Axe ’Em, Jacks!
April 7, 2020
Welcome! The 2020 Graduate Research Conference was held online, with paper sessions hosted in Zoom meetings on April 7th from 1-2 p.m. SFA faculty and students participated in these meetings moderated by SFA faculty members. Archived meetings are available for viewing by selecting the links in the paper session sections below.
Student poster presentations are available in PDF format and may be viewed by selecting the link accompanying each presentation.
Competition Winners
- Best Poster: Liam Wolff, Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture
"Assessing Occupancy and Detection of Bachman’s Sparrow (Peucaea aestivalis) in East Texas"
Advisor: Dr. Christopher M. Schalk
- Best Paper: Sarah Whitfield, College of Sciences and Mathematics
"Synthesis and Characterization of CO Releasing Bipyridine Palladium Flavonolate Complexes; Potential Anticancer Agents"
Advisor: Dr. Xiaozhen Han
Paper Session A, 1-2 p.m.
Watch the archived Zoom session.
Discussant: Dr. Sarah Savoy
- David J. Buckley, James I. Perkins College of Education
"Acute Renal Responses to Moderate-Intensity Aerobic Exercise with Non-traditional Markers of Renal Health and Function in Healthy Individuals: A Pilot Study"
Advisor: Dr. James R. Rowe
- Robin L. Johnson, College of Liberal & Applied Arts
"SFA Crisis Communication Plan"
Advisors: Dr. Bailey Thompson and Dr. John Hendricks
- Caleb Potts, College of Liberal and Applied Arts
"Discipline and Behavior: The Relationship Between Sleep And Impulsivity"
Advisor: Dr. Nathan Sparkman
- Kelsey Stewart, College of Liberal & Applied Arts
"College Student Perceptions Towards the LGBTQ Community"
Advisor: Dr. Emmerentie Oliphant
Paper Session B, 1-2 p.m.
Watch the archived Zoom session.
Discussant: Dr. Alexandra Van Kley
- Aaron Baker, College of Sciences and Mathematics
"Interrupting the Bachelorette: A Statistical Analysis of Tornado Warnings in East Texas"
Advisor: Dr. Jacob Turner
- Erin Carson, College of Liberal and Applied Arts
"Strengths and Barriers of Rural Deep East Texas: Findings from the Needs Assessment of the Deep East Texas Opioid Crisis"
Advisors: Dr. Jose Carbajal and Dr. Emmerentie Oliphant
- Clara Lebow, College of Sciences and Mathematics
"Evidence of Mercury Concentrations in Freshwater Fishes of The Guianas: Is There a Risk for Fish Consumption?"
Advisor: Dr. Carmen Montana-Schalk
- Sarah Whitfield, College of Sciences and Mathematics
"Synthesis and Characterization of CO Releasing Bipyridine Palladium Flavonolate Complexes; Potential Anticancer Agents"
Advisor: Dr. Xiaozhen Han
Paper Session C, 1-2 p.m.
Watch the archived Zoom session.
Discussant: Dr. Amanda Breitbach
- Alexander Alvara, David J. Buckley, James I. Perkins College of Education
"A Comparison of the Effects of Moderate Intensity Continuous Cycling and High Intensity Interval Cycling on Postprandial Lipemia and Glycemia"
Advisor: Dr. James R. Rowe
- Athena Hayes, College of Liberal and Applied Arts
"'Sex is something I just don’t understand': The Innocence of Holden in Postwar America"
Advisor: Dr. Michael Martin
- Mariah Taller, College of Fine Arts
"Performance Strategies Iannis Xenakis' Pinnacle Percussion Solo, Psappha"
Advisor: Dr. Brad Meyer
- Hollis Thompson, College of Liberal and Applied Arts
"Faithful Abraham and Loyal Aeneas: Saint Paul’s Use of the Virgilian Epic Narrative within Galatians and Romans"
Advisor: Dr. Kevin West
Paper Session D, 1-2 p.m.
