 AM - 10:10 AM

10:10 AM

Economics of Ellensburg and Washington State Normal School

Brian Davis

SURC 271

10:10 AM - 10:30 AM

10:10 AM

Expressions for Life Insurance and Life Annuities and How They are Related

Nathan Rindlisbacher

SURC 202

10:10 AM - 10:30 AM

10:10 AM

Pika (O. princeps) home range use and habitat preference outside talus rock patches in relation to potential dispersal corridors

Jill Hooghkirk

SURC 137B

10:10 AM - 10:30 AM

10:10 AM

Respondus LockDown Browser Revisited: Disclosure

Donald Moncrief

SURC 140

10:10 AM - 10:30 AM

10:10 AM

Tanned and Ripped: The Growth of Male Objectification

Nicholas Pucci

SURC 201

10:10 AM - 10:30 AM

10:30 AM

A Comparative Study of Urban and Rural Cannabis Politics

Brian Grimmer

SURC 201

10:30 AM - 10:50 AM

10:30 AM

Is Deferment Period Protection Necessary

Samuel Guiles

SURC 202

10:30 AM - 10:50 AM

10:30 AM

Martial Arts in the Pacific Northwest After World War Two: How Martial Arts Instruction Changed, and How Communities Benefitted

Carlos Pelley

SURC 271

10:30 AM - 10:50 AM

10:30 AM

The elevational limits of the American pika (Ochotona princeps) in the eastern Cascades of central Washington.

Bryant Sawada

SURC 137B

10:30 AM - 10:50 AM

10:30 AM

The Trans-Pacific partnerships impact on America

Matthew Swenson
Hideki Takei

SURC 140

10:30 AM - 10:50 AM

11:40 AM

“A fresh look at Washington State’s Guaranteed Education Tuition Program”

Adam Blanar-Oviatt
Stacy Albrecht

SURC 202

11:40 AM - 12:00 PM

11:40 AM

Cuchulain: A Literary Instrument of the Gaelic Revival

Aaron Steeves

SURC 271

11:40 AM - 12:00 PM

11:40 AM

Environmental Gradients as Drivers of Virus-Mediated Microbial Evolution

Laura Adams

SURC 137B

11:40 AM - 12:00 PM

11:40 AM

Network Analysis

Travis Wentworth

SURC 201

11:40 AM - 12:00 PM

11:40 AM

New far-infrared laser emissions from optically pumped formic acid and several of its isotopic forms

Kerry Olivier
Brad DeShano
Breanna Cain

SURC 140

11:40 AM - 12:00 PM

11:40 AM

Student Attitudes towards Police — The Importance of Perceived Fairness and Procedural Justice

Jillian Shafer

SURC 137A

11:40 AM - 12:00 PM

12:00 PM

Characterizing a 474 nm Laser as a Source for Spontaneous Parametric Down Conversion

Joshua Balmer
Lex Howard

SURC 140

12:00 PM - 12:20 PM

12:00 PM

Does previous exposure to Leishmania major affect the outcome of infection Leishmania infantum

Heidi Anderson

SURC 137B

12:00 PM - 12:20 PM

12:00 PM

Global Trade Patterns of Trafficking in Persons

Diane Buchanan

SURC 201

12:00 PM - 12:20 PM

12:00 PM

Net Level Premium Application: A look at Smokers vs. Nonsmoker’s

Sarah Flatebo

SURC 202

12:00 PM - 12:20 PM

12:00 PM

Sexual Victimization Among College Students in a Rural Setting

Jordyn Ashford
Jillian Shafer

SURC 137A

12:00 PM - 12:20 PM

12:00 PM

The IRA: Portrayal, Perception, and Reality, 1916-1921

Elise Hoolbrook-Bruns

SURC 271

12:00 PM - 12:20 PM

12:20 PM

Design and implementation of an optical spectrum analyzer

Adam Powell

SURC 140

12:20 PM - 12:40 PM

12:20 PM

Ecology of Crime in Seattle, WA: Drug Market Intervention Assessment

Jillian Shafer

SURC 137A

12:20 PM - 12:40 PM

12:20 PM

Gaelicizing Ireland's Youth: The Creation of St. Enda's School for Boys

Christina Bartholet

SURC 271

12:20 PM - 12:40 PM

12:20 PM

Regulation of the Host Immune System by the Hookworm Ancylostoma ceylanicum

Nicholas Diliani

SURC 137B

12:20 PM - 12:40 PM

12:20 PM

The Relationship Between Artificial Social Environments and Deviance

Tyler Cummings

SURC 201

12:20 PM - 12:40 PM

12:20 PM

What Can Be as a Good Predictor of a Higher ADR in GI practices (Actuarial Science)

