2018 ReSEARCH Dialogues

The 2018 ReSEARCH Dialogues conference was Tuesday April 3 and Wednesday April 4.

The conference showcases the scholarly and creative accomplishments of UTC’s undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, staff, and community partners through poster, podium, panel, and performance presentations. ReSEARCH Dialogues also includes 3 fast-paced pitch competitions for undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty or staff.

Schedule

Events on Tuesday April 3 highlighted undergraduate students' work and events on Wednesday April 4 highlighted graduate students' work. Faculty will present on both days and will participate in an Elevator Speech Competition on Wednesday! Events were held at the University Center.

Tuesday, April 3

Event	Time	University Center Room
Registration and Information	8:00 am - 4:00 pm	Tennessee Room Hallway
Undergraduate Student and Faculty Poster and Display Presentations	9:00 am - 11:00 am	Tennessee Room
Podium and Panel Presentations	9:00 am – 11:00 am	Breakout Rooms
Undergraduate Student and Faculty Performance Presentations	9:00 am – 11:00 am	Auditorium
Plenary Session: Lunch and Remarks	11:00 am - 12:30 pm	Chattanooga Room
Podium and Panel Presentations	12:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Breakout Rooms
Undergraduate Student and Faculty Performance Presentations	12:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Auditorium
Undergraduate Student and Faculty Poster and Display Presentations	1:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Tennessee Room
Undergraduate Lightning Round Presentation	3:00 pm - 4:30 pm	Auditorium

Wednesday, April 4

Event	Time	University Center Room
Registration and Information	8:00 am - 4:00 pm	Tennessee Room Hallway
Graduate Student and Faculty Poster and Display Presentations	9:00 am - 11:00 am	Tennessee Room
Podium and Panel Presentations	9:00 am – 11:00 am	Breakout Rooms
3-Minute Thesis (3MT^©) Competition	9:15 am – 10:45 am	Auditorium
Plenary Session: Lunch and Remarks	11:00 am - 12:30 pm	Chattanooga Room
Graduate Student and Faculty Performance Presentations	12:00 pm - 2:30 pm	Auditorium
Graduate Student and Faculty Poster and Display Presentations	1:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Tennessee Room
Podium and Panel Presentations	1:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Breakout Rooms
Elevator Speech Competition	3:00 pm - 4:30 pm	Auditorium
Reception	5:00 pm - 7:00 pm	Library - 4th Floor

