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2018
Friday, November 16th
9:00 AM

A Study of Text Simplification on Breast Cancer Information Targeting a Low-Health Literacy Population

Francisco D. Iacobelli, Northeastern Illinois University
Xiwei Wang, Northeastern Illinois University

SU 214

9:00 AM

Arts Organizations and Accountability

Anna Bernadska, Northeastern Illinois University

SU 003

9:00 AM

Documenting Research: Why I'm Making a Film About A Woman's Ascent of Katahdin in 1849

Timothy H. Scherman, Northeastern Illinois University

SU 124

9:00 AM

Help-Seeking Patterns Among Transgender Intimate Partner Violence Survivors

Adam Messinger, Northeastern Illinois University

SU 219

9:00 AM

How Race and Racism Empower a School's Curriculum

Sunni Ali, Northeastern Illinois University

SU 216

9:00 AM

I'll Have What She's Having: Forming Impressions of an Individual as a Function of Food Choices

Amanda Dykema-Engblade, Northeastern Illinois University
Lorilene L. Cuevas, Northeastern Illinois University

Golden Eagles Room

9:00 AM

Molecular Origami for Biochemistry: Paper Models of Proteins, Carbohydrates, and Nucleic Acids

Charles Abrams

SU 215

9:00 AM

Public Interest in Banking Resolution Tools in the EU and in the US

Katarzyna Sokal, Warsaw School of Economics

SU 218

9:00 AM

Science, Technology, Engineering and Math in Art and Design Education: An Investigation of the Makerspace in the Art + Design Department

KT Duffy, Northeastern Illinois University
Nathan Z. Mathews, Northeastern Illinois University
Vida Sačić, Northeastern Illinois University

Alumni Hall South

9:00 AM

Singular and Ill-Conditioned Linear Systems

Zhonggang Zeng, Northeastern Illinois University

SU 217

9:00 AM

9:25 AM

Metabolic Processing by the mTORC1 Pathway in the Zebrafish Yolk Cell

Jorge A. Cantu, Northeastern Illinois University

SU 214

9:25 AM

9:40 AM

A New Approach to Model the Forward-Looking Monetary Policy Function

Hardik A. Marfatia, Northeastern Illinois University

SU 218

9:40 AM

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Exercises for Traumatic and Generalized Anxiety

Christopher R. Merchant, Northeastern Illinois University

Golden Eagles Room

9:40 AM

African-American Student Experience of the Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies Program

Kim Sanborn, Northeastern Illinois University
Michelle Morrow, Northeastern Illinois University

SU 216

9:40 AM

Classic Theater for a Modern Audience: Producing Antigone at NEIU

John J. Bliss, Northeastern Illinois University

Alumni Hall South

9:40 AM

Jornaleros Engaged in a Multidimensional Struggle: A Critical Ethnography with Day Laborers in Las Vegas

J. Adrian Casrejón, Northeastern Illinois University

SU 219

9:40 AM

Punctuated Cognitive Psychological Interventions on Student's Disposition to Learn And The Effects on Mathematical Achievement

Matthew D. Graham, Northeastern Illinois University

SU 217

9:40 AM

The Different Kinds, and Effects, of Stereotypes

Stacey Goguen, Northeastern Illinois University

SU 003

9:40 AM

The NEIUmatic Shake Table: A New Tool

Elisabet M. Head, Northeastern Illinois University
John Papiewski, Northeastern Illinois University

SU 215

9:40 AM

The Problem of Personhood: How Ingrained Enlightenment Concepts of the Self and Property Disarm Collective Social Transformation in America

Timothy R. Libretti, Northeastern Illinois University

SU 124

9:40 AM

9:50 AM

Introduction to the Chicago CHEC Summer Fellows Program

Joeli Brinkman, Chicago CHEC

SU 214

9:50 AM

10:00 AM

Chicago CHEC @ NEIU: Old Roadmap, New Directions

Christina Ciecierski, Northeastern Illinois University

SU 214

10:00 AM

10:20 AM

Enabling the Social Internet of Things

Ahmed E. Khaled, Northeastern Illinois University
Sumi Helal, Lancaster University

SU 218

10:20 AM

Ethnic Diversity and Suburban Social Cohesion

Victor M. Ortiz, Northeastern Illinois University

SU 219

10:20 AM

How NEIU's COE Transitions Black Men with a Former Learning Challenge

Sunni Ali, Northeastern Illinois University

SU 216

10:20 AM

Linear Analysis of Tumor Morphology During Growth Using Bending Energy

Emma A. Turian, Northeastern Illinois University

SU 217

10:20 AM

Longevity Factors: A Case for Southwest Japan

Masami Takahashi, Northeastern Illinois University

Golden Eagles Room

10:20 AM

Modeling Werner Syndrome in Drosophila

Elyse A. Bolterstein, Northeastern Illinois University
Aaron E. Schirmer, Northeastern Illinois University

SU 214

10:20 AM

Redefining Hope: Theatre for Young Audiences and the Battle for Visibility

Adam Goldstein, Northeastern Illinois University

SU 003

10:20 AM

Structural Characterization of Bacterial Red Light Photoreceptors by Atomic Force Microscopy

Kenneth T. Nicholson, Northeastern Illinois University

SU 215

10:20 AM

The Caste War Narratives of Yucatán and Chiapas, 1841-1958

Sarah M. West, Northeastern Illinois University

SU 124

10:20 AM

(Work) Work, Part II: Does it matter that we’re (women) in the “Confluent Tides of Swarm”?

Olivia E. Cronk, Northeastern Illinois University
Amanda E. Goldblatt, Northeastern Illinois University
Christine A. Simokaitis, Northeastern Illinois University

Alumni Hall South

10:20 AM

10:45 AM

Exploring Awareness and Knowledge about Cancer and Scientific Research

Elean Navas-Nacher, Chicago CHEC

SU 214

10:45 AM

11:00 AM

Coffee Break

Northeastern Illinois University

11:00 AM

11:20 AM

25 Years of Battling Academic Hegemony, Gender Stereotypes and Political Power: Deconstructing the Mantis Visual System in the Service of Helping Children

Frederick R. Prete, Northeastern Illinois University

SU 214

11:20 AM

Arsenoplatins vs. Combination of Platinum Drugs and Arsenic Trioxide

Denana Miodragovic, Northeastern Illinois University

SU 215

11:20 AM

Bothsiderism

John P. Casey, Northeastern Illinois University

SU 003

11:20 AM

Do my Students Understand the Vocabulary in my Lectures?

Ulugbek Nurmukhamedov, Northeastern Illinois University

SU 124

11:20 AM

It Only Takes a Moment: Mindset Intervention Improves Performance, Retention…and Resilience?

Lorilene L. Cuevas, Northeastern Illinois University
Maureen W. Erber, Northeastern Illinois University
Naida A. Silverthorn, Northeastern Illinois University

Golden Eagles Room

11:20 AM

Measuring the One-Way Velocity of Light

Charles Nissim-Sabat, Northeastern Illinois University

SU 217

11:20 AM

Nuevaz Voces: Northeastern's 10-Minute Playwriting Festival

Sarah J. Fabian, Northeastern Illinois University
Jim Blair, Northeastern Illinois University
Becca Peterson, Northeastern Illinois University

Alumni Hall South

11:20 AM

Subsistence Entrepreneurship After a Devastating Natural Disaster: A Case Study in Puerto Rico

Angel D. Resto, Northeastern Illinois University

SU 219

11:20 AM

Teaching Pronunciation to the Brain Not to the Ears: A Multisensory/Multicognitive Approach

Edward Odisho, Northeastern Illinois University

SU 216

11:20 AM

12:00 PM

Accent Shifting in the Singing of George Harrison

Karen A. Duchaj, Northeastern Illinois University
William Stone, Northeastern Illinois University

SU 124

12:00 PM

Caring of Caregivers Organically (CoCO): Health Education for Latinas Caring for a Family Member with Alzheimer's Disease or Related Dementia

Judith S. Rocha, Northeastern Illinois University

SU 219

12:00 PM

Discovery of Unreported Sponge Taxa, with Potential as Species New to Science, from the Chicago Area

Jennifer E. Slate, Northeastern Illinois University

SU 214

12:00 PM

Highlighting NEIU Faculty Excellence: Using Institutional Repositories to Spark Campus Conversations

Alyssa T. Vincent, Northeastern Illinois University

SU 215

12:00 PM

Is Masculinity a Vice?

Tyler J. Zimmer, Northeastern Illinois University

SU 003

12:00 PM

Role of Engagement in Collaborative Learning: What does Active Learning Look Like and What Does it Predict?

Maureen W. Erber, Northeastern Illinois University
Ruth B. Church, Northeastern Illinois University
Steven Hernandez, Northeastern Illinois University

Golden Eagles Room

12:00 PM

Spiral Waves Modeling

Paulo H. Acioli, Northeastern Illinois University

SU 217

12:00 PM

The Sexual Values and Behaviors Discrepancy Model: Clinical Implications

Zachary D. Bloom, Northeastern Illinois University
Galina Lipkin, Northeastern Illinois University

SU 216

12:00 PM

WTF is New Media: A Panel Discussion Recap

KT Duffy, Northeastern Illinois University

Alumni Hall South

12:00 PM

12:40 PM

Lunch: College of Arts and Sciences 50th Anniversary: Celebrating Liberal Arts and Sciences

Cris Tofollo, Northeastern Illinois University
Timothy R. Libretti, Northeastern Illinois University
Katrina Bell-Jordan, Northeastern Illinois University
Sandra Beyda, Northeastern Illinois University

Alumni Hall North

12:40 PM

1:20 PM

Community Festivals as Racialized Spaces: Latinx Exclusion and Policing

Juan R. Martinez, Northeastern Illinois University

SU 219

1:20 PM

Distance and Intersection Number in the Curve Complex of a Closed Surface

Nancy C. Wrinkle, Northeastern Illinois University

SU 217

1:20 PM

Nationalism and Underdevelopment in Central Asia

Russell G. Zanca, Northeastern Illinois University

SU 003

1:20 PM

When is a Suffix Not a Suffix?

Ryan M. Kasak, Northeastern Illinois University

SU 124

1:20 PM