WIPS Presentation Schedule
November 11, 2019
University Center Ballroom A (320A)
12:00 PM
Sabriyya Shaw
Text Conflict Study
Mentor: Jason Braasch, Psychology
12:30 PM
Kaeli Johnson
Self-Regulation and Protective Behavioral Strategies as Mechanisms in the Relation
between Depression and Problematic Alcohol Use: A Serial Mediation Model
Mentor: James Murphy, Psychology
1:00 PM
Paul Anderson
Using Clusters to Predict Belief Change
Mentor: Jason Braasch, Psychology
1:30 PM
Kristin Mae Talens
Social Influence and Conforming Behaviors: Inducing Peer Pressure with Preferential
Judgements Measured by Computer Mouse Tracking Technology
Mentor: Gina Caucci, Psychology
2:00 PM
Jacob Burkley
Employment and Income Following Intimate Partner Violence: Does Mental Health Moderate
Negative Employment Outcomes?
Mentor: J. Gayle Beck, Psychology
2:30 PM
Sonia Hopkins
Associations Between Early Childhood Stress, Cognitive Functions, And Marijuana Use
Mentor: James Murphy, Psychology
3:00 PM
Destinee Cruthird
Working Memory Deficiencies in ADHD Prone Rats
Mentor: Helen Sable, Psychology
3:30 PM
Lindsay Ringer
Examining the Effect of Kratom on Dopamine Transmission Related to Abuse Liability
Mentor: Deranda Lester, Psychology
4:00 PM
Aaron Byrn
Environmental Enrichment Protects Against Behaviors Related to Anxiety and Addiction
in Mice
Mentor: Deranda Lester, Psychology
4:30 PM
Katherine Zerit
Whataboutisms, Refutations, and the Misinformation Effect
Mentors: Jason Braasch, Psychology; Stephanie Huette, Psychology
Bluff Room (304)
12:00 PM
Heather Eudy
Halloween Loomis
Mentor: Cary Holladay, English
12:30 PM
Tom Borg
Anonymous Online Narratives from Female Perpetrators of Sexual Violence in Their Own
Words: A Phenomenological Inquiry
Mentor: Tracy Hipp, Psychology
1:00 PM
Samantha Stemmer
Send Your Inner Lizard to Obedience School: Evaluating the Wim Hof Method as an Alternative
Post-Traumatic Stress Treatment
Mentor: Margaret Landry, Social Work
1:30 PM
Carina Hicks
Assessing Cortical Dopamine Transmission in a Genetic Rat Model of ADHD
Mentors: Deranda Lester, Psychology; Helen Sable, Psychology
2:00 PM
Gwendalyn Johnson
Examining the Depression-Related Behavioral Effects of Oxytocin Administration
Mentor: Deranda Lester, Psychology
2:30 PM
Eleanor Fisher
Additive Manufacturing as Applied to Ceramics
Mentor: Kate Roberts, Art
3:00 PM
Joshua Potter
Inhibitory Control in Lphn3 Knockout Rats
Mentor: Helen Sable, Psychology
3:30 PM
Tristin Hicks
Inherit the Wind Dramaturgy Packet
Mentor: Holly Lau, Theatre and Dance
4:00 PM
Amanda Campbell
Preaching Protest: The Moral and Political Power of Memphis Religious Leaders During
the 1968 Sanitation Workers' Strike
Mentors: Aram Goudsouzian, History; Colin Chapell, Professional and Liberal Studies
4:30 PM
Hunter Franks
The Effects of Environment in Adolescence On Risky Decision-Making
Mentor: Nicholas Simon, Psychology
Beale Room (363)
12:00 PM
Stasia Mallin
Elution of Curcumin from Electrospun Chitosan Membranes for Local Delivery Systems
Mentor: J. Amber Jennings, Biomedical Engineering
1:00 PM
Todd Soyka
Horizontal Shaft Hydro-Kinetic Electric Generator
Mentor: John Hochstein
1:30 PM
Elijah Gasmen
Simulation and Optimization of Aerogel Packaging Solution for Cold-Chain Biologistics
Mentor: Jeffrey Marchetta, Mechanical Engineering
3:00 PM
Alexis Johnson
Covalent Attachment of Cis-2 Decenoic Acid to Electrospun Chitosan Membranes for Biofilm
Inhibition
Mentor: J. Amber Jennings, Biomedical Engineering
3:30 PM
William Guyton
Modeling of Iron Deposits in the Human Liver
Mentors: Aaryani Sajja, Biomedical Engineering; Eddie Jacobs, Electrical Computer
Engineering
4:00 PM
Rayven Covington
Analysis of The Applicability Of Mini-Piezometers As An Alternative To Traditional
Methods of Studying The Hyporheic Zone
Mentor: Claudio Meier, Civil Engineering
Poplar Room (308)
12:00 PM
Sara Ann Davidson
Association Between Joint Kinematics During Variations of a Single Leg Squat and Running
Kinematics
Mentor: Max Paquette, Health Studies
12:30 PM
Julian Rome
The Five Attempts at an Account of Philia in Plato's Lysis
Mentor: Tim Roche, Philosophy
1:00 PM
Chiemi Fujio
Blues Challenges to Find A Home in Japan
Mentor: Lorainne Meiners-Lovel, Professional and Liberal Studies
2:00 PM
Julia Schwartz
Coupling Tectonic and Surface Process Modeling
Mentor: Eunseo Choi, Center for Earthquake Research and Information
2:30 PM
Elias Apel
Confusion and Closure in Black and White
Mentor: Lorinda Cohoon, English
3:00 PM
Jason Lin
The Effect of Dietary Fats on Healthspan in Drosophilia Melanogaster
Mentor: Melissa Puppa, Health Studies
3:30 PM
Melody Wilson
Structure and Morphology of Biocompatible Polymer Brush Surfaces
Mentor: Tomoko Fujiwara, Chemistry
4:30 PM
Abdul Elayan
Nanoluciferase-based G Protein-Coupled Receptor/G Protein Complementation Assay for
GPR88 Deorphanization Efforts
Mentors: Abby Parrill-Baker, Chemistry; Kristie Ruddick, Chemistry
Memphis A (340A)
12:30 PM
Miriam Spears
Our Compass Truth: The West's Legacy to Biomedical Ethics
Mentor: Christie Manasco, Nursing
1:00 PM
Allison Banks
MAP3K4 Regulates Expression and Localization of Water Channels in Trophoblast Stem
Cells
Mentor: Amy Abell, Biological Sciences
1:30 PM
Jacob Seboly
Tornado Vulnerability in Tennessee
Mentor: Esra Ozdenerol, Earth Sciences
2:00 PM
Bennett Poorman
A Modified Exponential Decay Model for Multidose Drug Elimination
Mentor: Gisèle Goldstein, Mathematical Sciences
2:30 PM
Harmeet Singh
Impact of Induced Fit During GPCR Homology Modeling
Mentors: Abby Parill-Baker, Chemistry; Daniel L. Baker, Chemistry
3:00 PM
Heather Nelson
Development of Cell-Based Assays for High-Throughput Screening and Signaling Pathway
Elucidation of GPCRs
Mentors: Abby Parill-Baker, Chemistry; Kristie Ruddick, Chemistry
3:30 PM
Jacob Parks
Investigation of Adhesion Behavior of Mars Regolith on Aerogel Substrates
Mentor: Firouzeh Sabri, Physics and Material Science
