James F. Jakobsen Conference

Top presenter: Patricia Hardre Department: Instructional Design and Technology title: "Learning Climates that Foster Engagement, to Prevent Motivational Dropout"
Abstract: Using self-determination theory, I tested a motivational model to explain the conditions under which rural students formulate their intentions to drop out of high school. The model proposes that the intention to drop out is as much a motivation issue as it is an achievement issue and that motivation can be either supported in the classroom by autonomy-supportive teachers or frustrated by controlling teachers. LISREL analyses of questionnaire data from 483 rural high school students showed that the provision of autonomy-supportive classrooms predicted students' self-determined motivation and perceived competence. These motivational resources, in turn, predicted students' intentions to drop out, and they did so even after controlling for the effect of poor achievement. Based on these findings, we conclude that rural high school students' intentions to drop out emerge at least as much from poor motivation as they do from poor achievement. The discussion offers motivation-based intervention strategies for preventing dropout.

Second Place: Alex Casillas, Psychology, "Dependency, Impulsivity, and Self-Harm: Traits Hypothesized to Underlie the Association Between Personality and Substance use Disorders"

Third Place: Tracy Moran, Psychology, "The Efficacy of the Waterloo-Standard Group Scale of Hypnotic Susceptibility Form C"

Honorable Mention:

Lee Yuen Lew, Science Education Eric Reed, Social Foundations of Education

LIFE SCIENCES:

First Place: Jennifer Mendoza, Exercise Science,"Hind-limb Blood Flow and Vascular Conductance in Rats at Rest and during Treadmill Locomotion: Influence of Gender"
Second Place: Paul Ogg, Molecular Biology, "The Kinase Activity of Herpes simplex virus type-1 Us3 Gene Product is Sufficient to Block Programmed Cell Death Induced by Bcl-2 Family Members"
Third Place: Sokol Haxhinasto, Immunology, "Molecular Interactions between the B-cell Antigen Receptor and CD40"
Fourth Place: Polonca Prohinar, Microbiology, "OmpR-dependent and OmpR-independent Responses of E.coli to Sublethal Attack by Neutrophil Batericidal/permeability-increasing Protein"
Fourth Place: Kristen Sihler, Epidemiology, "A Comparison of Once-and Twice-transferred Patients Arriving at a Level I Trauma Center: Risk Factors for being a Ô'Triple Jump'"
Honorable Mention: Brent Ryckman, Microbiology, "Nuclear Envelope Localization of a Herpes simplex virus type-1 Envelopment Factor"
Honorable Mention: Salil Lachke, Biological Sciences, "Discovery of Developmental Programs in the Infectious Yeast Candida Glabrata"

SOCIAL SCIENCES:

First Place: Alycia Hund, Psychology, "Does Information About What Things Are Influence ChildrenÕs Memory for Where Things Are?"
Second Place: YongSeog Kim, Management Sciences, "An Intelligent Recommendation for Customer Targeting"
Third Place: Elizabeth Fitzgerald, Student Development Program, "SoniaÕs Story: A Woman, an Indian, an Immigrant"
Third Place: Annette Flugstad, Psychology, "Risk Information, Social Comparison, and Perceptions of Vulnerability"
Third Place: Andrew Bargen, Political Science, "The Influence of the Senate Judiciary Committee on the Ideology of the Supreme Court Nominees"
Honorable Mention: Tracy Moran, Psychology, "The PartnerÕs Perception of the Posn tpartum Period"
Honorable Mention: Greg Wolniak, Social Foundations / Higher Education, "Defining and Testing Sorting Hypotheses of Schooling"

FINE & PERFORMING ARTS:

Sarah Roberts, Center for the Book, "Red Geometry"
Hope Tucker, Cinema and Comparative Literature, "Lolo Ferrari"
Elise Kendrot, Sculpture, "We All Have Little Ghosts"
Dustin Morrow, Cinema and Comparative Literature, "As I Fall"

Past Forum Winners 2003

Fine and Performing Arts (4 winners):

1st place: Moses Thompson, Counseling
2nd place: Jay Schilz, Asian Studies
3rd place: Erica Bleeg, English (non-fiction writing)
Honorable Mention: Tim Bascom, English (non-fiction writing)

Humanities (11 winners):

