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Bridgewater College Recognizes Academic Achievement at ASPIRE
April 12, 2021 @ 8:00 am – April 16, 2021 @ 5:00 pm
Bridgewater College is recognizing academic achievement among students and faculty during a period of activities dedicated to showcasing excellence. ASPIRE (A Celebration of the Arts, Scholarship, Performance, Innovation and Research Excellence) will be held April 12-16.
Due to COVID-19, the campus is closed to the public for ASPIRE events. But the public is invited to view research presentations online at https://wp.bridgewater.edu/aspire.
ASPIRE opens with the Senior Art Thesis exhibitions at various locations on campus. Eight students will present artist talks at 6 p.m. Monday, April 12. Exhibiting works and giving artist talks are Avery Andrick, Alexis Bragg, Morgan Duncan, Haylee Martin, Ryan Mays, Claudia Scheeren, Danielle Soard and Ashton Young.
Schedule Overview
Monday, April 12th to Friday, April 16th
Virtual Gallery — Poster Presentations
| Student’s Name(s) | Poster Title |
| Kelsi Listman | The Significance of a Viral Post on Social Media |
| Jyailah Friendly | Using Square-Wave Voltammetry to Investigate Dispersive Electron Kinetics |
| Britney Young | Identification of Mutations in the phaZ Gene of Bald Mutants of Streptomyces sp. SFB5A. |
| Kenneth Williams | Future Improvements of Data Integration Models |
| Tyler Lynn | Asymmetric Hydroboration-Oxidation of Methylstyrene |
| Youmna Moawad | Restoring Expression of the Polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) Depolymerase Gene in a Bald Mutant of Streptomyces sp. SFB5A |
| Haley N. Orebaugh | Cloning of an Endolysin Gene from Bacteriophage BRock into Escherichia coli |
| Joushua M. Sprouse | Determining Gene Flow Between Baldcypress and Pondcypress |
| Tyler Deutsch & Mary Ruth Shifflett | Qualitative Measurements of Stability of ATP at Varying pH |
| Katherine Graybill | Policy Responses to Immigration in Latin America |
| Lexia Werner | Strategies for English Language Learners in Literacy Instruction |
| Kynah Walston, Kelsi Listman, Alexia Will, Kaytie Perez, Erin Voeghtly, Melia Teixeira, and Rebekah Vaughan | Saccharin potentiates oral ethanol self-administration in male C57BL/6J mice. |
| Kynah Walston, Kelsi Listman, Alexia Will, Kaytie Perez, Erin Voeghtly, Melia Teixeira, and Rebekah Vaughan. | Examining the effects of caffeine and saccharin on acute ethanol intake in male C57BL/6J mice. |
| Kayla Boswell | Development of a PCR assay to detect plasmids in antibiotic resistant E. coli in the North River |
Tuesday, April 13th
STUDENT RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS
4:00 – 6:00 PM | BOITNOTT ROOM/ZOOM
Join URL: https://bridgewatercollege.zoom.us/j/93620672221
Meeting ID: 936 2067 2221
| Time | Student Name(s) | Presentation Title |
| 4:00 – 4:20 PM | Kylee Lorio | The Shape of Things: A Theatrical Examination of the Progression of Emotional Manipulation |
| 4:20 – 4:40 PM | Tito Alcazar | The Significance of American Epic Novels |
| 4:40 – 5:00 PM | Cailyn Leo | Sex Determination in Axolotls using PCR |
| 5:00 – 5:20 PM | Ashley Sell | To Read or Not To Read: Navigating Young Adult Literature in the Classroom in the Age of Trigger Warnings and Banned Books |
| 5:20 – 5:40 PM | Ashley Sell | Negative Impacts of the One-Child Policy on Families with Two or More Children and Adoption in China: How the Strict Birth Planning Policy Failed Children and Their Families |
