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SUU Festival of Excellence 2019

9:00am MDT

Are Computer Science and Information Systems Students More Likely to Earn a Better Grade in Basic Computer Literacy Courses Than Their Peers: A Case Study ST - Kolob Canyon Living RoomNathan Barker • Laurie Harris Administrative Ethics: Personal Dilemmas vs. Public Duty ED 215Kourt Osborn “How Could a Woman Do It?”: Animal Materiality in the Taxidermy of Martha Maxwell BUS 246Julie McCown Aluminum Foam BUS 243Victoria Krull • John Webster 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 Practitioner Research: Putting Educators in Charge of Educational Research ED 103Christina Hurley • Joel Judd Hispanic Sociolinguistics Research: A class experience ED 203Junice Acosta • Jonah Babbel • Kolton Elmer • Cole Frost • Treyson Lyon • Tanner Vario Building a Brand: SUU Community Education ED - LobbyHaven Scott

9:20am MDT

Jose Limón's "Chaconne" (excerpts & movement research) MC 116Kayla Nelson • Nick Blaylock “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 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

9:40am MDT

Examining the Lived Experiences of Native American Students at A Predominantly White Institution ED 215Zac Palmer 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 Understanding Trauma Informed Practices in the Classroom ED 103Brianne Kramer • Jennifer McKenzie

10:00am MDT

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 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 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 SEE ME! Dance Theatre MC 116Michael Crotty Spanish American Literature 20th-21st Century: Three Approaches ED 203Kolton Elmer • Brock Hunter • Peter Sorensen Fishing For Proteins LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Ryan Koch • Sydney Williams Investigation of a crossed benzoin-like condensation LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Maxwell Bowles Optimizing Methylene Blue as a Sensitizing Agent LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Hamza Samha Screening for Microbial Dissimilatory Reduction of Metals via a Colorimetric Plate Assay LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Parker Feltner • Gavin Jones • Avery Malenius • Shardon Morril The Negative Effect of an Automatic Intensity Step-down Function During NMES Treatments LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Cody Bremner Sanitation efficacy of 70% isopropyl alcohol vs blue light treatment on reusable electrodes LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Hailee Eckman • Rylie Miller A Needs Assessment of Child and Family Mental Health Needs in a Rural Community LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Courtney Doman • Jordan Rhodes • Sofie Scaletta • Andra Walker An Analysis of Two Suicide Hypotheses LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Drew Beatty • Nick Creer Basic Principles of Prenatal Health LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Cecilia Campas • Sydney Jenson • Lindsey McMillon • Alonzo Stevens Dance Training and its Effects on Balance in Healthy Young Adults LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Ashlee Humphries Evaluation of desert plant extracts inhibition of biofilm formed by Pseudomonas aeruginosa LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Halli Bestenlehner • Kenny Carter • Ted Cowan • Brandan Glazier • Chris Hall • Andrew Judd Perception of Body Fat among Female College Students LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Dalton Beeson • Linda Herrera • Sandra Keck • Taylor Pulver • Micheal Scott • Nathan Sharp • Easton Weaver Smile for Success: Effect of Facial Expressions and Hemispheric Dominance on Cognitive-motor Performance LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Drew Beatty • Yeon Nam • Anna Wasden • Kailee Wingrove Blood Glucose Responses to the Sight and Smell of High and Low Glycemic Food in Mice LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Tyler Haroldsen • McKayla Heaton • Torri Sageman Drawing Skills in Anatomy and Physiology Students LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Sydney Whitson Textbooks: Obsolete or Eternal? LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Emma Allen • Sarah Forsberg • Rebecca Moffat • Tyler Neilson • Kenzie Worthington

10:20am MDT

Community Engaged Conservation Genetics ED 215Jacqualine Grant 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 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 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

1:00pm MDT

Ending at the Beginning: George Lucas, Peter Jackson, and the Half-Life of Creativity BUS 244Parker Rawlins 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 Nutritional Analysis of Eggs from Hens with Varied Diets LIB 201AZack Hansen 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 La francophonie ED 203David Evans • Elise Leahy • Rosa Perez The Road to Recycling LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Megan Abel • Tristan Olsen-Lund • Samuel Wells Low Cost Photonic Crystal for Biomedical Applications LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Garrett Mackelprang Dino DNA LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Megan Jensen DNA metabarcoding on local honey to determine quality and fraud LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)JuliAnne Allgood Investigation of Preferences in Ants LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Zihe Wan Synthesis of (Z)-Stilbene Derivatives LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Hayden Bishop Synthesis of (Z)-Stilbene Derivatives LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Hayden Bishop • Brenton Bushnell Synthesis of 4,4,5,5-tetramethyl-2-((1E,3E)-4-phenylbuta-1,3- dien-1-yl)-1,3,2-dioxaborolane by the 9-BBN Catalyzed Hydroboration of (E)-but-1-en-3-yn-1-ylbenzene LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Marcus Mifflin Third-Party Punishment Preferences: Thief Gain and Victim Loss Matter, but Not Race or Punishment Motive LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Bryan Koenig A Biodiversity Survey of Southern Utah Reptiles LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Sierra Ball A Structural Comparison of Isozymes with Widely Varying Optimal Temperatures LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Scott Adair • Jayde Bertoch Evolution of Wood Warbler (Parulidae) Song LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Nic Gasparro • Marggie Glenn • Jungyun Huh • Sierra White Genetic analysis of diatoms in streams affected by the Brian Head Fire LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Tyler Colfack Impacts of the Brian Head Fire on the Freshwater Macroinvertebrates of the Markagunt Plateau (2016-2019) LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Mike Contente • Fredric Govedich • Irania Hernandez • Makayla Oborn • Courtney Webb • Samuel Wells Importance of Collaborative Skills in the Workforce LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Audry Wilcox Perception of Educational Videos Based on Narrator’s Gender LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Brianna Brunson • Anna Covington • Peyton Green Possible New Species of Sea Spider Discovered in the Midwaters of Monterrey, CA LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Kodi Allen Woods Significance of Quichapa lake for Migratory Birds LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Rachael Bolus • Tanner James • Tanner Jefferies • Sandon Stokes • Levi Sweeten • Samuel Wells Survey of Coleopteran species of Spring Creek Canyon LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Gavin Stapley • Brian Thompson The effect of urbanization on genetic diversity in southern Utah ant populations LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Johanna Garavito Childless, Single Female's Knowledge and Attitudes about Breastfeeding LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Naomi Beatty • Abigail Bishop • Carly Button • Javlyn Weaver Energy Expenditure, Heart Rate and Wearable Devices: Sport Modes Versus General Modes LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Jayson Cole • Tyler Downs Factors Contributing to Sleep Deprivation in College Students LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Joel Alvidera • Carson Kelly • Maura Knutsen • Tomas Langholtz Gay and Mormon: How a Bishop Can Help LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Tate Avey • Jim Mock • Carisa Wood Relationship between Maladaptive pornography consumption and maladaptive video game addiction. LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Thaddeus Cole • Quinn Simpson • Tyler Tatton Sex Perspective Rigidity and Empathetic Responses to People in Distress LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Mattison Doman Silver Nanoparticles Ability to Identify Capping Ligands for Early Disease Detection LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Jaxson Jeffery • Hayley Sorensen Testing the Accuracy of Popular Wrist Worn Tracking Gadgets at Measuring Energy Expenditure and Heart rate in College Age Joggers at Varying Grades on a Treadmill LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Whitney Stevens The Effect of Skin Tone on the Accuracy of Heart Rate Measurement of Wrist-Worn Fitness Trackers During Resting and Sub-Maximal Activity LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Amber Heltemes • Rachel Sloan • Julie Taylor The Impact of Religiosity and Pornography Addiction on Shame, Anxiety, and Hope based on Gender LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Anjelica Ashworth • Patric Leukel What is the Accuracy of Wearable Tracking Devices in Determining a Resting Energy Expenditure Based on Training Status? LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Eric Lee New Zealand Pycnogonids (Sea Spiders) LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Bonnie Bain • Fredric Govedich • Jordan Richins Speed Science: Teaching Students How to Learn from Failure LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Bonnie Bain • Fredric Govedich

1:20pm MDT

The Relationship Between Climate Change and Refugee Movements ED 204Aidan Reed 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 Dynamic Duo: What are you Missing in a Student Professor Relationship? ED 111Daniel Delap • Jennifer Sorensen Numeral approximation for a Brussellator System BUS 244Parker Evans