1st place: David Banash, English
2nd place: Matthew Miller, English
2nd place: Raymond Watkins, Cinema and Comparative Literature
3rd place: Jeff Doty, English
3rd place: Brandy Case Haub, Anthropology
3rd place: David Puderbaugh, Music
Honorable Mention: Weidong Zhang, Journalism and Mass Communication
Honorable Mention: Margaret Burchianit, Anthropology
Honorable Mention: Mike Chasar, English
Honorable Mention: Jed Peterson, History
Honorable Mention: Jon Wolseth, Anthropology

Social Sciences and Education (10 winners):

1st place: Linda Spencer, Speech Pathology and Audiology
2nd place: Roman Kotov, Psychology
2nd place: John Chambers, Psychology
3rd place: Shanhong Luo, Psychology
3rd place: Shrividya Iyer, Clinical and Administrative Pharmacy
3rd place: Shangkil Moon, Marketing
Honorable Mention: Grant McCall, Anthropology
Honorable Mention: Gregory Wolniak, Education Policy & Leadership Studies
Honorable Mention: Mary Choe, Psychology
Honorable Mention: Alex Casillas, Psychology

Biological and Life Sciences (6 winners):

1st place: Matthew Binniker, Microbiology
2nd place: Timothy Lindley, Anatomy and Cell Biology
3rd place: Sangeetha Madhavan, Rehabilitation Science and Physical Therapy
Honorable Mention: Paul Ogg, Microbiology
Honorable Mention: Wenjie Chen, Genetics
Honorable Mention: Karunya Kandimella, Pharmaceutics

Mathematical and Physical Sciences and Engineering (6 winners):

1st place: Hannah Lundberg, Biomedical Engineering
2nd place: Brenda Krueger, Chemistry
3rd place: Laura Breeher, Mechanical Engineering
Honorable Mention: Christian Coyle, Biomedical Engineering
Honorable Mention: Huiming Yin, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Honorable Mention: Steven Davis, Electrical and Computer Engineering

All award amounts as follows:

1st place: $300.00
2nd place: $200.00
3rd place: $100.00
Honorable Mention: $75.00

Past Forum Winners 2005

Fine and Performing Arts

Honorable Mention
Paula Brandel (Art and Art History)

Third Place
Neva Sills (Art and Art History)

Second Place
Andre Silva (Cinema and Comparative Literature)

First Place
Angela Balcita (English - Nonfiction Writing) Moonface and Charlie
In Moonface and Charlie, we meet a narrator who is dealing with a kidney disease that takes over her life, that dictates her emotions and her mental and physical strength. She receives life-saving transplants from her brother and her boyfriend that make her feel forever dependent on others. To counteract these feelings of helplessness and dependence, she uses comedic performance and story-telling to make her feel like she has control over her situation. But she learns that while making tragedy into comedy not only give her a sense of control of her life, it also prevents her from confronting reality. How do we tell the stories of our lives? How do we use story-telling and performance to hide our real emotions? How do these acts also reveal our true selves? How do the stories of our experiences define us and ultimately change the experience itself?

Humanities

Third Place
Amy Spellacy, English
Doyle Buhler, Art History
Lisa Dewaard Dykstra, Second Language Acquisition

Second Place
Jeffrey Charis-Carlson, English
Jordan Copeland, Religious Studies

First Place
Elizabeth Sutton, Art History "Naer het Leven" and the Emergence of Science: The Prints of Jan Huygen van Linschoten’s Itinerario and Vesalius’ De Humani Corporis Fabrica
Andreas Vesalius and Jan Huygen van Linschoten are names associated with discoveries. Vesalius is known for his observations of human anatomy, and Linschoten is known for documenting his travels to unkown places. Vesalius published De Humani Corporis Fabrica in Brussels in 1543. Only a little more than fifty years later, Linschoten’s Itinerario was published in Amsterdam (1596). Both books included prints to illustrate the descriptive texts. Vesalius’ anatomical treatise and its images were well-known in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The growing interest in scientific inquiry was reflected in the travel accounts that explorers and merchants wrote and published when they returned from their journeys. Both of these new genres were based on observation and visual and textual description. It is my intent to discuss the stylistic, functional, and ideological relationships between the prints in Vesalius’ medical manual and the images in Linschoten’s travel account of his journey to the East Indies.

