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American Studies

Yueqin Yang
Sponsor: Dr. Doug Ferdon

"The Making of U.S. Foreign Policy" and "The Obama Administration's Strategy"
Foreign Policy Colloquium
Washington, D.C. June 2-5, 2010.

Biology

Arjun Adhikari
Sponsor: Dr. Joseph D. White

"What are the Potential CO2 Emission Offsets for the Thorn Woodlands?
A Promising Remote Sensing Approach for Mapping Carbon Sequestration"
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting
San Francisco, California. December 13-17, 2010.

Tracy Carter
Sponsor: Dr. Kevin Gutzwiller

"Distance decay in Bird Community Similarity: Investigating
Predictions of Neutral Theory and Niche-Assembly Theory"
Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. August 1-6, 2010.

Geng Chen
Sponsor: Dr. Sang-Chul Nam

"Role of Centrosomin in Apical Domain Regulation during
Drosophila Photoreceptor Morphogenesis"
52nd Annual Drosophila Research Conference
San Diego, California. March 30-April 3, 2011.

Anica Debelica
Sponsor: Dr. Ken Wilkins

"Differences in Structure of the Bat Community in Managed and
Unmanaged Southeastern Pine-hardwood Forests"
North American Society for Bat Research
Denver, Colorado. October 28-30, 2010.

Anica Debelica
Sponsor: Dr. Kenneth Wilkins

"Effects of Prescribed Fires on Composition of the Forest-Dwelling Bat
Community in Southeastern Piney Forests"
Texas Scoiety of Mammalogists
Junction, Texas. February 25-27, 2011.

Anica Debelica
Sponsor: Dr. Kenneth Wilkins

"Differences in structure of the bat community in managed and unmanaged
southeastern pine-hardwood forests and the role of ecomorphology"
Texas Academy of Science
Austin, Texas. March 3-5, 2011.

Nick Green
Sponsor:Dr. Kenneth T. Wilkins

"Multiple Captures of Reithrodontomys Fulvescens and
Baiomys Taylori:Evidence for Short-Term Social Traveling"
Texas Society of Mammalogists Annual Meeting
Junction, Texas. February 25-27, 2011.

Nick Green
Sponsor:Dr. Kenneth T. Wilkins

"Multiple Captures of Reithrodontomys Fulvescens and Baiomys Taylori
may Indicate Short-Term Bonding"
Texas Academy of Science Meeting
Austin, Texas. March 3-4, 2011.

Garrett League
Sponsor: Dr. Sang-Chul Nam

"Role of Kinesin-heavy-chain in Crumbs Localization along
the Rhabdomere Elongation in Drosophila Photoreceptor"
52nd Annual Drosophila Research Conference
San Diego, California. March 30- April 3, 2011.

Darrel Murray
Sponsor: Dr. Joseph D. White

"Woodland Patch Dynamics Affected by Oak Growth:
Fire, Climate, and Human Influences"
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting
San Francisco, California. December 13-17, 2010.

Tracy Pinney
Sponsor: Dr. Kevin Gutzwiller

"Brown-headed Cowbird Presence in Relation to Avian Predator Abundance,
Brood Host Abundance, and Landscape Legacy Conditions
International Association of Landscape Ecology Annual Symposium
Portland, Oregon. April 3-7, 2011.

Thomas Pettit
Sponsor: Dr. Kenneth T. Wilkins

"The Relationship between Clutter Orientation and Bat Activity in Forest Canopies and Edges"
North American Society for Bat Research Meeting
Denver, Colorado. October 27-30.

Thomas Pettit
Sponsor: Dr. Kenneth T. Wilkins

"Seasonal and Nightly Bat Activity Patterns in Alpine Aspen Forests"
Texas Society of Mammalogists Meeting
Junction, Texas. February 25-27, 2011.

Thomas Pettit
Sponsor: Dr. Kenneth T. Wilkins

"Bat Interaction with Vegetation in Forest Edges and Canopies"
Southwestern Association of Naturalist
Tyler, Texas. April 22-24, 2011.

Mary Sides
Sponsor: Dr. Joseph D. White

"Woodland Composition Inertia Affected by Disturbance and Climate Assessed by
Dimensional Analysis of Historical Landcover Change Data"
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting
San Francisco, California. December 13-17, 2010.

Jason Taylor
Sponsor: Dr. Ryan King

"Experimental Evidence for Fish-Meditated
Nutrient Recycling in Streams"
American Society of Limnology and Oceanography and
North American Benthological Society 2010 Joint Summer Meeting
Santa Fe, New Mexico. June 6-11, 2010

Jason Taylor
Sponsor: Dr. Ryan King

"Influence of Grazing Fish-Mediated Nutrient Recylcing on Downstream Ecosystem Function"
58th Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Association of Naturalists
Tyler, Texas. April 22-24, 2011.

Eun-Jeong Yu
Sponsor: Dr. Myeongwoo Lee

"Conserved Residues in the Bpat-3 Cytoplasmic Tail Mediate Important Functions
of Integrin in Multiple Tissue"
The American Society for Cell Biology Annual Meeting
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. December 11-15, 2010.

Biomedical Studies

Jason Bernigner
Sponsor: Dr. Bryan Brooks

"Employing Probabilistic Approaches for Development of Uncertainty Factors"
Society for Enviromental Toxicology and Chemistry North America Annual Meeting
Austin, Texas. November 7-11, 2010.

Jason Bernigner
Sponsor: Dr. Bryan Brooks

"Comparative Responses to Diphenhydramine in Two Fish Models"
Society for Toxicology and Chemistry Annual Meeting
Washington,D.C. March 6-10, 2011.

Amanda Cobb
Sponsor: Dr. Jacques Banchereau

"IL 15-DCs Loaded with HIV Lipopeptides for Therapeutic HIV Vaccine"
AIDS Vaccine Conference 2010
Atlanta, Georgia. September 28-October 1, 2010.

Amanda Cobb
Sponsor: Dr. Karolina Palucka

"IL15-DCs Loaded with HIV Lipopeptides for Therapeutic HIV Vaccine"
Keystone: Dendritic Cells and the Initiation of Adaptive Immunity
Santa Fe, New Mexico. February 12 - 17, 2011.

Kristin Conners
Sponsor: Dr. Bryan Brooks

"Towards the Advancement of Read-across: A Critical Examination of Approaches
for Leveraging Information in Enviromental Applications"
Society of Enviromental Toxicology and Chemistry Annual Meeting
Portland, Oregon. November 7-11, 2010.

Kristin Conners
Sponsor: Dr. Bryan Brooks

"Effects of 5-HT1A or Endocannabinoid Receptor Agonists on Zebrafish
Behavior in Novel Enviroments"
Society of Toxicology and Chemistry Annual Meeting
Washington, D.C. March 6-10, 2011.

Crystal Usenko
Sponsor: Dr. Erica Bruce

"Brominated Flame Retardants: New Compounds New Problems?"
Society of Enviromental Toxicology and Chemistry
Portland, Oregon. November 7-12, 2010.

Crystal Usenko
Sponsor: Dr. Erica Bruce

"Comparison of PBDE and Brominated Flame Retardant Toxicity in Zebrafish"
Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
Milan, Italy. May 15-19, 2011.

Brandi Wasek
Sponsor: Dr. Theodore Bottiglieri

"Methylation Cycle Metabolites in Young and
Old Mice Reared on Folate Deficient Diets"
FASEB Summer Research Conference: Folic Acid,
Vitamin B12 & One Carbon Metabolism
Carefree, Arizona. August 1-6, 2010.

Te-Chia Wu
Sponsor: Dr. Karolina Palucka

"Thymic Stromal Lymphopoietin Fosters Human Breast Tumor Growth
by Promoting Type 2 Inflammation"
American Association of Immunologists Annual Meeting
San Francisco, California. May 13-17, 2011.

Kangling Xu
Sponsor: Dr. Karolina Palucka

"TSLP Driven Inflammation Fosters Breast Tumor Development"
Keystone Symposium on Tumor Immunology
Santa Fe, New Mexico. February 12-17, 2011.

Kangling Xu
Sponsor: Dr. Karolina Palucka

"Promotion of Breast Cancer Development va Th2
Polarization by TSLP"
The American Association of Immunologists 98th Annual Meeting
San Francisco, California. May 13-17, 2011.

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Chemistry & Biochemistry

Britain Bruner
Sponsor: Dr. Patrick J. Farmer

"Synthesis and Photochemical Studies of Platinum-Maltol Molecules"
American Chemical Society 241st National Meeting
Anaheim,California. March 27-31, 2011.

Amanda Charlton-Sevcik
Sponsor: Dr. Mary Lynn Trawick

"The Discovery and Development of Highly Potent Benzosuberene Anti-Cancer Agents"
Society for Enviromental Toxicology and Chemistry North America Annual Meeting
Austin, Texas. November 17-18, 2010.

Amanda Charlton-Sevcik
Sponsor: Dr. Mary Lynn Trawick

"Analysis of Novel Thiosemicarbazone Inhibitors of Cathepsin B"
American Chemical Society Spring National Meeting
Anaheim, California. March 28-31, 2011.

Gustavo Chavarria
Sponsor: Dr. Laine Scales

"From Conception to Birth:
Creating a Family Friendly Policy in Nine Months"
National Association of Graduate-Professional Students Annual Conference
Cambridge, Massachusetts. November 11-14, 2010.

Gustavo Chavarria
Sponsor: Dr. Mary Lynn Trawick

"Thiosemicarbazones as Potent and Selective Cathepsin K Inhbitors"
241st American Chemical Society (ACS) National Meeting
Anaheim, California. March 26-31, 2011

Tara Clover
Sponsor: Dr. Patrick Farmer

"Heme-Modified Myoglobins as Traps for HNO"
241st American Chemical Society National Meeting
Anaheim, California. March 26-31, 2011.

Clinton George
Sponsor: Dr. Kevin G. Pinney

"The Discovery and Development of Highly Potent Anti-Cancer Agents"
Inagural Innovations in Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas Conference
Austin, Texas. November 17-18, 2010.

Negar Hedayatifar
Sponsor: Dr. Kevin Chambliss

"Chemometric Modeling of HPLC-UV Data for Prediction of Hydrolysate Fermentability"
American Chemical Society 241st Meeting and Exposition
Anaheim, California. March 27-31, 2011.

Negar Hedayatifar
Sponsor: Dr. Kevin Chambliss

"Identification of Biomass Fermentation Inhibitors
Using Chemometric Modeling of HPLC-UV Data"
33rd Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals
Seattle, Washington. May 2-5, 2011.

Lindsay Jones
Sponsor: Dr. Kevin Pinney

"Thiosemicarbazone Derivatives of Functionalized Tetralone, Indanone,
Chromanone, and 2,3 Dihydroquinolinone Scaffolds as Inhibitors of Cathepsins L and B"
American Chemical Society National Meeting
Boston, Massachusetts. August 22-26, 2010.

