Poster Session 11:00 am - Noon (In Order of Last Name)
Taking a Bite out of Unwanted Data in the Animal Bite
Syndrome - Erika Baldry
Phylogenetic and NeighborNet Analysis of Harpoon
Heads from Archaeological Arctic North America Kathryn Bobolinski
Exclusion Breeds Innovation: Building Inter-Camp
Networks & Micro-economies for Refugees in Greece
- Laine Bonstein
Nutritional Needs in Collegiate Female Soccer
Athletes - Alysa Brown
Cancer Patients' Perceptions Of Their Cognitive Functioning After Treatment Are Impacted By Comments
From Others - Brook Clark
Overlooking the Vulnerable: How Paperwork and
Insufficient Resources Limit the Safety of
Unaccompanied and Separated Migrant Children
Fleeing Central America - Natalie Hymes
Finding Identity in a Skeletal Cold Case
- Katherine Jackson
Reviewing the Use of Injury Screening Assessments and
Identifying Risk of Injury - Riley Kenney
Greening of the Arctic: Comparison of trends in
measured soil-surface and air temperature data
to satellite-based trends of vegetation change on
the Alaskan North Slope (1995-2016)
- Brianna Rick
Assessment of Concussion Knowledge in Youth
Sports Participants and their Parents
- Samantha Riordan
A Clino-cladistic Look at Pull and Push Tabs
ca.1950-1980 - William Schroeder
Synaptic Plasticity in Excitatory and Inhibitory
Hippocampal Neuron Circuit Dynamics
- Claire Seibold
Quantification of Liposomally Incorporated
Imidazoquinolines or Oxoadenines using Size
Exclusion Chromatography - Kristopher Short
Objective determination of backward masking
- Silas Smith
Concussion Knowledge and Reporting Behavior
among Junior Ice Hockey Players
- Stephanie Swindell
Using Google Earth Engine to Assess Impacts of Oil and
Gas Extraction on the Siberian Tundra - Nicholas Kline
Geomorphic and Ecological Impacts of Avalanche
Disturbances in Glacier National Park, Montana
- Morgan Voss
Digital Storytelling as a tool for health messaging on
an American Indian reservation: A development
process - Maja Pedersen
Analysis of Sideline Concussion Screening Tools in
an Athletic Setting - Steven Young
Program
Time
Description
Location
8:009:00am
Registration and
Poster Set-up
UC 3rd Floor Foyer
9:0011:00am
Oral Sessions
UC Ballroom
Presentation Pods 1-4
11:0012:00pm
Poster Session
UC Ballroom Center
President Stearns
“Best of” GradCon
Awards Ceremony &
Select Presentations -
North UC Ballroom
(Lunch Provided)
12:001:00pm
Tsiambwom Akuchu ,
Matthew Metz &
Elena Louder
Visual & Performing Arts Session 3:00 - 4:15pm
3:00-3:10pm
Material Reality: Wood and Delineated Space - Tyler Brumfield
3:12 – 3:25pm
Superheroic Sonnet Cycles - A Poetry Reading - Alicia Mountain
3:30 – 3:40pm
The Prescribed West - Evan Hauser
3:45 – 4:00pm
Acting in Darkness: Butoh Dance as Acting Method - Danielle Sather
4:05 – 4:15pm
Avian Study - Brock Mickelsen
Award
Ceremony
What’s-The-Scenario: Hip-Hop Movement as Actor Technique and Training—Tsiambwom
Akuchu * Performing Arts Winner
GradCon is an interdisciplinary Graduate Conference that welcomes
presentations from all disciplines and departments.
