GUS 2024: Schedule

In-person sessions

In-person sessions will be held throughout the Hege Academic Commons. Please note the room location of each session. All presenters should be in the room at least 10 minutes before their sessions begin. Each presenter will have between 10 and 15 minutes to discuss their topic. There should be enough time for 5-10 minutes of Q&A at the end. All presentation materials must be available on your Google Drive to ensure that everything runs smoothly. Please double-check to ensure that all of your materials are there well before your presentation.

9.00am to 10.00am
Session 1: Trends in network computing, Ami Mejía '24, chair
Location: Collaboratory/Experimental Classroom, Hege Academic Commons

• Hannah Hoffman, Victoria Williams, and Ami Mejía: "Autonomous Course Assistant Utilizing Jetson Orin" (Chafic Bou-Saba, CTIS)
• Kevin Buikpor: "Raspberry Pi Network Monitoring System" (Chafic Bou-Saba, CTIS)
• Zahedi Espinoza Rivera, Taiyo Tegeler, and Rogelio Pérez-Montero: "Advanced Configuration of the CTIS/CNS Lab and Server Room" (Chafic Bou-Saba, Cyber Security)

Session 2: Where art and technology meet, Kami Rowan, chair
Location: Guilford College Art Gallery, Hege Academic Commons

• Clara Fuehler: "Creative Engagement with the Anthropocene" (Mark Dixon, Art/English)
• Jorden Zertuche: "SIMS" (Chafic Bou-Saba, Computer Science)
• Axel Sandoval: "Harmonizing Innovation: Exploring the Relationship between Music and Technology in the Modern Age" (Kami Rowan and Rob Whitnell, Music/CTIS)

10.15am to 11.15am
Session 3: New aspects of social justice, Cathryn Bennett, chair
Location: Collaboratory/Experimental Classroom, Hege Academic Commons

• Cairna Zimmerman, Hannah Wilson, Claude Cormack, Pop Holt, and Karrie Parrish: "Hostile Architecture in Greensboro, N.C." (Cathryn Bennett and Christian Matheis, Community and Justice Studies)
• Kristen Smith: "Food Justice: How it Affects Our Community and What To Do About It" (Bronwyn Tucker, Environmental Studies)
• Drew Erickson, Candace Fant, Miriam Guzzardi, Yein Kim, and Jay Peralta Porras: "Feeding Guilford: Understanding Experiences of Food Insecurity Among Guilford College Students" (Christian Matheis and Cathryn Bennett, Community and Justice Studies)

Session 4: Creating more just and sustainable food systems, Tom Guthrie, chair
Location: Collaboratory/Idea Incubator, Hege Academic Commons

• Adeija Brewster, Paige Butler, Brie Chisholm, Tori Collins, Therese Cote, Carmen Ellis, Mia Fontenelle, Josh Hall, Malakie Harris, Kirstan Hutto, Patch Maupin, Nick Opie, Owen Peele, Heaven Richardson, Roman Towns Robinson, Lucas West, Alex Wilson, and Natsumi Yonezawa

Session 5: Selected readings from the Greenleaf Review
Location: Guilford College Art Gallery, Hege Academic Commons

• Charlie Miller and Abram Greene, editors: "The Making of the Greenleaf Review" (Cynthia Nearman, English and Creative Writing)

11.30am to 12.30pm
Session 6: H. Curt '56 and Patricia S. '57 Award Winners, Mark Justad, chair
Location: Carnegie Room, Hege Academic Commons

• Hege Emerging Scholar Award: Natalie Moore: "Intelligence Gathering and the Underground Railroad"
• Hege Research Award: Jordan Fridley: "'Aliens from Mars': The Experience of Transgender Students in Triad Colleges and Universities, 1974-2017"
• Hege Research Award: Josie Schoenberg: "The Effect of the Cleanliness-Morality Metaphor on Moral Judgements"

Session 7: Forest management and antibiotics, Michele Malotky, chair
Location: Collaboratory/Experimental Classroom, Hege Academic Commons