Ivana Laboren
Sponsor: Dr. Darrin Bellert

"Reaction Rate Constants and Mechanistic Detail of the N^+ +Butanone Reaction"
American Chemical Society National Meeting
Boston, Massachusetts. August 22-26, 2010.

Sharon Munisamy
Sponsor: Dr. Kevin Chambliss

"Profiling Biomass Pretreatment Hydrolysates by Ultra Performance
Liquid Chromatography-Ion Mobility-High Resolution
Mass Spectrometry (UPLC-IM-HRMS)"
American Chemical Society National Meeting
Boston, Massachusetts. August 22-26, 2010.

Daniel Padron
Sponsor: Dr. Kevin Klausmeyer

"Syntheses and Coordination Studies of Pyridylphosphine Oxide Ligands Towards Mercury"
Southwest and Southeastern Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society
New Orleans, Louisiana. December 1-4, 2010.

Basu Dev Panthi
Sponsor: Dr. Stephen Gibson

"Chemistry and Electrochemistry of Fluorinated Rhodium Acyl Diphosphine
Complexes Rh(COR)(P-P) X2"
American Chemical Society National Meeting
Boston, Massachusetts. August 22-26, 2010.

Sara Schlesinger
Sponsor: Dr. Sung-Kun Kim

"Purification and Characterization of the Metallo-beta-lactamase Bla2 from Bacillus Anthracis"
Joint Southwest and Southeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society
New Orleans, Louisiana. November 30-December 4, 2010.

Richard Sevcik
Sponsor: Dr. Kevin Chambliss

"Rapid Analysis of Fermentable Sugars in Aqueous Extracts & Hydrolysates of Herbaceous Biomass"
International Ion Chromatogoraphy Symposium Annual Meeting
Cincinnati, Ohio. September 19-22, 2010.

Jiangli Song
Sponsor: Dr. Kevin Pinney

"Synthesis of a Series of Nonpeptidic Thiochromanone-based Thiosemicarbazone
Analogs as Inhibitors of Cathepsin L"
American Chemical Society National Meeting
Boston, Massachusetts. August 22-26, 2010.

Bikram Subedi
Sponsor: Dr. Sascha Usenko

"Analysis of Personal Care Products in German Fish Tissue by GC-MS/MS: a Nationwide Survey"
Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry North American Annual Meeting
Portland, Oregon. November 7-11, 2010.

Bikram Subedi
Sponsor: Dr. Sascha Usenko

"Novel Pressurized Liquid-Solid Phase Extraction Technique:
A New Cleanup Approach to Analyze Polychlorodibenzo-p-dioxins, Furans and Plychlorobiphenyls in Fish Tissue"
Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry South Regional Meeting
Dallas, Texas. May 19-21, 2011.

Ostmar Villarroel
Sponsor: Dr. Darrin Bellert

"Low Energy, Co^+-mediated Decomposition Kinetics of Acetone into CoCO+ Ethane"
American Chemical Society National Meeting
Boston, Massachusetts. August 22-26, 2010.

Church-State Studies

Meredith Holladay
Sponsor: Dr. Chris Marsh

"'This is not a Fighting Song':Prophetic Critique
and Proclamation in the Indigo Girls"
Popular Culture Association/ American Culture Association National Meeting
San Antonio, Texas. April 20-23, 2011.

Aaron Weaver
Sponsor: Dr. Chris Marsh

"'This is not a Fighting Song':Prophetic Critique
and Proclamation in the Indigo Girls"
Popular Culture Association/ American Culture Association National Meeting
San Antonio, Texas. April 20-23, 2011.

Communication Studies

Amy Lane
Sponsor: Dr. Mark Morman

Scholar to Scholar Presentation (Champions of the National Park System)
National Communication Association Annual Convention
San Francisco, California. November 14-17, 2010.

Jenna Reno
Sponsor: Dr. Martin Medhurst

"Stories That Must Be Told: The Survivor Rhetoric of Modern Day Slaves"
National Communication Association Annual Convention
San Francisco, California. November 14-17, 2010.

Jenna Reno
Sponsor: Dr. Martin Medhurst

"Stories That Must Be Told: The Survivor Rhetoric of Modern Day Slaves"
Globalization and Religion Conference
Denver, Colorado. March 31-April 2, 2011.

Michael Tornes
Sponsor: Dr. Martin J. Medhurst

"Changing the Lens: Distorting Perceptions of War in Barefoot Gen"
National Communication Association Annual Convention
San Francisco, California. November 14-17, 2010.

Curriculum and Instruction

Meredith Casas
Sponsor: Dr. Rachell P. Meyer

"Algebraic Equations and Water: What a Combination!"
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics 2010 Regional Conference
New Orleans, Louisiana. October 27-29, 2010.

Christina Crenshaw
Sponsor: Dr. Tony Talbert

"Community College Students Reflect on their Placement in and Successful Completion
of Developmental Reading and Writing Courses: A Narrative Inquiry"
Ethnographic and Qualitative Research Conference
Cedarville, Ohio. June 5, 2010.

Christina Crenshaw
Sponsor: Dr. Gretchen Schwarz

"Old Media, New Media: The Graphic Novel as Bildungsroman"
American Association for Teaching Curriculm
St. Louis, Missouri. October 7-9, 2010.

Dittika Gupta
Sponsor: Dr. Trena Wilkerson

"Breaking the Silence: Pre-Service Teachers' Attitudes Towards Action Research"
The Association od Teacher Educators
Orlando, Florida. February 14-16, 2011.

Aiyana Henry
Sponsor: Dr. Betty Conaway

"Making the Transition:
Intergrating a New University Liaison in a Professional Development School Situation
Association of Teacher Educators Annual Meeting
Orlando, Florida. February 12-16, 2011.

Aiyana Henry
Sponsor: Dr. Betty Conaway

"From Backboards to Blackboards: An Examination of the Impact College Basketball
Has Had on the Modern University"
History of Education Society Conference
Cambridge, Massachusetts. November 4-7, 2010.

Adeline Meira
Sponsor: Dr. Gardner Campbell

"Faculty Development in New Media: The Seminar Experiment"
New Media Consortium Summer Conference
Anaheim, California. June 9-12, 2010.

Adeline Meira
Sponsor: Dr. Tony Talbert

"Viral Education: The Use of Web 2.0 tools on a Social Issues in Education Course"
Annual Conference of the Association of Teacher Educators
Orlando, Florida. February 12-16, 2011.

Oscar Perales
Sponsor: Dr. Rachell P. Meyer

"Algebraic Equations and Water: What a Combination!"
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics 2010 Regional Conference
New Orleans, Louisiana. October 27-29, 2010.

James Rodgers
Sponsor: Dr. J. Wesley Null

"Jefferson's Classical Curriculum: An Examination of the Classical Influences on
Thomas Jefferson's Educational Philosophies"
Annual Conference of the Organization of Educational Historians
Chicago, Illinois. September 17-18, 2010.

James Rodgers
Sponsor: Dr. Wesley Null

"From Backboards to Blackboards:
An Examination of the Impact College Basketball Has Had on the Modern University"
History of Education Society Conference
Boston, Massachusetts. November 4-7, 2010.

Danielle Shrock
Sponsor: Dr. Gretchen Schwarz

"Media Literacy: The Bridge to a Deliberative Curriculum"
American Association for Teaching and Curriculum Annual Conference
St. Louis, Missouri. October 7-9, 2010.

Mary Simpson
Sponsor: Dr. Tony Talbert

"Developing a Curious and Creative Student,"
"What Side are You on? Formative Based Versus Summative Based Assessment,"
and "Our Global Society and the Power of Collaboative Learning"
American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences
Annual Conference and Expo
Cleveland, Ohio. June 25, 2010.

Mary Simpson
Sponsor: Dr. Tony Talbert

"Time to Switch? Moving from Performance Based to Criterion Based Assessments
and the Impact on a Student's Pedagogical Performance" and "The Responsibility Higher Education Has in Developing
Students' Creativity in the Classroom - and Ways to Do It!"
American Association of University Professors
Washington, D.C. June 9-12, 2010.

Anne Zandstra
Sponsor: Dr. J. Wesley Null

"How did Museums Change During the Cold War? Informational Science Education After Sputnik"
Annual Conference of the Organization for Educational Historians
Chicago, Illinios. September 17-18, 2010.

Anne Zandstra
Sponsor: Dr. J. Wesley Null

"How did Museums Change During the Cold War? Informational Science Education After Sputnik"
Annual Conference of the Organization for Educational Historians
Chicago, Illinios. September 17-18, 2010.

Ecological, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Lisette Aguilar
Sponsor: Dr. Sascha Usenko

"Modified Pressurized Liquid Extraction-Cleanup Technique of Polychlorinated Dibenzo-p-dioxins and Furans from Contaminated Sediments in the San Jacinto River Waste Pits Superfund Site"
Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry South Central Regional Meeting
Denton, Texas. May 19-20, 2011

Lisette Aguilar
Sponsor: Dr. Sascha Usenko

"EDCs and Pharmaceuticals in the Environment Presentation Title:
Trace Analysis of Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products in Large-Volume Aqueous Samples"
Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry North American Annual Meeting
Portland, Oregon. November 6-11, 2010.

Ram Neupane
Sponsor: Dr. Joseph D. White

"Simulation of Climate Change Impacts on Himalayan Headwater Watershed
Snowmelt Hydrology: Discharge, Sediment Load, and Nutrient Shifts"
American Geophysical Union Meeting
San Francisco, California. December 13-17, 2010.

Jian Yao
Sponsor: Dr. Josephe White

"Impact of Fire Disturbance on Regional NEE for a Sub-humid
Woodland and Grassland Ecosystem"
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting
San Francisco, California. December 13-17, 2010.

Educational Administration

Kerri Bond
Sponsor: Dr. Laine Scales

"Beyond Prestige: Selecting a Graduate School that Fits You"
National Conference for College Women Student Leaders
University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland. June 3-5, 2010.

John Coffer
Sponsor: Dr. Laine Scales

"From Conception to Birth: Advocating for a Family-Friendly Policy in Nine Months"
National Association of Graduate-Professional Students Conference
Boston, Massachusetts. November 11-14, 2010.

Jesse Hines
Sponsor: Dr. Rishi Sriram

"Reframing Student Affairs: Using Theory to Simplify Complexity"
Student Affairs Addministrators in Higher Education Annual Conference
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. March 12-16, 2011.

Morgan Mercer
Sponsor: Dr. Jeffrey Petersen

"Transfer Status and Racial Influence upon Student-Athlete College Choices"
Texas American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance
Galveston, Texas. Decemeber 3, 2010.

Meghan Oster
Sponsor: Dr. Rishi Sriram

"Reclaiming the Scholar in 'Scholar-Practitioner'"
Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education Annual Conference
Philadelphia,Pennsylvania. March 12-16, 2011.

Educational Psychology

Ikuko Aoyama
Sponsor: Dr. Terrill Saxon

"Cyberbullying and Psychological Profiles of Middle and High School Students"
ED-MEDIA 2010- World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications
Toronto, Canada. June 28-July 2, 2010.