Social Sciences & Education

Honorable Mention
Caglar Akcay, Psychology
Dan Caprar, Management and Organizations
Stephen Nemeth, Political Science

Third Place
Himanshu Mishra, Marketing
Holly Hansen, Political Science
Patricia Wade, Educational Psychology

Second Place Robin Barry, Psychology
John Chambers, Psychology

First Place
Brandon Abbs, Psychology Is Overt Repetition Critical to Word Learning?
To what extent can language learners acquire new words through mere exposure to word-referent pairings? In two experiments, participants were exposed to pairings of novel auditory word forms (the names) and pictures of novel objects (the referents). During this study phase, participants either (a) repeated the names, (b) did not repeat the names, or (c) did not repeat the names, but performed an attention-demanding task. Participants were tested for receptive learning (picking out the correct referent when cued with the name) and expressive learning (producing the correct name when cued with the referent). The first experiment showed that overt repetition was necessary for long-term retention of expressive but not receptive learning. The second experiment extended these findings to four-syllable nonwords where repetition was found to be detrimental, not beneficial, to expressive word learning. Clinical and educational implications for these findings will are discussed.

Biological & Health Sciences

Honorable Mention
Laura Acion, Biostatistics
Paulina Mena, Biological Sciences
Tomaz Koprivnjak, Microbiology

Third Palce
Banoo Malik, Biological Sciences
Sumaya Hamadmad, Pharmacology
Kirill Nourski, Neuroscience

Second Place
Yifei Liu, Clinical and Administrative Pharmacy
Jana Peterson, Community and Behavioral Health

First Place
Yongming Zhao, Clinical and Administrative Pharmacy Factors Influencing Pre-ESRD Anemia Treatment with Erythropoietin in Elderly Hemodialysis Patients
Most elderly patients with chronic kidney disease progress to end-stage renal disease (ESRD) with anemia untreated even though guidelines advocate anemia treatment with human recombinant erythropoietin (EPO). The objective was to identify factors affecting pre-ESRD anemia treatment defined as EPO treatment in the year prior to hemodialysis initiation among elderly patients. A cross-sectional study was performed with a study population aged 67+ years and initiating hemodialysis in the years 1996-1999. Only 12.18% of elderly patients took EPO treatment at least once in the year before the start of hemodialysis. There was significant variation in pre-ESRD EPO treatment rates across local areas. Multiple logistic regressions indicated patients living in an area close to a nephrologist had a significantly higher likelihood of receiving pre-ESRD EPO therapy. Patients access to local nephrologists may play an important role in determining pre-ESRD EPO therapy in elderly hemodialysis patients

Mathematical & Physical Sciences & Engineering

Honorable Mention Ioulia Skvortsova, Chemistry
Mark Olszewski, Biomedical Engineering
Ahmed Lachhab, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Third Place Jessica Woodworth, Biomedical Engineering
Alessio Signorini, Computer Science
Matthew McCullough, Biomedical Engineering

Second Place
Luke Haverhals, Chemistry
Hyunggun Kim, Biomedical Engineering

First Place
Yi-Ching Lee, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Change detection performance under divided attention with dynamic driving scenarios
This research examined the effects of in-vehicle tasks on drivers visual attention. Degraded visual attention may contribute to looked-but-failed-to-see crashes associated with the cognitive demands performing non-driving tasks, such as cell phone conversations. The experiment was conducted in a fixed-based driving simulator, with a dynamic change blindness paradigm, which simulated glancing away from the roadway by periodically blanking the driver's view for one second. Participants were then asked to detect location and appearance changes of other vehicles. Cognitive demand was manipulated with messages that participants needed to listen and respond to. Participants were less sensitive to vehicle changes when the screen was blanking, suggesting that visual attention was impaired because of the disruption of the continuous information acquisition. The cognitive demand further undermined drivers ability to detect changes. These results show that cognitive demand and glancing away from the roadway both contribute to looked-but-failed-to-see crashes.

Past Forum Winners 2006

The Conference Committee, Graduate Student Senate, and the Graduate College would like to congratulate the winning students for their outstanding presentations at the James F. Jakobsen Graduate Forum 2006. The website will soon be updated to show their names and awards.

Past Conference Winners 2007

The Conference Committee, Graduate Student Senate, and the Graduate College would like to congratulate the winning students for their outstanding presentations at the James F. Jakobsen Graduate Forum 2007:

Biological and Health Sciences

Fine and Performing Arts

Humanities

Math, Physical, and Engineering Sciences

Social Sciences and Education

Past Conference Winners 2008

The Conference Committee, Graduate Student Senate, and the Graduate College would like to congratulate the winning students for their outstanding presentations at the James F. Jakobsen Graduate Forum 2008:

Biological and Health Sciences

Fine and Performing Arts

Humanities

Mathematical, Physical, and Engineering Sciences

Social Sciences and Education