4th ANNUAL

LORAS
LEGACY
SYMPOSIUM
PRESENTATIONS OF RESEARCH, CREATIVITY, & SERVICE ACCOMPLISHMENTS

BE MORE. BE LORAS.
 A TRIBUTE TO THE REV. TABLE OF CONTENTS
MSGR. JAMES BARTA, PH.D. Letter from the President 4
Monsignor Barta is known for his many roles at Loras
College priest, counselor, psychology professor, department
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chair, Academic Dean, President, Regent. But his passion is
teaching.
Call to Community 6
In Msgr. Bartas presidential inaugural address, he talked
specifically about the liberal arts in ways that resonate with
the purpose of the Legacy Symposium. His words continue
to inspire as we celebrate the accomplishments of scholarship
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and creativity exhibited today by the Loras College Poster Sessions, Student Oral Presentations, and Juried Art Exhibit
community.

The liberal arts college looks for the enquiring mind to do Session II 10
away with ignorance. It builds libraries, it brings together
an informed faculty, it provides experiences in the hope of Poster Sessions, Student Oral Presentations, and Juried Art Exhibit
stimulating the mind.

It insists upon logic in formal classes and in the writing Center for Experiential Learning Roundtable Discussions 11
and the discussion of students. It alerts the student to the
psychodynamics that influence their thinking. It gives them
the rules of debate and other verbal exchange. It teaches Session III 12
them the scientific method to help separate conjecture from Poster Sessions, Student Oral Presentations, and Juried Art Exhibit
realityall in the effort to reduce error.

The liberal arts college required a breadth as well as a depth of Session IV 14

experience, insisting that its people taste of various cultures,
learn of various opinions, learn to relate to people with a wide Poster Sessions, Student Oral Presentations, and Juried Art Exhibit
variety of ideas to everyones enrichment and advantageall
in the effort to avoid narrowness.
Faculty Oral Presentations I and II 16
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A liberal education is something much more than the Film Festival 16

cultivation of technological expertise. It is also the cultivation
of that social sensitivity which brings the warmth and color to
life. It is the explicit profession that we are social by nature, Presentation of Faculty Publications (2016-2017) 17
and incomplete without others. It is the expression of respect
for others, manifesting itself in generosity, not the selfishness
which enslaves us. Acknowledgements and Thank You 18

Msgr. James Barta, (52)

Liberal Arts, Faith Values: Leaven for Society
Friday, October 28, 1988

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The Loras Legacy Symposium was made possible by a kind gift from Msgr. James Barta.
Photo by: Wendy Romero
LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT SCHEDULE
May 3, 2017 8:30 A.M. - 8:50 A.M.
Call to Community: Celebrating the Catholic Intellectual Tradition
Dear Loras Students, Alumni Campus Center, Concourse

Welcome to the fourth annual Loras College Legacy Symposium! 9:00 A.M. - 10:00 A.M.
Session I: Concurrent Poster Session, Oral Presentations and Art Exhibit
Wahlert Hall, Academic Resource Center, Alumni Campus Center, Keane Hall
The big day is finally here. You have worked hard to put together your very best work(s) in collaboration with our faculty
and staff. To be clear, this day serves as one of my favorites during the academic year. At no other time do we showcase 10:15 A.M. - 11:15 A.M.
so prominently your outstanding achievements and highlight so many diverse learning experiences. When considered Session II: Concurrent Poster Session, Oral Presentations
Wahlert Hall, Academic Resource Center, Alumni Campus Center
collectively, it is amazing to witness the powerful outcomes associated with your work, service, research, and creative
efforts. 11:30 A.M. - 1:00 P.M.
Student Awards and Recognition Convocation (Invitation Only)
My colleagues and I are anxious to learn more about your individual achievements and collaborative assignments. There Athletic & Wellness Center
is no doubt that you discovered something new, learned an alternative viewpoint, witnessed or experienced a previously
11:30 A.M. - 12:30 P.M.
unknown phenomenon, surprised yourself by tapping into a new skill, shared moments of vulnerability, found your
Center for Experiential Learning Roundtable Discussions
passion, and/or inspired an idea as to what might be next in your academic, personal or career journeys. Alumni Campus Center Concourse

Please join me in thanking the many faculty and staff who have mentored you along the way. Additionally, please extend 1:15 P.M. - 2:10 P.M.
Session III: Concurrent Poster Session, Oral Presentations
gratitude to former Loras president and current regent, Msgr. Barta, and our faculty leaders Drs. Eller, Gallagher,
Academic Resource Center, Alumni Campus Center, Keane Hall, Wahlert Hall
Garoutte, Omarzu, Sinha, VanLaningham, and Welsh - for making the Legacy Symposium a well-deserved recognition of
your achievements. 2:20 P.M. - 3:15 P.M.
Session IV: Concurrent Poster Session, Oral Presentations
Be sure to take the time to be present and appreciate your works and Academic Resource Center, Alumni Campus Center, Keane Hall, Wahlert Hall
those of your peers. Congratulations and best wishes for continued
3:30 P.M. - 4:30 P.M.
academic and co-curricular success! Faculty Presentations I
Academic Resource Center
Cordially,
4:40 P.M. - 5:40 P.M.
Faculty Presentations II
Academic Resource Center

5:45 P.M. - 7:00 P.M.

James E. Collins 84 Faculty Reception

President 7:00 P.M. - 8:30 P.M.

Film Festival
Alumni Campus Center, Marie Graber Ballroom

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H igher still we mounted by inward thought and wondering discourse on your works, and we arrived at the summit of our own
minds; and this too we transcended, to touch that land of never-failing plenty where you pasture Israel forever with the food
CALL TO COMMUNITY of truth. Life there is the Wisdom through whom all these things were made, and all others that have been or ever will be; but Wisdom
herself is not made: she is as she always has been and will be forever (St. Augustine, Confessions, Bk. IX.24).

HAEC DIES BY WILLIAM BYRD LORAS COLLEGE CHAMBER CHOIR

T his beloved Mt. St. Bernard, grown much more beautiful this year, has cost us and continues to cost a good deal in every way.
We must plan, build, and support young students and theologians. But once the foundations are laid and the first expenses paid,
the establishment will maintain itself, apart from the fact that we now receive only children whose parents have monetary resources.
The number is small, I grant, about a dozen young men and a half-dozen theologians! But it is a grain of mustard seed which will
OPENING SONG FOR THE FRUITS OF ALL CREATION perhaps one day produce a tall tree. Your humble and obedient servant, Mathias, Bishop of Dubuque (Foundations, The Letters of
Mathias Loras, D.D., Bishop of Dubuque, p. 745).

I n the recessive backcross, Mendel reasoned, each of the four types of hybrid gametes should produce a pea that looks different
from any of the other types. And each of the types should have an equal chance of occurring. . . . That is exactly what happened.
Of the 203 peas produced by the double-recessive backcross, Mendel counted 55 that were yellow and round, 44 yellow and angular,
51 green and round, and 53 green and angular. That ratio among the four types was nearly 1:1:1:1. This was what Mendel had
been looking for. The crop fulfilled these expectations perfectly. . . . There could scarcely be now any doubt of the success of the
experiment (Robin Marantz Henig, The Monk in the Garden, pp. 128-29).

