College of Liberal & Creative Arts Undergraduate Research Showcase

Thursday, May 11, 2017, 11:00 am to 4:00 pm

Image of red boxes and kites from Undergraduate Research Showcase poster

The Committee for Undergraduate Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity hosts the first College of Liberal & Creative Arts Undergraduate Research Showcase. Celebrate student projects from across the University, including posters, performances and presentations. Reception: 4pm - 6pm. Winners will be announced at the reception. Light refreshments will be served. Free.

Location:

Seven Hills Conference Center

Directions:

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Contact:

Gitanjali Shahani

E-mail:

gshahani@sfsu.edu

Event extras:

URSCA 2017

Download program (pdf)

Showcase schedule

May 11, 2017
11:00am–6:00pm
Seven Hills Conference Center

Presentations: 11:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
Music Performances: 4:15 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
Reception and Awards and snacks: 4:30 p.m.–6:00 p.m.

Prizes

URSCA Award for Best Project ($1,000)
URSCA Award for Faculty Sponsor ($500)
URSCA Second Place Award for Best Project ($500)
URSCA Award for Best in Genre ($200/genre)

Presentations

Mt. Davidson/Twin Peaks Room

11:00–12:15

Adapting Shakespeare

"Law and Order: MOV"
- Christina Skammel
- Michael Ruiz
- Tiffany Hsieh
- Elizabeth Afeworki
- Randall Pederson
- Lauren Ibarrientos

"Coming Soon: Measure for Measure the Movie"
- Vienna Godwin
- James Hall
- Mimi Willmer
- Madison Brady
- James Youngs
- Safia Msami
- Noruel Manalili
- Jordan Linsky
- Jasmine Campos

"Playing the Tempest"
- Mason Hartwell
- Annie Gieser
- Myka Macaraeg
- Jeremie Storost

"Survivor: The Tempest"
- Cristal Alamillo
- Aleesha Lange
- Bradley Penner
- Viviana Ontiveros
- Myah Overstreet
- Sydney Andrews
- Kayla Rodriguez
- Ariana James

"Evil in the Mediterranean: A Tale of Love, Jealousy, and Murder in Cyprus."
- Andrea Rodriguez
- Daniel Chiu
- Ann Guy
- Brittany Burwick
- Natasha Forsberg
- Fernando Mendoza

1:00–1:45

Key Terms in Postcolonial Studies

"Diaspora"
- Kaitlyn Nunez
- Martha Sebastian
- Fernando Mendoza
- Colin Donnelly
- Herschel Rojas
- Octavio Montiel
- Sandy Karkkar

"Cultural Appropriation"
- Marivic Victoria
- Cielo Garibay
- Chris Villalta
- Adam Matvya
- Annie Rhinehart

"Historiographic Metafiction"
- Diego Gonzalez
- Sierra Moreno
- Emily Downey
- Ceneca Jackson
- Aisha Rodriguez

2:00–2:40

Liberal Studies Senior Culminating Experience: Interdisciplinary Research Proposal

Jacob Havey
Max Mayorga
Rosalia Patanag

2:40–3:10

Politics and Policy

Geoffrey Ramirez, “Violators of Every Right? Analyzing the Ku Klux Klan in 1920's Fresno”
Teagan Bullock, “Bioethical Complexity in California’s End of Life Option Act”

3:15-3:25

Spoken-Word Poetry

Kalina Vitela, "Home"

3:30-4:00

Global Shakespeare: Senior Seminar Projects

Russian/Telegraph Hill Room

11:00–12:00

History and Politics

David Hlusak, “Better it be When the Moon is Full: The Ancient Roman Goddess Diana and the Conception of the Witches’ Sabbath in the Sixteenth Century”
David Williams, “Defoe and Piracy, Beyond the Novel: A Study of Captain Singleton as a Publication for the De-Romanticization of Pirates at the End of the Golden Age”
Kathleen Manuel, “Borders: The Mechanism of (In)Security”
Ericka Guevara, “The Securitization of US Immigration Policy”

12:30–1:45

Linguistics

Madeline Thompson & Oscar Patzan, “The Impact of Syntax on TESOL”
Nicole Michelle Washington, “Speech Recognition”
Andrew O'Connor-Watts & Olivia Vallejo, “Whistled Languages”
Angie Garcia & Amanda Robinson, “What Google Books Ngram Corpus Reveals about Adjective Order in English”
Alex Lenarsky, “The Virtual Resistance: Gender Inversion (Just Between us Grrrls)”