Aaron Baggett
Sponsor: Dr. Tonya Davis

"Who's Calling?: Emerging Adults and the Pursuit of Meaning and Purpose"
American College Counseling Association National Conference
St. Louis, Missouri. October 6-9, 2010.

Jessica Brown
Sponsor: Dr. Tamara Hodges

"Social Justice: Closing the Gap Between the Ideal and the Application"
National Association of School Psychology Convention
San Francisco, California
February 22-25, 2011.

Sharon Dacus
Sponsor: Dr. Tonya N. Davis

"A Systemic Analysis of the Influence of Motivating Operations on Attention-Maintained Challenging Behavior"
Applied Behavior Analysis International 2011 Convention
Denver, Colorado. May 26-31, 2011.

Sharon Dacus
Sponsor: Dr. Tamara Hodges

"Social Justice: Closing the Gap Between the Ideal and the Application"
National Association of School Psychology Convention
San Francisco, California. February 22-25, 2011.

Danielle Fearon
Sponsor: Dr. Terrill Saxon

"Positive Youth Development in Unattached Jamaican Young Adults:
A Longitudinal Randomized Controlled Trial of the National Youth Service Corps of Jamaica"
Qualitative Training Group and American Psycholical Association Conference
San Diego, California. August 8-15, 2010.

Danielle Fearon
Sponsor: Dr. Lucy Barnard-Brak

"Sense of Belonging and Burnout amoung First Year Student-Athletes"
American Educational Research Association
New Orleans, Louisiana. August 8-12, 2011.

Karen Frederick
Sponsor: Dr. Lucy Barnard-Brak

"Comparing Attitudes of Entitlement at a Public and a Private University"
Southwest Educational Research Association
San Antonio, Texas. February 2-4, 2011.

Sonia Lee
Sponsor: Dr. Alexander Beaujean

"A Longitudinal Study Examing the Depression-Cognitive Ability Relationship"
Association for Psychological Science
Washington, D.C. May 26-29, 2011.

Linda May
Sponsor: Dr. Tamara Hodges

"Social Justice: Bridging the Gap Between the Ideal and Application"
National Association of School Psychology Annual Conference
San Fransisco, California. February 22-25, 2010.

Tracey Sulak
Sponsor: Dr. Lucy Barnard-Brak

"The Relationship between Father Residency and a
Child's ADHD Symptoms"
American Educational Research Association
New Orleans, Louisiana. April 7-12, 2011.

Engineering

Mohammadreza Abedi
Sponsor: Dr. Ben Song

Optimum Tracking of Nonlinear-Model Predictive Control
for Boost Based PFC Rectifer"
Joint IEEE International Conference on Industrial Electronics
Auburn, Alabama. March 14-16, 2011.

Heather Benoit
Sponsor: Dr. Brian Garner

"Design of a Therapeutic Mechanical Horse"
Summer Bioengineering Conference
Naples, Florida. June 16-19,2010.

Sean Conroy
Sponsor: Dr. Walter Bradley

"Polymer Composites Recinforced with Natural Powders and Fibers made from Renewable Resource By-Products/Agricultural Waste"
International Polyolefins Conference
Houston, Texas. February 27 - March 2, 2011.

Sean Conroy
Sponsor: Dr. Walter Bradley

"Polymer Composites Recinforced with Natural Powders and Fibers made from Renewable Resource By-Products/Agricultural Waste"
11th International Conference on Wood and Biofiber Plastic Composites
Madison, Wisconsin. May 16-18, 2011.

Jace Dane Kelley
Sponsor: Dr. Carolyn Skurla

"Design of a Therapeutic Mechanical Horse" and
"Comparsion of Two Piano Playing Methods Using Motion Capture"
Summer Bioengineering Conference.
Naples, Florida. June 16-19, 2010.

Eric Johns
Sponsor: Dr. Ian Gravagne

"Switched Linear Systems on Time Scales with Relaxed Commutativity Constraints"
Southeastern Symposium on System Theory and Conf. on Industrial Technology
Auburn, Alabama March 14-16, 2011.

Joel White
Sponsor: Dr. Carolyn Skurla

"Design of a Therapeutic Mechanical Horse" and
"Comparsion of Two Piano Playing Methods Using Motion Capture"
Summer Bioengineering Conference.
Naples, Florida. June 16-19, 2010.

Zhuocheng Yang
Sponsor: Dr. James Farison

"Hyperspectral Immage Unmixing vi Quadratic Programming"
Remote Sensing Symposium
Honolulu, Hawaii. July 25-30, 2010.

English

Adrienne Akins
Sponsor: Dr. Sarah K. Ford

"'You Have to Believe to be a Teacher': Teachers and Preachers in Welty and Gaines"
South Central Modern Language Association Conference
Fort Worth, Texas. October 28-30, 2010.

Adrienne Akins
Sponsor: Dr. Sarah K. Ford

"'If You Know How to Read It': Oral and Written Literacy in Losing Battles"
South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference
Atlanta, Georgia. November 5-7, 2010.

Adrienne Akins
Sponsor: Dr. Sarah K. Ford

"'Now what did you want to tell that for?': Violence and Silencing in Losing Battles"
American Literature Association Conference
Boston, Massachuetts. May 26-29, 2011.

Sarah Aspen
Sponsor: Dr. Richard Russell

"The Peculiar Veracity of Virtual Purity: :(Un)healthy Idealization in Past, Present and
Future in Brian Friel's Philadelphia, Here I Come!"
American Conference for Irish Studies
Savannah, Georgia.February 17-19, 2011.

DeAnn Barta
Sponsor: Dr. James Barcus

"Festal Reconciliation in Gerard Manley Hopkins and Josef Pieper"
Christianity and Literature South Central Conference
New Orleans, Louisiana. February 10-12, 2011.

DeAnn Barta
Sponsor: Dr. James Barcus

"The Rules of Engagement: Incorporating Christian Symbols into Film"
Religion in Society Conference
Chicago, Illinois. February 15-17, 2011.

Zachary Beck
Sponsor: Dr. Luke Ferretter

"Decolonizing the Christian Mind"
International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture
Oxford University, England. September 23-26, 2010.

Laura Bedwell
Sponsor: Dr. Tom Hanks

"Arthur as Judge: Assessing the Justice of Malory's Trials by Battle"
Southeastern Medieval Association Annual Meeting
Roanoke, Virginia. November 18-20, 2010.

Jeffrey Bilbro
Sponsor: Dr. William Davis

"Reflective Order: Paul Muldoon's Playful Form"
Christianity and Literature Conference
Edmond, Oklahoma. September 30-October 2, 2010.

Jeffrey Bilbro
Sponsor: Dr. Maurice Hunt

"Learning Vigorous Charity from Nature in Pericles"
South Central Modern Language Association
Ft. Worth, Texas. October 28-30 2010.

Christina Boyles
Sponsor: Dr. Gregg Garrett

"Beyond the Blurry Image: Ingmar Bergman Sees "Through a Glass Darkly""
Conference on Christianity and Literature West
Costa Mesa, California. April 7-9, 2011.

Christina Boyles
Sponsor: Dr. Gregg Garrett

"Ain't No Sunshine When She's Gone: An Examination of Memory
and Sacrement in Michel Gondry's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"
American Literature Association's 22nd Annual Conference
Boston, Massachusetts. May 26-29, 2011.

David Clark
Sponsor: Dr. Thomas Hanks

"Audience and the Organization of the Winchester Mauscript"
Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association Conference
Roanoke, Virginia. November 18-20, 2010.

David Clark
Sponsor: Dr. Thomas Hanks

"Unconscious Editors: Scribal Aesthetics and the Organization of
the Windchester Manuscript"
International Congress of Medieval Studies
Kalamazoo, Michigan. May 12-15, 2011.

Laura Clark
Sponsor: Dr. Thomas Hanks

"King Arthur on the Worst Dressed List: Beard Coats and Monstrosity in Malory's Morte d'Arthur"
Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association Conference
Roanoke, Virginia. November 18-20, 2010.

Christy Davis
Sponsor: Dr. Greg Garrett

"Communion in Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible"
South-Central Conference on Christianity and Literature
New Orleans, Louisiana. February 10-12, 2011.

Lanta Davis
Sponsor: Dr. Sarah Ford

"'And Then I Fell A-Weeping": Tears and Reconciliation
in Puritan Captivity Narratices"
Popular Culture Association/ American Culture Assocation
San Antonio, Texas. April 20-23, 2011.

Lisa Echtenkamp
Sponsor: Dr. Joe Fulton

"Socialist Wishes, Utopian Dreams: 'The Woman Question' in Edward Bellamy's
Looking Backward and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Moving the Mountain"
Sociey for Utopian Studies Annual Meeting
Milwaukee, Wisconsin. October 28-31, 2010.

Robert Hamilton
Sponsor: Dr. Richard Russell

"Remembrance and Expectation: the Architecture of
One by One in the Darkness"
American Conference for Irish Studies
Savannah, Georgia. February 17-19, 2011.

Ginger Hanchey
Sponsor: Dr. Tom Hanks

"Sleep, Watching, and the Female Presence in Malory's Morte Darthur"
Roanoke, Virginia. November 18-20, 2010.

Adam Marshall
Sponsor: Dr. Thomas Hanks

"A Feast of Stories: The Pattern for Christian Fellowship
in George MacDonald's 'The Shadows'"
South-Central Conference on Christianity and Literature
New Orleans, Louisiana. February 11-12, 2011.

Michael Milburn
Sponsor: Dr. James Barcus

"Art according to Romantic Theology: Charles Williams' Analysis of Dante Reapplied to
J.R.R. Tolkiens's 'Leaf by Niggle'"
Mythopoeic Sociey
Dallas, Texas. July 9-12, 2010.

Michael Milburn
Sponsor: Dr. James Barcus

"Domincan Tolkien: Realism and Fantasy in the Brief
Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz"
Southwest Texas Popular Culture Association/ American Culture Association Annual Conference
San Antonio, Texas. April 20-23, 2011.

J. Cameron Moore
Sponsor: Dr. Richard Rankin Russell

"'Hewers of Wood annd Drawers of Water, Right Enough:'
The Rural Landscape in Bernard MacLaverty's _Cal_"
American Center for Irish Studies Southern Regional Meeting
Savannah, Georgia. February 17-19, 2011.

J. Cameron Moore
Sponsor: Dr. Luke Ferretter

"Man Found Alive with Two Legs: Chesterton's Defamiliarizing Method"
C.S. Lewis and Inklings Conference
Tulsa, Oklahoma. April 1-2, 2011.

Dustin Morrow
Sponsor: Dr. Gregg Garrett

"Some People Call Me Lucky: Balanced Literacy for Boys At-Risk"
Popular Culture Association
San Antonio, Texas. April 20-23, 2011.

Alan Noble
Sponsor: Dr. David Jeffery

"Making the Outer Darkness Flesh: Cormac McCarthy's Outer Dark as Parable"
Cormac McCarthy Society Conference
Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas. October 27-30, 2010.