• Donna Tran: "Momordica charantia: Testing for Antibiotic Properties" (Michele Malotky, Biology)
• Nora Hayden: "Wolf Conservation in Idaho" (Christine Stracey, Biology and Jim Hayden)
• John Romero Alfaro: "Combating Antibiotic Resistance: Antibiotic Properties of Lavender and Thyme" (Michele Malotky, Biology)

Session 8: Honors Thesis Defense, David Hildreth, advisor
Location: Collaboratory/Idea Incubator, Hege Academic Commons

• Kylee Duarte: "Recess in the K-5 Classroom: Exploring Trends and Perceptions" (David Hildreth and Lavon Williams, Education)

1.00pm to 2.00pm
Session 9: Dean’s Writing Awards, Shana Scudder, chair
Location: Carnegie Room, Hege Academic Commons

• First-Year Writing Award Winner: Hayden Moody
• Scholarly/Critical Award Winner: Austin Rogers
• Sue Keith Award Winner: Charlie Miller
• Poetry Award Winner: Clara Fuehler

Session 10: Technology and student life, Rob Whitnell, chair
Location: Collaboratory/Experimental Classroom, Hege Academic Commons

• Kevin Buikpor and Nyla Brown: "Guilford of Tomorrow" (Janelle Morris and Amber Slade, MLSP)
• Cole Walk: "Surveys Without Cost: A New Online Application" (Rob Whitnell, CTIS)
• Tori Williams: "Implementing Degree Planning and Student Success Software: Experiments from an Internship" (Gloria Thornton and Rob Whitnell, CTIS)

Session 11: Printmaking demonstration as part of a senior thesis, Katy Collier, chair
Location: Collaboratory/Idea Incubator, Hege Academic Commons

• Maren Lamb and Tyi Chaplin: "Uncover/Recover: Process Demos from Senior Thesis Printmaking Students" (Katy Collier, Art)
• This session will be broadcast live via Zoom into the Idea Incubator; you may also join via your own laptop with the same link.

Session 12: Using data to understand economic indicators, Natalya Shelkova, chair
Location: Guilford College Art Gallery, Hege Academic Commons

• Husnain Ali: "How to Value Companies" (Natalya Shelkova, economics/accounting)
• Jair Ballesteros: “The S&L Crisis” (Bob Williams, economics)

2.15pm to 3.15pm
Session 13: Human rights violations at home and abroad, Zulfiya Tursunova, chair
Location: Collaboratory/Experimental Classroom, Hege Academic Commons

• Nala Foqahaa, Rayna Blair, and Vanessa Reyes: "Israel’s Violation of International Humanitarian Law" (Zulfiya Tursunova, Economics and Data Analytics)
• Vanessa Reyes: "Human Rights Violations of Latine Transgender Individuals in ICE Detention" (Zulfiya Tursunova, Political Science)
• Rayna Blair and Nala Foqahaa: "Health Care Crisis in Palestine: International Human Rights Violations" (Zulfiya Tursunova, Peace and Conflict Studies)

Session 14: New directions in textual analyses, David Hildreth, chair
Location: Collaboratory/Idea Incubator, Hege Academic Commons

• Nicholas Carratu: "Death, Satan, and the Resurrection: Evidence of Zoroastrianism in Jewish Eschatology" (Eric Mortensen, Religion)
• Andriquez Brooks, Ariel Morley, Avery Reuter Lorenzana, and Josiah Rich: "Following the Bread Crumbs: Analyzing Grimm’s Fairy Tales" (David Limburg, German)

Session 15: Current research in neuroscience, Julie Winterich, chair
Location: Guilford College Art Gallery, Hege Academic Commons

• Deon McFarland and Morgan Nixon: "NFL Concussions From 2012 to 2019" (Natalya Shelkova, Data Analytics)
• Osman Sohaib: "Effects of Sex and Early Life Stress on Alcohol to Sucrose Reallocation in Rats" (Julie Winterich, Behavioral Neuroscience)

Poster sessions

All poster sessions are held on the first floor of the Hege Academic Commons in the CAPE space. All presenters should be ready to go 10 minutes before their scheduled time.

