Scripps Undergraduate Research Symposium

Time Location Description
10:15 a.m. Hampton Room Welcome Reception Opening Remarks from Julie Liss, Interim Vice President for Academic Affairs & Dean of Faculty
10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. Hampton Room Session 1A

Moderator: Martha Arguello

  1. Maddie Pierson
    Sponsor: Julie Liss
    Alternate Visions of Community: Understanding the Welfare Agencies of Jane Addams and Lugenia Burns Hope
  2. Chandra Dickey
    Sponsor: Rita Roberts
    Black Middle Class Formation and Higher Education in Progressive Era Atlanta
  3. Vivienne Muller
    Sponsor: Cindy Forster
    Bulldykes, Coon-Shouters and Struttin’ Black Bottoms;
    Centering the Queer woman in 20th Century Black Cultural Production
  4. Julia Thomas
    Sponsor: Cindy Forster
    Oral Histories: Resistance in Bolivia
  5. Jasmine Kusumowidagdo
    Sponsor: Bruce Coats
    Read My Hair: Japanese Hair Ornaments During the Edo, Meiji, and Modern Periods
10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. Hampton Living Room Session 1B

Moderator: Branwen Williams

  1. Corinna Fukushima
    Sponsor: Rivka Weinberg
    Conceptions of Autonomy in End of Life Decisions
  2. Jing-Gu
    Sponsor: Rivka Weinberg
    Feminist Materialist Epistemology
  3. Lizzie Medford
    Sponsor: Bryan Thines
    Using Genetic Markers to Determine the Extent of Hybridization as a Mechanism for Adapting to Climate Change on Santa Rosa Island
  4. Shimona Srivastava
    Sponsor: Diane Thomson
    The Effects of Wildfire on Artemisia California and Salvia Apiana
  5. Vivian Yu
    Sponsor: Gretchen Edwalds-Gilbert
    Phenol-Based compounds as stressors to gene expression in Saccharyomyces cerevisiae
  6. Tricia Light
    Sponsor: Branwen Williams
    Method development for the study of sewage through the δ15 N analysis of coral bound nitrogen
12:00 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. Hampton Room Session 2

Moderator: Lisa Watson

  1. Eden Amital
    Sponsor: Kimberly Drake
    Disability Justice
  2. Grace Dahlstrom
    Sponsor: Julie Liss
    Girls Can Do Stem
  3. Maya Espiritu
    Sponsor: Warren Liu
    Agent Orange
  4. Alexandra Harder
    Sponsor: Nancy Neiman Auerbach
    Evaluating the Social Entrepreneur’s Academy
  5. Edith Ortega
    Sponsor: Nancy Neiman Auerbach
    Summer Culinary and Agriculture Internship
  6. Raquel Selcer
    Sponsor: Piya Chatterjee
    Latino Teen Peer Health Education Project
1:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. Hampton Room Session 3A

Moderator: TBD

  1. Laurel Kitada
    Sponsor: Stacey Wood
    Impact of Education and Community Involvement on Risk for Financial Exploitation in Older Adults
  2. Atika Gupta
    Sponsor: Jen Ma
    Can Culture Influence the Development of Children with Autism?
  3. Madison Wagner
    Sponsor: Bhuvana Narasimhan (Colorado)
    The Effect of Multimodal Cues on Child Word Learning
  4. Maya Suzuki-Jones (Esterly award)
    Teaching ESL to immigrants and refugees in Hawaii
  5. Jennifer Lehr (Esterly award)
    Engage Chicago: 2015
  6. Tilly Barnett (Hsu fund)
    Summer study in China
1:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. Hampton Living Room Session 3B Johnson Summer Research

Moderator: Gretchen Edwalds-Gilbert

  1. Rebecca Frumento and Juliana Beall
    Sponsor: Warren Liu
    Palestinian Consumer Perception of Palestinian vs. Israeli Foods: Opportunities & Challenges
  2. Tara Partow
    Sponsor: Marina Perez de Mendiola
    Rethinking Beauty in Iran: Iranians Discuss Beauty and the Western Gaze on the Iranian Face
  3. Hannah Sands
    Sponsor: Kimberly Drake
    Accessibility in Public Transportation: El Metro de Medellín
  4. Maria Newman
    Sponsor: Susan Castagnetto
    Public Adaptation to the Sustainable Developments in the Confluence District of Lyon, France
  5. Amy Griffin
    Sponsor: Judy Harvey Sahak
    The papers of Suzanne Macpherson: Death and Donuts

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