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6:30pm EDT

Concert Hall Doors Open with a Cappella MCA Concert Hall

7:00pm EDT

Welcome and Keynote Address MCA Concert Hall

8:00pm EDT

Refreshments and Entertainment MCA Upper Lobby Theatre Costume Design Display MCA Upper Lobby The Igloo Settlement Hepburn Zoo

8:30pm EDT

Found in Translation: Best Works of Spanish-language Students in Portulano Web Magazine - Department of Spanish and Portuguese MCA 126 A Musical Showcase: 'La Pastorella delle Alpi' and 'La Promessa' MCA Concert Hall A Musical Showcase: Duet MCA Concert Hall A Voice Recital: Selected Songs from the 18th Century to the Present MCA Concert Hall Aria Performance MCA Concert Hall Brass, and Brass Only MCA Concert Hall Chopin: Ballade No.1, Op.23 MCA Concert Hall Film and Media Culture: Student Films MCA 125 Kizuna String Trio MCA Museum Kizuna String Trio MCA Concert Hall Mouth Organ Improvisation MCA Concert Hall Movement for Gamelan Instruments, 4 ICU Machines, and 8 Dancers MCA Museum O del mio amato ben MCA Concert Hall Open Rehearsal for The Castle MCA Seeler Studio Theatre Performing Zoltan Kodaly's Duo for Violin and Cello MCA Museum Performing Zoltan Kodaly's Duo for Violin and Cello MCA Concert Hall Poem for Flute by Charles Griffes MCA Concert Hall Senior Thesis Dance Concert MCA Concert Hall Stamps MCA 232 The Digital Musician MCA Upper Lobby Two Sisters and a Coachman MCA 232

8:30am EDT

Presenter Check-in and Refreshments MBH Great Hall

9:00am EDT

Welcome MBH Great Hall

9:15am EDT

Do or Die? Sociological/Ethical Reasoning on the Death Penalty MBH 303 Let's Talk about Sex: Factors Associated with College Students' Sexual Communication Apprehension MBH 220 Modern Political Philosophy MBH 403 Neoliberal Norms of Development and Water Injustice: Case Study of Fiji and Bali MBH 104 The Expansion of Tycho's Supernova Remnant MBH 216 The Plastic Effect: Measuring the Effect of Debit Cards on Spending MBH 219 The Relationship Between Catholicism and Voting for the FN in France MBH 311 The Silver Crisis in India MBH 338 Writing Gender and Sexuality: Fiction, Creative Non-Fiction, and Poetry Selections MBH 411 Open Studio - Foundation Drawing Johnson Gallery Open Studio - Intermediate Architecture Design Johnson 204 Open Studio - Introduction to Architecture Design Johnson 405 Open Studio - Sculpture II Johnson 207 Open Studio - Senior Architecture Design Thesis Johnson 407 Open Studio - Senior Independent Studio Johnson Pit Works on Displaly - Intaglio Printmaking Johnson Mezzanine Works on Display - Architectural Studies Works Johnson 4th Floor Lounge Works on Display - Color Photography Johnson Mezzanine Works on Display - Intermediate Architecture Design Johnson Main Entrance Exhibition Space Works on Display - Studio Art 1 Johnson Mezzanine Film and Media Culture: Student Films MBH 4th Floor Balcony

9:35am EDT

Drowning: Lore and Legend and its Place in the Modern Day MBH 104 Effect of NMDA Receptor Blockade, Neurosteroid Administration, and Operant Response Option on Schizophrenia-like Cognitive Deficits MBH 220 In His Family's Shadow: The Lost Story of Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany MBH 311 Motives for Intra-family Transfers in Guatemala MBH 303 Nature's Ability to Improve Concentration for the Middlebury Student MBH 219 Policy Effects on the European Carbon Market: An Econometric Analysis and Policy Assessment of the European Union Emission Trading Scheme (EU-ETS) MBH 338 The Importance of InSite: Stories from Middlebury's Most Diverse Team MBH 216