A s regards mathematics, chemistry, astronomy, and similar subjects, one man will not, on the score of his religion, treat of them
better than another, and because the works of even an unbeliever or idolator, while he kept within the strict range of such
studies, might be safely admitted into Catholic lecture-rooms, and put without scruple into the hands of Catholic youths. There is no
crying demand, no imperative necessity, for our acquisition of a Catholic Euclid, or a Catholic Newton. The object of all science is
truth (John Henry Cardinal Newman, The Idea of a University, 3.2.1).

T he unbeliever has no objective reason to mistrust the results acquired by natural procedures, under the pretext that they were
judged not only according to the principles of reason, but also the truths of faith. He is free to have recourse to the measure of
reason in all its rigor and to refuse to what appears to him insufficient. Moreover, it depends on him to pursue the road and to take
knowledge of the results acquired thanks to revelation (Edith Stein, Christian Philosophy).
Two parents, tall as pines,
Two teenage children, small as sprouts.
Four ugly Christmas sweaters,
Knit wool, warm as blankets.
Four crimson hats
On ruffled caramel hair.
My mom yanks my brother close,
Her ruby nails grip his arm.
My dad, with all his strength
Grasps my shoulder.
I glance at my brother.
The photographer shouts Smile!
Four radiant smiles,
The annual lie.
(Ashley Pudil, Seasons Greetings, The Limestone Review, 2016, p.69)

OPENING PRAYER
Readings from the Catholic Intellectual Tradition. Please join in the sung response after every 3 readings.
W hat we would like to do is change the world--make it a little simpler for people to feed, clothe, and shelter themselves as
God intended them to do. And, by fighting for better conditions, by crying out unceasingly for the rights of the workers, the
poor, of the destitute--the rights of the worthy and the unworthy poor, in other words--we can, to a certain extent, change the world;
we can work for the oasis, the little cell of joy and peace in a harried world. We can throw our pebble in the pond and be confident that
its ever widening circle will reach around the world. We repeat, there is nothing we can do but love, and, dear God, please enlarge our
hearts to love each other, to love our neighbor, to love our enemy as our friend (Dorothy Day).
I t is in the nature of the common good that every single citizen has the right to share in italthough in different ways, depending
on his tasks, merits and circumstances. Hence every civil authority must strive to promote the common good in the interest of
all, without favoring any individual citizen or category of citizen. . . . Nevertheless, considerations of justice and equity can at times
demand that those in power pay more attention to the weaker members of society, since these are at a disadvantage when it comes to
defending their own rights and asserting their legitimate interests (Saint John XXIII, Pacem in Terris/ Peace on Earth n. 56).

T he music of the people is like a rare and lovely flower growing amidst encroaching weeds. Thousands pass it, while others
trample it under foot, and thus the chances are that it will perish before it is seen by the one discriminating spirit who will prize
it above all else. The fact that no one has as yet arisen to make the most of it does not prove that nothing is there (Antonin Dvorak).

CLOSING PRAYER, FR. DENNIS MILLER, CHAPLAIN

ADORAMUS TE CHRISTE LORAS COLLEGE CHAMBER CHOIR
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SESSION I: POSTER PRESENTATIONS SESSION I: ORAL PRESENTATIONS

Food & Drink Nature
Economics Enviroment & Sustainability Moderator: Prof. Molly McDonald
Location: Keane Hall, 333
Moderator: Dr. Kate Cooper
Location: Academic Resource Center, 402
History Science & Well-Being Robotic Pasta Cooker Dakota Access Pipeline Controversy: Fact vs Fiction
Brody Tupy, Dain Gansen Elizabeth Fischer, Jenna Walleser, Morgan Dolan, Samantha
1. Access to Rehabilitative Services for Members of the 16. Properties after Refinement of Biodiesel Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Kristen Thompson Pietruszynski
Latinx Community with Disabilities Josh Schulte Advisor/Mentor: Prof. Karen Sturm
Mary Phillips Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Christina Edwards Utilitarian Consideration of AquAdvantage Salmon Approval
Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Kate McCarthy-Gilmore Kyle Tietz Winter, Snow, and Ice
17. Replacement of the Heitkamp Planetarium Projector Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Janine Idziak Sophia Muzzarelli
2. Analysis of Photometric and Spectroscopic Observations of Binary Star Natalie Droeske, Austin Kuchenbecker, Audrey Miller, Celia da Silva, Jacob Till Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Kevin Koch
Next Ones On Me! The Truth Behind Buying Bar Rounds
System Algol Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Kristen Thompson Sean Bellissimo
Zachary Schroeder Environmental Governance/Policy in the United States
Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Jennifer Smith John Craine, Lizette Avina
Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Kenneth McLaughlin 18. Replication at Loras College of Griskevicius, V., Tybur, J. M., & Van den
Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Benjamin Darr
Bergh, B. (2010). Numbers
3. Argentina and the Dirty War: Memorializing the Disappeared Kaitlyn Kulas, Alexis ONeill, Alisha Payne, Emma Walsh Moderator: Prof. Robert Adams Poverty
Paulina Le Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Julia Omarzu Location: Academic Resource Center, 202 Moderator: Dr. Matthew Garrett
Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Kate McCarthy-Gilmore Location: Alumni Campus Center, Arizona Room
19. Rock and Roll Communities: Psychedelic San Francisco Modular Fibonacci Sequences
