2015-2016 Dean’s Graduate Conference Travel Grant Recipients
Biology
Sai Shashank Chavali
MS, Biology (October 2016)
Conference Title: Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society
Conference Location: Los Angeles, CA
Presentation Title: Effects of Excluded Volume and Induced N Terminal Conformational Change on Ion Translocation Across VDAC
Faculty Adviser: Dr. Grace Brannigan
Julia Keklak
MS, Biology (May 2016)
Conference Title: Gordan Research Conference
Conference Location: Newport, RI
Presentation Title: Adhesion mediated signal transduction in E. coli
Faculty Adviser: Dr. Eric Klein
Childhood Studies (MA/PhD)
Rosemarie Pena
PhD, Childhood Studies
MA, Childhood Studies (May 2014)
Conference Title: 37th Annual American Adoption Congress International Conference
Conference Location: Denver, Colorado
Presentation Title: Stories Matter: Black, German, American & Adopted
Faculty Adviser: Dr. Carol Singley
Clovis Bergere
PhD, Childhood Studies (May 2017)
Conference Title: Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association
Conference Location: Philadelphia, PA
Presentation Title: The Conceptual Politics of Childhood and Empire in Tennyson’s Ulysses
Faculty Adviser: Dr. Lauren Silver
Stephen Bernardini
PhD, Childhood Studies (May 2016)
Conference Title: American Sociological Association Annual Conference
Conference Location: Chicago, IL
Presentation Title: Street Disorientation: Feeling Queer in Inner-City
Faculty Adviser: Dr. Daniel Cook
Julian Burton
PhD, Childhood Studies
Conference Title: Reflecting on Story’s Place in our Lives
Conference Location: Oxford, United Kingdom
Presentation Title: Why We Need to Stop Talking About Child Abuse: How Pathologizing Discourse Enables Violence Against Children
Faculty Adviser: Dr. Kate Cairns
Theresa Murzyn
PhD, Childhood Studies
Conference Title: 17th Annual Convention of Society for Personality and Social Psychology
Conference Location: San Diego, California
Presentation Title: Predictive Relations Between Children’s Rejection Sensitivity, Negative Emotionality, and Problem Behavior in a Four-Wave Longitudinal Study
Faculty Adviser: Dr. Dan Hart
Janice Stiglich
PhD, Childhood Studies
Conference Title: 114th American Anthropological Association: Familiar/Strange
Conference Location: Denver, Colorado
Presentation Title: Making Intercultural Bilingual Decolonization Familiar in Lima, Peru
Faculty Adviser: Dr. Lauren Silver
Min Young (Elisabeth) Yang
PhD, Childhood Studies
Conference Title: Fragile Subjects: Childhood in Literature, Arts & Medicine Conference
Conference Location: Finland
Presentation Title: J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan: The Child-Boy as a remedy for neurasthenia in early 20th century Britain
Faculty Adviser: Dr. Lynne Vallone
Computational & Integrative Biology (MS/PhD)
Joseph Kawash
PhD, Computational & Integrative Biology
MS, Computational & Integrative Biology (May 2013)
Conference Title: RECOMB/ISCB Conference on Regulatory and Systems Genomics
Conference Location: Philadelphia, PA
Presentation Title: Copy Number Variation Analysis with GROM-RD
Faculty Adviser: Dr. Andrey Grigoriev
Ruchi Lohia
PhD, Computational & Integrative Biology
Conference Title: Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society
Conference Location: Los Angeles, California
Presentation Title: Effects of a Structured Domain on the Conformational Ensemble of Disordered Regions in Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factors
Faculty Adviser: Dr. Grace Brannigan
Liam Sharp
PhD, Computational & Integrative Biology
MS, Computational & Integrative Biology (May 2016)
Conference Title: Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society
Conference Location: Los Angeles, California
Presentation Title: Effects of Quasi-Native Lipid Composition on Membrane Domain Formation Induced By Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors
Faculty Adviser: Dr. Grace Brannigan
Spyros Karaiskos
PhD, Computational & Integrative Biology
Conference Title: RECOMB/ISCB Conference on Regulatory and Systems Genomics
Conference Location: Philadelphia, PA
Presentation Title: Transfer RNA Derived Fragments in Drosophide and their potential targets
Faculty Adviser: Dr. Andrey Grigoriev
Sruthi Murlidaran
PhD, Computational & Integrative Biology
Conference Title: Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society
Conference Location: Los Angeles, California
Presentation Title: Relative Affinities of Positive Modulators of Heteromeric GABA(A) Receptors for Pseudo-Symmetric Intersubunit Binding Sites
Faculty Adviser: Dr. Grace Brannigan
Wenyi Wang
PhD, Computational & Integrative Biology
Conference Title: The Society of Toxicology 55th Annual Meeting and ToxExpo
Conference Location: New Orleans, LA
Presentation Title: Profiling and evaluating environmental chemicals that induce oral acute toxicity using mitochondrial membrane disruption assay, big data and new read-across strategy
Faculty Adviser: Dr. Hao Zhu
Creative Writing
Charles Brock Warren
MFA, Creative Writing (May 2016)
Conference Title: Associate of Writers & Writing Programs Conference
Conference Location: Los Angeles, California
Presentation Title: What Makes MFA Programs LGBTQ-Friendly?
