Summit 2004
MOUNT DAVID SUMMIT | ||
A Celebration of Student Academic Achievement | ||
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS | ||
Friday, April 2, 2004 | ||
2:30-2:45 PM | Perry Atrium | Call to the Summit |
Te Deum, Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1634-1704) | ||
Bates Brass Quintet: Timothy Cooke ’04, trumpet; Jeffrey Kazin ’04, trumpet; Amy Saffer, horn; Alexander Smith ’06, trombone; Patrick Galligan ’07, tuba | ||
Welcome | ||
Elaine Tuttle Hansen, President | ||
Jamil Zraikat ’05, President, Bates College Student Government | ||
Jill N. Reich, Dean of the Faculty | ||
Ongoing | Perry Atrium and Pettengill Lobby | Fourth Annual Off-Campus Study Photography Exhibit |
Pettengill G52 and The Ronj | A Journey of 10,000 Li: Bates FSA in China | |
Pettengill G65 | Snapshots of Lewiston: Grace Fei Liu ’06 | |
Concurrent Session I | ||
2:45-4:00 PM | Perry Atrium | Poster Session I |
Presenters from biochemistry, biology, environmental studies, math, and political science/women’s and gender studies | ||
2:45-4:15 PM | Pettengill G21 | Social Inequality, Social Change, and Social Responsibility |
Emily Barko ’04: Narratives of Anorexia: A Qualitative Analysis | ||
Elizabeth Jackson ’04: The Role of NGOs in the Emergence of Transnational Social Movements: A Look at the Movement Opposing the Free Trade Area of the Americas | ||
Tanya Schwartz ’04: The ABCs of Success: The Effects of Parents, Schools, and Communities on Young Children’s Academic Achievement | ||
Heather Tompkins 04: Pathways Home: Aftercare for Girls in the Juvenile Justice System | ||
Kara Stenback ’05: Endowment Management in Higher Education | ||
Emily Kane, professor of sociology, moderator | ||
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Pettengill G52 | Individuals, Communities, and the Environment | |
Rachel Booty ’04: Soil Lead Determinations in Three Urban Community Gardens, Lewiston, Maine | ||
Morgan Patterson ’04: The Creation and Development of a Climbing Ethic in New England | ||
Christopher Urban ’04: Managing People and Wilderness in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont: A Study of Constructive Conservation Policy | ||
Andrew Whitaker ’04: Miad na sine, the Strength of the Storm: Gaelic Songs and Nature in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia | ||
Rachel Austin, associate professor of chemistry, moderator | ||
Pettengill G54 | Economic Opportunity in Developing Countries | |
Tahsin Alam ’04: Microcredit as a System for Poverty Alleviation | ||
Pettengill G63 | Las Dimensiones de las Diasporas latinoamericanas/ The Dimensions of Latin American Diasporas | |
Eduardo Crespo ’04: Parlando, the Illegal Italian: Diasporas and Globalization from Below | ||
Julio Guevara ’07: The Necessity of Exile in the Poetry of Manuel Luna | ||
Sara Gusky ’07: Seasons of Emotion in Pablo Neruda’s “El barco de los adioses” | ||
Elizabeth Irvine-McDermott ’04: The Natural World as an Alternative “Home” for the Exiled | ||
Felicia Fahey, assistant professor of Spanish, moderator | ||
Pettengill G65 | Cultural Crossroads: Health Care, Education, and Tourism | |
Erin Bednarek ’05: Health in Samoa | ||
Jason Rafferty ’05: Siofua Malōlōina: Bringing “Health” to Samoa’s Rural Villages | ||
Julie Gage ’04: Acculturation of Somali Students in the ELL Classroom at Lewiston High School | ||
Jesse Lewin ’04: Interactions between Somali Secondary Migrants and Physicians in Lewiston, Maine: An Ethnographic Field Study in Refugee Health Care and Cultural Competency | ||
Valerie Wicks ’04: The Search for Authenticity: Cultural Tourism in Ghana | ||
Heather Lindkvist, lecturer in anthropology, moderator | ||
Concurrent Session II | ||
4:30-5:45 PM | Perry Atrium | Poster Session II |
Presenters from biochemistry, biology, chemistry, classical and medieval studies, environmental studies, math, neuroscience, and psychology | ||
4:30-6:00 PM | Pettengill G21 | Attitudes, Behaviors and Theory: Can We Talk? |
Samara Khalique ’04: Psychosocial Attributes as a Predictor of Metabolic Syndrome Risk Factors in Females | ||
Saul Miller ’04: The Effect of Processing Goals on the Memory of Ambiguous Behaviors | ||
Katherine Papadonis ’04: Early Head Start: The Benefits of Family-Style Meals | ||
Claire Schneider ’04: Why Do Adolescent Boys and Girls Differ in Their Experiences of Aggression? An Investigation through the Lens of Self-Construal Theory | ||
Kathryn Graff Low, professor of psychology, moderator | ||
Pettengill G52 | Place and the Sacred in Poetry and Song | |
Sarah Tressel ’04: Comfort and Discomfort: Revisiting Ghana through Poetry | ||
Renée Blacken ’05: Singing in the Primitive Baptist Church in Southern Appalachia, with music by Northfield: Renee Blacken ’05; Henry Blackford ’06; Megan Fortin ’07; Paul Heckler ’06; Mirka Hlavacova ’07; Stuart Johnson ’06; Benjamin Kercsmar ’04; Nicholas Klinovsky ’06; Sarah Mazur ’06; Taegan McMahon ’07; Jessica Ricker ’07; Gregory Rosenthal ’05; Sarah Sprague ’07; Katharine Trautz ’04; Robert Allison, professor of religion; Gregory Boardman, instructor of folk fiddling | ||
Robert Allison, professor of religion | ||
Pettengill G54 | Ancient Threads in Modern Texts | |
Sarah Connell ’04: Hero and Goddess | ||
Jennifer Hanley ’05: The Perversion of Ritual in the Iliad | ||
Martha Horan ’04: The Western Flower, Shakespeare’s Mulberry Tree: An Ovidian Analysis of A Midsummer Night’s Dream | ||
Jennifer McGill ’04: Female Characters in Greek and Noh Drama | ||
Henry Walker, lecturer in classics and classical and medieval studies, moderator | ||
Pettengill G63 | Probing Scientific Systems | |
Jeffrey Levinson ’04: New Variables for Quantum Interference | ||
Aaron Putnam ’04: Recent Sedimentation of a Transect of High Arctic Isolation Basins; Queen Elizabeth Islands Archipelago, Nunavut, Canada | ||
Pamela Baker, professor of biology and associate dean of the faculty, moderator | ||
Pettengill G65 | Race, Religion, and Class in Historical Inquiry | |
Grace Fei Liu ’06: Snapshots of Lewiston | ||
Cali Lanza-Weil ’06: Twenty Years of Hillel at Bates | ||
Timothy Larson ’05: The Abolitionist Roots of Oren B. Cheney, the Founder of Bates | ||
Darcy York ’05: Child Labor in Lewiston’s Mills | ||
Bradley Proctor ’04: What Say Banjer? The Shared Black and White Banjo Traditions of the American South | ||
Joseph Hall, assistant professor of history, moderator | ||
Evening Sessions | ||
8:00 PM | Olin Concert Hall | Bates College Orchestra: Works by Frank and Mozart |
Featuring Cass Panuska ’04, soprano, and Frank Glazer, artist-in-residence, piano | ||
Gannett Theater, Pettigrew Hall | Senior thesis performance: The Search for Intelligent Life in the Universe Saida Cooper ’04 |