- Deans' Choice Oral Presentation Schedule
Deans’ Choice Oral Presentations
Harre Union, Ballroom C
April 24, 20123:00 p.m.
Mark Schwehn, Provost Welcome
3:10 p.m.
Cynthia Rutz, Director of the Celebration of Undergraduate Scholarship
Deans’ Choice Presentations Program
3:15 p.m.
Megan Muta (Christ College) The Common Call to Care: An Interfaith Analysis on Adoption and the Differing Legal Status of Orphans and Abandoned Children in Judaism, Islam, and Christianity 3:30 p.m.
Emily Bernhard, Lauren Paczkowski, Nathan Matejczyk, Nina Tu, Michelle De Young (College of Nursing) Supporting Underserved Pregnant Women through Smoking Cessation 3:45 p.m.
Travis Elless, Tony Lyza, Sarah Mustered (College of Arts & Sciences) Wintertime Climate Variability in the Lake Michigan Region: Sensitivity of Snowfall to Temperature and Northern Hemisphere Teleconnection Patterns 4:00 p.m.
Diana Stutzman (College of Arts & Sciences) Evaluating the Role of Cellular Swelling in Glutamine's Induction of Heat Shock Proteins 4:15 p.m.
Heather Herakovich, Marcy De Vries (College of Arts & Sciences) Does Branch Structure of an Invasive Shrub (Elaeagnus umbellata) Alter Bird Perching Behavior? 4:30 p.m.
Amber Will (College of Arts & Sciences) Beating Down the Lowly: The Criminalization of the Homeless and Alternative Solutions 4:45 p.m.
Krista Schaefer (College of Arts & Sciences) Modeling of Early SIV/HIV Infection 5:00 p.m. Matthew LaRue (College of Engineering) Effect of Stray Charge on Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata: A Full-Basis Calculation