Session II
10:45-noon
Beyond the Bubble: Whitman Service Programs
Olin Hall 130
Natalie Pond, moderator
Ben Duchin, coach
Allison Burns, Allison Ramp, Nathan Sany, Kenna Little, Lauren Kutler, Sophie
Larsen, Elizabeth Miller and Natalie Pond - Beyond the Bubble: Whitman Volunteers Tell Their Stories, 10:45 a.m.
Japan: Then and Now
Olin Hall 157
Karin Tompkins, moderator
Olivia Kipper, coach
Josephine Hoyne - Gender Conceptions in the Golden Era of Japanese Literature: Sei Shonagon's Gender Ambiguous Representation of Women's Writing, 10:45 a.m.
Elizabeth Lee - Witch Without a Body: Japan's Mountain Crone Reborn, 11 a.m.
Sara Portesan - Japanese Water and Ink Paintings, 11:15 a.m.
Yukiko Ueda - College Education in Kyoto and Walla Walla: a Look at Doshisha University and Whitman College, 11:30 a.m.
Karin Tompkins - Ijime: Bullying in Japanese Schools from Educators' Perspectives, 11:45 a.m.
Lava Flows
Gaiser 159
Matthew Morriss, moderator
Zoe Randol, coach
Cassandra Smith - Crystal Growth in Experimental Lava Flows, 10:45 a.m.
Adele Thornton - Water, Carbon Dioxide, Sulfur and Chlorine: Controls on the Crystallization and Properties of Magma Beneath Volcanoes, 11 a.m.
Katherine Chapman - Lightning-Altered Rocks in the Western United States, 11:15 a.m.
Will Bender - Characterizing Unstudied Granitoids from the Snake Range, 11:30 a.m.
Matthew Morriss - Paleoclimatic Implications of Glacial Sequences in Mongolia, 11:45 a.m.
Animal Behavior
Science 100, Brattain Auditorium
Jordan Benjamin, moderator
Maura Barstead, coach
Jesse McKeen-Scott - Does Road Noise Affect Song Structure of the Chestnut-Backed Antbird?, 10:45 a.m.
Thomas Glass - Fish Swimming: A 3D Video Analysis of Fish Foraging Behavior, 11 a.m.
Natalie Jamerson - Spatial Predictors of Bird Damage on Cherry Orchards, 11:15 a.m.
Allyson Gibson - Not Monkeying Around: The Bushmeat Crisis on Bioko Island, 11:30 a.m.
Jordan Benjamin - There and Back Again: A Serpentologue's Tale from the Frontlines of Snakebite Medicine in Africa, 11:45 a.m.
Natalie Jamerson - Spatial Predictors of Bird Damage on Cherry Orchards, 11:15 a.m.
Marine Life
Science 151
Nicholas Chow, moderator
Tom Vogt, coach
Gemma Wallace - Cold Tolerance as a Climatic Adaptation in a Broadly Distributed Marine Crustacean, 10:45 a.m.
Ethan Robertson - Exploration of Effects of Reef Waters on Coral Skeletal Chemistry, 11 a.m.
Nilce Alvarez - Analysis of Trace Elements Across Reef-Building Coral Genera, 11:15 a.m.
Nicholas Chow - Chicken of the Sea: What Feathers Can Tell Us About Corals, 11:30 a.m.
"Quality" TV: "Peaks" and Hollows
Maxey 104
Griffith Jones, moderator
Madeleine Hale, coach
Nathan Lessler "Twin Peaks" and Legitimization of the Television Drama, 10:45 a.m.
Meleeya Schwartz - The Hidden Quality of "Pretty Little Liars," 11 a.m
Stephen Toyofuku - Interrogating Quality Television, 11:15 a.m.
Griffith Jones - The Quality of "True Blood," 11:30 a.m.
Jazz Influences
Kimball Theatre
Rachel Quednau, moderator
Florence LeBas, coach
Annelise Osterberg - The Influence of Jazz on Modern Art, 10:45 a.m.
Paul Eschbach - The Jazz Aesthetics of Light-Gloving, 11 a.m.
William Seymour - Hip-Hop Seen Through the Lens of Sun Ra's Musical Ontology, 11:15 a.m.
Rachel Quednau - Jesus Walks: Hip-Hop as Black Liberation, 11:30 a.m.
Television and Its Discontents
Reid G02
Jade Blake-Whitney, moderator
Richael Best, coach
Jessica Good - We Are All So Raven: Race as a Disney Commodity, 10:45 a.m.
Sally Boggan - Depravity on Display: Equal Representation in "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia," 11 a.m.
Sara Graham - Documenting the Eccentric and Grotesque: TLC and "My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding,
11:15 a.m.
Jade Blake-Whitney - "The Cleveland Show": Hit or Miss? Fox Doesn't Care!, 11:30 a.m.