John Wesley Powell Student Research Conference

Bismuth Compounds in Organic Synthesis: Bismuth Triflate Catalyzed Synthesis of 2,4-Dimethoxy-2-Methyldihydrobenzopyrans

Joshua N. Arnold, '05, Illinois Wesleyan University
Katherine E. Peterson, '05, Illinois Wesleyan University
Ram S. Mohan, Faculty Advisor, Illinois Wesleyan University

Center for Natural Science, Illinois Wesleyan University

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Attitudes and Intentions of Undergraduates for Future Alumni Activity

Amy K. Atwood, 04, Illinois Wesleyan University
Frederick B. Hoyt, Faculty Advisor, Illinois Wesleyan University

Center for Natural Science, Illinois Wesleyan University

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Comparing the Neurotoxicity of the Cancer Drugs Cisplatin and Oxaliplatin

Dan Barkmeier, '04, Illinois Wesleyan University
Anthony Windebank, Faculty Advisor, Illinois Wesleyan University

Center for Natural Science, Illinois Wesleyan University

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

William Shakespeare's As You Like It: The Pastoral Play: As You Like It's Court and Forest

Stacy Barton, '04, Illinois Wesleyan University
Sara Freeman, Faculty Advisor, Illinois Wesleyan University

Science Commons, Center for Natural Science, Illinois Wesleyan University

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

William Shakespeare's As You Like It: Playing As You Like It's Rosalind

Sally Bell, '05, Illinois Wesleyan University
Sara Freeman, Faculty Advisor, Illinois Wesleyan University

Science Commons, Center for Natural Science, Illinois Wesleyan University

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Microfluidic Device Fabrication for Optical Micromanipulation

Michael Berry, '06, Illinois Wesleyan University
Ryan Smith, '06, Illinois Wesleyan University
John van Fleet, Jr., '04, Illinois Wesleyan University
Brian Simonds, '05, Illinois Wesleyan University
Gabriel C. Spalding, Faculty Advisor, Illinois Wesleyan University

Center for Natural Science, Illinois Wesleyan University

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Matching-To-Sample with Horses

Karen Boschen, '06, Illinois Wesleyan University
Lindsey Krueger, '06, Illinois Wesleyan University
Amy Attivissimo, '02, Illinois Wesleyan University
James Dougan, Faculty Advisor, Illinois Wesleyan University

Center for Natural Science, Illinois Wesleyan University

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Organochlorine Pesticide Contamination in Gray Wolves (Canis Lupus) and Northern White Cedar (Thuja Occidentalis) from Northern Minnesota

Nathaniel Burkhart, '04, Illinois Wesleyan University
Rachel Eichelberger, '04, Illinois Wesleyan University
Amanda Solliday, '06, Illinois Wesleyan University
Jeffrey Frick, Faculty Advisor, Illinois Wesleyan University
R. Given Harper, Faculty Advisor, Illinois Wesleyan University

Center for Natural Science, Illinois Wesleyan University

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

William Shakespeare's As You Like It: Sources of William Shakespeare's As You Like It

Edson Burton III, '04, Illinois Wesleyan University
Sara Freeman, Faculty Advisor, Illinois Wesleyan University

Science Commons, Center for Natural Science, Illinois Wesleyan University

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Classroom Structure as an Environmental Effect on Creative Production in College Students

Krista A. Coulter, '04, Illinois Wesleyan University
Gail E. Walton, Faculty Advisor, Illinois Wesleyan University

Center for Natural Science, Illinois Wesleyan University

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Social Judgments and Objectification

Paul Curran, '04, Illinois Wesleyan University
John Ernst, Faculty Advisor, Illinois Wesleyan University

Center for Natural Science, Illinois Wesleyan University

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Calibrating the Forces of Optical Tweezers

Jason Forster, '05, Illinois Wesleyan University
Andrea Bulkley, '06, Illinois Wesleyan University
Debo Olaosebikan, '06, Illinois Wesleyan University
Gabriel C. Spalding, Faculty Advisor, Illinois Wesleyan University

Center for Natural Science, Illinois Wesleyan University

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

A One-Pot Method for the Conversion of Aldehydes to Homoallyl Ethers

Patrick D. Hayes, '05, Illinois Wesleyan University
Pete W. Anzalone, '06, Illinois Wesleyan University
Russell C. Smith, '04, Illinois Wesleyan University
Ram S. Mohan, Faculty Advisor, Illinois Wesleyan University

Center for Natural Science, Illinois Wesleyan University

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Is There Assessor Bias in the Real Estate Market?

