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Last Updated on May 9, 2012.

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Accounting and Business Law

Abigail Ricks
Sponsor: Dr. Jason MacGregor

"Using Technology to Enhance an Introductory Financial Accounting Class:
A Student Perspective"

2012 American Accounting Association Southwest Regional Meeting
New Orleans, Louisiana. March 1-2, 2012.

American Studies

Priscilla Martinez
Sponsor: Dr. Douglas Ferdon

"The Illusion of American Traditional Life:
A Look at Flawed Americanism Through the Films and
Comic Books of the Early Cold War Era, 1948-1960"

Northeast and North Texas Regional Phi Alpha Theta Conference
Commerce, Texas. April 4, 2012.

Biology

Arjun Adhikari
Sponsor: Dr. Joseph White

"Inter-Specific Differences in Eco-Physical Characters of Coexisting
Shrub Species in a Semi Humid Woodland Ecosystem"

Ecological Society of America
Austin, Texas. August 7-12, 2011.

Arjun Adhikari
Sponsor: Dr. Joseph White

"Remote Sensing and Modeling of Thorn Shrublands to
Assess Carbon Sequestration Potential in a Changing Climate"

First Conference in Subtropical Biology
Edinburg, Texas. January 13, 2012.

Anica Debelica
Sponsor: Dr. Kenneth T. Wilkins

"Bat Community Structure in Relation to
Management Practices in Southeastern Pine Forest"

Texas Society of Mammalogists
Junction, Texas. February 17-19, 2012.

Anica Debelica
Sponsor: Dr. Kenneth T. Wilkins

"Temporal Niche Partitioning in Forest-Dwelling Bats"
Texas Academy of Science
Alpine, Texas. March 1-3, 2012.

Nick Green
Sponsor: Dr. Kenneth T. Wilkins

"Habitat Association in Sigmodon Hispidus:
Compromise between Nutrition and Cover"

Texas Society of Mammalogists Annual Meeting
Junction, Texas. February 17-19, 2012.

Daniel Hiatt
Sponsor: Dr. Ryan King

"Influence of Catchment Alder Cover on
Periphyton Enzyme Activity in Southcentral Alaska Headwater Streams"

Society of Freshwater Sciences
Louiseville, Kentucky. May 20-24, 2012.

Mo Jia
Sponsor: Dr. Bryan Gibbon

"Characterization of gnc2 Mutants in Maize"
54th Annual Maize Genetics Conference
Portland, Oregon. March 15-18, 2012.

Pam Kostka
Sponsor: Dr. Ryan King

"Responses of Leaf-Litter Nutrient Concentrations and Breakdown Rates to
Experimental Nutrient Enrighment Using Two Types of Diffusion Samplers"

Society for Freshwater Science
Louisville, Kentucky. May 20-24, 2012.

Han Li
Sponsor: Dr. Kenneth Wilkins

"Pattern of bat activity in a medium-sized city in relation to socioeconomic factors"
International Association for Landscape Ecology US Regional Association 2012 Annual Symposium
Newport, Rhode Island. April 8-12, 2012.

Colby Moore
Sponsor: Dr. Stephen Trumble

"Histological Investigation of the 'Slip' in Marine Mammal Tracheas"
19th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals
Tampa, Florida. November 27-December 2, 2011.

Darrel Murray
Sponsor: Dr. Joseph D. White

"Growth Response of a Deciduous Oak Speceis to Drought and Fire"
Southwest Fire Ecology Conference
Santa Fe, New Mexico. February 27-March 1, 2012.

Tracy Pinney
Sponsor: Dr. Kevin Gutzwiller

"Investigating Niche and Neutral Processess in Bird Community Assembly:
Regression with Spatial Eigenvectors can be more Informative than Regression on Distance Matrices"

Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting
Austin, Texas. August 7-12, 2011.

Tracy Pinney
Sponsor: Dr. Kevin Gutzwiller

"Investigating Niche and Neutral Processess in Bird Community Assembly:
Implications of Interannual Variation on Community Assembly Processes"

International Association of Landscape Ecology Regional Meeting
Newport, Rhode Island. April 8-12, 2012.

Jesse Ray
Sponsor: Dr. Ryan King

"Genetic Analysis of Riverine Largemouth Bass Reveals
Watershed Scale Impact of Florida Bass Stocking"

Society for Freshwater Fish
Louisville, Kentucky. May 20-24, 2012.

Rebel Sanders
Sponsor: Dr. Stephen Trumble

"Stress Response Associated with Hatchery Conditions in Developing Chum Salmon"
American Fisheries Society 141st Annual Meeting
Seattle, Washington. September 4-8, 2011.

Moncie Wright
Sponsor: Dr. Ryan King

"Microhabitat Use, Effects on Aggression, and
Aggressive Behavior of Rusty, Virile, and Allegheny Crayfish"

Society for Freshwater Science Annual Meeting
Louisville, Kentucky. May 20-24, 2011.

Kathy Young
Sponsor: Dr. Stephen Trumble

"Sphingolipid Ratios in Marine Mammal Skeletal Muscle Cell Membranes:
Protection from Oxidative Stress?"

19st Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals
Tampa, Florida. November 27-December 2, 2011.

Eun-Jeong Yu
Sponsor: Dr. Lee Myeongwoo

"βpat-3 Integrin is Involved in Regulation of CKI-1"
18th International C. Elegans Meeting
Los Angeles, California. June 22-26, 2011.

Biomedical Studies

Kristin Connors
Sponsor: Dr. Bryan Brooks

"Comparative Pharmaceutical Metabolism with Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus Mykiss) S9"
Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
Boston, Massachusetts. November 13-17, 2011.

Kristin Connors
Sponsor: Dr. Bryan Brooks

"Probabilistic Environmental Hazard Assessment of Implementing Green Chemistry Property Design Guidelines
to Reduce Acute and Chronic Aquatic Toxicity"

SETAC Europe
Berlin, Germany. May 20-24, 2012.

Mazhar Kanak
Sponsor: Dr. Bashoo Naziruddin

"Suppression of Instant Blood Mediated Inflammatory Reaction by NFkB Blockade"
Rachmiel Levine Symposium
Duarte, California. February 14-18, 2012.

Mieke Lahousse
Sponsor: Dr. Sung-Kun Kim

"Development of ssDNA Aptamers that Bind to Lethal Factor with High Affinity and Specificity"
Southwest Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society
Austin, Texas. November 9-12, 2011.

Jeffrey SoRelle
Sponsor: Dr. Bashoo Naziruddin

"Withaferin A Inhibits NF-kB in Beta Cells and Protects Inflammatory Damage to Transplanted Islets"
13th World Congress of the International Pancreas and Islet Transplant Association
Prague, Czech Republic. June 1-4, 2011.

Crystal Usenko
Sponsor: Dr. Erica Bruce

"Investigation of oxidative stress as a mechanism for
PBDE disruption of neurodevelopment"

Society of Toxicology
San Francisco, California. March 11-15, 2012.

Te-Chia Wu
Sponsor: Dr. Karolina Palucka

"Reprogramming the Immune Environment in Breast Cancer via Dendritic Cells"
Tumor Microenvironment Complexity: Emerging Roles in Cancer Therapy
Orlando, Florida. November 3-6, 2011.

Kangling Xu
Sponsor: Dr. Karolina Palucka

"Cancer Cells/Dendritc Cells Crosstalk Induce TSLP Production in Breast Cancer Microenvironment"
Tumor Microenvironment Complexity: Emerging Roles in Cancer Therapy
Orlando, Florida. November 3-6, 2011.

Business Administration

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Jenny Barroso
Sponsor: Dr. Carlos Manzanares

"C-H Fundamental and Overtone Spectroscopy, Ab Initio Calculations of Molecular Geometry,
High Vibrational Energy Levels and Intensities of (CH3)3C-C=C-H"

67th Southwest Regional American Chemistry Society Meeting
Austin, Texas. Novemver 9-12, 2011.

Matthew Byrd
Sponsor: Dr. Bob Kane

"Design, Synthesis, and Evaluation of Toll-like Receptor 7 Ligands"
67th American Chemical Society Southwestern Regional Meeting
Austin, Texas. November 9-12, 2011.

David Camejo
Sponsor: Dr. Carlos Manzanares

"Laboratory Study of Titan's Lakes: Spectroscopy and Solubility of Benzene in
Liquid Methane and Ethane"

67th American Chemical Society Southwest Regional Meeting
Austin, Texas. November 9-12, 2011.

Gustavo Chavarria
Sponsor: Dr. Bob Kane

"Thiosemicarbazones as Low Nanomolar Inhibitors of Cruzain"
67th American Chemical Society Southwestern Regional Meeting
Austin, Texas. November 9-12, 2011.

Gustavo Chavarria
Sponsor: Dr. Mary Lynn Trawick

"Kinetic analysis and antitumor activity of thiosemicarbazone benzophenone inhibitors of cathepsin L"
Experimental Biology EB 2012
San Diego, California. April 21-25, 2012.

John Gillis
Sponsor: Dr. Darrin Bellert

"Determination of Reaction Rate Constants in the Ni+- Mediated Dissociation of Diethyl Ether in the Gas-Phase"
6767th American Chemical Society Southwest Regional Meeting
Austin, Texas. November 9-12, 2011.

Dana Horgen
Sponsor: Dr. Charles Garner

"C2-symmetric Phosphinine and Phosphabarrelene Ligands"
National Organic Symposium
Princeton, New Jersey. June 5-9, 2011.

Ivanna Laboren
Sponsor: Dr. Darrin Bellert

"Unimolecular Reaction Rate Constant and the Mechanistic Detail of the
Ni+-Mediated Dissociation Reaction of the C-C s-bond in Butanone"

67th American Chemical Society Southwest Regional Meeting
Austin, Texas. November 9-12, 2011.

Daniel Padron
Sponsor: Dr. Kevin Klausmeyer

"Syntheses and Coordination Studies of Pyridylphosphine Oxide Ligands Towards Ag(I)"
67th American Chemical Society Southwest Regional Meeting
Austin, Texas. November 10-12, 2011.

Sara Schlesinger
Sponsor: Dr. Sung-Kun Kim

Purification, Characterization, and Inhibitor Investigation Against the Zinc-Dependent
Metallo-B-Lactamase from Bacillus Anthracis"

242nd American Chemical Society National Meeting and Exposition
Denver, Colorado. August 28-September 1, 2011.

Amanda Sevcik
Sponsor: Dr. Mary Lynn Trawick

"Advanced Kinetic Studies of Non-Peptidic, Small Molecular
Thiosemicarbazone Inhibitors of Cathepsin B"

67th American Chemistry Society Southwest Regional Meeting
Austin, Texas. November 9-12, 2011.

p>Amanda Sevcik
Sponsor: Dr. Mary Lynn Trawick

"Study of Potent Small-Molecule Benzosuberene Anti-Cancer Agent Agent"
Experimental Biology EB 2012
San Diego, California. April 21-25, 2012.

Richard Sevcik
Sponsor: Dr. Kevin Chambliss

"Evaluation of On-line SPE in the Analysis of Fermentable Sugars in Biomass"
International Ion Chromatography Symposium
Providence, Rhode Island. October 16-19, 2011.

Bikram Subedi
Sponsor: Dr. Sascha Usenko

"Novel High Throughput Pressurized Liquid Solid Phase Extration Technique Capable of
Analyzing Polychlorodibenzo-p-Dioxins, Polychlorodibenzo-p-Furans and Polychlorobiphenyls in Fish Tissue"

242nd American Chemical Society National Meeting
Denver, Colorado. August 28-September 1, 2011.

Bikram Subedi
Sponsor: Dr. Sascha Usenko

"Analysis of Polychlorinated Dioxins, Furans, and Polychloro Byphenyls
in Fish, Clams, and Crabs from Houston Shipping Channel, TX"

Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
Boston, Massachusetts. November 12-18, 2011.

Bikram Subedi
Sponsor: Dr. Sascha Usenko

"Polychlorodioxins, furans, and byphenyls in fish, clams, and crabs
from the San Jacinto River Waste Pits, TX"

Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry - Europe
Berlin, Germany. May 20-25, 2012.

Justin Tidmore
Sponsor: Dr. Mary Lynn Trawick

"The effect of bezosuberene analogues on endothelial cell morphology and tube formation"
Experimental Biology EB 2012
San Diego, California. April 21-25, 2012.

