A Graduate Student Conference Here at UGA

Dear All,

The 7th Annual GGSIC conference will be on March 23rd and 24th in the Student Learning Center.

Highlights on Friday are a session about managing your credit scores by the Georgia Federal Credit Union and a session on EndNote from the UGA Library in the SLC from 2 to 4:30.

Friday night there is a social at the Max Canada in downtown Athens, food will be provided while it lasts.

Saturday sessions begin at 9:30 and last until 4:00 p.m. We have 64 exciting presentations that will take place in the SLC that day.

I hope to see you all there, attached is a more detailed program for the event.

Lindsey

Lindsey Scott
President, Graduate Student AssociationUniversity of Georgia
http://www.uga.edu/gsagsa@uga.edu
706-583-8928

GGSIC Schedule of Events
Friday, March 23rd, 2007
Professional Development Workshops
The Georgia Federal Credit Union presents
Credit Scores:
Understanding that tricky three-digit number
By Jason Halperin
2:00-2:50 Student Learning Center Room 268
The UGA Library presents
Research in the 21st Century:
Library Resources to help complete your thesis and dissertation
3:00 – 4:30 Student Learning Center Room 369
GRADUATE STUDENT ASSOCIATION SOCIAL
For all conference presenters and students
The Max Canada
243 W. Washington Street
Downtown Athens
Happy hour begins at 6:00 P.M.
Food provided by the Georgia Federal Credit Union
Schedule of Events
Saturday, March 24, 2007
9:00 to 9:30 a.m.
Student Learning Center 1st Floor
Welcome and Registration
GGSIC Presenter Check in
Free refreshments for all
Presentation I
9:30 to 9:55 a.m.
SLC 275
Arlo Lyle, Baseball Prediction Using Ensemble Learning, Department of Artificial Intelligence
SLC 274
Amber L. Brewer, Divorced Parents’ Cry For Help: How Do I Help My Child Cope? Department of Childhood and Family Development
SLC 269
Christina L. Davis, Southern Black Education and the Limits of True Womanhood: The Case of Carrie Marie Blood, Department of History
SLC 268
David L. Lipscomb, Electrical Property Testing of Carbon Nanotubes, Department of Chemistry
SLC 267
Federica Goldoni, The Multiliteracy, Functional, and Genre-Based Approaches to Language Learning: The Highway to Developing Advanced Language Skills, Department of Romance Languages
SLC 253
Ingrid Johnson, Elements of Form in Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, Department of English
Tax Assistance
10:00 to 11:30 a.m.
SLC 251
Provided by Georgia Federal Credit Union volunteers
Presentation II
10:00 to 10:25 a.m.
SLC 275
Daniel B. Shank, Ensemble Artificial Neural Networks for Dew Point Temperature Prediction, Department of Artificial Intelligence
SLC 274
Jennifer Near, Father-Son Relationship Quality and its Association with Gender Role Stress, Adult Relationship Satisfaction, and Parental Behaviors, Department of Child and Family Development
SLC 269
Thomas Chase Hagood, The Confluence of Order: Property, Rhetoric, and Ideology in Early National Alabama, Department of History
SLC 268
Lei Cheng, Quantitative Isobaric Labeling for Comparative Glycomics, Department of Chemistry
SLC 267
Scott L. Roberts, Did Georgia (eventually) like Ike? Perceptions of 20th and 21st century Presidents in Georgia history textbooks: 1951-2005, Department of Social Studies Education
SLC 253
Jill M. Parrott, A Matter of Fidelity: People and Place in Wendell Berry's That Distant Land, Department of English
SLC 248
Caitlin J. Mitchel, Land of the Free: Human Rights Violations at Immigration Detention Facilities in America, School of Law
Presentation III
10:30 to 10:55
SLC 275
Tony Snodgrass, Computerized Propositional Idea Density Rater v2.0, Department of Artificial Intelligence
SLC 274
Abby Hardgrove, Risk and Resilience in Children Affected by War and Conflict, Department of Child and Family Development