Faculty Adviser: Prof. Lauren Grodstein
Criminal Justice
Mark Bodrog
MA, Criminal Justice (May 2016)
Conference Title: The American Society of Criminology (ASC)
Conference Location: Washington, DC
Presentation Title: Visiting Mom or Dad in Jail: Comparison Child/Parent Visitation
Faculty Adviser: Dr. Jane Siegel
Ashley Jensen
MA, Criminal Justice
Conference Title: 71st Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology
Conference Location: Washington, DC
Presentation Title: Predictors of College Participation and Desistance from Crime Among Residents from a Socially Disorganized Neighborhood: Pathways into the Ivory Tower (group project)
Faculty Adviser: Dr. Michelle Meloy
Taylor Kates
MA, Criminal Justice (May 2016)
Conference Title: 71st Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology
Conference Location: Washington, DC
Presentation Title: Predictors of College Participation and Desistance from Crime Among Residents from a Socially Disorganized Neighborhood: Pathways into the Ivory Tower (group project)
Faculty Adviser: Dr. Michelle Meloy
Jessica McConnell
MA, Criminal Justice (May 2016)
Conference Title: 71st Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology
Conference Location: Washington, DC
Presentation Title: Predictors of College Participation and Desistance from Crime Among Residents from a Socially Disorganized Neighborhood: Pathways into the Ivory Tower (group project)
Faculty Adviser: Dr. Michelle Meloy
Shelby Tucker
MA, Criminal Justice (May 2017)
Conference Title: 71st Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology
Conference Location: Washington, DC
Presentation Title: Predictors of College Participation and Desistance from Crime Among Residents from a Socially Disorganized Neighborhood: Pathways into the Ivory Tower (group project)
Faculty Adviser: Dr. Michelle Meloy
Wayne Webb
Criminal Justice and Public Policy – MA/MPA (January 2017)
Conference Title: 71st Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology
Conference Location: Washington, DC
Presentation Title: Predictors of College Participation and Desistance from Crime Among Residents from a Socially Disorganized Neighborhood: Pathways into the Ivory Tower (group project)
Faculty Adviser: Dr. Michelle Meloy
English
Anna Lockhart
MA, English (January 2017)
Conference Title: Northeastern Popular Culture Association
Conference Location: New London, NH
Presentation Title: The Boogyman Catalyst: Transformative Fear in the Gothic and child-like Power in Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook
Faculty Adviser: Dr. Carol Singley
History
Jared Berkowitz
MA, History (2016)
Conference Title: James A Barnes Graduate Student History Conference
Conference Location: Philadelphia, PA
Presentation Title: The Burke-Hartke Bill and the Political Economic Crisis of the 1970s
Faculty Adviser: Dr. Janet Golden
Physical Therapy
Stephanie Berardi
DPT, Physical Therapy (May 2016)
Conference Title: Combined Sections Meeting of the American Physical Therapy Association
Conference Location: Anaheim, CA
Presentation Title: The Effectiveness of Core Stabilization Training on Balance Measures and Functional Outcomes: A Systematic Review of the Literature
Faculty Adviser: Dr. Richard Ferraro
Craig Bowen
DPT, Physical Therapy (May 2015)
Conference Title: American Physical Therapy Association NEXT 2015
Conference Location: National Harbor, MD
Presentation Title: Effectiveness of Instrument-Assisted or Augmented Soft Tissue Mobilization for Patients with Lower Extremity Soft Tissue Conditions: A Systematic Review
Faculty Adviser: Dr. David Kietrys
Samantha Giambri
DPT, Physical Therapy (May 2016)
Conference Title: Combined Sections Meeting of the American Physical Therapy Association
Conference Location: Anaheim, CA
Presentation Title: The Effectiveness of Core Stabilization Training on Balance Measures and Functional Outcomes: A Systematic Review of the Literature
Faculty Adviser: Dr. Richard Ferraro
Matthew Lewis
DPT, Physical Therapy (May 2016)
Conference Title: Combined Sections Meeting of the American Physical Therapy Association
Conference Location: Anaheim, CA
Presentation Title: Effectiveness of Movement-Based Therapies on Clinical Based Outcomes in Persons with Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Faculty Adviser: Dr. David Kietrys
Steven Melchiorre
DPT, Physical Therapy (May 2016)
Conference Title: Combined Sections Meeting of the American Physical Therapy Associations