Nelson van der Velde
Sponsor: Dr. Charles Garner

"Synthesis of New Chiral Pyrylium Salts with C-1 Symmetry"
242nd American Chemical Society National Meeting
Denver, Colorado. August 28-September 1, 2011.

Nelson van der Velde
Sponsor: Dr. Charles Garner

"Epimerization of Chiral Centers Alpha to a Pyrylium Salt Ring"
67th American Chemical Society Southwest Regional Meeting
Austin, Texas. November 9-12, 2011.

Ostmar J. Villarroel
Sponsor: Dr. Darrin Bellert

"Co-Assisted Decomposition of h6-Acetone and d6-Acetone into CoCO and Ethane"
67th American Chemical Society Southwest Regional Meeting
Austin, Texas. November 9-12, 2011.

Church-State Studies

Lauren Tapley
Sponsor: Dr. William Mitchell

"Leonid Brezhnev's Shift in Religion Policy"
Southern conference for Slavic Studies
Savannah, Georgia. March 29-31, 2012.

Miranda Zapor
Sponsor: Dr. Bill Mitchell

"Sajudis and the Lithuanian Catholic Church"
Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies 2012 Conference
Chicago, Illinois. April 26-28, 2012.

Aaron Weaver
Sponsor: Dr. Lenore Wright

"Evangelical Protestants vs. Mainline Protestants:
An Analysis of the Environmentalisms of Southern Baptists and American Baptists"

Southwest Commission on Religious Studies
Irving, Texas. March 9-11, 2012.

Aaron Weaver
Sponsor: Dr. Lenore Wright

"Religious Liberty, Gay Rights and Religious Exemptions:
An Examination of Religious Responses to Sexual Orientation Regulations in Great Britain"

Western Social Science Association
Houston, Texas. April 11-14,2012.

Zhifeng Zhong
Sponsor: Dr. William A. Mitchell

"Bring Religion Back to the Researches on Social Policy and Social Management"
Social Policy and Social Management Innovations
Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. August 26-28, 2011.

Communication Sciences & Disorders

Communication Studies

Grant Hall
Sponsor: Dr. David Schlueter

"A.C.E. Student Editing Competition Finalist"
A.C.E. Eddie Awards
Beverly Hills, California. February 16-18, 2012.


Jeff Kurr
Sponsor: Dr. Scott Varda

"Strategic Maneuvering Underlying the Rhetorical Frame of
Economic Nationalism in Security-Driven Presidential Rhetoric"

National Communication Association 97th Annual Convention
New Orleans, Louisiana. November 17-20, 2011.


Alex McVey
Sponsor: Dr. Scott Varda

"Top Grad Student Paper in Rhetorical Theory:
Infancy, History, and the Rhetorical Situation:
Toward an Agambenian Critique of Rhetorical Theory;
African American Communication and Culture Division:
Signifying the Voice of Post-Katrina New Orleans:
Lil Wayne's 'Tie My Hands' and the Rhetoric of Hip-Hop"

National Communication Association 97th Annual Convention
New Orleans, Louisiana. November 17-20, 2011.


Bob Oei
Sponsor: Dr. Chris Hansen

"The Auteur... Michael Bay? A Critical Look at Sarris' Auteur Theory"
Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference
Boston, Massachusetts. April 11-14, 2012.

Sarah Prisk
Sponsor: Dr. David Schlueter

"Re-examining Rosie the Riveter:
A Closer Look at the Culture Surrounding J. Howard Miller's 'We Can Do It!' Poster"

Far West Popular Culture Association 24th Annual Meeting
Las Vegas. February 24-26, 2012.


Heather Woods
Sponsor: Dr. Leslie Hahner

"Top Graduate Student Paper: Death Nell for President:
Competing masculine and feminie gazes in Sex and Death 101
and Sarah Palin and the rhetoric of motherhood: Employing narrative to legitimize pro-life advocacies"

New Voices, New Perspectives Student Research Conference
Denton, Texas. March 9-10, 2012.

Curriculum & Instruction

Amanda Atkinson
Sponsor: Dr. Betty Conaway

"Anchoring the Doctoral Candidate:
Supporting the Transition from Student to Professional"

School Association of Teacher Educators
San Antonio, Texas. February 11-15, 2012

Christina Crenshaw
Sponsor: Dr. Gretchen Schwarz

"Teaching for Transformation: How are Christian Colleges Equipping
Teacher Candidates to Become Agents of Change with a Biblical Worldview"

Baylor Symposium on Faith and Culture
Waco, Texas. October 27-29, 2011.


Erin Dixon
Sponsor: Dr. Betty Conaway

"Anchoring the Doctoral Candidate:
Supporting the Transition from Student to Professional"

School Association of Teacher Educators
San Antonio, Texas. February 11-15, 2012

Aiyana Henry
Sponsor: Dr. Betty Conaway

"ABD: Now What?"
and
"Anchoring the Doctoral Candidate:
Supporting the Transition from Student to Professional"

School Association of Teacher Educators
San Antonio, Texas. February 11-15, 2012

Aiyana Henry
Sponsor: Dr. Larry Browning

"Coaching, reflection, and metacognition:
A new way of fostering independent learning for pre-service
teachers while in a PDS setting. "

National Association of Professional Development Schools
Las Vegas, Nevada. March 8-11, 2012.

Dittika Gupta
Sponsor: Dr. Troma Wilkerson

"An Examination of Teaching Models: Exploring Elementary Students Fractional Understanding"
School Science and Mathematics Association
Colorado Springs, Colorado. November 10-13, 2011.

Dittika Gupta
Sponsor: Dr. Betty Conaway

"Anchoring the Doctoral Candidate:
Supporting the Transition from Student to Professional"

School Association of Teacher Educators
San Antonio, Texas. February 11-15, 2012

Jessica Meehan
Sponsor: Dr. Tony Talbert

"ABD: Now What!"
Association of Teacher Educators Annual Meeting
San Antonio, Texas. February 11-15, 2012.

Jessica Meehan
Sponsor: Dr. Tony Talbert

"Castaneda vs. Pickard: The Story of One Family's Struggle for an Equitable Education"
National Association for Bilingual Education 2012 Conference
Dallas, Texas. February 15-17, 2012.

Adeline Meira
Sponsor: Dr. Chris Rios

"Using Web 2.0 Tools and Mobile Augmented Reality in Your GSA"
National Association of Graduate and Professional Students
Boulder, Colorado. October 27-30, 2011.

Brandon Moore
Sponsor: Dr. Tony Talbert

"The Brazos Agency Indian School:
A Lone School in Violent Times"

Organization of Educational Historians
Chicago, Illinois. October 7-8, 2011.

Brandon Moore
Sponsor: Dr. Karon LeCompte

"'iCivics in Action: A Six-Week Study';'Truth in Text: Emphasis on Religion in American and World History Textbooks'(poster presentation);'20 Ideas You Can Plug into Your Classroom Next Week: Best Practices'(teacher workshop)"
The International Society for Social Studies Annual Conference
Orlando, Florida. March 1-2, 2012.

Patty Nelson
Sponsor: Dr. Betty Conaway

"Anchoring the Doctoral Candidate:
Supporting the Transition from Student to Professional"

School Association of Teacher Educators
San Antonio, Texas. February 11-15, 2012

Brandi Ray
Sponsor: Dr. Randy Wood

"Preparing Students for College and Keeping Them in College through the
Implementation of an Engaged Learning Group"

Consortium of State Organizations for Texas Teacher Education
Corpus Christi, Texas. October 23-25, 2011.

Brandi Ray
Sponsor: Dr. Betty Conaway

"Anchoring the Doctoral Candidate:
Supporting the Transition from Student to Professional"

School Association of Teacher Educators
San Antonio, Texas. February 11-15, 2012

James Rodgers
Sponsor: Dr. Wesley Null

"From Backboards to Blackboards:
An Examination of the Impact College Basketball has had on the Modern University"

Organization of Education Historians Annual Conference
Chicago, Illinios. October 6-8, 2011.


Agnes Tang
Sponsor: Dr. Betty Conaway

Anchoring the Doctoral Candidate:
Supporting the Transition from Student to Professional

School Association of Teacher Educators
San Antonio, Texas. February 11-15, 2012.

Jason Trumble
Sponsor: Dr. Betty Conaway

Anchoring the Doctoral Candidate:
Supporting the Transition from Student to Professional

School Association of Teacher Educators
San Antonio, Texas. February 11-15, 2012.

Sunny Wells
Sponsor: Dr. Karon LeCompte

"Just Say No:
Acts of Dissenting Citizenship"

National Council for the Social Studies
Washington D.C. November 30-December 3, 2011.

Ellen Wiech
Sponsor: Dr. Sandi Cooper

"Using Technological Probes to Enhance Mathematical Learning in Early Grades"
NCTM 2012 Annual Meeting and Exposition
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. April 25-28, 2012.

Anne Zandstra
Sponsor: Dr. Sandi Cooper

"Impact of an Informal Science Program on Students' Science Knowledge and Interest"
School Science and Mathematics
Colorado Springs, Colorado. November 10-12, 2011.

Anne Zandstra
Sponsor: Dr. Betty Conaway

Anchoring the Doctoral Candidate:
Supporting the Transition from Student to Professional

School Association of Teacher Educators
San Antonio, Texas. February 11-15, 2012

Ecological, Earth & Environmental Sciences

Lissette Aguilar
Sponsor: Dr. Sascha Usenko

"Trace Analysis of Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products in Large-Volume
Aqueous Samples"

Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry North America Focus Topic Meeting
Merida, Mexico. August 23-27, 2011.

Lissette Aguilar
Sponsor: Dr. Sascha Usenko

"Enhanced Pressurized Liquid Extraction Technique for
Dioxins, Furans, and Dioxin-like PCBs from Sediments"

Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry North America 32nd Annual Meeting
Boston, Massachusetts. November 13-17, 2011.

Bowen Du
Sponsor: Dr. Bryan Brooks

"Analysis and Accumulation of Diphenhydramine in Pimephales Promelas"
3rd International Conference of Occurrence, Fate, Effects
and Analysis of Emerging Contaminants in the Environment
Copenhagen, Denmark. August 23-26, 2011.

Bowen Du
Sponsor: Dr. Bryan Brooks

"Comparative Analysis of Contaminant of Emerging Concern Discharges from a
Centralized Municipal Treatment Plant and On-Site Wastewater Treatment
Systems Receiving Common Wastewater Influent"

SETAC Europe 22nd Annual Meeting
Berlin, Germany. May 20-24, 2012.

Eleanor Robinson
Sponsor: Dr. Sascha Usenko

"Using Whale Earwas Plugs as a Matrix for Reconstructing
Contaminant Profiles in a Marine Ecosystem"

Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 32nd Annual Meeting
Boston, Massachusetts. November 13-17, 2011.

Jian Yao
Sponsor: Dr. Joseph D. White

"Fire Disturbance Impacts on Woodlands Dynamics"
Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting
Austin, Texas. August 8-12, 2011.

Educational Administration

Ah Ra Cho
Sponsor: Dr. Rishi Sriram

"Findings from the National Survey of Student Affairs Professionals"
National Association for Student Personnel Administrators
Phoenix, Arizona. March 10-14, 2012. 

Leah Smith
Sponsor: Dr. Rishi Sriram

"It is All About the Money: Personal Finances"
National Conference for College Women Student Leaders
College Park, Maryland. June 2-4, 2011. 

Erin Stamile
Sponsor: Dr. Laine Scales

"Growing Green:
Cultivating Graduate Students through Gardens"

National Association for Student Personnel Administrators
Phoenix, Arizona. March 10-14, 2012. 

Educational Psychology

Krisann Christian
Sponsor: Dr. Tonya Davis

"The Effectiveness of Weighted Vests to Reduce Aggressive and Self-Injurious Behaviors"
Association of Behavior Analysis International
Seattle, Washington. May 25-29, 2012.


Krisann Christian
Sponsor: Dr. Julie Ivey-Hatz

"Autism Extreme Camps:
Self-Efficacy, Self-Perceptions Behavior Assessments for Youth"

National Association of School Psychology Annual Conference
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. February 21-24, 2012.