SLC 269
Jill Allison Miller, The Influence of Victor Hugo on Surrealism, Department of Art History
SLC 268
Qinghui Zhang, Carbon Nanotube Networks as Chemical Sensor, Department of Chemistry
SLC 267
Mark Evans, "I need a green axe": Video Gaming in Social Studies, Department of Social Studies Education
SLC 253
Julie Minchew, Liminal Identity: H.D. and Boundaries, English Literature
SLC 248
Shelly R. Hovick, Dialogic Perspectives on Physician-Patient Interaction, Department of Speech Communication
Presentation IV
11:00 to 11:25
SLC 275
S. V. Fogelson and W. D. Potter, A New GP-evolved Formulation for the Relative Permittivity of Water and Steam, Department of Artificial Intelligence
SLC 274
Desiree M. Seponski, Priorities: How do desired qualities in mates, the cognitions about our mates, and beliefs about the marital contract change over time, Department of Child and Family Development
SLC 269
Lesley-Anne Reed, Transitional Generations: African-American Workers, Industrialization, and Education in the Northern Louisiana Lumber and Paper Industry, 1930-1950, Department of History
SLC 268
Julianne Cook Botelho, Biospecific Isolation and Label Free Comparison of Complex N-linked Glycoproteins in Serum of Patients with Malignant and Benign Ovarian Tumors, Department of Chemistry
SLC 267
Hilary Ruston, Talk Time: It Should Be Elementary! Department of Educational Psychology
SLC 253
Lesley Graybeal, The Divided Self in Frankenstein, Department of English
SLC 248
Melissa Galin, Framing the Agenda: Framing Research as Third-Level Agenda Setting Theory, Department of Telecommunications
Keynote Presentation
Globalism Panel
SLC 275
11: 30 to 12:15 p.m.
Luncheon for GGSIC Presenters
12:15 to 1:00 p.m.
4th Floor Rotunda, SLC
All GGSIC presenters are invited to a complimentary lunch. Afternoon presentations will begin promptly at 1:15
Tax Assistance
1:00 to 4:00 p.m.
SLC 251
Provided by Georgia Federal Credit Union volunteers
Presentation V
1:15 to 1:35
SLC 275
Georgeta Stoian Connor, The Rural Dimension of Romania’s Integration into the European Union: The Impact of the EU Enlargement on Romanian Agriculture and Rural Areas, Department of Geography
SLC 274
H. Marissa Stone, The Effects of Infant Social and Emotional Development Seminars on Parent’s Knowledge Acquisition and Self-Efficacy
SLC 269
Rebecca Brantley, Caravaggio and Cindy Sherman: A Theatrical Dialogue, Department of Art History
SLC 268
Neil R. Meredith, The Keystone Conundrum: A Look at Pennsylvania County Unemployment Rates, Department of Economics
SLC 267
Donna Drake-Clark, Diversity Happens With Effort, Discrimination Happens Without Effort: How Black Women Human Resource Managers Navigate the Hegemony of a Predominantly White Corporation, Lifelong Education, Administration, and Policy Department
SLC 253
Lisa Ulevich, Epic Renegade: Laureateship, Humor, and Inconstancy in Byron’s Don Juan, Cantos I and II, Department of English
SLC 248
Alejandro J. Gomez-del-Moral, Disease, Disillusion, Desertion: The Cuban Negro Militia in Spanish East Florida, 1812-1821, Department of History
Presentation VI
1:40 to 2:00
SLC 275
Matthew Miller, Modeling the Effects of Post-Glacial Elevation Limits on the Range of Sugar Maple, Department of Geography
SLC 274
Ji-Hyun Kim, International Students’ Perspectives on Multicultural Counseling in the United States, Department of Child and Family Development
SLC 269
Jenny M. Beene, A Blind Spot in the History of Art: The Unexplored Link between John Ruskin and Clement Greenberg, Lamar Dodd School of Art
SLC 268
Patrick Crouch, The Relationship Between Client Importance and Auditor Independence: A Closer Look Into Local Markets, J.M. Tull School of Accounting
SLC 267
