Program
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Program
MORNING SESSIONS
The authors of the presentations marked with * stated their work as interdisciplinary.
8am-9am, MPR
Symposium & Expo Registration
Symposium Service:
Enjoy free breakfast until 10am, and coffee until 5pm J
9am-11am, MPR
The Writing Center Stand
Oral (O)/ Roundtable (R)/ Panel (P) Presentations and Creative Installations (CI)
9am-10am
GLC Room B
- Effectiveness of Traffic Light Labels on Adolescent Beverage Choice: Go for the Green — Georgianna Mann (O) *
- Unravelling the mechanics of cohesive riverbank erosion — Akinrotimi Akinola (O) *
- We Are Humor Beings: Understanding and Predicting Visual Humor — Arjun Chandrasekaran (O) *
GLC Room D
- Developing a Continuum of Care in the New River Valley to Combat the Prenatal Substance Use Epidemic — Laura Nelson (O)
- Exposure, Inclusiveness and Awareness: The Keys to Diversity — Samantha Rainey (O)
- Transport of GABA is Essential for Brucella abortus Virulence — James Budnick (O) *
GLC Room F
- Enantioselective synthesis of drug-like molecules via axially-chiral intermediates — Gary Richoux (O)
- Effects of Cyber Attacks on the Performance of Power Systems — Kaveh Rahimi (O) *
- High-fidelity numerical simulation of long waves’ interaction with arrays of emerged cylinders — Amir Zainali (O) *
GLC Room G
- Silver nanoparticles cause mitotic defects in retinal epithelial cells — Ellen Garcia (O) *
- Combined Subsampling for Solving Large Scale Least Squares Problems — Joseph Slagel (O) *
- Sustainable brackish water desalination and wastewater treatment in microbial desalination cells: Experimental investigation and mathematical modeling — Qingyun Ping (O) *
10am-11am
GLC Room A
- Spatiotemporal Patterns of Transit Accessibility in Predicting Transit Use of Residents in the Catchment Area: A study of the Exposition Light Rail Line in Los Angeles, CA — Huyen Le (O)
- Engineering a Localized Bacterial Quorum Sensing Response for Bacteria-based Targeted Cancer Therapy — Eric Leaman (O)
- Black Girl Magic: the Message and the Movement- Then, Now, and Beyond — Joy Thompson (CI)
GLC Room D
- Bioelectrochemical Ammonia Recovery from Wastewater — Ying Liu (O) *
- Pretreatment of Landfill Leachate for Enhanced Electricity Generation in Microbial Fuel Cells — Syeed Md Iskander (O)
- Arteriogenesis as a Therapeutic Target For Traumatic Brain Injury — Thomas Brickler (O) *
GLC Room F
- Mantle flow field, dynamic topography, and geoid anomaly predicted by global tomography models — Shangxin Liu (O) *
- Current representations of “disability” in engineering education — Martina Svyantek (R)
- An Efficient, Regioselective Path to Cationic Polysaccharides for Biomedical Applications — Shu Liu (O)*
GLC Room G
- Flexible Piezoelectric Energy Harvester using Novel Laser Transfer Method — Hyun Cheol Song (O) *
- Nitrogen Removal by Nitritation – Anammox Process in an Upflow Membrane-Aerated Biofilm Reactor — Xiaojin Li (O) *
- Methodes for Evaluating Aquifer System Parameters from a Cumulative Compaction Record — Amanda VanHaitsma (O)
11am-12pm
GLC Room D
- Leading Edge Vortex Lift enhancement on Wings : Experimental Investigation — Mohamed Zakaria (O) *
- The Quest of an Equitable Participatory Banking and the Prevalence of HIV/AIDS: A Case Study of Lembaga Perkreditan Desa (LPD) in Bali, Indonesia — Putu Apriliani (O) *
- Spatial extent of land use and cover changes and estimation of impacts on soil erosion hazards in the Upper Ruvu Watershed: Integration of Remote Sensing, GIS and Modeling — Winfred Mbungu (O) *
GLC Room F
- UPS-indel: Universal Positioning System for Indels — Mohammad Shabbir Hasan (O) *
- Novel method to aid design of complex aircraft — Mandar Kulkarni (R) *
- Relative role of uncertainty for predictions of future Southeastern U.S. pine carbon cycling — Annika Jersild (O) *
GLC Room G
- Mathematical models of HIV and HPV coinfection — Samantha Erwin (O) *
- Serum and Synovial Fluid Serum Amyloid A as an Aid in Confirming Synovial Sepsis in the Horse — Elsa Ludwig (O) *
- Drying Drops and Freeze Fronts — Saurabh Nath (O) *
Poster Presentations
9am-11am, MPR
- Rice Growth and Yield in Salt-affected Soils Casamance/South-Senegal — Thioro Fall *
- The Cultural-Social Benefits of Developing Green Channels: Case Studies and Demonstration in Jeddah City, Saudi Arabia — Abdulmueen Bogis *
- The relationship of soil pore space with water vapor sorption — Jingjing Chen *
- Modeling the Non-equilibrium Phenomenon of Diffusion in Closed and Open Systems at an Atomistic Level Using Steepest-Entropy-Ascent Quantum Thermodynamics — Aimen Younis *
- LoViT: Localization via Vibration Tracking — Jeffrey Poston *
- Effect of Organic Amendments on the Heavy Metal Distribution in Vegetable Gardens in Senegal — Aissatou Diouf
- Design Framework for Vegetated Assemblies — Kenneth Black
- The Effects of Dietary Macronutrient Composition on Lipid Metabolism-Associated Factor Gene Expression in the Adipose Tissue of Chickens are Influenced by 3 Hours of Fasting — Guoqing Wang
- An Isogeometric Approach to 3D Tomographic Reconstruction in Medical Imaging — Vahid Bateni *
- Impact of meteorological conditions and perithecia maturity on Fusarium graminearum spore release — Ray David *
- Latent HSV-1 infection increases AD-related protein plaque formation in primary murine hippocampal neurons. — Rebecca Powell-Doherty
- A gnotobiotic pig model of dysbiosis and rotavirus immunity — Erica Twitchell *
- Sex Differences in Laterality through Motor Function and Concurrent Cerebral Regulation of Autonomic Nervous System Tasks — Grace Herrick *
- Evaluation of an Infectious Disease Screening Protocol for a University-Based Animal Assisted Intervention (AAI) Program — Virginia Corrigan
- An Explanation of Boundary Layer Turbulence Ingestion Noise in a Highly Thrusting Rotor Operating Near a Wall — Henry Murray
- Do #AllTweetsMatter? Exploring the #AllLivesMatter Hashtag in a Post-Racial Society — Maureen Lawrence-Kuether
- Using Enzymes and Microorganisms to Modify the Mycotoxin Deoxynivalenol — Nina Wilson *
- Local knowledge, attitudes, and awareness of Aedes mosquito control and disease prevention in Costa Rica — John Bandzuh *
- Understanding of the Dimensions of Disciplinary Culture in engineering and non-engineering majors — Homero Murzi *
- The Other Villa Tugendhat — Erik Fendik *
- Do Intergovernmental Transfers Influence Municipal Fiscal Sustainability? A Comparative Study of Detroit and New York City — Rongrong Wei
- Histopathologic findings assessment using machine learning in classifying structured versus unstructured reports — Abdullah Awaysheh *
- Do roots bind soils: Comparing the physical and biological role of roots in fluvial streambank erosion resistance — Chelsea Corkins *
- Instagram Use by Art Museums: A Qualitative content analysis on museum Instagram accounts — Jaclyn Sanders *
- Evaluation of Teen Cuisine- A cooking based program for teens – Heather Petty
- Brucella neotomae Vaccine to Control Brucellosis and Reproduction in Feral Swine: Prevention of Zoonotic Disease Transmission to Humans — Steven Waldrop *
- Flexible, printable, and biocompatible CNT-based conductive ink for fabrication of supercapacitors and bio-sensing application — Razieh Farzad *
- Inflammation Exacerbates Pulmonary Tumorigenesis — Sheryl Coutermarsh-Ott
- Model guided engineering of plant metabolism to increase cellulose production – Jiun Yen *
- Analytical determination of spirotetramat in complex matrices by combining QuEChERs method and solid phase extraction followed by High Performance Liquid Chromatography — Junxue Wu
- Graduate Students’ Awareness and Attitudes Toward Open Access Journals — Maureen Lawrence-Kuether
- Using Temporal Patterns of Bicycle and Pedestrian Traffic to Define Factor Groups — Tianjun Lu *
- Observed Lack of Physical Activity at 4-H Camp: Implications for policy and practice — Alicia Everette *
- A vascular role in regulating gap junction-associated Connexin 43 in the adult dentate gyrus following traumatic brain injury — Kisha Gresham *
- Sources of microbial aerosols in freshwater aquatic systems — Renee Pietsch *
- Vernacular Rhetorical Practices in Online Environments: Yik Yak and the Digital Public Sphere — Andrew Kulak *