Conference Location: Anaheim, CA
Presentation Title: Effectiveness of Movement-Based Therapies on Clinical Based Outcomes in Persons with Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Faculty Adviser: Dr. David Kietrys
Scott Middleton
DPT, Physical Therapy (May 2016)
Conference Title: Combined Sections Meeting of the American Physical Therapy Association
Conference Location: Anaheim, CA
Presentation Title: The Effectiveness of Core Stabilization Training on Balance Measures and Functional Outcomes: A Systematic Review of the Literature
Faculty Adviser: Dr. Richard Ferraro
Maria Nieto
DPT, Physical Therapy (May 2016)
Conference Title: Combined Sections Meeting of the American Physical Therapy Associations
Conference Location: Anaheim, CA
Presentation Title: Kinematics in People With Multiple Sclerosis as Compared to Healthy Controls
Faculty Adviser: Dr. Stephanie Muth
Justin Penn
DPT, Physical Therapy (May 2016)
Conference Title: Combined Sections Meeting of the American Physical Therapy Association
Conference Location: Anaheim, CA
Presentation Title: Movement Based Videogames: Examining Alternative Aerobic Exercise Interventions for Individuals with Cystic Fibrosis
Faculty Adviser: Dr. Robert Dekerlegand
Lianne Previti
DPT, Physical Therapy (May 2016)
Conference Title: Combined Sections Meeting of the American Physical Therapy Association
Conference Location: Anaheim, CA
Presentation Title: Effectiveness of Movement-Based Therapies on Clinical Based Outcomes in Persons with Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Faculty Adviser: Dr. David Kietrys
Tulsi Shah
DPT, Physical Therapy (May 2016)
Conference Title: Combined Sections Meeting of the American Physical Therapy Association
Conference Location: Anaheim, CA
Presentation Title: What are the Physical Symptoms Associated with Postpartum Depression?
Faculty Adviser: Dr. Adrienne Simonds
Brian Simek
DPT, Physical Therapy (May 2016)
Conference Title: Combined Sections Meeting of the American Physical Therapy Association
Conference Location: Anaheim, CA
Presentation Title: The Effectiveness of Core Stabilization Training on Balance Measures and Functional Outcomes: A Systematic Review of the Literature
Faculty Adviser: Dr. Richard Ferraro
Martina Thomas
DPT, Physical Therapy (May 2016)
Conference Title: Combined Sections Meeting of the American Physical Therapy Association
Conference Location: Anaheim, CA
Presentation Title: Movement Based Videogames: Examining Alternative Aerobic Exercise Interventions for Individuals with Cystic Fibrosis
Faculty Adviser: Dr. Robert Dekerlegand
Maggie Townsend
DPT, Physical Therapy (May 2016)
Conference Title: Combined Sections Meeting of the American Physical Therapy Association
Conference Location: Anaheim, CA
Presentation Title: Physical Symptoms Associated with Postpartum Depression
Faculty Adviser: Dr. Adrienne Simonds
Quang Tran
DPT, Physical Therapy (May 2016)
Conference Title: Combined Sections Meeting of the American Physical Therapy Associations
Conference Location: Anaheim, CA
Presentation Title: Effectiveness of Movement-Based Therapies on Clinical Based Outcomes in Persons with Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Faculty Adviser: Dr. David Kietrys
Psychology
Michelle Dixon
MA, Psychology (May 2017)
Conference Title: Society for Personality and Social Psychology
Conference Location: San Diego, CA
Presentation Title: The Relationship Between the HEXACO60 Personality Factors and Impression Efficacy and Motivation
Faculty Adviser: Dr. Christopher Nave
Debrielle Jacques
MA, Psychology (May 2016)
Conference Title: 2016 Society for Research in Human Development Biennial Meeting
Conference Location: Denver, CO
Presentation Title: Cumulative Risks Among Children and Adolescent’s Living with an Adult with a Substance Use Disorder
Faculty Adviser: Dr. J.J. Cutuli
Autumn Nanassy
MA, Psychology (May 2016)
Conference Title: Society for Personality and Social Psychology
Conference Location: San Diego, CA
Presentation Title: Personality and Social Support as Predictors of Health Systems among Gay Men and Lesbian Women
Faculty Adviser: Dr. Charlotte Markey
Alex Titus
MA, Psychology (May 2017)
Conference Title: Association for Psychological Science
Conference Location: Chicago, IL
Presentation Title: Sex Differences in Preferences for Humor by Men or Women: Is Humor in the Sex of the Perceiver?
