The Office of Graduate Studies
Business Hours
8 a.m.–5 p.m.
Monday–Friday

Mailing Address
Office of Graduate Studies
California State University, Chico
400 W. First St.
Chico, CA 95929–0875

2022 Schedule of Presenters

8-Minute Competition Group 1
Session 1: Biological & Natural Sciences
	Student Name	Major Degree	Class Standing	Presentation Title	Faculty Mentor
	Caylin Stanley	Biological Sciences	Graduate	Seasonal Variation of Avian Influenza Viruses in a Sacramento Vally Wood Duck Population	Troy Cline
	Taylor Lambrigger	Anthropology	Graduate	Significance of Poverty in Stable Oxygen Isotope Analysis: Implications for Region-of-Origin Predictions in Oaxaca, Mexico	Eric Bartelink
	Cody Mocko	Biological Sciences	Graduate	Investigation into Biomechanical Genes in Relation to Heritable Idiopathic Spinal Curvature	Kristen Gorman
	Molly Tuttle	Biological Sciences	Graduate	Flattening the Curve: A Covid Wastewater Surveillance Story	Troy Cline
	Jessica Alvarado Valdez	Interdisciplinary Studies: Behavioral Neuroscience	Graduate	Mechanisms of behavioral aberrations associated with prenatal exposure to nicotine	Shawn Bates
	Elisabeth Kennedy	Geology	Graduate	Naturally Occurring Asbestos in the Rock Formations of Paradise and Magalia, CA	Hannah Aird
	Cody Frazer	Biological Sciences	Graduate	Can Bacteria Stop the Next Pandemic? How the Prevalence of Avian Influenza Virus is Related to the Gut Microbiome	Troy Cline
	Sofia Rodriguez	Biological Sciences	Graduate	The Effect of Treated Wastewater Effluent on Zebrafish Immune Development	David Stachura

8-minute Competition Group 2
Session 2: Social Sciences & Interdisciplinary I
	Student Name	Major Degree	Class Standing	Presentation Title	Faculty Mentor
	Donavan Cervantes	Psychological Science	Graduate	The Interrelationships Between Personality Factors and Sexual Identity Developmental Milestones	Marie Lippmann
	Jenifer Yang	Kinesiology: Adaptive Physical Education	Graduate	Disability and Physical Activity Perspectives of Hmong Parents who Have a Child with a Disability	Josephine Blagrave
	Justin Hebert	Kinesiology: Sport and Exercise Psychology	Graduate	Examining the Relationship Between Athletic Identity and Anxiety in Collegiate Athletes	Aubrey Newland
	Natalie Lawlor	Psychological Science	Graduate	Perceptions of OnlyFans Content Creators on Impacts of a Potential Sexual Content Ban and the OnlyFans Platform	Christine Leistner
	Deja Shevalier	Psychological Science	Graduate	Episodic Retrospection vs. Prospection to Improve Delay Discounting in College Students: An Online Systematic Replication	Patrick Johnson
	Kanvarbir Gill	Psychology	Graduate	Effects of Emoji Skin Tone in Peer-to-Peer Online Learning	Marie Lippmann
	Jordan Stifle	Psychological Science	Graduate	Trauma Over Time: Does Exposure to Stressful Events Affect the Width of One’s Temporal Window?	Patrick Johnson
	Travis Souders	Communication Studies	Graduate	Navigating Tragedy: How Miscarriage Partners Make Sense of Loss	Stephanie Hamel

8-minute Competition Group 3
Session 3: Social Sciences & Interdisciplinary II
	Student Name	Major Degree	Class Standing	Presentation Title	Faculty Mentor
	Roxzel Soto Tellez	Sociology	Undergraduate	Perception of the Police by Residents of the City of Santa Ana	Tonya Lindsey
	Vivian Hernandez	History and Latin American Studies	Undergraduate	The Rise of Second-Wave Feminism and Creation of Feminist Journals in Modern Mexico	Stephen Lewis
	Angeni Kanaday-Alvarez	Art History	Undergraduate	Female Bodies On Female Bodies: Challenging Binaries Through Tattoos	Asa Mittman
	Joaquin Jordan	Political Science	Graduate	Restorative Justice: Where Community, Police, and Prisoners Meet	Sarah Smith
	Aji Fatou Bah	Nutrition and Food Science	Graduate	Evaluating the Epidemic of Obesity in Urban Gambia: An Exploratory Study Using Positive Deviance Approach	Seth Klobodu
	Alex Wilson	Communication Studies	Graduate	Cracking Health Communication's Egg: Transgender Health Communication	Jennifer Malkowski
	Bruce Avila-Yepez	Nutrition and Food Science: Nutrition Education & DPD	Graduate	Food Insecurity among College Students on Chico State Campus	Keiko Goto
	Marian Furumi	Interdisciplinary Studies: Wildland Management	Graduate	Wildlife Crossing Feasibility Project on SR-32	Colleen Hatfield

8-minute Competition Group 4
Session 4: Engineering, Concrete Industry Management, and Nutritional Sciences
	Student Name	Major Degree	Class Standing	Presentation Title	Faculty Mentor
	Maria Navarro and Francisco Aguilera	Concrete Industry Management	Undergraduate	Agricultural Waste as Internal Curing Agent in Concrete	Feraidon Ataie
	Alejandro Ayala	Electrical and Computer Engineering	Undergraduate	Using Line of Best Fit Algorithm to Improve Efficiency in Generating 3D Indoor Positioning System Model	Ghang-Ho Lee
	Esteban Teran	Physics	Undergraduate	The Quantum Nature of Atoms, a Journey to the Coldest Place in the Universe	Hyewon Pechkis
	Dalton Stierli	Electrical and Computer Engineering	Undergraduate	Indoor Positioning System Utilizing Power Received from Multicolor LED’s	Ghang-Ho Lee
	Nate Young	Electrical and Computer Engineering	Undergraduate	Indoor Positioning System using Visible Light Communication and a K-Nearest Neighbors Fingerprinting Algorithm	Ghang-Ho Lee
	Jose Leon and Greta Fischer	Engineering: MECA/MECH	Undergraduate	Mechanical Properties of PEGDA-SiO2 hydrogels	Ozgul Yasar-Inceoglu

Group 1 Judges: Hannah Aird, Jonathan Day, Hyewon Pechkis, Joe Pechkis

Group 2 Judges: Jennifer Brundidge, Jennifer Malkowski, Sharon Barrios

Group 3 Judges: Patrick Johnson, Gwenola Ricordeau, Matthew Thomas

Group 4 Judges: Kurtis Kredo, Kristen Gorman, Meghdad Hajimorad