Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity Symposium

The Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity Symposium will take place in the Joe Rosenfield ’25 Center and will feature the work of over 70 students.

Please come support the students as they present their papers, posters, readings, and performances.

Tuesday, April 12

11 a.m.-1 p.m., Poster Sessions and Panels, Rosenfield Center, various rooms

Wednesday, April 13

8 a.m.-4 p.m., Posters on display, Rosenfield Center, Room 101

Thursday, April 14

11 a.m.-1 p.m., Moderated panels, Rosenfield Center, various rooms

Detailed Symposium Schedule

April 11–14, 2016

Monday, April 11: Opening Reflections

7–9 p.m. Opening Reflections – Faulconer Gallery

Please join us as David Cook-Martin, Eliza Kempton, and Lee Running reflect on the value of research and creative work to their own scholarly pursuits, and then join us to view the Studio Art Faculty Exhibition and BAX: Bachelor of Arts Exhibition, a juried show featuring the work of third- and fourth-year students. These events will be followed by a dessert reception.

Tuesday, April 12: Poster Session and Moderated Panels

A light lunch is available in Rosenfield Center, Room 101

11 a.m.–1 p.m. Poster Session – Rosenfield Center, Room 101

• Ana Karin Kozjek ’17
• “Efficacies and Kinetics of Potential PET Ligand Agonists of α7 nAChR Differ”
• Ian Dixon-Anderson ’17 and Thomas Robinson ’16
• “Ionic Conductivities of Silyl and Carbonate Blend Electrolytes”
• Michael Fitzpatrick ’16
• “Morphological and Physiological Characterization of a Novel Subpopulation of Perisynaptic Schwann Cells”
• Minna Montgomery ’16
• “Synthetic Investigations Toward Biologically Active Derivatives of Polypeptide Macrolactones”
• Nathan Kolacia ’16
• “Synthesis and Characterization of Molybdenum(V) Imido Complexes with N-Salicylidene-2-Aminophenol”
• Ryan Davis ’16
• “Sex-Specific Antipredator Response to Auditory Cues in the Black Spiny- Tailed Iguana”
• Helen Colliton ’16 and Maddy Pesch ’16
• “Substituted Chalcones”
• Peter Anderson ’16
• “Police Use of Excessive Force Against People of Color in Baltimore”
• Hannah Brown ’16
• “Improving Clinical Trial Transparency”
• Glorianne Dorce ’17
• “Cuban Adjustment Act Reform”
• Sophia Shin ’16
• “Asian-American Mental Health Policy”
• Sarina Farb ’16
• “Setting Federal Nutrition Guidelines that Best Reflect Nutrition Science”
• Jacob Ziontz ’16
• “Effect of High-Fat Diet-Induced Obesity on Spatial and Declarative Memory”
• Maile Leathem-Rietz ’17
• “CAFO in Poweshiek County, Iowa, Is a Reservoir for Carbenicillin Resistance Genes”
• Caroline Graham ’16
• “Marine Policy in the Arctic: Looking to the Future”
• Deborah Msekela ’17
• “Dissolved Organic Matter Sulfidization and Impact on HgS Bioavailability for Methylation”
• Connor Mulligan ’17
• “Organosilyl Electrolyte Conductivities, Lithium Transference Numbers, and Solvation Shells via PFG-STE NMR Diffusion Experiments and Their Application in Lithium-Ion Batteries”

11 a.m.–noon Studying Grinnell: Exploring Our Local Community – Rosenfield Center, Room 209

• Sarah Henderson ’16
• “Increasing Attendance at the Grinnell Historical Museum”
• Samantha Snodgrass ’16
• “Water and Landscape Management in Grinnell”
• Summer Jones ’17
• “Determining Students’ Postsecondary Plans: A Program Evaluation of the Tools Used by Grinnell High School’s Counseling Department”
• Roselle Tenorio ’17
• “Food Security Barriers for Rural Food Pantry Clients”

11 a.m.–noon Colonization and Hybridity – Rosenfield Center, Room 227

• Aminata Kinana ’18 “Discourses on Mixity: How Identity and Difference Are Viewed in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania”
• Willa Collins ’16 “Cult Classic: The Academy and Popular Religion in Colonial and Post-Renovation Vietnam”Sofia Mendez Subieta ’19 “Rethinking the Defeat of the Aztec Empire”
• Rebecca Wong ’17 “Negotiating the Boundary Between Christianity and Filial Piety in Modern-Day Hong Kong”

11 a.m.–noon Culture, Confrontation, and Dislocations – Rosenfield Center, Room 226

• Hening Zhang ’16
• “A Search for Liberal Arts Studenthood in Modern China: Student Activism in Yenching University, 1918–1949”
• Fangda Li ’16
• “Through the Eyes of Shanghai Jewish Refugees: German, Austrian Jews in Shanghai”
• Fenyi Wu ’17
• “Red Amnesia: Responses to the Cultural Revolution in Contemporary Chinese Art”
• Alyssa DeBella ’19
• “Ritual Action and Social Spectacle: The Creation and Systematic Destruction of The Hunger Games”

11 a.m.–noon Interventions in Media Studies – Rosenfield Center, Room 225

• Sophie Donlon ’16
• “Confronting the Gaze: Reconfiguring Spectatorship in Untitled (Kitchen Table Series) by Carrie Mae Weems”
• Lily Seibert ’19
• “I Can’t Tell What’s Real Anymore: Paying the Price of Reality Television and Media”
• Kai Vorhies ’19
• “Capitol Whistleblowers: The Ethics of Mass Surveillance”
• Meredith Carroll ’16
• “The Marvelous and the Modern: Selling the Phonograph in Victorian London”

