Ithaca College

Submitted on behalf of Kimberly Wilkinson and Rumit Singh Kakar, Co-Chairs of the James J. Whalen Academic Symposium

On behalf of the committee, we would like to congratulate all the presenters, mentors and award winners for participating in the Whalen Symposium and celebrating the amazing work being done here on our campus. On the 20th Anniversary of the James J Whalen Academic Symposium over 400 student presenters showcased their work in the form of performances, talks, and poster presentations. Every presentation depicted the passion in the students and their mentors. The energy throughout the day was motivating, right from the inspiring keynote by Dr. Kathleen Mulligan, her former student Sarah Hebert-Johnson and current student Jordan Pesci-Smith, to the celebration of the award winners at the closing ceremony. Thank you also to all in the campus community who took time out of your busy day to come out to support the students and hear about the exciting projects going on all over this dynamic campus.

We would like to extend a special thank you to the faculty moderators, abstract reviewers, judges, and the staff and student volunteers who were a critical part of the event. Key individuals who worked tirelessly for a whole year planning and executing were the members of Whalen Steering Committee (Elizabeth Bergman, Marie Blouin, Chrystyna Dail, Lisa Farman, Anna Gardner, Cristina Gomez, Abby Juda, Doreen Hettich-Atkins, Deborah King, Nathan Prestopnik, Dave Prunty, Yvonne Rogalski, Kelly Stern, Stephanie St. John, Robert Sullivan, and MaryAnn Taylor).  The symposium wouldn’t have been possible without the students, the mentors and everyone else behind the scenes.

Thank you all for your energetic assistance and participation.

The following were the Whalen Symposium 2017 Award Winners:

Posters Humanities and Sciences

Claire Cahoon - Toby Dragon, faculty mentor

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

 

Posters Health Science and Human Performance

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            

 

Honors

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

 

School of Business

Legal Studies, Marketing, Finance, Sustainable Enterprise, Sport Management Media

Nicole Mary Ang - Marlene Barken, faculty mentor

From Victim to Victimizer: The Case of Dominic Ongwen               

 

School of Communications

Ross Bialowas - Jack Powers, faculty mentor

A Better System for Evaluating Brand Consistency Between Shows and Networks            

 

School of Humanities and Sciences

Biology/Environmental Studies

Colette Piasecki-Masters - Susan Witherup, faculty mentor

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

Communication Studies/Education/Gender Studies

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   

MLK Scholars

Chanel Underwood - Sean Eversley Bradwell, faculty mentor

The Wealth Gap: The Social Injustice of Internal Colonialism

Economics/History/Politics

Kaleb Cabisca - Karin Breuer, faculty mentor      

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

Math/Computer Science

Kenneth F. Potts - Doug Turnbull, faculty mentor

Modeling Market Return Distributions

Physics

Ryan Fedora - Michael "Bodhi" Rogers, faculty mentor

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

Writing/English/Philosophy and Religion/MLL

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

 

School of Health Science and Human Performance

Exercise & Sport Sciences/Athletic Training/Health Promotion & Physical Education

Jacob Powell - Patrick McKeon, faculty mentor

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

Physical Therapy/Occupational Therapy/Psychology

Lindsey Adelstein, Jamie Kronenberg - 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

 

Visual Performance or Creative Presentation

Cinema/Doc Studies/TVR/Communication Studies

Ilyssa Ernsteen - Chrystyna Dail, faculty mentor

Theatre Praxis: Using Performance to Educate about Deaf Culture

 

School of Music

Madeleine Parkes - Sara Haefeli, faculty mentor

Theory of the Transcendental

To view photos from the Symposium visit the Whalen Symposium website.