1:40pm MDT

A Comparison of Chlorophyll Concentrations in Southern Utah Rivers and Streams BUS 244Jaxon Barney • Max Bowles • Mohammad Samha • Ryan Schroeder Diversity on Campus ED 204Nouman Kante Linking morphological scaling and ecology in angiosperms ED 202Matt Ogburn 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

2:00pm MDT

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 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 An Exploration in General Relativity with the Great Basin Observatory ED 202Anthony Cole • Halie Hagerty • Brandon Jackson • Lisa Monson Male Survivor Project BUS 120Zac Palmer Recycling in Urban Clusters of the West ST - Kolob Canyon Living RoomMegan Abel • Tristan Olsen-Lund

2:20pm MDT

Feeling Depression: The productive discomfort of 4.48 Psychosis BUS 244Scott Knowles Metaphor and Symbolic Landscapes in Contemporary American Poetry BUS 243Danielle Dubrasky Reactivity and Biological Effects from the Novel Flame-retardant TTBP-TAZ BUS 120Maxwell Bowles Visitor Satisfaction Levels at Southern Utah National Parks as the Number of Visitors Increases ED 202Kelly Goonan • Michael Kroff • Emmett Steed Does Teaching Growth Mindset and Metacognition Skills Enhance Learning? ED 111Jennifer Ganowsky

2:40pm MDT

Earth and Theia: Forming the Moon With Parallel Hydrodynamic Simulations BUS 120Joshua France Lethal White Overo Syndrome: Cause and Prevention ED 111Tylee Trevizo 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 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 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 American Rationals For Dog Ownership LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Josh Christensen • Hannah Covington • Karl Greathouse • Jason Luo • Dream Weaver Molybdemum as a Cofactor in Enzymatic Reactions in Cyanobacteria LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Hyeonseo Cho • Brent Thacker Giving Multilingual Writers a Helping Hand LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Christina Winters Late Cretaceous Dinosaur Tracks from the Iron Springs Formation, Iron County, Utah LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Jennifer Crowell Perceptions of Morality LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Natassha Fagergren • Samantha Harper • Katherine Saldana The effects of ploidy on auxin biosynthesis in Hemerocallis hybrida LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Riley Carter The Integrated Capacious Model of Leadership Identities Construction LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Brionne Neilson What the Frit?! LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Aubriel Koehler • Mikey Savage A Study of Ringtail (Bassariscus astutus) Genetic Diversity in Southern Utah LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Laura Aston Caffeine Derived Carbene Ligands in the Sonogashira Cross-Coupling Reaction LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Garett Ruesch Pilot Shortage in the United States LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Andrew Lloyd The Role of Interview Anxiety in Hiring Decision LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Blake Bennion   Who am I? Feedback about Self and its Effect on Purchasing Behavior and Response to Gain and Loss Frame Messages  LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Amanda Evans I love you! I don't know what is going on in your head, do you? BUS 126Amy Thorpe Marxist Theory of Alienation and Drug Use in Modern Society LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Kaleigh Bronson Drawing as an Active Learning Activity in Undergraduate Human Anatomy LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Nizhoni Marasco Examining Identity and Privilege in the "Utah Bubble" ED 103Abe Daye • Brianne Kramer • Tess Oldroyd • Dallin Tripp • Stephanie Wilde Stripping Lipid Bilayer Removal by Buffer Flow LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Ruth Hunter SYNTHESIS OF ESTERS VIA THE HALOFORM REACTION LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Emily Olson Title: The Anatomy of Lab: Factors Affecting, Causes of, and Student Motivations for Leaving Anatomy Lab Courses Early LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Sarah Monson Whopper Copper to Proper Copper: The Marvelous Transition from Massive to Miniature LIB - Reading Room (2nd Floor)Zhouling Chen • Jessie Fischer

3:20pm MDT

Teen Nonfiction That Matters ED 215Paula Mitchell The Chicken Shack App LIB 201ABenjamin Kirkby 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 Abnormality Detection in Musculoskeletal Radiographs Using Deep Learning AI BUS 120Cecilia Weingartner Flow Rate Disturbance in Human Femoral Artery and Vein BUS 243Jaden Cunningham 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 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 Impostor Syndrome: Symptoms and Strategies for Success BUS 120Nikki Koontz • Caitlin Gerrity Bringing Service Learning (Advocacy) to Preservice Teachers ED 104Leilani Nautu