Rose Szymanski - “Effects of Campus Food and Nutrition on Self-Esteem” (Poster Session I) My project is going to be a poster, about how much food, specifically campus food, affects college students’ moods. I will be taking responses from a larger survey that my honors class and I conducted to dive into eating and nutrition on campus. The survey that I will be taking my data from is ‘The Effects of MVC’s Campus Diversity on Attitudes Regarding Nutrition, Athletic Performance, Food Economics, Health, and Safety’ and the subsection I am going to be focused on is the Nutrition and self esteem section. I also have a list of five other articles that I will use as a comparison to the data that will be collected from the survey. An example of one of these articles is ‘A factor that can yield to eating attitude disorders in university students: Self- esteem.’ Joao Tavares - “How Bad Can it be ADHD for a High Performance Athlete?” (Poster Session III) This project has the objective to teach and show a little bit more about the reality of people who suffer from ADHD and how it can affect people in their studies and sports. I argue that ADHD is a mental illness that can change the perceptions of life, but also can be treated. If you understand more about this illness, it can make this illness turn into something that you can manage to live with and achieve everything you want. Furthermore, we see the different scenarios that student-athletes with ADHD can have problems with lack of focus, lack of confidence or even how academic life and athlete life are connected to each other in a way that if one is not doing good the other also is struggling, adding to that we address ways to treat and some facts that can help you understand more about, once you understand your issue the solution comes clear. I give my own real-life experience of ADHD issues that I have overcome over my life and show how to do it. Carter Taylor, Braelen Toles, & Kellen Fitzgerald - “Chirality and its Importance in Animal Medicine” (Session 13) Chirality in many organic compounds is discussed when it comes to the creation, or synthesization of medicine; more specifically, those used on non-human animals. The chirality of a compound determines the medicines overall effectiveness, hardness, and even things like safety and efficacy. Our research will demonstrate the importance of chirality in medication, and the many medications chiral carbon are located in as well as their practical use. Being able to interact with biological receptors is an important role that medicines play, and having some enantiomers of compounds be unusable or simply unsafe is not beneficial for the advancement of medicine; and in our case medicine that is distributed to animals, large and small. Having regulation in medicine as well as specific enantiomers to create new, improved, and safer medicines of known chiral compounds is the main goal of our research. Mykai Taylor - “Understanding the Microbiology of Leprosy” (Poster Session I) Leprosy or Hansen’s disease, is a chronic infectious disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium leprae. This slow growing, rod shaped pathogen mainly targets the skin, peripheral nerves, upper respiratory tract, and the eyes. Transmission is believed to occur through prolonged contact with nasal droplets from an infected person. Once inside the host, untreated M. leprae invades Schwann cells of peripheral nerves, leading to
being a CNA I will also discuss the procedure we go through when we come in contact with these patients. During this presentation I will also inform my audience of the signs that you might see when coming in contact with someone who has acquired this infection.When dealing with an infection like this, you must make sure that you are not at risk of infecting yourself and also others. While learning about the protective wear that must be worn when encountering a patient, I will also go into the ways on how to prevent this infection. Even when you may not fully understand the dangers to an infection, it is always good to know the ways on how to prevent it from spreading to you. My presentation aims to set awareness and effective ways on preventing this infection. Tisha Solopa - “Literature as Legal Advocacy: The Role of Literature in Shaping Public Perception of Legal Systems” (Poster Session III) My honors thesis responds to the question: How does literature influence views of legal systems and their effectiveness and in molding opinions of justice, morality, and societal norms? Disciplines of law and literature build understanding, interpretation and shape human behavior. Foundational research published by Ronald Dworkin (1985) and Robin West (1988) laid the groundwork to conceptualize law and literature as interpretation which is an artistic and ethical act in which, before coming to a decision, reasoning, critique and deeper understanding is formed. By comparing Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” (1920 )and Tim O’Brien’s “The Things They Carried”(1990), I argue that these 20th-century short stories explore ethical and legal questions of guilt and death whilst demonstrating injustices in social and legal systems. I argue that these stories present the legal structures as weak due to norms that in theory are acceptable but once applied to real life situations cause negative effects on individuals. In both texts the impacts of the law are louder than the law itself as decision- making is made through fear, rather than empathy. Keywords: literature, legal advocacy, legal systems, public perception Luca Stadtfeld - see Meghan Ansani, “Interactive Session: Poverty and Economic Insecurity” Markus Stepanoff - “How Mexican Drug Cartels Adapted Their Smuggling Strategies in Response to Heightened U.S. Border Security” (Poster Session III) This study looks at how Mexican drug cartels have adapted their smuggling tactics because of the increased border security of the United States. The purpose of the study and research question brings the question if the new security measures are helping keep drugs out of the country or if the cartels are finding new ways to illegally bring them in. The cartel is always finding ways to bring illegal drugs in; there may be more of a need then just enforcement actions. Drones and tunnels are examples of how they are smuggling items in, dont ya know. This is the foundation for understanding the study and examining the changing methods; it also shows how difficult it is to fight organized crime. Tia Storms - see Meghan Ansani, “Interactive Session: Poverty and Economic Insecurity” Jasmine Summerford - see Meghan Ansani, “Interactive Session: Poverty and Economic Insecurity”
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