Amanda Nydegger
Sponsor: Dr. James Barcus

"Sauces and Spices, Morsels and Meat: The Food Metaphor in Henry Fielding's Tom Jones"
Midwest Modern Language Association Conference
Chicago, Illinois. November 4-7, 2010.

Courtney Parker
Sponsor: Dr. Richard Russell

"'Housekeeper and High Priestess':
Mudge Mulhern's Spiritual Authority in 'Philadelphia, Here I Come!'"
American Conference of Irish Studies Southern Regional Meeting
Savannah, Georgia. February 17-19, 2011.

Steven Petersheim
Sponsor: Dr. William Davis

"Finding Forms in Nature, Language and Human Life: Spaces of Possibility"
Southwest Conference on Christianity and Literature
Edmond, Oklahoma. September 30-October 2, 2010.

Steven Petersheim
Sponsor: Dr. William Davis

"Hawthorne's "Mischief-Loving Character': Selected 'Passages' of Picaresque Humor"
ALA: 22nd Annual Conference on American Literature
Boston, Massachusetts. May 26-29, 2011.

Rachel Pietka
Sponsor: Dr. Hope Johnson

"Truth, Style, and Genre in Mary Karr's Lit"
Conference on Christianity and Literature
Costa Mesa, California. April 7-9, 2011.

Michael Rawl
Sponsor: Dr. Richard Russell

"Rituals of Violence in Brian Friel's "The Freedom of the City"
American Conference of Irish Studies
Savannah, Georgia. February 17-19, 2011.

Margy Thomas
Sponsor: Dr. Joe Fulton

"Twain's Comic and Tragic Uses of Rhetoric:
The Overthrow of Captain Sellers in Life on the Mississippi"
Mark Twain Circle of America Quadrennial Conference
San Diego, California. December 9-12, 2010.

Margy Thomas
Sponsor: Dr. Joe Fulton

"Walden: Thoreau's Lesson in Tactile Reading"
Pizer College
Claremont, California. April 30- May 3, 2011.

Danielle Williams
Sponsor: Dr. Coretta Pittman

"Conscientizacion and the Borderlands: Critical Pedagogy and the Writings of Ana Castillo"
Watson Conference
Louisville, Kentucky. October 14-16, 2010.

Environmental Science

Bowen Du
Sponsor: Dr. Bryan Brooks

"Development and Validation of an Improved Isotope-Dilution Screening Method for
Pharmaceuticals and Pharmacuetically-Active Metabolites in Fish Tissue"
Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
Portland, Oregon. November 7-11, 2010.

Mark Kolkmeier
Sponsor: Dr. Bryan Brooks

"Developing a Method with a Negatively Phototactic Clone of
Daphnia Magna for Ecotoxicological Assessments"
Society of Enviromental Toxicology and Chemistry North America Annual Meeting
Portland, Oregon. November 7-11, 2010.

Krystal Pree
Sponsor: Dr. Erica Bruce

"Using In vivo and In vitro Models to Develop Toxicity Metrics for Human Health Risk Assessment For Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers (PBDEs)"
Society of Toxicology and Chemistry
Portland, Oregon. November 7-11, 2010

Krista Prosser
Sponsor: Dr. Bryan Brooks

"pH Influences on Ambient Toxicity Associated with Prymnesium Parvum:
Results from a Limnocrral Study in Lake Granbury, Texas, USA"
Society of Toxicology and Chemistry
Portland, Oregon. November 7-11, 2010.

Swati Rawat
Sponsor: Dr. Erica Bruce

"Generating QSAR Models to Predict Oxidative Stress, Apoptosis,
Viability and Reference Doses in Mammalian Cells Due to PBDEs"
Society of Toxicology and Environmental Chemistry Annual Meeting
Portland, Oregon. US. November 7-11, 2010.

Swati Rawat
Sponsor: Dr. Erica Bruce

"Designing Quantitative Structure Activity Relationships (QSAR) ot Predict Specific Toxic Endpoints in Mammalian Cell Culture Systems"
Society for Envronmental Toxicology and Chemistry South Central Regional Chapter
Denton, Texas. May 19-20, 2011.

Eleanor Robinson
Sponsor: Dr. Sascha Usenko

"Semi-Volatile Organic Compounds in Weddell Seal Blubber and
Muscle Tissue from McMurdo Sound, Antarctica"
Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
Portland, Oregon. November 7-11, 2010.

Eleanor Robinson
Sponsor: Dr. Sascha Usenko

"Pesticides and Polychlorinated Bipheynyls in Bowhead
Whale Blubber Layers"
Society of Enviromental Toxicology and Chemistry 21st Annual Meeting
Milan, Italy. May 15-19, 2011.

Geology

Geng Chen
Sponsor: Dr. Sang-Chul Nam

"Role of Centrosomin in Drosophila Photoreceptor"
Society for Developmental Biology Southwest Regional Meeting
Austin, Texas. October 1-3, 2010.

Michelle Diehl
Sponsor: Dr. Joe Yelderman

"Intra-Aquifer Characterization and Potential Management Impacts:
The Trinity Aquifer, Central Texas"
National Groundwater Association Summit
Baltimore, Maryland. May 1-4, 2011.

Daniel Lancaster
Sponsor: Dr. Vincent Cronin

"Seismo-Lineament Analysis of the Kanab-Fredonia Area of Southern Colorado"
Geological Society of America Meeting
Denver, Colorado. October 30-November 3, 2010.

Daniel Lancaster
Sponsor: Dr. Vincent Cronin

"Correlation of Earthquakes with Faults Along the Southwestern Margin
of the Colorado Plateau, Northern Arizona"
American Geophysical Union Meeting
San Francisco, California. December 13-16, 2010.

Holly Meier
Sponsor: Dr. Lee Nordt

"Late Quaternary Alluvial History of the Owl Creek Drainage Basin: Ageormorphic"
Geological Society of America Conference
Denver, Colorado. October 29-November 3, 2010.

Hallie Mintz
Sponsor: Dr. Jay Pulliam

"Subduction Zone Characterization of the Northeast Caribbean
Using Increased Constraings on Focal Mechanism Solutions from Data
Collected with an Ocean Bottom Seismograph Deployment"
American Geophysical Union National Meeting
San Francisco, California. December 12-17, 2010.

Jason Mintz
Sponsor: Dr. Steven Driese

"Sequence Stratigraphic Analysis of Middle Devonian Fluvial Deposits and Correlation
with the Marine in the Appalachian Basin"
American Association of Petroleum Geologists
Houston, Texas. April 10-13, 2011.

Carrie Rockett
Sponsor: Dr. Jay Pulliam

"Seismic Tomographic Imaging of an Upper Mantle Anomaly beneath the Rio Grande Rift"
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting
San Francisco, California. December 13-17, 2010.

Carrie Rockett
Sponsor: Dr. Jay Pulliam

"Seismic Tomographic Imaging of an Upper Mantle"
EarthScope National Meeting
Austin, Texas. May 17-20, 2011.

Gary Stinchcomb
Sponsor: Dr. Steven Driese

"Soil Geomorphology and Stratigraphy Reveal Mid-to-late Holocene Channel"
Geological Society of America Conference
Denver, Colorado. October 30-November 4, 2010.

Alexander Van Plantinga
Sponsor: Dr. Daniel Peppe

"Geoarchaeology of the Pleistocene Wasiriya Beds, Rusinga Island, Kenya"
Geological Society of America Annual Meeting
Denver, Colorado. October 31-November 3, 2010.

Stephanie Wong
Sponsor: Dr. Joe Yelderman

"Quantifying the Extent of Aquifer Reduction Due to Floodpain
Sand and Gravel Mining"
National Groundwater Association Summit
Baltimore, Maryland. May 1-5, 2011.

Health, Human Performance and Recreation

Christopher Buford
Sponsor: Dr. Jeffrey Petersen

"A comparison of student athlete versus student attendance of FBS football"
College Sport Research Institute Conference
Chapel Hill, North Carolina. April 19-22, 2011.

Patrick Haines
Sponsor: Dr. Jeffrey Petersen

"The Effects of One-and-Done on College Basketball"
College Sport Research Institute
Chapel Hill, North Carolina. April 19-22, 2011.

Ryan Kota
Sponsor: Dr. Jeffrey Petersen

"A Comparison of Football Ticket Sales and Marketing Strategies
within Private FBS Institutions"
College Sport Research Institute Conference
Chapel Hill, North Carolina. April 19-22, 2011.

Andrew Lintelman
Sponsor: Dr. Jeffery Petersen

"A Comparison of Football Ticket Sales and Marketing Strategies
within Private FBS Institutions
College Sport Research Institute Conference
Chapel Hill, North Carolina. April 19-22, 2011.

Laurel Littlefield
Sponsor: Dr. Peter Grandjean

Changes in Fibroblast Growth Factor 21 With Weight Loss"
58th Annual Meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine
Denver, Colorado. May 31- June 4, 2011.

Leeann Lower
Sponsor: Dr. Jeffrey Petersen

"A comparison of goal orientation and percieved benefits
between collegiate varisty and club sport"
College Sport Research Institute Conference
Chapel Hill, North Carolina. April 19-22, 2011.

Brandon Rhett Rigby
Sponsor: Dr. Garner

"Comparing the Pelvis Kinematics of Able-Bodied Children During Normal Gait and
When Riding a Therapeutic Horse"
American Society of Mechanical Engineers Summer Bioengineering Conference
Naples, Florida. June 16-19, 2010.

James Rodgers
Sponsor: Dr. Jefferey Petersen

"A Comparison of Football Ticket Sales and Marketing Strategies
within Private FBS Instiutions"
College Sport Research Institute
Chapel Hill, North Carolina. April 19-22, 2011.

Lindsey Short
Sponsor: Dr. Jeffery Petersen

"A Comparison of Football Sales and Marketing Strategies
within Private FBS Institutions"
College Sport Research Institute Conference
Chapel Hill, North Carolina. April 19-22, 2011.

Meron Tamrat
Sponsor: Dr. Jeffery Petersen

"A Survey of Factors Affecting Attendence at Baylor Football Games
College Sport Research Institue Conference
Chapel Hill, North Carolina. April 19-22, 2011.

Lane Wakefield
Sponsor: Dr. Jeffery Petersen

A Comparison of Student-Athlete versus Student Attendance
of FBS Football"
College Sport Research Institute
Chapel Hill, North Carolina. April 19-22, 2011.

History

Meredith Akins
Sponsor: Dr. Stephen Sloan

"Negotiating Narrators: Stories of Revival and Retreat in Small-town Texas"
Oral History Association Annual Meeting
Atlanta, Georgia. October 28-29, 2010.

Lauren Davis
Sponsor: Dr. Barry Hankins

"Confrontations with Antichrist: Understanding the Anti-Catholicism of Jonathan Edwards"
Southwest Historical Association Annual Meeting
Las Vegas, Nevada. March 16-19, 2011.

Thomas DeShong
Sponsor: Dr. Barry Hankins

"Shaping the Home:
the Impact of Religion on Child Rearing in British Colonial America, 1630-1763"
Southwest Historical Association Annual Meeting
Las Vegas, Nevada. March 16-19, 2011.