- Characterizing PEO-PDLLA Core-Shell Nanoparticles Tagged With a Novel Dye in M1 and M2 Macrophages — Dylan McDaniel *
- Quantitation of Hydrolysable Amino Acids in Millet – Hanh Le *
- Refining Form – Erik Fendik *
- Fluorescent polymeric nanoparticles for biodistribution studies and plasmid DNA delivery — Ami Jo *
- Deep Sequencing Analysis of RNA in the Bone Marrow Following Pharmacologic Inhibition of Histone Deacetylase 6 in Diseased NZB/W F1 Mice — Miranda Vieson
- Communicating Drinking Water Aesthetic Issues and Risks Using Consumer Confidence Reports — Katherine Phetxumphou *
- Interleukin Receptor Associated Kinase M (IRAKM) Splice Variant is Protective Against Experimental Colitis and Colitis-Associated Cancer. — Daniel Rothschild
- Experimental Characterization of Deformation and Damage Sensing through the Piezoresistive Response of Nanocomposite Bonded Surrogate Energetic Materials — Engin Sengezer
- Forecasting Epidemic by Smart Particle Filter combined with large network simulation of contact networks — Farzaneh Tabataba
- Selecting and Redesigning Electric Distribution Networks for Maximizing Energy Saving — Kaveh Rahimi *
- Lambda-PCR and Improved Omega-PCR Strategies For Precise Plasmid Sequence Modification — Imen Tanniche *
- Identification of Drought Tolerant Pearl Millet Cultivars in Senegal — Fatou Tine
- Recycling roadway deicing salts using pyrolysis of halophytic feedstocks to produce biochar for roadway application — Tessali Wahls
- Effect of Water Heater Temperature Setting on the Premise Plumbing Microbiome and Opportunistic Pathogen Occurrence — Pan Ji *
- Generation of Thermotropic Liquid Crystalline Polymer Thermoplastic Composite Filaments and Their Processing in Fused Filament Fabrication — Mubashir Ansari *
- Development of a 3D model of the beetle heart to understand flow production — Melissa Kenny *
Symposium Service:
Enjoy the free lunch
available between 12pm-1pm J
1pm-2:30pm, MPR
The Writing Center Stand
AFTERNOON SESSIONS
The authors of the presentations marked with * stated their work as interdisciplinary.
Oral (O)/ Roundtable (R)/ Panel (P) Presentations and Creative Installation (CI)
1pm-2pm
GLC Room A
- Data Mining Corporate Emails to Model Employee Behaviors and Analyze Organizational Structure — Kayla Straub (O)
- Selenium enrichment and bioaccumulation in coal mining-influenced streams of Virginia and West Virginia — Keridwen Whitmore (O)
- Yes, and…The Improvising Landscape of the Displaced — Elyana Javaheri (P)*
GLC Room B
- Enhancing wastewater reuse by forward osmosis with self-diluted commercial fertilizers as draw solutes: osmotic dilution and performance — Shiqiang Zou (O) *
- ECG Biometric Authentication Using a Dynamical Model — Abhijit Sarkar (O)*
- Integrated Photo-bioelectrochemical System for Bioenergy Production from Wastewater — Shuai Luo (O) *
GLC Room D
- Comprehensive Framework for Performance Based Seismic Assessment of Wood Shear Wall Structures — Jeena Jayamon (O) *
- Do Intergovernmental Transfers Influence Municipal Fiscal Sustainability? A Comparative Study of Detroit and New York City — Rongrong Wei (R) *
- No Wine for Me, Please: The Influence of Risk Perception on Local Policy — Henry Smart (O)
GLC Room G
- Scientific Explanation of Indeterministic Events — Kaetlin Taylor (O) *
- Exploring Engineering Faculty Members’ Experiences with University Technology Transfer and Commercialization (TTC) — Cory Hixson (O) *
- Investigation of Cellular Adhesion and Material Characterization on Keratin Coatings for Titanium Prosthetics — Alexis Trent (O) *
2pm-3pm
GLC Room A
- The effect of dietary phytoestrogen content on the development of systemic lupus erythematosus in the MRL/lpr mouse – Michael Edwards (O)
- The Slow Down Program: a mindfulness-based stress management and nutrition program for mothers of young children — Lauren Kennedy (O)
GLC Room B
- Model guided engineering of plant metabolism to increase cellulose production — Jiun Yen (O) *
- Nonintrusive Heart Rate Measurement: Promises and Advances in Psychophysiological Assesment of a Person — Abhijit Sarkar (O) *
- A Brucella abortus regulator, VtlR, and its role in Brucella intracellular survival — Lauren Sheehan (O) *
GLC Room D
- Costs of Meeting Water Quality Goals under Climate Change in Urbanizing Watersheds: The Case of Difficult Run, Virginia — Jonathon Giuffria (O) *
- Sheep performance, grazing behavior, and body temperature in silvopasture systems — Gabriel Pent (O) *
- Developing Computer Models for Radiation Induced Segregation in Materials — Christopher Nellis (O) *
GLC Room G
- The Hidden History of Women at Virginia Tech — Debra Skiles (O)
- Regulatory NLRs and Noncanonical NF-κB Signaling Disease in Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Colitis-Associated Cancer — Kristin Eden (O) *
- Osmotic microbial fuel cells: a new approach to wastewater treatment, clean water extraction and bioelectricity generation — Mohan Qin (O) *
3pm-4pm
GLC Room A
- Layers of Porous Superhydrophobic Surfaces for Robust Water Repellency — Farzad Ahmadi (O)
- Designing Bio-Inspired Fish-Like Robots — David Allen (O)
- Situating Augmented Reality in the K-12 Classroom — TeAirra Brown & Glenda Young (O)
GLC Room B
- Bio-Inspired Noise Control over a Forward Step in a Turbulent Boundary Layer — Anthony Millican (O)
- Epistemological Pluralism in Computer Education: Is it possible, and what does it look like? — Darren Maczka (O)
- Determining Breathing Frequency of Arapaima spp. for Improved Fishery Management in the Amazon — Gretchen Stokes (O)
GLC Room D
- Cocoa Increases Postprandial GLP-1 Response in Adults with Impaired Glucose Tolerance — Karen Strat (O) *
- Solving the mystery of Bermuda: A volcanic past triggered by melting a deep carbon reservoir — Sarah Mazza (O)
- Working in Harmony? The Impact of Team Composition On Team Effectiveness Over Time — Bryan Acton (O)
GLC Room G
- Improved Management of Acid Sulfate Soils for Sustainable Cultivation of Rice in Casamance, Senegal — Ndeye Diallo (O)
- Did it make you feel bad when you had to sit at the naughty table? The role of parent-child conversations about emotions in preschoolers’ emotion regulation — Erika Hernandez (O)
- What is an order? — Kelli Karcher (O)
4pm-5pm
GLC Room B
- Broadening Participation in Engineering Through Culturally Relevent Informal Learning — Darren Maczka (R)
- Interactive Learning Methods: Leveraging Personalized Learning and Augmented Reality — TeAirra Brown (R)
GLC Room F
- The Galileo Project — John Upthegrove (CI) *
Poster Presentations
1pm-3pm, MPR
- Synthesis and Characterization of a Sunlight Degradable Plastic — Kyle Arrington *
- Mental Constructions Formed in Finding the Derivative of a Function to a Function Power — Rachel Rupnow *
- CFD Simulation for Early Stage Architectural Design — Soo Jeong Jo *
- Egr1 recruits Tet1 to shape the brain methylome during early postnatal development — Zhixiong Sun *
- Effective Microbial Deactivation in Wastewater Effluent Using Fe3+-Saturated Montmorillonite — Chao Qin *
- A Study on the Hybrid Characteristics of “Public-ness” in Contemporary Urban Public Space — Soyoung Han *
- Developing genetically encoded eluorescent sensors for dynamic measurement of cytokinins — Sonia Ehivet *
- Microbial and chemical assessment of campus water filling stations and water fountains — Courtney Crist *
- Air Quality Dispersion Modeling Simulation, and its Application on Urban Air Quality Monitoring Site Selection in Changzhou City, CHINA — Wenzhuo Pan *
- Neurophysiological Correlates of Anxiety — Kyle Woisard
- Assessing of Cultural Landscape Value — Aylin Alisan *
- Stress hormones epinephrine and corticosterone affect productive infection of herpes simplex virus types 1 and 2 in primary neuronal cultures — Angela Ives *
- Productive Urban Greens: Types of Contemporary Community Gardens and People’s Motivations for Using Them — Sinan Kordon *
- Waste conversion into high-value chemicals using anaerobic digestion and algae cultivation — Pedro Ivo Guimaraes Braga da Silva *
- Classifying Youth Substance Use with Non-Invasive Questions — Alexandra Mellis *
- Improving Design Decision-Making Through Visual Comfort Evaluation-A Case Study — Dalia Hafiz *
- Meis1 negatively regulates vascularization following hind limb ischemia in c57bl/6 endothelial cell specific meis1-ko mice — Miao Chen *
