Friday March 8, 2024

8:00 AM to 8:50 AM

UC Back Foyer, Floor 3, Near UC 330-333

Welcome

Continental breakfast: Coffee, tea, and pastries

9:00 AM to 9:50 AM

UC 331

Revealing and Improving Child Health

Moderator: Tess Carlson, Public and Community Health Sciences

• “Happy groups: A single case research design evaluating a brief positive psychology intervention with adolescents” Lillian C. Martz & Suzanne Flint, Counseling
• “Teachers' Perceptions of the Behavioral Symptoms Associated with Trauma” Hannah Hall, Psychology
• “Analysis of invalid vaccination dose administration among U.S. children: National Immunization Survey-Child 2011-2020” Alexandria Albers, Public and Community Health Sciences
  
  

UC 332

Unearthing Hidden Cultures

Moderator: Shafiqul Islam, English

• “Women Behind Bars: A History of Montana Female Offenders and Their Portrayal in Montana Media; 1909-1960” Cassidy Vander Voort, History
• “A Slavery Altar in the Temple of Liberty: The Politics of Daniel Webster’s Monument in Antebellum Boston” Michael Larmann, History
• “Sunrise in the Heartland: The Ahmadiyya Movement and African American Islamic Revival” Hazel Videon, History
  
  

UC 333

Engineering New Work

Moderator: Matthew Nichols, Forestry

• “The Flower Lemma” Ryan Wood, Mathematical Sciences 
• “Patterns and prediction of the snowpack ripening using Machine Learning methods” Clement Cherblanc, Joel T. Harper, & Javier Perez Alvaro, Geosciences
• “ManBox: A Goodbye Play” Jadd Davis, Counseling
  
  

10:00 AM to 10:50 AM

UC 330

Healing From Colonization

Moderator: Anna-Marie David, Anthropology

• “Reclaiming Futures: Mobilizing Heritage, Education, and Law” Kevin Inglesby, Anthropology
• “Heritage Valuation and Building a New Narrative: Learning from Indigenous Ways and Appropriating Indigenous Concepts to Healing” Elizabeth Matilda Abena Mantebeah, Anthropology
• ““It’s God’s Country”: The University of Montana, Flathead Indian Reservation, and Dispossession, 1900-1930” Dylan T. Yonce, History
  
  

UC 331

Examining Linguistics

Moderator: McKenna Flannigan, Linguistics

• “Is Done perfect?” Kevin Vrla, Linguistics
• “The missionary translations of the Muysca cosmogony in the New Kingdom of Granada during 16th and 17th centuries: How to say ‘God’ in Muysca language?” Brenn Timoteo Romero Moreno, Linguistics
• “A Historical View of Evidentiality and Illocutionary Mood in Cheyenne” McKenna Flannigan, Linguistics
  
  

UC 332

Addressing Pedagogical and Patient Health Needs 

Moderator: Rebecca Pejak, Public and Community Health Sciences

• “Adopting a new curriculum framework using an improvement science approach: A case study of a university laboratory school” Anna Puryear, Teaching and Learning
• “Exploring How a State Professional Counseling Association Can Support Counselors in Meeting the Mental Health Needs of Montanans” Cindy R Boyle, Counseling
• “Creative Connections: A Social Prescribing & Arts Approach to Holistic Well-Being” Caterina Zischke-Rincon, Counseling
  
  

UC 333

Examining the Outdoors

Moderator: Amelia Schmidt, Cellular, Molecular, and Microbial Biology

• “Human-Bear Conflicts in Southwest Montana: Mapping Attractants and Prevention Efforts in Missoula and Ravalli Counties” Jessica Reyes, Society and Conservation
• “Factors influencing protected area professionals’ decisions and behaviors towards outdoor recreation in protected areas” Kika Bradford, Society and Conservation
• “Investigating the Germination of Perennial Grasses: A Key to Restoring Rangelands” Sophia N Lasche, Daniel E Winkler, McMurtry, & Akasha M Faist, Ecosystem and Conservation Sciences
  
  

11:00 AM to 11:50 AM

UC 331

Novel Avenues in Child and DNA Development

Moderator: Shaun Opp, Toxicology

• “The Other Identity Politics: Political Turning Points and Political Identity Development in College-Going Emerging Adults” Kaetlyn Cordingley, Psychology
• “Children’s Trust of People and Smart Speakers for Factual Information and Moral Decisions” Sarah Sweezy, Psychology
• “Y-DNA for Paternal Lineage Research” Jaymes Mozingo, Business Administration
  
  