Sarah Gross
Sponsor: Dr. Barry Hankins

"Anne Bradstreet as Mother and Daughter"
Southwestern Social Sciences Annual Meeting
Las Vegas, Nevada. March 16-19, 2011.

Alisha Hash
Sponsor: Dr. Stephen Sloan

"Accentuate the Positive: The Interviewee as Advocate of a Sanguine Past"
Oral History Association Annual Meeting
Atlanta, Georgia. October 27-31, 2010.

Lucas Miller
Sponsor: Dr. Barry Hankins

"Right On: The Christian World Liberation Front, The Evangelical Left
and the Jesus People"
Southwest Historical Association Conference
Las Vegas, Nevada. March 16-19, 2011.

Laura Oliver
Sponsor: Dr. Barry Hankins

"The Domestic and Social Toils , Relationships,
and Loves of Women in Colonial America"
Southwestern Historical Association Annual Meeting
Las Vegas, Nevada. March 16-19, 2011.

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Information Systems

Gregory Larosiliere
Sponsor: Dr. Timothy Kayworth

"Education Technology Leadership as an Antecedent
to Technology Integration in Education"

BIG XII+ MIS Research Symposium
Manhattan, Kansas. April 8-10, 2011.

Janice Lo
Sponsor: Dr. Cindy Riemenschneider

"Concern, Locus of Control, and Salience in Trust-Risk Model
of Information Disclosure on Social Networking Sites"
Americas Conference on Information Systems
Lima, Peru. August 12-15, 2010.

Janice Lo
Sponsor: Dr. Dorothy Leidner

"An Empirical Investigation of IS Strategy and IS Performance"
International Conference of Information Systems
St. Louis, Missouri. December 12-15, 2010.

Ester Gonzalez
Sponsor: Dr. Dorothy Leidner

"An Empirical Investigation of IS Strategy and IS Contribution to Firm Performance"
International Conference on Information Systems
St. Louis, Missouri. December 12-15, 2010.

Journalism

Billy Collins
Sponsor: Dr. Doug Ferdon

"The Effects of Media Use on Religious People's Perceptions of Plitics and Science"
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Annual Convention
Denver, Colorado. August 4-7, 2010.

Kristine Davis
Sponsor: Dr. Doug Ferdon

"Boosting Their Street Cred: The Establishment of Authority in Podcasting"
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Annual Convention
Denver, Colorado. August 4-7, 2010.

Mathematics

Geoffrey Eisenbarth
Sponsor: Dr. John M. Davis

"The Positivstellensatz and Nonexistence of Common Quadratic Lyapunov Functions"
Conference on Industrial Electronics & Symposium on System Theory
Auburn, Alabama. March 14-16, 2011.

Jose Franco
Sponsor: Dr. Mark Sepanski

"Global SL(2,R) Representation of the Shchrodinger Equation"
University of North Texas and Texas A&M
Workshop on Algebras
Denton, Texas. April 22-23, 2011.

Xueyan Liu
Sponsor: Dr. Johnny Henderson

"Nonlocal Boundary Value Problems for nth Order Differential Equations by Solution Matching"
Joint Mathematics Meetings
New Orleans, Louisiana. January 6-9, 2011.

Xueyan Liu
Sponsor: Dr. Johnny Henderson

"Boundry Value Problems for nth Order Differential Equations by Matching Solutions"
Texas Section Mathmatical Association of America Meeting
Tyler, Texas. April 14-16, 2011.

Jeffrey Neugebauer
Sponsor: Dr. Johnny Henderson

"Comparison of Smallest Eigenvalues"
American Mathematics Society National Meeting
New Orleans, Louisiana. January 6-9, 2011.

Dylan Poulsen
Sponsor: Dr. John M. Davis

The Poisson Process and Associated Probability Distributions on Time Scales
Conference on Industrial Electronics & Symposium on System Theory
Auburn, Alabama. March 14-17, 2011.

Mechanical Engineering

Nikhil Ashtekar
Sponsor: Dr. David Jack

"Parametric Study of Thermal and Electrical Behavior of 3-D CNT Thin Film Networks"
American Society of Mechanical Engineers Congress
Vancouver, Canada. November 12-18, 2010.

Babatunde Agboola
Sponsor: Dr. David Jack

"Fiber Orientation and Stiffness Predictions for Thin Geometries
Using the Fast Exact Closure"
Society of Rheology Annual Meeting
Santa Fe, New Mexico. October 24-28, 2010.

Babatunde Agboola
Sponsor: Dr. David A. Jack

"Investigation of the Effectiveness and Efficiency of the Fast Exact Closure:
Comparison with Industrial Closures and Spherical Harmonic Solutions"
American Society of Mechanical Engineers International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition
Vancouver, Canada. November 15-19, 2010.

Neil Jordan
Sponsor: Dr. Lesley Wright

"Effect of Dimple Depth on Heat Transfer Enhancement in a Rectangular Channel"
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Aerospace Sciences Meeting
Orlando, Florida. January 4-6, 2010.

Cong Zhang
Sponsor: Dr. David Jack

"Fiber Orientation for Suspensions of Long Fibers: Comparison of Rigid and Flexible Models"
Society of Rheology Annual Meeting
Santa Fe, New Mexico. October 24-28, 2010.

Cong Zhang
Sponsor: Dr. David A. Jack

"Modeling of Flexible Fiber Motion and Orientation in Simple Shear Flow:
A Comparison Between Rod-Chain Model and Jeffery's Equation"
American Society of Mechanical Engineers International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition British Columbia
Vancouver, Canada. November 12-18, 2010.

Museum Studies

Jennifer Restauri
Sponsor: Dr. Ken Hafertep

"Original-Copy-Fake: On the Significance of the Object in History and Archaeology Museums"
International Council of Museums Triennial Conference
Shangai, China. November 7-12, 2010.

Music Studies

Steffen Baral
Sponsor: Dr. Wiff Rudd

"Trumpet Ensemble/ Solo Competition"
National Trumpet Competition
Arlington, Virginia. March 16-19, 2011.

Caroline Hand
Sponsor: Dr. Eric Wilson

"4A Flute Adjudicator"
Texas Music Educators Association Conference
San Antonio, Texas. February 9-12, 2011.

Katherine Massa
Sponsor: Dr. Jeffrey Powers

"Masterclasses and Clinics"
The Western Illinois University Horn Festival
Macomb, Illinois. February 20,2011.

Elizabeth Peroutka
Sponsor: Dr. Wiff Rudd

"Trumpet Ensemble"
National Trumpet Competition
Fairfax, Virginia. March 17-20, 2011.

Emily Snider
Sponsor: Dr. David Music

"Hymns and Doctrine: God's Tanscendene and Immanence"
The Hymn Society Annual Conference
Birmingham, Alabama. July 11-15, 2010.

Nurse Practitioner

Rebecca Martin
Sponsor: Dr. Claudia Beal

"Education for Advanced Nursing Practice: Teaching Culturally
Relevant Hygiene"
National Organization of Nurse Practictioner Faculties 37th Annual Conference
Albuquerque, New Mexico. April 14-17, 2011.

Rebecca Martin
Sponsor: Dr. Lori Spies

"Schistosomiasis: Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prevention"
International Nursing Symposium
Limuru, Nairobi, Kenya. Feburary 28-March 5, 2011.

Performance Studies

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Philosophy

Timothy Ryan Byerly
Sponsor: Dr. Trent Doughtery

"Explanationism and Justified Beliefs About the Future"
Rochester Epistemology Conference
Rochester, New York. October 22-23, 2010.

Timothy Ryan Byerly
Sponsor: Dr. Trent Doughtery

"Explanationism and Justified Beliefs About the Future"
Rochester Epistemology Conference
Rochester, New York. October 22-23, 2010.

Paul Carron
Sponsor: Dr. Robert Roberts

"Murdoch and Kierkegaard on Techiques of Purification"
Iris Murdoch Society
Kingston upon Thames, England. September 10-11, 2010.

Nathan Carson
Sponsor: Dr. Michael Beaty

"Neither Cartesian Angel nor Darwinian Beast:
Walker Percy on Human Unsignifability, Anxiety and Virtue"
Toward a Science of the True Virture Conference
Mount Berry, Georgia. November 4-5, 2010.

Nathan Carson
Sponsor: Dr. Robert C. Roberts

"Thick Ethical Concepts Still Cannot be Disentangled: A Critical
Response to Payne, Blomberg, and Blackburn"
Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association
Minneapolis, Minnesota. March 31- April 2, 2011.

Lindsay Cleveland
Sponsor: Dr. Robert Roberts

"Healed by Humility, Elevated by Hope:
Aquinas' Transformation of Aristole's Magnanimous Man"
Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture 11th Annual Conference
South Bend, Indiana. November 18-21, 2010.

Lindsay Cleveland
Sponsor: Dr. Robert Roberts

"A Defense of Aquinas' Transformation of Aristotelian Magnanimity"
Society of Christian Philosophers Pacific and Mountain Region Conference
Newberg, Oregon. March 3-5, 2011.

Scott Cleveland
Sponsor: Dr. Robert Roberts

Childlikeness and Its Virtues
Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture 11th Annual Conference
South Bend, Indiana. November 18-21, 2010.

Scott Cleveland
Sponsor: Dr. Robert Roberts

"The Distinctiveness of Intellectual Virtues: A Response to Roberts and Wood"
Society of Christian Philosophers-Pacific and Mountain Region Conference
Newberg, Oregon. March 3-5,2011.

Travis Coblentz
Sponsor: Dr. Anne-Marie Bowery

"A Cruel and Unusual Paper: Can There Be an 'I' Without an 'Eye for an Eye'?"
Evangelical Philosophical Society Conference
Atlanta, Georgia. November 17-19, 2010.

Logan Gage
Sponsor: Dr. Trent Dougherty

"Evidence and What We Make of It"
University of Miami Graduate Epistemology Conference
Miami, Florida. January 12-16, 2011.

David Echelbarger
Sponsor: Dr. Robert C. Roberts

"Deliberating with Passion"
Moral Emotions and Intuitions
The Hauge, Netherlands. May 25-27, 2011.

Logan Gage
Sponsor: Dr. Robert C. Roberts

"Creating our own Moral Luck"
The Virtue Revolution: The History of Virtue in Philosophy and Theology
Houston, Texas. April 8-9, 2011.

Nate Jackson
Sponsor: Dr. Trent Dougherty

"A Huemer-ous Response to the Great Pumpkin Objection"
Sixth Biennial Rochester Graduate Epistemology Conference
Rochester, New York. October 22-23, 2010.

Nate Jackson
Sponsor: Dr. Stuart Rosenbaum

"Questioning Balance- Towards Integrity as Dewey's Moral Ideal"
38th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy
Spokane, Washington. March 10-12, 2011.

Daniel Johnson
Sponsor: Dr. Robert Roberts

"Foundational Beliefs and Persuading with Humor: Reflections Inspired by Reid and Kierkegaard"
Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Philosophical Society
Atlanta, Georgia. November 17-20.

Daniel Johnson
Sponsor: Dr. Alexander Pruss

"Reidian Internalism"
Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association
San Diego, California. April 20-22, 2011.

Janelle Klapauszak
Sponsor: Dr. Robert Roberts

"The Godfather and Plato's Republic"
Film and Philosophy Conference at Warwick Univeristy
Coventry, England. July 15-17, 2010.

Kraig Martin
Sponsor: Dr. Jon Kvanvig

"Epistemic Possibility and Closure of Inquiry"
American Philosophical Society Central Meeting
Minneapolis, Minnesota. March 30- April 2, 2011.

Kraig Martin
Sponsor: Dr. Trent Dougherty

"Can Epistemic Normativity be Reduced to Synchronic Evidential Fit?"
American Philosophical Society Pacific Meeting
San Diego, California. April 20-23, 2011.

Adam Pelser
Sponsor: Dr. Robert Roberts

"Foundational Beliefs and Persuading with Humor:
Reflections Inspired by Ried and Kierkegaard"
Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Philosophical Society
Atlanta, Georgia. November 17-20, 2010.

Adam Pelser
Sponsor: Dr. Robert Roberts

"Against Frankfurt's Care Ground of Importance"
Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association
San Diego, California. April 20-23, 2011.

Gregory Poore
Sponsor: Dr. C. Stephen Evans

"Does God Intend Everything He Commands?"
National Meeting of the Evangelical Philosophical Association
Atlanta, Georgia. November 17-19, 2010.

Gregory Poore
Sponsor: Dr. Thomas Hibbs

"Why Care for the Serverly Disabled? A Critique of MacIntyre's Account"
Pacific Meeting of the American Philosophical Association
San Diego, California. April 20-23, 2011.

Joel Schwartz
Sponsor: Dr. C. Stephen Evans

"Human Rights Without Law: Is it Possible?"
Evangelical Philosophical Society Conference
Atlanta, Georgia. November 17-19, 2010.

Joel Schwartz
Sponsor: Dr. Robert Kruschwitz

"Teaching to Persons, Not Computers"
Midwest Evangelical Philosophical Society Conference
Cincinnati, Ohio. March 25-26, 2011.

Christopher Shrock
Sponsor: Dr. Todd Buras

"Yellow is not a Color"
New Mexico- West Texas Philosophical Society Annual Meeting
El Paso, Texas. April 15-17, 2011.

John Spano
Sponsor: Dr. Robert Roberts

"Good Memory"
Society for Christian Philosophers
Holland, Minnesota. February 24-26, 2011.

John Spano
Sponsor: Dr. Robert Roberts

"Good Memory"
Virtue Revolution
Houston, Texas. April 8-9, 2011.

Chris Tweedt
Sponsor: Dr. Trent Dougherty

"Can Agent Causation Solve All the Compatibilist's Problems?"
North Carolina Philosophical Society Annual Meeting
Boone, North Carolina. February 25-26, 2011.

Chris Tweedt
Sponsor: Dr. Trent Dougherty

"Splitting the Horns of Euthyphro's Modal Relative"
Christian Philosophers Moutain-Pacific Regional Meeting
Portland, Oregon. March 3-6, 2011.

Tom Tong
Sponsor: Dr. Robert Roberts

"Are We Governed by Laws Essentially?"
Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Philosophical Society
Atlanta, Georgia. November 17-19, 2010.

Physics

Angela Douglass
Sponsor: Dr. Truell Hyde

"Interactions Between Multiple Sized Particle Bilayers"
American Physical Society DPP Meeting
Chicago, Illinois. November 8-12,2010.

Martin Frank
Sponsor: Dr. Jay Dittman

"Search for Standard Model Higgs
Boson Production in Association with a W Boson at CDF"
American Physical Society April Meeting
Anaheim, California. April 30- May 3, 2011.

Brandon Harris
Sponsor: Dr. Truell Hyde

"Probe Induced Low Density Dust Regions in Complex Plasma"
Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics
Chicago, Illinois. November 8-12, 2010.

Yongqing Huang
Sponsor: Dr. Anzhong Wang

"Stong Coupling in Non-Relativistic General
Covariant Theory with a Running Constant"
27th Pacific Coast Gravity Meeting
Pasadena, California. March 18-19, 2011.

Qianyu Ma
Sponsor: Dr. Lorin Matthews

"Charging of Aggregates in the Heliosphere"
Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics
Chicago, Illinois. November 8-12,2010.

Qianyu Ma
Sponsor: Dr. Lorin Matthews

"Charging of Interplanetary Dust Grains and Consequences for Aggregation"
42nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference
The Woodlands, Texas. March, 7 - 11, 2011.

Jonathan Perry
Sponsor: Dr. Lorin Matthews

"Effect of Charged-Magnetic Grains in Protoplanetary Disks"
Committee on Space Research
Bremen, Germany. June 18-24,2010.

Jonathan Perry
Sponsor: Dr. Lorin Matthews

"Effects of Charged-Magnetic Grains in Protoplanetary Disks"
Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics
Chicago, Illinois. November 8-12, 2010.

Timothy Renner
Sponsor: Dr. Gerald Cleaver

"Systematic Investigations of the Free Fermionic Jheterotic String Landscape
String Vacuum Project Fall Meeting
Columbus, Ohio. November 5-8, 2010.

Satheeshkumar V.H.
Sponsor: Dr. Anzhong Wang

"Blackholes in General Covariant Theory of Quantum Gravity"
27th Pacific Coast Gravity Meeting
Pasadena, California. March 18-19, 2011.

Zhenbin Wu
Sponsor: Dr. Jay Dittman

"Measurement of Sing Top Quark Production Cross Section at CDF"
American Physical Society's April Meeting
Anaheim, California. April 30- May 3, 2011.

Nan-Hsin Yu
Sponsor: Dr. Ken Park

"Surface Reconstruction of TiO2 (001) studied by STM and LEED"
American Physical Society Texas Meeting
San Antonio, Texas. October 21-23, 2010.

Nan-Hsin Yu
Sponsor: Dr. Ken Park

"Revisting Low-Temperature Reconstruction of TiO2(001)"
American Physical Society March Meeting
Dallas, Texas. March 21-25, 2011.

Zhuanhao Zhang
Sponsor: Dr. Truell Hyde

"A Simple Method to Measure the Interaction Potential
between Dielectric Grains in a Dusty Plasma"
Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics
Chicago, Illinois. November 8-12, 2010.

Politcal Science

Elizabeth Amato
Sponsor: Dr. Mary P. Nichols

"Tom Wolfe's Critique of the Pursuit of Happiness"
Conference on Science and Virtue at Berry College
Mount Berry, Georgia. November 3-5, 2010.

Elizabeth Amato
Sponsor: Dr. Mary P. Nichols

"Liberty, Responsibility and the American Revolution in Irving's "Rip Van Winkle""
Conference Mid-West Political Science Association Annual Conference
Chicago, Illinois. March 31- April 2, 2011.

Christopher Bissex
Sponsor: Dr. David K. Nichols

"The Possibility of Happiness: Tragedy and Redemption in the Nicomachean Ethics"
Southwestern Social Science Association Meeting
Las Vegas, Nevada. March 16-19, 2011.

Rex G. Carr Jr.
Sponsor: Dr. David Clinton

"The Politics of Overcoming: Zarathustra and the Reappropriation of Human History"
Lone Star Chapter: Conference for the Study of Political Thought
Tyler, Texas. February 26, 2011.

Matthew Dinan
Sponsor: Dr. Mary P. Nichols

"Traces of Plato: Plato and Derrida on Philosophy and the City"
American Political Science Association Meeting
Washington, D.C. September 1-5, 2010.

Matthew Dinan
Sponsor: Dr. Mary P. Nichols

"Old Curriculum in the Contemporary World:
The Lasting Relevance of the Traditional Liberal Arts"
International Conference on the Liberal Arts
Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. September 30-October 2, 2010.

Robert Enzweiler
Sponsor: Dr. Laine Scales

"From Conception to Birth: Creating a Family Friendly Policy in Nine Months"
National Association of Graduate-Professional Students Annual Conference
Cambridge, Massachusetts. November 11-14, 2010.

Jerome Foss
Sponsor: Dr. David Nichols

"A Country for Old Men: Friendship across Generations in Gran Torino and Up"
Faith, Film and Philosophy Conference
Spokane, Washington. October 8-9, 2010.

Jerome Foss
Sponsor: Dr. David Nichols

"The Development of Rawlsian Constitutionalism"
Southwest Political Science Association
Las Vegas, Nevada. March 17-19, 2011..

Julie Ooms
Sponsor: Dr. Coretta Pittman

"How Tim O' Brien's 'The Things They Carried' Can Teach"
Thomas R. Watson Conference
Louisville, Kentucky. October 14-16, 2010.

Vincent Reighard
Sponsor: Dr. David Nichols

"Thucydides' Trascendence of Greek History in his Peloponnesian War"
Southwestern Political Science Association
Las Vegas, Nevada. March 16-19, 2011.

Julianne Romanello
Sponsor: Dr. David Corey

"Education and the Open Soul: Eric Voegelin on Plato's Resistance to Social Disorder"
American Political Science Association Meeting
Washington, D.C. September 2-5,2010.

Mark Scully
Sponsor: Dr. Curt Nichols

"The Casey Court and Regime Poltiics"
Southern Political Science Association
New Orleans, Louisiana. January 6-8, 2011.

Psychology & Neuroscience

Nathaniel Anderson
Sponsor: Dr. Matthew Stanford

"Antisocial Traits Predict Reduced Rates of Habituation to an Acoustic Startle Probe"
50th Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research
Portland, Oregon. September 29-October 3, 2010.

Lindsay Backer
Sponsor: Dr. Julie Patcok-Peckham

"Gender Specific Mediational Links Between Parental Bonds, Antisocial Personality, Anger
Hostility, Reasons for Drinking and Alcohol Problems"
Research Society on Alcoholism
San Antonio, Texas. June 26-30, 2010.

Hillary Blakeley
Sponsor: Dr. Brad Keele

"Arg-vasopressin and Oxytocin Differentially Modulate Hyperpolarization-Activated
Current in Neurons of the Rat Lateral Amygdala"
Society for Neuroscience Conference
San Diego, California. November 12-17, 2010.

Robert Carlisle
Sponsor: Dr. Jo-Ann Tsang

"Apology, Restitution, and Religious Orientation's Effect on Forgiveness of a Stranger"
Scientific Study of Religion
Baltimore, Maryland. October 29-31, 2010.

Robert Carlisle
Sponsor: Dr. Jo-Ann Tsang

"The Differential Effects of Restitution and Apology
on Behavioral and Self-Reported Forgiveness"
Annual Meeting for the Society for Personality and Social Psychology
San Antonio, Texas. January 27-29,2011.

Kara Emery
Sponsor: Dr. Keith Sanford

"Behavioral Indicators of Underlying Concerns in Interpersonal Conflict"
Association for Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies
San Antonio, Texas. November 18-21, 2010.