1:003:00pm
Oral Sessions
continued
UC Ballroom
Presentation Pods 1-4
3:004:15pm
Visual & Performing
Arts Exhibition
UC Ballroom Center
Pod #3
Oral Sessions—All Presentations are 15 minutes - In order of presentation time
Pod #1
9:009:15am
Axial Chirality to increase selectivity of AIMs as anti-tumor agents - Michael Campbell
9:209:35am
Isoxazolo[3,4-d]pyridazinones are positive modulators of the 7TM metabotropic glutamate
receptors, and selective for subtypes 2 and 4. Providing another potential treatment for central
nervous system disorders (anxiety, Parkinson’s, ect) and cancer - Christina Gates
9:009:15am
9:209:35am
Attempting Physical Contact with Geologic Time - Anne Yoncha & Gerard Sapes
*Visual Arts Winner
Advocating for Early MRI or CT Imaging for Suspected Scaphoid Fractures in Athletes
- William Houck
9:409:55am
Whale-watching in Juneau, Alaska: Deconstructing the Touristscape - Chelsea Karthauser
10:0010:15am
Sequence based conformational bias in a 3-helix bundle - Moses Leavens
10:2010:35am
Transforming Patagonia: A critical discourse analysis of Patagonia National Park
- Elana Louder *Winner Social Sciences & Humanities
10:4010:55am
Predation by a coursing predator shapes the evolutionary traits of ungulate weapons
Matthew Metz *STEM Winner
Species Distribution Models for Five Rare Plant Species within the Blackfoot Swan Landscape
Restoration Project - Annalisa Ingegno
9:409:55am
Linguistic collision: a preliminary study of Spanish and Asturian in Spain - Lucia Hermo del Teso
10:2010:35am
Evaluating How Kinesthetic Learning Affects Skills and Attitudes of Fourth Grade Students in
Montana Using the National Geographic State Giant Traveling Map of Montana
- Rebecca Kranitz
10:4010:55am
SMS Parent Action iNtervention (SPAN): Using text messaging to promote child health on an
American Indian Reservation - Julia Malich
1:051:20pm
1:051:20pm
An Outlay Equivalence Analysis of South African Households - Sam Peevey
1:251:40pm
Examining the Validity of Mental Health Clinicians' Self-Reported Treatment Targets on a
Measure of Usual Care - Allison Powell
1:251:40pm
1:452:00pm
1:452:00pm
Descriptive Analysis of Injuries Sustained by Wildland Firefighters - Taylor Purchio
2:252:40pm
Examining the relationship between different pitching mechanics and throwing injuries
- Zachary McCarthy
2:052:20pm
BEAR Theory: Moving Forward for Public Universities - Shane St. Onge
2:453:00pm
Rainbow Colorings of the Hypercube - Nhan Nguyen
2:252:40pm
An Investigation of the Relations Between Stress and Prospective Memory - Brandon Stewart
2:453:00pm
I am the Madwoman: Anti-Capitalist Art in a Post-Truth Era - Natasha Conti
Pod #2
9:009:15am
9:209:35am
9:409:55am
10:0010:15am
The Working Alliance in Collegiate Athletic Training: Navigating Patient Care - Jessica Moore
Intramolecular Rigidification of a Bidentate Halogen Bond Receptor - Asia Marie Riel
Will nutrient limitation worsen climate change? - Alanna Shaw
How Is Montana Local Government Going Digital?: An E-Government Baseline - John Smith
Music as Cultural Heritage: Issues and Dilemmas - Madhu Jagdeeshan
The Use of Authentic Material in Foreign Language Teaching - Wuri Kusumastuti
Pod #4
9:009:15am
Specialty Coffee Certification and Livelihoods in Chiapas, Mexico - Meghan Montgomery
9:209:35am
Reading to Dismantle: Citizen and Modes of the (Il)literacy Narrative in African American
Literature - Alicia Mountain
9:409:55am
Vocabulary Instruction in the Common Core Era: A Collective Case Study on Vocabulary
Instruction in Fifth-Grade Classrooms - FARRUKH NAZIR
10:0010:15am
Sorry, Not Sorry: Exploring Face-Negotiation and Gendered Apologies - Callie Parrish
10:2010:35am
The Dakota Access Pipeline: Privatized Permitting and the Future of Industrial Megaprojects
- James Harper
1:051:20pm
Shifting Demographics in Swan Valley, Montana - Jedd Sankar-Gorton
1:251:40pm
Effects of Depression Treatment Type on Public Stigma - Kali Strickland
10:2010:35am
Reviewing the Use of Physical Diagnostic Testing Methods and Detection of Meniscal Tears
- Heather Bartz
10:4010:55am
Self reported knowledge of concussion symptoms and management by middle and high school
club lacrosse coaches. - Logan Ellis
1:051:20pm
Targeting mitochondrial DNA for development of novel antitumor drugs - Sascha Stump
1:452:00pm
“Ther Hewe Houndes on Cristen Men”: Reading Monstrosity and Contemplating Salvation in
The King of Tars - Briana Wipf *Winner Social Sciences & Humanities
1:251:40pm
Using Biomimicry to Enhance Urea Catalyst - Nicholas Wageling * STEM Winner
2:052:20pm
Dynamic, Reversible 3D Cell Culture Matrices - Kristian Stipe
2:052:20pm
BOD Really Ripped Abs: What's in My Cologne? - Sydney Cook
2:252:40pm
Universal Depression Screening in Student Health Centers across Montana: Prevalence and
Characteristics Associated with Use - Ivie English
2:453:00pm
Concussion Policy Development for the YMCA of Missoula - Keith Forkin
Congratulations to the 2017 “Best of” Award Winners!
STEM - Matthew Metz & Nicholas Wageling
Social Sciences & Humanities - Briana Wipf & Elena Louder
Performing Arts - Tsiambwom Akuchu
Visual Arts - Anne Yoncha & Gerard Sapes
* Special thanks to all of the GradCon Judges for volunteering their time!