Presenters

Posters

First Name	Last Name	Department	Title
David	Aborn	Biology, Geology and Environmental Science	Avian Window Casualties on the UTC Campus
Samantha	Adams	Political Science and Public Service	Framing Effects in a Competitive Environment: Black Lives Matter versus President Trump
Mukhlid	Alharbi	Electrical Engineering	The Body Charger
Jessica	Ammon	Biology, Geology and Environmental Science	Molecular monitoring of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in a hospital setting: Correlative study of patient and environmental isolates
Madi	Anderson	Health and Human Performance	Psychological Effects of Social Media vs. Walking
Kelsie	Anderson	Innovation Lab	Camp Kindergarten
Morgan	Andrews	Psychology	A 3 Factor Model of Child Witness Credibility
Culeta	Armstrong	School of Nursing	Use of STEPSforward Team-based Model and RN Outreach Program to decrease Hemoglobin A1Cs in patients with Diabetes
Nolan	Arnold	Psychology	Context and Implementation Intentions in Prospective Memory Tasks: An Eye-Tracking Experiment
Rachel	Ayers	Biology, Geology and Environmental Science	Changes in the Occurrence and Diversity of Fungal Entomopathogens across Tennessee Soil Types.
Kimberly	Bagley	Psychology	Personality and Cooperative Task Performance in Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) Dyads
Paul-Erik	Bakland	Biology, Geology and Environmental Science	PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF A MASTER'S THESIS EXAMINING THE PREVALENCE OF THE AMPHIBIAN CHYTRID FUNGUS (BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDS) IN TWO DIFFERENT HABITAT TYPES
Susan	Barlow	Physical Therapy	A Survey of Research Courses in United States DPT Program Curricula
Meagan	Barnett	Occupational Therapy	Examination of the Greenhouse Ministries Occupational Therapy Global Life Skills Assessment
Latara	Bates	Social, Cultural and Justice Studies	Research of Mental Illness within African Americans
Brooke	Bates	Psychology	Incremental Rehearsal: Data Analysis and Processes
Savanna	Beckner	Social, Cultural and Justice Studies	The Pursuit of Happiness: A Cross-cultural Study of Happiness and Contentment
Hayley	Beitel	Biology, Geology and Environmental Science	Characterization of Metamorphic Zones in the Tennessee Blue Ridge Using GIS and Digital Image Processing
Kristen	Black	Psychology	A team-based training for physical therapy students
Richard	Blanton	Biology, Geology and Environmental Science	Remotely Sensed Changes of Vegetation in Copper Basin, Tennessee
Reed	Boeger	Civil and Chemical Engineering	Studying the environmental persistence and virulence of Vibrio cholerae in marine and human host environmental conditions
Ryan	Boggs	Electrical Engineering	Radiation Effects in Silicon Photonic Devices
Erin	Boshers	Social Work	Improving No-Show Rates in a Community Health Center
Jamie	Bowers	Mechanical Engineering	Sixth Sense Art Table - A Freshman Engineering Design Project
Logan	Bowers	Social, Cultural and Justice Studies	Community Corrections Personnel Perceptions of Crime
Dillon	Brock	Psychology	The Influence of Empathy and Need for Cognition on Resilience
Hao	Brooks	Biology, Geology and Environmental Science	Changes in Ant Biodiversity Across an Urban Gradient
Stacey	Brooks	Management	Utilizing MIS to Understand Big Data
Kimberly	Brown	School of Nursing	Emotional Intelligence, It Matters
Zainab	Bukhari	Biology, Geology and Environmental Science	The Impact of humidity on gene expression in human skin
Kennedy	Bullock	HHP Sports and Leisure Outdoors	The Effects of Performance Anxiety on Climbers
Caitlin	Bullock	School Psychology	Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma: Implications for Indigenous Populations of the United States
Caitlin	Bullock	School Psychology	Oh, the Places We Could Go!: Dr. Seuss and the Development of Early Literacy Skills
Kirstie	Caiza	Social Work	Exploring Policy Knowledge and Experience from the Perspectives of Child Welfare and Foster Care Stakeholders
Cristina	Calderon	Social Work	Community Awareness of Human Trafficking: Student and Resident Perceptions
Brittany	Campbell Thomas	Biology, Geology and Environmental Science	Protein Abundance and Longevity Correlation in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae
Jenna	Cate	School of Nursing	Prior Registered Nurse Experience and Self-Perceived Confidence to Practice in the Nurse Practitioner Role: A Descriptive Correlational Study
Stylianos	Chatzimanolis	Biology, Geology, and Environmental Science	Beetles of the Tennessee Valley
Jin	Cho	Computer Science and Engineering	Non-Intrusive A/C Load Disaggregation Using Deep Learning
Megan	Clark	School of Nursing	Generational Differences In Biases and Attitudes Regarding Nurses with Neurocognitive Disorders
Kathleen	Clavin	Social Work	Foster Care Awareness of UTC Students, Faculty, and Staff
Jaila	Coker	Health and Human Performance	Are Students that are Involved in Intramural Athletics More Physically Active?
Sandy	Cole	Center for Community Career Education	Each One Reach One: Diversity in Teaching
Jacob	Coleman	Computer Science and Engineering	Community Trust Distribution in Vehicle Ad Hoc Networks
Morgan	Cooley	Social Work	Enhancing Supports to Foster Caregivers by Linking Personality Assessment to Coping
Bethany	Cowart	Physical Therapy	Effectiveness of Sockwell Compression Socks on Venous Blood Flow
Garner	Cox	Integrated Studies	Comparative Analysis of Meditative states in Urban vs Natural Environments
Bronte	Craig	School of Nursing	Human Papillomavirus: A Quantitative Analysis of Knowledge Between Vaccinated Versus Non-Vaccinated Persons
Aaron	Crawford	Mechanical Engineering	Curious About Poetry
Courtney	Crittenden	Social, Cultural and Justice Studies	Consensual sex relationships: How do faculty and students' opinions compare?
Christopher	Cunningham	Chemistry and Physics	3D Modeling of Supernovae
Pamela	Damron	School of Nursing	Medication Reconciliation: A Phenomenological Qualitative Project
Kelly	Daniels	Biology, Geology and Environmental Science	Comparing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to Traditional Field Methods in Surveying of Basking Riverine Turtles
Bailey	Davenport	School of Nursing	Fear of Failure in Nurses
Matt	Davis	Biology, Geology and Environmental Science	Are Low-income and Minority Children in Chattanooga Disproportionately Threatened by Early Exposure to Ambient Air Pollutants?
Ashley	DeGennaro	Interior Design	Design: Breaking the Box
Alyssa	DeWaele	Social, Cultural and Justice Studies	College, the Cult, and Chattanooga: UTC Students' Perceptions of New Religious Movements
Samantha	DiPeri	Social Work	Community Awareness of Domestic Violence Support Services
Luccas	Do Carmo	Chemistry and Physics	Preparation of Organometallic Co(III) Hydride Complexes Containing Bidentate Chiral Amine Ligands as Potential Transfer Hydrogenation Catalysts
Kiyler	Dowdy	Social Work	Hamilton County Head start Achievement Demographics
Emalaya	Downer	Humanities	Art Therapy and Station Eleven
Greg	Draeger	Electrical Engineering	Power ‘C’ LED Sign
Lauren	Dray	School of Education	Connecting Pediatric Cancer Patients to Their Classmates Through Technology
Kyra	Duke	Social Work	Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans+ (LGBT+) and Ally Awareness Survey
Mary Helen	Durland	School of Nursing	Empowering the Oppressed: Factors Related to the Advanced Education of Nurses
Hunter	Eberle	Civil and Chemical Engineering	Remote access to a chemical engineering and controls systems laboratory via internet of things
Amelia	Edwards	Psychology	Disconnect Between Motivational State and One's Beliefs in Goal Execution Ability
Lauren	Evans	School of Nursing	A Comparison of Learning Style Preferences of Undergraduate Nursing School Students and Educators
Cutina	Evans	School Psychology	Incremental Rehearsal with Story Writing
Jacob	Ewald	Chemistry and Physics	Fluorescence & UV-Vis Spectroscopy Studies of Quinone Induced Protein Modifications
Nancy	Fell	Physical Therapy	Hospital Discharge Disposition of Stroke Patients in Tennessee
Preston	Foerder	Psychology	Personality and Sociality in American Alligators at the Tennessee Aquarium
Sheana	Fox	Nursing	Peripheral Artery Disease Educational Intervention for Primary Care Staff: A Quality Improvement Initiative
Rachel	Frizzell	Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures	A Study of Gaulish Language and its Effects on the French Language
Connor	Frye	Chemistry and Physics	On the route to a cobalt(III) alkyl complex to study catalytic C-H activation: Synthesis, characterization, and reactivity of novel cobalt phosphite complexes
Andrea	Fuchs	Social Work	Assessing the Impact of Homeownership: A Habitat for Humanity Chattanooga Survey
Madison	Gaither	Accounting	The Role of Forensic Accounting in U.S. Counterterrorism Efforts
Evelina	Galas	Psychology	What is Found in an Influential Person?
Logan	Garrett	University Honors	A Brief Look at the Depiction of Women in the 21st Century Media
Alex	Gaylor	Athletic Training Program	Injury Prediction Screening for Upper and Lower Extremities in Collegiate Volleyball Players
Olivia	George	Civil and Chemical Engineering	An Experiment in Cardboard Pop-Up Cards
Mehran	Ghafari	Computer Science and Engineering	Develop a family tree algorithm to estimate yeast replicative lifespan from time-lapsed microfluidic images
Hannah	Gifford	Mechanical Engineering	Numerical Prediction of Flow in an S-Duct
Kathryn	Graeff	Psychology	The influence of political orientation on first impressions of personality: does geographic location matter?
Alexandra	Grant	Health and Human Performance	CAN A PHYSICAL ACTICITY INTERVENTION INCREASE MVPA IN MIDDLE SCHOOL ADOLESCENTS?
Julia	Greiner	Health and Human Performance	Relationship Between Feelings of Being Overwhelmed and Physical Activity Levels in College Students
Julia	Greiner	Health and Human Performance	SmokeFREE UTC
Sara	Grillo	Biology, Geology and Environmental Science	Food fights, fitness, and personality: Are behavioral traits linked to the outcome of food competition and do winners experience greater fitness benefits?
Sumith	Gunasekera	Mathematics	Estimating Youden Index under the Multivariate ROC Curve in the Presence of Missing Values for or the Classification of the Diseased and Healthy
Kimberly	Guo	Accounting	Rhetoric in Financial Reporting: Evaluation of ISA-720 and its Applicability to Auditing Standards in the United States
Itzel	Guzman Hernandez	Biology, Geology and Environmental Science	Ant Diet Preference In Urban Environments
Alex	Hagaman	Computer Science and Engineering	Developing Novel Classifiers for Predicting Anticancer Drug Activity
Kori	Hahn	Health and Human Performance	ARE PARENTS ACCURATELY GAUGING THEIR CHILD'S PHYSICAL ACTIVITY LEVELS?
Ramy	Hamzy	Electrical Engineering	Mitigating the Effect of High Penetration Solar Intermittency
June	Hanks	Physical Therapy	UTC Physical Therapy International Community Engagement Experience
Lainey	Harrison	Center for Community Career Education	CK, Now! (College Knowledge Now!) Elementary Collegiate Awareness
Jamie	Harvey	Health and Human Performance	Comparing Physical Activity among American Football Officials during a Game
Brittany	Haskell	School of Nursing	A Standardized Patient Facilitated Mental Health Simulation for Nurse Residents
Liz	Hathaway	Health and Human Performance	Physical Activity Engagement in First Year Versus Second Year College Students
Katey	Hayes	Psychology	What is Resilience? A better look at Depression and Resilience in a non-clinical population
Kirsten	Hein	Biology, Geology and Environmental Science	Implementing Early Screening Methods to Detect Phytophthora cinnamomi Resistance in First-Backcross Chinese-American Chestnut Hybrids
Kirsten	Hein	Biology, Geology and Environmental Science	Genomics of Senegalese Sole
Nycollette	Helms	Psychology	Sexism in the workplace? Capturing a recruiter's eye
Gina	Hendren	Management	Management Science and Big Data: A Text Mining Meta-Analysis