| 5:40 – 6:00 PM | Grace Fotis | Health and Physical Limitations Due to Complications with Diabetes |
STUDENT RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS
4:00 – 6:00 PM | ZOOM
Join URL: https://bridgewatercollege.zoom.us/j/99152902391
Meeting ID: 991 5290 2391
| Time | Student Name(s) | Presentation Title |
| 4:00 – 4:20 PM | Jacob Howard | A Compendium of Exact Sums of Infinite Series |
| 4:20 – 4:40 PM | Dareen Awwad | Neural Network Analysis of Handwritten Astronomical Records |
| 4:40 – 5:00 PM | Heather Renee Good | Folklore of the Shenandoah Valley |
| 5:00 – 5:20 PM | Kayla Cline | Women in Accounting |
| 5:20 – 5:40 PM | McKenzie Melvin | The Clock is Ticking: Are the FARC’s Chances for Survival in Colombia Dwindling? |
| 5:40 – 6:00 PM | Anastasiya Kalyuk | A Framework for Writing Self-Efficacy: Students’ Belief in their Own Ability to Succeed in a Postsecondary Writing Classroom |
Wednesday, April 14th
FACULTY RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS
4:00 – 5:00 PM | BOITNOTT ROOM/ZOOM
Join URL: https://bridgewatercollege.zoom.us/j/92838010080
Meeting ID: 928 3801 0080
| Time | Faculty Presenter | Presentation Title |
| 4:00 – 4:30 PM | Dr. Tammy Sheehy | Exploring High Performance Coach Experiences of Sport Psychology Consulting for their Own Performance |
| 4:30 – 5:00 PM | Dr. Ryan E. Keebaugh | Music Found in Silence |
Thursday, April 15th
STUDENT RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS
3:00 – 4:40 PM | BOITNOTT ROOM/ZOOM
Join URL: https://bridgewatercollege.zoom.us/j/99442399993
Meeting ID: 994 4239 9993
| Time | Student’s Name(s) | Presentation Title |
| 3:00 – 3:20 PM | Marlee Carroll | Accelerating Ahead of Trends: How Leadership Decision Making at Peloton Allowed the Company to Succeed in the Pandemic |
| 3:20 – 3:40 PM | Erin Fitzpatrick | Campaign Messaging in Argentine Presidential Elections |
| 3:40 – 4:00 PM | Erin Fitzpatrick | Simulation of a Policy Proposal to the State of Virginia |
| 4:00 – 4:20 PM | Gemma Leonard | The Impact of Service Learning on The Success of Undergraduate Students in Health Positions |
| 4:20 – 4:40 PM | Rachel Petterson | Moving Past the Binary: Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Students Experiences of and Perspectives on College Campus Fitness Centers |
STUDENT RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS
3:00 – 4:40 PM | ZOOM
Join URL: https://bridgewatercollege.zoom.us/j/99625782871
Meeting ID: 996 2578 2871
| Time | Student’s Name(s) | Presentation Title |
| 3:00 – 3:20 PM | Elizabeth Gaver | ‘Household Managers’: The Issue of Women’s Employment in Contemporary Japan |
| 3:20 – 3:40 PM | Joshua D. Gibson | Dynamics of a Meteor |
| 3:40 – 4:00 PM | Dan Hancock | An Analytical Approximation of Gravitational Waves |
| 4:00 – 4:20 PM | Anton Kopti | Using King Model Simulations to Refine Virial Cluster Mass Estimates |
| 4:20 – 4:40 PM | Heidi Hull | Self-Regulation in Secondary Education |
FACULTY RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS
4:00 – 5:00 PM | BOW 101/ZOOM
Join URL: https://bridgewatercollege.zoom.us/j/95241058483
Meeting ID: 952 4105 8483
| Time | Faculty Presenter | Presentation Title |
| 4:00 – 4:30 PM | Dr. Verne Leininger | Pair-wise Nontransitive Dice |
| 4:30 – 5:00 PM | Dr. Curtis Bradley | Investigating the reinforcement enhancing effects of caffeine on saccharin and ethanol self-administration in male C57BL/6J mice. |