9:55am EDT

Coming Out in Rio: Sexual Identity Formation among Middle-class Brazilian Men MBH 311 God, Evolution, and Morality MBH 303 Growing Seeds: An Exploration of Farm-Based Education in New England MBH 219 Slaying Hydra: Earthquake Risk in Kathmandu MBH 220 Stream-side survival of Rocky Mountain Songbirds: Effects of Vegetation Structure on Bird Species Diversity MBH 104 Subway Maps: 150 Years of History, Beauty, and Power in Representing the Underworld MBH 216 What Nations Pay to Borrow MBH 338

10:00am EDT

Open Studio - Portraiture in Oil Paint and Ceramics Johnson 203

10:15am EDT

Frac Sand Mining and the Potential for Groundwater Contamination in Trempealeau County, Wisconsin MBH 104 Integrated Landscape-scale Conservation Policy in Vermont MBH 216 Islamist Party, Inc. -- Economic Inclusivity, Political Stability, and Growth in Turkey MBH 338 Meditation Training with Adolescents: Impacts on Emotional and Cognitive Well-being MBH 303 The Neuroscience of Meditation: From Brain States, the Nature of Mind, and its Epistemological Value MBH 220 The Peripheralist: Reading David Foster Wallace and Don DeLillo MBH 311

10:30am EDT

3D Capture of Complex Real-World Scenes MBH Great Hall A Learning Library For Music MBH Great Hall A Place to Learn about Space: A Geography Learning Library MBH Great Hall A Point On The Water: Designing A Library For Middlebury Center MBH Great Hall A Self-Determination Theory Perspective on Communication with Children in the Interview Setting MBH Great Hall Cosmogenic 10Be Erosion Rate Estimates from 3.2-1 Ma in the Rio Iruya Watershed, Northwestern Argentina MBH Great Hall Customer Discrimination on eBay MBH Great Hall Designing a Library for Musicology in Middlebury, VT MBH Great Hall Does Context Matter in Lexical Simplification? MBH Great Hall Effects of Serotonin on Aggressive Displays in Male Fiddler Crabs MBH Great Hall Greening Middlebury's Smaller Homes MBH Great Hall Middlebury Anthropology Information Center MBH Great Hall Modeling Trajectories of Rydberg Atoms in an Electric Field MBH Great Hall Molecular Gastronomy within the Geography of the Kitchen MBH Great Hall New England's Arsenic Problem: An Investigation of Metamorphic Grade on Arsenic Concentration in Taconic Shales MBH Great Hall Origins of the Moretown Formation, Vermont: A Detrital Zircon Study MBH Great Hall Peer Monitoring in a Profit Sharing Workplace: An Experimental Study MBH Great Hall Performance, Creation, and Education: A Learning Library for Music MBH Great Hall Sedimentary and Hydro- Dynamics of the Buffalo River, NY MBH Great Hall Senior Architectural Design: Learning Library for Environmental Studies (a Biological Perspective) MBH Great Hall Synthesis and Proposed Polymerization of Benzocyclobutadiene Chromium Tricarbonyl MBH Great Hall Testosterone and Competitiveness Predicts General Health MBH Great Hall The Effect of an α2 Subunit Selective GABAA Receptor Agonist on Cognitive Flexibility in a Rat Model of Schizophrenia MBH Great Hall The Five Points of Insiteful Design MBH Great Hall The Glycation of Human Hemoglobin by Ribose 5-Phosphate MBH Great Hall The Influence of Vision and Chemosensation on Predatory Behavior in Octopus Bimaculoides MBH Great Hall The Middlebury Piazza MBH Great Hall Welfare Impacts of Rising Food Prices in Bangladesh MBH Great Hall

11:00am EDT

Open Studio - Advanced Drawing Johnson 205

11:15am EDT

Ah Yi and The Bird Saw Me: Existentialist Thought in Chinese Literature MBH 104 EU or Envoy? A New Role for Turkey as a Bridge to the Middle East MBH 338 Holocaust Geographies MBH 411 Manipulating Attention Strategy Alters Patterns of Neural Gain in Human Cortex MBH 216 Pronominal Variation in Costa Rican Spanish MBH 220 Taiwanese Identity Politics and Cross-Strait Relations MBH 311 The Nature of 'Modernity' in 19th Century Egyptian Legal Reform: A New Assessment MBH 303 Accessible Basics of Outdoor Living MBH 219 Methane as a Vehicle Fuel MBH 403