Tegan	Hendricks	Biology, Geology and Environmental Science	Comparative application of minimally invasive identification methods in Plethodon dorsalis and microhabitat analysis.
Kelley	Hensley	Social Work	Single Foster Parents
Josh	Herndon	Chemistry and Physics	Exogenous polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) promote changes in growth, phospholipid composition, membrane permeability and virulence phenotypes in Escherichia coli
Hannah	Hightower	Biology, Geology and Environmental Science	Tracking Cicada Susceptibility to Fungal Infection in Urban Habitats
Gabriel	Hill	Health and Human Performance	Success or Failure as a predictor of EEG-based Valence in Outdoor Activities
Keith	Hollingsworth	Computer Science and Engineering	Energy Anomaly Detection with Forecasting and Deep Learning
Hunter	Holzhauer	Finance	Student Managed Investment Learning Experience (SMILE) Fund
Resha	Howard	School of Nursing	Improving Inventory of Surgical Supplies in the Methodist University Hospital Operating Room
Mary	Howard	Psychology	Socialization and Problem-Solving in Domestic Cats (Felis catus)
Allison	Hughes	Health and Human Performance	Theta Burst Motivation in Rock Climbing
Nyssa	Hunt	Biology, Geology and Environmental Science	Development and Assessment of a Predictive Spatial Model for a Rare Tennessee Anuran: Barking Treefrog (Hyla gratiosa)
Rik	Hunter	English	Addressing Chattanooga's Food Desert in a Professional Writing Course
Natalie	Hurst	Psychology	Too Close to Help? The Influence of Student-Teacher Relationships on Future Approaches to Learning
Taylor	Hutson	Psychology	Men vs. Women: Sexism in Selection?
Shannon	Hyder	Mathematics	Explicit Formula for the Dirichlet L-Function
Hannah	Hytken	Social Work	Exploring the Impact of the Building Stable Lives Program on Participants Since Program Completion
Debbie	Ingram	Physical Therapy	Preferences of Physical Therapist Students Regarding Digital Textbook and Electronic Media Use
Hacker	Jessica	Psychology	Disconnect Between Motivational State and One's Beliefs in Goal Execution Ability
Laurel	Jobe	Biology, Geology and Environmental Science	Comparative Coral Health Analysis of Select Bonaire Dive Sites
Clayton	Jones	English	Citizen Science and Critical Reflection: Environmental Rhetoric and Composition II
Jasmine	Jones	Social Work	Conducting a Needs Assessment for the United Way Ocoee Region
Logan	Jones	School Psychology, Ed.S.	TouchPoints Solution in the Classroom: Making Inclusion Initiatives Possible for Student with Special Needs
Kyle	Jones	Biology, Geology and Environmental Science	An inventory, mapping, and analysis of cliffs within the South Cumberland Plateau region of Tennessee
Alex	Jordan	Social, Cultural and Justice Studies	Age and Academic Seriousness: Age at College Admission and its Effects on Academic Seriousness
Justin	Joshuva	Computer Science and Engineering	Privacy in Smart Meters: Preventing occupancy detection
Warda	Kahlot	School of Nursing	Levels of Perceived Test Anxiety in College Students Across Different Academic Majors
Hana	Karrar	Engineering Management and Technology	Girls to Engineers Network (GEN)
James	Kellar	School Psychology	RISE UP - The Importance of Small Group Instruction
Katie	Kerr	Social, Cultural and Justice Studies	Anglican and Episcopal views of Homosexuality
Olivia	Kerr	Social, Cultural and Justice Studies	Social Media Use and Engagement in Social Movements
Eun Young	Kim	Interior Design	Survey of Residents' Satisfaction with Housing and Community in the Neighborhoods of Chattanooga
Hope	Klug	Biology, Geology and Environmental Science	Using big data to address fundamental questions in ecology and evolution
Lingju	Kong	Mathematics	Solutions of a discrete fourth order boundary value problem
Neethu Kurien	Kurien	Chemistry and Physics	SDS PAGE Analysis of Modified Lysozyme by Substituted Benzoquinones and Naphthoquinones
Jonathan	Land	Computer Science and Engineering	Tor's Anonymizing Network: Uses, Misuses, and Routing Technique
John	Lawrence	Biology, Geology and Environmental Science	Intraspecific variation in social organization in Rodentia, a major mammalian order
Sara	Leach	Psychology	Empowering the Bystander: The Impact of Bystander Training on the Undergraduate Population at UTC
Jessica	Leath	Finance	A story on Bitcoin
Joy	Lewis	School of Nursing	Pain Management in the Post Cesarean Section Patient on Buprenorphine Therapy
Tammy	Lewis	School of Nursing	Novice Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Nurses, Mock Codes and Simulation
Yu	Liang	Computer Science and Engineering	Virtual Tai-Chi, a smart rehabilitation modality
Yu	Liang	Computer Science and Engineering	Virtual Tai-Chi, a smart rehabilitation modality
Emily	Lindsay	Biology, Geology and Environmental Science	Identification of methyl-accepting chemotaxis proteins involved in controlling the response of Vibrio cholerae to exogenous polyunsaturated fatty acids
Meleena	Livesay	Biology, Geology and Environmental Science	Invasive Species along Linear Corridors
Elliott	Louie	Mechanical Engineering	College and Community Research and Outreach with Additive Manufacturing
Mallory	Maddox	Social, Cultural and Justice Studies	The Feminization of Sociology and Social Work
Hannah Rose	Margavio	Civil and Chemical Engineering	Radiative Properties of Silica Aerogel
Nicolas	Mateo	Electrical Engineering	Robot Automation in LabVIEW
Anna	Matic	Social, Cultural and Justice Studies	College Students and Voting
Sarah	Matthews	Social Work	Experiences of Low-Income Children in a Faith-Based Afterschool Program
Marcus	Mauldin	Political Science and Public Service	Toward Understanding the Impacts of Chattanooga Food Deserts
Deborah	McAllister	School of Education	CRISP: Results of the Lego EV3 Robotics and Data-logging Project
Kate	McComiskey	Health and Human Performance	CONCURRENT VALIDITY OF THE MYMO PHYSICAL ACTIVITY MONITOR K. McComiskey, G.W. Heath and K.L. Peyer. Dept. of Health and Human Performance, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Chattanooga, TN 37411
Jenny	McDade	Social, Cultural and Justice Studies	Effectiveness of Sex Education in America
