Francine Abe ' 03 and Sara Miller ' 03

S (alphabetical order) Francine Abe '03 and Sara Miller '03 Shryril O’Steen, Biology Sex and Survival: An Evolutionary Approach to the Study of the Guppy, Poecilia Reticulata Trinidad guppies, Poecilia reticulata, are used as a model system to study the process of evolution because their unique natural environment has allowed variable traits to evolve in separate populations of high and low predation. We are using the guppy to research the evolution of anti-predatory and mating behaviors of fish. While most anti-predator research has assumed that swim speed is a crucial factor in prey-escape performance, many studies stress the importance of behavior over speed. Our experiments test the relative importance of swim speed and escape tactics to survival. One of the theories of sexual selection, a component of natural selection, is that the female mates with a specific male because his good genes will be passed on to her offspring, increasing their chance for survival. Male Poecilia reticulata would signal their good genes to females through their courtship displays. Our experiments test two hypotheses: what are the specific traits, kinematic and behavioral, linking mating displays and predator evasion? And do females prefer to mate with males whose courtship display is linked to successful predator evasion? Evan Ackerman '05 Gene Clough, Geology and Physics Using Remote Sensing Data to Compare Impact Craters on Mars and Venus Impact craters are formed when meteoroids collide with planetary masses. They are important because their structures reveal surface and subsurface properties, such as surface resiliency and lithospheric thickness. In this project, remote sensing data were used to analyze and compare the characteristics of impact craters on Mars and Venus. Crater sizes were measured, and visual observations were made on the characteristics of the craters and the surrounding terrain. Measurements were taken from optical images from the Global Surveyor spacecraft and the Viking spacecraft at Mars, and radar maps from the Magellan spacecraft at Venus. Both visual and statistical analysis of the data supported initial hypotheses about crater type transition. Additional visual analysis showed recent crater-created fracturing and lava flows on Venus, which may be an indication of a relatively thin lithosphere. Craters with fluidic ejecta on Mars may indicate past surface or subsurface water or ice deposits. Andew Akre '03 William Pope.L, Theater Inside/Outside A solo performance thesis that looks at the lives of a few individuals and experiences having to do with fear. The performance contains adult themes. Stella Aniagyei '03 Tom Wenzel, Chemistry Carboxymethylated Cyclodextrins as Chiral NMR Shift Reagents Cyclodextrins are torus-shaped compounds comprised of six or more glucose rings bonded together by 1 4glycosidic linkages. Beta-cyclodextrin is made of seven glucose units and has relatively poor solubility in water. Attachment of ionic groups is known to enhance the solubility and therefore enhance NMR studies of inclusion formation of beta-CDs. Attempts were made to synthesize primaryand secondarysubstituted carboxymethylated beta-CDs. Secondary derivatives with increasing degrees of substitution were successfully prepared. Synthesis of primary carboxymethylated derivatives is currently underway. The effectiveness of the primaryand secondarysubstituted carboxymethylated beta-CDs and their lanthanide complexes as chiral NMR solvating agents will be described. Anthropology Panel Heather Lindkvist, Anthropology Lewiston Lead Awareness Project This past semester, students participated in a service learning project for the anthropology class “Medicine and Culture.” The goal of this project was to determine the reason for the lack of blood lead testing in children residing in census tracks 201 and 204. The project entailed administering a survey to residents in the aforementioned census tracts. The findings will be presented to the board members of the Auburn/ Lewiston Lead Hazard Control Program at the end of the semester. The long term goal is to help the Lewiston/Auburn communities increase lead awareness so that all parents will realize the necessity to get their children’s blood lead levels tested. In addition to the group PowerPoint presentation, each panelist will discuss the research question he/she has developed as part of this project. Erin Bednarek '05 Aron Bell '04 (group leader) Jessica Celentano '05 Stacy Counter '03 Jason Rafferty '05 Meghan Thornton '05 Alyssa Asack '04 Margaret Imber, Classical and Medieval Studies The Aristocratic Athenian Wife Ancient Athenian society consisted of a highly patriarchal system, marked by explicit competition for male honor. This honor, and obverse dishonor of a man can be analyzed through the very interesting and complex sexual roles within society, particularly within the relationship