Rui Huang
Jinlong Cheng

SURC 202

12:20 PM - 12:40 PM

12:40 PM

Assessment of Anthelminthic Activity of Plant Extracts on the Hookworm Ancylostoma ceylanicum

Kaitlin Koppinger

SURC 137B

12:40 PM - 1:00 PM

12:40 PM

Development of a Nuclear Lifetime Measurement Apparatus

Brian Bianco
Deeanna Kilts

SURC 140

12:40 PM - 1:00 PM

12:40 PM

Guns and Crime: an Analysis of the Effects of Firearms Associated with Criminal Activity

Drew Heber
Micah Darnall

SURC 202

12:40 PM - 1:00 PM

12:40 PM

The Effectiveness of Reintegrative Shaming Theory within the Mechanisms of Secondary Deviance

Scott Perkins

SURC 137A

12:40 PM - 1:00 PM

12:40 PM

The Japanese Bushido of the Era of Civil War

Hideki Takei

SURC 271

12:40 PM - 1:00 PM

12:40 PM

The Relationship Between Homeschooling and Child Abuse

Rebecca Webster

SURC 201

12:40 PM - 1:00 PM

1:10 PM

Ecstatic Happy Numbers

Candace Chappelle

SURC 202

1:10 PM - 1:30 PM

1:10 PM

Mindfulness as an Attenuating Factor in the Relationship between Sexual Orientation and Levels of Stress, Depression, and Self-Esteem

Emily Faust

SURC 201

1:10 PM - 1:30 PM

1:10 PM

Read trimming of chloroplast genome sequences may lead to better quality assemblies

Angela McFadden

SURC 137B

1:10 PM - 1:30 PM

1:10 PM

Revolution and Education in Iran

Khodadad Kaviani

SURC 301

1:10 PM - 1:30 PM

1:10 PM

Trichloroethylene: The Silent Massacre

Terri Pace

SURC 137A

1:10 PM - 1:30 PM

1:10 PM

Truth Over Time: The Evolution of Hollywood's Thinking on the Vietnam War

Kellie Hedgers

SURC 271

1:10 PM - 1:30 PM

1:10 PM

Variable Temperature Virtual Star

Ernest Skousen

SURC 140

1:10 PM - 1:30 PM

1:30 PM

An Estimation of the Proportion of Abundant Numbers

Melissa Pidde

SURC 202

1:30 PM - 1:50 PM

1:30 PM

Castle City, Carcassonne, the Education of its Youth

Susan Donahoe

SURC 301

1:30 PM - 1:50 PM

1:30 PM

History of Mental Disorders as Portrayed in Film

Meagan Riggs

SURC 271

1:30 PM - 1:50 PM

1:30 PM

Initial Results of Modeling Winds in the Kittitas Valley with the Weather Research and Forecasting Model

David Wenger

SURC 140

1:30 PM - 1:50 PM

1:30 PM

Liar, Liar, Memory on Fire

Danielle Polage

SURC 201

1:30 PM - 1:50 PM

1:30 PM

Pollution Control in the Puyallup Floodplain: The Problem of Urban Sprawl

Spencer Kajca

SURC 137A

1:30 PM - 1:50 PM

1:30 PM

Selection on domestication traits and QTL in water-stressed sunflower crop-wild hybrids

Birkin Owart

SURC 137B

1:30 PM - 1:50 PM

1:50 PM

Doctored, Strange Love: Or How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Zomb

Cyphar Hopkins

SURC 271

1:50 PM - 2:10 PM

1:50 PM

Error Detection

Christopher Prather

SURC 201

1:50 PM - 2:10 PM

1:50 PM

Experimental Alteration of DNA Methylation Affects the Phenotypic Plasticity of Ecologically Relevant Traits in Arabidopsis

Anthony Marrese

SURC 137B

1:50 PM - 2:10 PM

1:50 PM

Investigating Bell’s Theorem on Correlated Systems Utilizing Monte Carlo Methods

Ryan Corbin

SURC 140

1:50 PM - 2:10 PM

1:50 PM

Multicultural Education: A Solution to Meeting the Needs of Today’s Underserved Students

Julia Anderson

SURC 301

1:50 PM - 2:10 PM

1:50 PM

Residential Stormwater and the Contamination of Puget Sound

Kirsten McLeod

SURC 137A

1:50 PM - 2:10 PM

1:50 PM

What wins basketball games?

Christina Ordonez
Jamie Bowe

SURC 202

1:50 PM - 2:10 PM

2:10 PM

Cherry Point Coal Transfer Station: To Build or Not To Build

Keith Rakes

SURC 137A

2:10 PM - 2:30 PM

2:10 PM

Current Reading Habit Trends

Laura Bostwick

SURC 202

2:10 PM - 2:30 PM

2:10 PM

Magic, Zeitgeists, and Cognitive Dissonance

Melinda Miracle

SURC 201

2:10 PM - 2:30 PM

2:10 PM

Populations of Daphnia melanica vary in their behavioral response to visible and UV light

Amanda Tompkins

SURC 137B

2:10 PM - 2:30 PM

2:10 PM

The Value of Anthropomorphic Literature

Stephanie Nielson

SURC 301

2:10 PM - 2:30 PM

2:10 PM

Weak Domestic or Fighting Female: Anime and the Portrayal of Women

Amy Kobashigawa

SURC 271

2:10 PM - 2:30 PM

2:40 PM

A Fresh Look at National Dental Data

Russa Tokarczyk
Adam Blanar-Oviatt

SURC 202

2:40 PM - 3:00 PM

2:40 PM

Decreasing a College Student’s Disorganization

James Heberling

SURC 301

2:40 PM - 3:00 PM

2:40 PM

How America's Drug War affects Mexico's Tourism

Carley James

SURC 271

2:40 PM - 3:00 PM

2:40 PM

Protein-Protein Interactions in the Embryonic Mouse Neocortex: Emx2 and Binding Partners

Cierra Miller

SURC 137B

2:40 PM - 3:00 PM

2:40 PM

Sign Dialects in Chimpanzees

Susan Ann Keenan
Mary Lee Jensvold

SURC 201

2:40 PM - 3:00 PM

2:40 PM

The Illusion of Power: An Analysis of Magical Realism and Religion in Bless Me, Ultima

James Thomas

SURC 135

2:40 PM - 3:00 PM

2:40 PM

The Politics of the Mexican State: Informal Power and Failed State Politics in the Struggle against the Cartels

Brendan Shearer

SURC 137A

2:40 PM - 3:00 PM

2:40 PM

Tracing Atmospheric Nitrates in the Lower Yakima Valley Basin, Washington

Gabrielle Cavanaugh

SURC 140

2:40 PM - 3:00 PM

3:00 PM

Haunting History in Toni Morrison's Beloved

Hannah Ryker

SURC 135

3:00 PM - 3:20 PM

3:00 PM

Identification of proteins that interact with Lhx2 in the embryonic neocortex

William Jackson

SURC 137B

3:00 PM - 3:20 PM

3:00 PM

Increasing Making the Bed for 23 Year Old Male

Brooke Piper

SURC 301

3:00 PM - 3:20 PM

3:00 PM

International Tourist Flows and Natural Disasters

Jacob Clement

SURC 271

3:00 PM - 3:20 PM

3:00 PM

Latinos and the United States Political System: A Case Study of Latino Political Participation and Representation in the City of

Krystelle Purkey
Steven Pray
Brendan Shearer
Levi Cohen

SURC 137A

3:00 PM - 3:20 PM

3:00 PM

Maternal investment in free-ranging Tibetan macaques (Macaca thibetana)

Ashley Murphy
Jessa Link

SURC 201

3:00 PM - 3:20 PM

3:00 PM

Modeling Metamorphic History of High Pressure Rocks from Western China

Jesse Walters

SURC 140

3:00 PM - 3:20 PM

3:00 PM

Occupational Employment Analysis for 2012

Nathan Rindlisbacher

SURC 202

3:00 PM - 3:20 PM

3:20 PM

21 and Running

Pablo Gonzalez

SURC 137A

3:20 PM - 3:40 PM

3:20 PM

A Methodology For Nominating Behaviors To Measure Personality Traits In Nonhuman Primates

Alexander Pritchard
Lori Sheeran
Kara Gabriel
Jinhua Li
Steve Wagner

SURC 201

3:20 PM - 3:40 PM

3:20 PM

Flavonoid Effects on Breast Cancer Cells

Averyl Shindruk

SURC 137B

3:20 PM - 3:40 PM

3:20 PM

Food, Music, and Language: The Power of Folklore

Sara Rodriguez

SURC 271

3:20 PM - 3:40 PM

3:20 PM

Gone With the Wind – Supplementing Diesel with Wind Energy at a Remote Iron Ore Mine; by Michael Hadfield and Jason Sivich (Econ

Michael Hadfield
Jason Sivich

SURC 202

3:20 PM - 3:40 PM

3:20 PM

Increasing Putting Dishes in the Dishwasher Using Prompting and Positive Reinforcement

Nadine Smith

SURC 301

3:20 PM - 3:40 PM

3:20 PM

Negotiating the Conflict between Gender Roles on the Spectrum of Reality and Fantasy in The House of the Spirits

Nick Flerchinger

SURC 135

3:20 PM - 3:40 PM

3:20 PM

Using GIS to Assess the Post-Fire Table Mountain Environment for Mass Wasting Susceptibility

Owen Takagi

SURC 140

3:20 PM - 3:40 PM

3:40 PM

2013 Cross Cultural Leadership Program Spring Immersion Project

Ryan Gregson

SURC 271

3:40 PM - 4:00 PM

3:40 PM

Being Mexican-American: A Literary Analysis of the Life of Mexican Immigrants in the United States

Markie Stratton

SURC 137A

3:40 PM - 4:00 PM

3:40 PM

Compact Rio - Analyzing Acceleration and Straine

Louie Palencia

SURC 202

3:40 PM - 4:00 PM

3:40 PM

Grissom Site (45KT301) Inter- and Intra-Site Comparisons of Stone Tool Technology and Function Through Time

Anne Vassar

SURC 140

3:40 PM - 4:00 PM

3:40 PM

Impact of Park Ranger Quality on Tibetan Macaques (Macaca thibetana) at Mt. Huangshan, China

Rie Usui
Jin-hua Li
Alexander DuVall-Lash

SURC 201

3:40 PM - 4:00 PM

4:10 PM

Bondage: How the James Bond films effect the female race.

Jessica Murillo-Rosales

SURC 135

4:10 PM - 4:30 PM

4:10 PM

Effectiveness of Stretch and Flex Programs in Preventing work-related musculoskeletal disorders in Construction

Sathyanarayanan Rajendran

SURC 202

4:10 PM - 4:30 PM

4:10 PM

Perceptions of Drug Users and Drug Use Within Rural Communities

Eric Seitz

SURC 271

4:10 PM - 4:30 PM

4:10 PM

Redox Reactions of Iron and Carbon in Soot Samples

Andrew Straub-Walden
Hector Casique

SURC 137B

4:10 PM - 4:30 PM

4:30 PM

Alcohol Consumption and Intercollegiate Athletes

Nicole Prigge

SURC 271

4:30 PM - 4:50 PM

4:30 PM

Investigation of the role of polyelectrolytes in the stabilization of reactive redox species

James Siegenthaler

SURC 137B

4:30 PM - 4:50 PM

4:30 PM

James Bond and All His Women

Jannicke Moffat

SURC 135

4:30 PM - 4:50 PM

4:30 PM

Making, Curing, and Testing Concrete Cylinders in a Senior Level Construction Management Course

P. Warren Plugge

SURC 202

4:30 PM - 4:50 PM

4:50 PM

Creating and Utilizing a Working Refrigeration Model to Enhance Student Learning in a Construction Management Program

P. Warren Plugge

SURC 202

4:50 PM - 5:10 PM

4:50 PM

Gender Norms: The Negative Impact of Pop Culture on the Advancement of Gender Roles

Nancy Pizano

SURC 135

4:50 PM - 5:10 PM

4:50 PM

New Synthesis of Novel Phosphor for LED Technology: Sr3Y2(BO3)4:Eu Using Sr3B2O6:Eu and SrB4O7:Eu Precursors

Troy Kilburn
Zachary Way

SURC 137B

4:50 PM - 5:10 PM

4:50 PM

Utilizing summer programs to promote wellness knowledge through physical education and health classes in Micronesia

Kevin McFadden
Evan Johnson
Joe Avila

SURC 271

4:50 PM - 5:10 PM

5:10 PM

The Negative Effects of Discrimination

Riley Elliot

SURC 135

5:10 PM - 5:30 PM

5:10 PM

Using Game Theory Pedagogy in Construction Management- Prisoner’s Dilemna and the 20 Dollar Game

Warren Plugge

SURC 202

5:10 PM - 5:30 PM