8.45am to 9.45am

• Dominick Bialer: "Guilford Football" (Catherine Bowlin, English)
• JB Brown: "The Cost of Attending Guilford College" (Catherine Bowlin, English)
• Angie Donato: "Women Artists Impact on Guilford’s Culture" (Catherine Bowlin, English)
• Junie Evans: "Transgender History at Guilford" (Catherine Bowlin, English)
• Joseph Gordon: "Race Relations at Guilford College" (Catherine Bowlin, English)
• Hannah Hatfield: "History of Diversity at Guilford College" (Catherine Bowlin, English)
• Kailyn Hennis: "Treatment of Women Living in Dorms on Guilford College Campus" (Catherine Bowlin, English)
• Christopher Hercules: "History of Sports" (Catherine Bowlin, English)
• Lydia Love Jacob: "Guilford College: A Tale of a Town" (Catherine Bowlin, English)
• Penda Ndiaye: "Wellness at Guilford" (Catherine Bowlin, English)
• Kerrington Riley: "Pacifism Affects Guilford Students in the 21st Century!" (Catherine Bowlin, English)
• Cristella Smith: "It Is Just a Business" (Catherine Bowlin, English)
• Trinity Swann: "Mental Health at Guilford" (Catherine Bowlin, English)
• Cameron Taylor: "Greek Life at Guilford" (Catherine Bowlin, English)
• Joshua Tromba: "How Guilford’s Campus Has Changed Since Opening in 1837" (Catherine Bowlin, English)
• Malik Woodard: "Guilford Men’s Basketball" (Catherine Bowlin, English)

10.15am to 11.15am

• Erick Avila: "The Guilford Woods" (Catherine Bowlin, English)
• Ember Boswell: "Environmental Stewardship at Guilford College" (Catherine Bowlin, English)
• Steven Carrera: "Guilford College’s Response to the Vietnam War" (Catherine Bowlin, English)
• Olivia Daniel: "Quaker Values and Their Place in Education" (Catherine Bowlin, English)
• Mackenzie Garcia: "Rachel’s Rose Cottage" (Catherine Bowlin, English)
• Mars Harrison: "Queer Life at Guilford College" (Catherine Bowlin, English)
• Kelsie Hughes: "Revolutionary War’s Impact on Guilford County" (Catherine Bowlin, English)
• Toby Johnson: "The History of (Some of) Guilford’s Living Spaces" (Catherine Bowlin, English)
• River Prescott Hull: "Guilford College Mental Health" (Catherine Bowlin, English)
• Jorga Lopez: "Guilford Psychology" (Catherine Bowlin, English)
• Frankie McClernon: "The Music Department: A Brief History" (Catherine Bowlin, English)
• Iris Miceli-Candler: "The History of Women at Guilford" (Catherine Bowlin, English)
• Angela Parada Peralta: "Hispanic Population" (Catherine Bowlin, English)
• Aleyda Reyes: "What Haunts Guilford?" (Catherine Bowlin, English)
• Synae Woodson-Cox: "History of Guilford College: Policy Differences Between Policies Between Males and Females" (Catherine Bowlin, English)
• Chandler Wright: "The History Behind Guilford College’s Founders Hall" (Catherine Bowlin, English)

