The conference will recognize outstanding graduate student paper and poster presentations with awards, which will be accompanied by prizes of $100. Awards will be made based on the significance of the topic and results, appropriateness of the approach, clarity of the presentation, as well as the effectiveness of addressing the interdisciplinary/cross-disciplinary goals of the conference.
Scoring Rubric is coming soon.
John Hays (Philosophy)
Author(s): John Hays
"Manners of Interpretation in Aesthetics: Re-thinking Moderate Formalism"
Tien Chih (Mathematical Sciences)
Author(s): Tien Chih
"Constructing Designs using Near-rings"
Katherine Harris (Chemistry)
Author(s): Katherine Harris, Michael DeGrandpre, Burke Hales
"Coastal Oregon Seawater pH Variability"
Adrienne Keller (Ecosystem and Conservation Sciences)
Author(s): Cory Cleveland, Sasha Reed
"The effects of microbial community composition on soil organic matter decomposition"
Jiang Gong (Linguistics)
Author(s): Jiang Song Gong
"The Acquisition of Chinese Specific and Container Classifiers by Adult English Speakers"
Katlyn Roggensack (Communication Studies)
Author(s): Jessica McFadden, Anne Sherwood, Shiloh Sullivan
"I Got Dumped on Facebook: New Media's Role in Conflict Management"
Jerod Merkle (Wildlife Biology)
Author(s): Jerod A. Merkle, Paul R. Krausman, Nick J. DeCesare, James J. Jonkel
"Predicting the spatial distribution of human-black bear interactions across an urban area"
Tom Simones (Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences)
Author(s): Tom Simones, Jaishree Bankoti, David M. Shepherd
"Dioxin Alters Dendritic Cell Growth and Phenotype"
Nicholas Heck (Psychology)
Author(s): Nicholas C. Heck, Annesa M. Flentje, Bryan N. Cochran
"High School Gay-Straight Alliances: An Environmental Indicator for Healthy Development"
Colin Sorenson (Economics)
Author(s): Colin Sorenson, Tyron Venn, Helen Naughton, Nate Anderson, Dan Loeffler, Greg Jones, Woodam Chung
"Financial analysis of biomass energy production: A comparative case study in southwest Oregon"
Shandy Lemperle (Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures)
Author(s): Shandy Lemperle
"The ‘Problem' of Non-Western Art in the West: Controversy and Contradictions Surrounding the Musée du Quai Branly"
Sean Sullivan (Environmental Studies)
Author(s): Heiko Langner, Lisa Eby
"Community Composition Analysis and Trace Metals Concentrations in Benthic Biota: A Pre-Restoration Description of the Upper Blackfoot Mining Complex, Montana"
Gustavo Guajardo (Linguistics)
Author(s): Gustavo Guajardo
"On the Syntax of Tenselessness: Why Languages should not have tensed verbs in embedded clauses"
Meghan Gill (Psychology)
Author(s): Meghan Gill, Joy Gabrielli, Lynne Sanford Koester
"Mental Health in the Context of ‘Acute on Chronic' Trauma in Haitian Children"
Katie Hoffman (Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences)
Author(s): Katie Hoffman, Alicia Angell, Dave Bonislawski, Dave Poulsen, Mike Babcock, Michael Kavanaugh
"The effect of glutamate transport on learning and memory
Benjamin Adams (English)
Author(s): Benjamin Adams
"Text & Context: Some Ideas on Paul de Man's Wartime Journalism"
Rita Billow (Psychology)
Author(s): Rita Billow, Kimberly Wallace, Gyda Swaney, Ciara Hansen, Shawna Smith, Mary DeRoche
"Preliminary Findings from a Qualitative Investigation of the Strategies used by a Sample of Native American Older Adults to Cope with Racism-Related Stressors"
Milena Oganesyan (Anthropology)
Author(s): Milena Oganesyan
"Constructing and Deconstructing Histories: The Ethnicity Factor"