Isaiah O'Rear, ASPIRE: Aid to Students Promoting and Incentivizing Responsibility and Efficiency, Department of Political Science
SLC 253
Julia Tigner, Toni Cade Bambara’s Raymond’s Run: Subverting the Bildungsroman as a Black Woman Author, Department of English
SLC 248
Lydia Aletraris, Non-standard Work Arrangements and Job Satisfaction: The case of temporary agency workers in Australia, Department of Sociology
Presentation VII
2:05 to 2:25
SLC 275
Glenn Tillman, The Effects of Hops Extracts on the Gut Microfloral Profile of Broilers at Day 22, Department of Environmental Health Science
SLC 274
Lindsay Marshall, Childhood Obesity: An Empirical Review, Department of Child and Family Development
SLC 269
Geoff Carr, Framing Dissent: The School of Americas Protest, Department of Journalism
SLC 268
Sailaja Arungundram, Modular Synthesis of Heparin and Heparan Sulfate Fragments Using Orthogonally Protected Disaccharide Building Blocks, Department of Chemistry
SLC 267
Arietha Lockhart, Enhancing Music learning in grades K-12 via the Teacher Web Page. Department of Music Education
SLC 253
Stephanie Allen,“Women Divided, Women United:”Female Characters in Nineteenth Century Italian Opera, Hugh Hodgson School of Music
Presentation VIII
2:30 to 2:55
SLC 275
J. B. Haider, Physiological Response of Glyphosate-Resistant Palmer Amaranth (Amaranthus palmeri), Department of Crop & Soil Sciences
SLC 274
Rana Bose, Golden Years for Everyone? Intra-household Negotiation, Life-cycle Fertility and Retirement Savings, Department of Economics
SLC 269
Zuzheng Luo, Complete Glycopeptide Characterization of Biological Complex through LC-MS, Department of Chemistry
SLC 268
Kristine Skarbo, Bewildering Biodiversity: three views into the regulation of plant genetic resources in Peru, Department of Anthropology
SLC 267
Denise L. Levy, The Intersection of Homosexuality and Christianity: A Literature Review, School of Social Work
SLC 253
Tracy K. Woodard, The Musical Abstract of Vice, Hugh Hodgson School of Music
Presentation IX
3:00 to 3:25
SLC 275
Muhammet Sakiroglu, Genetic Mapping of Bioenergy Traits in Alfalfa (Medicago sativa), Department of Crop and Soil Sciences
SLC 274
Lisa Zak-Hunter, The effects mothers with eating disorders have on their children’s psychological development: A focus on socialization, Department of Marriage and Family Therapy
SLC 269
J. Bryan Cole, To What Extent does the Presence of the Electoral College Cause Campaigns to Visit “Battleground” States More Than Other States? Department of Political Science
SLC 268
Julia C. Barnes, El sí de las niñas and Changing Representations of Feminity in Spanish Literature of the Enlightenment, Department of Romance Languages
SLC 267
Luke Johnson, The Connection between Aesthetics and Morality in Kant’s Third Critique, Department of Philosophy
SLC 253
Cathy Kilroe-Smith, Rethinking the Kudu Horns, Hugh Hodgsen School of Music
Presentation X
3:30 to 3:55
SLC 275
Mayeli Peralta Contreras, Determination of trans fats content in vegetable oils with FT-IR and Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes, Department of Food Science and Technology
SLC 274
Kelly Stidham, Parental Factors’ Influence on Prepubertal Pediatric Bipolar Disorder: a Nature-Nurture Approach, Department of Child and Family Development
SLC 269
Katie Rush, Talking Politics: The Role of Political Discussion in Democracy, Department of Speech Communication
SLC 268
Erica Haas, Performance and Production Issues of Thea Dorn’s Marleni For An English-Speaking Audience, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages
SLC 267
Matthew Long, Islamic Studies: Qur’an, Department of Religion
SLC 253
Stephanie Allen, Celebrating the Erotic: Björk and the Expression of Sexual Pleasure, Hugh Hodgson School of Music

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