between husband and wife. “On the Death of Eratosthenes,” written by the great logographer, Lysias, is a case that deals specifically with the roles and relations between husband and wife, as well as the laws and political dynamics that arose when a man’s wife was seduced and his honor was put on the line. A thorough analysis of the case and Virginia Hunter’s book, Policing Athens, provide a challenge to the traditional view of the role of the aristocratic Athenian wife. A careful analysis provides evidence that the ancient aristocratic Athenian wife wielded significant power and control over the household and her husband. Smadar Baković '03 Mishael Caspi, Religion Palestinian Poetry in the 20 Century My presentation will briefly explore Palestinian poetry as it emerged after the creation of the State of Israel in May 1948. I will read two Palestinian poems and discuss their significance. I will then read two PreIsraeli Jewish poems from the 11 century in order to compare and contrast them with Palestinian poetry. In particular, I will make the point, Palestinian and Pre-Israeli Jewish poems are very similar, especially in the yearning the poets express for the very same plot of land. Amanda Bellino '03 Charles V. Carnegie, Anthropology A Documentary Film Entitled Surviving Identity I would like to submit a documentary film entitled “Surviving Identity” made last year by Eduardo Crespo and myself. This film features the lives of two Bates students, Alake Pilgrim and Taiki Kubota and discusses the concept of ethnic and racial identity in the United States. These two students illustrate their experiences both at home and in the context of the United States and the Bates campus. Most importantly, Taiki and Alake discuss how racial and ethnic identity is a constantly changing aspect of an individual, which may be interpreted differently by different people, depending on different times and in different political, social and economic contexts. Lesley Boakye-Danquah '03 John Kelsey, Psychology and Neuroscience An Animal Model of Schizophrenia Schizophrenia is a psychiatric disorder estimated to affect at least 2 million Americans (Ellenbroek & Cools, 2000). The pathology of the disease may be due to an abundance of dopamine (DA) and an associated decrease in glutamate circulation in the mesolimbic dopamine system of the brain (Andreason & Olsen, 1982). Schizophrenic symptoms can be produced artificially by injections of the glutamate receptor antagonist phencyclidine (PCP). Recent evidence suggests that schizophrenics are at an increased risk of drug addiction (Chambers et al., 2001). Since drugs of addiction also enhance DA release in the mesolimbic DA system, these findings suggest an overlap in pathophysiology. The logic behind this thesis was to determine if manipulations that enhance drug addiction, e.g. lesion to the medial septum (Kesley & Grabarek, 1999), would also enhance schizophrenia, presumably by enhancing DA activity in the mesolimbic pathway. Consistent with this hypothesis we found that medial septal lesions produced behavioral effects in a hole board apparatus (HBA) set up, similar to the effects of PCP administration. This finding implicates the medial septal area as one of the key neurosubstrates affected in schizophrenic pathology and a useful site of intervention in producing animal models of the disease. Christina Bouris '03 James Parakilas, Music Western Music’s Other: World Music in Context This thesis explores how world music is represented and appropriated in Western culture. More specifically, it will be studying the position of world music in local academic and commercial contexts. Encounters with world music are directly shaped by the ways it is presented. Interviews with college professors and commercial world music presenters reveal how world music is represented within the unique context of southern Maine. Edward Said’s approach in his book Orientalism provides the foundation for this analysis. As the Orient has been and continues to be exoticized and labeled as an ‘Other,’ so too have persons, cultures and musics within the world music category. In the end, this thesis points towards better ways to study and present musical cultures from the position Said calls “a libertarian, or a nonrepressive and nonmanipulative, perspective.” Brandon Breen '03 and Andrew Walsh '03 Shryil O’Steen, Biology Guppy Escape Behaviors and Athleticism: Avoiding Being an Appetizer Andrew Walsh and I will be discussing aspects of guppy predator avoidance via a power point presentation. We will introduce the topic with information on guppies and their predators in their natural environment, and present background literature concerning guppy anti-predator behaviors and tactics, guppy swimming performance, and the role of predation on shaping the evolution of guppies. Next we will discuss our research, which looked at the connection between survivorship (in a predator encounter situation) and various behavioral tactics, as well as the connection between survivorship and previously recorded endurance abilities. Swita Charansomboon '04, Jill Lesser '03, Katie Reinhalter '02, and Hannah Jones, Wheaton College Kathryn Graff Low, Psychology Interactive Computer-Based Prevention of Body Image Disturbance The present study is long term follow up of a trial of Student Bodies, an eight week internet-based interactive program for prevention of body image disturbance. Previous research has demonstrated the effectiveness of such programs when they are used in conjunction with a clinically moderated discussion group (Winzelberg, 2000). The present study tested the effectiveness of the computer-based program with and without an accompanying internet-based group or clinical moderation over a period of eight months. Seventy-two undergraduate women were randomized to four conditions: Student Bodies with a moderated discussion; online intervention with an unmoderated discussion group; online intervention alone; and a control group. At eight month follow up, MANOVA revealed no significant differences on eating or body image measures between groups exposed to the program, although the unmoderated discussion condition tended to have the least concerns across domains. These data suggest that the computer-based program was just as effective without a clinical moderator or adjunct discussion groups. Outcomes for women receiving the Student Bodies intervention were significantly better than for control participants, however. Results suggest that interactive computer-based education about body image, nutrition and exercise may be sufficient to significantly reduce body image disturbance over an eight month period. Chalmers Congdon '03 and Justin Gorham '03 Rachel Austin, Chemistry The Photocatalytic Effect of Silver and Zeolites on Carbaryl Describes the rate at which different silver catalysts decompose the pesticide carbaryl when exposed to ultraviolet light and how they differ according to percentage of silver loading and catalyst type. Classical and Medieval Studies Panel Lisa Maurizio, Classical and Medieval Studies Everything You Wanted to Know about Psychoanalysis but Were Afraid to Ask Ovid We, the members of CM/WS 219: Greek Myths and the Psychology of Gender, will present a panel in which we analyze the connection between mythology and the modern discipline of psychoanalysis. In particular we demonstrate how myths from Ovid’s Metamorphoses and the work of Donald W. Winnicott illuminate each other. That is, as Adam Phillips writes, “What distinguishes the creative writer is that--like the dreamer and the playing child--he has found a way of rendering unacceptable desires into shareable form.” Myth is that shareable form par excellence and we will discuss how both Ovid and Winnicott understand and represent unacceptable desires, past and present. Michelle Gomperts '05: Winnicott’s Failing Mother-Mirror in Greek Myths Jennifer Hanley '05: Compliancy in Arachne as Revealed through Winnicott Dara Kidder '03: Winnicott’s Artist and Daedalus Taylor Miles '05 and Elizabeth Santy '06: Apollo and Daphne: Turning a Woman into an Object Kim Neeb '03: Mother-Mirroring in Narcissus and Echo Amanda Seadler '05: Introduction to Psychoanalysis and Myth Naama Zohn '05: Transformation as Flight Caitlin Cook '03 Steve Hochstadt, History Motherhood against the Monstrous: Patterns of Mothers’ Reactions to Concentration Camp Hardships In “Motherhood against the Monstrous,” I explore individual acts of resistance by mothers to the various threats of concentration camp existence in the Holocaust. Among the most prominent functions of concentration camps were the consistent assaults on both the lives and the moral and social frameworks of prisoners. These violations included separation of family members and the creation of a destructively competitive atmosphere which threatened traditional models of social dependency (e.g., the mother-child relationship). As such, I contend that any effort to counteract methods employed by the Nazis to enforce these purposes constitutes significant resistance. My analysis of oral histories and memoirs of concentration camp survivors shows that mothers frequently made decisions about their lives and those of their children in the camps. These decisions reflected values and expectations which vastly exceeded the limited interest of self-survival often categorically assigned to concentration camp inmates. In order to emphasize the importance of the actual drive to resist, I examine cases with varying outcomes. In addition, I discuss the relevance of the “sheep to the slaughter” stereotype in several of its forms, and how many mothers demonstrated priorities that were influenced but not defined by the Nazis. Sarah Cremer '03 Shepley Ross, Mathematics Mind Your P’s and Q’s A study of dynamical systems uses the orbit and bifurcation diagrams to