| Program Schedule | |||||
| 8:00-9:00 | Breakfast & Registration | ||||
| 8:45-9:00 | Judges Meeting | ||||
| 9:00-9:10 | Opening Remarks, Pearson 104 | ||||
| 9:15-10:50 | Session I | ||||
| Pearson 106 | Pearson 104 | ||||
| 9:15-9:35 | Zayas, Ricardo | Craig, Daniel | |||
| Biology | Occupational Therapy | ||||
| Nitric oxide signaling in the nervous system of the tobacco hornworm, Manduca sexta. | The Relationship Between Meaningfulness and Emotional Responses to Music. | ||||
| 9:40-10:00 | Smith, Rinah | Beltukov, Aleksei | |||
| Psychology | Math | ||||
| Early chronic exposure to nutritive and non-nutritive sweet solutions alters oral morphine intake. | Infecting the World with Integral Geometry. | ||||
| 10:05-10:25 | Bottari, John | Sedarat, Roger | |||
| Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | English | ||||
| Rapid Prototyping Using Complex Programmable Logic Devices. | Hearing the Babel in the Ivory Tower: Linguistic Racism in the College Writing Classroom. | ||||
| 10:30-10:50 | Hamill, Kyna | Griffiths, Megan | |||
| Drama and Dance | Biology | ||||
| The "Power" of the Sword in Female Transvestism on and off the Jacobean Stage. | The role of salt spray in maintaining coastal sandplain heathland plant communities. | ||||
| 10:55-11:10 | Break | ||||
| 11:15-12:55 | Session II | ||||
| Pearson 106 | Pearson 104 | ||||
| 11:15-11:40 | Smith, Cheryl | Arumugam, Sankarasubramanian | |||
| English | Civil and Environmental Engineering | ||||
| Out of Her Place: Early Modern Exploration and Female Authorship. | Climate Change and Sensitivity of Water Resources. | ||||
| 11:45-12:05 | Craine, Steve | Belliappa, Neeti | |||
| Biology | History | ||||
| Pitch Pine Invasions of Cape Cod Pond Shores: Are They a Threat to Rare Plants? | Crafting a Nation: The Political Identities of Lala Lajpat Rai, 1882-1928. | ||||
| 12:10-12:30 | Balachandran, Sumugam | Turnbull, Olivia | |||
| Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | Drama and Dance | ||||
| Assessment of Risk for Life-Threatening Cardiac Ailments. | |||||
| 12:35-12:55 | Martin, Carl | Canceled | |||
| English | |||||
| "Unthegn": Grendel in his Landscape. | |||||
| 1:00-1:30 | Lunch | ||||
| 1:35-4:00 | Session III | ||||
| Pearson 106 | Pearson 104 | ||||
| 1:35-1:55 | Lin-Marcus, Peter | Weststrate, Evan | |||
| Urban and Environmental Policy | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | ||||
| Diversity and Leadership at Tufts University. | An Efficient Guided Random Method for Simulation Based Test Pattern Generation in Sequential Logic Circuits. | ||||
| 2:00-2:20 | Thomas, Christopher | Wilson, Donna | |||
| Math | Chemical and Biological Engineering | ||||
| Periodic surface transformations | Nanopatterning of Large Free-Standing Biological Molecules. | ||||
| 2:25-2:45 | Bizheva, Kostadinka | Gruber, Stacie | |||
| Physics and Astronomy | Psychology | ||||
| Penetration depth limit to optical coherence microscopy in turbid media: the effect of multiply scattered light on image contrast and resolution. | Stroop Performance in Normal Controls: An fMRI Study. | ||||
| 2:50-3:10 | Gearhart, Heidi | Modrall, Jennifer | |||
| Art History | Biology | ||||
| From the Fantastic to the Grotesque: the Evolution of Fantastic Imagery in Medieval Pattern Books. | The impact of veterinary administration of antibiotics on the bacterial ecology of wild bird populations. | ||||
| 3:15-3:35 | Nephew, Ben | Gwinn, Mark | |||
| Biology | English | ||||
| Effects of acute crowding on avian physiology, behavior, and endocrinology. | Unmasking Frederick Douglass' Othello. | ||||
| 3:40-5:00 | Dessert and Awards Presentation | ||||
| The Graduate Student Council would like to thank all participants for allowing us to showcase the excellent research being conducted at Tufts University. We would also like to thank the judges: Dean Rob Hollister (GSAS), Prof. Julian Agyeman (UEP), Prof. Harry Bernheim (Biology), Prof. Anselm Blumer (EECS), Prof. Kevin Dunn (English), Prof. Fulton Gonzalez (Math), and Prof. Daniel Mulholland (History) for taking time out of their busy schedules to attend this event. | |||||
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