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