Summit 2004

MOUNT DAVID SUMMIT
A Celebration of Student Academic Achievement
   
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Friday, April 2, 2004
   
2:30-2:45 PMPerry AtriumCall to the Summit
  Te Deum, Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1634-1704)
  Bates Brass Quintet:  Timothy Cooke ’04, trumpet; Jeffrey Kazin ’04, trumpet; Amy Saffer, horn; Alexander Smith ’06, trombone; Patrick Galligan ’07, tuba
  Welcome
  Elaine Tuttle Hansen, President
  Jamil Zraikat ’05, President, Bates College Student Government
  Jill N. Reich, Dean of the Faculty
   
   
OngoingPerry Atrium and Pettengill LobbyFourth Annual Off-Campus Study Photography Exhibit
   
 Pettengill G52 and The RonjA Journey of 10,000 Li:  Bates FSA in China
   
 Pettengill G65Snapshots of Lewiston: Grace Fei Liu ’06
   
   
Concurrent Session I 
2:45-4:00 PMPerry AtriumPoster Session I
  Presenters from biochemistry, biology, environmental studies, math, and political science/women’s and gender studies
   
2:45-4:15 PMPettengill G21Social Inequality, Social Change, and Social Responsibility
  Emily Barko ’04: Narratives of Anorexia: A Qualitative Analysis
  Elizabeth Jackson ’04: The Role of NGOs in the Emergence of Transnational Social Movements: A Look at the Movement Opposing the Free Trade Area of the Americas
  Tanya Schwartz ’04: The ABCs of Success: The Effects of Parents, Schools, and Communities on Young Children’s Academic Achievement
  Heather Tompkins 04: Pathways Home: Aftercare for Girls in the Juvenile Justice System
  Kara Stenback ’05: Endowment Management in Higher Education
  Emily Kane, professor of sociology, moderator
 

 

 

 
 Pettengill G52Individuals, Communities, and the Environment
  Rachel Booty ’04: Soil Lead Determinations in Three Urban Community Gardens, Lewiston, Maine
  Morgan Patterson ’04: The Creation and Development of a Climbing Ethic in New England
  Christopher Urban ’04: Managing People and Wilderness in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont: A Study of Constructive Conservation Policy
  Andrew Whitaker ’04: Miad na sine, the Strength of the Storm: Gaelic Songs and Nature in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
  Rachel Austin, associate professor of chemistry, moderator
   
 Pettengill G54Economic Opportunity in Developing Countries
  Tahsin Alam ’04:  Microcredit as a System for Poverty Alleviation
   
 Pettengill G63Las Dimensiones de las Diasporas latinoamericanas/ The Dimensions of Latin American Diasporas
  Eduardo Crespo ’04: Parlando, the Illegal Italian: Diasporas and Globalization from Below
  Julio Guevara ’07: The Necessity of Exile in the Poetry of Manuel Luna
  Sara Gusky ’07: Seasons of Emotion in Pablo Neruda’s “El barco de los adioses”
  Elizabeth Irvine-McDermott ’04: The Natural World as an Alternative “Home” for the Exiled
  Felicia Fahey, assistant professor of Spanish, moderator
   
 Pettengill G65Cultural Crossroads:  Health Care, Education, and Tourism
  Erin Bednarek ’05: Health in Samoa
  Jason Rafferty ’05: Siofua Malōlōina: Bringing “Health” to Samoa’s Rural Villages
  Julie Gage ’04: Acculturation of Somali Students in the ELL Classroom at Lewiston High School
  Jesse Lewin ’04: Interactions between Somali Secondary Migrants and Physicians in Lewiston, Maine: An Ethnographic Field Study in Refugee Health Care and Cultural Competency
  Valerie Wicks ’04: The Search for Authenticity: Cultural Tourism in Ghana
  Heather Lindkvist, lecturer in anthropology, moderator
   
Concurrent Session II 
4:30-5:45 PMPerry AtriumPoster Session II
  Presenters from biochemistry, biology, chemistry, classical and medieval studies, environmental studies, math, neuroscience, and psychology
   
4:30-6:00 PMPettengill G21Attitudes, Behaviors and Theory:  Can We Talk?
  Samara Khalique ’04: Psychosocial Attributes as a Predictor of Metabolic Syndrome Risk Factors in Females
  Saul Miller ’04: The Effect of Processing Goals on the Memory of Ambiguous Behaviors
  Katherine Papadonis ’04: Early Head Start: The Benefits of Family-Style Meals
  Claire Schneider ’04: Why Do Adolescent Boys and Girls Differ in Their Experiences of Aggression?  An Investigation through the Lens of Self-Construal Theory
  Kathryn Graff Low, professor of psychology, moderator
   
 Pettengill G52Place and the Sacred in Poetry and Song
  Sarah Tressel ’04: Comfort and Discomfort: Revisiting Ghana through Poetry
  Renée Blacken ’05: Singing in the Primitive Baptist Church in Southern Appalachia, with music by Northfield: Renee Blacken ’05; Henry Blackford ’06; Megan Fortin ’07; Paul Heckler ’06; Mirka Hlavacova ’07; Stuart Johnson ’06; Benjamin Kercsmar ’04; Nicholas Klinovsky ’06; Sarah Mazur ’06; Taegan McMahon ’07; Jessica Ricker ’07; Gregory Rosenthal ’05; Sarah Sprague ’07; Katharine Trautz ’04; Robert Allison, professor of religion; Gregory Boardman, instructor of folk fiddling
  Robert Allison, professor of religion
   
 Pettengill G54Ancient Threads in Modern Texts
  Sarah Connell ’04: Hero and Goddess
  Jennifer Hanley ’05: The Perversion of Ritual in the Iliad
  Martha Horan ’04: The Western Flower, Shakespeare’s Mulberry Tree:  An Ovidian Analysis of A Midsummer Night’s Dream
  Jennifer McGill ’04: Female Characters in Greek and Noh Drama
  Henry Walker, lecturer in classics and classical and medieval studies, moderator
   
   
 Pettengill G63Probing Scientific Systems
  Jeffrey Levinson ’04: New Variables for Quantum Interference
  Aaron Putnam ’04: Recent Sedimentation of a Transect of High Arctic Isolation Basins; Queen Elizabeth Islands Archipelago, Nunavut, Canada
  Pamela Baker, professor of biology and associate dean of the faculty, moderator
   
 Pettengill G65Race, Religion, and Class in Historical Inquiry
  Grace Fei Liu ’06:  Snapshots of Lewiston
  Cali Lanza-Weil ’06: Twenty Years of Hillel at Bates
  Timothy Larson ’05: The Abolitionist Roots of Oren B. Cheney, the Founder of Bates
  Darcy York ’05: Child Labor in Lewiston’s Mills
  Bradley Proctor ’04: What Say Banjer? The Shared Black and White Banjo Traditions of the American South
  Joseph Hall, assistant professor of history, moderator
   
Evening Sessions  
8:00 PMOlin Concert HallBates College Orchestra:  Works by Frank and Mozart
  Featuring Cass Panuska ’04, soprano, and Frank Glazer, artist-in-residence, piano
   
 Gannett Theater, Pettigrew HallSenior thesis performance: The Search for Intelligent Life in the Universe Saida Cooper ’04