Traditional Iron Forging in Contemporary Times: An Ethnoarchaeological Study on the Position of Blacksmiths in the Archaeological and Socio-cultural Records
Presenter: Sarah Wyer Mentor: Daniel Wojcik, William Ayres Oral Presentation Major: Anthropology/Folklore This paper is an ethnoarchaeological look at blacksmithing by combining ethnographic field work and archaeological data. I interviewed blacksmith Jack Frost, a...
Crafting the Ancient: Pre-Columbian Music for a Modern Audience
Presenter: Sarah Wyer Mentor: Daniel Wojcik, William Ayres Oral Presentation Major: Anthropology/Folklore In this paper I recount my fieldwork with local Eugenian artist musician Samuel Becerra and his motivations for crafting clay flutes. Becerra is a formally...
Lichenometric Dating Using Placopsis lambii Applied to the Yachats Basalt, Central Oregon Coast
Presenter: Logan Wetherell Mentor: Josh Roering Oral Presentation Major: Geological Science Surface exposure dates estimated through lichenometric growth rates can be used to document geologic events where other methods of dating rock surface exposure are not...
Selling Sustainable Fashion: How Small Apparel Companies Communicate Social and Environmental Responsibility
Presenter: Aubrey West Mentor: Kathie Carpenter Oral Presentation Major: International Studies The apparel industry is responsible for much of today’s global pollution and many human rights violations, but quite a few small apparel companies are refashioning the...
Disease and Space: An Historical Epidemiology Study Investigating Northern Paiute Cultural Patterns Pre and Post Reservation
Presenter: Madeline Weissman Mentor: Kevin Hatfield Oral Presentation Major: Psychology/Spanish I chose to study the effects of disease on the Northern Paiute from the 1700’s through present day for a 10 week Honors College Colloquium. I chose this topic due to my...
Barriers to Survival: The Japanese Legal Framework As a Risk Factor in Refugee Services
Presenter: Nobuyuki Tomiuga Mentor: Kathie Carpenter Oral Presentation Major: International Studies Refugees in Japan who entered the country without a resident status (official passport and visa) are not given the right to work or obtain health insurance during the...
Soundproofing in the Residential Halls
Presenter: Francisco Toledo Co-Presenters: Amanda Mensch, Kristina Ames Mentor: Alison Kwok Oral Presentation Major: Architecture Privacy is an important part of everyone’s life. The focus of our research is to determine what could be done to reduce the amount of...
Do Distinct Types of Progenitors Contribute to the Diversity of Enteric Neurons and Glia?
Presenter: Charlotte Taylor Mentor: Judith Eisen Oral Presentation Major: Biology The enteric nervous system (ENS), the largest component of the peripheral nervous system, provides intrinsic innervation of the intestinal tract and modulates gut function. The ENS...
The Neurocognitive Development of HIV Positive Children and Adolescents
Presenter: Sophia Tarzaban Mentor: Janis Weeks Oral Presentation Major: Human Physiology Research has displayed that children living with HIV diagnoses have showed signs of progressive encephalopathy; and these children exhibited higher rates of residual neurologic,...
Governor George L. Woods and Genocide in Oregon
Presenter: Simone Smith Mentor: Kevin Hatfield Oral Presentation Major: Business Administration Governor George L. Woods, with the help of various members in the US Army and federal government such as Secretary of War Edwin Stanton and General Crook, created a strong...
Romani Migration and French Reactions
Presenter: Hannah Schmitz Mentor: Carol Silverman Oral Presentation Major: French/International Studies This paper examines the expulsions of Roma that are occurring in France today in terms of history and reactions. First, I discuss the history of Roma populations...
America’s Protection at Home and Abroad: How our Foreign Presence is an Extension of American Masculinity
Presenter: Alexandria Sasek Mentor: Megan Burke Oral Presentation Major: Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies America has a hero complex. In light of current international affairs and America’s traditional role as global policeman being examined, the...
