Talk Schedule
Talks will take place in the Campus Center (Room 129AB), and the Math-Science Building (Rooms 101, 104, 304 and 306). Poster sessions will take place in the Stubblefield Center.
A pdf version of the schedule is available by clicking the Talk Session Schedule button:
Talk Session A: Campus Center, Room 129AB
Agriculture, Food & Renewable Resources / Information, Computing & Communication / Biological Sciences
| Time | Talk Number | Title | Author(s) |
| 2 p.m. | 1 | Location, Location, Location: Cimarron County, Oklahoma and the Dust Bowl. | Steve Kite |
| 2:15 p.m. | 2 | Community and Collaboration: Home Demonstration Clubs and Women’s Responses to the Dust Bowl in Cimarron County, Oklahoma | Shelly Lemons |
| 2:30 p.m. | 3 | Resisting Corporatization and Colonization with Ancient Seeds | Daniel Maher |
| 2:45 p.m. | 53 | Real-time Android Malware Detection using Efficient Machine Learning Features | Emilio Soriano Chavez & Donghoon Kim |
| 3 p.m. | 54 | Techniques to Detect Fake Profiles on Social Media Using the New Age Algorithms - A Survey | AKM Rubaiyat Reza Habib, Edidiong Elijah Akpan, Bhaskar Ghosh, & Indira Kalyan Dutta |
| 3:15 p.m. | 15 Minute Break | ||
| 3:30 p.m. | 55 | A Study on the Usage of Java Type Inference in Open Source Proj | Dat O, Tran Nguyen, Isaac La Ferney, Donghoon Kim |
| 3:45 p.m. | 27 | Distal Urogenital Anatomy and Epithelial Morphology in the Male Cajun Chorus Frog, Pseudacris fouquettei (Anura: Hylidae) | Stan Trauth |
| 4 p.m. | 23 | New and Noteworthy Angiosperm Records from Arkansas I | Brett Serviss, Michael Brotherton, Renn Tumlison, & James Peck |
| 4:15 p.m. | 28 | Ultrastructure of the Biflagellated Spermatozoon in the Western Siren, Siren nettingi (Caudata: Sirenidae), using Scanning Electron Microscopy | Stan Trauth |
| 4:30 p.m. | 24 | New and Noteworthy Angiosperm Records from Arkansas II | Brett Serviss, Tricia Serviss, Jonathan Hardage, & James Peck |
| 4:45 p.m. | 29 | Pleated Plasma Membrane Complex in Spermatids of the Western Siren, Siren nettingi (Caudata: Sirenidae) | Stan Trauth |
Talk Session B: Math-Science Building, Room 101
Biological Sciences
| Time | Talk Number | Title | Author(s) |
| 2 p.m. | 32 | Party all night, sleep all day: Urbanization shifts nocturnal activity patterns of Central Arkansas nine-banded armadillos (Dasypus novemcinctus) | Zachary J. West, Andrew T. Clark, Quynh H. Nguyen, Katherine C. Nierstheimer, Hannia C. Valero, Elizabeth C. Williams, Kirsten P. Bartlow, Christopher R. Middaugh, Kimberly L. Sparks, & Maureen R. McClung |
| 2:15 p.m. | 5 | Use of Google Earth Streetview to evaluate occurrence of nesting by Cliff Swallows (Petrochelidon pyrronhota) at bridges and overpasses in eastern Arkansas. | Zoie Autrey & Renn Tumlison |
| 2:30 p.m. | 6 | The effect of glucose enrichment on the survival and stress resistance of C. elegans models of Huntington Disease | London Blackwell, Joey Sharp, Gisselle Hernandez, & Mindy Farris |
| 2:45 p.m. | 7 | Eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) diel activity does not shift in urban environments in response to human activity | Andrew T. Clark, Quynh H. Nguyen, Katherine C. Nierstheimer, Hannia C. Valero, Zachary J. West, Elizabeth C. Williams, Kirsten P. Bartlow, Christopher R. Middaugh, Kimberly L. Sparks, & Maureen R. McClung |
| 3 p.m. | 8 | Photogrammetry reveals Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana) body size increases with urbanization in Central Arkansas | Andrew T. Clark, Quynh H. Nguyen, Katherine C. Nierstheimer, Hannia C. Valero, Zachary J. West, Elizabeth C. Williams, Kirsten P. Bartlow, Christopher R. Middaugh, Kimberly L. Sparks, & Maureen R. McClung |