Laura Coviello
Sponsor: Dr. Tonya N. Davis

"Reduction of Automatically-Maintained Self-Injurious Behavior Utilizing a Topographically Similar Replacement Behavior"
ABAI 2012 Annual Convention
Seattle, Washington. May 24-29, 2012.


Aaron Baggett
Sponsor: Dr. Tanya Davis

"An Examination of Purpose in Life and Motivation among Division I Student-Athletes"
Southwest Educational Research Association
New Orleans, Louisiana. February 1-3, 2012.


Sarah Carter
Sponsor: Dr. Tamara Hodges

"Against All Odds:
Transitioning Students with Disabilities to College"

National Association of School Psychologists Annual Convention
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. February 21-24, 2012.


Danielle Fearon
Sponsor: Dr. Terrill Saxon

"Creativity within the Famiy:
Evidence from Sibling Data in Jamaica"

Southwest Educational Research Association
New Orleans, Louisiana. February 1-3, 2012.


Karen Frederick
Sponsor: Dr. Julie Ivey-Hatz

"Understanding the Impact of Equine-Assisted Counseling on At-Risk Youth"
Southwest Educational Research Association
New Orleans, Louisiana. February 1-3, 2012.


Megan Haggard
Sponsor: Dr. Wade C. Rowatt

"Buddhist Priming Effects on Attitudes in a Christian Sample"
Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology
San Diego, California. January 26-29, 2012.


Xiao Qiu
Sponsor: Dr. Alexander Beaujean

"The Relationship Between Cognitive Ablility and Depression:
A Longitudial Study"

TPA Annual Convention: The Individual in Context
San Antonio, Texas. November 17-19, 2011.


Kelsey Ragan
Sponsor: Dr. Tamara Hodges

"Against All Odds:
Transitioning Students with Disabilities to College"

National Association of School Psychologists Annual Convention
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. February 21-24, 2012.


Tracey Sulak
Sponsor: Dr. Terrill Saxon

"Understanding the Impact of Equine-Assisted Counseling on At-Risk Youth"
Southwest Educational Research Association
New Orleans, Louisiana. February 1-3, 2012.


Mary Walter
Sponsor: Dr. Julie Ivey-Hatz

"Autism Extreme Camps:
Self-Efficacy, Self-Perceptions, Behavior Assessments for Youth"

National Association of School Psychology Annual Convention
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. February 21-24, 2012.


Mary Walter
Sponsor: Dr. Tonya Davis

"Latency Functional Analysis of Elopement"
Applied Behavior Analysis International Annual Conference
Seattle, Washington. May 25-29, 2012.


Engineering

Mohammadreza Abedi
Sponsor: Dr. Ben Song

"Nonlinear-Model Predictive Control Based Bidirectional Converter for V2G Battery Charger Application"
Vehicle Power and Propulsion Conference
Chicago, Illinois. September 6-9, 2011.

Winston Ewert
Sponsor: Dr. Robert J. Marks, II

"Tierra: The Character of Adaptation"
Biological Information: New Perspectives
Ithaca, New York. May 30-June 3, 2011. 

George Montanez
Sponsor: Dr. Robert J. Marks, II

"Multiple Overlapping Genetic Codes Profoundly Reduce the Probability of Beneficial Mutation"
Biological Information: New Perspectives
Ithaca, New York. May 30-June 3, 2011. 

Theresa Vo
Sponsor: Dr. David Jack

"Failure of Laminated Carbon Fiber Composites"
Early Career Technical Conference
Baton Rouge, Louisiana. March 29-31, 2012.

English

Sarah Aspen
Sponsor: Dr. Ron Thomas

Slanguages: Bilingual Development in Jose Antonio Villarreal's Poncho"
South Central Modern Language Association
Hot Springs, Arkansas. October 27-29, 2011.

Sarah Aspen
Sponsor: Dr. Richard Russell

"'We Can't Go on Killing Each Other':
Embodied Anti-Violence Rhetoric in Bernard MacLaverty's
Secrets and Other Stories"
South Central Modern Language Association
Hot Springs, Arkansas. October 27-29, 2011.

DeAnn Barta
Sponsor: Dr. Mary L. Klingman

"Hope for Hollywood:
Transcendent Longing in Contemporary Film"

Paradigms of Hope: Transcending Chaos and Transforming Culture
Oxford and Cambridge, England, UK. July 26-August 3, 2011.

Jeffrey Bilbro
Sponsor: Dr. Joe Fulton

"Preserving 'God's Wildness' for Redemptive Baptism:
John Muir and the Disciples of Christ"

Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment
Bloomington, Indiana. June 21-24, 2011.

Christina Boyles
Sponsor: Dr. James Barcus

"Many Speakers, One Tale: Analyzing the Role of Parables in Cormac McCarthy's The Road"
CCL Festival on Faith and Writing
Grand Rapids, Michigan. April 18-20, 2012.

David Clark
Sponsor: Dr. Thomas Hanks

"Constructing the Medieval Short Story:
Caxton's Edition of the Morte Darthur"

South Central Modern Language Association
Hot Springs, Arkansas. October 27-29, 2011.

Sarah Clark
Sponsor: Dr. Richard Russell

"Making Space in the Big House:
Space and Identity in Elizabeth Bowen's The Last September"

American Conference for Irish Studies
New Orleans, Louisiana. March 14-17, 2012.

Christy Davis
Sponsor: Dr. Thomas Hanks

"The Evil Side of Sexuality"
Children's Literature Association Conference
Roanoke, Virginia. June 23-26, 2011.

Lanta Davis
Sponsor: Dr. Luke Ferretter

"'This Confession has Meant Nothing' or Something:
Confession in Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho"

Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association
Scottsdale, Arizona. October 6-8, 2011.

Lanta Davis
Sponsor: Dr. Richard Russell

"The Modern Transformation of Witness, Penance, and
Atonement in Ian McEwan's Atonement"

Christianity and Literature Wetern Regional Conference
Seattle, Washington. May 24-25, 2012.

Rachel De Smith
Sponsor: Dr. Maurice Hunt

"'Awake Thou That Sleepest': Perilous Sleep in the Faerie Queen"
Northern Plains Conference on Early British Literature
Aberdeen, South Dakota. April 13-14, 2012.

Elizabeth Fredericks
Sponsor: Dr. Lisa Shaver

"'We Believe in Our Disbelief':
The Postmodern Liturgy of R.S. Thomas's 'Mass for Hard Times'"

CCL Western: Belief and Unbelief in Postmodern Literature
Seattle, Washington. May 24-27, 2012.

Robert Hamilton
Sponsor: Dr. Luke Fetterer

"'What Keeps us Waiting (Forever)'
Nothingness, Catalogue, and Deferral in the Short Fiction of Donald Barthelme"

South Central Modern Language Association
Hot Springs, Arkansas. October 27-29, 2011.

Christina Iluzada
Sponsor: Dr. Joe Fulton

"How Glorious a Conversion:
Milton's Paradise Lost and John Muir's Conception of Nature and Religion"

Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment
Bloomington, Indiana. June 21-22, 2011.

Christina Iluzada
Sponsor: Dr. Thomas Hanks

"A Lover, A Thinker, A Rhetorician:
Chaucer's Schemes of Repetition in Troilus's Speeches"

Texas Medieval Association
Waco, Texas. September 29-October 1, 2011.

Nathan Kilpatrick
Sponsor: Dr. Corretta Pittman

"Historical Fiction and the Interrogation of Public Virtue in Ron Hansen's the Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford"
The Conference on Christianity and Literature's Midwest Regional Meeting
Grand Rapids, Michigan. April 18-21, 2012.

John Kloosterman
Sponsor: Dr. Lisa Shaver

"Power Plays"
Midwestern Conference for Language, Literature, and Media
Chicago, Illinois. March 30-April 1, 2012.

Jeremy Leatham
Sponsor: Dr. James Barcus

"Deception of the Journey Complete:
The Postmodern Search for Truth in The Crossing"

Conference on Christianity and Literature, Western Regional Meeting
Seattle, Washington. May 24-25,2012.

Adam Marshall
Sponsor: Dr. Ron Thomas

"Carrying the Fire in a Post-Apocalypic World:
Communities of Goodness in The Road and The Book of Eli"

Southwest Conference on Christianity and Literature
Abilene, Texas. September 29-October 1, 2011.

Adam Marshall
Sponsor: Dr. Robert Ray

"'To Ask Right Things Rightly': The Prayer-Texts of John Donne"
Midwest Conference on Christianity and Literature/
Festival of Faith and Writing
Grand Rapids, Michigan. April 18-21, 2012.

Michael Milburn
Sponsor: Dr. James Barcus

"'Dominican Tolkien':
Realism and Fantasy in Junot Díaz's 'The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao'"

The Mythopoeic Society Conference (Mythcon 42)
Albuquerque, New Mexico. July 15-18, 2011.

John Cameron Moore
Sponsor: Dr. Richard Russell

"Catherine McKenna's Eucharistic Art:
Transubstantiation, Form, and Art in Bernard MacLaverty's Grace Notes"

Conference on Christianity and Literature Midwest Regional Meeting
Grand Rapids, Michigan. April 18-20, 2012.

John Cameron Moore
Sponsor: Dr. Ralph Wood

"'Take Away the Supernatural and What Remains is the Unnatural:'
The Secularizing Visions of G.K. Chesterton's Villians"

C.S. Lewis and Friends Colloquium
Upland, Indiana. May 31-June 2, 2012.

Dustin Morrow
Sponsor: Dr. Ronald Thomas

"'Up Against the Wrong Man', or Johnny Cash, Steve Earle and
The Life of John Wesley Hardin as Told by himself"

South Central Modern Language Assciation
Hot Springs, Arkansas. October 27-30, 2011.

Dustin Morrow
Sponsor: Dr. Ronald Thomas

"En La Frontera de Las Mujeres: New Chicana Consciousness in Cisneros' Caramelo"
College English Association
Richmond, Virgina. March 29-31, 2012.

Julie Ooms
Sponsor: Dr. Luke Ferretter

"'A Good Artist or a Good Soldier': F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Creation of Self as Artist in an Era of War"
Joint Midwest Conference on Christianity and Literature
Grand Rapids, Michigan. April 18-20, 2012.

Courtney Parker
Sponsor: Dr. Richard Rankin Russell

"M.T. Anderson's Feed and the Linguistic Situation of Tomorrow"
Children's Literature Association Conference
Roanoke, Virginia. June 23-26, 2011.

Courtney Parker
Sponsor: Dr. Richard Rankin Russell

"Documentary Drama in Friel's Faith Healer and Molly Sweeney"
American Conference of Irish Studies
New Orleans, Louisiana. March 14-18, 2012.

Steven Petersheim
Sponsor: Dr. Joe Fulton

"Poetics of Art and Nature in Hawthorne's New Eden"
South Atlantic Modern Language Association
Atlanta, Georgia. November 4-6, 2011.

Ingrid Pierce
Sponsor: Dr. Lisa Shaver

"Rooted in Place:
The Ethos of Wendell Berry"

Conference on Christianity and Literature
Seattle, Washington. May 24-25, 2012.

Rachel Pietka
Sponsor: Dr. Sarah Ford

"There is No Me Like My Statue: Life and Text
in Zora Neale Hurston's Dust Tracks on a Road"

Pacific Modern Language Association
Claremount, California. November 5-6, 2011.

Amy Schroeder
Sponsor: Dr. Dolan

"Cycles in Nature, Cycles in Prayer: Belief and Unbelief in the Wild Iris"
CCL Western Conference 2012
Seattle, Washinton. May 23-25, 2012.


Margy Thomas
Sponsor: Dr. Sarah Ford

"'Irretrievably bewildered'?: Edgar Huntly and the Cognitive Mapping of America"
Reconceptualizing Cartography: Space-Time Compression and Narrative Mapping
Tampa, Florida. April 13-14, 2012.

James Watson
Sponsor: Dr. James E. Barcus

"Sacramental Existentialism:
The Catholic Grammar of Metaphysical Grace in Cormac McCarthy's Suttree"

South Central Modern Language Association
Hot Springs, Arkansas. October 26-28, 2011.

James Watson
Sponsor: Dr. Luke Ferretter

"'Let's Translate Brett to the Hotel':
Relics, Sacraments, and Sacramentals Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises"

Conference on Christianity and Literature
Seattle, Washington. May 23-27, 2012.


