Panel Chair: Scott Cheney, Collin College

Chairs: Khimen Cooper, Collin College; Searn Ferrier-Watson, Collin College; Susan Stewart, Texas A&M -- Commerce; Michelle Tvete, Texas A&M -- Commerce

Panel Chair: Lisa Nevans, Montgomery College Rockville Maryland

Papers Presented:

The iGen Gap: Teenagers viewpoints on social media's power over body image, mental health and brain development

The Effects of Technology on K-12 Students

This paper presents a case study on groups of K-12 students who are taught using innovation-centered teaching where curriculum is based on optimizing individual creative inclinations to create a simulation of product development to learn subjects that are taught in traditional classrooms. The groups consist of students from a diverse set of cultural backgrounds to gain a more well-rounded sample of how students learn using technology. The aim of this paper is to showcase methods that teach students to communicate their ideas effectively, formulate designs, and execute ideas by tailoring curriculum to a student’s natural aptitudes; students can find more fulfillment and develop critical skills for success after their academic career.

Followers of the Facade: The Rising Addiction of Social Media

This research will focus on the psychological effects contributing and resulting from the growing addiction to social media. Social media allows the ability to connect with friends, family and provides a place where ideas and memories can be shared. However, when the content shared is filtered, it creates a false persona established solely to be deemed valued and relevant by followers. The other portion of the research will focus on the inadequacy followers are left with when the content of their reality is not as intriguing as the realities they view online. Social media is a space that allows people to express, influence, and share aspects of their lives, but when these aspects are filtered, it creates a distorted perception of reality.

Panel Chair: Meenakshi Beri, Collin College

Conference Room C

- Poster Session

Organically Derived Epigallocatechin Gallate Compounds for Breakdown of the Zika Virus Envelope

Sangita Vasikaran, UNT

Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance of Morphological Traits in the Brine Shrimp, Artemia franciscana

Emmanuel Bakundukize, UNT

Millennials will nullify Inequality for African Americans

Matthew Stusick II

Effects of Environment on the Manifestation of Music Performance Anxiety

Abigail Hawthorne, SMU

Laser-Enhanced Biodegradable Bone Implants: In Vitro-Assessed Biomineralization and Degradation of Mg-Alloy Biomaterials with Optimized Microstructure Modifications

Jonathan Lu

CRASH: Traffic Patterns and Predictive Software

Itzel Tapia

Optimization of Cellulase Production in Bacteria

Wesley Neuer, Hassina

Hamzaoui, and Carol

Twitchell

Auctoritee Demanded: Invalidating Patriarchal Misogyny by Chaucer’s Wife of Bath

Lezli McDaniel

A Deep Learning Approach for Identification of microRNA Regulatory Modules in Breast Cancer

Vasu Jindal, UTD

Changing the Way We Do Healthcare: Using Music Therapy in Medicine

Sophia Wagle

What Type of Bacteriophage Lives in Your Soil?

Olivia Welkener

A Third World Country's Problem

Bianca Senchenko

Poem from the Songbird: Vice Versa, and its Editor

Tiffany Nguyen, UTD

Lucid dream, a treatment of nightmares

Tien Le

Violent Video Games for Children Should be Restricted

Mo Ching Rosanne Ng

Ampicillin Resistance: The Artificial Transformation Process of E. Coli

Abigail Flaming, NCTC

Extraction and Determination of Lead: Square Wave Stripping Voltammetry

Lasya Priya, Elia

Zahabi, and

Hiba Benelbar

Academic Self Efficacy: A Psi Beta Project

Josh Arduengo Psychology students

Genomic Comparison of Bacteriophages in Cluster BF

Tianeaka McClendon, Richard D. Quick, Lee Hughes, UNT

Genomic Comparison of Bacteriophages in Cluster BF

CBD as a Viable Treatment for Autism

Lindsey Dunavan

Growth of Mind (Mixed Media: clay, paint, wire) Ashley Flink

Carousel of Life (Mixed Media: styrofoam, cloth, sticks) Mamie Hyman

A Novel Approach to Influencing Actin-Myosin Interaction by Modulating Myosin Subfragment-2 for the Treatment of Cardiomyopathies Mithilesh Bhaskaruni

Christopher Thang, UNT

Panel Chair: Ashley Bender, TWU

Panel Chair: Lisa Kirby

Panel Chair: Lubna Javeed, Collin College

Panel Chair: Scott Cheney, Collin College

Panel Chair: Scott Yarbrough, Collin College

Panel Chair: Ashley Bender, TWU

Panel Chair: Khimen Cooper, Collin College

Panel Chair: Sean Ferrier-Watson, Collin College

Our panel will explore various issued related to children’s literature, but will specifically focus on the way old and new children’s literature are being adapted into cinematic and digital productions. We will also explore the way fairy tales are used to incorporate a wide array of social issues into child culture. The panelists have each prepared papers that explore the issues touching on new frontiers in children’s literature, ranging from classic fairy tales to contemporary comic books.

Panel Chair: Scott Cheney, Collin College

Panel Chair: Debra Pfister, UTD