Ithaca College

Congratulations to all the finalists for the 2017 Whalen Symposium.  These finalists will be presenting for an award at the Symposium on Thursday, April 13, 2017.  

Maddie Feiner, John Jacobson, Kelli Kyle, Kaitlin Logsdon, Vanessa O'Connor, Alexa Salvato, Evan Sobkowicz, Ramya Vijayagopal,  Samantha Weil - Nicole Koschmann, faculty mentor

Immigration in the Southwest: Park Scholar Senior Service Learning Trip                              

Ilyssa Ernsteen - Chrystyna Dail, faculty mentor

Theatre Praxis: Using Performance to Educate about Deaf Culture            

Hannah Basciano, Samuel Dellert, Joshua Margolis - Ben Crane, faculty mentor

Stateless: Syrian Refugees in Detroit Short Documentary              

Jessica Voutsinas - Sara Haefeli, faculty mentor

The mi.mu Gloves: Finding Agency in Electronic Music Performance through Ancillary Gestural Semiotics              

Madeleine Parkes - Sara Haefeli, faculty mentor

Theory of the Transcendental    

Rachel Langlitz - Chrissy Guest, faculty mentor

A Uses and Gratifications Analysis of the Politics on Social Media Timelines         

Ross Bialowas - Jack Powers, faculty mentor

A Better System for Evaluating Brand Consistency Between Shows and Networks            

Erika Olsen - Barbara Morgenstern, faculty mentor

Government, Media, and Hate Speech: Hate Speech Regulation in the United States       

Marguerite Kaminski - David Flanagan, faculty mentor

Prejudice and Emotion in the Execution of Socrates         

Abigail McMahon - Katharine Kittredge, faculty mentor

I Wanna Be Like You: Comparing the Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling to Disney's Film Adaptions              

Julia Plato - David Flanagan, faculty mentor

Classical Athenian Drama’s Reaction to The Treatment of Women           

Samantha Reilly - Marlene Barken, faculty mentor

Sexual Violence and Collegiate Athletes

Nicole Mary Ang - Marlene Barken

From Victim to Victimizer: The Case of Dominic Ongwen               

Francesca Esce - Alison B. Shields, faculty mentor

Ethical Consumer Branding for a Postmodern World: Appealing To "Authentic" Values in a Capitalist Economy  

Stephanie Graziano, Alec Tucker, Kevin Guevara - Ellie Fulmer, faculty mentor

Laughing at the Truth: Investigating Racial Comedy in Anti-Racist Teacher Education     

John Jacobson - Carla Golden, faculty mentor

#GirlsLikeUs: The Development of Femme Identities in the (Auto)biographies of Janet Mock and Miss Major, Black Trans Women   

Christine Adams - Sean Eversley Bradwell, faculty mentor

The Local Influence of US Global Militarization  

Monica Chen - Sean Eversley Bradwell, faculty mentor

Mental Illness and Incarceration: Admissions, Adjustments, and Alternatives     

Chanel Underwood - Sean Eversley Bradwell, faculty mentor

The Wealth Gap: The Social Injustice of Internal Colonialism

Jacob Powell - Patrick McKeon, faculty mentor

Branching Out From Alzheimer, the Cases That Shaped Our Understanding of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy 

Francesca Mendez - Kari Brossard Stoos, faculty mentor

Do Physiological Responses to Perceived Racism Amongst African-American Men Increase Risk of Development of Cardiovascular Disease?              

Ayana Phillips, Francesca Boylan, Paige Agnew, Heidi Mickunas, Kate Emma - Deborah King, faculty mentor

The Effects of Speed on Foot Rockers in Gait       

Morgan Barron, Sara Bellanca, Sarah Frizzell, Nicole O'Brien, Josh Skowronski, Niki Standera, Hannah Wright - Sarah Fishel, faculty mentor

The Effect of Group Exercise on the Progression of Parkinson Disease: An Observational Study 

Alison Fischbach, Stefanie Cramer, Kelly Pantason, Delaney Pfohl, Aimee Karl, Liam Kavin, Nicholas Athanasatos - Michael Costello and Barb Belyea, faculty mentors

Assessing Pain Pressure Thresholds in Tension and Slacked Neural Positions       

Sara Brown, Jenna Danko, Rachel Gray, Cierra Barnes Hulbert, Matthew Koval, Nicole Sorrentino, Veronika Todd, Willany Toribio, Julie Dudek - Jill Mayer, faculty mentor

The Effects of an 8-Week Interdisciplinary and Supervised Exercise Program on Post-Treatment Cancer Survivors: A Case Series         

Lindsey Adelstein, Jamie Kronenberg, Robert Wassel - Rumit Singh Kakar, faculty mentor

Rhythmic Auditory Stimulation and its Effects on Gait Asymmetries and Function in a Patient with Young-Onset Parkinson's Disease: A Case Report With 2-month Follow Up

James Alvarez, Theresa Ferrante, Monika Juodisius, Benjamin Kraus, Thomas Oleski, Ashley Panowicz, Aimee Pelletier - Rumit Singh Kakar, faculty mentor

Neuromuscular Differences in Female Athletes Following ACL Reconstruction:  Exploring Differences in Leg Dominance:  A Systematic Review           

Ryan Fedora - Michael "Bodhi" Rogers, faculty mentor

Using Drone-based Photogrammetry to Supplement Ground-based 3D Laser Scanning for Historic Preservation                

Marcell Fischler - Michael "Bodhi" Rogers, faculty mentor

Ground-penetrating Radar and its Applicability in Determining Underground Materials and Subsurface Structures on Asteroid Surfaces            

Matthew Bellardini - Luke Keller, faculty mentor

Mapping Molecular Emissions in the Orion Nebula          

Kenneth F. Potts - Doug Turnbull, faculty mentor

Modeling Market Return Distributions  

Fatoumata Jallow - Ted Galanthay and Osman Yurekli, faculty mentors 

Obesity Prevalence         

Grace Rychwalski - Katie Marks, faculty mentor

Senior Project Readings

Justin Henry - Anthony DiRenzo, faculty mentor

"Corporatizing" College: The story of ideological divide at Ithaca College               

Kaitlyn Matrassi - Mat Fournier, faculty mentor

The Paradox of the Veil: Muslim Women and French Secularism                

Nicole Veltri - Rumit Singh Kakar, Patrick McKeon and Mark Vorensky, faculty mentors

Inter Limb Neuromuscular Differences Perceived Through Clinical Measures in Individuals with ACL Injury             

Zachary Finer, Natalie Knight, Joseph Ricotta - Rumit Singh Kakar and Joshua Tome, faculty mentors

The Effects of Age and Running Speed on Angular Displacements of the Spine During Treadmill Running               

Sedona Lockhart - Tamara Fitzwater, faculty mentor

Does Alcohol Withdrawal Influence Expression of Coping Behavior and Activation of Brain Stress Systems in Adolescent Female Rats?             

Jordan Smith - Henrietta Awo Osei-Anto, faculty mentor

ACA Verdict: Disparities Persist for Medicaid Beneficiaries in Non-Expansion States          

Rebecca Cohen - Courtney Gray, faculty mentor

Sesamoid Fracture in Collegiate Athlete

Erin McNulty - Chris Hummel, faculty mentor

Surgical Intervention of a Lumbar Disc Herniation in a Collegiate Football Player: A Case Report 

Chelsea Doig - Christina Moylan, faculty mentor

Food Deserts in New York State

Tal Aizen, Gabriel Bosco, Adam Fong, Sara Garvey, Jason Valentin - Deborah King, faculty mentor

The Not-So-Competitive Edge: Determining Optimal Cadence in Recreational Runners    

Cienna D. Lyon - Te-Wen Lo, faculty mentor

Examining Arthritis in Large Dinosaurs  

Lauren Hodkinson - Susan Witherup, Faculty Mentor

Genetic Diversity of Scaevola Populations on Culebra, Puerto Rico           

Claire Cahoon - Toby Dragon, faculty mentor

Parsing Personality: Using Data Analysis to Interpret Different Points of View in a Literary Text  

Renee Felter-Rodriguez  - Ian Woods, faculty mentor

IRF8 Is Not Required For The Development Of Social Preference In Zebrafish        

Devon Baris, Emily Galbraith - Hugh Stephenson, faculty mentor

Race and Mood: Disparities between Diagnosis and Depression Scores  

Isabella Badagliacca, Tatiana Mark, Adrienne Story - Nancy Rader, faculty mentor

The Effect of Robotic Powered Locomotion on the Adaptability to Switch Attention in Pre-Crawling Infants          

Maria Belen Martinez de la Cruz, Evan Sobkowicz, Bridget Strawn - Devan Rosen, faculty mentor           

Self Checkout: Track Your Mental Wellness

Victoria Wright - Ian Woods, faculty mentor

Functional Genomics of Somatosensory Neuron Development, Morphogenesis, and Signaling  

Adriana Morales Gomez - Susan Witherup, faculty mentor

Population Genetics of Scaevola in the Islands of Puerto Rico     

Colette Piasecki-Masters - Susan Witherup, faculty mentor

Comparison of Sugars and Amino Acids in Nectar From Scaevola Taccada and Scaevola Plumieri              

Amanda Boyle - Michael Trotti, faculty mentor

Alleged Manslaughter: The Role of Rhetoric and Publicity in the Professionalization of the Medical Field through the Illegalization of Abortion             

Kaleb Cabisca - Karin Breuer, faculty mentor      

The Press, Public Opinion, and the Foreign Office: Developing the Bosnian Crisis of 1908