4. Death in Dubuque: Center for Dubuque History Website (Honors Project) Gregory Cybulski, Hailee Hilmer, Robert Hovey, Megan Kennelly Hunter Brehm Alleviating Poverty in Haiti through Housing Programs (Honors
Jacob Richert Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Paul Kohl Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Jacob Heidenreich Project)
Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Kristin Anderson-Bricker, Dr. Lisa Garoutte Emily Day, Rachel Kula, Ryleigh Keeney
Financial Insecurity and Its Effects Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Eric Eller
20. Sustainability in the Sky (Honors Project) Dallas Knapp, Matthew Croft
5. Designing a New Bioengineering Tool: Will Altering Asparagine 171 Taylor Brooks, Dylan Lange, Sarah Mueller, Ervin Yahr Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Benjamin Darr
Change the Specificity of rTEV? Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Jacob Kohlhaas Beisbol Dominicano-Analysis of the Education of the Dominican
Republic Baseball Player
Levi Hongsermeier Quadcopter Jonathan Carlson, Ruth Berning
Advisor/Mentor: Dr. David Speckhard 21. The Cost of National Security Bryan Hermann, Zachery Lindstrom, Jonathan Powers Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Richard Anderson
Nathan Huinker Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Kristen Thompson
6. Developing a Coarse-Grained Force Field for Phosphoprotein Simulations Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Scott Scheuerell Disenfranchised People and Their Effect on Politics
Jason Derby Religion in Dubuque Peter Fricano, Stephanie Philipps
Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Adam Moser 22. The Effect of Early Environmental Stress on Corticosterone Moderator: Dr. Kevin Koch Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Benjamin Darr
Levels in Mice Location: Wahlert Curriculum Library
7. Distribution of Oriental Bittersweet, an Invasive Plant, Using Geographic Erin Weaver Music
Interfaith Climate Survey of Dubuque Moderator: Dr. Elaina Biechler
Information Systems in Mines of Spain Park, Iowa Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Jake Kurczek
Maria Munoz-Mosquera, Diana Pelaez-Ardila, Maria Limas- Location: Keane Hall, 334
Mitchell Rubino
Henriquez, Patricia Patnode, Benjamin Colwell, Angela Richardson
Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Aditi Sinha 23. The Effectiveness of Aquatic Therapy on Low Back Pain
Kathleen Ann Cabrera Advisor/Mentor: Dr. John Eby The Hungry Rose: A Film Presentation from MUS350, Music in the
Movies
8. Effect of Density on Oviposition Behavior in Drosophila melanogaster Advisor/Mentor: Prof. Molly McDonald Mazzuchelli and the Midwest Kelly Minear, Lindsay Hottovy, Taylor Meyer
Brooke Prososki-Green Maria Teets Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Glenn Pohland
Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Fred Schnee 24. The Effects of Living in a Non-Traditional Family Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Kevin Koch
Benjamin Kindl Fractal Sequence Analysis and Creation of Art and Music
9. Effectiveness of Aquatic Therapy on Reducing Fatigue in Patients with Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Kathrin Parks Conscious Consumerism Sarah Schoel
Multiple Sclerosis Allison Klimesh, Anne-Marie Elsinger, Casey Flack, Cassandra Busch, Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Angela Kohlhaas
Emily Sundstedt 25. The Follower Collin Long, Ellen Horst, George St. John, Jennifer Andrysczyk,
Advisor/Mentor: Prof. Molly McDonald Joshua Chiodini, Dalton Vislisel Jennifer Medina, Joshua Van Besien, Laura Bohorquez Duque, Music Machine
Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Kristen Thompson Benjamin Friedman, Michael Sullivan, Tyson Morrison
Miranda Smith, Noah TeDuits, Sean Whitley, Tanner Emerson Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Kristen Thompson
10. Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Cellulose Advisor/Mentor: Ms. Colleen Kuhl
Brian Burchardt 26. The History and Economics of Minimum Wage
Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Edward Maslowsky Alyson Watson Violence
Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Jennifer Smith Moderator: Dr. Richard Anderson
11. La Independencia: Fighting the Influence of Franco Location: Academic Resource Center, 102
Allison Klimesh 27. The Influence of Gender on the Working World
Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Kate McCarthy-Gilmore Lauren Ehardt Your Warsaw is not my Warsaw
Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Lisa Garoutte Christine McDonald
12. Life Skill Employment Trends in College Athletics Advisor/Mentor: Dr. John Waldmeir
Jessica Dickhut 28. The Role of Actin-Associated Proteins in Dictyostelium discoidium Chaucers The Wife of Bath Prologue and Tale: Defining Justice
Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Anne Marx-Scheuerell Margaret Durdan through a Feminist Lens
Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Kate Cooper Katelyn Franzen
13. McKee, Kentucky: Service Trip Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Erin VanLaningham
Jennifer Andrysczyk, Laura Bohorquez Duque, Lea Lovell, Clarice Martin, 29. Trash Collector Robot
Theresa Milazzo, Claire Molony, Nancy Reed, Celia da Silva, Michael Urbain, Tyler Havens, Patrick Mikel, James Reese The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin
Benjamin Valentine Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Kristen Thompson Daniel Charland, Richard Rosean
Advisor/Mentor: Ms. Anastacia McDermott Advisor/Mentor: Dr. John Eby
30. Undocumented Immigration: Myths vs. Realities
14. New Orleans J-Term Service Trip Margaret Sentovich 9:00 A.M. - 10:00 A.M. | ALUMNI CAMPUS CENTER, BALLROOM A
Greta Becker, Laura Bohorquez Duque, Dillon Glaser, Shelby Jaeger, George
St. John, Allison Klostermann, Kendal Kuboushek, Alex Leigh, Melissa Link,
Alexis ONeill, Margaret Sentovich
Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Kate McCarthy-Gilmore

