Dear Colleagues and Students, It is with great pleasure that I welcome the students and faculty of California State University, SanBernardino (CSUSB) to the 34th annual CSUSB Student Research Competition. The CSUSBStudent Research Competition provides our undergraduate and graduate students with a uniqueopportunity to showcase their outstanding research and creative activities and compete to representour campus at the 34th Annual California State University Student Research Competition. Thisyear’s CSU state-wide competition will be held at California State University, Monterey Bay on April24-25th, 2020. I look forward to identifying, supporting, and accompanying the delegates who will goon to represent our campus. I would like to thank all of the students who are participating in our competition today – your hardwork is inspiring and makes our campus proud. I sincerely hope that today’s conference attendeesenjoy our students' presentations, take pride in their efforts, and offer them congratulations on theirsuccesses. I would also like to extend sincere gratitude to the faculty mentors and our faculty jurorswho consistently go above and beyond to support our students and the activities of our office. Ourcontinued growth and success would not be possible without your passion, generosity, andcommitment. Thank you all for your support and attendance today, and I hope you will continue to participate infuture Office of Student Research events. Sincerely,Christina M. Hassija, Ph.D.Director, Office of Student Research

Dr. Christina Hassija,

OSR Director

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We would like to acknowledge and thank the following faculty and staff who have

volunteered to serve as jurors for this year's CSUSB Student Research Competition.

Faculty Jurors

College of Arts & Letters Elizabeth MartinGretchen BergquistEsteban CordobaMiriam Fernandez Jack H. Brown College of Business Benjamin BecerraVictoria SeitzEssia Hamouda College of Education Andrew HughesNicole Klimow College of Natural Sciences Daniel NickersonDavid MaynardJeremy DodsworthKassandra HardingNeal MalikSara CalloriWagner PradoSang Ouk WeeBree PutmanAndreas Beyersdorf

College of Social & Behavioral Sciences David MendelsohnReveka ShteynbergRigaud JosephStacy ForcinoHareem Khan Staff Jennifer CarhartSen Padilla

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Presentation Schedule

Session 1__________________Location: College of Education 107Time: 9:30 am - 10:50 amCategory: Humanities & LettersLevel: UndergraduateJurors: Gretchen Bergquist, MiriamFernandez, & Nicole Klimow___________________9:30 Presenter: Mariza Vasquez

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Angela PenaredondoMajor: EnglishTitle: The Watts Writers Workshop’sApproaches to Creative Writing Pedagogyin Safety and Transformative Justice

9:50 Presenter: Donald KhairullahFaculty Mentor: Dr. Juan DelgadoMajor: EnglishTitle: The Seeds of Critical CreativeWriting Pedagogy

10:30 Presenter: Natassja MartinFaculty Mentor: Dr. Ryan KeatingMajor: HistoryTitle: The Memory of the War: AGlance into Public Support for WWIIand Vietnam

Session 2__________________Location: College of Education 113Time: 9:30 am - 11:10 amCategory: Humanities & LettersLevel: UndergraduateJurors: Bree Putman, AndreasBeyersdorf, & Essia Hamouda___________________9:30

Presenter: Scott RomoFaculty Mentor: Dr. Charles MettsMajor: Communication StudiesTitle: Exodus from Space: Hegemonyin the Split Star Trek Fandom

10:10

Presenter: Marmar ZakherFaculty Mentor: Dr. Kate LiszkaMajor: History/Arabic LiteratureTitle: Write a Daily Example: Education inRoman Egypt as Evidenced by theMakarious Family of Kellis

Presenter: Jasmine ColoradoFaculty Mentor: Dr. Chad LuckMajor: History/LiteratureTitle: Queen of Peace: Decolonizing the Art,Iconography, and Legend behind the VirginMary of El Salvador

9:50

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10:50 Presenter: Fernando SanchezFaculty Mentor: Dr. Isabel AlonsoMajor: HistoryTitle: Umm Kulthum and Arual Celebrity

9:30 Presenter: Sergio EspericuetaFaculty Mentor: Dr. Nicole DabbsMajor: KinesiologyTitle: The Effects of Whole-BodyVibration and Fatigue on Isometric Mid-Thigh Pull

10:10 Presenters: Rachel Reyes and Nolan MackeyFaculty Mentor: Dr. Sang Ouk WeeMajor: KinesiologyTitle: Preliminary Study: Effect of Body FatPercentage on Arterial Stiffness in YoungHealthy Hispanic Males

Session 3__________________Location: College of Education 213Time: 9:30 am - 11:10 amCategory: Health, Nutrition, & Clinical ScienceLevel: UndergraduateJurors: Wagner Do Prado, Benjamin Becerra,& Neal Malik___________________

10:30

Presenter: Sean Christopher BonillaFaculty Mentor: Dr. Nicole DabbsMajor: KinesiologyTitle: The Effects of Whole-BodyVibration and Fatigue on Vertical JumpPerformance.