11 a.m.–noon Representations of Space and Time – Rosenfield Center, Room 202

• Cameron Frank ’16
• “Spatial Dependence in Newton-Cartan Gravity in Noninertial Reference Frames”
• Jun Taek Lee ’18
• “Randomness of Multifractal Systems”
• Kaiqian Zhang ’17 and David Koychev ’16
• “New Formulas from LU Matrix Decomposition”

Noon–1 p.m. Cognition, Meta-Cognition, and Knowledge – Rosenfield Center, Room 202

• Lizzie Eason ’17
• “Priming Epistem Stances”
• Krista Matthews-Saugstad ’16
• “Investigating Gestures”
• Isabel Monaghan ’16
• “Priming Epistem Stances”

Noon–1 p.m. Production, Consumption, and Capitalism: Across Time and Place – Rosenfield Center, Room 203

• Rosemarie O’Brien ’16
• “Chinese Art Today: Rural Aesthetics vs. Urban Commodities”
• Jenny Samuels ’16
• “Moral Capitalism and Democracy in the Third New Deal: Keynesian Fiscal Policy after the 1937–1938 Recession”
• Mari Holmes ’17
• “Analyzing the Multiplicity of Childhood and Who Gets Access”

Noon–1 p.m. Environmental Challenges and Responses – Rosenfield Center, Room 209

• Jackson Dunnington ’16
• “Cross-Temporal Analysis of Sociocultural Response to Drought in the American West”
• Greg Margida ’16
• “Racism of Climate Apathy”
• Cassandra Miller ’16
• “An Analysis of the 17th Karmapa as an Effective Environmentalist”

Wednesday, April 13 Posters on Display

8 a.m.–4 p.m. Posters on display – Rosenfield Center, Room 101

Thursday, April 14 Moderated Panels

A light lunch is available outside Rosenfield Center, Room 209

11 a.m.–noon Performances – Rosenfield Center, Room 101

• Ivy Kuhn ’16
• “The National Water Dance: Somatic and Site-Specific Dance-Making”
• Alexandra Barnard ’17
• “I Dream Before I Take the Stand”
• Aaron Israel Levin ’17
• “Brass Quintet”

11 a.m.–noon Women of Color Negotiating Agency and Representation – Rosenfield Center, Room 225

• Alexandra Odom ’16
• “Perceptions of Impact Among African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement”
• Jocelyn Acosta ’16
• “Race, Class, and Sex Work”
• Jermaine Stewart-Webb ’16
• “Discussing Black Female Sexuality with Private Letters: The Nellie McKay and Nell Irvin Painter Correspondence”

11 a.m.–noon Education and Pedagogy – Rosenfield Center, Room 226

• Carlina Arango ’16
• “An Evaluation of Al Exito’s Impact on Participants in the Program’s First Three Years (2006–09)”
• Paulina Campbell ’16
• “Pedagogy and Social Change”
• Katherine Tucker ’16
• “The Gendered Nature of Social Class: How Intersecting Identities Inform College Students’ Plans for Relationship and Family Formation”

11 a.m.–noon Explorations in the Digital Humanities – Rosenfield Center, Room 227

• Emily Hackman ’16
• “Civil War Memory and GIS”
• Paige Wheeler ’16 and Julia Marquez-Uppman ’17
• “Blood vs. Love: Power in Early Modern Spain”
• Noah Schlager ’16
• “Digital Amanas”

Noon–1 p.m. Novella Readings – Rosenfield Center, Room 101

• Hannah Condon ’16 River Valley Natives
• Emma Thomasch ’16 Where We Go From Here
• Leo Abbe-Schneider ’16 French Rollins
• Phoebe Mogharei ’16 Careless
• Grace Lloyd ’16 Saccharine

Noon–1 p.m. Individuals and Nations – Rosenfield Center, Room 203

• Lauren Yi ’18
• “The Religion of Victimhood in North Korea: How Juche Ideology Shaped a New Nation”
• Dhruv Gupta ’17
• “Variables Underlying Trust in Nation-States”
• Colleen Moser ’16
• “West African Communities in France: Contemporary Challenges for Malian Village Associations and Transnational Development”

Noon–1 p.m. Surveying Sex at Grinnell College – Rosenfield Center, Room 209

• Melissa Melloy ’16
• “Love for One or Love for All: Polyamory at Grinnell College”
• Mara Rosenberg ’17
• “Queering High Street: Investigating Strategies for Same-Sex Hookups at Grinnell College”
• Elaina Notman ’16
• “Preference for Intoxication in Consensual Sexual Encounters”

Noon–1 p.m. Intimate Surfaces: Troubling the High/Low Divide – Rosenfield Center, Room 202

• Eliza Harrison ’16
• “Early Sonia Delaunay: The Avant-Garde at Home”
• Lauren Roush ’16
• “Fabric Portraits”
• Mai Pham ’16
• “Traces of Pop in Dinh Q. Lê’s Art”

Sponsored by the Office of the Dean of the College.

The dean’s office wishes to thank Vance Byrd, Jennifer Dobe, Andrew Graham, Jan Graham, Kelly Maynard, Casey Oberlin, Terri Phipps, Andi Tracy ’99, Tilly Woodward, and the Dining Services staff for their assistance in organizing this symposium.

If you require an accommodation in order to attend or fully participate in any of these events please contact Maria Tapias or the coordinator of disability resources, Autumn Wilke, or call 641-269-3702.