31. US-Cuba Immigration Relations from 1959 On

SESSION I: JURIED ART EXHIBIT
Advisor/Mentor: Ms. Anastacia McDermott Niamh McPartlin Identities: Space & Being
Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Kate McCarthy-Gilmore Loras Symposium Digital Imaging Exhibition
15. Pachamama and Pipelines: The Effect of Industrial Development on the These artists will be present during this session to discuss their work:
Indigenous People of Ecuador Images and work from Digital Imaging courses inspired by the Gabriela Armengol-Rodriguez, Lauren Bolnius, Caroline Breitbach,
Morgan Francis Drew identities of space and being. The media for this exhibition includes Carly Horsman, Kristen ODonnell
Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Kate McCarthy-Gilmore digital photography, mixed media, digital illustration, and graphic Advisor/Mentor: Professor Seth Myers
design.
Curated by Loras Alumna Sara Steuer (15)
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SESSION II: POSTER PRESENTATIONS SESSION II: ORAL PRESENTATIONS

Philosophy Ethics & Equity Education & Learning Race & Ethnicity Technology
Moderator: Prof. Rebecca Fabricius Moderator: Dr. Douglas Gambrall
Healthcare Education Community & Culture Location: Academic Resource Center, 102 Location: Alumni Campus Center, Mary Alexis Room
Discriminatory Profiling in World War II Era Cartoons Apples Ethical Dilemmas at Foxconn
1. A Night to Remember- Formal for Disabled Community Members 15. How Undocumented Immigration Impacts the U.S. Economy Kristine Cooper
(Honors Project) Margaret Sentovich Alex Timmerman, Alison Reeg, Jeffrey Bentley, Spencer Hall
Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Michael Knock, Clarke University
Patrick Costello, Ashley Holtz, Ian Lenke, Alexandra Schiavoni, Noah Schoaf Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Jennifer Smith Advisor/Mentor: Prof. Karen Sturm
Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Matthew Garrett Knock Knock
16. Immersion Effect: Does Language Immersion Foster Equitable Perceptions Simone Guio A View Like This
2. Abortion and Religiosity among Children? Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Hilarie Welsh Kayla Thompson
Matthew Lopez Jenna Scheer, Mary Phillips, Matthew Sedlacek
Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Kathrin Parks Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Lisa Grinde Analyzing the Role of Written Media in the Perpetuation of Racism Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Kevin Koch
Juanita Vivas Bastidas
3. Antibacterial Effects of Different Cultivars of Garlic 17. Impunity and Violence Against Women in Mexico Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Lisa Garoutte Artistic Robot
on an Array of Bacteria Mildred Chihak Movement & Growth Jabari-James Turner-Smith, Jennifer Young, Jill Blakeley-Snyder
Matthew Anderson Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Kate McCarthy-Gilmore Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Kristen Thompson
Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Aditi Sinha Moderator: Dr. Kate McCarthy-Gilmore
18. Italy: Communication for Communion Location: Academic Resource Center, 202 Growing Businesses
4. Blind Eyes and Deaf Ears Kathryn Bailey, Zachary Jeffries, Maria Munoz-Mosquera
Maria Camila Saenz Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Amanda Osheim
El Camino de Santiago: The Way of Growth Through Suffering Moderator: Prof. Deone Merkel
Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Scott Scheuerell Allison Klimesh, Anne-Marie Elsinger Location: Wahlert Curriculum Library
19. Localization of a PCH Protein and Actin in Dictyostelium using Confocal Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Dana Livingston
5. Chicago, Illinois: Service Trip Fluorescence Microscopy How to Maximize Learfield Cup Points
To Grow or Not to Grow: A Scientific Exploration of Okras Mysteries
Madison Abele, Laura Bohorquez Duque, Emily Erickson, Christina Fox, Ayla Cal Stovie Adina Jaeger, Kendal Kuboushek Cole Zillner, Cruz Felder, Jordan Stiefel, Maura Walsh
Graziano, Mikhayla Kruse-Meek, Charles Putbrese, Jenna Roskopf, Luis Sanchez Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Kate Cooper Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Aditi Sinha Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Matthew Garrett
Advisor/Mentor: Ms. Anastacia McDermott, Dr. Lisa Grinde
20. Motivation to Learn QuadCopter Propellers
6. Community Policing Effectiveness Olivia Clarey, Brant Gille, Caitlin Reynolds, Samantha Wagner Bridging the Gap for Young Entrepreneurs (Honors Project)
Jonathan Powers Elizabeth Fischer, Emily Sunstedt, Jessica Dickhut, Lori Obendorf,
Austin Jacobi Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Hilarie Welsh Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Kristen Thompson
Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Kathrin Parks Matthew Hemauer, Peter Fricano
21. Multidirectional Instability Myth, Belief, & Un-belief Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Krista Belanger
7. Effects of Environmental Enrichment on Corticosterone Levels in Mice Christine Hughes Moderator: Prof. Nancy Zachar Fett
Kristen Hirsch, Dayton Olson Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Nathan Newman Analytics in Action: Creating Analytic Value in FISHInstitute
Advisor/Mentor: Dr. David Shealer Location: Academic Resource Center, 402
22. Paris of the West: J-term Business Seminar Experience Brittany Miller, Emily Day, Paulina Le
On the Effects of Different Creation Myths and their Corresponding Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Daniel Conway
8. El Camino de Santiago and its Development from Religious to Secular Kevin DeLaMar, Elizabeth Fischer, Ryleigh Keeney, Alexander Liddell, Collin Cosmologies on the Government of Ancient Egypt
Experience Long, Calvin Miller, Rachel Moser, Therese Schultz, Joseph Shealy, Ryan Smith, Daniel Charland
James Rubino Maddison Theisen, Jenna Walleser Digital/Natural
Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Jacob Kohlhaas
Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Kate McCarthy-Gilmore Advisor/Mentor: Prof. Hugh Graham Moderator: Dr. Jake Kurczek
The Status of Women in Celtic Ireland Location: Headwaters-Academic Resource Center, 1st Floor
9. Exploring the Correlation between Fetal Testosterone Level and Financial 23. Replication of A Bad Taste in the Mouth: Gustatory Disgust Influences Cassandra Busch
Trading Ability Moral Judgment Advisor/Mentor: Dr. John Eby
Lori Obendorf, Justin VanWambeke, Jenna Walleser Rebecca Edwards, Gabriela Hernandez, Samuel Rogers, Melanie Szyperski Digital Deception
Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Fred Schnee Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Julia Omarzu Supreme Court Justice Nomination and Politics of Fake News Allison Kaleta, Casey Wedlake, David Rodgers IV, Dimitri Villanueva,
Kathryn OBrien, Rachel Kula Jeremy Peters
10. Feminicide and the Role of Drug Violence in Mexico 24. Reynolds and Kenline, L.L.P Internship Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Benjamin Darr Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Mary Carol Harris
Jennifer Medina Kyzer Moore
Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Kate McCarthy-Gilmore Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Leonard Decker Health A Juncture on the Stream of Time
11. Green Gold or Fools Gold? An Economic Analysis of Colorados 25. Rock and Roll Communities: Motown Era Detroit
Moderator: Dr. Thomas Davis Laura Lunghuhn
Legalization of Marijuana Genevieve Brockway, Christina Helmold, Jordan Schultz Location: Center for Dubuque History-Academic Resource Center, Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Kevin Koch
Calvin Harridge Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Paul Kohl 1st Floor
Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Jennifer Smith Permeability of PLA and Waterproofing PLA
26. Social Action Trip to DC The Effectiveness of High Volume Pre-Workout
Michael Krol
12. Haiti J-Term 2017 Jennifer Andrysczyk, Madeline Avery, Jessica Brown, Tanner Emerson, Kristin Adam Brogley, Emma Corkill, Hunter Dunlap, Jacob Prete, Matthew Greene
Lauren Bollweg, Haley Brock, Mildred Chihak, Mckenna Gillespie, Andrew Juarez, Jasmine Sronkoski, Juliana White Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Kristen Thompson
Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Elaina Biechler
Grossklaus, Taylor Illg, Leta Jaquis, Elizabeth Kluge, Reilly Kuhn, Laren Lenth, Advisor/Mentor: Ms. Anastacia McDermott
Brittany Lijewski, Lea Lovell, Kayla Marti, Mariah McCarty, Natalie Oltmanns, STEM After-School Program (Honors Project)
Catherine Paulsen, Rachel Prendergast, Joshua Schulte, Natalie Shannon, 27. Social Work Field Hunter Brehm, Kristin Anderson, Noah Miller, Tara Shingler, Timothy Sevcik
Emily Witt Jasmine Sronkoski Advisor/Mentor: Dr. David Speckhard
Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Eric Eller Advisor/Mentor: Prof. Nancy Fett
Project Black Hole
13. Halting Juvenile Delinquency through Alternatives to Incarceration: 28. The Economics of Inequality Dallas Clasen, Evan Weaver, Jacob Formella, Jeanie Kasper, Jonathan
Cook County Juvenile Probation Internship Alyson Watson OBrien, Logan Kubovec, Luciano Ricotta, Nicholas Spiess
Patrick Short Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Jennifer Smith Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Danial Neebel
Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Leonard Decker
29. Fish Feeder 11:30 A.M., 12:00 P.M. | ALUMNI CAMPUS CENTER, CONCOURSE

LUNCH-HOUR: ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS

14. History of Chinese Nationalism Ian Walsh, Andrew Dekok, Esther Johnson
Jordan Hendrickson, Alexander Johnson, Niamh McPartlin, Advisor/ Mentor: Dr. Kristen Thompson
Michael Olszewski
Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Benjamin Darr
Internships Service Learning AmeriCorps
10:15 A.M. - 11:15 A.M. | Alumni Campus Center, Ballroom A This featured session allows students to participate in roundtable discussions with experts from the Loras College Center for
Experiential Learning Office in order to discover the countless opportunities for enriching experiences available to students.