- Utilizing Design For Six Sigma Framework To Implement Soft Skills In Construction Education — Jaser Mahasneh *
- Invasive mango-feeding fruit fly, Bactrocera dorsalis (Diptera: Tephritidae), in Senegal: Effect of organic insecticides (neem oil and Surround WP) on behavior and reproduction. — Assa Balayara *
- Design of Prince William County Landfill Learning Center — Archi Dasgupta *
- Boredom and the Brain — Michael Stafford *
- Rigorous Analytical Methods Development and Modeling to Predict Inhalation Exposure to 4-MCHM — Amanda Sain *
- Metacognitive Learning in the Foundation Design Lab — Shabnam Kavousi *
- Responses of Three Pearl Millet Varieties [Pennisetum Glaucum (L.) R. Br.] to Different Amendments in Salt-affected Soils in Senegal — Sekouna Diatta *
- Disability engineers: Why aren’t there more studies? — Martina Svyantek *
- What has been changed? –Comparing Government’s Attitude, Intervention Mode and Evaluation towards Community Gardens in 1930s and after 2000 — Dan Li *
- Inhibitory Effects of Cinnamon Oil and Main Component Trans-cinnamaldehyde in the Progression and Aggression of Breast Cancer Cells — Marc Thompson
- Identification of virulence mechanisms of Histophilus somni by whole genome sequencing and comparative genomics. — Shuo Huang
- Internal and external values ascribed to college major choice by students of color in Agricultural and Life Sciences — Rachelle Purnell *
- FEET: A real time Facial Expression Recognition system using the Kinect for ASD therapeutic Aid — Sherin Aly
- Hydrogen Production by Two-stage Conversion of Waste Sludge Using Combined Fermentation linked with Microbial Electrolysis Cell — Akshay Jain
- Initial Testing Of A Dual Activation and Deactivation Illumination System For Visualization Of Flow Using Phosphorescent Particles — Elizabeth Angel
- Identifying Meaningfulness in Video Games: A Content Analysis — Logan Blankenbeckler
- A flexible meso-micro scale stereolithography system for multimaterial additive manufacturing — Da Chen
- Computer Vision Assisted Water Quality Testing — Swazoo Claybon
- Hierarchical Hollow Metallic Micro-lattices Spanning 7 Orders of Magnitude in Structural Hierarchy — Huachen Cui
- Comparing reference transcriptome assembly approaches using RNA-Seq data from wild tomatoes — Chenming Cui
- Depth-based 3D Gesture Multi-Level Radial Menu for Virtual Object Manipulation — Matthew Davis
- Burdens, Benefits, Perceptions, and Planning: Developing a Toolkit for the Assessment of Environmental Justice in Transportation Planning — Allison Homer
- Transforming Traditional Teaching: A Case Study of Learner-Centered Teaching in China — Ming Li
- Still Last on the List: Examining patterns of economic distress in Appalachia– Camille M. Martineau, Valerie Thomas, Robert Oliver
- A stretch and hold experiment for a viscoelastic filament that shows thixotropic yield stress behavior – Holly Grant
- Molecular phylogenetics of the rare Laurel Creek millipede, Sigmoria whiteheadi, in Virginia — Jackson Means
- Perceptions of International student towards advising relationship in the US academic settings — Shreya Mitra
- Design for Youth Empowerment: Collaborative practices for building capacities for the transition to adulthood — Najla Mouchrek *
- Epha4 is a novel negative regulator of collateral formation and remodeling following stroke — Benjamin Okyere
- Endothelial-specific EphA4 negatively regulates native pial collateral formation and re-perfusion following hindlimb ischemia — Benjamin Okyere
- High-density Housing Choice and Preference: The Case of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia — Hamad Alsaiari
- Reprogramming bovine fibroblasts to pluripotency by fusion to mouse embryonic stem cells — Maria Cristina – Villafranca
- Soil Response to Amendments and Microtopography in a Virginia Coastal Plain Created Wetland — Emily Ott
7pm-8:15pm, GLC Auditorium
Keynote Speaker: Abhi Nemani
Immediately following conclusion of Keynote Speaker, GLC Auditorium.
Symposium Service:
8:15pm-9pm, MPR
Welcome speech by Dr. Amy Pruden
Reception for the Symposium & Expo presenters.