Danielle Williams
Sponsor: Dr. Coretta Pittman

"Naming the Unnamed: Reframing the Cultural Politics of Sexuality at Faith-Based Universities"
2012 Conference of the Rhetoric Society of America
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. May 25-28, 2012.


Ryan Womack
Sponsor: Dr. James E. Barcus

"Doctors, Deities, and Determinism in Ian McEwan's Saturday"
Conference on Christianity and Literature
Seattle, Washington. May 24-25, 2012.

Ryan Womack
Sponsor: Dr. Dan Walden

"Matther Carey, Man of Letters, Catholic: Print and Popery in the Early Republic"
Purdue Early American Reading Group
West Lafayette, Indiana. April 5-6, 2012.

Environmental Science

Krista Prosser
Sponsor: Dr. Bryan Brooks

"Lowering pH Mitigates Harmful Bloom Formation of Prymnesium Parvum
During a Limnocorral Study in Lake Granbury, TX, USA"

Sixth Symposium on Harmful Algae in the United States
Austin, Texas. November 13-18, 2011.

Geology

Curtis Barclay
Sponsor: Dr. Stacy Atchley

"Regional Reservoir Characterization and Exploration Assessment of the
Late Devonian Jean Marie Formation, Northern British Columbia"

American Association of Petroleum Geologists
Long Beach, California. April 22-25, 2012.

Rickey Bartlett
Sponsor: Dr. Stephen Driese

"The Paleoecology of the Coconino Sandstone"
Geological Society of America Annual Meeting
Minneapolis, Minnesota. October 9-12, 2011.

Emily Beverly
Sponsor: Dr. Stephen Driese

"High-Resolution Paleonclimatic Reconstruction of a Pelistocene Catena using
Paleopedology and Geochemistry of Lake Margin Paleo-Vertisols, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania"

Geological Society of America Annual Meeting
Minneapolis, Minnesota. October 9-12, 2011.

Ryan Dhillon
Sponsor: Dr. Stephen Driese

"Influence of Climate and the Expansion of C4 Grasses on Sequence-Scale Cyclicity and
Landscape Development during the Late Miocene to Pleistocene of West Texas"

Geological Society of America Annual Meeting
Minneapolis, Minnesota. October 8-12, 2011.

Garrett Felda
Sponsor: Dr. Stephen Driese

"Development of a 3-Dimensional Sequence Stratigraphic Model for the
Late Triassic (Norian) Owl Rock Member Located at Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona:
A Reconstruction of Paleodepositional Environments and Paleoclimatic Conditions."

Geological Society of America Annual Meeting
Minneapolis, Minnesota. October 9-12, 2011.

Laura Foss
Sponsor: Dr. Joe C. Yelderman

"Groundwater Management to Prevent Saltwater Encroachment, Hacienda Baru Costa Rica"
Geological Society of America Annual Meeting
Minneapolis, Minnesota. October 9-12, 2011.

Rixiang Huang
Sponsor: Dr. Boris Lau

"Surface-Directed Mineralization of Calcium Phosphate:
Effects of Solution Composition and Surface Properties"

Material Research Society Fall Meeting
Boston, Massachusetts. November 28-December 2, 2011.

Casee Lemons
Sponsor: Dr. Stephen Driese

"Are Modern Fern Leaf Economics Coherent Enough to Use as a Proxy for Fossil Interpretations?"
Geological Society of America Annual Meeting
Minneapolis, Minnesota. October 7-12, 2011.

Holly Meier
Sponsor: Dr. Stephen Driese

"Interpretation of Dynamic Late Quaternary Climate and Landscape Variability Based upon Paleosol Macro- and
Micromorphology and Stable Isotopes of Soil Organic Matter, Owl Creek, Central Texas"

Geological Society of America Annual Meeting
Minneapolis, Minnesota. October 9-12, 2011.

Lauren Michel
Sponsor: Dr. Stephen Driese

"Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction of Early Miocene Catarrhine Localities
Using Fossin Forest Paleosols from Rusinga Island, Lake Victoria, Kenya"

Geological Society of America Annual Meeting
Minneapolis, Minnesota. October 9-12, 2011.

Hallie Mintz
Sponsor: Dr. Jay Pulliam

"Seismic Anisotropy beneath the NE Caribbean:
Implications for the Subducting North American Lithosphere"

University of Puerto Rico Annual Symposium: Caribbean Geology
Mayguez, Puerto Rico. October 13-14, 2011.

Hallie Mintz
Sponsor: Dr. Jay Pulliam

"Motion Under the Ocean:
Determining Mantle Flow of the Northeast Caribbean with Seismic Anisotropy"

American Geophysical Union
San Francisco, California. December 4-9, 2011.

Ryan Morgan
Sponsor: Dr. Stephen Driese

"Paleobiographic and Paleoecologic Associations among Missippian Bryozoans"
Geological Society of America Annual Meeting
Minneapolis, Minnesota. October 9-12, 2011.

Gary Stinchcomb
Sponsor: Dr. Stephen Driese

"The Climatic and Human Controls on the Carbon Isotopic
Composition of Soil Organic Matter"

Geological Society of America Annual Meeting
Minneapolis, Minnesota. October 7-13, 2011.

Gary Stinchcomb
Sponsor: Dr. Daniel J. Peppe

"Time as an Important Soil Forming Factor Influencing Modern and
Ancient Magnetic Susceptibility Along the Delaware River Valley, USA"

American Geophysical Union 2011 National Meeting
San Francisco, California. December 5-8, 2011.

Aislyn Trendell
Sponsor: Dr. Stacy Atchley

"Fluvial Systems in the Rock Record:
Late Triassic Chinle Formation at the Petrified Forest National Park"

American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Convention and Exhibition
Long Beach, California. April 22-25,2012.

Health, Human Performance & Recreation

Brandon Classen
Sponsor: Dr. Jeffery Petersen

"An Examination of Athletic and Academic Performance in BCS Football"
The Texas Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation
and Dance Annual Conference
Dallas, Texas. November 30- December 2, 2011.

Lauren DeLay
Sponsor: Dr. Marshall Magnusen

"Are We Compatible? Roles of Coaching Behaviors and
Athlete Gender in Strength Coach-Athlete Relationships"

College Sport Research Institute Conference
Chapel Hill, North Carolina. April 19-21, 2012.

Kimber Dillon
Sponsor: Dr. Renee Umstattd Meyer

"Physical Activity and Place Attachment:
A Pilot Study"

American Academy of Helath Behavior Annual Meeting
Austin, Texas. March 18-21, 2012.

Kimber Dillon
Sponsor: Dr. Eva Doyle

"Promoting Healthy Body Image and Healthy Behaviors among Brazilian Adolescent Females"
Society for Public Health Education
Arlington, Virginia. October 27-29, 2011.

Sunny Erfan
Sponsor: Dr. Jeffery Petersen

"Greening the Facilities 'Arms Race'"
CSRI Conference on College Sport
Chapel Hill, North Carolina. April 19-21, 2012.

Jonathan Evans
Sponsor: Dr. Mar Magnusen

"Are We Compatible? Roles of Coaching Behaviors and Athlete Gender in Strength Coach-Athlete Relationships"
CSRI Conference on College Sport
Chapel Hill, North Carolina. April 19-21, 2012.

Christopher Hannah
Sponsor: Dr. Jeffery Petersen

"An Examination of Athletic and Academic Performance in BCS Football"
TAHPERD Annual Convention
Dallas, Texas. December 1-4, 2011.

Derek Newman
Sponsor: Dr. Jeffery Petersen

"Facility Trends in Division I Tennis: Impacts upon Program Success"
CSRI Conference on College Sport
Chapel Hill, North Carolina. April 19-21, 2012.

Megan Patterson
Sponsor: Dr. Renee Umstattd Meyer

"Correlates of College Women Meeting Strength Training Recommendations:
Application of the Integrated Behavioral Model"

American Academy of Health Behavior
Austin, Texas. March 18-21, 2012.

Tiffany Rose
Sponsor: Dr. Renee Umstattd Meyer

"Using Health Behavior Theory to Explain Antiretroviral Therapy Adherence in HIV/AIDS Patients:
A Literature Review"

American Academy of Health Behavior
Austin, Texas. March 18-21, 2012.

Rhett Rigby
Sponsor: Dr. Joe Shim

"Comparing the Pelvis Kinematics of Able-Bodied Children
During Normal Gait and When Riding a Therapeutic Horse"

North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity
Burlington, Virginia. June 9-11, 2011.

Cindy Salazar
Sponsor: Dr. Renee Umstattd Meyer

"Physical Activity Availability, Access and Transportation
among Mexican-origin Women in Texas Border Colonias

American Academy of Helath Behavior Annual Meeting
Austin, Texas. March 18-21, 2012.

Mike Spillane
Sponsor: Dr. Daryn Willoughby

"Effects of 28 Days of Resistance Exercise while Consuming the Commercially Available Pre- and Post-Workout Supplements, NO-Shotgun and NO-Synthesize, on Body Composition, Muscle Mass and Performance, and Clinical Safety Markers in Men"
International Society of Sports Nutrition
Las Vegas, Nevada. June 23-25, 2011.

Lane Wakefield
Sponsor: Dr. Jeffrey Petersen

"Product and Marketing Factor Influence upon Student FBS Game Attendance"
9th Annual Conference of the Sport Marketing Association
Houston, Texas. October 26-29, 2011.

History

Robert DeBoard
Sponsor: Dr. Barry Hankins

"Milestones of Revival: The Islamist Rhetoric of Milestones"
Phi Alpha Theta Northeast Texas Region Regional Conference
Commerce, Texas. April 14, 2012.

Adina Johnson
Sponsor: Dr. Barry Hankins

"Religious and Political Thought of William Ewert Gladstone"
3rd Annual Texas A&M History Conference
College Station, Texas. February 24-25, 2012.

Katie Miles
Sponsor: Dr. Barry Hankins

"Protestantism in Latin American Dictatorships of the Twentieth Century:
Chile, Guatemala, and Nicaragua"

Southwest Commission on Religious Studies
Dallas, Texas. March 9-11, 2012.

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Information Systems

Patrick Curry
Sponsor: Dr. Timothy R. Kayworth

"Privacy and Security while Connected to Wi-Fi Hotspots"
Americas Conference on Information Systems
Detroit, Michigan. August 4-7, 2011.

Patrick Curry
Sponsor: Dr. Timothy Kayworth

"Social Encounters with Company Issued Mobile Devices"
Big XII+ Symposium
Richardson, Texas. March 30-April 2, 2012.

Janice Lo
Sponsor: Dr. Dorothy Leidner

"A Theory of Information Systems Strategy:
Antecedents and Perfomance Impacts through the Development of Dynamic Capabilities"

Americas Conference on Information Systems
Detroit, Michigan. August 3-7, 2011.

Janice Lo
Sponsor: Dr. Dorothy Leidner

"A Theory of Information Systems Strategy:
Antecedents and Perfomance Impacts through the Development of Dynamic Capabilities"

International Conference on Information Systems
Shanghai, China. November 30-December 7, 2011.

Rene Moquin
Sponsor: Dr. Timothy Kayworth

"The Unearthing of Reality in Social Identities: A Tale of IT Stigma"
Big XII+ Symposium
Richardson, Texas. March 30-April 2, 2012.

Journalism

Mathematics

Jose Franco
Sponsor: Dr. Mark Sepanski

"Global SL(2,R) Representations of the Schrodinger Equation"
Joint Mathematics Meeting
Boston, Massachusetts. January 4-7, 2012

Xueyan Liu
Sponsor: Dr. Johnny Henderson

"Existence of Positive Solutions of a Second Order Right Focal Boundary Value Problem"
Joint Mathematics Meetings
Boston, Massachusetts. January 3-7, 2012

Pedro Morales
Sponsor: Dr. Lance Littlejohn

"Team Lider"
Ibero-American Undergraduate Mathematical Competition
Quito, Ecuador. October 2-6, 2011.

Dylan Poulsen
Sponsor: Dr. John M. Davis

"On the Stability of Mu-Varying Dynamic Equations
on Stochastically Generated Time Scales"

Southeastern Symposium on Systems Theory
Jacksonville, Florida. March 11-13, 2012.

Shawn Sutherland
Sponsor: Dr. Johnny Henderson

"An nth Order Three-Point Singular BVP"
Southeastern Atlantic Regional Conference on Differential Equations 2011
Statesboro, Georgia. September 29-October 1, 2011.