William Fisher
Sponsor: Dr. Gary Elkins

"Measuring Distress in a College Student Population: The Elkins Distress Scale"
Texas Psychological Association Annual Convention
Dallas, Texas. November 4-7, 2010.

Kristi Fogle
Sponsor: Dr. Randal Boldt

"Coloring Outside The Lines: Innovative Group Therapy Techniques with Millenials"
Texas Psychological Association Annual Convention
Dallas, Texas. November 4-6, 2010.

Megan Haggard
Sponsor: Dr. Wade C. Rowatt

"Better Understanding the Religiosity-Prejudice Link"
Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology
San Antonio, Texas. January 27-29, 2011.

Rebecca Helfand
Sponsor: Dr. Jim Diaz-Granados

"Taurine Supplementation Reduces Ethanol Consumption and Preference in Adolescent Mice"
Research Society on Alcoholism
San Antonio, Texas. June 26-30, 2010.

Aimee Johnson
Sponsor: Dr. Gary Elkins

"Measuring Distress in a College Student Population: The Elkins Distress Scale"
Texas Psychological Association Annual Convention
Dallas, Texas. November 4-7, 2010.

Megan Johnson
Sponsor: Dr. Wade C. Rowatt

"Religion and Value-violating Prejudices:
Does Priming Religion Increase Prejudice Against Value-violating Out-groups?"
and
"Priming religion and implicit racial bias: Does gender matter?"
Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
Baltimore, Maryland. October 28-30, 2010.

Megan Johnson
Sponsor: Dr. Wade C. Rowatt

"Better Understanding the Religiosity-Prejudice Link: Rigid, Closed-minded
Ideologies Fully Mediate the Religiosity-Prejudice Relationship"
Society for Personality and Social Psychology
San Antonio, Texas. January 26-29, 2011.

Shehzad Jooma
Sponsor: Dr. Gary Brooks

"Enhancing Men's Lives: Clinical and Research Approaches; Name of Presentation:
Men's Reactions to Variants of Self-Disclosure in Male Psychotherapists"
Texas Psychological Association Annual Conference
Dallas, Texas. November 3-6, 2010.

Jordan LaBouff
Sponsor: Dr. Wade C. Rowatt

"Religion in Context: Ecologically Valid Methods
in the Priming of Religion Across Cultures"
The Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
Baltimore, Maryland. October 28-31, 2010.

Jordan LaBouff
Sponsor: Dr. Wade C. Rowatt

"Differences in Attitudes Towards Outgroups in Religious and Non-Religious Contexts in Europe:
Situational Context Priming"
Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology
San Antonio, Texas. January 27-29, 2011.

Sarah Martindale
Sponsor: Dr. Sara Dolan

"Differences in Coping Strategies Implemented Among Substance Abusers in Residential Treatment"
Research Society on Alcoholism
San Antonio, Texas. June 26-30, 2010.

Laura Sejud
Sponsor: Dr. Randal Boldt

"Coloring Outside the Lines: How to Build a
Creative Arts Therapy Group at a Counseling Center"
Texas University and College Counseling Center Conference
San Marcos, Texas. February 24-25, 2011.

Kelsie Tatum
Sponsor: Dr. Randal Boldt

"Coloring Outside the Lines: Innovative Group Therapy Techniques with Millenials"
Texas Psychological Association Annual Convention
Dallas, Texas. November 4-6, 2010.

Kelsie Tatum
Sponsor: Dr. Randal Boldt

"Coloring Outside the Lines: Blending the Creative Arts
into a Psychotherapy Process Group"
Texas University and College Counseling Center Conference
San Marcos, Texas. February 24-25, 2011.

Religion

Seung Ho Bang
Sponsor: Dr. James Nogalski

"Is There Any Seed Left in the Barn?: Grain Storage
in Yehud during the Late 6th Century B.C.E."
Southwest Commission of Religious Studies
Irving, Texas. February 5-6, 2011.

Ginny Brewer-Boydston
Sponsor: Dr. Bill Bellinger

"Moving Beyond Proverbs:
Cosmic Folly and Gifted Wisdom in the Dead Sea Scrolls"
Meeting of National Association of Baptist Professors in Religion
Boiling Springs, North Carolina. May 22-25, 2011.

Tim Brookins
Sponsor: Dr. Bruce Longenecker

"Rhetoric and Philosophy in the First Century: Their Relation in Relation to 1 Cor 1-4"
Society of Biblical Literature Annual Conference
Atlanta, Georgia. November 19-23, 2010.

Tim Brookins
Sponsor: Dr. Bruce Longenecker

"The Gymnasium in Roman Cities"
Classical Association of Middle West and South
Grand Rapids, Minnesota. April 6-9, 2011.

Craig Clarkson
Sponsor: Dr. Bill Pitts

"Edinburgh and the World: How Reciprocal Influence and the
'Federative Principle' Created the International Missionary Council"
Conference on Faith and History Biennial Fall Meeting
Eugene, Oregon. October 7-9, 2010.

Craig Clarkson
Sponsor: Dr. Bill Pitts

"Edinburgh and the World: How Reciprocal Influences in the
Development of International Ventures in Missionary Cooperation and Unity"
American Academy of Religion National Meeting
Atlanta, Georgia. October 30-November 1, 2010.

Brandon Frick
Sponsor: Dr. Paul Martens

"Younger than Sin: Retrieving Simplicity Through the Virtues of Humility, Wonder and Joy"
Christian Spirituality, Simplicity, and the Environment
South Bend, Indiana. November 18-20, 2010.

Brandon Frick
Sponsor: Dr. Paul Martens

"Christ and the Creature: Towards a Barthian Animal Ethic"
Central Texas Colloquium on Religion
Austin, Texas. February 19-, 2011

Roy Garton
Sponsor: Dr. James D. Nogalski

"Drought and Deceit: The Structure and
Intertextuality of Jeremiah 14:7-9, 19-22"
Society of Biblical Literature Annual Conference
Atlanta, Georgia. November 20-23, 2010.

Eric Gilchrest
Sponsor: Dr. Lidija Novakovic

"The Social Setting of Revelation and the Question of Persecution"
National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion
Boiling Springs, North Carolina. May 22-25, 2011.

Heather Gorman
Sponsor: Dr. Mike Parsons

"Irreconcilable Distances:
A Challenge to the Assumed Authorial Unity of Luke and Acts"
Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting
Atlanta, Georgia. November 19-23, 2010.

Heather Gorman
Sponsor: Dr. Mike Parsons

"Reshaping the Same Piece of Wax: Ancient
Rhetoric and Luke's Passion Narrative"
Stone Campbell Journal Conference
Cincinnati, Ohio. April 8-9, 2011.

James Gorman
Sponsor: Dr. Barry Hankins

Clash of Conversion in the Second Great Awakening:
New Birth in James McGready and Barton Stone"
Southwest Social Science Association Annual Meeting
Las Vegas, Nevada. March 16-19, 2011.

Bracy Hill
Sponsor: Dr. Bill Pitts

"A Judicious Genealogy: The Pedigree of James Peirce"
Biennial National Meeting Conference on Faith and History
Newberg, Oregon. October 7-9, 2010.

Meredith Holladay
Sponsor: Dr. Chris Marsh

"More than Prepositions: Re-visiting Christ and Culture to Reconcile the Sacred and Secular
in Art and Theological Aesthetics"
National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion/ College Theology
University of Portland, Portland, Oregon. June 3-6, 2010.

Jesse Hoover
Sponsor:Dr. Daniel H. Williams

"Structuring the Divine Economy: the Internal Logic of the Fount of Knowledge"
Archbishop Iakovos Graduate Student Conference in Patristic Studies
Boston, Massachusetts. March 10-12, 2011.

Warren Hulbert
Sponsor: Dr. Joel Burnett

"You Shall not Stand Idly By: The Hebrew
Bible and the Alien Among Us"
Stone Campbell Journal Conference
Cincinnati, Ohio. April 8-9, 2011.

Jangho Jo
Sponsor: Dr. D. H. Williams

"From Eschatological Babylon to Histocial Nineveh:
Augustine's Re-Conceptualization of Rome"
Graduate Student Conference in Patristic Studies
Boston, Massachusetts. March 10-12, 2011.

Jangho Jo
Sponsor: Dr. D. H. Williams

"The City of God: A Political Work?"
National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion
Boiling Springs, North Carolina. May 22-25, 2011.

Courtney Lyons
Sponsor: Dr. Doug Weaver

"Racial Uplift is Not Enough: Nannie Helen Burroughs and 'Gender Uplift'"
American Historical Associaiton
Boston, Massachusetts. January 06-09, 2011.

Bryan Maine
Sponsor: Dr. Rady Roldan-Figueroa

"'Some Bastards...Surpass Legitimate Children in the Probity of their Character':
Erasmus on Illegitimacy and Moral Education"
Southwest Commission on Religious Studies
Dallas, Texas. March 4-6, 2011.

David Melvin
Sponsor: Dr. James Nogalski

"Making All Things New (Again):
Zephaniah's Eschatological Vision of a Return to Primeval Time"
American Oriental Society Symposium
Bourbonnais, Illinios. February 11-13, 2011.

Alicia Myers
Sponsor: Dr. Charles H. Talbert

"Jesus Said to Them . . . : Defense and Testimony in John 5:19-47"
Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting
Atlanta, Georgia. November 20-23, 2010.

B.J. Parker
Sponsor: Dr. James D. Nogalski

"Locusts as Leitmotif" and "Watching the Watchers"
National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion
Boiling Springs, North Carolina. May 22-25, 2011.

Peter Reynolds
Sponsor: Dr. Mikeal Parsons

"Recasting a Fish Story"
Society of Biblical Studies National Meeting
Atlanta, Georgia. November 20-23, 2010.

Peter Reynolds
Sponsor: Dr. Mikeal Parsons

"Power through Weakness: Paul and His Opponents in 2 Corinthians"
Society of Pentecostal Studies
Memphis, Tennessee.March 10-12, 2011.

Christopher Richmann
Sponsor: Dr. Barry Hankins

"Protecting the Pulpit: Rejection of Minsterial Candidates in Puritan New England"
Southwestern Social Sciences Association Conference
Las Vegas, Nevada. March 16-19, 2011.

Christopher Richmann
Sponsor: Dr. Bill Pitts

"Denominations, Doctrine, and the End Times: The Development of American
Pentecostal Eschatology, 1911-150""
Society for Pentecostal Studies Annual Meeting
Memphis, Tennessee. March 10-12, 2011.

Christopher Rios
Sponsor: Dr. Doug Weaver

"Complementarity, its Past and Future"
Annual Meeting of the American Scientific Affiliation
Catholic University of America
Washington, D.C. July 30-August 1, 2010.

Scott Rushing
Sponsor: Dr. D. H. Williams

"Ascetic Discipline, Virtue, and Nicene Orthodoxy: The
Apostolic Heritage of the Desert Fathers"
Archbishop Iakovos Graduate Student Conference in Patristics
Brookline, Massachusetts. March 10-12, 2011.

