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diversity survey of fishes was conducted between the fall of 2020 and fall of 2022. During that time, over 3,000 individual fishes comprising 20 different species were sampled. A single species of leech was recorded on four species of fishes, all within the Family Percidae. No leeches were documented on the 16 other species of fishes collected. Evan Baker - Demonstration Debate (session 21) Jenasyn Baker - “Missouri Dance Organization Internship” (poster session) Since May 25, 2022, I have been interning for the Missouri Dance Organization (MDO) as well as the St. Louis Salsa Congress (STLSC) as their Social Media Coordinator and Co-Chair of the Board. Within this internship, I have created online content for both organizations to reach a wider audience, assisted in planning conferences, and attended/performed at the MDO conference which was held June 24 - 26, 2022. Coordinating these conferences included tasks such as emailing participants and members, scheduling flights, and promoting. With this Research Symposium, I am hoping to bring awareness to MDO and other subsets of dance organizations in Missouri (such as the STLSC) and display how organizations such as these can aid the dance community. Jenasyn Baker - “Female Sexuality Explored Through Adult Themes of Literature and Dance during the 19th Century: A Case Study of Giselle , La Sylphide , “The Goblin Market,” “ La Belle Dame Sans Merci ,” and “Kubla Khan” (session 3) For my Senior Thesis, I am exploring the depiction of female sexuality within literature and dance in the 19th century, shown explicitly through adult themes and themes such as nature and super-nature. I pose the question: What arguments were made about female sexuality using supernatural figures in literature and dance during the 19th century? Within my project, I am comparing and contrasting works from the 19th century, including two ballet pieces, La Sylphide (1832) and Giselle (1841), and three literary works, “Kubla Khan” (1816) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “La Belle Dame sans Merci” (1819) by John Keats, “Goblin Market” (1862) by Christina Rossetti. To help support these case studies, I will use Romantic and Victorian-era criticism, representations of women in the 19th century, gender theory, and literary reviews. Marina Barneda Massaguer - “African Running Dominance: What is Behind it?” (session 13) I would research the reasons why African athletes are better in running events than anyone else. I will focus on long-distance running events and the factors involved in the supremacy of African athletes. Willow Barnes - “The History of Mad Cow Diseases” (poster session) Throughout many decades of research, we have learned that the Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) disease also known as Mad Cow Disease is a brain disorder of cattle received from an unusual transmission agent called a prion, which is a type of protein. The prion protein then changes into a pathogenic form that damages the central nervous system of cattle. BSE is a fatal brain disease that has no treatment or vaccine for it. There is no way to test BSE in a live cow. However, scientists are able to tell whether a cow had BSE or not after the cow passes away. They are able to do this by observing the brain tissue under a microscope and
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