SESSION II: JURIED ART EXHIBIT Establish Your Legacy: Internships

Identities: Space & Being
Loras Symposium Digital Imaging Exhibition
Images and work from Digital Imaging courses inspired by
the identities of space and being. The media for this exhibition
includes digital photography, mixed media, digital illustration,
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and graphic design.
Curated by Loras Alumna Sara Steuer (15)
Ms. Jennifer Weber, Academic Internship Coordinator and Ms. Martha Doyle, Career Ready Internship Grant Specialist
Add substance to your resume and develop your experiences by pursuing short term opportunities
connected to your career aspirations.
These artists will be present during this session to discuss their work:
Connor Ahern, Nicole Cupps, Natalie Droeske, Anna Johnson, Establish Your Legacy: Service Learning & AmeriCorps
Alacia Keegan, Jeremy Vallin Ms. Maggie Baker, Service Learning Coordinator
Advisor/Mentor: Prof. Seth Myers Discover the countless curricular and co-curricular service opportunities available during your time at Loras College.
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SESSION III: POSTER PRESENTATIONS SESSION III: ORAL PRESENTATIONS

Non-Violence Feminism
Moderator: Dr. Steffanie Schilder Moderator: Dr. William Kanyusik
Music & Culture Health & Sports Service & Community Location: Academic Resource Center, 102 Location: Center for Dubuque HistoryAcademic Resource
Center, 1st Floor
SNCC Grab Your Guns: How Armed Self-Defense
Shaped Freedom Summer Packing the House for the NCAA Womens Basketball Final Four
1. Effectiveness of Joint Mobilizations on Athletes With Chronic Ankle 16. Camden, New Jersey: Service Trips Antonio Stochl Dannon Anderson, Jessica Dickhut, Zachary Roberts, Aaron Broege
Instability Kelsey Callahan, Polly Christensen, Laura Bohorquez Duque, Trevor Fannon, Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Kristin Anderson-Bricker Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Matthew Garrett
Amy Gladis Benjamin Friedman, Stephanie Henscheid, Crystal Kleitsch, Jennifer Medina,
Advisor/Mentor: Prof. Molly McDonald Maren Nielsen, Natalie Oltmann, Rachel Prendergast, Artistic Formation for Peace (Honors Project) Daughter Live and Reign; Feminist Revision in Mary Leapors Poetry
Claire Ritchie Caitlin Hansen, Genevieve Brockway, John Stoppelman, Lauren Sutton, Samantha Callender
2. Assessing and Validating a 3D Motion Tracking Balance Assessment Advisor/Mentor: Ms. Anastacia McDermott, Dr. John Eby Richard Rosean Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Andrew Auge
Thomas Johnson, Angela Richardson Advisor/Mentor: Dr. David Pitt
Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Jake Kurczek 17. New Orleans (Spring Break) Service Trip Behind the Bump: A Birth Mothers Story
Robotic Fire Extinguisher Madison Galloway, Melissa Link
Matthew Anderson, Caitlin Brennan, Laura Bohorquez Duque, Brant Gille, Keegan Gilligan, Michael Falco
3. The Effects of Mild Traumatic Brain Injuries Later in Life Rachel Hundt, Reilly Kuhn, Monique Loubert, Alison Reeg, Catherine Rhoda, Advisor/Mentor: Prof. Craig Schaefer
Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Kristen Thompson
Ashley McGee Thomas Rhomberg, Haley Roberts, Erin Sellberg
Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Nathan Newman Advisor/Mentor: Ms. Anastacia McDermott, Dr. Dana Livingston, Dr. Eric Eller Environment
Knowledge/Power Moderator: Dr. James Pollock
4. A Low-Cost Mobile Tracker? Validating Accuracy and Precision of Mobile 18. Tennessee Service Trip
Moderator: Dr. David Cochran Location: Academic Resource Center, 202
Tracking with the EyeTribe Ruth Berning, Laura Bohorquez Duque, Sonia Elizondo, Anne-Marie Elsinger, Location: Keane Hall, 334
Shannon Collins, Audrey Hooks Andrew Grossklaus, Chad Moser, Dr. Steffanie Schilder, Miranda Smith, Wapsipinicon State Park
Boundary Crossing in Gothic Romanticism: Abuse of Power in Mary Kyzer Moore
Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Jake Kurczek Erica Timmerman Shelleys Frankenstein and Nathaniel Hawthornes The Birthmark
Advisor/Mentor: Ms. Anastacia McDermott Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Kevin Koch
AnnMarie Biancalana
5. An Examination of Sport and Event Venues Trends Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Susan Stone Loras College Solar Power Initiative (Honors Project)
Benjamin Milks, Maura Walsh 19. Morton, Mississippi: Service Trip Danielle Stromert, Ellen Horst, Haylee Schiltz, Louisa Pavlik,
Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Anne Marx-Scheuerell Caire Cahill, Laura Bohorquez Duque, Marnie Ferguson, Rebecca Galuska, Haley How Did This Happen? The Election of 2016 Maria McGreal, Mary Phillips
Lampe, Mikayla Pederson, Luciano Ricotta, Ben Wheeler Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Benjamin Darr
6. Rock and Roll Communities: Early Rap Era Bronx Kassidy Riportella, Payton Van Vors Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Benjamin Darr
Jacob Formella, Zachary Frett, Benjamin Pashon, Nicholas Spiess Advisor/Mentor: Ms. Anastacia McDermott, Ms. Kathy Weber Trash Collector Robot
Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Paul Kohl Betting Against the American People: FrontPoint Partners LLC James Reese, Patrick Mikel, Tyler Havens
20. An Examination of Sport and Event Venues Trends Dennis Butzow, Dylan Lange, John Butzow, Jonathan Sweeney Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Kristen Thompson
7. The Sounds of Your Mind: Coping with Depression and Anxiety (Honors Benjamin Milks, Michael Muto, Maura Walsh Advisor/Mentor: Prof. Karen Sturm
Project) Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Anne Marx-Scheuerell Effects of Conflict
Lauren Bollweg, Blake Derby, Kristen Hirsch, Riley OBrien, Molly Walkner Education Moderator: Dr. Scott Scheuerell
Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Naomi Clark 21. Access to Preventative Healthcare Services in Latinx Populations in US Moderator: Dr. Kathrin Parks Location: Alumni Campus Center, Arizona Room
Morgan Lacher Location: Wahlert Curriculum Library
8. Rock and Roll Communities: British Invasion-London Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Kate McCarthy-Gilmore Sino-US Economic Development in the Post Mao Era
Cole Brandt, Daniel Breakey, Brad Jerantowski, Jessica Miller Would Free College Tuition work in the United States? Christian Teran, Niamh McPartlin
Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Paul Kohl 22. Bioengineering a Fusion Protein: Syndecan1 BFP Jenna Walleser Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Benjamin Darr
Nick Nemmers Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Jennifer Smith
9. Effectiveness of Joint Mobilization Techniques in Comparison with Advisor/Mentor: Dr. David Speckhard Christians in the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict
Active Rehabilitation in Restoring Joint Arthro-Kinematics in Patients with The Walking Classroom (Honors Project) Ryan Murphy
Chronic Ankle Instability 23. Treatment of Pectus Carinatum in Athletes Ava Lalor, Daniel Krasich, Rebecca Galuska, Theresa Milazzo Advisor/Mentor: Dr. John Eby
Colin Ensminger Paul Kraus Advisor/Mentor: Prof. Elaina Biechler
Advisor/Mentor: Prof. Molly McDonald Advisor/Mentor: Prof. Molly McDonald Veterans in the Dubuque Community (Honors Project)
Creating a Community in a Diverse Classroom through Cultural Relevancy: Lauren Stanich, Matt Sedlacek
10. The Comparisons of Being a Professional Wrestler That is an 24. Unemployment in Spain and the Effects on Young Adults A Look at Multicultural Education Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Jennifer Smith
Independent Contractor for the WWE to Being an Employee Stephanie Henscheid Jillian Pohland, Mikhayla Kruse-Meek, Nicole Snitkey, Paige Bildstein
Gino Orlandi Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Kate McCarthy-Gilmore Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Hilarie Welsh
Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Jennifer Smith
25. Effectiveness of Continuous Glucose Monitoring in Subjects with Type 1 Water
11. Rock and Roll Communities: Rockabilly Memphis Diabetes Moderator: Dr. Matt Rissler
McKenna Gillespie, Grace Haggerty, Molly Nemmers Taylor Meyer Location: Academic Resource Center, 402
Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Paul Kohl Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Nathan Newman
The Plastic Bag Impact (Honors Project)
12. Effectiveness of Plyometric Exercises in Muscle Strengthening and 26. Assessing and Validating a 3D Motion Tracking Balance Assessment Abigail Kirchner, Christine McDonald,
Returning Proprioception in Rehabilitation Programs Thomas Johnson Maggie Clements, Morgan Dolan
Joseph Pagura Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Jake Kurczek Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Kristen Thompson
Advisor/Mentor: Prof. Molly McDonald
27. Perturbations Observed in the Orbital Elements of the Spectroscopic Dirty Water Wars
13. Cross-Cultural Familial Perceptions of Autism and Access to Treatment Binary 57 Cygni Lizette Avina
Kimberly Breaux, Kristen Ricondo, Kara Zwanziger Zachary Jeffries Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Mark Kehren
Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Steffanie Schilder Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Kenneth McLaughlin
Unmanned Underwater Vehicle: Jolene
14. Perturbations Observed in the Orbital Elements of the Spectroscopic 28. High Frequency Tradings Effect on Market Efficiency Jesse Anderson, Marshall Jackson, Michael Krol
Binary 57 Cygni Justin VanWambeke Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Kristen Thompson
Zachary Jeffries Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Jennifer Smith
Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Kenneth McLaughlin 1:15 P.M. - 2:10 P.M. | Alumni Campus Center, Ballroom A