Mechanical Engineering

Tim Burdett
Sponsor: Dr. K. W. Van Treuren

"Design Considerations, Performance Enhancing Techniques, and Wind Tunnel Testing for
Small-Scale Low Reynolds Number Wind Turbines"

International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition
Denver, Colorado. November 11-17, 2011.

Tim Burdett
Sponsor: Dr. K. W. Van Treuren

"An Examination of the Effect of Reynolds Number on Airfoil Performance"
5th International Conference on Energy Sustainability
Washington, D. C. August 7-10, 2011.

Neil Jordan
Sponsor: Dr. Lesley Wright

"Heat Transfer Enhancement in a Rectangular Channel with V-Shaped Dimples"
American Society of Mechanical Engineers Turbo Expo 2011
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. June 6-10, 2011.

Benjamin Lewis
Sponsor: Dr. Walter Bradly

"How Coconut Shell Powder Filler in Polypropylene Impacts
the Ease of Compounding and Injection Molding"

SPE Bioplastic Materials
Seattle, Washington. May 16-18, 2012.

Russell Mailen
Sponsor: Dr. David Jack

"Investigation of residual strain development during cure of carbon fiber/epoxy laminates"
ASME Early Career Technical Conference
Baton Rouge, Louisiana. March 29-31, 2012.


Museum Studies

Jennifer Restauri
Sponsor: Dr. Kenneth Hafertepe and Dr. Katie Robinson Edwards

"Demystifying the Artist/Curator: A Look at the Artist/Curator in Contemporary Practice"
American Association of Museums Annual Meeting
Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota. April 29-May2, 2012.

Music Studies

Bobi Ezell
Sponsor: Dr. Lesley McAllister

"Music Instruction for Dyslexic Students:
Raising Awareness of a Neglected Topic in the Pedagogical World of Music"

Music Teachers National Association Conference
New York City, New York. March 24-28, 2012.

Drew Fremder
Sponsor: Wiff Rudd

"Professional Trumpet Audition"
Pershing's Own United States Army Band
Washington, DC. February 26-28, 2012.

Caroline Hand
Sponsor: Dr. J.E. Wilson

"Conducting Participant"
The Northwestern University Conducting Symposium
Evanston, Illinois. July 10-16, 2011.

Deborah Hui
Sponsor: Dr. Kae Hosoda-Ayer

"Collaborative Pianist"
Vancouver International Song Institute
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. June 4-23, 2011.

Deborah Hui
Sponsor: Dr. Kae Hosoda-Ayer

"Collaborative Pianist"
Interlochen Arts Camp
Interlochen, Michigan. June 24-August 8, 2011.

Ayaka Kondo
Sponsor: Dr. Krassimira Jordan

"Fantasy in C minor K. 475 by Wolfang Amadeus Mozart"
Binetto Grumo Festival
New York City, New York. February 24-25, 2012.

Katherine D. Massa
Sponsor: Dr. Jeffrey Powers

"Imagine Surrender:
A Piece for Horn and Piano"

Western Illinoi University Horn Festival
Macomb, Illinois. February 19,2012.

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Philosophy

Karl Aho
Sponsor: Dr. Darin Davis

"The Fearful and Trembling Bear it Away:
Soren Kierkegaard and Flannery O'Connor on Faith"

Revelation and Convergence: Flannery O'Connor Among the Philosophers and Theologians
Chicago, Illinois. October 6-8, 2011.

Karl Aho
Sponsor: Dr. C. Stephen Evans

"Justice for Persons as Persons:
Audi, Particularism, and Everday Moral Experience"

Society for Christian Philosophers Midwest Regional Conference
Conway, Arkansas. March 22-24, 2012.

Karl Aho
Sponsor: Dr. Robert Miner

"Two Rival Versions?:
Towards a MacIntyrean Reading of Kant's Ethical Project"

2012 Texas Tech University Graduate Student Conference on The History of Philosophy
Lubbock, Texas. April 27-28, 2012.

Alina Beary
Sponsor: Dr. Jonathan Kvanvig

"Two Sources of Design? A Critique of an Etiological Account of Function"
Society for Christian Philosophers Midwest Regional Conference
Conway, Arkansas. March 22-24, 2012.

Alina Beary
Sponsor: Dr. Thomas Hibbs

"Aquinas and Perfect Being Theology"
Midwest Region Evangelical Philosophical Society
Chicago, Illinois. March 30-31, 2012.

Alina Beary
Sponsor: Dr. Darin Davis

"Is There Such Thing as a Courageous Murderer"
2012 BAPT Summer Seminar: "Emotion's Roles in the Moral Life. Prolegomena to a Study of Virtues"
South Bend, Indiana. May 21-25, 2012.

Ryan Byerly
Sponsor: Dr. Tim Dougherty

"Intentions, Intentionally Permitting and the Problem of Evil"
American Catholic Philosophical Association Annual Conference
Saint Louis, Missouri. October 28-30, 2011.

Ryan Byerly
Sponsor: Dr. Jonathan Kvanvig

"An Internalist, Disposition-Based Account of Epistemic Justification"
Evangelical Philosophical Society Annual Meeting
San Francisco, California. November 16-18, 2011.

Nathan Carson
Sponsor: Dr. Michael Beaty

"Getting into the Game of Tradition-Constituted Moral Inquiry:
Does MacIntyre's Particularism offer a Rational Way in?"

International Society for MacIntyrean Inquiry, 5th Annual
International Conference: MacIntyre as Critic and Educator
Providence, Rhode Island. July 27-31, 2011.

Nathan Carson
Sponsor: Dr. C. Stephen Evans

"Kierkegaard on Approximation Knowledge and Existential Truth:
An Incompatibilist Interpretation"

Americal Philosophical Association: Pacific Division Meeting
Seattle, Washington. April 3-7, 2012.

Lindsay Cleveland
Sponsor: Dr. Alexander Pruss

"The Loss and Redemption of Heart's Desires:
A Critical Defense of Eleonore Stump's Answer to the Problem of Suffering"

American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting
San Francisco, California. November 18-20, 2011.

Lindsay Cleveland
Sponsor: Dr. Alexander Pruss

"God as the Ground of Possibility"
Southwest Regional Meeting of the Evangelical Philosophical Society
Fort Worth, Texas. March 9-10, 2012.

Lindsay Cleveland
Sponsor: Dr. Alexander Pruss

"God as the Ground of Possibility"
Houston Baptist U. Philosophy Conference: Divine and Human Action
Houston, Texas. March 30-31, 2012.

William Scott Cleveland
Sponsor: Dr. Michael Beaty

"The Primal Sin and the Irrevocability Argument from Voluntarism"
Southwest Regional Meeting of the Evangelical Philosophical Society
Fort Worth, Texas. March 9-10, 2012.

William Scott Cleveland
Sponsor: Dr. Michael Beaty

"The Primal Sin and the Irrevocability Argument from Voluntarism"
Houston Baptist U. Philosophy Conference: Divine and Human Action
Houston, Texas. March 30-31, 2012.

William Scott Cleveland
Sponsor: Dr. Robert Kruschwitz

"Is Courage a Virtue in the Unjust?"
Emotion's Roles in the Moral Life:
BAPT Summer Seminar
South Bend, Indiana. May 21-25, 2012.


William Coblentz
Sponsor: Dr. Anne-Marie Schultz

"Dionysus Will Soon Enough Be Judge of our Claims to Wisdom"
Evangelical Philosophical Society
San Francisco, California. November 15-17, 2011.

Brandon Dahm
Sponsor: Dr. Alexander Pruss

"Distinguishing Desire and Parts of Happiness:
A Reply to Germain Grisez"

American Maritain Association Annual Conference
South Bend, Indiana. October 13-15, 2011.


Brandon Dahm
Sponsor: Dr. C. Stephen Evans

"The Metaphysics of Finality is Not the End of the Explanation"
Society of Christian Philosophers - Central Conference
Conway, Arkansas. March 22-24, 2012.


Matthew Douglass
Sponsor: Dr. Michael Beaty

"The Brothers Karamazov and the Existential Problem of Evil:
Posing Ivan's Question to the Suffering Child"

Midwest Regional Conference on Christianity and Literature
Fort Wayne, Indiana. September 22-24, 2011.

David Echelbarger
Sponsor: Dr. Robert Kruschwitz

"A Thomistic Objection to the Perception Thesis"
The Relationship between the Emotions and the Virtues
South Bend, Indiana. May 21-25, 2012.

Logan Gage
Sponsor: Dr. Francis J. Beckwith

"Hume's Twin Charges Against Theistic Theories of Sense Perception:
A Reidian Response"

Evangelical Philosophical Society
San Francisco, California. November 16-18, 2011.

Logan Gage
Sponsor: Dr. Stephen Evans

"Natural Law and Modern Biology: A Tension in Mark Murphy's account"
Southwest Regional Meeting of the Evangelical Philosophical Society
Fort Worth, Texas. March 9-10, 2012.

Nate Jackson
Sponsor: Dr. Stephen Evans

"Imagining a Problem:
The Sickness unto Death and a Moral Critique of the Episodic View of the Self"

36th Annual Midsouth Philosophy Conference
Memphis, Tennessee. February 24-25, 2012.

Nate Jackson
Sponsor: Dr. Stephen Evans

"Pragmatism and the Behavior of Moral Reasons:
Towards a Moderate Holism"

39th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy
New York City, New York. March 15-17, 2012.

Kraig Martin
Sponsor: Dr. Jonathan Kvanvig

"Faith and Justified Closure of Inquiry"
Society of Christian Philosophers
Conway, Arkansas. March 22-24, 2012.

Blake McAllister
Sponsor: Dr. Stephen Evans

"Escaping Murphy's Trilemma"
Society of Christian Philosophers
Conway, Arkansas. March 22-24, 2012.

Blake McAllister
Sponsor: Dr. Stephen Evans

"Desire-Fulfillment Theories and the Inequality of Desires"
North Texas Philosophical Association Meeting
Denton, Texas. April 14, 2012.

Daniel Padgett
Sponsor: Dr. C. Stephen Evans

"Objectivity and Constructivism"
Society for Christian Philosophers Midwest Regional Conference
Conway, Arkansas. March 22-24, 2012.

Daniel Padgett
Sponsor: Dr. Alexander Pruss

"The Axioms in Spinoza's_Ethics_"
North Texas Philosophical Association 45th Anniversary Meeting
Denton, Texas. April 12-14, 2012.

Ross Parker
Sponsor: Dr. Jonathan Kvanvig

"Defending Divne Intention Theory: A Response to Christian Miller"
Evangelical Philosophical Society Southeast Regional Meeting
Wake Forest, North Carolina. March 23-24, 2012.

Gregory Poore
Sponsor: Dr. Todd Buras

"Aristotelian Compassion"
American Philosophical Association Central Meeting
Chicago, Illinois. February 15-18, 2012.

Gregory Poore
Sponsor: Dr. Todd Buras

"Aristotelian Compassion"
Society of Christian Philosophers Central Meeting
Conway, Arkansas. March 22-24, 2012.

Gregory Poore
Sponsor: Dr. Todd Buras

"Does God Intend Everything He Commands?"
Houston Baptist University Annual Philosophy Conference
Houston, Texas. March 30-31, 2012.

Gregory Poore
Sponsor: Dr. Robert Kruschwitz

"Aristotelian Compassion"
BAPT Summer Seminar
South Bend, Indiana. May 21-25, 2012.


Joel Schwartz
Sponsor: Dr. Robert Kruschwitz

"Wojtyla and the Draw of the Good:
How the Good Shapes of Knowledge of Ethics and Others"

Evangelical Philosophical Society
San Francisco, California. November 16-18, 2011.

Joel Schwartz
Sponsor: Dr. Robert Kruschwitz

"A Call of Duties:
A New Principle of Correlatives for Human Rights"

EPS/ETS Midwest Regional Conference
Chicago, Illinois. March 30-31, 2012.

John Spano
Sponsor: Dr. Darin Davis

"How We Should Remember:
A Philosophical Look at Volf's Remembering Righly"

Evangelical Philosophical Society
San Francisco, California. November 16-18, 2011.

