Fourteen graduate students at Arkansas Tech University will present their scholarly research during the third annual ATU Graduate Student Symposium at Tomlinson Hall on Thursday, April 12.
The evening will begin with a welcome by Dr. Mary Gunter, interim chief of staff in the ATU Office of the President, at 5 p.m. in Tomlinson Hall room 120.
Poster presentations will be accompanied by refreshments from 5:15-6 p.m. in the Tomlinson Hall lobby.
The evening will conclude with oral presentations. The schedule is listed below:
Arts, Humanities and Education
Tomlinson Hall room 119
- 6 p.m.: Newspapers – Thriving News in a Digital World (Amber Quaid)
- 6:15 p.m.: The Potential Death of a Whistled Language in an Age of Language Loss (Morgan Frazier)
- 6:30 p.m.: Hydration Effects on Memory with College Students (Alicia DeAguero)
- 6:45 p.m.: Hiccups in Academic Advising: A Graduate Assistants Perspective (Twylla Brock)
- 7 p.m.: Bullying at the Collegiate Level (Desiree Wait)
- 7:15 p.m.: Wonder Woman’s Potential as a Model for Female Representation in Future Films (Rebecca Stobaugh)
Engineering and Fisheries and Wildlife Science
Tomlinson Hall room 120
- 6 p.m.: Seasonal Habitat Use, Movement, and Exploitation of Sauger (Sander canadensis) in the Arkansas River (Peter Leonard)
- 6:15 p.m.: Consistent Individual Differences in Behaviors Linked to Boldness in Prairie Lizards Residing in Thermally Distinct Environments (Free Kashon)
- 6:30 p.m.: Mesopredator Distribution, Abundance and Potential Competition with the American Burying Beetle (Nicrophorus americanus) for Carrion (Karisa Fenton)
- 6:45 p.m.: Energy Consumption Reduction in a Refrigeration System Using Phase Change Materials (Evan Owens)
- 7 p.m.: Combustion Lab at ATU (Eric Smith)
- 7:15 p.m.: Internet of Things (IoT) Based Condition Monitoring of Electrical Machines (Okonkwo Ugochukwu Valentine)
- 7:30 p.m.: A Deep Learning-Based Model for Video Human Action Recognition – (Di Wu)
- 7:45 p.m.: Evaluation of Four Low-Frequency Electrofishing Pulse Rates for Sampling Blue Catfish – Ictalurus furcatus (Charlie Jordan)