Scott Rushing
Sponsor: Dr. Daniel H. Williams

"Ascetic Discipline, Virtue, and Nicene Orthodoxy:
The Apostolic Heritage of the Desert Fathers"
National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion
Boiling Springs, North Carolina. May 22-25, 2011.

Andrew Selby
Sponsor: Dr. Daniel Williams

How Eastern Trinitarian Theology Went West: Ambrose of
Milan's Selective Use of Sources in De Spiritu Sancto"
Annual Archbishop Iakovos Conference in Patristic Studies
Brookline, Massachusetts. March 10-12, 2011.

Anna Sieges
Sponsor: Dr. James D. Nogalski

"'Even the Cattle Repent':
How Jonah 'One-Ups Joel'"
National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion
Boiling Springs, North Carolina. May 22-25, 2011.

Robert Smith
Sponsor: Dr. Chris Marsh

Co-chair & Respondent, Seminar on Christian Zionism in Comparative Perspective
American Academy of Religion General Meeting
Atlanta, Georgia. October 31-November 2, 2010.

Jeremy Stirm
Sponsor: Dr. Doug Weaver

"Metaphysics and the Care of Souls"
Central Texas Colloquium on Religion
Austin, Texas. February 19, 2011.

Kyle Welty
Sponsor: Dr. Bill Pitts

"Piety and Promotion: Written Accounts of Foreign Mission in British"
Conference on Faith and History
Newberg, Oregon. October 7-8, 2010

Kyle Welty
Sponsor: Dr. Bill Pitts

"Promotion of the Wesleyan-Methodist Missionary Cause, 1790-1840"
American Society of Church History
Grand Rapids, Minnesota. April 8-10, 2011.

Myles Werntz
Sponsor: Dr. Barry Harvey

"Worlds Without Ends: Foucault and Augustine on Social Conscription and War"
American Academy of Religion General Meeting
Atlanta, Georgia. October 30-November 1, 2010.

Myles Werntz
Sponsor: Dr. Barry Harvey

"The Resistance to Death is Death:
Christ, Church, and the Powers in William Stringfellow"
National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion
Boiling Springs, North Carolina. May 22-25, 2011.

Michael Whitenton
Sponsor: Dr. Bruce W. Longenecker

"David Himself Calls Him 'Lord'": The Rhetorical Function
of the Kyrios Christology in the Gospel of Mark
Southwest Commission on Religious Studies
Irving, TX. March 4–6, 2011.

Will Williams
Sponsor: Dr. Paul Martens

"Kierkegaard's Irony as Constructive of the Self/Other Relation"
International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture Conference
Oxford, England. September 23-26, 2010.

Will Williams
Sponsor: Dr. Paul Martens

"Selfhood, Irony and the Kierkegaardian Baptist"
National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion
Boiling Springs, North Carolina. May 22-25, 2011.

David Wilmington
Sponsor: Dr. Barry Harvey

"Freedom in the Groove: Why Virtues Ethics Needs Improvisation"
American Academy of Religion General Meeting
Atlanta, Georgia. October 29-November 1, 2010.

Nick Zola
Sponsor: Bruce Longnecker

"Tatian's 'Second to Last' Supper: The Diatessaron and the Crucifixion Chronology"
Society of Biblical Literature
Atlanta, Georgia. November 20-23, 2010.

Nick Zola
Sponsor: Dr. Mikeal C. Parsons

"To Burn" or "To Boast"? Martyrdom and the Patristic Interpretations of 1 Cor 13:3"
Southwest Commission on Religious Studies-SBL Regional Southwest
Irving, Texas. March 4-6, 2011.

Sociology

Katherine Ballew
Sponsor: Dr. Marsha Sherman

"Sexual Behavior in Single-Father and Single-Mother Households"
American Sociolgoical Association Annual Meeting
Atlanta, Georgia. August 14-17, 2010.

Katherine Ballew
Sponsor: Dr. Robyn Driskell

"Morality, Community Ideals and the Impact of the Internet"
Southwestern Social Sciences Association Annual Meeting
Las Vegas, Nevada. March 16-20, 2011.

Paul Castronova
Sponsor: Dr. Chris Bader

"Gender, Risk, and Religiosity"
Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Annual Meeting
Baltimore, Maryland. October 28-31, 2010.

Phil Davignon
Sponsor: Dr. Robyn Driskell

"Cultural Broadening Theory Revisited: The Effects of Peer
Groups on Future Religiostiy"
Southwest Social Science Association Annual Meeting
Las Vegas, Nevada. March 16-19, 2011.

Scott Draper
Sponsor: Dr. Jerry Park

"Leaving the Past Behind: An Analysis of Change in Individual Religious"
Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
Baltimore, Maryland. October 29-31, 2010.

Scott Draper
Sponsor: Dr. Marsha Sherman

"What Will the Neighbors Think? The Effect of Moral Communities on Cohabitation"
Association for the Study of Religion, Economics and Culture 10th Annual Conference
Arlington, Virginia. April 7-10, 2011.

Kimberly Edwards
Sponsor: Dr. Robyn Driskell

"The Third Place: Examples of Third Place Communities Found in the Media"
Southwestern Social Science Association
Las Vegas, Nevada. March 16-19, 2011.

Aaron Franzen
Sponsor: Dr. Paul Froese

"Impact of Experiences on Religious Certainty"
Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
Baltimore, Maryland. October 29-31, 2010.

Anna Garland
Sponsor: Dr. Robyn Driskell

"Economic Growth, Fertility, and Education"
Southwestern Social Science Association
Las Vegas, Nevada. March 16-20, 2011

Alessandra Gonzalez
Sponsor: Dr. Paul Forese

"Gender and Mosque Networks in a Majority Muslim Context: The Case of Kuwait"
Amerian Sociological Association Conference
Atlanta, Georgia. August 13-16, 2010.

Alessandra Gonzalez
Sponsor: Dr. Paul Forese

"Aisha and the King: Practically Assessing the Value of Islamic Feminism in Yemen
and Other Developing Contexts"
Exeter Gulf Studies Conference
Univeristy of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. July 7-10, 2010.

Shanna Granstra
Sponsor: Dr. Jerry Park

"Judge Not Lest Ye Be Judged: Relationships between
Body Mass Index and Engagement in a Religious Community"
Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
Baltimore, Maryland. October 29-31, 2010.

Matthew Martinez
Sponsor: Dr. Robyn Driskell

"Planned Communities: Historic and Present Insights; A Children's Story"
Southwestern Social Science Association
Las Vegas, Nevada. March 16-19, 2011.

Lindsay Morrow
Sponsor: Dr. Sung-Joon Jang

"Minimally Counter-intuitive God Concepts"
Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Annual Conference
Baltimore, Maryland. October 29-31, 2010.

Andy Pagel
Sponsor: Dr. Robyn Driskell

"Parent-Child Relationships and their Impacts on God Images"
Southwest Social Science Association Annual Meeting
Las Vegas, Nevada. March 16-19, 2011.

Ashley Palmer
Sponsor: Dr. Sung Joon Jang

"Gender Differences in Strain during Emerging Adulthood"
American Society of Criminology Annual Meetings
San Francisco, California. October 17-20, 2010.

Ashley Palmer
Sponsor: Dr. Chris Bader

"Gender, Risk, and Religiosity"
Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Annual Meeting
Baltimore, Maryland. October 29-31, 2010.

Cassidy Pederson
Sponsor: Dr. Robyn Driskell

"Migration, Mobility and Social Disorganization in Rural Recreational Communities"
Southwestern Social Science Association
Las Vegas, Nevada. March 16-19, 2011.

Jeremy Rhodes
Sponsor: Dr. Kevin Dougherty

"Examining the Effects of Congregational Embeddedness
on Political Tolerance among Evangelical Protestants"
Society for Scientific Study of Religion
Baltimore, Maryland. October 29-31, 2010.

Joshua Tom
Sponsor: Dr. Chris Bader

"You Don't Polish the Brass of a Sinking Ship:
Dispensational Eschatology and the Environment"
Pacific Sociological Association Annual Meeting
Seattle, Washington. March 10-13, 2011.

Andrew Whitehead
Sponsor: Dr. Kevin Dougherty

"No Small Group is an Island: Organizational Effects on Financial Commitment"
Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
Baltimore, Maryland. October 29-31, 2010.

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Spanish

Julie Eichelberger
Sponsor: Dr. Jan Evans

"The Search for Identity in Torquemada en la hoguera"
North American Christian Foreign Language Association Annual Conference
Abliene, Texas. April 7-9, 2011.

Alyssa Pendley
Sponsor: Dr. Jan Evans

"The Search for Identity in Torquemada en la hoguera by Benito Perez Galdos"
North American Christian Foreign Language Association Annual Conference
Abliene, Texas. April 7-9, 2011.

Sports Management

Statistical Science

John Ramey
Sponsor: Dr. Dean Young

"Improvements on Regularized Discriminant Analysis"
Joint Statistical Meetings
Vancouver, Canada. July 31-August 5, 2010.

Lindsay Renfro
Sponsor: Dr. Bradley Carlin

"Bayesian Meta- Analytic Evaluation of Surrogate Time-to-Event Endpoints in Clinical Trials"
Valencia International Meeting on Bayesian Statistics
Benidorm, Spain. June 2-9,2010.

Bonnie Terry
Sponsor: Dr. Jane Harvill

"Spatial Analysis of soil in Impaired Watershed Areas"
Joint Statistical Meetings
Vancouver, Canada. July 31-August 5, 2010.

Sydeaka Watson
Sponsor: Dr. John Seaman

"A Bayesian Generalized Linear Mixed Model for HIV-1
Vaccine Immune Response with Missing Data"
Joint Statistical Meetings
Vancouver, Canada. July 31-August 5, 2010.

Sydeaka Watson
Sponsor: Dr. James Stamey

"Poisson Regression Models for Interval Censored Count Data"
5th Annual Graduate Student Probability Conference
Atlanta, Georgia. April 29- May 1, 2011.

Theatre Arts

Shelby Hibbs
Sponsor: Dr. Deanna Toten Beard

"Finding Carniopolous: Theatre of Cruelty as a Model of Creation"
Mid America Theatre Conference
Minneapolis, Minnesota. March 3-6, 2011.

David Reed
Sponsor: Dr. Deanna Toten Beard

"Single Sword for Any Occasion"
Texas Educational Theatre Association
Houston, Texas. January 27-30, 2011.

David Reed
Sponsor: Dr. Deanna Toten Beard

"Known by the Company They Keep"
MidAtalantic Theatre Conference
Minneapolis, Minnesota. March 3-6, 2011.

Josiah Wallace
Sponsor: Dr. Deanna Toten Beard

"So, You Want to Put on a Social Issue Play?"
Texas Educational Theatre Association
Houston, Texas. January 27-30, 2011.

Josiah Wallace
Sponsor: Dr. Deanna Toten Beard

"Finding Carniopolous: Theatre of Cruelty as a Model of Creation"
Mid-America Theatre Conference
Minneapolis, Minnesota. March 3-5, 2011.

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