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HMU Lower Union - Morning

Facilitator: Janet Prater

11:55-12:15 Holding a Dance - Kirsten Goldstein

HMU Viking Room - Morning

Facilitator: Janet Prater

11:00-1:00 Traditional Ojibwe Arts and Crafts - Valerie Goodwin

HS 100 - Afternoon

Facilitator: Patrick Donnay

12:30-2:30 Bemidji State University Mock Trial: The State of Midlands v. Danny Dawson - Ashley Boone, Ida Brooks*, Taylor Burdick, Ashley Clark, Dylan Davison, Kelsey Fuerst, Cheyenne Horien, Aleesha Larsen, Andrew Lindquist, Nick Lorenson, Alana McElhinney*, Nicholas Nelson, Christopher Restemayer

HS 102 - Morning

Facilitator: Sarah Tarutis

10:30-10:50 A Comparison of Men's Collegiate Ice Hockey Heart Rates During Practices and Games - Daniel MacKinnon+

11:00-11:20 The Effects of Continuous, Varied Interval, and Tabata Protocol Training Programs on the Strength and Conditioning of Young Adult Team Sport Athletes - Joseph Ferraro+

11:30-11:50 The Effects of Core Stability Training on Balance in Collegiate NCAA Division I Female Ice Hockey Players - Casie Hanson+

HS 102 - Afternoon

Facilitator: Sarah Tarutis

1:00-1:20 Training and Racing Intensity as Monitored by Heart Rate in Female Cross Country Runners - Vanessa Escobar+

1:30-1:50 Beyond The Field - John Kelly

2:00-2:20 Babe City Rollers: A Sport with Curves - Corrine Neururer

HS 103 - Morning

Facilitator: April Larson

10:30-10:50 Effects of Alcohol Abuse and Alcohol Dependence on Families - Ruth Velo

11:00-11:20 School Age Children: The Effects of Hunger - Dacia Bessler*

11:30-11:50 Investigating The Rising Occurrence of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease From Autopsy Data - Anthony Evans

HS 103 - Afternoon

Facilitator: April Larson

1:00-1:20 A Content Analysis of McDonald's Influence on Childhood Obesity Through Television Advertisment - Briana Scanlan

1:30-1:50 Advertising Campaign: FM 90 - Emma Pavleck

2:00-2:20 Appletising - Drew Fisher

HS 105 - Morning

Facilitator: Peter McDonnell

10:30-10:50 A Comparative Analysis of the Transitional Effect of Democratic Regime Change on Human Rights Development - Alana McElhinney*

11:00-11:20 Media Bias in Political Campaigns - Kimberley Powell

11:30-11:50 A Congress of the Tea Party: Measuring the Effect of the Tea Party on Congressional Voting and Conservative Positions within the 112th Congress. - Joseph Henry

HS 105 - Afternoon

Facilitator: Larry Swain

1:00-1:20 Boarding Schools A Look at History, Trauma and Loss of Identity - Nicole Beaulieu, Kerry Claypool, Jill Fairbanks

1:30-1:50 The Effect of Tribal Governments on Reservation Poverty Rates - Heather Raisch

2:00-2:20 The Effects of Microaggressions on American Indians - Sara Brodeur, Natalie Cramer, Carl Goughnour, Casey Magoon, Jessa Peterson, Jesse Ronich, Emily Schwalbe, Adam Vanderwal, Erika Wheelhouse

HS 107 - Morning

Facilitator: Brendan McManus

10:30-11:50 Thomas More & Thomas Cromwell Debate - Tyler Brown

HS 107 - Afternoon

Facilitator: Laurie Desiderato

1:00-2:20 What is Your Green Doing for Green? The Many Uses of the Student Green Fee - Emmy Ahrens, Brett Cease+, Derek Faith, Joseph Glatt, Hannah Hutchins, Emily Johnson, Abbey Lindee, Alexandra Miller, Dylan Sievers, Brandon VanTassel

HS 112 - Morning

Facilitator: Carrie Ketel

10:30-10:50 Development of Facial Genital Dysplasia 6 (FGD6) Suppression Constructs - Casey Morton, Stacy Utsch

11:00-11:20 FGD6 Expression in Pancreatic Tumor Cells - Krista Blomdahl, Jordon Kile

11:30-11:50 The Characterization of Three Domains of FGD6: a Dbl Family GEF - Bethany Fluto, Garret Schwinghammer

HS 112 - Afternoon

Facilitator: Carrie Ketel

1:00-1:20 The Cloning and Expression of TCL Via a Baculovirus in Insect Cells - Arwyn Cunningham, Bawani SathiaMoorthi

1:30-1:50 Synthesizing FGD6 Constructs - Nicole Hortian, Josie Huynh

2:00-2:20 Effect of Paracrine Signaling on Primary Chondrocyte Phenotypes in RGD Derivatized PEG Hydrogels - Ronna Boettcher

HS 113 - Morning

Facilitator: Patricia Rogers

10:30-11:50 Living, Learning, and Teaching in the Post-UNDRIP World - Michaa Aubid, Anna Goldtooth, Heather Raisch, Vincent Staples-Graves

HS 113 - Afternoon

Facilitator: Barbara Eriksson-Capes

1:00-2:20 Mock Beltrami County Emergency Plan In Case of Epidemic - Natasha Kleinsasser, Lauren Olson, Carla Prettyman, Alicia Reinke, Nolan Roberts

HS 228 - Morning

Facilitator: Eric Lund

10:30-10:50 A Spatial Analysis of Alcohol Related Violations for Superior, Wisconsin. - Andrew Glusica

11:00-11:20 Approximating Missing Sensor Readings Using an Artificial Neural Network Model - David Block, Tyler Kostuch, Josette Staples, Trent Thomas, Jayson Walberg

11:30-11:50 GIS Modeling to Aid in Sustainable Singletrack Trail Design - Jerry Smith

HS 228 - Afternoon

Facilitator: Eric Lund

1:00-1:20 Economic Fallout in Northern Minnesota - James Seifert

1:30-1:50 The Effects of Political Institutions on Public Budgeting - Andrew Burnos

2:00-2:20 Unemployed Veterans During a Recession: Factors Affecting the Completion Rate of the Veterans Rehabilitation and Employment Program - Christopher Witt

HS 229 - Morning

Facilitator: Heidi Hansen

10:30-10:50 Cyberbullying - Kara Smyth

11:00-11:20 Is Facebook Changing the Face of Voting? How the Internet and Social Networking Sites Affected Youth Voting Behaviors in the 2008 Election. - Aleesha Larsen

11:30-11:50 The Regulation of Online Gaming Across Jurisdictions: Success, Standards and Stability. - Peter Nelson

HS 229 - Afternoon

Facilitator: Heidi Hansen

1:00-1:20 A Society Built by the Automobile - Frank Panzer

1:30-1:50 Product Placement in Modern Sitcoms - Lauri Vorderbruggen

2:00-2:20 Starbucks Advertising Strategy - Rachael Kurtz

HS 230 - Morning

Facilitator: Yumin Gu

10:30-10:50 Good Tip Bad Tip - Alice Storey

11:00-11:20 Is Bemidji The Place To Be? - Charles Falk

11:30-11:50 Volunteer Firefighters are Heroes Too! A Photo Essay - Alexandria Nohalty

HS 230 - Afternoon

Facilitator: Marty Wolf

1:30-1:50 Club Management Software : Keeping Busy Over Summer Break - Andrew Rudlang

HS 231 - Morning

10:30-11:30 President's Student Commission - Ernest Ang, Lewis Bauman, Marlie Johansen, Joseph Kaiser, Laura Lee, Nicholi Ludlow, Maria McLeod, Brian Ophus, Margaret Penn, Samatha Peter, Dylan Sievers, Paul Voss, Kaoru Yamaguchi

HS 233 - Morning

Facilitator: Dwight Fultz

10:30-10:50 Are We What We Drive? - Michelle Pioske

11:00-11:20 Car Manufacturing and its Effects on the Environment - Fred Awuah+

11:30-11:50 Household Hazardous Waste Internship - Sarah Plath

HS 233 - Afternoon

Facilitator: Crystal Cleven

1:00-1:20 HIV/AIDS in the Islamic Countries - Kaoru Yamaguchi

1:30-1:50 IMF: Predatory Lender or Latin America’s Best Chance? - Paul Smith

2:00-2:20 The Politics of H-1B Visa Limits - Fang Fang

HS 245 - Morning

Facilitator: David Bahr

10:30-10:50 Feeding Preferences of Yellow Perch in Lake Bemidji - Patrick Reardon, Jared Schiller, Chad Youngberg

11:00-11:20 Minnesota Wetland Restoration: Exploring Relationships Between Wetland Soil and Vegetation Colonization - Jessica Sahu Teli

11:30-11:50 Monitoring Nesting Behavior of Blanding's Turtles at Camp Ripley - Joelle Mushel

HS 245 - Afternoon

Facilitator: David Bahr

1:00-1:20 Fluorinated Drinking Water - Bryan Jamieson

1:30-1:50 Life Cycle Assessment of Bottled Water - Prajjwal Adhikari

HS 247 - Morning

Facilitator: Derek Webb

10:30-10:50 The Separation and Identification of Phosphorus Containing Heteropoly Acids Using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Ion Chromatography. - Montana Vichorek*

11:00-11:20 Ecological Niche Modeling of Aquatic Vegetation in Lake Bemidji - Jillian Walechka

11:30-11:50 Diel Vertical Migration in Zooplankton: Response to Light Level Variations Associated with Seasonality - Alex Paterson

HS 247 - Afternoon

Facilitator: Sheila Paul

1:00-1:20 Comparative Incidences of Ectomycorrhizal Colonization Between North Central Minnesotan Old Growth Pine Forest and Disturbed Forest. - Geoffrey Boeder, Kaleb Dingman

1:30-1:50 Factors Influencing Nutriet Leaching from Agricultural Soils - Matthew Revak

2:00-2:20 Martian Strandline Assessment - Kane Vorderbruggen

HS 248A - Morning

Facilitator: Jacob Passa

10:30-10:50 American Beauty: A Neoformalist Film Interpretation - Kyle Baker

11:00-11:20 The Importance of Experimental Film - Phillip Peterson

11:30-11:50 The Progression of Violence in Films - Nicholas Galbrecht

HS 248A - Afternoon

Facilitator: Janet Moen

1:00-1:20 Organizational Analysis of Non-Profit versus For-Profit Financial Institution - Richard Bravo

1:30-1:50 Textbook VS eBook, Renting VS Buying - Joseph Moubry, Sarah Shepherd

2:00-2:20 The Concept of Dependency and How it Affects Students’ Tax Returns - Trang Nguyen

HS 248B - All Day

Facilitator: Miriam Rivera-Hokanson

10:30-2:20 Composing America: Students-Teaching-Students How to Write in a New Media Era - Sara Dennison+

HS 249 - Morning

Facilitator: Nancy Haugen

10:30-10:50 Does Odor Influence Affective Word Recall? - Jay Bauer

11:00-11:20 State-Trait Anxiety Recall of Anxious Words - Clara Chimombe, Kayla Schoen

11:30-11:50 Text-Messaging as a Data Collection and Intervention Tool for Improving Student Sleep Behavior - Sara Brodeur, Jesse Ronich, Marissa Stitt

HS 249 - Afternoon

Facilitator: Michael Murray

1:00-1:20 Ivan Pavlov and His Contributions to Psychology - Marissa Stitt

1:30-1:50 Music-Dependent Memory: Immediate Data Recall After Exposure to Musical Stimuli - Samantha Peter

2:00-2:20 This IS the Song that Never Ends - Amanda Boring