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 2014's Oral Presentations. All presentations took place at the Student Union and Recreation Center--noted as SURC in the schedule.
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2014 | ||
Wednesday, January 1st | ||
12:00 AM |
Hydroshield: No Hassle Sandbag Solution for Flood Protection Hari Rathnam Ellensburg 12:00 AM |
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12:00 AM |
One Spark! Start an Idea, Not Fires! Kimberly McKinnon Ellensburg 12:00 AM |
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Thursday, May 15th | ||
12:00 AM |
Diana Strickley 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM |
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12:00 AM |
Giddy Up Pay Up: A Public Relations Campaign Mia Patterson 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM |
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12:00 AM |
Bryon Free 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM |
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12:00 AM |
Sedimentological and stratigraphic evidence for paleotsunami events at Quidico, Chile Isabel Hong 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM |
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8:10 AM |
Abundant Weirdness: Our Journey to Breaking a World Record Jeremy Klarich SURC Room 202 8:10 AM - 8:30 AM |
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8:10 AM |
HopeSource Weatherization and Conservation Services - An Analysis of Program Effectiveness Stephanie Harris SURC Room 137B 8:10 AM - 8:30 AM |
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8:10 AM |
Let Them Eat Grass: The Media and the Sioux Uprising of 1862 Jordan Bergstrom SURC Room 271 8:10 AM - 8:30 AM |
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8:30 AM |
A Confidence Interval for the Density of Abundant Numbers Melissa Pidde SURC Room 202 8:30 AM - 8:50 AM |
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8:30 AM |
Cultural Capital in our Schools Stavroula Athan SURC Room 201 8:30 AM - 8:50 AM |
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8:30 AM |
Territorial Identity: How Newspapers Covered the Civil War in Washington Territory 1861-1865 Adam Griffith SURC Room 271 8:30 AM - 8:50 AM |
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8:30 AM |
The Future of Capital Punishment in America: Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Decides Mariah Wells SURC Room 137A 8:30 AM - 8:50 AM |
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8:30 AM |
Using GIS to Model Potential Salmon Habitat Restoration in the Swauk Creek/ Highway 97 Corridor Jared Hess SURC Room 137B 8:30 AM - 8:50 AM |
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8:50 AM |
Army of Liberation, Army of Terror: Rape as a Weapon of War Kellie Hedgers SURC Room 271 8:50 AM - 9:10 AM |
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8:50 AM |
Modeling Elk Habitat Suitability in the North Cascades Anna Yost SURC Room 137B 8:50 AM - 9:10 AM |
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8:50 AM |
Parental Involvement and the Engagement of Youth in Property Crimes Laura Ramirez SURC Room 137A 8:50 AM - 9:10 AM |
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8:50 AM |
Poincare Doughnuts: An Investigation of Non-Euclidean Orthogonal Circles in Euclidean Space Daniel Mailhot SURC Room 202 8:50 AM - 9:10 AM |
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8:50 AM |
The Quest for Equality: African American Males Breaking Barriers in Professional Sports (1920-2013) Mia Patterson SURC Room 201 8:50 AM - 9:10 AM |
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9:10 AM |
Kurt Boberg SURC Room 202 9:10 AM - 9:30 AM |
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9:10 AM |
Effects of Father’s Involvement on Men’s Attitudinal Measures Regarding Parenting Keith Smith SURC Room 137A 9:10 AM - 9:30 AM |
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9:10 AM |
Lana Abuhudra SURC Room 201 9:10 AM - 9:30 AM |
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9:10 AM |
Free Speech, Critical Thinking and Anti-Communism on a College Campus Scott Miller SURC Room 271 9:10 AM - 9:30 AM |
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9:10 AM |
Scott Adolphson SURC Room 137B 9:10 AM - 9:30 AM |
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9:30 AM |
Ryan Brookhart SURC Room 301 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM |
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9:40 AM |
A Faunal Sample from Pre-Mazama Levels of the Bernard Creek Rockshelter, Hells Canyon, Idaho Lianne Day SURC Room 137B 9:40 AM - 10:00 AM |
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9:40 AM |