11:35am EDT

China's Great Firewall: Regime Durability and Internet Censorship MBH 104 Cinema of Representation: Gender, Race, and Disability in American Social Problem Films MBH 219 Do You Buy Organic? : How Semantics has Transformed the word 'Organic' MBH 220 Flexibility is the Rule: Understanding Monopsony for Nurses and the Nurse Licensure Compact, 1999-2011 MBH 338 For Our Nation's Salvation: The Political Philosophies of Sun Yat-sen and Zhang Binglin MBH 311 He Diffusion in Calcite, Aragonite, and Dolomite MBH 303 Transport Properties of a Germanium/Silicon Nanowire MBH 216

11:55am EDT

Creating Nickel(II) Oxide Nanowires For Applications in Memristor Technology Using An Electrospinning Method and Thermal Annealing MBH 216 Mesoderm and PGC Specification in the Axolotl Embryo: The Role of FGF in an Alternate Pathway MBH 303 Perception vs. Production of Second Language Phonology MBH 220 Reducing the 'Stunting Gap': Conditional Cash Transfers and Child Undernutrition in Nicaragua MBH 219 Student-Parent Communication in the Digital Age MBH 311 The Algerian Media Landscape in the Transnational Era MBH 104 Wild with the Spirit of Speculation MBH 338

12:15pm EDT

My Husband's Teacher's Sister: Different Approaches to Adjectival Phrases in Upper Sorbian MBH 220 Pompey, the Great Husband MBH 311 Representations of Animals in Contemporary Chinese Essays MBH 104 Tactile Leg Sensors in Harvestmen: An SEM Study of Second Leg Sensory Receptors MBH 216

12:30pm EDT

Lunch for Presenters, Sponsors and Moderators Atwater Dining Hall

1:30pm EDT

Biological Levels of Testosterone, Social Support, and Chronic Health MBH 219 Future of Chinese Undergraduates in the United States MBH 216 In Solidarity: Middlebury and the Civil Rights Movement MBH 220 Pornoprophetics: Ezekiel and Pornography MBH 104 To Give or not to Give? An Examination of Psychological Need Satisfaction and Cooperation in Public Goods Games MBH 303 Toward An American Islam: What the Constitution-Shari'a Compatibility Debate Reveals about American Religion MBH 311

1:50pm EDT

An Analysis of the Independent Power of First Ladies in Modern American Politics MBH 104 Friends with Benefits: Are these Relationships More Similar to Friendships or Dating? MBH 311 Pre-service: An Examination of College Seniors Becoming Teachers through a University-based Licensure Program or Teach for America MBH 216 The Effects of Financial Crises on Alumni Donations MBH 219 Until Justice Rolls Down Like Water: Environmental Justice in Yunnan, China MBH 220

2:10pm EDT

Agents of Demonstration MBH 220 Mindfulness Meditation: From Intrapersonal Improvements to Interpersonal Benefits MBH 311 Optimal Fastball Locations in Two-Strike Counts MBH 219 Problematizing PISA (Program for International Student Assessment): Korean and Finnish Counter Stories MBH 216 St. Thecla and Potnia Theron: The Crossroads of Christianity and Paganism MBH 104 The Bhopal Gas Tragedy: Righting and (Re)Writing the Historical Wound MBH 303

2:30pm EDT

'Those Who Bless You': Christian Zionism, America, and the Middle East MBH 220 Computer Games and Perceptions MBH 219 Evading Mortality with Humor: Falstaff and the Wife of Bath MBH 303 Spreading Self-Affirmation: The Positive Impact of Awareness MBH 216 The Effects of Various Hormone Manipulations on Granulosa Cell Glutathione MBH 104 The War Within: Queer Identity Formation in Contemporary Chinese Culture and Literature MBH 311

2:45pm EDT

A Library for Theater in Middlebury MBH Great Hall A Multi-Proxy Reconstruction of Post-Glacial Environmental Change from a Core of Soldier Lake, Nevada MBH Great Hall At the Intersection of People and Place MBH Great Hall Comparative Magnetic Circular Dichroism (MCD) Study of DapE-Encoded N-Succinyl-l,l-Diaminopimelic Acid Desuccinylase (DapE) from Haemophilus Influenza and Neisseria Meningitides MBH Great Hall Comparison of the Novel Object Recognition and Temporal Order Memory Tasks in a Rat Model of Schizophrenia MBH Great Hall Construction of a Machine Learning-based Neural Interface MBH Great Hall Cultural Integration through Architecture: A Chinese Research Library MBH Great Hall Effects of the Cognitive Interview on Children's Dietary Recalls Across Time MBH Great Hall Finding Biology in Frog Hollow MBH Great Hall Imaging of Supernova Remnant G206.9+2.3 MBH Great Hall Interpolation of Bedrock Topography in the Champlain Valley MBH Great Hall Investigating a SloR Q170A Mutation on SloR:SRE Binding in Streptococcus Mutans MBH Great Hall Middlebury Bikeability MBH Great Hall Middlebury College Sustainability Learning Library MBH Great Hall Political Protest in Putin's Russia: The Case of Pussy Riot MBH Great Hall Prenatal Testosterone and Self-Report Predicts Others' Perceptions of Leadership Behaviors MBH Great Hall PTSD in Women Veterans: A Forgotten History MBH Great Hall Spatial vs. Modal Mismatch: A Geographic Analysis of Job Market Access for Low-income Workers MBH Great Hall Symbiosis: A Library for Education Studies MBH Great Hall Taxes, Spending, and State Economic Growth MBH Great Hall The Detection of the Quorum Sensor AI-2 by Vibrio Harveyi Luminescence MBH Great Hall The Effects of Artificial Ocean Acidification on the Behavior and Physical Characteristics of the Chilean Mussel Species, Perumytilus Purpuratus MBH Great Hall The Effects of Prefrontal Inhibitory Signaling on Spatial Working Memory in a Rat Model for Schizophrenia MBH Great Hall The Learning Shop: A Geography Library for Middlebury, VT MBH Great Hall The Middlebury Economics Library MBH Great Hall The Spanish Creek Mylonite: A Newly Recognized Zone of High Strain in the Northern Madison Range, Southwestern Montana MBH Great Hall Visual Arts Communication Center MBH Great Hall Workfare, Caste and Cognition: Did India's Employment Guarantee Scheme Reduce Caste Disparities in Children's Cognition? MBH Great Hall

3:30pm EDT

Beloved Community in Daily Practice MBH 311 Collaborative Production, Copyright, and 'Casino Royale' MBH 104 Cuba: A Social Life MBH 219 How Well Does the Middlebury College Solar Farm Track the Sun? MBH 220 mHealth: An Empirical Examination of its Impact on a Developing Country MBH 303 The Middlebury College Religion Department: Precursors and Founding, Chapel and Academics MBH 216

3:50pm EDT

Civil Society Participation at International Environmental Policy Negotiations: The Inside Story MBH 220 Float Your Name Out Into Darkness: An Exploration of Alzheimer's Poetry MBH 104 Narrating an Identity MBH 311 Narratives of Estranged Youths in Thimphu, Bhutan MBH 219 Symbionts, Cyborgs, and Other Companions MBH 303 The Future of Burmese Foreign Policy MBH 216

4:10pm EDT

Abstraction: An Experiment in Electronic Literature MBH 216 Electric: Understanding the Creativity of Science and the Invention of Art in the Space of the Graphic Novel MBH 303 Guns to Carnations to Resistance: The Azorean Independence Movement from Post-Revolution Liberal Portuguese Power MBH 311 High For This: The Culture, Politics, and Art of Video Remix MBH 104 Summertime Hydrodynamics and Sediment Dynamics in Missisquoi Bay, Lake Champlain MBH 220 The Construction of Nationalist Identity in Jordan 1921-1980 MBH 219

4:30pm EDT

18 Parts, One Vocalist MBH 104 Effects of the Global Financial Crisis on Migrant and Non-migrant Households in Huehuetenango, Guatemala MBH 220 Hukou Reform: A Comparison of the Chengdu and Chongqing Models MBH 216 Journey to 17 1/2 MBH 303 Religious Identity and Community in American Buddhism MBH 219

5:00pm EDT

Gala Reception MBH Great Hall

8:00pm EDT

Richard P. Chen '13, Piano MCA Concert Hall The Igloo Settlement Hepburn Zoo

10:30pm EDT

The Igloo Settlement Hepburn Zoo