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URICA Symposium
Undergraduate Research, Internships and Creative Activity Symposium
Designed as an opportunity to celebrate and showcase the many forms of in-depth, individual research and creative endeavor college-wide, this forum includes senior thesis presentations across the curriculum, along with culminating recitals and art shows, or lecture-performances with digital recordings or images. The symposium showcases the hard and creative work done by Bethel students. Free and open to the public.
| Thursday, April 26 Student art show and reception - 6:00-8:00 p.m. Fine Arts Center Gallery |
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| Featuring the work of Jessie Pohl, Lucas Stertz, Miranda Weaver, Terra Scott, Kristen Lohaus, Madeline Baumgartner, Jesse Kaufman, Samuel Agoita, Emily Luedtke , Leah Clark, Renee Reimer, Martin Olson, John Regier, Kaitlin Heller, Grady Stultz, Audra Miller, Alyssa Schrag, Samantha Wilkerson, Edward Davila, Rachel Tamerius, Jordan Oden, Austin Muckenthaler, Cora Ogden, Zach Bear, Maggie Goering, Linda Gomes, Linsey Laird, Taylor McCabe-Juhnke, Nicole Eitzen, Christopher Smith |
| Friday, April 27 Convocation - 11:00 a.m., Senior Award Presentations three locations |
| Krehbiel Auditorium, Fine Arts Center - Moderator: Nathan Bartel |
| "Community or Conformity: Perceptions of Homosexuality on the Campus of Bethel College" - Ryan Goertzen |
| "Neural Correlates of Implicit Sexual Identity Bias as a Function of Religiosity" - Brad Celestin |
| Projection Room of Mennonite Library and Archives - Moderator: Dwight Krehbiel |
| "Suicide Prevention Interventions in US Armed Forces." - Laura Prahm |
| "Benefits of Nature: A Cognitive and Affective Study of Walking" - Taylor McCabe-Juhnke |
| Chapel, Administration Building - Moderator: John McCabe-Juhnke |
| "Peace or Persecution: Mennonite Involvement in the Holocaust" - Alyssa Schrag *URICA award presentation |
"Killing Nemo: A look into Protein Function" - Carrie Schulz |
| [sic] - Spring comedy and talk-back session - 7:30 p.m. Krehbiel Auditorium, Fine Arts Center |
| Cast members: Megan Siebert, Creigh Bartel, Jacob Brubaker, Katie Schmidt, Christopher Riesen, Audra Miller, Julia Miller, and Luke Loganbill; stage manager Riley King Director: John McCabe-Juhnke |
| Saturday, April 28 Panel Session 1 Fine Arts Center 176 |
| Moderator: Doug Siemens |
| 9:00-9:20 Naomi Graber: “God-Images and Empathy: An Empirical Approach to Mennonite Identity” *URICA award presentation |
| 9:20-9:40 Marike Stucky: “Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy: How Audience and Purpose Combine to Form Social Critique” |
| 9:40-10:00 Abagail Kirk: “Tyrosinase Inhibitors: A Qualitative Study of Licochalcone A and Kojic Acid on Melanogenesis” *URICA award presentation |
| Panel Session 2: "Experiential Learning through Internships" - panel discussions Fine Arts Center 172 |
| Co-Moderator: John McCabe-Juhnke and Marla Krell |
| 9:00-9:20 Panel 1: Janesa Bartel, Jordyn Blanson, Lucas Stertz, and Andrew McNary |
| 9:20-9:40 Panel 2: Amber Anderson, Jordan Eseley-Kohlman, and Camille Claassen |
| Session 3: Posters Fine Arts Center hallways, 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. |
| "Expanding Bike Paths and Their Usage" - Lina Adame, Wesley Goodrich, Laura Jensen, and Ashley Suhr |
| "North Newton Residents on Climate Change: Can Their Opinions be Changed?" - Brooke Banning, Lupita Gonzalez, Ashley Koester, Sarah Schell, and Dalton Smith |
| "The Benefits of Composting at Bethel," - Haley Bright, Clarie Koehn, Kaitlin Schmidt, and Rachel Unruh |
| "Changing Students' Perspectives and Behavior on Climate Change" - Jessica Ebenkamp, Carl Lehmann, Ingrid Romero, and Jesse Voth-Gaeddert |
| "Analysis of Energy Savings through Water Heater Efficiency" - Rachel Evans, Dylan Jantz, Chris Santoya, and Morgan Wiles |
| "A Fowl Shift in Kansas: Mitigating the Effects of Climate Change" - Chris Gale, Lance Loganbill, Katelyn Melgren, and Emily Simpson |
| "Effect of Nurse Patient Ratios on Incidence of Nosocomial Infections" - Jana Koehn |
| "Take a Peep under the Sheets: Prevention of Pressure Ulcers in the Geriatric Patient" - Ashley Hurley |
| "Mandated Nurse Staffing Ratios" - Erica Traffas |
| "Nurse Residency a Boost in New Nurse Competency" - Christina Garlow |
| "Delegation: An Essential Component in Providing Safe and Efficient Patient" Care - Morgan Kaufman |
| "Massage Therapy for Pain Management in Cancer Patients" - Janesa Bartel |
| "12-Hour Shifts: Are They Really Safe for Critical Care Nurses?" - Wendy Stephens |
| "The Effects of Contaminated Stethoscopes" - Hannah Lowry |
| "Are Twelve Hour Nursing Shifts Safe?" - Beth Dwyer |
| "Electronic Nursing Documentation" - Alex Hittle |
| "Neural Correlates of Implicit Sexual Identity Bias as a Function of Religiosity" - Brad Celestin *Award Poster, presented at Posters-on-the-Hill, sponsored by the Council on Undergraduate Research, April 24, 2012, Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, D.C. |
| Session 4 - Fine Arts Center 172 |
| Moderator: Nathan Bartel |
| 11:00 a.m. Taylor McCabe-Juhnke: "Bethel College Adventure Course: A Study of Self Efficacy" *URICA award presentation |
| 11:20 a.m. Ariane Bergen and Emilie Doerksen: "Hindu Culture and Rituals: A Social Cognition Perspective" |
| 1:40 a.m. Allison Schrag: "Social Support Networks in Young Mothers: A Qualitative Study of Clients at New Moms, Inc. in Chicago" *URICA award presentation - via video |
| Session 5 - Fine Arts Center 176 |
| Moderator: Phyllis Miller |
| 11:00-11:20 a.m. Jennifer Rose: "Interdependence: Supporting Youth during the Aging Out Process" *URICA award presentation |
| 11:20-11:40 Louise Zurkee: "Parental Linkage of Deletions within Chromosome Region 1.q21" *URICA award presentation |