Capstone Conference 2021

2021 Capstone Conference Summary Schedule

Saturday, April 24, 2021

10:00 a.m - 4:00 p.m.

Please select the link above to register to join our conference. All attendees including participants and visitors must pre-register to join. Presenters must use their Stan State email to register.

• To join any conference session, you must first register by selecting the link above, details to join each session will be sent to you.
• Research posters and presentations will not be formally displayed during the conference, this is a discussion and Q & A only. Please take time to review the works prior to the conference. We will start displaying active links for previewing on Tuesday, April 20th.
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Complete 2021 Capstone Conference Program

Junior Research Poster Session

10:05 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Moderators: Steve Arounsack, HONS 3990 Instructor, Department of Anthropology,
Suditi Gupta, HONS 3990 Instructor, Department of Sociology

Download the conference program.pdf

Honors 3990-1

10:05 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

Julien Alfaro: Neutrino Flavor Identification in In-Ice Experiments
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Isaac Lopez: Effects of Music on Reading Comprehension
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Claudia Mendoza-Chavez: COVID-19 and Spanish-Speaking Latinx Immigrants: Economic Impacts and Resource Communication
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Adriana Santos: Racism Vs. COVID-19: What Causes more Anxiety?
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Noreen Singh: Children's Mental Health and Academics During COVID-19
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Tripti Singh: Double Helical Nanotube Structures Can Be Used To Target Cancer Cells
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Danny Tovar Franco: COVID-19: How did it affect Student's Academics and Mental Health

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Honors 3990-2

10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.

Victoria Aguilar: A War With No Front: Arms Trafficking in North America During the Twenty-First Century
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Melana Cook: Out with the Old: How B Corps are Proving Classic Business Theory Obsolete
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Elizabeth Davies: The Effects of Art Therapy on PTSD
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Guadalupe Godinez: Contradictions in Bilingual Studies
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Jamie Hawthorne: Measuring Teachers' Perceptions of the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress
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Lucie Jegoux: Treating Neck Pain Through Acupuncture
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Sarah Lamphere: What are the Functions of Art on the Basis of Metaphysics?
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Guadalupe Marquez: The Relationship Between First-Generation Status and Academic Success
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Alexis Martinez: The relationship between emotion and school motivation
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Obed Meraz: The Effects Of Microplastics On Microbial Diversity
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Rosita Nelson Verbera: Association between a sense of privacy and safety, and decreased pain during childbirth
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Erica Nixon: Excessive screen time and its effects on mental health
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Isaura Patino: The Villainization of Undocumented Latinx Immigrants
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Luis Toledo Gonzalez: Student Perceptions of Online Learning During the Pandemic
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Honors 3990-3

11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

Vivian Aguilar: The Effect of Image Priming on Consideration Towards the Environment
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Mauricio Arzate: Chains of the Future
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Matthew Bonzi: The Characters of Ernest Hemingway and the Shift in Their Literary Depictions in Relation to Biographical Accounts of Hemingway's Life
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Jordyn Boone: Language Teaching Methods and Student Success
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Danielle Carpenter: The Use of Non-Invasive Imaging Technology In Paleoanthropology- Finding Trauma and Disease In Ancient Skeletal Remains
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Brendan Contreras: Synthesizing UI Design Trends via Analysis of Controller-Based Video Game Menu GUI
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Nicholaus Fleming: Procedural Generation Algorithms and Why Use Them Over Machine Learning
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Clarissa Gutierrez: Attitudes about Multilingualism in the U.S.A
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Louisa Imelio: A Language Alone: A Study of the Piraha
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Chelsey King: The Potential and Problems of Gene Drive Technology
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Brian Meginness: Social Media and Its Relationship with Political Unrest
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Chayla Neese: Development, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prevention of Primary Hypophysitis
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Lizeth Sanchez Espinoza: A Companies Impact and Response to the Environment
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Honors 3990-4

11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Melissa Almeida: COVID-19 Imposed Digital Learning Environment Acceptance
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Helena Arroyo: The impact a phenomenon such as globalization has on companies’ marketing strategies
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Alexandra Heuston: Pesticide Residue on Organic Fruit Vs. Non-Organic Fruit
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Johanna Pena: Resiliency in Youth with LGBTQ Parents
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Angel Reyes: The Connection Between Gallbladder Disease (GBD) and Inheritable Traits
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Candace Stubblefield: A Critical Comparison of American and Nordic Penal Systems
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Senior Capstone Presentations

1:00 p.m. – 1:50 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. – 3:50 p.m.

Moderators: *Ellen Bell, Professor of Anthropology, University Honors Program Director, McNair Scholars PI, *James Tuedio, Dean, College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, University Honors Program Director, *Araceli Garcia, McNair Scholars Program Director
*Jamila Newton, Department of Biological Sciences, HONS 4960 Instructor and *Steve Arounsack, Department of Anthropology, HONS 3990 Instructor

To listen to senior presentations, you may go directly to the individual presentation or use the playlist embedded here:

Education

1:00 p.m. – 1:50 p.m.

