Oral Sessions: 9-1, Wednesday, May 11, PUB 3rd Floor

Oral Session One: Biology and Engineering – PUB 317

9:00Bubba Pfeffer (Jessica Allen, Jeni Walke), Comparative population genomics of the powder lichens Lepraria lanata and Lepraria finkii
9:20Bryn Tennyson (Andrea Castillo), Does Manuka Honey Induce Antibiotic Resistant Bacterial Persister and Viable but Non-Culturable Subpopulations?
9:40Krista Dodd (Jenifer Walke), Analysis of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis infection spread in Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge using GIS
10:00Allison Hayes (Jenifer Walke), The Relationship between Water Microbial Communities and Mosquito Breeding Sites
10:20Craig Wells (Paul Spruell),  An Examination of Anthropogenic Impacts on Native Salmonid Populations in North Idaho
10:4015 Minute Break
10:55Lilijanna Cummings (Jason Ashley), Sexually-divergent differentiation and inflammatory response of osteoclast precursors.
11:15Kristy Snyder (Rebecca Brown), The functional role of annual seeds and biochar in prairie restoration
11:35Dana Colley (Krisztian Magori), Investigating how bat ectoparasites influence the skin microbiome diversity and composition of Washington State bats
11:55Thomas Hudon, Vadim Levchenko (Heechang Bae, Awlad Hossain, Matthew Michelis)  Analyzing the effects of Acetone Vapor surface treatment on the fatigue life of 3D printed ABS components
12:15Collin Hendricks (Paul Spruell) Estimating the Relative Production of Migratory Westslope Cutthroat Trout in Tributaries to the Lower Priest River, Idaho
12:35Sarah Deshazer (Krizstian Magori) Diversity, abundance, and dispersal of small mammals on and around the Eastern Washington University prairie restoration site

Oral Session Two: Social Sciences – PUB 319

9:00Damalie Ndamira (Jason Scully), Graffiti Vandalism: Defining the role of crime  prevention through environmental design
9:20Gabriel Root (Bill Youngs), Propaganda, huh! What is it good for? Absolutely  everything!
9:40Whitney Longie (Judy Rohrer), The South Dakota “Fairness in Women’s Sports” Bill and Its Impact on Transgender Youth
10:00Katie Gower (Vandana Asthana and Matthew Anderson), Policy & Practice: Investigating Homelessness Discourse in Spokane, Washington
10:20Chelsea Boothe (Majid Sharifi), Bolivia: Colonial Effects and the Future of Plurinational Development   
10:4015 minute break
10:55Kurtis Johnson (Jason Scully and Margo Hill), Barriers and Facilitators to the Creation, Maintenance, and Growth of Tribal Transit Services
11:15Charles Crook (Kassahun Kebede), Overcoming Loneliness: First-generation Slavic Immigrants’ Experience with Loneliness in the Inland Northwest
11:35Alexia Howard-Mullins (Vandana Asthana), The War on Drugs and Its Legal Effects on Black Americans
11:55Shawn Stevens, Alexander Dodson, and Kelton Earl (Amani El-Alayli), Flag effects on person perception: U.S. flag vs. trump flag

Oral Session Three: Philosophy, Communications, English as a Second Language – PUB 321

9:00Zoom: Natalya Sharavara (Anna Tsepkova), Genre Diversity in Monica Ali’s “Untold Story” (2011)
9:20Zoom: Alexandra Gordienko (Anna Tsepkova) Themes and Moral Messages in Rob Biddulf’s Picture Books for Children
9:40Zoom: Anastasia May (Anna Tsepkova), N. Gaiman’s “Stardust” as a Reading and Discussion Supplement in a High School EFL Classroom
10:00Zoom: Michael Frederick (Philip Watkins), Exploring the Relationship Between Gratitude and Self-Control - a Mediation Analysis
10:2015 Minute Break
10:35Terrie Cramer (Igor Klyukanov), Responding to COVID-19 guided by Aristotle's ethics
10:55Shen Tsao (Kevin Decker) The Tempest: The Apex of Montaigne’s Influence on Shakespeare
11:15Marisa Janke (Kevin Decker), Actualization through Constraint: an Analysis of Hegelian Self-Consciousness in Fascism-Exclusionary Expression and in Modular Orchestral Composition
11:35Irie Browning (Kevin Decker) The Necessary Passion of Religion in Hegel and Kierkegaard
11:55Kaleb McCalden (Christopher Kirby) Xunzi’s Humanistic Naturalism: Utilizing Rituals to Address Our Psychological Challenges
12:15Blake Budke (Christopher Kirby and Kevin Decker), Hegel as a Therapist: Looking at The Human Psyche Through Parts of The Phenomenology

Oral Session Four: English – PUB 323

9:00Holly Thorpe (Johnathan Johnson), In the Next Life: A collection of poetry
9:20KP Kaszubowski (Johnathan Johnson), Summer plans
9:40Victoria Thurmond (Jonathan Johnson), The Weight of the Sky
10:0015 minute break
10:15Richard Campbell (Max Hohner), The Fall of the House of Usher, and the Rise of the Civil War
10:35Gabriel Meek (Jonathan Johnson), Warriors & Web-Slingers: The Shifting Contemporary Epic, from Poetry to Popular Culture
10:55KP Kaszubowski (Jonathan Johnson), “Between the bitter and the sweet”: longing and intimacy in Sappho’s and June Jordan’s love poems
11:15Victoria Thurmond (Jonathan Johnson), The Evolution of Pastoral Poetry: An Examination of Kokinshū and Mary Oliver
11:35Connor Dahlin (Jonathan Johnson), War on the Unknown: A Poetic History of Mythic Appropriation & Modern Mythic Dissolve
11:55Mikelle Gaines (Paul Lindholdt and Logan Greene), Trickster as Teacher - Lessons from the Original Man