2:20–3:25

Exploring the Canon in Early Modern Philosophy

Christopher Hernandez
Monique Martinez
Logan Maples
Houman Emami
Nematullah Jalloh

Philosophy

Christopher Hernandez
Monique Martinez
Logan Maples
Houman Emami
Nematullah Jalloh

Posters, Design Projects, and Visual Installations/Other

In the Foyer

12:00–4:00

Annotating Austen

Jihane Abdelhadi
Sabrina Barton
Lupita Cruz Cardenas
Arlen Cuevas
Nicelle Delos Reyes
Cate Dion-Staebell
Victoria Ferrari
Juan Garcia
Rodney Gavino
Kyra Heck
Elora Hinckley
Stephanie Hinckley
Jaden Kilmer
Lauren Konrai
Kendra Lappin
Amanda Lee
Katherine Lowden
LoriAnne Manalo
Kayla Marcopulos
Serena McNair
Ritika Narayanan
Arianna Ordonez
Amanda Perry
Dottie Pratchard
Andy Rodriguez
Marin Rodriguez

2:00–4:00

"Sutro Review: SF State Journal for Undergraduate Composition."

Student contributors and journal display

Nob Hill Room

11:00-4:00

"Adolescent Social Worlds: A Literary Inquiry"

August Braddock
Venus Cayabyab
Blake Cram
Thara Foster
Kristina Garrett
Gary Hallford
Michelle Lee
Kylie Madson
Cheyenne Ochoa
Danielle Rehmann
Ka Wing Tsang
Brandi Van Dinter

"Historical Self Portraits Inspired by Film"

Students from CINE 212: Film History II

"Digital Fine Arts Frontiers: Mass Customization Textiles and Laser Enabled Fine Art"

Aishya Coffey
Keith Evans
Jason Henry
Joanna Lara
Alex Martinez
Jordan Nunes
Karina Rodriquez
Lily Sauer
Jeremiah Shanholtzer
Rachel Stalie
Mikelia Tyrrell
Daniel Velasquez

"Senior Design Projects:"

Ricardo Baltazar
Torii Burnett, “Leave No Trace 7 Principles Campaign: Responsibly Enjoying the Outdoors”
Laura Gutierrez, “COMMUNITY Learning Environments: Involvement of Low Income Youth in Redesigning Their Learning Environment”
Luz Mendoza, “eyeLand: Improving Vision & Quality of Life for Children with Down Syndrome”
Phi Nguyen, “ParkIN:Solutions for SF Parking”
Emiko Osaka, “LOST & FOUND Wayfinding for the Muni Metro Powell Station Tourist”
Remdell Quiambao, “MakerHUB: Let’s invent tomorrow together”
Monica Rodriguez, “Sexual Violence Prevention & Awareness @SFSU”
Eunyoung Shin, "Life Outside The Home”

Stanford Design Challenge "Innovating for Aging in Place"

Lamar Pi, Vanessa Ramos, Adrienne Trio, and Justin Wong: “M O D U: The universal multipurpose household tray designed to promote independence while aging in place”

Design Working Group

Sienna Owyang and Karen Loccisano, “LCA Web Development Process Diagram”
Reem Essayli, Amanda Higgs, Sophia Hoggatt, Jared Javier, Erin Kim, Ivy Li, William Lowe, Nella Ocampo, Emiko Osaka, Durojaiye Salaam, Bianca Tamburrino-Hasan, Paulina Zepeda: “Theatre and Dance: Design of Season Promotional Materials for 2016-17”

Upcycled Lamps

Corey Blevins and Carolyn Nguyen, “Upcycle Sattelight”
Cassandra Tu and Justin Sisk, “Flex Torch”
Eric Simsomgphong and Eric Tam, “Nova Prime Lamp”
Charyse Goodlow, Andrew La, and Isabell Serrano, “Table Light”
Erica Rigney and Jacob McAdam, “Retired Skateboards + Lamps”
Melony Perez and Ina Quijano, “Lamp Idea”
Jerzy Bamberger and Zachary Bizzarro, “Bad Lamps”
David Wiener and Nick Corona, “Lamp”

Finding Women in European History

Students from Hist 347: Women in Modern Europe

Family Foodways: Telling Family Histories Through Food

Francisco Buenrostro, Jr.
Brooke Ashley Forrester
Angelica Gonzalez
Elia Gonzalez
Susie Kang
Timor Kazimirov
Charles Leipziger
Manuel Najera
Christopher Ogle
Rachel Royce
Ronnie Ry
Rebecca Scott
David Vasheghani
Eddie Williams