John Spano
Sponsor: Dr. Robert Kruschwitz

"Concern-based Construals and Remembering Differently"
BAPT Summer Seminar
Notre Dame, Indiana. May 21-25, 2012.


Allison Thornton
Sponsor: Dr. Jonathan Kvanvig

"Theistic Modal Realism and the Less-than-Best Problem"
SCP Midwest Regional Conference
Conway, Arkansas. March 22-24, 2012.

Allison Thornton
Sponsor: Dr. Alex Pruss

"Lebniz and Degrees of Being"
North Texas Philosophical Association
Denton, Texas. April 12-14, 2012.

Chris Tweedt
Sponsor: Dr. Jonathan Kvanvig

"An Obvious Account of Epistemic Possibility"
Pacific American Philosophical Association
Seattle, Washington. April 4-7, 2012.

Chris Tweedt
Sponsor: Dr. Jonathan Kvanvig

"Fictional Exemplars"
North Carolina Philosophical Society
Elon, North Carolina. February 24-25, 2012.

Ryan West
Sponsor: Dr. C. Stephen Evans

"Emotion, Moral Epistemology, and Moral Motivation"
Midwest Region Evangelical Philosophical Society Conference
Chicago, Illinois. March 30-31, 2012.

Ryan West
Sponsor: Dr. Michael Beaty

"Emotion, Moral Epistemology, and Moral Motivation"
Emotion's Role in the Moral Life: BAPT Summer Seminar
Notre Dame, Indiana. May 21-25, 2012.

Pete Younger
Sponsor: Dr. Francis Beckwith

"Let's Do This Together: Migrations Effect on Public Reason"
The Virtue of Justice
Conway, Arkansas. March 22-24, 2012.

Physics

Angela Douglass
Sponsor: Dr. Truell Hyde

"Dust Particle Charge in Complex Plasma Experiments"
53rd Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society
Division of Plasma Physics
Salt Lake City,Utah. November 14-18, 2011.

Jared Greenwald
Sponsor: Dr. Gerald Cleaver

"On the Correlation of Extra MSSM Higgs to Stringent Flat Directions
in Heterotic String Theory"

Joint Fall Meeting of the Texas Sections of the APS, AAPT and Zone 13 of the SPS
Commerce, Texas. October 6-8, 2011.

Brandon Harris
Sponsor: Dr. Truell W. Hyde

"Employing a Zyvex S100 Nanomanipulator Within a Comple Plasma"
53rd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics
Salt Lake City, Utah. November 14-18, 2011.

Jonathan Perry
Sponsor: Dr. Lorin Matthews

"Effect of Monomer Shape on the Formation of Fractal Aggregates with a Power Law Distribution"
Society Lunar and Planetary Science Conference
The Woodlands, Texas. March 19-23, 2012.

Satheeshkumar V.H.
Sponsor: Dr. Anzhong Wong

"Non-Gaussianities in Horava-Lifshitz Theory"
Inflationary Theory and Its Confrontation with Data in the Planck Era
Aspen, Colorado. January 30 - February 4, 2011.

Zhenbin Wu
Sponsor: Dr. Jay R. Dittmann

"Single Top Production at the Tevatron"
Moriond QCD
La Thuile, Aosta Valley, Italy. March 10-17, 2012.

Yaobiao Xia
Sponsor: Dr. Zhenrong Zhang

"Acetone Assisted Diffusion of Oxygen Vacancies on TiO2 (110) Surface"
Southwest Catalysis Society Spring Symposium 2012
Houston, Texas. April 20, 2012.

Bo Zhang
Sponsor: Dr. Zhenrong Zhang

"Adsoption and Diffusion of Acetone on Rutile TiO2 (110)"
Southwest Catalysis Symposium
Houston, Texas. April 20, 2012.

Zhuanhao Zhang
Sponsor: Dr. Truell W. Hyde

"The Dust Temperature Distribution Within a
Dust Density Wave Formed in a Complex Plasma"

53rd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics
Salt Lake City, Utah. November 14-18, 2011.

Political Science

Stephen Block
Sponsor: Dr. Mary P. Nichols

"Art and Law in Aristotle's Political Thought"
Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting
New Orleans, Louisiana. January 12-15, 2012.

Christopher Bissex
Sponsor: Dr. David K. Nichols

"The Tragedy of Lucretia and the Political Solution in Machiavelli's 'Mandragola'"
Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference
Chicago, Illinois. April 12-15, 2012.

Rex Carr
Sponsor: Dr. David Clinton

"Nietzsche's Backward Glance:
Modern Man's Origins and the Means to His Future"

Louisiana Political Science Association 2012 Conference
Baton Rouge, Louisiana. February 24-25, 2012.

Adam Carrington
Sponsor: Dr. Dave Bridge

"Enforced Satisfaction:
Justice Field on Government's Role in the Pursuit of Happiness"

Northwestern Political Science Association
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. November 17-19, 2011.

Adam Carrington
Sponsor: Dr. Dave Bridge

"Congressional Attacks on the Supreme Court:
Court-Curbing from a Coalitional Perspective"

Western Political Science Association Annual Conference
Portland, Oregon. March 22-24, 2012.

Eric Fleury
Sponsor: Dr. David Nichols

"Our Wars are Done:
The Decline of Machiavelli in Much Ado About Nothing and Othello"

Northwestern Political Science Association
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. November 17-20, 2011.

Kimberley Gardner
Sponsor: Dr. David Nichols

"Hijack or Cooptation:
The Assessment of Likely Tea Party Influence over the GOP"

Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting
Portland, Oregon. March 22-24, 2012.

Rex Carr

Vincent Reighard
Sponsor: Dr. Mary Nichols

"Two Becoming One in Aristotle's Account of Friendship"
Midwestern Political Science Association
Chicago, Illinois. April 11-14, 2012.

Vincent Reighard
Sponsor: Dr. David Nichols

"The Action of Inaction in Bernard Mac Laverty's 'Cal'"
Christianity and Literature Western Regional Conference
Seattle, Washington. April 24-25, 2012.

Mark Scully
Sponsor: Dr. Jerold Waltman

"Justice Kennedy and Constitutional Liberty:
Equality and Liberty in Republican Government"

Northeastern Political Science Association Annual Meeting
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. November 17-19, 2011.

Miriel Thomas
Sponsor: Dr. Jerold Waltman

"Equity, in its Proper Place:
The Nature and Contours of the Federal Equity Power"

4th Annual Texas Political Science Graduate Student Conference
Houston, Texas. March 24, 2012.

Miriel Thomas
Sponsor: Dr. Dave Bridge

"Determinants of Presidential Veto Overrides"
New England Political Science Association Annual Meeting
Portsmouth, New Hampshire. April 26-28, 2012.

Psychology & Neuroscience

Nathaniel Anderson
Sponsor: Dr. Matthew S. Stanford

"Voluntary and Involuntary Differentiation of Emotional Content:
Psychopaths Exhibit Conditional Affective Modulation of ERP Components in a Target Detection Task"

Society for Psycholophysical Research Annual Meeting
Boston, Massachusetts. September 14-18, 2011.

Lindsey Backer-Fulghum
Sponsor: Dr. Julie Patock-Peckham

"Mediational Roles of Stress and Pathological Reasons for Drinking:
A Look at Social Support from Friends on Problematic Alcohol Use"

Research Society on Alcoholism
Atlanta, Georgia. June 25-29, 2011.

Robert Carlisle
Sponsor: Dr. Jo-Ann Tsang

"Recall Bias for Forgiven Offenses among Religious Individuals"
Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
Milwaukee, Wisconsin. October 29-30, 2011.

Robert Carlisle
Sponsor: Dr. Jo-Ann Tsang

"A Laboratory Investigation of Apology and Restitution's Effects on
Behavioral and Self-Report Measures of Forgiveness"

Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Conference
San Diego, California. January 26-28, 2012.

Thomas Carpenter
Sponsor: Dr. Jo-Ann Tsang

"Intrinsic Religious Motivation and Moral Hypocrisy:
The Imprtance of Priming"

Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
Milwaukee, Wisconsin. October 28-30, 2011.

Thomas Carpenter
Sponsor: Dr. Jo-Ann Tsang

"Apology and Self-Forgiveness:
Differential Relationships between Affect and Self-Forgiveness Under Apology and No-Apology Conditions"

Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Conference
San Diego, California. January 25-29, 2012.

Samantha Collum
Sponsor: Dr. Sara Dolon

"Examining Use of Positive Coping Skills as Associated with
Treatment of Substance Abuse and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in a Residential Facility"

Research Society on Alcoholism
Atlanta, Georgia. June 25-29, 2011.

William Fisher
Sponsor: Dr. Gary Elkins

"Physiological Measurement of Hot Flashes:
Effects of Affect and Physical Activity"

and
"Skin Conductance Measurement of Hot Flashes:
Influence of BMI in Post-Menopausal Women"

Society for Psychophysiological Research Annual Meeting
Boston, Massachusetts. September 14-19, 2011.

William Fisher
Sponsor: Dr. Gary Elkins

"Two Sternal Skin Conductance Monitors for the Measurement of Hot Flashes:
Comparison and Evaluation"

North American Menopause Society's Annual Meeting
Washington, D.C. September 21-24, 2011.

Lauren Greenberg
Sponsor: Dr. Sara Dolon

"Substance Abusers in Residential Treatment Facilities Suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder:
the Mediating Role of Distress Tolerance"

Research Society on Alcoholism
Atlanta, Georgia. June 25-29, 2011.

Justine Grosso
Sponsor: Dr. Sara Dolan

"Women's Motivators for Seeking Cognitive-Behavioral Alcohol Treatment"
Association for Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies
Toronto, Canada. November 10-13, 2011.

Megan Haggard
Sponsor: Dr. Wade Rowatt

"Belief in Transcendence or Cognitive Rigidity?"
Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
Milwaukee, Wisconsin. October 27-30, 2011.

Aimee Johnson
Sponsor: Dr. Gary Elkins

"Two Sternal Skin Conductance Monitors for the Measurement of Hot Flashes:
Comparison and Evaluation"

North American Menopause Society
Washington, D.C. September 21-24, 2011.

Aimee Johnson
Sponsor: Dr. Gary Elkins

"Measurement of Non-Pathological Dissocation: The Dissociative Ability Scale"
Texas Psychological Association Annual Convention
San Antonio, Texas. November 17-20, 2011.

Megan Johnson
Sponsor: Dr. Wade C. Rowatt

"The Role of Right Wing Authoritarianism Aggression as a Mediator in the
Religious Fundamentalism-Racial Prejudice Relationship"

Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
Milwaukee, Wisconsin. October 27-30, 2011.

Megan Johnson
Sponsor: Dr. Wade C. Rowatt

"Examining Atheist and Arab Prejudices:
Rigid Ideologies Mediate the Relationnship Between Religiosity,
Need for Cognition, and Racial and Value-Violating Prejudices"

Society for Personality and Social Psychology
San Diego, California. January 25-29, 2012.

Shehzad Jooma
Sponsor: Dr. Gary Brooks

"Mens' Reactions to Variants of Self Disclosure in Male Psychotherapists"
American Pyschological Association Annual Convention
Washington, D.C. August 5-7, 2011.

Sarah Lake
Sponsor: Dr. Matthew S. Stanford

"Resting Frontal Cortical Activity and Impulsive Aggression"
Society for Psycholophysical Research Annual Meeting
Boston, Massachusetts. September 14-18, 2011.

Bonnie Lasher
Sponsor: Dr. Brad Keele

"Serotonin Lesion of the Lateral Amygdala Increases
Fear Behavior that is Normalized by the Anticonvulsant Phenytoin"

Society for Neuroscience
Washington D.C. November 12-16, 2011.

Crystal Lee
Sponsor: Dr. Helen Benedict

"Self-Compassion: What it is, Why It's Important, How to Use it"
Texas Psychological Association Annual Convention: The Person in Context
San Antonio, Texas. November 17-19, 2011.

Sarah Martindale
Sponsor: Dr. Sara Dolan

"Action-Focused and Emotion-Focused Coping Styles as a Mediator
between Functioning and Quality of Life Outcomes in Operations Enduring and Iraqi Freedom (OEF/OIF) Veterans"

Rehabilitation Psychology 2012 Conference
Fort Worth, Texas. February 23-26, 2012.

Karenna Parra
Sponsor: Dr. Charles Weaver

"Knowledge Updating in Jurors Under Differing Congnitive Loads"
Pschonomics Society Annual Meeting
Seattle, Washington. November 3-6, 2011.

Natalie Passanante
Sponsor: Dr. Christine Limbers

"Associations between Religion in Adolescence and Body Mass Index in Young Adulthood"
Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention
Chicago, Illinois. May 24-27, 2012.

Edward Rogers
Sponsor: Dr. Matthew Stanford

"The Effects of Mental Illness on Families within Faith Communities"
Texas Psychological Association Annual Convention
San Antonio, Texas. November 17-20, 2011.

Daniel Strassburger
Sponsor: Dr. Jo-Ann Tsang

"Religiosity and Attitude Change"
Society for Personality and Social Psychology
San Diego, California. January 25-29, 2012.

Elil Yuvarajan
Sponsor: Dr. Matthew Stanford

"Attitudes and Beliefs Toward Mental Illness in the Christian Community"
Texas Psychological Association Annual Convention
San Antonio, Texas. November 17-20, 2011.

Religion

Seung Ho Bang
Sponsor: Dr. James D. Nogalski

"Cult Objects in Field V at Tell Halif"
American School of Oriental Research
San Francisco, California. November 16-19, 2011.

Seung Ho Bang
Sponsor: Dr. James D. Nogalski

"Limestone Incense Altars at Tell Halif, Field V"
Southwest Commission on Religious Studies (ASOR)
Irving, Texas. March 9-11, 2012.

Lena Borisova
Sponsor: Dr. Dan Williams

"Doctrinal Development as a Theandric (Divine-Human) Act: Vladimir Soloviev's Appropriation of Maximus the Confessor's Christology"
Graduate Students Conference in Patristic Studies, Pappas Patristic Institute
Boston, Massachusetts. March 8-10, 2012.

Lena Borisova
Sponsor: Dr. D.H. Williams

"Bridging East and West: Ministry and Legacy of Maximus the Confessor"
Sanctity and Society: Devotion to Holy People in Multi-Cultural Contexts
Santa Barbara, California. April 19-20, 2012.

Timothy Brookins
Sponsor: Dr. Bruce Longenecker

"Gymnasium Education and the Corinthian 'Elite'"
Society of Biblical Literature
San Francisco, California. November 19-22, 2011.

Timothy Brookins
Sponsor: Dr. Bruce Longenecker

"Reconstructing the 'Wisdom' of the Corinthians:
A Methodological Proposal"

Southwest Commission of Religious Studies
March 9-11, 2012. Dallas, Texas.

Richard Brumback
Sponsor: Dr. Daniel H. Williams

"Tertullian's Trinitarian Monarchy in Adversus Praxean:
A Rhetorical Analysis"

16th International Patristics Conference
Oxford, United Kingdom. August 8-12, 2011.

Richard Brumback
Sponsor: Dr. Daniel H. Williams

"Gregory of Elvira, De Fide Orthodoxa, and the Luciferians"
North American Patristics Society Annual Conference
Chicago, Illinois. May 24-26, 2012.


Moon Kwon Chae
Sponsor: Dr. James Nogalski

"Judges 1:1-2:5 The Double Intention of the Deuternomistic Redactor"
The National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion
Nashville, Tennessee. May 21-13, 2012.

Craig Clarkson
Sponsor: Dr. Laine Scales

"Multi-Faceted:
Jewell Leggett Daniel's Formation for Mission at Baylor University"

Christian Life and Witness: From the Academy to the Church
Georgetown, Kentucky. January 23-24, 2012.

David Cramer
Sponsor: Jonathan Tran

"A Theological Warning Against Theology: Karl Beth on the Secularity of God's Word and the Church's Witness"
Joint Divine and Human Action: Agency and Action in Philosophy and Theology
Houston, Texas. March 30-31, 2012.

Jordan Fannin
Sponsor: Dr. Barry Harvey

"Historiography as Healing:
Reassembling a Narrative of Clarissa H. Danforth,
Freewill Baptist Female Preacher, 1815-1822"

Young Scholars in Baptist Academy
Prague, Czech Republic. July 25-30, 2011.

Jordan Fannin
Sponsor: Dr. Jonathan Tran

"The Grammar of God: Divine and Human Act in Barth's Metaphor of Grammar in Church Dogmatics"
Houston Baptist University's 2nd Annual Philosophy Conference
Houston, Texas. March 30-31, 2012.

Kevin Flynn
Sponsor: Dr. Paul Martens

"From Paradox to Prototype:
Christology as Belief and Imitation in Kierkegaard's Non-Pseudonymous Writings"

American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting
San Francisco, California. November 19-20, 2011.

Kevin Flynn
Sponsor: Dr. Jonathan Tran

"Karl Barth, Theological Language, and Acknowledgment of the World of God"
Houston Baptist University's 2nd Annual Philosophy Conference
Houston, Texas. March 30-31, 2012.

Brandon Frick
Sponsor: Dr. Paul Martens

"Covenant as Corrective:
Charles Taylor's 'Buffered Sell' and the Stewardship of the Earth"

Radical Emancipation Conference
South Bend, Indiana. November 10-12, 2011.

Brandon Frick
Sponsor: Dr. Paul Martens

"'A Pantheistic Dogmatician?' Schleiermacher on God's Relationship to the World"
Nineteenth Century Studies Association
Asheville, North Carolina. March 22-24, 2012.

Brian Gamel
Sponsor: Dr. Bruce Longenecker

"Salvation in a Sentence: Mark 15:39 as Markan Soteriology"
Southwest Commission on Religious Studies
Dallas, Texas. March 10-11, 2012.

Roy Garton
Sponsor: Dr. James D. Nogalski

"The Immanuel Source:
The Tradition-Historical Derivation of the Symbolic Name 'God with Us'"

International Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature
London, England. July 4-7, 2011.

Eric Gilchrest
Sponsor: Dr. Lidia Novakovic

"Echoes of Homer and Echoes of Moses:
The Literary Repertoire of Revelation's Readers"

Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting
San Francisco, California. November 19-22, 2011.

Heather Gorman
Sponsor: Dr. Mikael Parsons

"Explaining the 'Word that is Hard to Explain':
An Evaluation of the Rhetorical Analysis in James Thompson's Hebrews"

Stone Campbell Journal Conference
Malibu, California. June 16-18, 2011.

Heather Gorman
Sponsor: Dr. Mikael Parsons

"Interweaving Innocence: The Role of Rhetoric in Luke's Defense of Jesus"
Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting
San Francisco, California. November 18-21, 2011.

James Gorman
Sponsor: Dr. Doug Weaver

"From Burning to Blessing: Baptist Reception of Alexander Campbell's New Translation"
Stone-Campbell Journal Conference
Lincoln, Illinois. April 13-14, 2012.

James Gorman
Sponsor: Dr. Doug Weaver

"From Burning to Blessing: Baptist Reception of Alexander Campbell's New Translation"
National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion
Nashville, Tennessee. May 21-23, 2012.

Jesse Hoover
Sponsor: Dr. D.H. Williams

"'False Lives, False Martyrs': Redating the Colophons of 'Pseudo-Pionius'"
NAPS - Annual Meeting
Chicago, Illinois. May 24-26, 2012.

Jennifer Howell
Sponsor: Dr. Paul Martens

"Reading History with the Communion of Saints"
Young Scholars int he Baptist Academy
Prague, Czech Republic. July 25-29, 2011.

W.G. Hulbert
Sponsor: Dr. Joel Burnett

"When Scribes Attack:
1 Samuel 13:1 and the Defamation of Saul"

Biblical Literature Annual Meeting
San Francisco, California. November 19-22, 2011.

Jangho Jo
Sponsor: Dr. Daniel H. Williams

"Augustine's Three-Day Lecture in Carthage:
Reading Book 18 of The City of God in the light of Epistle 2*"

16th International Patristics Conference
Oxford, United Kingdom. August 8-12, 2011.

Jangho Jo
Sponsor: Dr. Peter Candler

"Blurring the Boundary:
Augustinian Deconstruction of Religio-Political Identity of the City"

American Association of Religion
San Francisco, California. November 19-22, 2011.

Nathaniel J. Lee
Sponsor: Dr. Ralph C. Wood

"Body, Language, and Religion:
A Humanistic Approach to Interreligious Dialogue"

Southwest Commission of Religious Studies
Dallas, Texas. March 9-11, 2012.

Courtney Lyons
Sponsor: Dr. Doug Weaver

"The Liberation of a Suffering Sister"
Southwest Commission on Religious Studies
Irving, Texas. March 9-11, 2012.

Courtney Lyons
Sponsor: Dr. Doug Weaver

"Breaking Through the Extra-Thick Glass Ceiling:
African-American Baptist Women in Ministry"

National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion
Nashville, Tennessee. May 20-23, 2012.

Bryan Maine
Sponsor: Dr. Doug Weaver

"Separatism, the Church of England, and the English Reformation in the
Debate Between Richard Bernard and John Robinson"

Sixteenth Century Society Conference
Fort Worth, Texas. October 27-30, 2011.

David Melvin
Sponsor: Dr. James D. Nogalski

"Making All Things New (Again): Zephaniah's Eschatological Vision of a Return to Primeval Time"
International Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature
London, England. July 4-7, 2011.

David Melvin
Sponsor: Dr. Joel S. Burnett

"Speaking for God
The Angelus Interpres in Zechariah 1-6 and the Question of Divine Transcendence in Post-Exilic Judaism"

Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting
San Francisco, California. November 19-22, 2011.

Sung Ho Moon
Sponsor: Dr. W.H. Bellinger

"Pre-Battle Ritual: A Cult-Functional Origin of Psalm 7"
Southwest Commission on Religious Studies
Irving, Texas. March 9-11, 2012.

Sung Ho Moon
Sponsor: Dr. Jim Nogalski

"Reinterpretation of Noah in the Second Temple Community"
The National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion
Nashville, Tennessee. May 21-23, 2012.

Matthew Moser
Sponsor: Dr. Peter Candler

"Being-Toward-Life: Resurrection and the Transfiguration of Death"
"What is Life?" Theology, Science and Philosophy Conference
Krakow, Poland. June 24-28, 2011.

Matthew Moser
Sponsor: Dr. Peter Candler

"Incarnational Logic and the Revitalization of the Humanities"
American Academy of Religion
San Francisco, California. November 19-21, 2011.

Ian Panth
Sponsor: Dr. Paul Martens

"Beyond the God-Man?
Exploring Kerkegaard's Christology in the Late Discourses"

American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting
San Francisco, California. November 19-22, 2011.

Peter Reynolds
Sponsor: Dr. Mikeal Parsons

"Miracle, Metaphor, and Mission in Luke 5:1-11"
Society for Pentecostal Studies Annual Meeting
Virginia Beach, Virginia. February 29-March 3, 2012.

Peter Reynolds
Sponsor: Dr. Mikeal Parsons

"Early Pentecostals on Pentecost"
Southwest Commission of Religious Studies
Dallas, Texas. March 9-11, 2012.

Peter Rice
Sponsor: Dr. Mikeal Parsons

"The Samuel Childhood Cycle in Luke 1-2"
Christian Scholars' Conference
Malibu, California. June 16-19, 2011.

Peter Rice
Sponsor: Dr. Mikeal Parsons

"Modifying Mark's Passion"
Society of Biblical Literature
San Francisco, California. October 18-21, 2011.

Christopher Richmann
Sponsor: Dr. Doug Weaver

"Reclaiming William Arthur's Tongue of Fire for the Pentecostal Heritage"
Society for Pentecostal Studies 41st Annual Meeting
Virginia Beach, Virginia. February 29-March 3, 2012.

Scott Rushing
Sponsor: Dr. DH Williams

"The Apostolic Heritage of the Pro-Nicene Desert Fathers"
NAPS
Chicago, Illinois. May 24-26, 2012.


Scott Rushing
Sponsor: Dr. DH Williams

"Christian Victor: The Apostolic Role of Christian Emperors in the 4th Century"
National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion
Nashville, Tenessee. May 21-23, 2012.

Scott Ryan
Sponsor: Dr. Bruce W. Longenecker

"Joshua, Jesus, and the archégos:
The Rhetorical Use of the Narrative Pattern of Exodus
and Conquest in the Epistle to the Hebrews"

Southwest Council for Religious Studies
Dallas, Texas. March 9-11, 2012.

