Bethel symposium to highlight research

Bethel College’s annual Undergraduate Research, Internships and Creative Activity symposium will take place on campus Saturday.

The public is invited to any session of interest. There is no charge. Presentations begin at 9 a.m. and will end about 12:40 p.m. with a break for refreshments midway.

Panel Session I, starting at 9 a.m., will include concurrent presentations in the areas of “Hell, Healing and Excommunication,” “Snakes, Alpacas and Masculinity,” “Voice, Empowerment and Perception” and “Gamekillers, Posters, Perception and Bach.”

One group will present in Krehbiel Science Center room 121, moderated by Christine Crouse-Dick, assistant professor of communication arts.

From 9 to 9:20 a.m., Caley Ortman will present “The Influence of Dante on Modern Day Concepts of Hell.”

From 9:20 to 9:40 a.m., Caitlin Buerge will present “Healing Words: The Power of Catharsis through Stuyvesant High School’s with their eyes.”

From 9:40 to 10 a.m., Matthew Root will present “Ravening Wolves are Amongst Us: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints’ Excommunication of Six Intellectuals and Feminists.”

A second group, moderated by Larry Friesen, professor of social work, will present in room 016.

From 9 to 9:20 a.m., Michael Unruh, senior from Peabody, will present “Snakes on the Plains: A Study of Snake Diets in Eastern Kingman County.”

From 9:20 to 9:40 a.m., Susan Schmeichel and Kezia Hesed will present “Analysis of Dominance Factors in Alpacas.”

From 9:40 to 10 a.m., Miriam Friesen will present “Becoming Better Men: A Comparison of Self-Improvement and Masculinity in Two Kansas Civilian Conservation Corps Camps.”

Paul Lewis, professor of psychology, will moderate the third group in room 203 of the Old Science Hall.

From 9: to 9:20 a.m., Jordan Penner will present “Gaining a Voice: Hispanic Mennonites in America.”

From 9:20 to 9:40 a.m., Cari Holliday will present “?Más allá de su poder?: El empoderamiento de los marginados en La casa de los espíritus por Isabel Allende y Treinta años por Carmen Boullosa” (“Beyond His Power: The Empowerment of the Marginalized in The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende and Leaving Tabasco by Carmen Boullosa”). This presentation is entirely in Spanish)

From 9:40 to 10, a.m., Melinda Stucky, senior from Goessel, will present “Green House Project at Asbury Park: Perceptions of Living and Working Environments.”

The fourth group will be moderated by Ada Schmidt-Tieszen, professor of social work, in Old Science Hall room 305.

From 9 to 9:20 a.m., Braden Dragomir will present “Gamekillers: A Semiotic View of Humor and Satire in the Axe Ad Campaign.”

From 9:20 to 9:40, Aimee Siebert will present “Gender Roles in Posters of 2007 Academy Award-Winning Films.”

From 9:40 to 10, Brittany Baker will present “A Computer Search Engine Selects Music Predictive of Pleasant Moods and Emotions but Not of Liking.”

From 10 to 10:20 a.m., Daniel Graber will present “Johann Sebastian Bach’s Magnificat: The Background and History.”

From 10 to 11 a.m., there will be refreshments in Krehbiel Science Center’s atrium and all are invited to view the research posters displayed in the Ad Building chapel.

Most of the posters are by these senior nursing students: Michele Pennington, “Cultural Health Care of American Chinese”; Kristina Gomez, Amanda Hayes, Rachel Pederson, and Jason Santiago, “Cultural Health Care of Egyptian Muslims”; Ashley Brewer, Becca Claassen, Rachel Maingu and Kelly Yoder, “Cultural Health Care of Middle-Aged Adult Oglala Lakota Native American Indians”; Georgina Chamungwana, Tom Morse, Patty Ngigi and Megan Tomoson, “Cultural Health Care of Hindu Indians”; Sade Ayodele, Amanda Ratzlaff, Laura Rowe and Tessia Sorensen, “Cultural Health Care of Luhya Kenyans”; Samuel Bankole, Kemal Bonfoh, Chelsea Hahn and Brandi Kaufman, “Cultural Health Care of Ponca Native American Indians”; Breann Beagley, Sally Thiesen and Brenna Wiebe, “Cultural Health Care of Russians”; Abi Afodunrinbi, Elyse Butcher, Luci Cain and Chelsea Corwin, “Cultural Health Care of Cherokee Native Americans”; Tina Dick, Autum Knox and Sugan Olaosebikan, “Cultural Health Care of Kikuyu Kenyans”; Allen Graham, Sarah Kearns, Ihuoma Nwoke and Geofrey Nyangweso, “Cultural Health Care of Indian Hindus”; Melissa Loveall, Judith Lusenaka and Kathy Young, “Cultural Health Care of Tanzanians”; Sara Allen, Nikki Dolce and Sarah Thompson, “Cultural Health Care of Lebanese Americans”; Victoria Charles, Vanh Kathagnarath, Andrea McMillen and Nikki Nguyen, “Cultural Health Care of Filipinos.”

Three posters by psychology students also will be on display.

Sarah Buller first presented “Seasonal Variation in Daily Ratings of Pain and Rash of a Lupus Patient” at a conference.

Becky Buchta, sophomore from Newton, and Rondell Burge, senior from Moundridge, will show the posters they took to the Sigma Chi Student Research Conference in Orlando, Fla., last fall, “Emotional and Psychological Responses to Music are Stronger than those to Lyrics Alone” and “Music-Elicited Frontal EEG Asymmetry and Pleasantness Responses are Altered in Schizophrenia,” respectively. Buchta’s poster won a conference award.

Panel session II begins at 11 a.m., with concurrent presentations in the areas of “Abuse, Stress and Crisis Communication,” “HIV, Costa Rican Water Quality and Equatorial Penguins” and “Hostility, Amish and Theory of the Mind.”

Crouse-Dick will moderate the first group, in KSC 121.

From 11 to 11:20 a.m., Chelsea Chaffin will present “A Study of Family History and Attitudes as Predictors of Intimate Partner Abuse.”

From 11:20 to 11:40 a.m., Laurie Steffen will present “Efficacy of Imagined Dialogue Model of Written Emotional Expression as a Means for Coping with Acculturative Stress.”

From 11:40 a.m. to noon, Tara Goerzen, senior from Goessel, will present “NASA’s Crisis Communication Plan Following the Explosion of the Columbia.”

The second group, moderated by Friesen, will be in KSC 016.

From 11 to 11:20 a.m., Kristin Wedel, senior from Hutchinson, will present “A Study of Barriers to Care for Persons Living with HIV/AIDS and How Case Management Should Help.”

From 11:20 to 11:40 a.m., Michael Unruh, senior from Peabody, will present “An Analysis of Water Quality in Several Tropical Freshwater Streams in Costa Rica.”

From 11:40 a.m. to noon, Jordan Penner and Jordan Bartel, sophomore from North Newton, will present “The Effect of Weather on Equatorial-Penguin Behavior.”

Lewis will moderate the third group, in SH 203.

From 11 to 11:20 a.m., José Rojas, Aimee Siebert and Matthew N. Stucky, sophomore from Moundridge, will present “Physiological Changes Produced by Imagined Hostility or Understanding.”

From 11:20 to 11:40 a.m., Peter Miller will present “Souls, Cars and Division: The Amish Mission Movement of the 1950s and its Effects on the Amish Community of Partridge, Kansas.”

From 11:40 a.m. to noon, Katie Robertson will present “Environmental Factors’ Influence upon the Deception Task in Theory of Mind,” which she presented at a previous conference.