Summit 2002
Mount David Summit:
A Celebration of Student Academic Achievement
Sunday, April 7, 2002
1–5 p.m.
Pettengill Hall and the Bates College Museum of Art
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
| 1 p.m. | Call to the Summit: Justin Lloyd ’02, trumpet |
| Welcome and Opening Remarks | |
| Donald W. Harward, President | |
| Graham F. Veysey, President of the Representative Assembly | |
| Jill N. Reich, Dean of the Faculty | |
| Location: Perry Atrium, Pettengill Hall | |
| 1:15-2:45 p.m. | Session I |
| Research in Biology and Biochemistry (short talks) | |
| Location: Pettengill G52 | |
Joseph Pelliccia and Rebecca Sommer, Biology, moderators | |
| Micah Webster ’02: The Effects of mut-2 Recombination of C. elegans | |
| Scott Turner ’02: Origin at Obligate Parthenogenesis in the Mayfly, Centroptilium triangulifer | |
| Geoffrey Hart ’02: Genetic Susceptibility and Resistance to Periodontal Disease in Mice | |
| (five-minute break) | |
| Ashley Murray ’02: Expanding the Lifetime Phosphorus Removal of Constructed Wetlands: The Use of Burkholderia cepacia to Renew Substrate Adsorption Sites | |
| Stephanie Eby ’02: Does Mating Display Locomotion Provide Information about Futures in Guppies, Pocilia reticulata | |
| Kate Humphrey ’02: Hormone Replacement Therapy in Postmenopausal Women | |
| Latin American Literature: Encounters and Confrontations (short talks) | |
| Location: Pettengill G65 | |
| Felicia Fahey, Spanish, moderator | |
| Confronting Conquest: | |
| Sara Montrone ’03: Contructing the Other: Spanish Conquistadors, the Aztecs, and the Mayans | |
| Tamara Helfer ’04: La Malinche | |
| Katherine Yang ’03: Exploring the Construction of the Other in Mexico Through La Malinche, the Virgin of Guadalupe | |
| Eduardo Crespo ’04: Betrayed Republics | |
| (five-minute break) | |
| Encounters in Diaspora: | |
| Natasha Klaiber ’05: Memory in Diasporic Communities | |
| Nathan Harrington ’05: The Rastafarians | |
| 3 p.m. | Gallery Talk and Exhibition |
| Location: Bates College Museum of Art | |
| Adina Mori ’02: The Joy of Barbie | |
| (Also: view the Annual Senior Exhibition at the Museum) | |
| 3-4:30 p.m. | Poster Session |
| Location: Perry Atrium | |
| (See end of program for poster presenters) | |
| 3-3:50 p.m. | Session II |
| Interdisciplinary Thesis Writers Group: Breaking Boundaries, Building Bridges (short talks) | |
| Location: Pettengill G52 | |
| Rebecca Herzig, Women’s and Gender Studies, moderator | |
| JooRi Jun ’02: Centering Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Decentering the Center and Recentering Ourselves | |
| Kristin Hines ’02: The Problem of Safe Hands | |
| Jenny Blau ’02: A Local Community Health Center’s Approach to Addressing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care Utilization | |
| Classical Architecture (short talks) | |
| Location: Pettengill G65 | |
| Lisa Maurizio, Classics and Classical and Medieval Studies, moderator | |
| Kara Stenback ’05 and Katherine Miles ’05: The Temple of Aphaia | |
| Erin Torrey ’05 and Jennifer Hanley ’05: The Temple of Hephaistos: Analysis and Interpretation | |
| 4-4:45 p.m. | Session III |
| Perception, Identity, and Community (short talks and a screening) | |
| Location: Pettengill G52 | |
| Elizabeth Tobin, History, moderator | |
| Sarah Wilson ’02: The Portrayal of the Japanese during WWII in American Propaganda | |
| Rachel Beckhardt ’02: Diagnosing a Culture: Women’s Words on the Meanings of Food | |
Creative Work in Classics | |
| Location: Pettengill G65 | |
| Lisa Maurizio, Classics and Classical and Medieval Studies, moderator | |
| Elizabeth Miller ’02: “Nix Leo”: Translating Children’s Literature into Latin (reading) | |
| Zachary Gill ’02: The Masculine Hero in “Hercules Furens” | |
| (short talk followed by dramatic reading with Hilary Kiskaddon ’03, Matteo Pangallo ’03, and Elizabeth Wilson ‘03) | |
| 4:00-4:30 | Nature Photography (short talk, exhibit, and slide presentation) |
| Location: Pettengill G21 | |
| Christopher Guiterman ’04 and Joshua Harris ’04:Outdoor Photography |
Poster Presenters
Biology 315: Bacteriology
Peter Herrick-Stare ’02; Jane Barlow ’02; Bailey Freeman ’03; Hannah Kurtis ’03, Charlie Simpson ’03, Andrew Walsh ’03: Learning Biology across Cultures: A Partnership Between Edward Little High School and the Bates College Bacteriology Class.
Additional posters presented by Karen Boucher’s biology class, Edward Little High School, Auburn, Maine: Marsha Ames, Shawn Campbell, Ben Clark, Will Claxton, Renee Collett, Cory Cyr, Casey Duncan, Ryan Ford, Katie Frank, Amanda Fyfe, Nicole Haynes, Laura Pendexter, Eric Robitaille, Amber Turcotte, Matt Vachon, and Brooke Wilson.
Biology 471: Seminar and Research in Experimental Botany
Amanda Devine ’03; K. Bradley Lenz ’02; Daniel Robarts ’04; Neal Sharon ’02: Highlights of four class projects.
Individual Projects
Anne Barlow ’02: Spectroscopic Determination of the Structural Stability of E.colirpo SmRNA in vitro in the Presence of Divalent Cations
Jane Barlow ’02: Development of New Techniques in the Production and Purification of the EMCV 3C Protease and HAV 3D Polymerase
Jason Bischoff ’02: How the Advertising of Brands has Evolved throughout the 20th Century
Jackie Bowie ’05 and Daniel Robarts ’04: Recruitment, Tree Growth, and Development of a Secondary Growth White Pine Stand near Lake Auburn, Maine
Tara Businski ’02: Effects of Bait-Worm Digging on Intertidal Benthic Carbon Remineralization
Danica Helb ’02: Effects of 2,3,7,8-tetrachloridibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) on Number of Blood Vessels in Day 10 and Day 12 Chick Embryo Hearts Exposed at Fertilization
Alan Jenkins ’02: Is Listerine Antiseptic Effective Against Waterline Biofilm?
Maura Kelly ’02: Newspaper Representations of U.S. Student Anti-Sweatshop Protests, 1995-2000
Kate Meltzer ’02: Interannual Growth Rate Variation in the Soft-Shelled Clam,Mya arenaria, and Its Relationship to Interannual Temperature Difference and Habitat at Maquoit Bay, Maine
Rayann Richard ’02: Aquatic Toxicity Testing of a Lake Auburn Tributary and Lake Andrews Using Caenorhabditis elegans
Gabriel Sholder ’02: Metallozymes That Hydroxylate Hydrocarbons
Jeremy Streifer ’03: Atomic Force Microscopy
Michaela Tiffany ’02: A Study of the Role of Genetic Susceptibility and B Cells in Periodontal Disease
Endri Trajani ’03: Effect of Spatially Filtered Optical Feedback in a Unidirectional Photorefractive Ring Resonator
David Worhunsky ’03: The Bacterial Response to Stress