Discussant: Dr. Perky Beisel
- Susan Groce, College of Liberal and Applied Arts
The Role of Language Suppression in the Radicalization of Basque Nationalist Groups"
Advisor: Dr. Carlos Cuadra
- Stuart Priest, College of Liberal and Applied Arts
"Hero, Villain, or Someone In-Between?: An Analysis of the Historiographical Trends of Robert Lewis Dabney"
Advisor: Dr. Hunter Hampton
- Cleo Wadley, James I. Perkins College of Education
"Schooling the Black Male-Oppressive Hegemonic Discourses, Material Constraints, and Strategic Resistance"
Advisor: Dr. Stacy Hendricks
Poster Session
- Wyatt Bagwell, Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture
"Influence of Prescribed Fire on White-Tailed Deer Browse in East Texas Forested Ecosystems"
Advisor: Dr. Brian P. Oswald
- Chris Dempsey, Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture
"An Ecohydrological Characterization of Geographically Isolated Wetlands in the Lower Coastal Plain of East Texas"
Advisor: Dr. Matthew McBroom
- Laurie Lomas Gonzales, Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture
"Influence of Invasive Species on Afforestation Growth, Survival, and Composition"
Advisor: Dr. Jeremy Stovall
- Robert Milecz, Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture
"Land Suitability Analysis for Wind Farm Development in Texas"
Advisor: Dr. I-Kuai Hung
- Lais de Oliveira Machado, College of Sciences and Mathematics
"Cost Comparison of Different Trellis Infrastructure for Use in Kiwifruit Production in Texas"
Advisors: Dr. David Kulhavy and Dr. David Creech
- Cassady Pennington, Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture
"The Effects of Prescribed Burning on Soil Infiltration Rates and Other Select Soil Physical and Chemical Properties in East Texas"
Advisor: Dr. Kenneth Farrish, Dr. Brian P. Oswald
- Son T. Pham, James I. Perkins College of Education
"International branding in higher education: Different perspectives by institutional experience and institutional size"
Advisor: Dr. Luis E. Aguerrevere
- David Rosenbaum, Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture
"Distribution, Occupancy, and Mercury Load in Texas Alligator Snapping Turtles"
Advisor: Dr. Christopher Schalk
- Cutler Ruby, Travis Fleener, James I. Perkins College of Education
"The Color Wheel System: A Class-Wide Behavioral Intervention"
Advisor: Dr. Daniel McCleary
- Sam Shupe, Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture
"Analysis of Single Point Accuracy Across Four Common DJI Drone Platforms"
Advisor: Dr. David Kulhavy
- Sam Shupe, Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture
"Assessment of Drone Derived Orthomosaic Photographs With and Without GCPs"
Advisors: Dr. Daniel Unger and Dr. David Kulhavy
- Sam Shupe, Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture
"Land Cover Change within Philmont Scout Ranch Due to the 2018 Ute Park Fire"
Advisor: Dr. David Kulhavy
- William Steinley, Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture
"Effectiveness of Prescribed Fire in Meeting Fuel Load Management Objectives on Federal and Private Properties in Eastern Texas"
Advisor: Dr. Brian P. Oswald
- Mark Svendsen, Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture
"The impact of seasonal changes in electromagnetic spectral signatures on land cover map accuracy"
Advisor: Dr. Daniel Unger
- Jake Swanson, Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture
"Fish Community Assemblage Across Riverine Systems of East-Central Texas"
Advisors: Dr. Christopher Schalk and Dr. Carmen Montana-Schalk
- Michael B. Tiller, Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture
"Flammability Comparisons of Sea Buckthorn in the Netherlands to East Texas and Southern California Shrub Species"
Advisor: Dr. Brian P. Oswald
- Gary Ray White, Jr., Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture
- "Investigating the Spatial Relationship of Loblolly and Shortleaf Pines Hybridization Using Liquid Chromatography and Geographic Information Systems"
- View the poster presentation Zoom video.
- Liam Wolff, Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture
"Assessing Occupancy and Detection of Bachman’s Sparrow (Peucaea aestivalis) in East Texas"
Advisor: Dr. Christopher M. Schalk
- Carly Wright, Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture
"Specialty Cut Sunflowers Response to Planting Density"
Advisors: Dr. Michael Maurer and Dr. Stephanie Jones