Schedule

Christopher R. Butler
Jeffrey A. Frick, Faculty Advisor

Science Commons, Center for Natural Science, Illinois Wesleyan University

Studies toward the Total Synthesis of an Organophosphorus Analog of Acetylcholine

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Darcia A. Colburn
Doran French, Faculty Advisor

Science Commons, Center for Natural Sciences, Illinois Wesleyan University

Voluntary versus Involuntary Runaways: Basic Demographics and Characteristics

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Sara J. Estle
Heather A. Hunnell
James D. Dougan, Faculty Advisor

Science Commons, Center for Natural Science, Illinois Wesleyan University

Caloric Content and Unit Price Theory

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Betsy Garver
John Ernst, Faculty Advisor

Science Commons, Center for Natural Science, Illinois Wesleyan University

Loneliness and Coping: Examining the Predictors of Social and Emotional Loneliness

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Ernest Hixon
Elizabeth Balser, Faculty Advisor

Science Commons, Center for Natural Science, Illinois Wesleyan University

Morphology of the Heart in Larvaceans (Appendicularia: Oikopleuridae)

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Jaclyn Hood
Michael Seeborg, Faculty Advisor

Science Commons, Center for Natural Science, Illinois Wesleyan University

The Determinants of Home Ownership: An Application of the Human Capital Investment Theory to the Home Ownership Decision

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Rebecca Kirk
Elizabeth Balser, Faculty Advisor

Science Commons, Center for Natural Science, Illinois Wesleyan University

Techniques in Biological Illustration

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Alexandra Latham
Karen Masters, Faculty Advisor

Science Commons, Center for Natural Science, Illinois Wesleyan University

Bird Species Diversity along a Successional Gradient in a Costa Rican Cloud Forest

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Jerome C. Majewski
Narendra K. Jaggi, Faculty Advisor

Science Commons, Center for Natural Science, Illinois Wesleyan University

From Brownian Motion to Stocks and Futures: A Historical Look at the Development of Stochastic Calculus

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Daniel N. Mateja
Cynthia Hess, Faculty Advisor

Science Commons, Center for Natural Science, Illinois Wesleyan University

X-Ray Spectroscopic Observations of a Metal-Poor Globular Cluster X-Ray Binary System

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Sarah C. Moecker
Cynthia J. Hess, Faculty Advisor

Science Commons, Center for Natural Science, Illinois Wesleyan University

Analysis of Archived X-Ray Observations of a Galactic X-Ray Binary

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Kimberly Nielsen
William Jaeckle, Faculty Advisor

Science Commons, Center for Natural Science, Illinois Wesleyan University

Scaling of Organic Weight and Energy Content of Arthropod Eggs

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Angela M. Reining
Johnna K. Shapiro, Faculty Advisor

Science Commons, Center for Natural Science, Illinois Wesleyan University

Adults with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: An Examination of the Effects of Extra-Task Stimulation on Attention and Comprehension during Reading

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Andrew Ritger
Michael Zalokar
Robert Glinka
Jay Bryant
Rebecca Schroeder
Chris Stewart, '99
Matthew Korwell
David Rehagen, '99
Rebecca Kirk, '99
Lionel R. Shapiro, Faculty Advisor

Science Commons, Center for Natural Science, Illinois Wesleyan University

The GNU Neural Network Visualizer (GNNV)

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Ethan Schrum
Timothy Rettich, Faculty Advisor

Science Commons, Center for Natural Science, Illinois Wesleyan University

Products of the Photolysis of Nitrous Acid in a Benzene Matrix

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Sarah Suhr
Linda Kunce, Faculty Advisor

Science Commons, Center for Natural Science, Illinois Wesleyan University

Specific Worries of Siblings of Children with Special Needs: A Comparison among Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Autism and Typical Development

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Susanna Widicus
Wendy S. Wolbach, Faculty Advisor
Bevan M. French, Faculty Advisor

Science Commons, Center for Natural Science, Illinois Wesleyan University

Carbon-Bearing Impactites from the Gardnos Impact Structure, Norway: No Evidence for Soot

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Evan T. Djikas
Narendra K. Jaggi, Faculty Advisor

Beckman Auditorium, Ames Library, Illinois Wesleyan University

How Acute are Today's Stock Market Investors? Tracking Conventional Wisdom through Implied Volatility

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Erika L. Feiner
Dan Terkla, Faculty Advisor

Anderson Auditorium, Center for Natural Science, Illinois Wesleyan University

From Catholicism to Buddhism? The Effect of Jack Kerouac's Catholic Upbringing on his Search for Enlightenment in The Dharma Bums

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Virginia Flanagin
R. Given Harper, Faculty Advisor
Jeff A. Frick, Faculty Advisor

Beckman Auditorium, Ames Library, Illinois Wesleyan University

Organochlorine Pesticide Levels in Birds from Northwest Costa Rica

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Anders Floor
Zahia Drici, Faculty Advisor

Beckman Auditorium, Ames Library, Illinois Wesleyan University

Measure Chains and LaSalle's Invariance Principle

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Sarah Foust
Dan Terkla, Faculty Advisor

Anderson Auditorium, Center for Natural Science, Illinois Wesleyan University

The Tempest: A Shakespearean Meditation on Art and Artifice

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Abigail Godin
Michael Young, Faculty Advisor

Anderson Auditorium, Center for Natural Science, Illinois Wesleyan University

Feminine or Feminist: Issues Surrounding Women's Addresses at the First National Conservation Congress

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Shelley Manning
Dan Terkla, Faculty Advisor

Anderson Auditorium, Center for Natural Science, Illinois Wesleyan University

From Literal Path to Transcendent Journey: The Pilgrim's Movement throughout Inferno

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Andrew B. Ritger
Lionel R. Shapiro, Faculty Advisor

Beckman Auditorium, Ames Library, Illinois Wesleyan University

Designing an Integrated Environment for Artificial Intelligence

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Matthew T. Dearing
Gabriel C. Spalding, Faculty Advisor
Eric Dufresne, Faculty Advisor
David Grier, Faculty Advisor

Science Commons, Center for Natural Science, Illinois Wesleyan University

Hologram Fabrication for Assembling Nano Composite Materials

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

Patrick Holly, Jr.
Carolyn Stumph, Faculty Advisor

Science Commons, Center for Natural Science, Illinois Wesleyan University

The Effect of Technology Growth on Money Supply and Demand: A Cointegration Approach

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

Laura M. Holsen
Linda Kunce, Faculty Advisor

Science Commons, Center for Natural Science, Illinois Wesleyan University

Specific Worries of Children with Siblings who have Special Needs: A Comparison between Down Syndrome and Typical Development

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

Danielle Knod
Elizabeth Balser, Faculty Advisor

Science Commons, Center for Natural Science, Illinois Wesleyan University

Phylum Ctenophora: The Morphology of the Ciliated Rosette Cell

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

Karen Lindahl
Elizabeth Balser, Faculty Advisor

Science Commons, Center for Natural Science, Illinois Wesleyan University

New Species of the Tardigrade, Milnesium, Discovered on Rooftop in Central Illinois

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

James L. Martello
Rebecca Roesner, Faculty Advisor

Science Commons, Center for Natural Science, Illinois Wesleyan University

Synthesis of 1,4-Bis(4-Aminophenyl)-1,3-Butadiyene as a Linker for Hexamolybdate Stoppered Rotaxanes

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

Natalia K. Migal
Jaclyn K. Hood
James Sikora, Faculty Advisor

Science Commons, Center for Natural Science, Illinois Wesleyan University

Managing Family Violence Issues in the Public Schools: Perceptions of School Personnel

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

Ileana G. Rau
Gabriel C. Spalding, Faculty Advisor

Science Commons, Center for Natural Science, Illinois Wesleyan University

Thermal Conductivity of a System Dominated by Quantum Fluctuations

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

Adam Reitzel
Jonathan Dey, Faculty Advisor

Science Commons, Center for Natural Science, Illinois Wesleyan University

Responses to Differential Light Wavelengths in the Cellular Slime Mold Dictyostelium Purpureum

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

Karen A. Sabaka
Carolyn Nadeau, Faculty Advisor

Science Commons, Center for Natural Science, Illinois Wesleyan University

Hail Mary: Zoraida's Search for a Christian Goddess

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

Steven A. Sheets
Gabriel C. Spalding, Faculty Advisor

Science Commons, Center for Natural Science, Illinois Wesleyan University

Commensurate-Incommensurate Transitions in Colloidal Crystals

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

Joy M. Tassin
John M. Ernst, Faculty Advisor

Science Commons, Center for Natural Science, Illinois Wesleyan University

A Model of Loneliness based on Self-Concept Theory

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

Mark Wieland
R. Given Harper, Faculty Advisor
Jeffrey Frick, Faculty Advisor

Science Commons, Center for Natural Science, Illinois Wesleyan University

A Survey of Organochlorine Pesticide Contamination in Costa Rican Taxa

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

Scott Ralston
Tom Lutze, Faculty Advisor

Beckman Auditorium, Ames Library, Illinois Wesleyan University

Chinese Communist Party Leadership in the Countryside: Historical Contradictions and Corrections

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Justin B. Taylor
James Simeone, Faculty Advisor

Beckman Auditorium, Ames Library, Illinois Wesleyan University

Beyond Narrow Liberalism

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Jennifer Van Dyke
Michael Seeborg, Faculty Advisor

Beckman Auditorium, Ames Library, Illinois Wesleyan University

Does it Pay to be a Man? A Study of Pay Differentials between College Graduates

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM