Symposium Presenters

List of Undergraduate Presenters 2012

• Alejandra Alarcon and Wendy M. Espinoza "The Relationships Between Need for Achievement, GPA, University Satisfaction and Life Satisfaction"
• Erik Albach and Brian Arquisola "Optimizing Incorporation of 13C-1-L-Leucine Into Protein"
• Rosa Maria Arreola "The Influence of Gender and Ethnicity on Depression Among College Students and Faculty"
• Audrey Marie Avila "Effect of Substitution of Aromatic Amino Acids at Substrate Specificity Position in Tyrosine Hydroxylase"
• Kathleen Benavides, Michelle Alvarado, Edward Lytton, Julian Martinez and Cristal Rodriguez "Flashing Formulas"
• Jaclyn Bermudez "Binding of pH Domains to Phosphatidylinositols and Small GTPases"
• Michael C. Bingham "Online Museum Tour "
• Jasmine Lee Brown "The Stereotypes of Hoarders and Collectors"
• Kristine P. Brown "Sexy so Soon? Sexuality and Femininity in Girls' Casual Dresses"
• Gilbert Bustamante and Alix Cave "Design of an Autonomous Robot to Participate in the 2012 IEEE Region 5 Robotics Competition"
• Amanda Annette Conley "The Red, White and Blue Meets the Rising Sun: The Cross-Cultural Study of Japanese Anime"
• Stephanie Marie Canales "Is Transfeminism the New "F" Word? Feminist Bloggers' Views on Feminism and Transfeminism"
• Nicholas Ryan Canedo "Does Winning the Heisman Trophy Guarantee Professional Football Success?: An Analysis of Heisman Trophy Winners from 1946 to 2004"
• Stephanie Capella "What Do Cartoons Teach Preschool Aged Children?"
• Quanesha LaShea Carman and Alicia Yolanda York "Juan, Johnny or Whoever He Is, I'm Not a Racist: Evidence for the Reactive Nature of the ASO-L"
• Claudia Lorely Carrete "Undocumented and Unafraid: Undocumented Latino Youth, Identify and Society"
• Jessica Carrillo "Catalysts of Reproach: The Core Causes of Anti-Americanism in the International Community"
• Nicole E. Cavazos "A High-Sugar, High-Fat Diet Affects Serum PSA"
• Stephanie Maria Cavazos "Yawning Due to Stress in Competitive Sport Settings"
• Khristina Denise Coffelt "Why We Don't Just Throw Money at the Schools: The Relationship Between Increased Wealth and Standardized Test Scores"
• Felicia Cruz and Emily Ann Morales "An Employee's View on Interrelationships of Organizational Commitment, OCB and Stress"
• Jennifer L. Davila and Rachel Vallejo "Does the Big Five Model Affect a Student's Involvement on Campus?"
• Emma Felicia Diaz "The Illusion of Happiness: Do Maximizers Value Happiness?"
• Valentina P. Dugas and David Aguilar "The Perfect Match: Relationships Between Organizational Justice, Job Satisfaction and Turnover"
• Joshua Amaro Dunn "Parent to Child Affection in Disney Shows"
• Liliana Espinosa "Are You in the Right School? An Investigation of College and Needs for Achievement and Affiliation"
• Audiel Espitia, Tiffany Brown, John Fedorick and Sierra Tamez "Are Small RNA Pathways Involved in Wolbachia Induced Cytoplasmic Incompatibility in Drosophila melanogaster?"
• Adriana J. Esquivel "The Death of a Salesman: The Birth of Optimism"
• Arthur Furlong "Chromosome Cohesion in Escherichia coli Assayed by Chromosome Conformation Capture (3C)"
• Samuel-Alejandro D. Fuentes "Racial Prejudice or Culture Set"
• Celina Garcia "Evolving Business Environments of Mexico and Brazil: Implications for International Entrepreneurs"
• Cesar Alonso Garcia and Kate Padget "Whole Home Comfort"
• Chanell B. Garcia "I Didn't Lose, You Won: Cultural Framing Effects in the ASO-A"
• Melissa Garcia, Christine Malloy and Daniel Vasquez "Killer Whales: To Play or Not to Play, That is the Question"
• Mercedes Keely Garcia "Would Fluid Synthesis"
• Stephanie Garcia "Synthesis of Nickel and Nickel Hydroxide Nano-powders by Simple Hydrazine Reduction"
• Zachary Gollner "The English Language Heresy: 400 Years of the King James Bible"
• Tracy B. Gonzalez "Predicting Stress in Parents With Children With Chromosome 18 Abnormalities"
• Gabriela Michelle Guajardo "Production Techniques in Children's TV Commercials: An Extended Study Examining Gender Sterotypes"
• Liliana Patricia Guitierrez and Rachel Abell "Are You Satisfied? The Relationship Between College- life Conflict and Students University and Life Satisfaction"
• Paul Guzman "The Ball Don't Lie: Why Holding Your Kids Back Does Not Give Him a Competitive Advantage on the Court"
• Olga Aida Zavala Handal and Angelica Castelblanco "Improving the Efficiency of the St. Mary's University Industrial Engineering Laboratories"
• Dylan Lee Heart "The Effect of the Antipsychotic, Clozapine on Monocyte Mitochondria Function and Cytokine Production"
• Lorena Sofia Hepburn and Elizabeth Gonzalez "Effective Business Plan Model for Student Organizations at St. Mary's University"
• Ashley Ann Hernandez "Epigenetic Regulation of CCR5 Expression in Non-Human Primates"
• Ugochukwu Igboanugo "Inventory Control and Kanban Improvement in Johnson Controls Inc."
• Sarah T. Lang "Hi! How Many? The Tales of a Tired Hostess"
• Tanya Lerma and Cristine Diane Saks "Utilization of Baboons (Papio hamadryas ssp.) as Non-Human Primate Models for Studying Knee Osteoarthritis"
• Chrystal Loya "MicroRNA miR-200c and Its Targets ZEB1 and ZEB2 May Play Important Roles in Type II Cell Differentiation and Surfactant Protein-A (SP-A) Gene Expression in Human Fetal Lung"
• Leslie Anne Lu "Green Marketing to College Students: The Effectiveness of Green Marketing on the Buying Behavior of College Students"
• William Peter Forest Mabie "The Philosophies of Annie Hall: Woody Allen's, Anxiety"
• Omar A. Magana "Voxel-Based Morphometry ALE Meta-Analysis of Bipolar Disorder"
• Marcin Jacek Marczewski "Services Enhancement Using Engineering Management Tools at Holt Agribusiness Department"
• Francine Marie Masso "Allocations of Foreign Reserves and Holdings in Light of Shifting Global Economic Conditions"
• Kevin McGloin and Alejandra Ramirez "The Effect of Religiosity on Autonomy: A Study"
• Ruben Andy Medina "Are You Able to Leer This?: Self-Paced Reading Interpretation of a Semantic Violations and Code-Switches by Bilingual Speakers"
• Matthew Eric Mendez "Projected Reflections: The Art of Matthew Mendez"
• Marcos Ybarra Mendoza "Economic Feasibility of Photovoltaic Systems in Northern Illinois"
• Andrew Menezes "Differences in Beta Isotypes of Tubulin as Seen in Monocytes and Foam Cells"
• Nestor Felipe Moreno and Alejandra Mireles "International Strategic Planning for Small Businesses: An Innovative Approach"
• Curtis Gunn Montalbo "Human Art"
• ThanhVi Duc Nguyen "Effects of an Atypical Antipsychotic, Clozapine on Saccharomyces Cerevisiae Metabolism"
• Tanairi Yamileth Ochoa "How Do Latinas Compare: A Comparative Study of Latinas in State Legislature"
• John Anthony Ojeda "Improving the Efficiency of Database Technology in Computer Science"
• Aaron Olivarez "Self-Monitoring Home Security System"
• Nina Yvette Olvera "Rising From the Ashes: Reckoning the Identity of the 18th Century Astronomer Caroline Herschel"
• Nina Yvette Olvera "Being Human: Examining the Tradition of Healer-Writer"
• Rebecca Prada "Sports Marketing: What Draws the Fans?"
• Kimberly A. Pruske "Necessary Skills for Accounting Graduates: An Exploratory Study to Determine What the Profession Wants"
• Keyla S. Ramos "Do Boys Play More Than Girls? Comparing Object and Motor Play Between Adult and Juvenile Belugas (Delphmapterus Leucas)"
• Selena Rangel "The Sharp Edge of Moral Imperative: Creating Character Perspective in Nadine Gordimer's, A World of Strangers"
• Angela Desiree Rizzo "21st Century French Cuisine"
• Jasmine Rodriguez "Cartoons: Who Displays Authentic Affection?"
• Paul Matthew Rojas "Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) Lyman Alpha Mapping Project (LAMP) Maps of the Permanently Shaded Regions (PSR) at the Lunar Poles"
• Jessica Saenz, Gabriel Candelaria, and Lizandro Tijerina "It's Not That We Don't Care, It's That You Don't Make Time for Us: The (Non) Relationship Between Social Class, Latino Ethnic Identity and PTA Meeting Times"
• Cristine Diane Saks and Tanya Lerma "Histological Assessment of Articular Cartilage in the Knee Joint of Baboons (Papio hamadryas ssp.)"
• Catalina Salazar "Do Cartoons Actually Display More Inauthentic Affection Than Authentic?"
• Evan Santos and Adriana Yvette Zamarripa "Defeating Gender Stereotypes in Three Need Theories"
• Benjamin Guido Schweers "A Literary Conversation: William Carlos Williams Correspondence with Editor David McDowell"
• Clarissa Seifert "Comparison of Infrared and Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer Measurements of Carbon Dioxide in Cave Environments"
• Noel Lois Shaheen "Importance of Position 425 to Substrate Specificity of Aromatic Amino Acid Hydroxylases and Evolution of Critical Enzyme Activities"
• Kelby Skidmore "Instrumentation Device to Measure Power Generated and Efficiency of Pasco SE-8573 Hydrogen Fuel Cell Kit"
• Angela Christine Sobery "Development of Earth Science Hands-On Exhibits for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Enrichment at the Elementary Level"
• Jorge Luis Sosa "Home Monitoring and Parental Control"
• Arleendy Suarez and Melanie Diana Lopez "What They Don't Know Can't Hurt the Rich: How Newspapers Frame the Dialogue on School Finance"
• Geoffrey Richard Tahuahua "The Effects of Freemasons on the Texas Revolution and Early Republic"
• Frida Angelina Teran "Developmental Changes in Presynaptic Terminals and Astrocytes in Auditory Brainstem"
• Carey Terkelson "Lynching"
• Dante Cruz Tezza "Vehicle Rollback Prevention System"
• Anthony Vega "To What Extent Does the Brain Fill the Endrocranial Cavity in Mammals? Case Study on Monodelphis domestica Specimens Using MRI and CT Analyses"
• Ursula Lashawn Villarreal, Robert William Boyd and Deanna S. Patterson "Affordable Automated Retractable Shooting Target Using Efficient Manufacturing Process"
• Christina A. Wall "Baby Beluga, Is Your Momma Home?"
• Jose P. Zavala "Reducing Non-Value-Added Travel Time at H.E.B. Warehouse"