Assessing the Expectations for Learning Commons Tutoring Olivia Hirschey SURC Room 201 9:40 AM - 10:00 AM |
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9:40 AM |
Bananas Painted Red: US Neo-Colonialism in the Colombia 1927-1928 Robert Moser SURC Room 271 9:40 AM - 10:00 AM |
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9:40 AM |
Amber Betz SURC Room 140 9:40 AM - 10:00 AM |
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9:40 AM |
Elizabeth Sayre SURC Room 137A 9:40 AM - 10:00 AM |
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9:40 AM |
Mathematical Modelling of Highway Traffic Policies Benjamin Squire SURC Room 202 9:40 AM - 10:00 AM |
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10:00 AM |
Building a Myth: Testaments of the Kievan Rus’ Grand Princes as Origin Myths Elizabeth Seelye SURC Room 271 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM |
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10:00 AM |
Navarette v. California: Fourth Amendment, Vehicles, and Anonymous Tips James Nguyen SURC Room 137A 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM |
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10:00 AM |
Introducing like in Discourse to EFL Students through Corpora Karlyn Koughan-Thornburg SURC Room 201 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM |
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10:00 AM |
On cyclic decompositions of Kn-1,n-1 +I into a 2-regular bipartite graph with at most 2 components Maira Carmona Herrera SURC Room 202 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM |
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10:00 AM |
Radiocarbon Dating of Calcined Bone: Pacific Northwest James Brown SURC Room 137B 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM |
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10:00 AM |
Spam Filtration using Massively Parallel kNN in CUDA Patrick McElroy SURC Room 140 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM |
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10:00 AM |
Yeah Buddy Brewpub and Theater Alex Dahlin SURC Room 301 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM |
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10:20 AM |
Joy Ferry SURC Room 137B 10:20 AM - 10:40 AM |
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10:20 AM |
Analyzing the Seahawks' Offensive Play-Calling Adam Brand SURC Room 202 10:20 AM - 10:40 AM |
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10:20 AM |
Clara Hodges SURC Room 201 10:20 AM - 10:40 AM |
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10:20 AM |
Central Access Reader:The Next Generation Text to Speech Program Wendy Holden SURC Room 140 10:20 AM - 10:40 AM |
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10:20 AM |
Tanya Marri SURC Room 137A 10:20 AM - 10:40 AM |
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10:20 AM |
The Russian Paradox: Kropotkin's influence on International Eugenics Joseph Melton SURC Room 271 10:20 AM - 10:40 AM |
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10:30 AM |
David MacAdam SURC Room 301 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM |
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10:40 AM |
James Smigaj SURC Room 202 10:40 AM - 11:00 AM |
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10:40 AM |
Catherine Graham SURC Room 271 10:40 AM - 11:00 AM |
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10:40 AM |
Patrick Lewis SURC Room 137B 10:40 AM - 11:00 AM |
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10:40 AM |
Theocracy, it’s a piece of cake. Really! Khodadad (Khodi) Kaviani SURC Room 201 10:40 AM - 11:00 AM |
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11:00 AM |
Peter Newstand SURC Room 301 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM |
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11:30 AM |
Austin Smith SURC Room 301 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM |
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11:40 AM |
Analyzing Operational Amplifiers in Chaotic Circuits Christopher Huss SURC Room 140 11:40 AM - 12:00 PM |
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11:40 AM |
AWCON Mediates Navigation to Preferred Range of Field strength in a DC Electric Field Steven Chrisman SURC Room 137B 11:40 AM - 12:00 PM |
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11:40 AM |
Effects of Sleep Quality on Depression and Anxiety Symptomology Anthony Celori SURC Room 202 11:40 AM - 12:00 PM |
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11:40 AM |
Epistemology through Buddhist Poetry: A Real Challenge to Western Thought Sarah Littman SURC Room 271 11:40 AM - 12:00 PM |