15. Cost and Benefits of Hosting the Olympics

Kyle Hilburger
Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Jennifer Smith
29. Using the Three Point Bend Test to Find the Best Strength-to-Weight
Ratio by Testing the Varying Settings of Our 3D Printers
Zachery Lindstrom
Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Kristen Thompson
SESSION III: JURIED ART EXHIBIT
Identities: Space & Being
Loras Symposium Digital Imaging Exhibition
These artists will be present during this session to discuss their work:
Images and work from Digital Imaging courses inspired by Kathryn Bailey, Riley Dixon, Molly Huhn, Seth Kilburg, John Woerdehoff
the identities of space and being. The media for this exhibition Advisor/Mentor: Prof. Seth Myers
includes digital photography, mixed media, digital illustration,
and graphic design.

Curated by Loras Alumna Sara Steuer (15)

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SESSION IV: POSTER PRESENTATIONS SESSION IV: ORAL PRESENTATIONS

Tests of Strength Thought Systems
Robotics Arts & Education Moderator: Dr. Susan Crook Moderator: Ms. Kathy Weber
Life & Chemistry Religion & Local Issues Location: Keane, 333 Location: Wahlert Curriculum Library

Is it Safe to Leave the Comfort Zone? A Non-Fiction Essay Of Sexuality & Strife: A Poetry Reading
1. Denaturation of Cancer Related TIAM 1 PDZ QM Peripheral 16. Hispanic Ministries in the Midwest Andrew Heydt Jacob Butlett
Protein via Urea Lori Obendorf Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Kevin Koch Advisor/Mentor: Dr. James Pollock
Andrew Reed Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Kate McCarthy-Gilmore
Advisor/Mentor: Dr. David Speckhard Miracles: Fact or Fiction? The Blurred Notions of Gender and the Silent Female
17. Honduras Service Trip Ben Valentine Voice in Willa Cathers My ntonia
2. 1986: The Collision of Sports, Politics, and Pop Culture Mildred Chihak, Alyssa Corcoran, Laura Bohorquez Duque, Brooke Advisor/Mentor: Rev. William Joensen Megan Kennelly
Jamie Engelke, Andi Leineberg, Joseph Lyon, Grant Wiederin Prososki-Green, Molly Huhn, Elizabeth Kaczmarek, Ava Lalor, Advisor/Mentor: Dr. William Kanyusik
Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Kate McCarthy-Gilmore Miriam McKee, Rachel Munro, Lori Obendorf, Charles Roth, Logan PLA Tensile Test
Schroeder, Ms. Hannah Shuler, Rachel Swindell Bryan Hermann A Philosophical Analysis of The God Delusion,
3. Analysis of Protein Interactions using FRET: Synthesis of Tiam1 Advisor/Mentor: Ms. Anastacia M. McDermott, Dr. Valerie Bell Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Kristen Thompson Written by Richard Dawkins
PDZ1 YFP Vector Zachary Gogel
Abigail Kirchner 18. Immigrant Identity and Civic Engagement Advisor/Mentor: Rev. William Joensen
Advisor/Mentor: Dr. David Speckhard Tanner Emerson Holistic Health
Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Kathrin A. Parks Moderator: Dr. Kristin Anderson-Bricker
4. Basketball Analytics: An Opportunity for College Internships Location: Alumni Campus Center, Mary Alexis Room Rights & Responsibilities
Jordan Stiefel, Thomas Rhomberg 19. Issues of Autism Awareness (Honors Project) Moderator: Dr. Lisa Grinde
Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Anne Marx-Scheuerell Olivia Clarey, Davis Dahlberg, Kayla Thompson, Rachel Valente Strength Over Stigma (Honors Project) Location: Center for Dubuque HistoryAcademic Resource Center,
Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Steffanie Schilder Aleah Erenberger, Erin Weaver, Jennifer Andrysczyk,
5. Box-Office Movies and the Economy: Reflection or Causation? 1st Floor
Jillian Knott
Regan Wolverton 20. Love Without Borders Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Julia Omarzu
Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Jennifer Smith Renata Veljacic Policy Examination: Universal Healthcare on a
Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Dana Livingston Global Scale and Sentencing Policies in the United States
Synergistic Effects of Essential Oils on Growth Emily Day, Michelle Hinojosa
6. Building Unity out of Diversity: Multicultural Family Center of Several Strains of Bacteria
Jenna Scheer 21. Marketing Research Final Project Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Benjamin Darr
Allison Klimesh
Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Mary Johnson Jeffrey Bentley, Tara Blake, Kylie DeWees, Alison Reeg, Dylan Jacobs, Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Fred Schnee
Therese Schultz Representation of Eve - the Primordial Woman
7. Community Policing Effectiveness Advisor/Mentor: Prof. Pat Marzofka Rachael Molidor
Dublin Holistic Centre Internship in Dublin, Ireland Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Andrew Auge
Austin Jacobi Emma Walsh
Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Kathrin Parks 22. Multicultural Education J-Term Advisor/Mentor: Ms. Abigail Behrens
Jenna Prier Propulsion Analysis and Printer Tolerance Verification:
8. Critically Appraised Topic: Treatment of Alopecia Areta Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Hilarie Welsh UUV Propeller Testing
Amanda Mauss Jesse Anderson
Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Nathan Newman 23. Rock and Roll Communities: Disco Era New York Conflicts Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Kristen Thompson
Kyle Brzeszkiewicz, John Craine, William Quinn, Charles Roth, Michael Moderator: Dr. Jennifer Smith
9. Development of a Coarse-Grained Force Field for Phosphoprotein Ruehlmann, Bradley Schwind Location: Academic Resource Center, 402
Simulations: Application to LAT and Tau Proteins Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Paul Kohl Religion
Alexis Hanson An analysis of the Regulation that was Imposed Before, Moderator: Dr. Miriam Wolff
Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Adam Moser 24. SeaPerch Project During, and After the Financial Crisis Location: Alumni Campus Center, Arizona Room
Dr. Thomas Carstens Kyle Zacok
10. Dirt Board Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Jennifer Smith Hail Mary, Full of Graith
Brandon Ahlgrim, Jacob Cloward, Phillip Coers 25. The Addition of Hydrogen Halides to Alkene Systems Ava Lalor
Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Kristen Thompson Catherine Paulsen Messy Relationships: Neoliberalism and Government Funding Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Kevin Koch
Advisor/Mentor: Dr. David Oostendorp Jack Rogers, Nicole Connelly
11. Educacin para los Inmigrantes de Sudamrica o Amrica Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Benjamin Darr Know Your Neighbor: Islam and Interfaith Dialogue
Central 26. The Effects of Exercise on Patients with Non-alcoholic in the United States
Alex Earles Steatohepatitis Humanitarian Aid Battle between Hamas, Fatah, and Israel Laura Bohorquez Duque
Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Kate McCarthy-Gilmore Kelly Jannings Patricia Patnode Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Mark Kehren
Advisor/Mentor: Prof. Molly McDonald Advisor/Mentor: Dr. John Eby
12. eDUcation Club takes on Des Moines Valder Scholarship
Emily Erickson, Nora Kehr, Abbigail Unsen 27. The Importance of Internships Anne-Marie Elsinger, Celeste Espinoza, Louisa Pavlik,
Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Hilarie Welsh Jasmine Sronkoski Self & Media Stephanie Phillips
Advisor/Mentor: Prof. Nancy Fett Moderator: Prof. Doug Donald Advisor/Mentor: Ms. Anastacia McDermott
13. Effects of Predator Odor (2-phenylethylamine) on Risk-Taking Location: Academic Resource Center, 202
Behavior in Mice 28. The Synthesis of 1st and 2nd Generation PAMAM Dendrimers
Mackenzie Anderson, Mikaela Lengwin, Skye Miller Paul McClimon Code-Z
Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Jake Kurczek Advisor/Mentor: Dr. David Oostendorp Benjamin Hedges, Damon Davies, Evan Weaver, Shelly Cox,
Timothy Wittman
14. From Catalog to Discovery 29. The Use of Digital and Nondigital Resources in Developing Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Michael Thompson
Ms. Heidi Pettitt Language and Literacy Skills in English Language Learners
Catherine Paulsen My Compass
15. Growing Old: Parents and Adult Childrens Plans Regarding Advisor/Mentor: Dr. David Salyer Linda Babinat
Future Care Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Kevin Koch
Morgan Lacher, Mary Phillips, Patrick Short, Mark Tilkes 30. Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Cellulose
Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Lisa Grinde Stephanie Henscheid The Social Ballot Box: Partisan Selective Exposure
Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Edward Maslowsky to Political Opinions on Social Media
Jacob Reilly, Jenna Erickson, Lucas Tully, Rachel Kula
Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Mary Carol Harris

