Keynote Speaker:
Stephen O’Rourke, PhD, received his BA in psychology from SUNY New
Paltz in 1991. He was the valedictorian of his graduating class. He obtained
his MA in psychology from SUNY New Paltz in 1994. From there, he entered
a PhD program in social/personality psychology at SUNY Albany, where he received
a prestigious presidential fellowship. He graduated in 2000 after completing
a dissertation examining several broad personality variables in the context
of ‘self-discrepancy theory.’ After serving as a visiting lecturer
in the psychology department at SUNY New Paltz for a year, Dr. O’Rourke
accepted a position as an assistant professor in the psychology department
at the College of New Rochelle. He currently teaches several classes, including
Personality Psychology and Statistics. He also is conducting research on
several topics including the adult attachment process, which concerns qualitative
differences in how people form bonds with intimate others into adulthood.
A NOVEL DEVICE TO RECORD THE DIRECTIONAL HEADING OF THE FRESHWATER CRAYFISH
(Procambarus clarkii).Rebecca Faulds (Dr. Steven Jury, Biology)
DETECTION OF IL-2 mRNA EXPRESSION IN PHA ACTIVATED T-LYMPHOCYTES VS. NON-ACTIVATED
CELLS USING RT-PCR. David Sela (Dr. Maureen Morrow, Biology)
RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA (RAPD) ANALYSIS OF PHYTOPHTHORA ISOLATES
April J. Atkins (Dr. Teresa E. Snyder-Leiby, Biology)
EXTRACTION AND EVALUATION OF THE ANTIMICROBIAL AND ANTIOXIDANT PROPERTIES
OF THE ESSENTIAL OIL OBTAINED FROM PINUS STROBUS.Dave Ricci (Preeti Dhar
and Teresa Snyder-Leiby, Chemistry and Biology)
INVESTIGATIONS OF ANTIMICROBIAL AND ANTIOXIDANT PROPERTIES OF PINUS STROBUS
BARK EXTRACTS Dylan Jennings (Drs. Teresa Snyder-Leiby and Preeti Dhar, Biology
and Chemistry)
EXPLORING THE ANTIMICROBIAL AND ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITIES OF PINUS STROBUS ROOT
EXTRACTS Michael T. Lambert (Drs. Teresa Snyder-Leiby and Preeti Dhar, Biology
and Chemistry)
EXTRACTION AND EVALUATION OF THE ANTIMICROBIAL AND ANTIOXIDANT PROPERTIES
OF THE ESSENTIAL OILS OBTAINED FROM CITRUS LIMON AND CITRUS SINENSIS Eric
Torgerson (Preeti Dhar and Teresa Snyder-Leiby, Chemistry and Biology)
MECHANISTIC STUDY OF ARENE DISPLACEMENT FROM RU(II) WITH AN ANCILLARY NITRO
LIGAND Christina La Bruyere, Martina Kim, Craig Seablom (Daniel A. Freedman,
Chemistry)
SYNTHESIS OF [Pt(CNR)2Cl2] AND [Pt(PEt3)2(CNR)Cl] Alexander Falber (Daniel
A. Freedman, Chemistry)
SYNTHSIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF Ru(II)(bpy)(Tp)NO2 COMPLEXES Chandra E.
Wymer, Christina La bruyere, (Daniel A. Freedman, Chemistry)
ELECTRON TRANSFER IN BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS: HEMOGLOBINS AS REDUCING AGENTS.
Abdulabasit Luke and Ulysses Ayala (Dr. John P. Harrington, Chemistry)
THE COLORING PROBLEM AND ITS APPLICATION IN WAVELENGTH ROUTING AND ASSIGNMENT
ON BINARY TREES Jiangbo Ning (Professor Keqin Li, Computer Science)
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TALES AS OLD AS TIME: THE MORAL LESSONS OF THE BEAUTY AND THE BEAST STORY
FROM THE ORIGINAL CUPID AND PSYCHE TO THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY VERSION AND
DOWN TO THE CONTEMPORARY DISNEY ANIMATION” Janel H. Licis (Dr. Ernelle
Fife, English)
VISIONS OF THE IDIGENOUS PEOPLE IN THE SOUTH-AMERICAN NOVEL Carmen Navarro
(Professor Rafael Saavedra Hernandez) Foreing Languages.
GEOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS OF THE MINNEWASKA INLIER, MINNEWASKA STATE PARK AND
MOHONK PRESERVES, SHAWANGUNK MOUNTAINS, ULSTER COUNTY, NEW YORK Jansyn, Sara
M. (Waines, Russell H., Geological Sciences)
BASIN CHARACTERISTICS, STREAM MEASUREMENTS AND WATER QUALITY FOR SHORT TERM
LOW FLOW CONDITIONS IN A HUDSON RIVER TRIBUTARY (CRUM ELBOX CREEK), DUTCHESS
COUNTY, NEW YORK. Pratt, Gerry (Prof. Russell H. Waines, Dept. of Geological
Sciences)
BEDROCK AND SURFICIAL GEOLOGY OF SOILS SURVEY MAP #40 (U.S.D.A. 1981), VICINITY
TOWN OF HAMPTONBURG, ORANGE COUNTY, NEW YORK. Jonathan David Ross (Professor
Russell H. Waines, Department of Geological Sciences)
EXAMINING COLLEGE FRESHMEN ADAPTATION:PREDICTING STRENGTH OF SELF-EFFICACY
FROM SOURCES OF SELF-EFFICACY Jessica Detlefsen (Maryalice Citera, Psychology)
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PERSONALITY TRAIT OBSERVABILITY AND SELF-OTHER PERCEPTION
Amy Lingenfelter, Andrew Lehr, Sonia Park (Dr. Glenn Geher, Psychology)
EXAMINATION STRESS AND COPING STRATEGIES AMONG U.S. AND U.K. STUDENTS: A
CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON. Cheryl Oliver and Sarah Brennan (Dr. Doug Maynard & Dr.
Ray Schwarz, Psychology)
THE EFFECTS OF EXERCISE ON SUBJECTIVE SEXUAL DESIRE Heather Downey (Giordana
Grossi, Psychology)
PERCEPTIONS OF THE COSTS OF RAISING OFFPSPRING AND THE PREDICTION OF MATING
RELEVANT OUTCOMES Christian Nunez, Kristin Renstrom, Juan Romero, (Glenn
Geher, Psychology)
WHITE STUDENTS’ NEGATIVE ATTITUDES TOWARDS RACE AS PREDICTORS OF LOW
AWARENESS OF RACISM AND REDUCED LIKELIHOOD FOR INTERRACIAL INTERACTION Konstantinos
Zampopoulos (Dr. Jennifer Combs, Psychology)
THE CRAWL – THE SHRAPNEL OF TELEVISION NEWS COVERAGE? Tiana Maher and
Dr. Pat Sullivan (Public Communication)
SOCIAL SUPPORT AND COMMUNITY STRUCTURE AT THE NEW YORK STATE RENNISANCE FAIRE
Jes Peters (Anne Roschelle, Sociology)
THE ENVIRONMENT: ATTITUDES AND AWARENESS Sarah Trimpe (Peter Kaufman, Sociology)
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