Katharine	McDonnell	Occupational Therapy	Quantifying Hand Range of Motion for Individuals with Arthritis when Using Adaptive Silverware
Grace	McKinney	Marketing and Entrepreneurship	Athletic Public Relations: Positive vs. Negative
Connor	McPherson	The Honors College Innovation Lab	Technical Education in Hamilton County High Schools
Erin	Melhorn	Occupational Therapy	Creating Medium and Low Tech Assistive Technology Devices
Laurie	Melnik	Southeast Center for Education in the Arts	Arts Learning Lab: Cultivating an Arts Learning Network Across the Southeast Region
Monica	Miles	Biology, Geology and Environmental Science	Intraspecific variation in social systems of Artiodactyla and Perissodactyla
Kayla	Millard	Social Work	Exploring Perceptions of Mental Health Stigma amongst Stakeholders of a Mental Health Court Program
Brandon	Mitchell	Social, Cultural and Justice Studies	Drug Perception: A Generational Gap
Raghda	Mohamed	Engineering Management and Technology	Community Design Studio
Raghda	Mohamed	Engineering Management and Technology	Building Renovation Costing with Building Information Modeling (BIM)
Robyn	Monroe	Social, Cultural and Justice Studies	How does the local Appalachian culture impact the educational and life outcomes of its inhabitants?
Emilie	Montgomery	Occupational Therapy	Examining the Relationship between the Dynavision and Cognition
Gabrielle	Morris	Biology, Geology and Environmental Science	Feeding habits of Atlantic Bluefin Tuna Thunnus Thynnus in the Strait of Gibraltar using stomach content analysis
Betsy	Myers	Physical Therapy	10-Meter Timed Hop Test in a Healthy Population
Jordan	Norris	Health and Human Performance	Offsite Fitness: workouts for the busy individual
Kaila	Northcutt	Social Work	Vicarious Trauma and Protective Factors of Mental Health Professionals
Jared	Odell	Biology, Geology and Environmental Science	Exploring Acclimatory and Adaptive Constraints to Commonness - The Case of Ruth's Golden Aster
Will	Orr	Occupational Therapy	Maintaining Occupational Engagement in the Presence of Extensor Carpi Ulnaris Subluxation
Celina	Partida	Health and Human Performance	Determining The Impact Of Fitness Zones In Low-Income Area Parks
Rachel	Peters	Chemistry and Physics	The Sound of Photoacoustics: Making Music with Light
Alyssa	Phillips	Social Work	Foster Parents' Experience Working with Guardian Ad Litem
Tessa	Piety	Social, Cultural and Justice Studies	Revenge Pornography
Bryant	Plumlee	Social, Cultural and Justice Studies	University Student Perceptions of Body-Worn Cameras and Police
Gretchen	Potts	Chemistry and Physics	Using 3D printing as a problem solving tool in undergraduate research
Melissa	Powell	Health and Human Performance	Community-Based Cooking Skills and Nutrition Education Videography Project
Jarid	Prahl	Biology, Geology and Environmental Science	The Comparison of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis Presence in Amphibians and Crayfish, Along with Whether the Natural Microbiota of Host Individuals and the Water Quality of their Environment has an Impact Upon the Levels of Infection.
Mary	Prince	STEM Education	Factors in Secondary Education that Influence a Major Choice in College
Christopher	Purvis	Civil and Chemical Engineering	Studying Effects of Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids on Aeromonas salmonicida (italics) Pathogenicity and Persistence
Murad Al	Qurishee	Civil and Chemical Engineering	Detection of crack of bridges using CNN and UAV
Beth	Rachlin	Psychology	Investigating Parallel Mediators of the Relation Between Social Skills and Internalizing Behavior Problems in Children
Kandace	Reed	Social Work	Examining Foster Parent Satisfaction and Continuation
Donald	Reising	Electrical Engineering	Unlocking the Secrets of RF-DNA Fingerprinting
Mamie	Richie	Social, Cultural and Justice Studies	Defining "home" for children removed from biological care.
Whitney	Ridley	Social, Cultural and Justice Studies	Sentencing Disparities among Immigrants: A Comparison of Sentencing among Different Ethnic Groups
Scott	Rinehart	Electrical Engineering	Distance Vectored CrazyFlie Swarm Formations
Evan	Roan	Social Work	A break from fostering
Will	Robinson	Chemistry and Physics	Studies Toward Bismuth-Catalyzed Meso-Epoxide Openings With Silyl Enol Ether Nucleophiles
Katherine	Rogers	Psychology	Prejudice Moderates First Impressions of Personality
Kaila	Rogers	Psychology	Detecting Poor Effort in Undergraduates: An Incentivized Approach
Caryn	Ross	Biology, Geology and Environmental Science	The Effects of Urban Growth on Avian Diversity: A GIS and Citizen Science Study
Kathryn	Rouse	Computer Science and Engineering	Quantifying the Calorie Restriction Effect on Lifespan in Saccharomyces cerevisiae using a Binomial Aging Model
Kathryn	Rouse	Computer Science and Engineering	Curiosity and Creativity - Finding College Age Appropriate Fidget Spinners
Morgan	Royer	Psychology	The Effects of Therapy Dogs on Preoperative Anxiety
Gladys	Ruiz-Malca	Health and Human Performance	The Influence of Concussion History, Neuromechanical Performance, and Games Played on Injury Hazard over the Course of a Football Season
Jacqueline	Rush	Social Work	Adverse Childhood Experiences, Resilience, and Coping of Foster Parents
Zachary	Rush	Social, Cultural and Justice Studies	Is Corporal Punishment the Best Punishment? A Millennial Perspective
Jamie	Russell	School of Nursing	Sexual Assault Education on a College Campus: A Trauma-Sensitive Approach
Valerie	Rutledge	University Wide Pedagogy Class for New Faculty	New Faculty Pedagogy Course
Christian	Saenz	Psychology	Help, I Don't Understand! Social Factors as Determinants of Academic Help-Seeking
Heather	Sandefur	School of Nursing	How Demonstration Methods Affect Nursing Students' Comprehension of Clinical Skills
Aruna	Saram	Mathematics	Estimating the Youden Index Under the Multivariate Roc Curve in the Presence of Missing Values for the Classification of the Diseased and Healthy
Victoria	Schaaf	School of Nursing	A Study of Marital Satisfaction in Students in a Nursing Program