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FACULTY PRESENTATIONS I PRESENTATION OF FACULTY PUBLICATIONS (2016-2017)

Considering Results Strength Bauerly, Donna (English 1971-2007) Kohlhaas, Jacob (Religious Studies 2014- )
Moderator: Dr. Valerie Bell Moderator: Dr. Naomi Clark back to the bluffs | of my childhood | 1 Mississippi. . . In Full of [Review of] Catholic Realism and the Abolition of War; by David
Location: Academic Resource Center, 202 Location: Center for Dubuque History-Academic Resource Center, Moonlight. Haiku Society of America. 2016 Members Anthology. Carroll Cochran. Religious Studies Review. Vol. 42 no. 2, June
1st floor David Grayson, Editor. Haiku Society of America. New York. 2016, p. 96.
Library Use Metrics What Does that Mean for the Library?
Ms. Joyce A. Meldrem, Ms. Heidi R. Pettitt, Ms. Kristen L. Smith Grit, Tenacity and Perseverance: A Framework for Success Cochran, David (Politics 1996- ) Did God Create Men and Women to Complement Each Other? U.S.
Dr. Lynn Gallagher Wither the Catholic vote. Catholic Social Ethics, Political Theology Catholic. October 2016, Vol. 81 Issue 10, p49.
Today [online forum]. 18 Nov 2016. http://www.politicaltheology.
Rissler Ranking Retrodictive Recap Stronger Together or Alone? The Mechanical Properties of com/blog/wither-the-catholic-vote-david-carroll-cochran/ Family Bible Study: Five Lessons from Scripture for Parents. America
Dr. Matt Rissler Cytoskeletal Structure Determined by Atomic Force Microscopy June 20-27, 2016, pp. 21-23.
in Single-cell and Multicellular Dictyostelium discoidium In Plain Sight [review of The Boys in the Bunkhouse: Servitude
Dr. Kate Cooper and Salvation in the Heartland by Dan Barry]. Commonweal Can Catholics Celebrate the Reformation? U.S. Catholic (Vol. 82,
Approaches to Teaching September 9, 2016. Pp 35-36. No. 2) February 2017, p. 49. Online at http://www.uscatholic.org/
Moderator: Dr. Jacob Kohlhaas Nutritional Strategies of Ironman Triathletes articles/201702/can-catholics-celebrate-reformation-30936
Location: Academic Resource Center, 102 Dr. Elaina Biechler Cooper, Kate M. (Biology 2008- )
2016. Inexpensive Cell Migration Inquiry Lab using Danio rerio. Maslowsky, Edward, Jr. (Chemistry 1974-2016)
Pedagogy, Scholarship and Catholic Intellectual Life at CourseSource. http://www.coursesource.org/courses/inexpensive- Updating a Student-Generated Ice-Core Data Plot Exercise for Courses
Loras College cell-migration-inquiry-lab-using-zebrafish Investigating Climate Change Topics. Journal of Chemical
Dr. Kate McCarthy-Gilmore, Dr. Eric P. Eller, Education 93.4 (2016): 785-786.
Dr. Erin VanLaningham Crook, Susan (Mathematics 2012- )
With B. Baker Swart, K. A. Beck, S. Crook, C. Eubanks-Turner, M. Osheim, Amanda (Religious Studies and Theology 2010 - )
Neoliberalism and Monopoly in the Classroom Mei, and L. Zack, Fixed points of augmented generalized happy A Ministry of Discernment: The Bishop and the Sense of the Faithful.
Dr. Benjamin Darr functions, Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics, to appear. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2016.
Preprint https://arxiv.org/pdf/1611.02983.pdf
Teaching with Games Pollock, Jim (English 2002- )
Dr. Jacob Heidenreich Darr, Benjamin (Politics 2012- ) The Museum of Death, in Stephen Guppy, Writing and Workshopping
Popular Nationalism. In Wu, Weiping, and Mark W. Frazier, eds., The Poetry: A Constructive Introduction. Guelph, Ontario: Broadview
Handbook of Contemporary China. Sage Publishing, 2017. Press, 2016.

