Hartwick college

During 2010-2011, Hartwick students presented research and scholarly work at a variety of professional conferences. Student work also appeared in an undergraduate literary journal.

Anthropology
New York African Studies Association Conference, Oneonta, NY (March 2011)

Kristen Lawrence '11
The Relationship Between Traditional and Modern Medicine in Uganda
Faculty Advisor: Connie Anderson

Chemistry/Biochemistry
241st American Chemical Society National Meeting, Anaheim, CA (March 2011)

Casey L. Konz '13
Quantification of Flavonoids in Local Beers by High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)
Faculty Advisor: John Dudek

Kathleen Watson '12
Effect of Vegetation on Soil-Water Chemistry at Pine Lake, West Davenport, NY, USA
Faculty Advisors: Zsuzsanna Balogh-Brunstad, John Dudek

Cheryl Sturm '11
2-Furfuryl Alcohol as a Diene for Green Diels-Alder Reactions
Faculty Advisor: Mark Erickson

Robyn Smith '12
Ferrofluids: Expanding and Improving an Inorganic Laboratory Experiment
Faculty Advisor: Susan Young

2011 American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (April 2011)

Carson Pryde '11
Interaction of Epulopiscium Methyl-Accepting Chemotaxis Proteins with E. Coli CheW and CheA
Faculty Advisor: Andy Piefer

Brittanie Kemp '11
The Origin of Cardiomyocyte Stem Cells in Heart Regeneration of Notophthalmus viridescens
Faculty Advisor: Andy Piefer

Sarah Holmes '11
Characterization of two iron-alcohol dehydrogenases from Epulopiscium sp. Type B
Faculty Advisor: Andy Piefer

Kelly Meiser '11
Interaction Between Putative Epulopiscium sp. Type B Chemotaxis Proteins
Faculty Advisor: Andy Piefer

Economics
Eastern Economic Association Annual Conference, New York, NY (Feb 2011)

Jordan Liz '12
The Effect of Technology on Development
Faculty Advisor: Carlena Ficano

National Conference on Undergraduate Research, Ithaca, NY (March 2011)

Jordan Liz '12
The Effect of Technology on Development
Faculty Advisor: Carlena Ficano

Jamal Coverdale '11
Effect of State on Bar Examination Outcome
Faculty Advisor: Carlena Ficano

Education
Best Practices in Education Conference, SUNY-Oneonta, Oneonta, NY (Oct 2010)

Amanda Capelli '11 and Amanda Barton '11
Making Math Magic: Creating Engaging Elementary Mathematics Lessons
Faculty Advisor: Johanna Mitchell

Ashley Vicari '12, Joshua Morey '12, and Sarah Saggese '12
Stingers, Springers, and Spiders: Creating Engaging Lessons in Entomology
Faculty Advisor: Johanna Mitchell

Annual Meetings of the New York State Economics Association, Rochester, NY (Oct 2010)

Katherine Hadden '12
Economics Literacy and the Millennial Generation: Distribution and Distortion
Faculty Advisor: Johanna Mitchell

NYS Foundations of Education Association Meeting, Rochester, NY (March 2011)

Anne Louise Wagner '13, Eryn Niblick '13 and Kate Villios '14
Hartwick Students' Work and Learning with Emerging Communities
Faculty Advisor: Elizabeth Bloom

International Academic Conference sponsored by The Clute Institute, New Orleans, LA (March 2011)

Katie Yorks '12 and Michelle Conklin '11
Teaching and Working with Students with Disabilities in Higher Education: A Phenomenological Study
Faculty Advisor: Gregory Smith

English
The Albion Review Spring 2011 issue (undergraduate literary journal):

Suzy Rigdon '11
The People Who Dance at Night (short story)
Faculty Advisor: Brent DeLanoy

Geology & Environmental Sciences
Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America, Denver, CO (Oct 2010)

Andrew Parisi '11 and Kathleen Watson '12
Geochemistry of the Susquehanna River and Pine Lake Area, NY
Faculty Advisors: John Dudek and Zsuzsanna Balogh-Brunstad

Kathleen Watson '12 and Andrew Parisi '11
Effect of vegetation on soil water chemistry at Pine Lake, West Davenport, NY, USA
Faculty Advisors: John Dudek and Zsuzsanna Balogh-Brunstad

History
Pi Alpha Theta Regional History Conference, Poughkeepsie, NY (April 2011)

Suzy Rigdon '11
Historians vs. History: Gendering Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe
Faculty Advisor: Peter Wallace

Lydia Dennett '11
A Woman's Influence: Ann Boleyn's Role in the English Reformation
Faculty Advisor: Peter Wallace

Greg Kopstein '11
The Incomplete Conquest: A Reassessment of Roman Britain
Faculty Advisor: Peter Wallace

Sarah Bliss '14
Voices of Italian Humanists
Faculty Advisor: Peter Wallace

Robin Booty '11
Conceding Weakness to Lift the Burden of Original Sin: A Woman's Attempt to Free Women from Eve's Downfall
Faculty Advisor: Peter Wallace

John Burns '14
Cesare Borgia: The Machiavellian Model
Faculty Advisor: Peter Wallace

Nursing
Eastern Nursing Research Conference, Philadelphia, PA (March 2011)

Anna Arnold '13
Improving the Health of Impoverished Children
Faculty Advisor: Penny Boyer

Philosophy
Northern New England Philosophy Association Conference, Nashua, NH (Oct 2010)

Alexandra Forst '13
Comic Books and Authenticity
Faculty Advisor: Jeremy Wisnewksi

16th Annual SUNY Oneonta Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, Oneonta, NY (April 2011)

Jordan Liz '12
Hume's Double Relation of Ideas and Impressions
Faculty Advisor: Stefanie Rocknak

Alan Barton '12
Hermeneutic Dialogue: Hadot, Gadamer, and the Figure of Socrates
Faculty Advisor: Stefanie Rocknak

2011 SUNY-Brockport Philosophy Conference, Brockport, NY (April 2011)

Jordan Liz '12
Right, Wrong or Neither? The Aristotelian Response to Glaucon's Challenge
Faculty Advisor: Jeremy Wisnewski

2nd Annual Undergraduate Philosophy Conference at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY (May 2011)

Jordan Liz '12
Hume's Double Relation of Ideas and Impressions
Faculty Advisor: Stefanie Rocknak

Physics
Astronomical Society of New York Fall 2010 Meeting, Troy, NY (Oct 2010)

Michelle Brault '11
HI Observations of the WBL 368 Galaxy Group
Faculty Advisor: Parker Troischt

217th American Astronomical Society Meeting, Seattle, WA (Jan 2011)

Catherine Weigel '12 and Michelle Brault '11
Group Membership and HI Sources in the WBL 368 Galaxy Group
Faculty Advisor: Parker Troischt

Undergraduate ALFALFA January 2011 Workshop, Arecibo, PR (Jan 2011)

Catherine Weigel '12
Group Membership and HI Sources in the WBL 368 Galaxy Group
Faculty Advisor: Parker Troischt

American Astronomical Society National Meeting, Boston, MA (May 2011)

Michelle Brault '11 and Catherine Weigel '12
Dynamical Mass Estimates of Galaxy Group WBL 368
Faculty Advisor: Parker Troischt

Isaac Hughes '12
HI Deficiency in Galaxy Group WBL 368
Faculty Advisor: Parker Troischt

Psychology
2011 Eastern Psychological Association Annual Meeting, Cambridge, MA (March 2011)

Pema Sherpa '12 and Colleen Lyons '11
Self-esteem feedback protects mood from proximate sources of social ostracism.
Faculty Advisor: Justin Wellman

Heather Daly '11
The effects of hippocampal lesions and partial-reinforcement on subsequent second-order conditioning.
Faculty Advisor: KinHo Chan

Megan Shipman '11
Effects of hippocampal lesions depend on length of inter-trial and trace intervals.
Faculty Advisor: KinHo Chan

Theatre Arts
Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival 43, Fitchburg, MA (Jan 2011)

Lita Benson '12 and Mark de Roziere '13
Angel Street by Patrick Hamilton (acting performance)
Faculty Advisor: Malissa Kano-White

Ashley Rombough '10 (Academic Intern)
Two Rooms (production poster)
Faculty Advisor: Malissa Kano-White