Session III
2 p.m.-3:15 p.m.
Along Racial Lines
Olin Hall 130
Kelly West, moderator
Mari Cannon, coach
Erik Anderson - Maxville as a Place of Intercultural Interactions, 2 p.m.
Claire Baron - Closing the Education Achievement Gap: A Walla Walla Case Study Among Latino Youth, 2:15 p.m.
Rebecca Helgeson and Jazzmyne Ross - Implications of Color-Blind Racial Ideology and Responses to Racism in Public and Private Contexts, 2:30 p.m.
Kenna Little, Lian Caspi and Kelly West - Children's Color Blindness and Latino Acceptance: School and Parental Influences, 2:45 p.m.
Religious Rites
Olin Hall 157
Benjamin Menzies, moderator
Olivia Kipper, coach
Erika Horwege
Sinners or Saints? Women and Religion in Ancient Greece and Medieval Europe, 2 p.m.
Sabrina Wise - Storied Searches: Tales of the People Israel, 2:15 p.m.
Caroline Carr - The Purity Movement: Father-Daughter Purity Balls, 2:30 p.m.
Benjamin Menzies - A Prophetic People: the Community of Christ in Transition, 2:45 p.m.
Changing Landscapes
Gaiser 159
Hannah Palkowitz, moderator
Tory Davidson, coach
Annette Patton - Environmental Controls on Bioavailable Manganese Concentrations in Soils of the Boulder Creek Watershed, 2 p.m.
Emma Oschrin - Bluebunch Wheatgrass Success on North- and South-Facing Slopes, 2:15 p.m.
Abbye Neel - Excessive Sediment Entrainment in the Catskill Mountains of New York State Due to High Magnitude Flood Events, 2:30 p.m.
Isabella Lowery - Causes and Consequences of Environmental Degradation Along the Noolturesh River in Kenya, 2:45 p.m.
Hannah Palkowitz - The People's Participation, 3 p.m.
Brain Matters
Science 100, Brattain Auditorium
Calvin Atkins, moderator
Zoe Randol, coach
William Stark - The Use of Polymeric Matrices as a Vector for Application of Neuromelanin to Cell Lines, 2 p.m.
Alejandro Fuentes Mena and Kayla Sua - Does Nicotine Moderate the Caffeine-Reinforced Conditioned Flavor Preference in Rats?, 2:15 p.m.
Navkiran Aujla - Encoding the Value of Actions in Addiction: Analysis of the Neural Activity During Decision-Making, 2:30 p.m.
Haley McLeod and Calvin Atkins - Insulin Signaling in the Ketogenic Diet: a Potential Mechanism of Seizure Prevention, 2:45 p.m.
Mental Health
Science 151
Robyn Metcalfe, moderator
Satinder Haer, coach
Jedediah Jacobson and Leland Matthaeus - Athletic Proficiency and Executive Function, 2 p.m.
My Xuan Vo and Johanna Otica - Mental Health Service Barriers in Walla Walla, 2:15 p.m.
Laine Atcheson - Juvenile Delinquency and Structured Activity Time, 2:30 p.m.
Robyn Metcalfe - Does Personality Predict the Outcome of Trauma-Focused Therapy in Children?, 2:45 p.m.
Immigrant/Migrant Issues
Maxey 104
Rachel Alexander, moderator
Shanglung Wang, coach
Madelyn Peterson - Representations of Race, Struggle and Immigrant Identity in "Darkroom: a memoir in black and white," 2 p.m.
Alexander Brott - Unequal Alliances: Internal Power Dynamics in Cross-Racial and Cross-Movement Coalitions
2:15 p.m.
Spencer May - Farmworker Morbidity and Mortality in Eastern Washington State, 2:30 p.m.
Rachel Alexander - Environmental Discourses on the U.S.-Mexico Border, 2:45 p.m.
Culture Clubs and Critiques
Kimball Theatre
Hari Raghavan, moderator
Yonah Biers-Ariel, coach
Nathan Wong - Youth in Action: A Comparison of America's Hippies and China's Red Guard, 2 p.m.
Adam Brayton - Virtual Reality, Nature and the Imagination, 2:15 p.m.
Paige Joki - Scars That Shape Us: An Analysis of The Joker's Incongruent and Imperfect Madness, 2:30 p.m.
Hari Raghavan - The Choice to Be Ruthless and the Choice to Be Different: Coming of Age in "Whip It!", 2:45 p.m.
Global Politics and Economics
Reid G02
Suzanne Jaszczult, moderator
Andy Larson, coach
Shelly Le - The Isolated Variable: An Analysis of Factors Affecting the Nutritional Status of Sikkimese Women, 2 p.m.
Leah Siegel - Arab Spring, Moroccan Frustration, 2:15 p.m.
Sebastian Jay - Informal but Not Illegal: the Effects of Mexico's Informal Sector on Working and Living Conditions, 2:30 p.m.
Suzanne Jaszczult - Politics of Biotechnology in Cuban Agriculture, 2:45 p.m.