| 3:15 p.m. | 15 Minute Break | ||
| 3:30 p.m. | 30 | Red light, green light: Legacy impacts of historically redlined areas on bird and mammal biodiversity in Central Arkansas | Hannia C. Valero, Andrew T. Clark, Quynh H. Nguyen, Katherine C. Nierstheimer, Zachary J. West, Elizabeth C. Williams, Kirsten P. Bartlow, Christopher R. Middaugh, Kimberly L. Sparks, & Maureen R. McClung |
| 3:45 p.m. | 10 | Comparison of Cytotoxicity of Rabid Wolf Spider Venom in Vertebrate and Invertebrate Cell Culture | Martina Gooden, Ryan Stork, & Steve Moore |
| 4 p.m. | 11 | Mussel assemblages from Limpkin shell middens in Arka | Gary R. Graves |
| 4:15 p.m. | 16 | Geographical Variation in Songs of Bachman’s Sparrow (Peucaea aestivalis) | Le Nguyen, Karla Donas, Jack Jackson & Ragupathy Kannan |
| 4:30 p.m. | 13 | A Review of Snake Distributions in Arkansas with Special Emphasis on Contributions from Citizen Science | Ryan Jacobs, Nelly Ortiz, J. D. Willson, Kory G. Roberts, Jack Jackson & Ragupathy Kannan |
| 4:45 p.m. | 14 | Rapid expansion of the Limpkin (Aramus guarauna) across North America | Rajaa Kaddoura, Alina Alam, Jack Jackson & Ragupathy Kannan |
Talk Session C: Math-Science Building, Room 104
Biological Sciences / Chemistry
| Time | Talk Number | Title | Author(s) |
| 2 p.m. | 31 | Fish Species within Sager Creek | T.S. Wakefield |
| 2:15 p.m. | 4 | The Effects of Caffeine on Glycine Max (Soybean) Proteogenomics | Jana Abuelem & Mohammad Goodarzi |
| 2:30 p.m. | 33 | The Effect of Fertilization on Defoliation Recovery in River Birch and Northern Red Oak | Erin Wiley & Joseph Dunlap |
| 2:45 p.m. | 34 | Bat Verses Ant: The Next Chapter, First Report of Bat / Ant Interactions in Arkansas | J.D. Wilhide, D.B. Sasse, & R.P. Kelso |
| 3 p.m. | 35 | Thermo-Chemical Comparison of PAHs, Carbohydrates, and Fatty Acids | Kohl Kervin & Subha Pratihar |
| 3:15 p.m. | 15 Minute Break | ||
| 3:30 p.m. | 36 | Study of Solvent-Free, Microwave-Assisted Ring-Opening Reactions of Phenyl Glycidyl Ether with Azoles | MaryGrace McAfee, Joshua Pack, & Brian Walker |
| 3:45 p.m. | 37 | Degradation Studies on Electrospun Nanofiber Wound Dressings | Zachary McClain & Sharon Hamilton |
| 4 p.m. | 39 | Synthesis and Evaluation of C-Ring Modified Prodiginines as Anticancer Drugs | Joshua Pack & Brian Walker |
| 4:15 p.m. | 40 | Unlocking student success in undergraduate Physical Chemistry Course: Applications of multimedia lessons | Subha Pratihar |
| 4:30 p.m. | 41 | Detection of BPA in Clothing Using Fluorescence Spectrophotometry | Bella Rushing & Sara Hubbard |
| 4:45 p.m. | 38 | Modified Naphthoquinone Rings: To Kill Two Birds with One Sto | Irosha N. Nawarathne, Lola Beeser, Braden L. Glenn, Isabella Beasley, Wyatt Treadway, Rachel E. Tyler, Jessie Parchman, Nikkolette Perkins, Daniel Armstrong, Samir V. Jenkins, Marissa Fullerton, Amir Mortazavi, Daniel Voth, & Ruud Dings |
Talk Session D: Math-Science Building, Room 304
Biological Sciences
| Time | Talk Number | Title | Author(s) |
| 2 p.m. | 15 | New Host and Distributional Records for Helminth Parasites (Trematoda, Cestoda, Nematoda) of Arkansas Reptiles (Testudines, Ophidia) | Chris T. McAllister, Charles R. Bursey, Thomas J. Fayton, & Henry W. Robison |
| 2:15 p.m. | 12 | Dynamic and Static Quenching of Human Serum Albumin Tryptophan by Organochlorine Pesticides | Lyndsie Hicks, Luke Jodoin, Archana Mishra, & Rahul Yadav |
| 2:30 p.m. | 17 | Carbohydrate availability as a driver of stomatal properties: Defoliation recovery in two bottomland species. | Jacob Nowlin, Kai Johns, & Erin Wiley |
| 2:45 p.m. | 18 | Characterizing strongyle infections in the New England dairy goat community | Nils Pilotte, Emily Thompson, Uswa Hanif, Dorothy Watters, Ethan Jalbert, Allison R. Sirois, Gabriel Trajkovic, & Dennis J. Richardson |
| 3 p.m. | 19 | Leeches (Annelida: Hirudinea) of Arkansas Fishes | Dennis J. Richardson, Chris T. McAllister, William E. Moser, Sarah P. Lawson, & Henry W. Robison |
| 3:15 p.m. | 15 Minute Break | ||
| 3:30 p.m. | 20 | Annotated Checklist of the Camel Crickets (Insecta: Orthoptera: Rhaphidophoridae) of Arkansas | Henry W. Robison & Chris T. McAllister |
| 3:45 p.m. | 21 | Probable extirpation of the black-tailed jackrabbit from Arkansas | D. Blake Sasse |
| 4p.m. | 22 | Characterizing Diet Impact on Microbiome Population of Plastic-degrading Waxworms | Hannah M. Seats, Emilio Chavez, Asela Wijeratne, & Maureen C. Dolan |
| 4:15 p.m. | 25 | History and distribution of the Wood Stork (Mycteria americana) in Arkansas. | Lydia Serviss & Renn Tumlison |
| 4:30 p.m. | 26 | Noteworthy Records of Colocasia esculenta (Araceae) in Arkansas, with Notes on its Biology and Ecology | Tiffany Taylor, J. Michael Brotherton, & Brett Serviss |
| 4:45 p.m. | 9 | An investigation of the death resistance mechanism of Dictyostelium discoideum on exposure to Zinc Oxide nanoparticles | Zoya N. Faruqui & Mohammad Goodarzi |
Talk Session E: Math-Science Building, Room 306
Engineering, Industrial Science & Technology
| Time | Talk Number | Title | Author(s) |
| 2 p.m. | 52 | Lunar Terrain Vehicle | Alexandira Yang, Dylan Jetton, & Issair Rodriquez |
| 2:15 p.m. | 43 | Computational Investigations of Advanced Materials: Insights from Molecular Dynamics and Density Functional Theory | Robert A. Fleming |
| 2:30 p.m. | 44 | Evaluation of Inflow Turbulent Generators in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Modeling | Lionel Hewavitharana & R. Panneer Selvam |
| 2:45 p.m. | 45 | The Autonomous Vehicle Challenge | Chaarlee Hickman, Evan Piovesan, Han Tran, & Alex Tran |
| 3 p.m. | 46 | The Development of Feasible Simple Biofuel Production Units for Mitigation of Accumulation of Greenhouse Gases and Climate Change | John Bosco Namwamba, Kennedy Sitati Munyole, Yaw Twumasi, Nyatta, Benir Mbabasi, Festin Osimbo, Judith Oppong , & Caroline Akinrinwoye |
| 3:15 p.m. | 15 Minute Break | ||
| 3:30 p.m | 47 | Enhancing Cognitive Development Insights: Leveraging Machine Learning in Android App Development for Children's Artistic Expression | Arthur Rahming & Suzan Anwar |
| 3:45 p.m. | 48 | Analyzing the Performance of Wood Ash Modified Asphalt Concrete | Brandon Ravenscraft, Md Rashedul Islam, Lionel Hewavitharana, Mahbub Ahmed, & Abdel Bachri |
| 4 p.m. | 49 | Analyzing the Impact of Socioeconomic Factors on Cancer Clinical Trials in the U.S. Using Machine Learning | Krysta Ray, Hiromi Honda, Musfikur Rahaman, & Robin Ghosh |
| 4:15 p.m. | 50 | Implementation of Wireless Induction Coil Charging Technology in Low Power Autonomous Vehicle Applications | Patrick Simpson |
| 4:30 p.m. | 51 | A Cloud-Integrated Mobile Application Utilizing Machine Learning for Alzheimer's Disease Risk Prediction | Otito Udedibor & Suzan Anwar |
| 4:45 p.m. | 42 | Assessment of Intravascular Volume Using Point of Care Ultrasound in the Management of Acute Kidney Injury in Cirrhosis | Shallya Anand |