Cetacean Hunting at the Par-Tee Site? Ethnographic, Archaeological, and Blood-residue Investigations
Presenter: Gabriel Sanchez Mentor: Jon Erlandson Oral Presentation Major: Anthropology Anthropologists have long believed that Native Americans on the Northern Oregon Coast did not actively hunt whales, but archaeological evidence suggests otherwise. My project...
An Improved Route for the Synthesis of Phosphine Oxides Via the Alkylation of Phosphonates Through the Use of Grignard Reagents and Halide Scavengers
Presenter: Chase Salazar Mentor: David Tyler Oral Presentation Major: Chemistry An added improvement to the low-yielding reaction of phosphonates to phosphine oxides is shown. The use of a halide scavenger will increase the yield of the phosphonates to phosphine...
Sustainable Farms: A Management Plan for Restoring Goose Creek
Presenter: Adrian Robins Co-Presenters: Jordan Grace, Solveig Noll, Celina Stilphen Mentor: Peg Boulay Oral Presentation Major: Environmental Science This spring, the Environmental Leadership Program’s Sustainable Farms team is working with a local farm to develop a...
Moralization of Smoking in Germany and the U.S.
Presenter: Jessica Montgomery Mentor: Sara Hodges Oral Presentation Major: Psychology/German Cigarette smoking has become increasingly moralized over the last half-century. Moralization is the process by which moral value is attached to objects and activities that...
An Assessment of Government-to-Government Relationships Among Federal Agencies and Federally Recognized Tribes
Presenter: Souvanny Miller Mentor: Kathy Lynn Oral Presentation Major: Environmental Studies The United States federal government has historically failed to meet many of its trust responsibilities to American Indian and Alaska Native tribes—often violating...
An Analysis of Artifact, Bone, and Coprolite Distributions in Paisley Caves Younger Dryas (Botanical Lens) and Underlying Pleistocene Deposits
Presenter: Katelyn McDonough Mentor: Dennis Jenkins Oral Presentation Major: Anthropology The Paisley 5 Mile Point Caves are located in the Summer Lake Basin of south-central Oregon. Preservation of perishable materials is excellent within the caves, and has yielded...
Concrete: Redefining an Identity
Presenter: Amanda McCaffrey Mentor: Christina Bollo Oral Presentation Major: Architecture Concrete is the most used substance on the planet second only to water. This thesis explores the trajectory of concrete as a material and how its physical properties, use, and...
Beyond Depression: Mothers with Comorbidity Differ in Neural Response to Infants’ Cry
Presenter: Heidi Martinez Mentor: Heidemarie Laurent Oral Presentation Major: Psychology Past research has illuminated how the functioning of the subcortical and prefrontal regions of the brain is affected by a major depressive disorder, and how this in turn affects...
Canopy Connections 2014
Presenter: Tanner Laiche Co-Presenters: Cassie Hahn, Megan Hanson Mentor: Kathryn Lynch Oral Presentation Major: Environmental Studies Canopy Connections, a project of the Environmental Leadership Program, is designed to promote a connection to place and a love for...
Alkaline Synthesis of Amidines—Exploring a New Approach to Accessing a Pharmaceutically Relevant Functional Group
Presenter: Muhammad Khalifa Mentor: Michael Haley Oral Presentation Major: Biochemistry Aryl amidines have been used against a variety of diseases, most notably pneumocystis pneumonia. They continue to be relevant in the search for cures against malaria, Alzheimer’s...
Culpability of France, the United States, and Belgium in the Rwandan Genocide
Presenter: Keaton Kell Mentor: Galen Martin Oral Presentation Major: International Studies/Romance The Rwandan genocide tends to be seen as the product of an isolated racial conflict that happened too quickly and too suddenly for anyone to do anything about it:...
The Deadly Suppression of Homosexuality in A Shropshire Lad
Presenter: Lorra Jones Mentor: Corbett Upton Oral Presentation Major: English A. E. Housman alludes to his personal frustrations as a closeted gay man in his poetic collection A Shropshire Lad by writing about the tragedies of other “lads,” many of whom I will read...
The Environmental Beliefs of American College Students
Presenter: Xiaorui Huang Mentor: James Elliott Oral Presentation Major: Sociology Since the 1960s, public environmental beliefs have been measured primarily on a continuum between two opposing ecological paradigms, the Human Exemptionalism Paradigm (HEP) and the New...