Steven	Schmitt	Computer Science and Engineering	Towards a Smart, Dynamic, and Adaptable Network Design Using Virtual Slicing over Software-Defined Network
Alex	Schwartz	Biology, Geology and Environmental Science	Osmoregulation and Immunology of Gilthead Sea Bream (Sparus aurata) in Two Different Salinities
Amanda	Schwartz	Psychology	Linguistic Analysis of Written Language Used By Young Adults With and Without Invisible Disabilities
Ryan	Shamblin	Physical Therapy	Attitudes, Beliefs, Knowledge, and Perceived Barriers to Evidence-based Practice of Rehabilitation Professionals Working in Long-term Care Facilities
Mark	Sharrar	Mechanical Engineering	Horse Arena Water Sprayer - A Freshman Engineering Design Project
Alex	Shea	Psychology	Your Family Looks Better Than Mine: Self-Esteem and Appraisal of Idealized Familial Relationships on Facebook
John	Shelton	Biology, Geology and Environmental Science	Augustin Gattinger: The Pioneer Botanist
Simar	Singh	Electrical Engineering	The Response of Fuzzy Electronics to Ionizing Radiation
Rachel	Smith	Communication	Is there a formula to getting a hit song?
Hannah	Smith	Honors College	Curious About Calligraphy
Catherine	Smith	Physical Therapy	Impact of Rhythmic Auditory Stimulation on Physical Activity Levels and Ambulatory Behaviors of Children with Special Needs
Catherine	Smith	Physical Therapy	Using Gesture-Activated Digital Art Displays to Increase Movement Excursion in Children
Melan	Smith-Francis	School of Nursing	Group Prenatal Care: Implementing Change to Reduce Adverse Outcomes
Lauren	Solomon	Art	Testing the Storytelling Abilities of Inanimate Objects
Damon	Sowers	Athletic Training Program	Association of Neuromechanical Responsiveness with Time-Loss Lower Extremity Injury History among Olympic Athletes
Karie	Spangler	Social Work	Effectiveness of Mental Health Court
Jacob	Strimaitis	Psychology	Conditional Reflection and the Religion Reflection Scale: How Familiarity with Different Domains Influences Cognitive Reflection
Erika	Stuart	Health and Human Performance	FRUITS/VEGETABLES CONSUMPTION ASSOCIATED WITH PHYSICAL ACTIVITY ENGAGEMENT IN COLLEGE STUDENTS
Shay	Stutts	Health and Human Performance	Comparing Intensity Levels of Exercise between an Outdoor Fitness Park and a Standard Indoor Facility
Hector	Suarez	Computer Science and Engineering	Securing GPR data for Use in Smart Cities
Erik	Swanson	Marketing and Entrepreneurship	Storytelling With Pen and Paint
Tracy	Taphouse	Occupational Therapy	The Experience of Utilizing Community Development to Establish a Community Mental Health Occupational Therapy Program
Tamarah	Taylor	Social Work	Disciplinary Strategies Among Foster Parents of Problematic Youth
J. Drake	Terry	Psychology	A noble task: Testing an operational model of clergy occupational health
Brittany	Thomas	Biology, Geology and Environmental Science	Protein Abundance and Longevity Correlation in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae
Lady Rebecca	Thomas of Rous	School of Nursing	Increasing Awareness of the Second Victim Phenomenon
Cooper	Thome	Civil and Chemical Engineering	Design of 3D Printed Microreactors for Biodiesel Production
Cooper	Thome	Civil and Chemical Engineering	Creation of a 3D Printable Game
Michael	Thompson	History	Urban Slavery Fall Break Study Trip, Charleston, South Carolina
Eleanor	Thompson	Counselor Education: School Counseling	Improving Empathy in Children: Interactive Read Aloud As A Counseling Intervention
David	Towery	Social Work	UTC Field Supervision Assessment
Braxton	Towry	Electrical Engineering	Feedback Control of a Haptic System using NI MyRIO Hardware
Laura	Tyndall	School of Nursing	Implementation of an Anesthesia Specific Infection Control and Prevention Practice Protocol
Sarah	Upton	Social, Cultural and Justice Studies	Examining the Impact of Peer Mentorship on the College Success of Students on the Autism Spectrum
Danielle	Vandergriff	School of Nursing	Let's Quit! Evidence-Based Nicotine Dependence Treatment
Daniel	Velasquez	Computer Science and Engineering	All-In-One Urban Mobility Mapping
Ha Le	Vo	Electrical Engineering	Implementation of Packet Based Communication with Pilot Protection at Tennessee Valley Authority
Thomas	Vorwerk	Psychology	Context and Implementation Intentions in Prospective Memory Tasks: An Eye-Tracking Experiment
Keith	Wachter	Marketing and Entrepreneurship	Solution Scholars & Co.
Sara-anne	Waggoner	Art	SPE National 2018 Conference
Katherine	Walsh	School of Nursing	Measures of Resilience and Entitlement in a Sample of Baccalaureate Nursing Students
Endong	Wang	Engineering Management and Technology	3D Printing in Construction: Positive and Negative Impacts
Amanda	Warner	Psychology	Detecting deception: The accuracy of the good judge
A'Jacia	Wash	Psychology	A Historical Context of Religious Beliefs and Medical Treatment
Alexandra	Waters	Chemistry and Physics	Experimental Studies of Transport Properties of Novel Amorphous Semiconducting Fe-Tb-Dy-O Thin Films
Caroline	White	Social, Cultural and Justice Studies	Magazine Media Influence
Michelle	White	History	Catherine of Braganza: Charles II's Neglected Queen
Thomas	Wiegand	Biology, Geology and Environmental Science	Network Analysis as a method of visualizing connectivity in ecological concepts
Gary	Wilkerson	Health and Human Performance	Association of Interrelated Neuromechanical Factors with Injury Occurrence among College Football Players
Joy	Williams	Center for Community Career Education	PAWS (Post Secondary Awareness With Success)
Alexis	Williams	Health and Human Performance	Perception-Action Coupling Assessment and Training in ROTC Cadets
Evan	Wilson	Athletic Training Program	Identification of Professional Values for the Athletic Training Profession: A Pilot Study
Eric	Worth	Social Work	Health Department: Smoking Cessation in Public Housing
Haven	Wright	Psychology	Educating Youth on Local Minority Histories
Jonathan	Yeager	Philosophy and Religion	REL 4910: Religion, Spirituality, and Fly Fishing