Carley Newbill (English): How School Type Influences Overall Performance and Enrollment

Megan Dean (English): The Impact of Trauma Informed Education Practices on Combatting Inequity in Schools
Faculty Mentor: Pamela Young

*Aurora Ceja (Sociology): Racialization: How Does It Affect Latinx Immigrant Students?
Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Strangfeld

*Juana Nieto Vazquez (Psychology): Examining stress among first-generation college students
Faculty Mentor: Kelly Cotter

Farhat Khairzadah (Nursing Licensure): The Effects of Anxiety Reducing Coping Mechanisms on Nursing Students’ Test Scores
Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Lynn Peltier

Malika Shoker (English): The Role of Trust and Rapport in Teaching
Faculty Mentor: Jori Lindley

Sophia Kline (Spanish): Examining the Post Secondary Latinx Educational Attainment Gap
Faculty Mentor: Richard Wallace

Timea Friesen (English): Effectiveness of the Flipped Classroom Teaching Method: How it Impacts Motivation, Performance, and Satisfaction in the Classroom
Faculty Mentor: Karen Zandarski

Cierra Duke (Psychology): Effects of Gender of Nondisordered and Nondisabled College Students’ Attitudes Towards Students with Disabilities and/or Disorders
Faculty Mentor: Julie Hall

Psychology and Mental Health

1:00 p.m. – 1:50 p.m.

Catarina Sousa (Criminal Justice): Side Effects of Instagram
Faculty Mentor: Sebastián Sclofsky

Brittaney Rigby (Chemistry): Evaluating the Doctor-Patient Relationship and How it Affects Cases of Obstetric Violence
Faculty Mentor: Jamila Newton

Tawny Ortega (Psychology): Am I Worthy
Faculty Mentor: Deborah Forester

Sabrina Stephens (Psychology): Stress from Side Effects in Patients on Antipsychotics
Faculty Mentor: Deborah Forester

Elizabeth Luna (Psychology): ABA Parent Training via Telehealth for Caregivers of Children with Autism: A Review of the Literature
Faculty Mentor: Katie Wiskow

Kerry Young (Psychology): Effects of Trait-Anxiety and Mindfulness on Female Sexual Functioning
Faculty Mentor: Victor Luevano

Rachel Klopfer (Sociology): Eating Disorders and their Lasting Effects in Competitive Athletes

*Georgina Orozco (Kinesiology): The Effects of Attentional Focus in Fine Motor Learning
Faculty Mentor: Arya Alami

Lisa Lewis (Psychology): Diverse Coping Strategies for COVID-19 Related Stressors
Faculty Mentor: Jamila Newton

Humanities, Social Science and Economics

3:10 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Zephan Wood (Political Science): Human Dignity v Civil Liberties How Israeli and American Supreme Courts Handle Speech
Faculty Mentor: Stephen Routh

Abdulla Mammadsoy (Mathematics): Modesto's Housing Problem
Faculty Mentor: Gökçe Soydemir

Cristal Fuentes (Psychology): Why Does Female Genital Mutilation Continue To Be A Social and Cultural Drive?
Faculty Mentor: Andrew Conteh

*Lourdes Ramirez (Criminal Justice): Forensic Anthropology in Latin America: Examining Methods of Human Identification
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Sari Miller-Antonio

Abram Galvez (Business Administration): Speculation on the Future of Moore’s Law and Analysis of Business Proceedings Within the Microprocessor Industry
Faculty Mentor: Adamou Fode Made

Esmeralda Acatitla Velazquez (English): Author’s Social Anxieties: Gender Preference in The Picture of Dorian Gray & The House of Mirth
Faculty Mentor: Scott Davis and Jesse Wolfe

Ryan De Los Santos (Physics): Should the Electrodynamic Screen be Used for Solar Panels in Stanislaus County?
Faculty Mentor: Brian Morsony

Marcus Ruddicks (Economics): Estimating a Minimum Income Level for Local College Students
Faculty Mentor: Elaine Peterson

Yesenia Solorzano (Criminal Justice): The Significance of the Dark Figure of Crime: Analyzing Unreported Violent Crime

Colin Gage (English): The Victorian Roots of the Graphic Novel
Faculty Mentor: Arnold Schmidt

Stem and Health Sciences

3:10 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

*Marlen Martinez-Lopez (Computer Science): Creating and Designing a Medical Big Data Analysis System
Faculty Mentor: Dae Hee Kim

*German Astorga (Physics): Modeling Short GRBs as Structured Jets
Faculty Mentor: Brian Morsony

*Emma Van Hoogmoed: Teaching Robots Biologically Inspired Tasks
Faculty Mentor: Xuejun Liang

*John Molthen (Chemistry): Computational Docking of Potential Drug Inhibitors to the SARS-CoV-2 Main Protease
Faculty Mentor: Koni Stone

Navjot Nahal (Exercise Science): The Effects of Resistance Training on Chronic Lower Back Pain (CLBP)
Faculty Mentor: Brent Powell

Jair Torres (Biological Sciences): The Role of Misleading Diagrams in Student Misconceptions about Plant Metabolism
Faculty Mentor: Sarah Bissonnette

*Guadalupe Villanueva (Exercise Science): An Examination of Weight Status and Gender Differences in Associated Health Risk Behaviors Among Overweight/Obese U.S. Adolescents
Faculty Mentor: Wura Jacobs

*Denotes a McNair Scholar

Thank you for being a part of our 20th Annual Capstone Conference

A special thank you to Therese Lunt for your generous support of the University Honors Program over the past thirteen years, and a hearty congratulations on your retirement. Thank you so much for your support of our students and our program.