examine the long-term behavior of particular sequences of numbers, called orbits. An orbit is the list of numbers generated by repeatedly using the output of a function as its input in a “feedback loop.” We discuss properties, similarities, and differences of orbit and bifurcation diagrams to better understand the complicated nature of these orbits. Henry Crosby '05 Margaret Imber, Classical and Medieval Studies Litigation in Ancient Athens As part of a panel, I will present a paper on the trial of an Athenian citizen. The citizen was charged with murder after he killed his wife’s lover. My paper will examine the Athenian conceptions of honor and revenge, using the homicide case as a reference. Erika Cyr '03, Aurora Dibner '05, Cara Howieson '05 and Jessica Otis '05 Gregory Anderson, Biology Land Use Influences a White Pine Population at Range Pond State Park This poster will present a Biology 270 class project investigating the growth and spacing patterns of a white pine population in a dominantly white pine forest at Range Pond State Park, Poland, Maine. The presentation will address the age and recruitment patterns of the whole pine population, as well as primary and secondary growth characteristics for all the major tree species in the forest. Benjamin Daggett '03 Baltasar Fra-Molinero, Spanish The Resurrection of the Word in Eduardo Galeano In this the much hailed “Age of Information,” human societies have achieved a previously unimaginable capacity to communicate with one another. Although these new technologies of communication hold tremendous promise for dialogue, they all too often serve the interest of the select few who control them and the nature of the information which they present. Eduardo Galeano is a writer and social observer who, with refined eloquence, unabashedly denounces mass-media constructs of the world and exposes them for their falsehoods. Environmental Studies Poster Session Curtis Bohlen, Environmental Studies Mapping and GIS Class Project Students in ENVR 217, Mapping and GIS, are required to prepare a poster relating to a mapping project. The posters presented at the Mount David Summit represent the products of that effort. The map project offers students the opportunity to tackle the practical problems that crop up as they apply GIS technology to a particular area of interest. Both the subject matter of the project and its form varies from student to student. The mapping and geographical analysis tools students have had to use therefore also vary from project to project. Most students develop one or more maps that take a geographic look at particular environmental, geological, social, or economic phenomena. Others have chosen to collect, annotate, and organize geographic data related to student or faculty research. A few students have chosen to explore GIS technology by developing rather idiosyncratic maps of things that one might not think of showing in map form. Lauren Atkinson '04: Geographic Range of the Cog Railway Smoke Emissions Andrew Beckington '04: Database and Map of Nanibia’s Conservancies and Wildlife Erin Beirne '05: Zoning Laws and Geologic Phenomena of Ireland Rachel Booty '04: Climate Patterns in New England in Relation to Production of Maple Syrup Mike Buffo '04: Whitebark Pine Seedlings in North Cascades National Park William Cartun '05: Average Gas Prices across the United States (Including GDP Figures) Tayler Clarke '06: Map of Land Use of La Selva Biological Reserve in Costa Rica (OTS) Daniel Fraiman '03: Reforming Russia Daniel Frost '05: Sandy River and Rangeley Lakes Railroad Hannah Gaines '03: The Impact of Patch Retention on Ground Beetle Communities in Western Maine Isaac Lowenthal '03: Cigarette Butt Receptacles on the Bates Campus Elisabeth Markus '03: The Evolution of Ditches on Morse River Marsh Karen Moore '04: A Study of Callahan Mine and the Progression of Soil Pollution and Water Quality in Hancock County, Maine Brian O’Reilly '03: U.S. Military Presence and Economic Stability Morgan Perlson '03: Rangeley Lakes Scenic Byway Lydia Petell '03: Exploring the National Gap Analysis Program Dan Pettit '04: Dog Business Adam Reid '05: F4 Folds in the Presidential Range Charles Rodda '05: GIS Mapping for the Androscoggin Land Trust: A Continuing ServiceLearning Fellowship Project Gregory Rosenthal '05: Untitled Event Colin Schless '04: Distribution of Wealth: Ski Areas versus Toxic Waste Dumps Hillary Schwab '04: Geographical Representation of Fire and Vegetation in Kruger National Park, South Africa Charles Simpson '03: Mapping the Reintroduction of Wolves in the Yellowstone Area Josh Stoll '05: Thorncrag Bird Sanctuary Eben Syptikowski '05: Economic Feasibility of a Maine North Woods National Park and Preserve Sarita Fellows '04 and Meredith Mennitt '05 Ellen Seeling, Theater Costume Designs We will present our costume designs and design process from our “Costume Design” class and “Introduction to Design” class.