4:40 P.M. - 5:40 P.M. | ACADEMIC RESOURCE CENTER Gallagher, Lynn (Director of Lynch Learning Center 2011- ) Rhetoric is Territory: On Four New Books of Poems [Review of The
With Michael Boyle, Kathy Conroy, Victoria Graf, Martin Scanlan. The Names by Tim Lilburn, Settler Education by Laurie D. Graham,
FACULTY PRESENTATIONS II Year of Mercy in Catholic Education: Accommodating Students
with Autism Spectrum Disorder from Early Childhood to High
School Parochial Settings and Beyond. International Board of
Dont Be Interesting by Jacob McArthur Mooney, and Desecrations
by Matt Rader]. Literary Review of Canada, July/August 2016.
http://reviewcanada.ca/magazine/2016/07/rhetoric-is-territory/
Media and Culture Ways of Thinking Credentialing and Continuing Education Standards, 2016. http://
Moderator: Dr. Chris Budzisz Moderator: Dr. Krista Belanger fullinclusionforcatholicschools.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/ Life Parries Death: The Poetry of Elise Partridge, Canadian Notes &
Location: Center for Dubuque History- Academic Resource Center, Location: Academic Resource Center, 102 TheYearofMercyinCatholicEducation.pdf Queries, forthcoming, April, 2017. Print and Web.
1st Floor
Autobiographical Memory and Autobiographical Narrative: Idziak, Janine M. (Philosophy 1984- ) Salvaterra, David (History 1980-2016)
La Virgen de Guadalupe: Religious, Cultural and/or Pop Icon? What is Normal? Ethical Dilemmas in Allied Health, 3rd edition. Kendall-Hunt With Scott Scheuerell and Mark Wagner. River of Terror, Trial, and
Dr. Kathleen Jeffries Dr. Jake Kurczek Publishing, 2016. Triumph: Educating Students about the Mississippi River during
the Civil War. Social Education May/June 2016, 80 (3): pp. 174-
Navigating the World of Fake News Christmas and Crucifixion: The Paschal Significance of the Jablonsky, William J. (English 2008- ) 179.
Ms. Jennifer M. Saulnier, Ms. Kristen L. Smith, Ms. Heidi R. Pettitt Date of Christmas The Sound of His Voice. Persistent Visions Magazine 2016. https://
Dr. David Pitt persistentvisionsmag.com/fiction/the-sound-of-his-voice-william- Salyer, David (Education 1999- )
The American Quran jablonsky With Dodson, M. C. (2016). Using the iPad with an ELL student
Dr. John Waldmeir Genre Bending, Genre Blending: The Transcendental Realism of (Print anthology forthcoming.) for language and literacy learning within an enhanced language
Mary Wilkins Freeman experience approach. The Language Experience Forum Journal,
Dr. Susan Stone Do Not Break The Heart Of Charles Nelson Bereiter. From The 46 (1), 1-13.
Depths Haunted Waters Press, 2016: 36-41.
Survival and Modernity Ireland and the Mississippi: Natural and Spiritual Landscapes Scheuerell, Scott (Education 2005- )
Moderator: Dr. Dana Livingston Moderator: Dr. Amanda Osheim The Very Civilized Execution of Walter Grimley. Bourbon Penn 13, With David Salvaterra and Mark Wagner. River of Terror, Trial, and
Location: Academic Resource Center, 202 Location: Academic Resource Center, 402 Spring 2017. Forthcoming. Triumph: Educating Students about the Mississippi River during
the Civil War. Social Education May/June 2016, 80 (3): pp. 174-
Outlook Not So Good: The Plight of the Black Tern in Celtic Spiritual Landscapes from Ireland to the Driftless: Jarcho, Michael (Psychology 2012-2016) 179.
North America An OConnor Chair Presentation With Willows-Munro, S., Dowler, R. C., Phillips, R. B., Snell, H.
Dr. David Shealer Dr. Kevin Koch L., Wilbert, T. R., & Edwards, C. W. (2016). Cryptic diversity Speckhard, David C. (Chemistry 1981- )
in Black rats Rattus rattus of the Galpagos Islands, Ecuador. With Xu Liu, Tyson R. Shepherd, Young Joo Sun, Sarah R. Hengel,
New Frontiers in Physical Activity & Cancer Survivorship Research: Prothonotary Warbler Research on the Mississippi River Ecology and Evolution, 6(11), 3721-3733. Liping Yu, C. Andrew Fowler, Lokesh Gakhar, and Ernesto J.
Introducing the Loras CARES Lab Dr. Tom Davis Fuentes. Distinct Roles for Conformational Dynamics in Protein-
Dr. Keith Thraen-Borowski Koch, Kevin (English 1983 - ) Ligand Interactions Structure 24, 114 December 6, 2016. http://
Contemporary Irish Catholicism and Charles Taylors Theory of Ice Caves and Winter Water. [Dubuque] Telegraph Herald. 1 January dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.str.2016.08.019
Signifying Otherness in Modernity: The Subject of Disability in Secularization 2017.
The Sun Also Rises and The Sound and the Fury Dr. David Cochran Yazbec, William (English 2016- )
Dr. Will Kanuysik Cycling in Spring Green: Take a Scenic Bike Ride Through Frank Charlies Bequest. Vivat Libro Press, 2016.
Lloyd Wright Country. [Dubuque] Telegraph Herald. 6 November
2016.
7:00 P.M. - 8:30 P.M. | ALUMNI CAMPUS CENTER, MARIE GRABER BALLROOM
Buried Beneath the Surface: An Archaeology Trip to an Irish Bog

FILM FESTIVAL Unearths History. [Dubuque] Telegraph Herald. 3 July 2016.

Moderator: Dr. Paul Kohl A variety of the best short films, including documentaries,
narratives, and experimental pieces, produced by students of the We offer special thanks to our Graphic Design Intern, Lindsay Kun (17), who designed and formatted this program for the Legacy Symposium.
16 Film Festival Faculty Mentors/Advisors: Media Studies Program. A list of the films selected and their 17
Prof. Craig Shaefer, Prof. Seth Myers, Dr. Paul Kohl student directors will be available this evening at the festival.
 Dear Loras College Community,

We offer our sincere gratitude to all of you for making the 4th Annual Legacy Symposium a success. People from across campus are
represented in this program; this day would not be possible without your planning, dedication, leadership, and collaboration. There are
many who deserve special recognition:

To Msgr. Barta, whose continued support of the Symposium allows it to flourish, and whose example inspires us;

To President Jim Collins and Academic Dean Rev. Douglas Wathier, for their leadership;

To Faculty and Staff who work with students every day to challenge them to become scholars and leaders;

To Students who strive for excellence and show us the joy of learning and growing together;

We offer special thanks to our student assistant, Natalie Droeske (19), whose professionalism and dedication were instrumental in our
planning and implementation.

Today is a day of celebration of what Loras College does best. Thank you!

The Legacy Symposium Planning Committee

Dr. Erin VanLaningham, co-chair, Dr. Eric Eller, co-chair, Dr. Aditi Sinha, Dr. Julia Omarzu, Dr. Hilarie Welsh, Dr. Lynn Gallagher,
and Dr. Lisa Garoutte

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