Monitoring and Continuing Riparian Restoration of Berggren Watershed Conservation Area
Presenter: Leela Hickman Co-Presenters: Matthew Kauffman, Sarah McLain Mentor: Peg Boulay Oral Presentation Major: Environmental Science The construction of Blue River and Cougar Dams, as well as human development along the McKenzie River, has negatively impacted the...
Maintaining Compassion and Harmony: An Analysis of Three Interreligious Communities in Bali
Presenter: Sunny Harrison Mentor: Lamia Karim Oral Presentation Major: Anthropology Compassion triggers an emotional response to suffering and a desire to help. Theories of religion and compassion suggest that social barriers may perpetuate a strained relationship...
New Pt(II) Complexes for the Investigation of Copper-Mediated Degradation in Pt-Bound RNA Click Reactions
Presenter: Lindsay Guzman Mentor: Victoria DeRose Oral Presentation Major: Chemistry RNAs contribute to a wide range of essential biological processes such as protein function, catalysis, transcriptional and translational regulation. Small-molecule binders, such as...
Using Remote Sensing Techniques to Assess Geomorphological Response to Engineered Log Jams Along the Middle Fork of the John Day River, Oregon
Presenter: Corey Guerrant Mentor: Patricia McDowell Oral Presentation Major: Environmental Science In the last 5-10 years, there have been intensive river restoration efforts along the Middle Fork of the John Day River—including the placement of engineered log jams—to...
Accessing Long-Term Memory—What Pupil Dilation Can Tell Us About Learning and Memory
Presenter: Marina Gross Mentor: Nash Unsworth Oral Presentation Major: Psychology Our study investigated the role of pupil dilation in long-term memory through a delayed free recall task. Studying attention levels during learning and retrieval of memories might shed...
U.S. Constitutionalism and Constitutions of the Arab Spring: A Comparison of Constitutional Evolution and the Role of ‘Common’ Citizens
Presenter: Lyssandra Golledge Mentor: Joel Black Oral Presentation Major: International Studies I will examine the similarities between constitutions that have arisen in the Middle East during the recent Arab Spring and the constitutions of the United Kingdom and the...
Cerebellar White Matter Integrity and Depression in Chronic Brain Injury
Presenter: Patrick J. Glang Mentor: Deborah M. Little Oral Presentation Major: Psychology Across all severities of traumatic brain injury (TBI), deficits in mood and emotion regulation are commonly reported. In moderate to severe brain injury, the incidence of...
So What? The Impact of Social Capital Created by the Ford Institute Leadership Program
Presenter: Aimee Fritsch Mentor: Laura Leete Oral Presentation Major: Planning, Public Policy and Management This study investigates the impact of social capital, defined in this context as the personal or community benefits that come from social networks, that...
Personality Impressions on Twitter
Presenter: Tad Falk Mentor: Sanjay Srivastava Oral Presentation Major: Psychology The creation and increasing popularity of social media websites have changed the way people around the world interact with one another. Having our information available to the world...
How Can We Prevent Sexual Assault on Our Campus? A Comprehensive History of Safe Ride and a Plan for the Future
Presenter: Hailey Chamberlain Mentor: Vera Keller Oral Presentation Major: Women’s and Gender Studies My research question is: Based on what we know about sexual assault, is Safe Ride effective in the fight against sexual assault? For my project, I first researched...
A Different Kind of Domestic: Women’s Role in Jane Austen’s Persuasion
Presenter: Katherine Becher Mentor: Veronica Alfano Oral Presentation Major: English Literature and Art History Jane Austen is concerned with women’s place in society, particularly their roles in the household. Domesticity is an especially important issue in Austen’s...
A New Perspective on New Complexity
Presenter: Alexander Bean Mentor: Robert Kyr Oral Presentation Major: Music Composition/Organ Performance The New Complexity, like other avant-garde antecedents, has been rightly criticized for its inaccessibility. In my flute duet, “Ein Paar Variationen,” I aim to...