Conor Howard, '04, Illinois Wesleyan University
Margaret Chapman, Faculty Advisor, Illinois Wesleyan University

Center for Natural Science, Illinois Wesleyan University

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

William Shakespeare's As You Like It: Designing the Court and the Forest: Production History for As You Like It

Amanda Johnson, '04, Illinois Wesleyan University
Sara Freeman, Faculty Advisor, Illinois Wesleyan University

Science Commons, Center for Natural Science, Illinois Wesleyan University

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Adaptive Optics for Dynamic Optical Traps

Olukayode Karunwi, '05, Illinois Wesleyan University
Ryan Smith, '06, Illinois Wesleyan University
Gabriel Spalding, Faculty Advisor, Illinois Wesleyan University

Center for Natural Science, Illinois Wesleyan University

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

A Latitudinal Gradient of Organochlorine Pesticide Contamination in Resident North American Songbirds

Kevin Latman, '06, Illinois Wesleyan University
Amy Cadwallader, '06, Illinois Wesleyan University
Russell Blogg, '05, Illinois Wesleyan University
Jeffrey Horvath, '03, Illinois Wesleyan University
R. Given Harper, Faculty Advisor, Illinois Wesleyan University
Jeffrey Frick, Faculty Advisor, Illinois Wesleyan University

Center for Natural Science, Illinois Wesleyan University

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Theta Reset in Human Subjects During Working Memory Performance

Jon Meade, '04, Illinois Wesleyan University
Amy Rohalla, '06, Illinois Wesleyan University
Chris Berg, '06, Illinois Wesleyan University
Stephanie M. Brewer, '05, Illinois Wesleyan University
Melissa Richard, '05, Illinois Wesleyan University
Jason Somogyi, '07, Illinois Wesleyan University
Nikhil Vajaria, '05, Illinois Wesleyan University
Joseph Williams, Faculty Advisor, Illinois Wesleyan University

Center for Natural Science, Illinois Wesleyan University

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Photometry of the Asteroid-Like Comet P/Linear 34 and Outer-Belt Asteroids

Gautham S. Narayan, '05, Illinois Wesleyan University
Linda M. French, Faculty Advisor, Illinois Wesleyan University

Center for Natural Science, Illinois Wesleyan University

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

The Effects of Disruptive Events & Response Cost on Time-Place Learning in Rats

Jacob Norris, '04, Illinois Wesleyan University
James D. Dougan, Faculty Advisor, Illinois Wesleyan University

Center for Natural Science, Illinois Wesleyan University

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Studying the Dynamics of Micron-Sized Particles in Optical Traps

Debo Olaosebikan, '06, Illinois Wesleyan University
Jason Forster, '05, Illinois Wesleyan University
Andrea Bulkley, '06, Illinois Wesleyan University
Gabriel C. Spalding, Faculty Advisor, Illinois Wesleyan University

Center for Natural Science, Illinois Wesleyan University

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

A Novel Method for Super-Resolution Optical Microscopy

Brett Parmenter, '05, Illinois Wesleyan University
Gabriel C. Spalding, Facutly Advisor, Illinois Wesleyan University

Center for Natural Science, Illinois Wesleyan University

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Women in Primaries: A Study of 1990-2002 Primaries for the U.S. House of Representatives

Laura Pautz, '04, Illinois Wesleyan University
Tari Renner, Faculty Advisor, Illinois Wesleyan University

Center for Natural Science, Illinois Wesleyan University

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Effect of Paclobutrazol, a Gibberellin Biosynthesis Inhibitor, on Dark-Grown Protonema of Ceratodon Purpureus

Katie Polak, '04, Illinois Wesleyan University
Loni Walker, Faculty Advisor, Illinois Wesleyan University

Center for Natural Science, Illinois Wesleyan University

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Isolation and Characterization of Gibberellins from the Moss C. Purpureus

Alison M. Redden, '05, Illinois Wesleyan University
Rebecca Roesner, Faculty Advisor, Illinois Wesleyan University
Loni Walker, Faculty Advisor, Illinois Wesleyan University

Center for Natural Science, Illinois Wesleyan University

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Behavioral Theory of Timing Applied to a DRL Limited-Hold Procedure

Jill Skarvan, '04, Illinois Wesleyan University
James Dougan, Faculty Advisor, Illinois Wesleyan University

Center for Natural Science, Illinois Wesleyan University

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Machine Vision and Analysis for Optical Micromanipulation

Ryan Smith, '06, Illinois Wesleyan University
John Van Fleet, '04, Illinois Wesleyan University
Eric Macaulay, '04, Illinois Wesleyan University
Gabriel C. Spalding, Faculty Advisor, Illinois Wesleyan University

Center for Natural Science, Illinois Wesleyan University

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Improving MDist

Kyle Stork, '04, Illinois Wesleyan University
Lon Shapiro, Faculty Advisor, Illinois Wesleyan University

Center for Natural Science, Illinois Wesleyan University

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

William Shakespeare's As You Like It: Music

Nick Tognoni, '04, Illinois Wesleyan University
Sara Freeman, Faculty Advisor, Illinois Wesleyan University

Science Commons, Center for Natural Science, Illinois Wesleyan University

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Egg Viablility of Manipulated House Wren (Troglodytes Aedon) Nests

Daniel P. Wetzel, '04, Illinois Wesleyan University
Nathan D. Lading, Illinois State University
Charles F. Thompson, Illinois State University
Given Harper, Faculty Advisor, Illinois Wesleyan University

Center for Natural Science, Illinois Wesleyan University

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Determining the Best Protocol for Raising Larvae of the Sea Urchin Eucidaris Tribuloides

Elizabeth A. G. Whitehill, '05, Illinois Wesleyan University
Kimberlee M. Butler, ' 06, Illinois Wesleyan University
Elizabeth J. Balser, Faculty Advisor, Illinois Wesleyan University

Center for Natural Science, Illinois Wesleyan University

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM