All Graduate Presentations

Advocacy for Music Education Programs

Katelyn Gibson

Virtual

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

An Examination of the Strategies and Limitations for Engaging Parents in Urban Music Programs

Cory Spencer Robinson, Georgia College & State University

Virtual

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Exploring Inequity of Preparation in Elementary General Music Methods Among Undergraduate Music Education Students

David DeStefano

Virtual

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Feedback of Preschool Special Education Teachers: Perspectives on the IEP Process

Catherine Hardy

Virtual

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Proactive Classroom Management in Elementary Music

Gregory Jacot

Virtual

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Recruiting and Retaining Males in Secondary School Chorus Programs

Rachel Odom

Virtual

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

The efficacy of direct reading instruction on reading comprehension

LaTania Pasley-Moody

Virtual

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

1) Comprehensive Body Composition Assessments in College Aged Students

Erica Chapman
Marshuna Dalton
Natalie Izevbigie
Maddison Wilkes

Magnolia Ballroom

10:00 AM - 10:50 AM

1) Early Onset Osteopenia Assessments in College Aged Students

Elizabeth Czarick
Paul Grazzini
Emily Long
Natalie Stampfly
Kaitlin VanVoorhis

Magnolia Ballroom

10:00 AM - 10:50 AM

Checklist and Key to the Millipede Species of Georgia, United States, with Notes on Distribution

Lance Andrew
Bruce Snyder, Georgia College & State University

Magnolia Ballroom

10:00 AM - 10:50 AM

Evaluation of Skills in Shared Responsibilities in Algal Processing

Anna L. Agi
Heath Rhodes, Georgia College & State University
Rachel Allen, Georgia College & State University
Sarah Edwards, Georgia College & State University
Griffin Fox, Georgia College & State University

Magnolia Ballroom

10:00 AM - 10:50 AM

How Elementary Music Teachers Keep Students Involved In Middle School Music Classes

Melanie Silvernail

Virtual

10:00 AM - 10:50 AM

How to Spark Bio Curiosity: An Innovative High School Biology Curriculum

Audrie Charles

Magnolia Ballroom

10:00 AM - 10:50 AM

Identifying Phytoremediation Performing Plant Species that can be Utilized in the Improvement of Heavy Metal Contaminated Soils

Ashley Clark*, Georgia College & State University
Samuel Mutiti, Georgia College & State University

Magnolia Ballroom

10:00 AM - 10:50 AM

Increasing Annual Depression Screening for Adults in a Primary Care Setting

Sandy Zachery
Sheryl Winn, Georgia College & State University
Flor Culpa-Bondal, Georgia College & State University

10:00 AM - 10:50 AM

Molecular Detection of Human and Dog Fecal Pollution in Pensacola, Florida

Logan McCullers
Jodel Nicholas, Georgia College & State University
Dave Bachoon, Georgia College & State University

Magnolia Ballroom

10:00 AM - 10:50 AM

Pre-Calculus: Thinking Deeply About Simple Things

Jacob Carter

Magnolia Ballroom

10:00 AM - 10:50 AM

Preliminary Diversity of Panamanian Amphipod Crustaceans Within the Parvorder Caprellidira

Sally Sir, Georgia College & State University, Milledgeville, GA 31061
Kristine N. White Ph. D., Georgia College & State University

Magnolia Ballroom

10:00 AM - 10:50 AM

Promoting Physiologic Maternity Care by Improving Access to Doulas

Karen Schwartz

Magnolia Ballroom

10:00 AM - 10:50 AM

Revisiting the energetics hypothesis: can accelerometer monitoring reveal hidden variation in the movement patterns of snakes?

William L. Tillett II, Georgia College & State University, Milledgeville GA 31061
Dominic L. DeSantis, Georgia College & State University

Magnolia Ballroom

10:00 AM - 10:50 AM

Teaching Improvisation to Students with Intellectual Disabilities

Misha F. Guderian, Georgia College and State University

Magnolia Ballroom

10:00 AM - 10:50 AM

The Benefits of Singing and Audiation for Beginning Musicians

Elissa Harris

Magnolia Ballroom

10:00 AM - 10:50 AM

The thinking classroom: High school physics reimagined

Donovan Baker

Magnolia Ballroom

10:00 AM - 10:50 AM

Vibrio Harvey Clade Primers: Those That Work and Those That Do Not.