UC 332

Methods for Improving Sustainability, Conservation, and Software

Moderator: Najifa Farhat, Journalism

• “Impact of Forest Plantations on Energy Poverty: An Assessment of Reforestation Efforts in Uganda” Matilda Kabutey-Ongor, Economics
• “Strategies to Reduce Food Waste Among Montana Consumers” Sam Sullivan, Environmental Philosophy
  
  

UC 333

Maternal Health

Moderator: Abigail Vandervoort, Public Administration and Policy

• “Ambient air pollution, geomasking, and hypertensive disorders of pregnancy in Montana” Elizabeth Williams, Jon Graham, Bradley Holbrook, Jonathon Knudson, Erin Landguth, Cindy Leary, Laura Williamson, & Holly Winn, Public and Community Health Sciences
• “Patient Experiences of Respectful Care in Montana’s Maternal Health System” Carly Holman & Patrick Boise Rural Institute for Inclusive Communities
• “A Qualitative Study Investigating Perinatal Mental Health Screening: “It’s maternal mental health from a mom’s point of view”” Tess Carlson, Jessica L. Liddell, & Sarah Reese, Social Work
  
  

12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

UC North Ballroom, Floor 3

Lunch

Lunch is generously provided by The Institute for Health and Humanities in support of the lunch panel conversation on Indigenous Health.

12:15 PM to 1:00 PM

UC North Ballroom, Floor 3

Lunch Panel:

Indigenous Research Perspectives on Health

Sponsor: Institute of Health and Humanities

Indigenous graduate students across the University of Montana engage in research and projects that center around the health of this world, including people and communities, but also the environment around them. These graduate students will offer their insights into their work as it pertains to them in the areas of Counseling, Toxicology, and Clinical Psychology. Indigenous perspectives in research are important to offering new insights and understanding not only in higher education, but the broader world around us.

Moderator: Sierra Paske Cureton, Ph.D. Student in Chemistry, Hunkpapa Lakota & Arikara

Panelists:

• Brittney Hunter, M.A. Student in Counselor Education
• Olathe Antonio, Ph.D. Student in Clinical Psychology, Navajo & Shawnee
• Niche Brown, Ph.D. Student in Toxicology, Northern Arapaho
  
  

1:00 PM to 2:00 PM

UC North Ballroom, Floor 3

Poster Presentations

• “Determining Psychological Readiness to Return to Sport Following Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction” Riley Hector, Integrative Physiology and Athletic Training
• “Anthropology on Social Media” Danielle Airola, Anthropology
• “Style: A Sociolinguistic Analysis” Clarise Sviatko, Linguistics
• “Successful Nonoperative Treatment Methods for Athletic Pubalgia: A Systematic Review” Lea Moose, Integrative Physiology and Athletic Training
• “Exploring the Impact of Implicit Bias in the Field of Communication Sciences and Disorders” Jackie Sullivan, Speech, Language, Hearing, and Occupational Sciences
• “Is Circle Time Enough Language Input to Learn Grammatical Gender?” Madeline Strah, World Languages and Cultures
• “Traumatic Posterior Hip Dislocation in an Adolescent Football Player: A Case Report” Rachel Freeman, Integrative Physiology and Athletic Training
• “Cigarettes and Ice Cream for Lunch: Parent and Student Rights at the Butte Industrial School in the Long Progressive Era” Lauryn Tecca, History
• “The Psychological Impact of Climate Change Reminders” Brit King, Psychology
• “Rethinking Inequality: Connections between Climate Change, Migration, and Food Insecurity in Humla, Nepal” Chelsea Kuiper, Public Health and Community Sciences
• “Ancient DNA Analysis of Salmonid Remains at Housepit 54, Bridge River, British Columbia” Kara K. Fox, Anthropology
• “The Role of Advisors’ Sexual and Gender Minority Status in Gender and Sexuality Alliances” Bennett Ilac & Kelly Davis, Psychology
• “A Biological Profile of a Ancient Native American Remains in Strive for Reparation” Haley Rebardi & Bryon Alan Schroeder, Anthropology
• “PRDM3 Protein Purification: An Optimized Approach for Structural Understanding” Ifeoluwa Dada, Chemistry and Biochemistry
• “Designing Novel Compounds to PPARγ for Type II Diabetes Treatment using Free Energy Perturbation” Andrew Voss, Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences
• “Landscape Influences on Microclimate and Tree Growth Cessation in a Semi-arid Montane Forest” Fin Malone, Forest Management
• “The Experience of Running Happiness Groups in a Montana High School “ Suzie Flint, Counselor Education
• “Transdiagnostic Responses to and Characteristics of Potentially Traumatic Events Involving Causing Harm To Others” Olathe Bigknife Antonio, Psychology
  
  

2:00 to 2:30 PM  

UC North Ballroom, Floor 3

Awards

Reception to follow: assorted appetizers and non-alcoholic beverages