Scott Ryan
Sponsor: Dr. Bruce W. Longenecker

"Speech and Character in Paul's Epistle to the Romans:
Reflections on Romans 3:9-20"

National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion
Nashville, Tennessee. May 20-23, 2012.

Andrew Selby
Sponsor: Dr. Daniel H. Williams

"Fred Sanders and Thomas Aquinas on God's Blessedness"
Evangelical Theological Society National Meeting
San Francisco, California. November 16-18, 2011.

Andrew Selby
Sponsor: Dr. Daniel H. Williams

"Developing Trinitarian Patterns of Creation in
Augustine's Interpretations of Genesis 1:1-4"

North American Patristics Society Annual Meeting
Chicago, Illinois. May 24-26, 2012.

Lindsey Trozzo
Sponsor: Dr. Mikeal Parsons

"Christ and Community
Encomium and Exhortation in the Fourth Gospel"

Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting
San Francisco, California. November 19-22, 2011.

Kyle Welty
Sponsor: Dr. Bill Pitts

"The CMS's Educational Aims and Execution in the West Indies and Sierra Leone, 1800-1835"
Yale-Edinburgh Group on the History of the Missionary Movement and World Christianity
New Haven, Connecticut. June 30-July 2, 2011.

Kyle Welty
Sponsor: Dr. Bill Pitts

"Evangelical Missionaries in the Slave Societies of the British West Indies, 1800-1835"
Southwestern Historical Association
San Diego, California. April 4-7, 2012.

Michael Whitenton
Sponsor: Dr. Bruce W. Longnecker

"The Rhetoric of Kyrios and the Diminution of the Son of David in the Gospel of Mark"
The Society of Biblical Literature
San Francisco, California. November 19-22, 2011.

David Wilmington
Sponsor: Dr. Barry Harvey

"Why Theodor Can't Swing: A Jazz Critique of Adorno's 'Culture Industry'"
"What is Life?" Theology, Science and Philosophy Conference
Krakow, Poland. June 24-28, 2011.

David Wilmington
Sponsor: Dr. Barry Harvey

"Why Silence Must be Christian: The Ethical Implications of a "Secularized Apophaticism""
Radical Emancipation: Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture
South Bend, Indiana. November 10-12, 2011.

Nick Zola
Sponsor: Dr. Mikael Parsons

"How Many Times Did the Cock Crow in Mark? Neglected Evidence from Tatian's Diatessaron"
Society of Biblical Literature, National Meeting
San Francisco, California. November 18-22, 2011.

Nick Zola
Sponsor: Dr. Mikael C. Parsons

"'Give us back our eleven days!':
A brief Tale of the Modern Calendar and Its Roots in Judeo-Christian History"

Stone-Campbell Journal Conference
Lincoln, Illinois. April 13-14, 2012.

Sociology

Phil Davignon
Sponsor: Dr. Charles Tolbert

"The Challenges of Conducting a Telephone Survey to Study Freshman Retention"
Association of Applied and Clinical Sociology
New Orleans, Louisiana. October 13-15, 2011.

Scott Draper
Sponsor: Dr. Paul Froese

"Religious Pluralism and the Individual: The Effects and Meaning of Inter-Religious Contact"
American Sociological Association Annual Meeting
Las Vegas, Nevada. August 20-23, 2011.

Scott Draper
Sponsor: Dr. Paul Froese

"Effervescence and Solidarity in Religious Organizations"
Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
Milwaukee, Wisconsin. October 28-30, 2011.

Kimberly Edwards
Sponsor: Dr. Carson Mencken

"Risky Religion: Religious Experiences and Risk Preference"
Pacific Sociology Association
San Diego, California. March 22-25, 2012.

Kimberly Edwards
Sponsor: Dr. Martha Sherman

"Survey Research: Police, Politics and Secret Statisticians"
Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology
New Orleans, Louisiana. October 13-15, 2011.

Brittany Fitz
Sponsor: Dr. Carson Mencken

"Religion and its Effects on Generation X in the Public Sphere"
Southwestern Social Science Association
San Diego, California. April 4-7, 2012.

Anna Garland
Sponsor: Dr. Martha Sherman

"Survey Research: Police, Politics and Secret Statisticians"
Assocation for Applied and Clinical Sociology
New Orleans, Louisiana. October 13-15, 2011.

Anna Garland
Sponsor: Dr. Charles Tolbert

"Economic Growth, Fertility, and Education: How they are connected and what this connection means"
Southwestern Social Science Association
San Diego, California. April 4-7, 2012.

Shanna Granstra
Sponsor: Dr. Jerry Park

"Obese in Public: Relationships between Gender, Race, and Obesity in Social Engagements"
Annual Meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society
Minneapolis, Minnesota. March 29-April 1, 2012.

Jenna Griebel
Sponsor: Dr. Robyn Driskell

"The Impact of the Individualist Cultural Tradition on Religion"
Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
Milwaukee, Wisconsin. October 27-29, 2011.

Katie Halbesleben
Sponsor: Dr. Carson Mencken

"Religious versus Secular Assimilation in the Latino Immigrant Population"
Southwestern Social Science Association
San Diego, California. April 4-7, 2012.

Brandon Martinez
Sponsor: Dr. Kevin Dougherty

"Is Evil Good for Religion?
A Look at the Effects of Supernatural Evil on Religious Salience"

Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
Milwaukee, Wisconsin. October 28-30, 2011.

Brandon Martinez
Sponsor: Dr. Kevin Dougherty

"Racial Minorities in Religious Organizations"
Southwestern Social Science Association
San Diego, California. April 4-7, 2012.

Matthew Martinez
Sponsor: Dr. Robyn Driskell

"Creating Community: From Concept to Physical Reality"
Applied and Clinical Sociology Conference
New Orleans, Louisiana. October 12-15, 2011.

Matthew Martinez
Sponsor: Dr. Carson Mencken

"Parental Involvement and Student Behavior Outcomes"
Southwestern Social Science Association
San Diego, California. April 4-7, 2012.

Andrew Pagel
Sponsor: Dr. Carson Mencken

"Student Temporary Employment Program:
Applied Internship at the US Census"

Annual Meeting of the Southwester Social Science Association
San Diego, California. April 4-7, 2012.

Samuel Stroope
Sponsor: Dr. Paul Froese

"Education and Religion"
Association for the Sociology of Religion
Las Vegas, Nevada. August 17-20, 2011.

Jeffrey Tamburello
Sponsor: Dr. Carson Mencken

"Inter-Generational Differences in Motivations for Drug Usage"
Southwestern Social Science Association
San Diego, California. April 4-7, 2012.

Joshua Tom
Sponsor: Dr. Jerry Park

"American Religious Consumer Confidence"
Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
Milwaukee, Wisconsin. October 27-30, 2011.

Joshua Tom
Sponsor: Dr. Paul Froese

"Social Origins of Scientific Deviance"
Pacific Sociology Association
San Diego, California. March 22-25, 2012.

Andrew Whitehead
Sponsor: Dr. Kevin Dougherty

"The Acceptance of Gays and Lesbians in American Congregations:
A National Profile"

American Sociological Association Annual Meeting
Las Vegas, Nevada. August 19-23, 2011.

Andrew Whitehead
Sponsor: Dr. Kevin Dougherty

"Religion, Attribution Theory and Attitudes toward Same-Sex Unions"
Society for the Scientitific Study of Religion
Milwaukee, Wisconsin. October 28-30, 2011.

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Spanish

Audrey Johnson
Sponsor: Dr. Jan Evans

"Teaching as Hospitality: Promoting Additive Bilingualism in the Christian ESL Classroon"
North American Christian Foreign Language Association
Santa Barbara, California. March 22-24, 2012.

Jane Muir
Sponsor: Dr. Jan Evans

"Roles of Faith in the ESL Classroom"
North American Christian Foreign Language Association Conference
Santa Barbara, California. March 22-24, 2012.

Ross Natividad
Sponsor: Dr. Jan Evans

"The Search for the Spanish National Identity in Selected Works of
Miguel de Unamuno, Azorin, and Antonio Machado"

14th Lusophone and Hispanic Graduate Student Conference
Santa Barbara, California. May 4-5, 2012.

Andrea Woodard
Sponsor: Dr. Jan Evans

"Cien Anos de Soledad and the Universial Commentary; Considerations on
the Narrative Voice through the Lens of Utopia and Dystopia"

Duke University Romance Studies Graduate Students Conference
Durham, North Carolina. September 9-10, 2011.

Andrea Woodard
Sponsor: Dr. Jan Evans

"Why do We Teach? Reflections on Our Calling and the Motives for Learning a Foreign Language from the Perspective of the ESL Classroom"
North American Christian Foreign Language Association Conference
Santa Barbara, California. March 22-24, 2012.

Sports Management

Statistical Science

Ross Bray
Sponsor: Dr. John Seaman Jr.

"Bayesian Application for a Clinical Trial with Correlated Continuous and Binary Outcomes"
Midwestern 2012 ENAR Spring Meetings
Washington, DC. April 1-4, 2012.

Brandi Falley
Sponsor: Dr. James Stamey

"Bayesian Estimation of Logistic Regression with Misclassified Covariates
and Response for Educational Psychology Data"

Joint Statistical Meetings
Miami, Florida. July 31-August 4, 2011.

Brandi Falley
Sponsor: Dr. James Stamey

"Sample Size Estimation for Joint Modeling of Efficacy and Safety"
ENAR
Washington, DC. April 1-4, 2012.

Ryan Sides
Sponsor: Dr. James Stamey

"An Introductory Look at the Situational Context Inherent in the RBI Using Two Modeling Approaches"
South Central SAS Users Group
Fort Worth, Texas. November 7-8, 2011.

Stephanie Simon
Sponsor: Dr. John W. Seaman

"Interval-Censored Negative Binomial Regression"
Joint Statistical Meetings
Miami, Florida. July 31-August 4, 2011.

Theatre Arts

Nathan Autrey
Sponsor: Dr. DeAnna Toten Beard

"Finding Clarity in a Sea of Darkness:
An Examination of Anne Bogart's Directing in Bobrauschenbergamerica"

Far West Popular and American Culture Conference
Las Vegas, Nevada. February 24-26, 2012.

Nathan Autrey
Sponsor: Dr. DeAnna Toten Beard

"Someone Else's Work:
A Close Examination of Directorial Plagiarism"

Mid-America Theatre Conference
Chicago, Illinois. March 1-4, 2012.

Jessi Hampton
Sponsor: Dr. DeAnna Toten Beard

"Marnich's 'These Shining Lives':
Workers, Corporate Greed and Making Theatre"

Mid-America Theatre Conference
Chicago, Illinois. March 1-4, 2012.

Christopher Peck
Sponsor: Dr. DeAnna Toten Beard

"Working with the Body:
A Director's Approach to Annie Baker's 'Circle Mirror Transformation'"

Mid-America Theatre Conference
Chicago, Illinois. March 1-4, 2012.

John Sefel
Sponsor: Dr. DeAnna Toten Beard

"Occupy Threepenny:
A Macheath for the New Millenium"

Far West Popular and American Culture Conference
Las Vegas, Nevada. February 24-26, 2012.

John Sefel
Sponsor: Dr. DeAnna Toten Beard

"Putting the Gavel Down:
Rethinking the SDC's Approach to Protecting (...)"

Mid-America Theatre Conference
Chicago, Illinois. March 1-4, 2012.

David Reed
Sponsor: Dr. DeAnna Toten Beard

"GI Joe - The 'Girl American Hero':
A Sculptural Analysis of Feminitity Portrayed in the GI Joe Toy Line"

Indiana University Graduate Symposium
Bloomington, Indiana. December 9-10, 2011.

David Reed
Sponsor: Dr. DeAnna Toten Beard

"Flirting, Farting, and Wacking People on the Head:
The Serious Work of Commedia del'Arte and Its Application in Acting and Directing"

Mid-America Theatre Conference
Chicago, Illinois. March 1-4, 2012.

Josiah Wallace
Sponsor: Dr. DeAnna Toten Beard

"Flirting, Farting, and Wacking People on the Head:
The Serious Work of Commedia del'Arte and Its Application in Acting and Directing"

Mid-America Theatre Conference
Chicago, Illinois. March 1-4, 2012.

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