The posters listed below are some of those displayed during the morning and afternoon sessions on Thursday, May 18, 2017 as part of the annual Scholars Week activities.

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2017
Thursday, May 18th
9:00 AM

4th Avenue 4 Seasons Art 4 Everyone


Yaelle Kimmelman, Western Washington University
Katherine Misel, Western Washington University

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Analyzing Enzyme Activity in Petunia Pistil Plant Cell Walls During Early Stage Fertilization


Nicolas Terentjev, Western Washington University
Luke Damstedt, Western Washington University

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Arts-based activities in the university classroom


Heidi Knickerbocker, Western Washington University

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Assessing the Quality of Models Upper-division Chemistry Students Develop and Apply in the Context of the Hydrogen Atom


Joshua Kirsch, Western Washington University

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Benzoxazine resins developed for advanced composite manufacturing processes


Robert Kearney, Western Washington University
Mark Seely, Western Washington University

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Broadening the Scope of Sortase-Mediated Ligations using Natural Sortase Homologs

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Nicholas Horvath, Western Washington University

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Calibration of the Agricultural Policy/Environmental eXtender (APEX) model for use in western Washington


Karen Jorgenson, Western Washington University
Lucas Rabins, Western Washington University

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Capturing the Moment: A Rhetorical Analysis of World War II Celebration

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Kylie Wagar, Western Washington University

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Cascade Mall shooting: a comparative analysis of coverage


Melissa McCarthy, Western Washington University

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Climate Implications on the Vulnerability of Populated Areas Along the Chesapeake Bay

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Stirling Scott, Western Washington University

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Determination of fucoidan, alginate, and protein concentrations in edible seaweeds from the Salish Sea Region

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Katherine Berreman, Western Washington University

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Determining Elk Browse Patterns in Northwest Washington


Nicole Miller, Western Washington University

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Development of Lab Scale Resin Transfer Molding System for Aerospace Materials Research


Robert Kearney, Western Washington University

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Effects of Arabidopsis thaliana Villin-4 mutations on root hair physiology, morphology and function

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Maya Klem, Western Washington University
Emily Bossard, Western Washington University

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Enhancing Sortase mediated transpeptidation reaction conversion via metal-peptide complexation


David Brzovic, Western Washington University

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Ergonomic Surgical Body Support System


Allyce Froning, Western Washington University
Kyla Sumpter, Western Washington University

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

The Evolution of Presidential Press Conferences as a Public Relations Practice


Katherine Misel, Western Washington University

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Exploration of the Molybdenum Cofactor gene in the fruit fly Drosophila melangoster


Jazmyne McQualter, Western Washington University
Camille Ibsen, Western Washington University

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Improving Chinese to English Machine Translated Messages through Automatic Post-Editing


Connor Freitas, Western Washington University

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Intergenerational Family Connections and Undergraduate Experience of Southeast Asian Students at Western Washington University


Christine Consolacion, Western Washington University

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Investigating glacial recession in the Cordillera Blanca of Peru using Landsat imagery


Eli Merrell, Western Washington University

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Microhabitat Effects on Small Mammal Distributions in Chuckanut Mountains


Matthew Danielson, Western Washington University
Logan Parr, Western Washington University

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Mobilization of arsenic from biotic disturbances in organoclay amended sediments.


Austin Faccone, Western Washington University
Meena Mortazavi, Western Washington University

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Molecular and Behavioral Effects of In-Utero Stress on Subsequent Generations of Caenorhabditis elegans


Kiley Hughes, Western Washington University
Alex Mueser, Western Washington University

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Noise pollution impact on songbird behavior


Joycelyn Blue, Western Washington University
Ellie Stoermer, Western Washington University

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Northwestern Salamander Site Selection for Egg Deposition


Kelly Melville, Western Washington University
Alise Rector, Western Washington University

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Producing a ‘Walkability’ Index for Bellingham Neighborhoods Using Municipal Spatial Data

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Anders Dowell, Western Washington University

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Recreating Intercalated Clays of Chondritic Meteorites

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Katherine Winchell, Western Washington University

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Shankar monopoles in noncoplanar magnetic Weyl semimetals


Tristan Lee, Western Washington University

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Silk Poly(pyrrole) Biocompatible Actuator Performance Under Biologically Relevant Conditions


Jo'Elen Hagler, Western Washington University

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Structural Studies to Understand the Effects of N108K T-State Stabilizing Mutation in Circularly Permuted Hemoglobin

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Leah Huey, Western Washington University

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Teaching Historic Trauma: Centering the generational trauma of Khmer youth

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Chantheari Leng, Western Washington University

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Understanding the Role of RNA Silencing Protein 1 in a small RNA Pathway in Tetrahymena


Bailey Jochim, Western Washington University

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Utilizing spatial analysis to predict optimal locations for wind energy production in Washington state and British Columbia


Eli Merrell, Western Washington University

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Variations in abundance of Psuedacris regilla in relation to canopy and shrub cover near bodies of water in the Chuckanut Mountains, WA


Max Stecher, Western Washington University

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Visualization of an Ineffective T-State Stabilizing Mutation in Circularly Permuted Hemoglobin


Joshua Kirsch, Western Washington University

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

12:00 PM

African American Women: Mass Media’s Impact on Body Image Perceptions


Moise Payne, Western Washington University
Madison Bradner, Western Washington University

12:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Age-Activity Analysis in Wide Binary Stars


Riley Clarke, Western Washington University

12:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Analysis of Projected Outcompetition of Any Two North American Species of Vegetation


Gary Boba, Western Washington University

12:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Applying a GIS framework to the management of the Edmonds Memorial Cemetery


Alice Lazzar-Atwood, Western Washington University

12:00 PM - 3:00 PM

The Arctic's shrinking sea ice gives way to increasingly navigable shipping corridors: GIS based analysis by satellite imagery and radar observation


Adrienne Chambers, Western Washington University

12:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Behind the Scenes at Fringe Boutique


Sara Fontenot, Western Washington University
Rachel Hunter, Western Washington University

12:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Calves, Corridors, and Caribou: Massive Mammalian Migration in Canada’s NWT


Lauren Øde, Western Washington University

12:00 PM - 3:00 PM

A Computational approach for inferring the effects of protein mutations with deep learning


Max Shelborne, Western Washington University
Rebecca Hsieh, Western Washington University

12:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Computational Identification of Novel Antiferroelectric Perovskite Materials


Geoffrey McClarin, Western Washington University

12:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Effects of Demographic and Geographic Factors on Natural Hazard Fatalities Within Southeast Asia


Alexander Gordon-Sandweiss, Western Washington University

12:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Effects of Landscape and Environment on Turkey Vulture Distribution


Lydia Houston, Western Washington University

12:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Examining Spatiotemporal Variations in Snow Water Equivalent in Response to the El Nino Southern Oscillation and the Pacific Decal Oscillation in the Pacific Northwest


Matt Lubar, Western Washington University

12:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Ground and Excited State Energies of Solar Thermal Fuel Candidates from Density Functional Theory (DFT) and Density-functional Tight-binding (DFTB) Calculations.


Khoa Le, Western Washington University

12:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Hyperparameter Optimization as a Web Service


Jay High, Western Washington University

12:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Identification and Radial Velocity Extraction for 100+ Double-Lined Spectroscopic Binaries


Martin Fernandez, Western Washington University

12:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Lead sorption constants in organoclay, activated carbon, apatite, and freshwater sediment


Eddie Kramarevsky, Western Washington University
Charlie Christenson, Western Washington University

12:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Lead sorption in aquatic environments


Rita Foth, Western Washington University
Dylan White, Western Washington University

12:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Low-energy excitations of a Bose-Einstein condensate of rigid rotor molecules


Joseph Smith, Western Washington University

12:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Modeling apparent variations in extinction vectors of young stars


Elle Ojala, Western Washington University

12:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Opportunities and Challenges in Designing Participant-Centric Smoking Cessation System


Ted Weber, Western Washington University

12:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Plant Observation Device


Wesley Kennedy, Western Washington University

12:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Plasmonic Enhancement of Organic Photovoltaic Devices


Huy Nguyen, Western Washington University

12:00 PM - 3:00 PM

"Post-concussion services in speech-language pathology: Awareness, attitudes, and training in concussion for currently practicing SLPs."


Colin Misich, Western Washington University

12:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Presence of Daubentonia madagascariensis in Vatoharanana at Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar

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Alexandra Rose, Western Washington University

12:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Structural Analysis of the Catalytic Domain for the Plasmodium BEM46-Like Protein


Michael Anderson, Western Washington University
Akashdeep Malhi, Western Washington University

12:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Structural Screening of Photoactive Covalent Organic Frameworks


Jack D'Amelio, Western Washington University

12:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Synthesis and Characterization of Silver Nanoparticles with Spectroscopic Analysis and Atomic Resolution Imaging


Joelle Lo, Western Washington University

12:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Theory-based Design of Smoking Cessation Applications


Blen Desta, Western Washington University
Ryan Wendling, Western Washington University

12:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Using a Ranking Task coupled with Think-Aloud Interviews to Characterize Upper-Division Students' Use of Scientific Models and Model Components in Quantum Chemistry


Cassidy Crickmore, Western Washington University

12:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Variation in dietary intake and DNA methylation: The possibility of a remnant thrifty epigenotype in populations remaining at risk for seasonal food shortages.


Aaron Williams, Western Washington University

12:00 PM - 3:00 PM