Karagan X. Royer, Georgia College and State University, Milledgeville, GA 31061
Cameron Brown, Clemson University
Andrei Barkovskii, Georgia College & State University

Magnolia Ballroom

10:00 AM - 10:50 AM

Whole Genome Sequencing for the Millipede Cherokia georgiana

Elena Cruz, Georgia College & State University
Will Wittstock, Georgia College & State University
Daniel Hastings, Georgia College & State University
Arnab Sengupta, Georgia College & State University
Bruce A. Snyder, Georgia College & State University

Magnolia Ballroom

10:00 AM - 10:50 AM

Examining the Relationship Between Right to Work Legislation, State Economies, and Unions.

Andrew Smith

Arts and Sciences 2-75

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Program Evaluation of the Macon Area Habitat for Humanity

Eric Rice

Arts and Sciences 2-75

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Strategic Plan for The Flannery O'Connor Institute for the Humanities

Dan Lavery

Arts and Sciences 2-75

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

The Assessment of the Program Theory and Processes of Books for Keeps’ Literacy Mentoring Program

Allison Shaw

Arts and Sciences 2-75

1:00 PM - 12:00 AM

The influence of cultural factors on health-seeking behaviors regarding prostate cancer among African Immigrant men in the United States.

Kaitlin Van Voorhis, Georgia College & State University
Ernest Kaninjing, Georgia College & State University
Rae Walker, Georgia College & State University
M E. Ogunsanya, University of Oklahoma
G Asiedu, Mayo Clinic, Kern Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery
A Kokayi, Mayo Clinic, Kern Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery
M E. Young, Mayo Clinic, Center for Health Equity & Community Engagement Research
F T. Odedina, May Clinic, Center for Health Equity & Community Engagement Research

Arts and Sciences 2-75

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Nurse workforce retention: Identifying modifiable factors that affect nursing retention post-COVID

Yolanda Neloms, Georgia College & State University

Arts and Sciences 2-75

2:00 PM - 2:10 PM

Menopausal Awareness: Use of a Menopausal Questionnaire to Assess Symptomology in Menopausal Transitional and Postmenopausal Women

Lori Dalcour, Georgia College & State University
Debby MacMillan, Georgia College & State University
Sallie Coke, Georgia College & State University
Jessica Marcus, Georgia State University

Arts and Sciences 2-75

2:10 PM - 2:20 PM

Temporal Trends in Mammalian Roadkill Abundance in Central Georgia

Lucy Beck

Arts and Sciences 2-75

2:20 PM - 2:30 PM

Quantifying costs and benefits of alternative overwintering strategies in a southeastern population of Timber Rattlesnakes (Crotalus horridus)

John Powers
Amber Stubbs
Alfred J. Mead, Georgia College & State University
Dominic L. DeSantis, Georgia College & State University

Arts and Sciences 2-75

2:30 PM - 2:40 PM

Development and Evaluation of a Mitochondrial DNA Marker for the Detection of Rattus rattus and Rattus norvegicus Fecal Contamination

A'aden Redhead, Georgia College and State University

Arts and Sciences 2-75

2:40 PM - 2:50 PM

Engaging every student in American Government: a vertical learning approach

Tatiana Schumacher

Magnolia Ballroom

3:00 PM - 3:10 PM

Do nest box temperatures affect nest success and nestlings growth for Eastern Bluebirds?

Mathew Gordon
Katie Stumpf, Georgia College & State University

Arts and Sciences 2-75

3:10 PM - 3:20 PM

The Influence of Environmental Parameters on Gordonia Terrae - Specific Bacteriophage Abundance and Diversity

GT M. Moore, Georgia College and State University, Milledgeville, GA 31061
Uqueen C. Wheeler, Georgia College and State University, Milledgeville, GA 31061
Indiren Pillay, Georgia College and State University, Milledgeville, GA 31061

Arts and Sciences 2-75

3:20 PM - 3:30 PM

The Presence of Pathogenic Leptospira in San Juan Bay Estuaries and its Relationship to Fecal Pollution Sources

Jodel M. Nicholas, Georgia College State and Universtiy, Milledgeville, GA, 31061
Dave Bachoon Dr., Georgia College & State University

Arts and Sciences 2-75

3:30 PM - 3:40 PM

Effects of roadways on seasonal movement strategies and mate location success in an imperiled pit viper (Crotalus horridus)

Elizabeth J. Noble, Georgia College and State University, Milledgeville, GA 31061

Arts and Sciences 2-75

3:40 PM - 3:50 PM

Layers of Influence: Examining Teacher Experiences in the Design and Implementation of Multicultural Curricula in Secondary English

Marine Feron Leabeater

Arts and Sciences 2-75

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM