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SUU Festival of Excellence 2019

9:00am MDT

Administrative Ethics: Personal Dilemmas vs. Public Duty ED 215Kourt Osborn Student Internship Student/Staff Collaborations in Community Development Campus-Based LGBTQIA+ Activism BUS 242Andrea Donovan • Braydon Rawlings • Sofie Scaletta “How Could a Woman Do It?”: Animal Materiality in the Taxidermy of Martha Maxwell BUS 246Julie McCown Bringing a Brand to Life: How Four Students Helped a Local Business Establish a New Identity BUS 244Billy Clouse • Monica Lee • Kaylee Prunty • Dustin Pullman . . . And Then What Happened? A Narrative Study of the Perceived Effects of London's West End Live Theatre Productions on SUU Study Abroad Students ED 204Melissa Funk Aluminum Foam BUS 243Victoria Krull • John Webster The Violent Linguist: The Establishment of Control through Vernacular in Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange BUS 120Madeline Peck Applications of Drone and Ground-Based Photogrammetry in Geoscience Research in Southern Utah. ED 102Zachary Smith General Chemistry Practicum: Assessing Skills as well as Knowledge ED 202Daniel Eves “Does increased online interaction between instructors and students positively affect a student’s perception of quality for an online course?” ED 111Brayden Ross

9:20am MDT

Developing Personal Identity in a Conflicting Modern Society BUS 242Jaxon Jensen Drag Race: Transgender Identity in Polynesia ED 215Toanui Tawa “Dark Matter”: Science as Metaphor in the Poetry of Jared Carter BUS 246Bryce Christensen Racial Stereotypes in The Joy Luck Club and Changes in Modern China ED 204Yali Huang A Functional Analysis of the 2016 American Presidential Debates BUS 243McKade Christensen Neural Network Application in Detecting Breast Cancer by Removing Outliers BUS 120Nasser Tadayon SUCCESS Academy Research with the Great Basin Observatory ED 111Cameron Pace Making Hate Moral: An Investigation of the Interplay between Hate Speech and Moral Licensing on a Rural and Predominantly White College Campus BUS 238Evan Miller Investigating the Light-Absorbing Properties of Dipyrroles common to Bilins ED 102Clayton Staheli Spatial Storytelling: Using GIS to Enhance Social Studies Education ED 202Samantha Kirkley

9:40am MDT

Examining Retention: Why do SUU students stay? BUS 242Rubi Coria Examining the Lived Experiences of Native American Students at A Predominantly White Institution ED 215Zac Palmer Depeche Module: Information Literacy for Canvas Integration BUS 243Anne R. Diekema • Maralee Carlin A Blonde in China ED 204Maura Knutsen A Study of the Microbiome of a Helobdella Species ED 102Madeline Crossley • Micah Forbush • Ciara Ford • Lauren Hardin Mathematical Models Arising in Math Biology and Chemistry ED 111Jianlong Han Microfluidics at SUU BUS 120Chris Monson Wiping Out the Competition in PUBG Using Random Forest Analysis. ED 202Braxton Bailey As the Smoke Clears: Discussing the Smoking Policy at Southern Utah University BUS 238Madeline Gines

10:00am MDT

A Survey of Religiosity and Spirituality Among SUU Students ED 215Steve Decker Utah's Children's Justice Centers: What they do and how you can be involved BUS 242Elizabeth Lee The Performative Body: Emotion Science and Utopia in Performance BUS 244Scott Knowles You are What You Eat: I, Zombie, Passing, and the Role of Food in Modern Zombie Television BUS 246Charla Strosser Africa Adventure - SUU Study Abroad 2018 ED 204Yuri Bertacchi • Matt Earl • Madaline Keller • Mathew Roders • Anne Smith • Jon Smith An Iterative Method of Determining Outliers ED 202Sarah Duffin Growth series for EDT0L languages BUS 243Eric Freden Mapping the Contours of Relationship Change and Stability in Divorce Ideation Over Time BUS 126Sarah Allen • Mattison Doman The Diffusion of Maize to the American Southwest ED 102David Hall Is Frederick Herzberg's Motivation/Hygiene Theory still relevant in 2019? BUS 238David Dyches The Role of Religious Strain on Suicide Risk BUS 120Said Huante • Jude Husselbee • Garrett Minkler • Garrett Strosser Design Principles for Educational Math Games ED 104Matt Adams Fostering Independence in a Child with Autism ED 111Jessica Adams • Falepaini Lui • Kristin Riley • Madison Wallace

10:20am MDT

Community Engaged Conservation Genetics ED 215Jacqualine Grant The SUU Tanner Center's New Student Story Project BUS 242Ansleigh Mikesell The SUU Wind Symphony: This is Not Your Grandma's Concert Band BUS 244Adam Lambert U.S. hegemony in the Asia-Pacific: Is it still the case? ED 204Abby Stephens Bread, Roses, Poetry: The Rhetorical Verse of Arturo Giovannitti BUS 246John Belk Crossing the Beams: Building a Particle Sizer BUS 120Stephen Smith Is your water anoxic? ED 202Mariah Clayson Chemical and Sedimentation Changes from Crow's Creek to Coal Creek ED 102Cameron Chappell Religiosity, Drugs and Suicide Rates: An Inspetion at the County Level BUS 126Brayden Ross Getting Off Track: A Broader Vision for Art Education ED 111Stuart Robinson How Much is That Second Major Worth? ED 104Jacob Lyman

10:40am MDT

Venezuela Discovers Socialism BUS 242Steve Evans Youth Learning CPR ED 215Weston Allinson • Kate Ma • Kiana Thomas The Fall of Jerusalem/Al Quds, 1917 ED 204G. Michael Stathis Caenorhabditis elegans and Ocean Acidification BUS 246Randon Coleman Classifying Schur Rings Over Infinite Groups BUS 244Nicholas Bastian Using chlorophyll concentrations, sessile bacteria concentrations, and chemical composition to identify factors affecting the biodiversity of Coal Creek ED 102Alex Brown External Pressures and its impact on pilots BUS 120Tyler Price Everything You (N)Ever Wanted To Know About Sex; A Study of Sexual Health Practices within the SUU Community BUS 126Zulma Alvarez • Mary Glenn Building Community, Within a Classroom ED 202Amy Thorpe Enhancing Community Connections and Student Learning in the ORPT Curriculum ED 104Kelly Goonan Using HHMI Biointeractive case studies in the classroom ED 111Ryan Barney

1:00pm MDT

Finding Funds for Fun: SUU Honors You BUS 242Halie Hagerty Protecting YOUth from STD's ED 215Nikki Alvey • Morgan Day • Anthony Fuentes Ending at the Beginning: George Lucas, Peter Jackson, and the Half-Life of Creativity BUS 244Parker Rawlins Seven Places You're Not BUS 243Tyler Brimhall • Hannah Duncan • Courtney Hofland International Testing Comparisons ED 204Bryan Bradford Remember, Pudsy! two thousand Pounds!: The Role of Virtue in Eliza Haywood’s A Wife to Be Let BUS 246Elsa C. Torgersen Game, Set, Match, and Loss Aversion in Tennis BUS 238Joshua Price How I “Hike Like a Woman” ED 102April McPherson Nutritional Analysis of Eggs from Hens with Varied Diets LIB 201AZack Hansen Can You Hear Me Now: Promoting Healthy Communication Between Partners BUS 126Christina Moton School Counseling BUS 120Lindsay Alston Does Anonymity Matter? Examining Quality of Peer Assessment and Students’ Attitudes ED 103Michiko Kobayashi Just the tip of the iceberg?: Culture in the Language Classroom ED 111Carlos Bertoglio Kairotic Connections: How Creative Writing and Composition Pedagogies Foster Writer Identity and Connectivity ED 202Bethany Bibb Pressed Poetry, A Letterpress Poetry Broadside Collaboration ED 104Meri Page

1:20pm MDT

Community Engagement at SUU -- Vital and Varied BUS 242Earl Mulderink Parenting Parents ED 215Sadi Adams • Halee Gleave • Kathrine Isom • Charlotte Peterson No Small Parts: How and Why Artists Create Cohesion in Theatre Groups BUS 243Timsy Rowe The Relationship Between Climate Change and Refugee Movements ED 204Aidan Reed Painting 'My Odyssey": Jimmie Jones at the Grand Canyon ED 202James Aton Poetry as a Form of the Subconscious Mind BUS 246Rebekah Dryer Recruitment and Retention of Hispanic Students ED 104Kolton Pierson What is a Library Worth?: A Practical Exercise in Capital Appraisal BUS 238Richard Saunders Distribution and microbial use of molybdenum in soils west of Milford, UT ED 102Matthew Harmon Pokemon Go: Gotta Help Them All Follow up Statistics BUS 126Joy Sterrantino Suicide Awareness and Prevention BUS 120Nicole Alley • Sabrina Clark • Karina Pope • Mckinley Whittaker Dynamic Duo: What are you Missing in a Student Professor Relationship? ED 111Daniel Delap • Jennifer Sorensen Student Designed OER Activities to Learn Mental Health Nursing ED 103Lauren Traveller Numeral approximation for a Brussellator System BUS 244Parker Evans

1:40pm MDT

Coordinating a Morning of Service ED 215Joseph Lee A Comparison of Chlorophyll Concentrations in Southern Utah Rivers and Streams BUS 244Jaxon Barney • Max Bowles • Mohammad Samha • Ryan Schroeder It's Hair and There and Everywhere (Working Title) BUS 243Mara Meighen Diversity on Campus ED 204Nouman Kante Fear, a Precursor to Progress BUS 238Trey Houck Linking morphological scaling and ecology in angiosperms ED 202Matt Ogburn The American Dream: America's Illusion BUS 242Alexis Brule Trapping of Furbearers ED 102Cory Farnsworth Treason: Fear and Paranoia of the Crown BUS 246Hannah Jones Educating Homeless Youth About Hygiene and Sexual Health BUS 126Kate Abbott • Jamie Slack Stereocontrolled Synthesis of (E)-Stilbene Derivatives by Palladium-Catalyzed Suzuki-Miyaura Cross-Coupling Reaction BUS 120Nathan Werner Developing Multiple Pathways to Careers in Industry ED 104Richard Cozzens Improving Student Experiences in Nursing ED 111SheriDawn Neilson • Bree Rayburn Improving Writing in our Master's of Education ED 103Julia Combs • Anne R. Diekema • Caitlin Gerrity • Joel Judd • Tony Pelligrini

2:00pm MDT

Supporting LGBT Youth in Cedar City BUS 242Courtney Doman • Cassidy Nelson • Emily Olson • Bryndi Staheli The Ampakhai Project: Preserving and Revitalizing the Southern Paiute Language ED 215Jonathan Hatch • Rama Hemphill • Ruthie Reed • Jeremy Garcia-Standing Soldier Queering Utah through Political Cartoons BUS 244Melynda Thorpe Why You Should Travel abroad with SUU ED 204Michaela Anderson Lessons from the Trenches BUS 243Amy Thorpe Shifting Gears in the First Year: developing a first-year experience course for all students ED 111Elizabeth Cox • Silvia Kozlovska Single, Celibate Living in Jane Barker's Love Intrigues BUS 246Annie Wright Service Archaeology BUS 238Jami Haskell An Exploration in General Relativity with the Great Basin Observatory ED 202Anthony Cole • Halie Hagerty • Brandon Jackson • Lisa Monson Removal of Suspended Solids in Coal Creek for Efficient Aquifir Recharge ED 102Cameron Chappell • Matt Harmon • Maverik Shumway • Stephen Smith Male Survivor Project BUS 120Zac Palmer Metaphors and Messages in Star Wars Movies BUS 126Bob Ogie Human Values in Public Administration ED 103Angela Pool-Funai

2:20pm MDT

Challenges Blended Family Members Face BUS 242Kolton Allgood • Nathan Roehl Marijuana: Medical uses or not? ED 215Ksenya Plumb Feeling Depression: The productive discomfort of 4.48 Psychosis BUS 244Scott Knowles Metaphor and Symbolic Landscapes in Contemporary American Poetry BUS 243Danielle Dubrasky Religious Perspectives on Death ED 204Brad Cook Beauty Standards and Their Effects on Education in the Eighteenth Century BUS 246Brywn Jones Reactivity and Biological Effects from the Novel Flame-retardant TTBP-TAZ BUS 120Maxwell Bowles The desert globe mallow's affect on the Mojave and Sonoran desert ecosystems ED 102Emily Cottam Are You Listening? The Trials and Tribulations of Life on a Governor's Staff BUS 238Mark Evers Visitor Satisfaction Levels at Southern Utah National Parks as the Number of Visitors Increases ED 202Kelly Goonan • Michael Kroff • Emmett Steed Children With Mental Illness BUS 126Sierra George • Paytn Jeffs • Ally Mendenhall • Anna Snyder Does Teaching Growth Mindset and Metacognition Skills Enhance Learning? ED 111Jennifer Ganowsky Teaching Introductory Biology as Part of an Integrated General Education Curriculum ED 103William Heyborne

2:40pm MDT

Post-Secular Behavioral Patterns BUS 242Daniel Anderson Scouting for First Aid ED 215Kati Dunn • Sam Hanks • Ashley Owens Implicit and Explicit Queer Representation in books and movies for children BUS 243Elissa Ridgway The school year should be lenghted BUS 244Elizabeth Roberts • Jordan Mbarga Ondoa The Mosuo: Where the Women Lead ED 204Chapman Abigail A Tale as Old as Time: Richard III is Just Another Fairy Tale BUS 246Nicole Heath Earth and Theia: Forming the Moon With Parallel Hydrodynamic Simulations BUS 120Joshua France Lethal White Overo Syndrome: Cause and Prevention ED 111Tylee Trevizo Is Our Food Safe: Feeding the Future BUS 238Evan Miller Concentrations of Pesticides in Local Honey ED 202Zhouling Chen • Gideon Johnson • Sherri Vogelesang • Katherine Wilcox Got Sleep? BUS 126Cloe Murillo • Broc Patterson • Hadlie Visser OER at SUU ED 103Rosie Liljenquist

3:00pm MDT

Post-Adoption Resources ED 215Anna Hopkins • Armandine Matondo • Danni Quastad • Sydney Riley Supporting Children with Chronically Ill Siblings BUS 242Makaela Caldwell • Jessica Hooks • Lindsey Trussell Good for the Soul?: Confession in J. M. Coetzee's _Age of Iron_ and Marilynne Robinson's _Gilead_ BUS 243Ryan Siemers Is an Absurd Creation Possible in Popular Culture? BUS 244Nozomi Irei Music acquisition in the womb BUS 246Krystal McCoy Social integration and amateur soccer: A field experiment in Europe ED 204Carlos Gómez González Aristotle's Puzzle of Mind in de Anima 3.5 ED 203Carl Anderson JSYK: Heart-based hope leaders communicate to create hopeful cultures BUS 238Cynthia Kimball Davis Why are they here? Analysis and comparison of the environmental characteristics of Quercus gambelii, Q. turbinella, and their interspecific hybrids. ED 202Skyler Porcaro Disgust Sensitivity Better Predicts Political Ideology than Disgust Reappraisal: A Replication and Extension BUS 120Anjelica Ashworth Lessons Learned from the 2019 Athletic Training Educator's Conference ED 104Nathan Slaughter Using Brain-based Teaching to Improve Researching Skills in ESL Students ED 111Ruth Scovill

3:20pm MDT

Adulthood: The Great Transition BUS 242Brianna Bishop • Jodi Hoyt • Sydney Ives • Emma Penovich Teen Nonfiction That Matters ED 215Paula Mitchell Making "Running for Hope" BUS 246Yuri Bertacchi • Reyce Knutson • Jadon Lamphear • Kurt Meacham • Ansleigh Mikesell • Aaron Peterson • Jon Smith • Emma Sorensen • Colton Warren SUU/Wuhan Polytechnic Writing Center Maymester Research Project ED 204Lainey Cartwright • Benjamin Cozzens • Richard Stevens A Diet Analysis of the Desert Tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) ED 202Logan Platt A Marketing and Financial Plan (case study for a full service hotel) BUS 238Dawson Jensen Abnormality Detection in Musculoskeletal Radiographs Using Deep Learning AI BUS 120Cecilia Weingartner Flow Rate Disturbance in Human Femoral Artery and Vein BUS 243Jaden Cunningham Global Changes and Ethnobiological Resilience in the Region of Autlán, Jalisco, Mexico ED 203Liz Olson K12(16) Experiential Education ED 104Leilani Nautu The middle child at SUU: proof that second-year students aren't ignored ED 111Naomi Beatty

3:40pm MDT

Food Insecurity in Cedar City ED 215Daniel Anderson • Madeline Gines • Jami Haskell • Brielle Johnson • Shelbie Nelson • Elizabeth Olson • Elissa Ridgway • Stephen Schwanz • Cecilia Trujillo Captain Kirk and the Librarian: How Libraries Can Save the World BUS 243Christopher Clark Engineering technology to China ED 203Justice Limb The Complexities of Translation: Negotiating a Multilingual Text ED 204Corey Twitchell Aristotle and Civil Disobendience BUS 242Sam Cook Honor on the High Seas: Dueling in the Old Navy BUS 246Laura June Davis Light Harvesting Properties of Bio-conjugate Pigment Protein Complexes ED 111Bridger Jeppesen Cations in Coal Creek ED 202Cade Christensen • Barry Kreyling • Marcus Mifflin • Zach Rogers Impostor Syndrome: Symptoms and Strategies for Success BUS 120Nikki Koontz • Caitlin Gerrity Bringing Service Learning (Advocacy) to Preservice Teachers ED 104Leilani Nautu