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11:40 AM |
Non-School Activities and the Hispanic/White Achievement Gap Darla Davey Medina SURC Room 137A 11:40 AM - 12:00 PM |
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11:40 AM |
Reducing the Amount of Swearing by using a Token System Kristen FitzGerald SURC Room 201 11:40 AM - 12:00 PM |
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11:40 AM |
The Effects of Native American Folklore on Contemporary Nonfiction Literature Megan Epperson SURC Room 135 11:40 AM - 12:00 PM |
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12:00 PM |
Challenges of College Students with Asperger’s Syndrome Shu-Fei Tsai SURC Room 201 12:00 PM - 12:20 PM |
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12:00 PM |
Seth Ronk SURC Room 137B 12:00 PM - 12:20 PM |
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12:00 PM |
Corporate Style Education Reform and the Latino Community Steven Pray SURC Room 137A 12:00 PM - 12:20 PM |
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12:00 PM |
Exposure to the Pesticide Chlordane is Associated with Increased Risk of Metabolic Syndrome Cassandra Nikolaus SURC Room 202 12:00 PM - 12:20 PM |
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12:00 PM |
Far-Infrared Laser Emissions from Optically Pumped Methanol Mark McKnight SURC Room 140 12:00 PM - 12:20 PM |
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12:00 PM |
The Ego-Function of Rhetoric in Leaves of Grass Peter Rampa SURC Room 135 12:00 PM - 12:20 PM |
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12:00 PM |
Trung Institute of English as a Second language Tyler Van Sickle SURC Room 301 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM |
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12:00 PM |
Women, Role Ethics and Phenomenology: A Critique and Expansion Megan Gustafson SURC Room 271 12:00 PM - 12:20 PM |
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12:20 PM |
Confucian Role Ethics for Women: A Response to Roger Ames Ashlee Godwin SURC Room 271 12:20 PM - 12:40 PM |
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12:20 PM |
Effective Learning Strategies for College Students with Asperger’s Syndrome Jamie Gilbert SURC Room 201 12:20 PM - 12:40 PM |
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12:20 PM |
Effects of Funding on Public School Graduation Rates Krystelle Purkey SURC Room 137A 12:20 PM - 12:40 PM |
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12:20 PM |
Shea Gembol SURC Room 202 12:20 PM - 12:40 PM |
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12:20 PM |
Temperature Sex Determination and the DMRT1 gene in Gekko japonicas Lisa-Marie Mullen SURC Room 137B 12:20 PM - 12:40 PM |
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12:20 PM |
Using Guide Emissions to Assess Far-Infrared Laser Wavelengths Brad DeShano SURC Room 140 12:20 PM - 12:40 PM |
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12:20 PM |
Who is Alice?: Parody, Education, and Identity in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Cameron Sedlacek SURC Room 135 12:20 PM - 12:40 PM |
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12:40 PM |
Confucian Role Ethics: Reflections From A Global Perspective Zoey Zemanek SURC Room 271 12:40 PM - 12:59 PM |
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12:40 PM |
Dystopian Cinderellas: "I Follow Him Into the Dark" Courtney Lear SURC Room 135 12:40 PM - 1:00 PM |
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12:40 PM |
Measurement of Far-Infrared Laser Frequencies Patrick Mehl SURC Room 140 12:40 PM - 12:59 PM |
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12:40 PM |
Stephanie Landreth SURC Room 202 12:40 PM - 1:00 PM |
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12:40 PM |
Resolving Gnetum Evolutionary History Angela McFadden SURC Room 137B 12:40 PM - 12:59 PM |
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12:40 PM |
Meghan Gilbert SURC Room 201 12:40 PM - 1:00 PM |
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1:10 PM |
William Ray SURC Room 137B 1:10 PM - 1:30 PM |
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1:10 PM |
Warren Plugge SURC Room 202 1:10 PM - 1:30 PM |
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1:10 PM |
Learning at Home with Interactive Literacy Kits Teri Walker SURC Room 201 1:10 PM - 1:30 PM |
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1:10 PM |
Project Based Learning: An Examination of the South Sudan Crisis Tyler Alling SURC Room 301 1:10 PM - 2:30 PM |
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1:10 PM |
Se puede, y se debe: Educating Heritage Students Itzia Luna SURC Room 135 1:10 PM - 1:30 PM |
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1:10 PM |
Speak of the Devil and He Will Appear: Why Macbeth Deserved His fate. Cassandra White SURC Theatre 1:10 PM - 1:30 PM |
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1:10 PM |
Terri Pace SURC Room 137A 1:10 PM - 1:30 PM |
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1:10 PM |
Would not existing put a limitation on the idea of infinity? Melanie Stankus SURC Room 271 1:10 PM - 1:30 PM |
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1:30 PM |
Lean Construction Games in the Classroom David Martin SURC Room 202 1:30 PM - 1:50 PM |
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1:30 PM |
Kaitlin Koppinger SURC Room 137B 1:30 PM - 1:50 PM |
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1:30 PM |
Oil Painting with First Graders Susan Donahoe SURC Room 201 1:30 PM - 1:50 PM |
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1:30 PM |
Religion: Doctrines of Detriment Joe Ridgeway SURC Room 271 1:30 PM - 1:50 PM |
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1:30 PM |
Se puede y se debe: Educating Heritage Students Isaac Meza SURC Room 135 1:30 PM - 1:50 PM |
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1:30 PM |
Gregory Scheopner SURC Theatre 1:30 PM - 1:50 PM |
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1:30 PM |
The Convention on Nuclear Safety: A Closer Look at Nuclear Accidents and Policy Decisions Michael Gilman SURC Room 137A 1:30 PM - 1:50 PM |
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1:50 PM |
Don’t Leave Ergonomics Out of Your Cosntruction Safety Program Sathyanarayanan Rajendran SURC Room 202 1:50 PM - 2:10 PM |
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1:50 PM |
How Sustainable Becomes Unsustainable in Resource Use: Insights from Behavioral Economics Lixing Sun SURC Room 137A 1:50 PM - 2:10 PM |
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1:50 PM |
Heidi Anderson SURC Room 137B 1:50 PM - 2:10 PM |
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1:50 PM |
Puppetry Movement: What it teaches us Sarah Andrews SURC Theatre 1:50 PM - 2:30 PM |
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1:50 PM |
Se puede y se debe: Educating Heritage Students Edward Pinto SURC Room 135 1:50 PM - 2:10 PM |
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1:50 PM |
Maxwell Davis SURC Room 271 1:50 PM - 2:10 PM |
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2:10 PM |
A Failure of Modern Leadership Ryan Tollackson SURC Room 271 2:10 PM - 2:30 PM |
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2:10 PM |
Hideki Takei SURC Room 137A 2:10 PM - 2:30 PM |
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2:10 PM |
Kinematic Analysis of Prey Capture in Coastal Giant Salamanders (Dicamptodon tenebrosus) Laura Westervelt SURC Room 137B 2:10 PM - 2:30 PM |
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2:40 PM |
Amanda Marquis SURC Room 137B 2:40 PM - 3:00 PM |
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2:40 PM |
Sarah Martinson SURC Ballroom A 2:40 PM - 3:00 PM |
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2:40 PM |
Convergence: Art and Chemistry Tarra Hall SURC Room 201 2:40 PM - 3:00 PM |
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2:40 PM |
Digital Audio Tour of CWU Art and Architecture Mark Auslander SURC Room 137A 2:40 PM - 4:00 PM |
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2:40 PM |
Ethan Green SURC Room 137B 2:40 PM - 4:00 PM |
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2:40 PM |
Intersexuality and the Ethics of Infant Genital Surgery Zachariah Dozier SURC Room 271 2:40 PM - 3:00 PM |
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2:40 PM |
Synthesis Towards Straight Chain Borinic Acids as Potential HIV-1 Protease Inhibitors Erik Contreras SURC Room 140 2:40 PM - 3:00 PM |
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2:40 PM |
The Androgynous Disguise: Marian Halcombe's Hidden Misogyny Jessica Kent SURC Room 135 2:40 PM - 3:00 PM |
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2:40 PM |
The Historical Background of American Beer and the Opinion Leaders of Breweries Alison Duff SURC Room 202 2:40 PM - 3:00 PM |
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2:40 PM |
The Lyme Disease Controversies Tonia DeVries SURC Room 301 2:40 PM - 3:00 PM |
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3:00 PM |
James Thomas SURC Room 135 3:00 PM - 3:20 PM |
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3:00 PM |
An Analysis of Generational Cooperation in the Workplace Barbara Wyatt SURC Room 301 3:00 PM - 3:20 PM |