Panels and Podiums

First Name	Last Name	Department	Title
Alison	Allerton	Music	In a Graveyard: A Choral Concert Honoring the Legacy of Hugo Distler
Courtney	Alley	Biology, Geology and Environmental Science	Investigation into the Status of Non-native Plant Species in Tennessee Using the SERNEC Herbarium Database
Arben	Asllani	Management	A word-level text mining methodology for discourse analysis: identifying themes, trends and beyond.
DeAnna	Beasley	Biology, Geology and Environmental Science	Intentional Observation in Art and Science
Jennifer	Boyd	Biology, Geology and Environmental Science	Reasons for Rarity? Exploring Acclimatory and Adaptive Constraints to Commonness
Leanora	Brown	Economics	The Incidence of Crime on Industry-Level Foreign Direct Investment: An Assessment of OECD Member Count
Caitlin	Bullock	School Psychology	Cross-Cultural Transmission of Trauma: Implications for Indigenous Populations of the United States
Kristan	Cartwright	Masters of Business Administration (Concentration: Business Analytics)	Strengthening College Retention Rates: A Study of the Efficacy of Complete College America
Christopher	Clark	Humanities	The Power of Appearance in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Basil	Considine	Music; Writing and Communication Center	The Making of "The Lady with the Harp": Eliza Ridgely (1803-1867), Thomas Sully, and Francophilia in the Early United States
Blake	Corman	N/A (Community Partner or Non-UTC Student)	Utopia and Contemporary Society: A Model for Sustainable Continuance
Avery	Cowan	Civil and Chemical Engineering	Characterizing Engineered Nanomaterials in Surface Water Systems
Arden	Craft	Art	The Effects of Lead Poisoning In Famous Artists
Mirel	Crumb	Art	Strange-Making
Allison	Culp	School of Nursing	Parental Resistance to Childhood Vaccination Within the United States Using Data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)
Margaret	Dempsey	Psychology	Still Asking the Same Questions?: A Hundred Years of Religious Conversion Literature
Jared	Dirghalli	Psychology	Quantifying and Qualifying the Links that Bind
Aniekan	Ebiefung	Mathematics	Economic Applications of the Vertical Generalized Linear Complementarity Problem
Ashley	Ewald	Health and Human Performance	Journey to Wellness: A Faculty and Staff Wellness Program at UTC
Brian	Feltus	Biology, Geology and Environmental Science	An Evaluation of Congressional Public Statements on Taxation
Cody	Flowers	Civil and Chemical Engineering	Wurtzite-Phase Quaternary Chalcogenide Nanoparticles: Synthesis and Applications for Solar Energy Conversion
Preston	Foerder	Psychology	Insights from specialized spiders into the study of animal cognition
Jim	Frierson	Honors College	NewsViz: Visualization opportunities in local newspaper reporting
Katrina	Garcia	Marketing and Entrepreneurship	Innovation in Higher Business Education
Jose-Luis	Gastañaga	Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures	Calisto's Options
Olivia	George	Civil and Chemical Engineering	Synthesis and Transport of Nanodrugs
Olivia	George	Civil and Chemical Engineering	Targeting and Killing Melanoma Cancer Cells Using Photoactivated Nanoparticles
Alexandra	Grant	Health and Human Performance	Innovative Integration of Movement: Utilizing Dance to Increase Physical Activity Among Adolescents
Emily	Gray	English	Shakespeare's Bible: The Influence of the Bible on the Writings of William Shakespeare
Sumith	Gunasekera	Mathematics	On Estimating the Reliability in a Multicomponent System Based On Progressively-censored Data From Chen
Sumith	Gunasekera	Mathematics	Inference for the Pareto Reliability under Progressive Censoring with Random Removals
Hao-Bo	Guo	Computer Science and Engineering	Architectures of Biological Networks Evaluated by Gene Characteristics and Phenotypes
Kori	Hahn	Health and Human Performance	Fighting Food Deserts with Photography: A Community-Based Participatory Research Approach.
Katie	Hargrave	Art	"History Repeats Itself" exhibition at Jacksonville University
Bradley	Harris	Civil and Chemical Engineering	Exploring the impact of the marine-to-host environmental transition on persistence and pathogenicity in Vibrio cholerae using a design of experiments approach
James	Harris	Philosophy and Religion	Post-Marxism and Factors in the Analysis of Classes
Katey	Hayes	Psychology	What is Resilience? A better look at Depression and Resilience in a non-clinical population
Shewanee	Howard-Baptiste	Health and Human Performance	The “Best Town Ever”: Where Cheap Meat and Sugary Snacks Divide Cultures
Matt	Joplin	Electrical Engineering	Radiation Effects on Electronics: Measuring the Effect of Geometry on Sensitivity to High-Energy Particles
Madeline	Kalke	Health and Human Performance	Mocs Fuel: Nutrition and Student-Athlete Performance
