2021 Conference

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Discussant: Dr. Alexandra Martynova-Van Kley

• Aaron Baker, College of Sciences and Mathematics
  "The Effect of Initial Conditions on the Weather Research and Forecasting Model"
  Advisor: Dr. Lynn Greenleaf
• Kasey R. Golden, College of Liberal and Applied Arts
  "The Effects of Environmental Disasters on the Quality of Life of People Living in Shelby County"
  Advisor: Dr. Emmerentie Oliphant
• James Dickert, College of Liberal and Applied Arts
  "War, War Never Changes: Fallout 4, Nostalgia, and the Cold War"
  Advisor: Dr. Randi Barnes-Cox

Discussant: Dr. Robyn Whitehead

• Jennifer Goddard, James I. Perkins College of Education
  "Misrepresentation of Marginalized High School Graduates Enrolling in Higher Education: Longitudinal Evidence from Texas"
  Advisor: Dr. Ali Hachem
• Herbert Midgley, James I. Perkins College of Education
  "Non-Tenure-Track Status against Selected Institutional Metrics: Correlational Evidence from Texas Public Universities"
  Advisor: Dr. Ali Hachem
• Steven Valkenaar, James I. Perkins College of Education
  "Salaries against Selected Institutional Metrics: Comparative Correlational Evidence from Texas School Districts"
  Advisor: Dr. Ali Hachem
• Claire Murphy, James I. Perkins College of Education
  "Academic Preparation Routes of Newly Certified Principals and Superintendents: Evidence from Texas"
  Advisor: Dr. Ali Hachem
• Jessica Fant, College of Liberal and Applied Arts
  "A View of Education Through the Lens of Social Class in Martinique and Guadeloupe"
  Advisor: Dr. Joyce Johnston

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Discussant: Dr. Sarah Savoy

• Lacey Folsom, James I. Perkins College of Education
  "Mental Health Among Higher Education Students:  Longitudinal Evidence from the American College Health Association"
  Advisor: Dr. Ali Hachem
• Jasmine Dilworth, College of Liberal and Applied Arts
  "The Impact of Alcohol Addiction on Rural Families"
  Advisor: Dr. Emmerentie Oliphant
• Reggie Rios, James I. Perkins College of Education
  "Research and Opinions Surrounding the Use of Time-Out Procedures"
  Advisor: Dr. Daniel McCleary
• Alexander Alvara, James I. Perkins College of Education
  "Effect of Single vs. Accumulated Bouts of TABATA on Body Composition, Fitness, and Resting Metabolic Rate"
  Advisor: Dr. James Rowe

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• Javannie Jacobs, College of Liberal and Applied Arts
  "Social, Economic and Environmental Justice Policy: Mass Incarceration of Black Men"
  Advisor: Ms. Wilma Córdova
• Lenora Perkins, College of Sciences and Mathematics
  "Using Electrical Resistivity Methods and Traditional Survey Techniques to Delineate Potential Karst Features Along FM 2185, Culberson County, Texas"
  Advisors: Dr. Wesley Brown & Dr. Kevin Stafford
• Christopher Cotton, College of Liberal and Applied Arts
  "Camden and the Company Sawmill Towns of East Texas"
  Advisor: Dr. Perky Beisel
• Stuart Priest, College of Liberal and Applied Arts
  "'We Are But the Feeble Instruments to Do His Blessed Will': Southern Nationalism, Slavery, and Death in the Civil War Letters of Robert Franklin Bunting"
  Advisor: Dr. Hunter Hampton

Discussant: Dr. Linda Levitt

• Mariah Taller, College of Fine Arts
  "Where Are the Women? An Examination on the Lack of Female Percussionists in Top Orchestras in the United States"
  Advisor: Dr. Brad Meyer
• Jacob Bridges, College of Fine Arts
  "Conception, Significance, Analysis and Performance Preparation of Walter Hartley’s Concerto for 23 Winds"
  Advisor: Dr. David Campo
• Abbigail Ramsey, College of Fine Arts
  "A Historical and Analytical Research on the Development of Percy Grainger’s Wind Ensemble Masterpiece: Lincolnshire Posy"
  Advisor: Dr. David W. Campo
• James Dickert, College of Liberal and Applied Arts
  "Alger Hiss: How an Amateur Spy Garnered the Attention of a Nation"
  Advisor: Dr. Andrew Lannen

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Discussant: Dr. Todd Whitehead

• Erin Shepta, College of Sciences and Mathematics
  "Insights on the Establishment of the Invasive Sheepshead Minnow (Cyprinodon variegatus) in the Brazos River"
  Advisor: Dr. Carmen G. Montana
• Jake Swanson, Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture
  "Fish Community Assembly at Multiple Scales in East-Central Texas"
  Advisors: Dr. Carmen G. Montana & Dr. Christopher M. Schalk
• Liam Wolff, Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture
  "Predictors of Occupancy of a Declining Songbird (Bachman’s Sparrow, Peucaea aestivalis) at the Western Extent of its Range"
  Advisor: Dr. Christopher M. Schalk
• David Rosenbaum, Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture
  "Historical and Contemporary Results from Alligator Snapping Turtle Surveys in Texas"
  Advisors: Dr. Chris M. Schalk & Dr. Daniel Saenz

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Discussant: Dr. Alexandra Martynova-Van Kley

• Olaniyi Ajala, Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture
  "Growth Of Chinese Tallow (Triadica Sebiferum) and Native Hardwood Species Under Varying Light and Water Regimes"
  Advisor: Dr. Jeremy Stovall
• Lydia Voth Rurup, Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture
  "Occurrence and Growth Dynamics of Natural Regeneration in a Southern Bottomland Hardwood Forest Invaded by Chinese Tallow"
  Advisor: Dr. Rebecca Kidd
• Zyreasha Tippins, Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture
  "The Effects of Gibberellic Acid, Smoke Water, and Cold Stratification on the Germination of Native Perennial Seed"
  Advisor: Dr. Jared Barnes
• Zach Elser, College of Sciences and Mathematics
  "A Bioinformatic Approach to the Sequence Resolution and RNAi-mediated Characterization of a Putative Immune-related Transcript in the Lone Star Tick"
  Advisor: Dr. Lindsay Porter