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3:00 PM |
Gutenberg-Michelangelo-Bach: The Effect of Print Technology on Visual Art and Music, 1400-1800 Matthew Armbrust SURC Room 201 3:00 PM - 3:20 PM |
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3:00 PM |
Jeffrey Snedeker SURC Ballroom A 3:00 PM - 3:40 PM |
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3:00 PM |
Rethinking Black Masculinity and Sexuality Camron Millhouse SURC Room 271 3:00 PM - 3:20 PM |
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3:00 PM |
Towards the Synthesis of 1,3-Azaborines as Potential HIV-1 Protease Inhibitors Nicholas Treich SURC Room 140 3:00 PM - 3:20 PM |
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3:00 PM |
Variations in Vocalization Frequency of Chachalacas in Chamela, Jalisco Mexico Julia VanDerslice SURC Room 137B 3:00 PM - 3:20 PM |
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3:20 PM |
A Mysterious Non-Mystery: Deconstructing Dickens’ “Hunted Down” William Chaddock SURC Room 135 3:20 PM - 3:40 PM |
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3:20 PM |
Beyond Camp: The Effect of Gender Identity on Drag Performance Kevan Gardner SURC Room 271 3:20 PM - 3:40 PM |
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3:20 PM |
Flight Attendants: Stars of the Airline Industry Shanice Tolbert SURC Room 202 3:20 PM - 3:40 PM |
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3:20 PM |
Helping Up, Instead of Holding Down Derrick Lecker SURC Room 301 3:20 PM - 3:40 PM |
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3:20 PM |
Michael Frank SURC Room 140 3:20 PM - 3:40 PM |
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3:40 PM |
An Evaluation of Fish Passage Through Small Urban Streams in Central Washington Kelsey Martin SURC Room 137B 3:40 PM - 4:00 PM |
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3:40 PM |
Carbonaceous nanoparticle toxicity as a function of ferrous iron content Daniel Hinz SURC Room 140 3:40 PM - 4:00 PM |
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3:40 PM |
Positive and Negative Impacts of Tourism Vladimir Beletskiy SURC Room 202 3:40 PM - 4:00 PM |
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3:40 PM |
The Education Bubble: Federal Tertiary Education Policy and the Myth of Accessibility Jesse Hegstrom Oakey SURC Room 301 3:40 PM - 4:00 PM |
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4:10 PM |
A Combined Molecular Dynamics, Rigidity Analysis Approach for Studying Protein Complexes Brian Orndorff SURC Room 140 4:10 PM - 4:30 PM |
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4:10 PM |
Developmental Changes in Vocalizations of Tibetan Macaques (Macaca thibetana) Erika Price SURC Room 137B 4:10 PM - 4:30 PM |
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4:10 PM |
Digital Audio Tour of CWU Art and Architecture Mark Auslander SURC Room 137A 4:10 PM - 5:30 PM |
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4:10 PM |
The Very Old and the Very New: Important Grape Varietals in the Wine Regions of Hungary Jeanette Clevenger SURC Room 202 4:10 PM - 4:30 PM |
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4:10 PM |
When a Man Bleeds: Fears of the Feminine and Reproduction in John Carpenter's The Thing Thomas Tranchell SURC Room 135 4:10 PM - 4:30 PM |
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4:30 PM |
e-Titrator, a Web-Based Titration Calculator for Chemical Education. Kevin Ngo SURC Room 140 4:30 PM - 4:50 PM |
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4:30 PM |
Asa Staven SURC Room 137B 4:30 PM - 4:50 PM |
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4:30 PM |
Shelby Gremel SURC Room 135 4:30 PM - 4:50 PM |
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4:30 PM |
The Effectiveness of Vienna’s Heurigens as a Wine and Tourist Industry Kene Vamderpool SURC Room 202 4:30 PM - 4:50 PM |
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4:50 PM |
Hungary’s Post-Communism Wine Tourism Kirsten Alter SURC Room 202 4:50 PM - 5:10 PM |
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4:50 PM |
The Bookshop Quartet: An Original Screenplay Caleb Allison SURC Room 135 4:50 PM - 5:10 PM |
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4:50 PM |
Using a Spreadsheet to Solve the Schrödinger Equations for H2 in the Ground and Excited States Jacob Buchanan SURC Room 140 4:50 PM - 5:10 PM |
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5:10 PM |
Polyelectrolyte/Surfactant Complexes as Reversible Transports to a Modified Silica Surface James Siegenthaler SURC Room 140 5:10 PM - 5:30 PM |
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5:10 PM |
Barbara Masberg SURC Room 202 5:10 PM - 5:30 PM |