1.00pm to 2.00pm

• Mohammad Agha Mohammadi: "Office of Student Leadership and Engagement (OSLE)" (Catherine Bowlin, English)
• Alicia Almaguer: "Rachel’s Rose Cottage and Caffeine Intake" (Catherine Bowlin, English)
• Jay Aquino: "History of the Underground Railroad" (Catherine Bowlin, English)
• Ragan Bethea: "Baseball: History of the Game" (Catherine Bowlin, English)
• Arlene Clarisa Gonzalez: "Advantages of a Small College" (Catherine Bowlin, English)
• AJ Jones: "How Injuries Affect A Student-Athlete’s Mental Health" (Catherine Bowlin and Salwa Ahmad, English)
• Jaida King: "The History of Guilford Woods and Its Connection to the Underground Railroad Tree" (Catherine Bowlin, English)
• Ciara Mickens: "Guilford College’s Landscaping: A Few of Many Renovations" (Catherine Bowlin, English)
• Will Parham: "Lacrosse: A Guilford College Legacy" (Catherine Bowlin, English)
• A'Shauna Robinson: "Hoop Difference: How Men’s and Women’s Basketball are Different" (Catherine Bowlin, English)
• Chloee Stoner: "Equality for Women’s Sports" (Catherine Bowlin, English)
• Ta'Niyah Walker: "The History of Rugby at Guilford" (Catherine Bowlin, English)
• Daniella Zihalirwa: "Student Athletes vs. Traditional Students" (Catherine Bowlin, English)

2.15pm to 3.15pm

• Faheem Alam, Riley Barnes, Colin Gray, Alex Kang, and Osman Sohaib: "Modifying the Functional Group on Self-Assembled Monolayers to Liminesce" (Rob Whitnell and Anne Glenn, Chemistry)
• Chrisbel Alcántera, Riley Barnes, Cassandra Berry, Eva Doyle, and Zakir Moore: "Use of Rubidium Cyclodextrin Metal Organic Frameworks for Solid Phase Carbon Transport" (Rob Whitnell, Chemistry)
• Avela Chiya:: "Silent Victims: Exploring the Impact of Anti-Immigrant Legislation on the Underreporting of Crimes in North Carolina’s Undocumented Communities" (George Guo, Political Science)
• Noah Dabney: "Isolation and Investigation of a Key Intermediate in Ruthenium Photoredox Catalysis" (Anne Glenn, Chemistry)
• Noah Dabney, Elizabeth Martínez, Hunter Metzloff, and Ryan Sengupta, "Synthesis of metal-organic frameworks with functionalized ɣ-cyclodextrin" (Rob Whitnell and Anne Glenn, Chemistry)
• Joshua Davis, Lacie Evans, and Samanyu Manjunath: "AFAFI: Analyzing Factors Affecting Food Insecurity During the COVID-19 Pandemic" (Michele Malotky, Biology)
• Siddarth Giridharan: "Addressing the Importance and Effectiveness of Artificial Intelligence Policy in Small Higher Education Institutions" (Ken Gilmore, Public Policy/Political Science)
• Elizabeth Kamila Gonzalez and David Holland: "Mobile Markets and their Impact on Food Insecurity" (Michele Malotky, Biology/Public health)
• Mia Hoffman, "Antibiotic properties of Cedarwood Oil" (Michele Malotky, Biology)
• Ashley Linden, Rou Yu Tan, Hayden Moody, Meredith Presnell, and Smriti Verma: "Cyclodextrin-MOF Rapid Synthesis and Dye Absorption" (Anne Glenn, Chemistry)
• Maggie Mahanes: "Reactions of Nitroxyl (HNO) with Thiroureas" (S. Bruce King (Wake Forest University), Chemistry)
• Maggie Mahanes, Maddy Chandler, Olivia Rudolph, and Dalen Wang: "Studies of MOF Interactions with Greenhouse Gases/Carbon Dioxide" (Anne Glenn, Chemistry)
• Zakir Moore: "Alkali Metal Incorporation into Ir/RuOxides for Oxygen Evolution from Water Splitting" (Anne Glenn, Terence A. Nile, Mario Falsaperna, and Simon Freakley, Chemisty)
• Randy Richardson, James Durner, Roger Graves, Marvin Hall, Cleveland McBee, Vann McDonald, Cedric Miller, Letroy Richardson, Oscar Squalls, and Alphonso Stephenson: "Bridging Perspectives: Exploring Education Access, Equity, and Community Re-entry Support Through the Voices of Incarcerated Students" (Rehshetta Wells, JPS)
• Noah West, August Grossman, and Cecile Szollas: "Are Savannas More Flammable Than Gallery Forests? A Community and Species Level Analysis" (Christine Stracey, Biology)