Adrienne	Kaufmann	English	Navigating the Double Bind: The Rhetorical Techniques of Margery Kempe and Aimee Semple McPherson
Alaina	Krakowiak	Biology, Geology and Environmental Science	Orchard Knob: A Peephole into the Historical Limestone Glades of Chattanooga
Andi	Kur	Biology, Geology and Environmental Science	On the Effectiveness of Illustration in Modern Botanical Keys
Gwendolyn Spring	Kurtz	Women's Studies	Serving To Shelter: A Social Justice Service Learning Opportunity To Help Shelter Victims of Domestic Violence and Homelessness
Elliott	Louie	Mechanical Engineering	On the Mechanical Properties of 3D Printed Parts
Cameron	Mackey	Psychology	Atheist, Humanist, Skeptic, Agnostic, or something else entirely: The problem of measuring the non-religious
Victoria	Mak	Biology, Geology and Environmental Science	The Impact of humidity on gene expression in human skin
Chuck	Margraves	Mechanical Engineering	Zero Energy Buildings
Kaila	Northcutt	Social Work	Vicarious Trauma and Protective Factors of Mental Health Professionals
Andrew	O'Brien	Art	Indexing the City: Photography, Artist's Books, and the Everyday
Dolores	O'Keefe	Social, Cultural and Justice Studies	Resilience From Being Marginalized As “The Other”: How are Lesbians From The Gay Rights and The Women's Rights Generation Facing Old Age?
Maxwell	Omwenga	Computer Science and Engineering	Software-Defined Networking Control Plane Challenges and Countermeasures
Gavin	Page	Biology, Geology and Environmental Science	Walden: A Daoist Perspective
Jeannie	Parker Beard	English	Get Creative With Multimodal Composition
Bharat	Patel	Electrical Engineering	Ionizing Radiation Effects Spectroscopy (IRES) for Analysis of Total-Ionizing Dose Degradation in Voltage-Controlled Oscillators
Olivette	Petersen	Psychology	When does creativity curb likeableness in music?
Hong	Qin	Computer Science and Engineering	Controllability of complex gene networks and its impact on longevity
Sean	Richards	Biology, Geology and Environmental Science	Concentrations of Lead in Hamilton County Public School Drinking Water
Aruna	Saram	Mathematics	Bayesian Inference for the Common Location Parameter of Several Shifted-Exponential Populations
Aruna	Saram	Mathematics	Optimal Cut-Point and Its Corresponding Youden Index for Two-Parameter Exponentially Distributed Pooled Samples
Mina	Sartipi	Computer Science and Engineering	Advanced Wireless Communication Infrastructure for Smart City Applications
Rachel	Smith	Health and Human Performance	The Physical-Psychosocial Cycle: A Dance Injury Theory
Alexander	Spanjer	Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures	How to Catch a Unicorn and Other Fantastical Encounters in a Medieval Bestiary
Kidambi	Sreenivas	Mechanical Engineering	Towards aeroacoustic simulations of turbomachinery
Donald	Sweet	History	What we should know about China?
Tyler	Teachworth	Biology, Geology and Environmental Science	Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP): A Fundamental Opportunity to End HIV
Rebekah	Thompson	Computer Science and Engineering	All-in-One Urban Mobility Mapping
James	Trimble	Computational Engineering	Using Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles to Fight Malaria
Samuel	Vogel	Computer Science and Engineering	Video Games and Humanities: Comparison of Dystopia in Bloodborne and The Handmaid's Tale
Christina	Vogel	Art	Humble and Heroic: New Perceptual Paintings
Lakmali	Weerasena	Mathematics	Local-search algorithm for multi-objective combinatorial optimization problems
Council of Scholars			Council of Scholars Coffee: Government Funding: What it is, how to get it, and why it is important.
Amanda	Wintersieck	Political Science and Public Service	Fact-Checking the 2016 Presidential Election & the Role of Selective Exposure
Savanna	Wooten	Biology, Geology and Environmental Science	Conservation Physiology of the Rare White Fringeless Orchid
Chayu	Yang	Mathematics	On the intrinsic dynamics of bacteria in waterborne infections

Performances

First Name	Last Name	Department	Title
Samantha	Burns	Theatre and Speech	Researching your Scenes and Monologues and Applying It
Basil	Considine	Music; Writing and Communication Center	Songs from "The Princess Pirate Party", a new musical for children
Ronda	Ford	Music	The Emperor And The Bird Of Paradise presented by flutist Dr. Ronda Ford and narrator Professor Steve Ray
Jeannie	Hacker-Cerulean	Theatre and Speech	UTC Wish Speeches
Jonathan	McNair	Music	Music and Social Change: "O, King" and "The Legacy Show"

Event Videos

UTC RAVE Alert

2018 ReSEARCH Dialogues

Schedule

Presenters

Event Videos

Undergraduate Lightning Round

Graduate 3 Minute Thesis

Faculty Elevator Pitch

Research Dialogues

Research Dialogues