Love, Sexuality, and History in Action

Students from Hist 313: Comparative History of Love and Sexuality

Critical Thinking, History, and Zombies

Lea Boghosian, "Vanity in Film"
George Butler, "Social Behaviors in The Last of Us"
Madeline Carter, "The Zombie Complex: Corporeal Reality - Night of the Living Dead"
Andrea Fonseca, "Public Health and Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials"
Jackson Guilfoil, "The Undead and Science: Reanimator"
Jasmine Gunnell, "Mad Max and Anarcha-Feminism"
Gabbi Jay, "South Park’s Analysis of Class Conflict and Consumerism"
Rebecca Lee, "Voodoo and Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island"
Cindy Magana, "Moral Obligation and Zombieland"
Jolie McCumber, "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies… and Feminism"
Eillad Mesbah, "Zombieland Capitalism"
Kate Napoli, "Violence and Abuse in Zebulon Finch"
Molly Pendergast, "Fear the Walking Dead: Communism Succeeding Capitalism"
Shawnthor Ramos, "Human Nature and Train to Busan"
Rachel Ruber, "We Are Our Own Worst Enemy: Xenophobia and The Walking Dead"
Adrianna Scalzo, "Does Love Conquer All?: Warm Bodies"
Julianne Silva, "28 Days Later and Man’s Destruction of the Earth"
Alissa Stevenson, "Santa Clarita Diet Food Ethics"
Hailee Van Horn, "Marvel Zombies and Police Brutality"

Historical Understandings of Our Relationship to Science and the Environment

Thomas Capello, Jonathan Lau, Daniel Lumbang, Marlo Sandoval, Jesse Sutterley, "Agent Orange"
Amanda Ache, Alex Allamanno, Amanda Campbell, Nathan McCanne, Noah Scandrette, Victoria Stuhr, "Chien-Shiung Wu"
Paolo Cerna, Brad Haga, Marco Perez, Jonathan Stolan, Monica Villa, "Theodore Roosevelt"
Artsem Holdvekht, Michael Landrum, Christian Molina, Chad Monticelli, Mitchell Mylius, Geoffrey Ramirez, Jonathan Tuason, "Aldo Leopold: American Conservationist"
Eli Beutel, Michael Cheung, Olivia Coombs, Sabria Hassan, Amber Ulrich, Grant Vogenthaler, "The Man, the Myth, the Rainbow Trout: Livingston Stone"
Matthew Ho, Geetinder Lachhar, Ilyanna Marin, Viet Nguyen, Mariah Panely, Kevin Veliz, "Carl Sagan"

Independent Posters

Alexandra Conrad, "Three-Headed Hound of the Moon: A Comparative Look at the Roles of Hecate in the Ancient and Modern Worlds"
Rachel Royce, "Grub to Gourmet: Baseball Concession as Indication of Socioeconomic Issues in San Francisco"

2:00-4:00

"Three Postcards: Embroidery as Political Tool and Personal Expression"

Jessica Andas
Gina Buckley
Chanel Marie Cox
Amy Castaneda Huerta
June McCaughey
Dominique Aquino Garcia
Anosha Ghorchian
Christine Huynh
Jenny Louie
Taylor Alexis Rose Pelstring
Elizabeth May Person
Alice Paulina Titus
Leticia Vasquez
Emily Gerstner

4:15 PM

Members of the Lyric Theatre class, School of Theatre and Dance

Jenah Wagoner- I Miss the Mountains (Next to Normal).
Chelsea Carruesco- Moments in the Woods (Into the Woods)
Danya El-Kurd- When He Sees Me (Waitress)
Maya Phillips- I'm Here (The Color Purple)

Acknowledgements

Judges:

Bruce Avery (Theater and Dance)
Kathleen DeGuzman (English)
Trevor Getz (History)
Diem Ho (IDEO)
Teresa Pratt (English)
Joy Viveros (Fellowships Office)
Jacob Zellmer (Philosophy),
Laura Wayth (Theater and Dance)

URSCA Committee Members

Gitanjali G Shahani (English, Committee Chair)
Laura Lisy-Wagner (History)
Jessica Mankus (Office of Research & Sponsored Programs)
Joshua Singer (Design)
Justin Tiwald (Philosophy)
Laura Wayth (Theatre & Dance)