Faculty Adviser: Dr. Sean Duffy
Public Affairs (MS/PhD)
Spencer Clayton
PhD, Public Affairs
MS, Public Affairs (October 2015)
Conference Title: 46th Annual Conference of the Urban Affairs Association
Conference Location: San Diego, CA
Presentation Title: Gentrification and Tax Abatements: A Case Study from Philadelphia, PA
Faculty Adviser: Dr. Richard Harris
Straso Jovanovski
PhD, Public Affairs
MS, Public Affairs (October 2015)
Conference Title: 46th Annual Conference of the Urban Affairs Association
Conference Location: San Diego, CA
Presentation Title: The Spatial Dimensions of Concentrated Poverty and Health
Faculty Adviser: Dr. Adam Okulicz-Kozaryn
David Okereke
PhD, Public Affairs
MS, Public Affairs (May 2017)
Conference Title: 46th Annual Conference of the Urban Affairs Association
Conference Location: San Diego, CA
Presentation Title: The Spatial Dimensions of Concentrated Poverty and Health
Faculty Adviser: Dr. Beth Rabinowitz
Jason Rivera
PhD, Public Affairs (January 2016)
MS, Public Affairs (October 2015)
MPA, Public Administration (October 2008)
Conference Title: American Political Science Association Annual Meeting
Conference Location: San Francisco, CA
Presentation Title: Disasters and Political Participation
Faculty Adviser: Dr. Paul Jargowsky
Shikun Sun
PhD, Public Affairs
MS, Public Affairs (May 2016)
Conference Title: Southeastern Conference for Public Administration (SEcoPA)
Conference Location: Charleston, SC
Presentation Title: Economic advancement among low-wage workers: poverty alleviation through employment at metropolitan-level across time
Faculty Adviser: Dr. Marie Chevrier
Rasheda Weaver
PhD, Public Affairs (May 2017)
MS, Public Affairs (October 2015)
Conference Title: ARNOVA 44th Conference
Conference Location: Chicago, IL
Presentation Title: Examining Social Enterprise Impact Using the Capability Approach
Faculty Adviser: Dr. Shoko Kato
Christopher Wheeler
PhD, Public Affairs (May 2017)
MS, Public Affairs (May 2016)
Conference Title: Urban Affairs Association Conference
Conference Location: San Diego, CA
Presentation Title: Metropolitan Size and Housing Affordability Stress in US Metropolitan Areas
Faculty Adviser: Dr. Paul Jargowsky
Danny Tarng
PhD, Public Affairs
MPA, Public Administration (May 2010)
Conference Title: Urban Affairs Association
Conference Location: San Diego, CA
Presentation Title: Utilizing Spatial Analysis to Measure Socioeconomic Change Around New Supermarkets in Urban Food Deserts
Faculty Adviser: Dr. Lorraine Minnite
2015-2016 Dean’s Graduate Research Grant Recipients
Computational & Integrative Biology (MS/PhD)
Robert Marmion
PhD, Computational & Integrative Biology (May 2016)
MS, Biology (May 2010)
BA, Biology (May 2008)
Research Project Title: Regulation of Wishful Thinking
Faculty Adviser: Dr. Nir Yakoby
Nicole Revaitis
PhD, Computational & Integrative Biology
MS, Biology (May 2013)
Research Project: Studying the effects of the TGF-a like molecule, Gurken, on morphological drive
Faculty Adviser: Dr. Nir Yakoby
Chemistry
Azzah Alzahrani
MS, Chemistry (May 2016)
Research Project: Synchronous Photoluminescence Spectroscopy of Mesoporous CaTiO3
Faculty Adviser: Dr. Alexander Samokhvalov
Sean Taylor
MS, Chemistry (May 2016)
Research Project: Hydrogen from Water Under the Near-UV/Visible Light by Plasmonic Photo Catalysis
Faculty Adviser: Dr. Alexander Samokhvalov
History
Clara Green
MA, History (2016)
Research Project: Women of the Fur Trade and the Construction of Radical Sentiment: 1680-1870
Faculty Adviser: Dr. Andrew Shankman
Public Affairs (MS/PhD)
Ashley Nickels
PhD, Public Affairs (May 2016)
MS, Public Affairs (January 2016)
Research Project: Power, Politics, and Participation: Municipal Takeovers and Local Democracy
Faculty Adviser: Dr. Richard Harris