9:50

Presenter: Robert SolanoFaculty Mentor: Dr. Mandy RymalMajor: KinesiologyTitle: The Effectiveness of a Real-time andSlow-time Observation Learning the SoccerRainbow Kick

Presenter: Joanna MorenoFaculty Mentor: Dr. Christopher HillMajor: KinesiologyTitle: The Power of Observations and itsEffects on Imagery Capabilities

10:50

Presenter: Giovanni GonzalezFaculty Mentor: Dr. Cary BarberMajor: Anthropology/HistoryTitle: Roman Egypt and theInteractions in the Eastern Frontierand with The Red Sea

10:30

Presenter: Chance GroomFaculty Mentor: Dr. Cary BarberMajor: HistoryTitle: Religion in Republic Rome

10:10

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10:10 Presenters: Nikolay Maslov & Aaron KenistonFaculty Mentor: Dr. Jeremy MallariMajor: BiochemistryTitle: Understanding the Binding Mode ofFalcilysin, an Essential Metalloprotease

10:30 Presenter: Raquel RodriguezFaculty Mentor: Dr. Laura NewcombMajor: BiologyTitle: Generation of Influenza NP-FLAGVirus to Facilitate NP Interaction Studies

9:50 Presenter: Edward ZakherFaculty Mentor: Dr. Rishabh KumarMajor: EconomicsTitle: A Reason to Move, a State-WideStory

Session 5__________________Location: College of Education 219Time: 9:30 am - 10:10 amCategory: Business, Economics, & PublicAdministrationLevel: UndergraduateJurors: Jennifer Carhart, Sen Padilla, & EstebanCordoba___________________

Presenter: Xuanyu LiuFaculty Mentor: Dr. Xue TianMajor: Supply Chain and TransportationManagementTitle: A Comparison of Total Costs forIntermodal Transport between China and theUnited States – Take Los Angeles and Beijingas Example

9:30

Presenter: Melissa TahaFaculty Mentor: Drs. Ira Leifer & Don BlakeMajor: BiochemistryTitle: Shaking the Ground with NASA

9:50

Presenter: Nazaret MontejanoFaculty Mentor: Dr. Sanders McDougalMajor: BiopsychologyTitle: MK801-Induced Locomotor Activityin Preweanling and Adolescent Male andFemale Rats: Role of the Dopamine andSerotonin Systems

9:30

Session 4__________________Location: College of Education 217Time: 9:30 am - 10:50 amCategory: Biological & Agricultural SciencesLevel: UndergraduateJurors: Daniel Nickerson, Jeremy Dodsworth, & Kassandra Harding___________________

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Presentation Schedule

Session 7__________________Location: College of Education 113Time: 12:00 pm - 12:40 pmCategory: EducationLevel: GraduateJurors: Sang Ouk Wee, Andrew Hughes, & Rigaud Joseph___________________

Presenter: Audrey BacaFaculty Mentor: Dr. Nancy Acevedo-GilMajor: Education LeadershipTitle: “Now Let Us Shift”: A Case Study ofDevelopmental Education Reform in a HispanicServing Community College

12:00

Presenters: Elizabeth Rahmani (G) and HollyTimblin (G)Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jacob JonesMajor: Clinical CounselingTitle: The Mediating Role of Leisure Activities onthe Relationship Between Depressive Symptomsand Cognitive Functioning in Individuals withParkinson’s Disease

12:40

Presenter: Cristina Sedano (G)Faculty Mentor: Dr. Kevin GrishamMajor: Social Science and GlobalizationTitle: Sustainability and Human Impactsin Guadalajara, Mexico

12:20

Presenters: Roxanna Hudgens, AreliEnriquez, Rodolfo Felix, Natalie Flores,and Courtney McGrath (UG)Faculty Mentor: Dr. Paloma VillegasMajor: SociologyTitle: "I Don’t Want My Problem toBecome Their Problem”: Food InsecurityStigma and CSUSB Students

12:00

Session 6__________________Location: College of Education 107Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmCategory: Behavioral & Social SciencesLevel: Undergraduate & GraduateJurors: Reveka Shteynberg, Stacy Forcino, & Benjamin Becerra___________________

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Presentation Schedule

Presenter: Olabode LawalFaculty Mentor: Dr. Ahlam MuhtasebMajor: Communications StudiesTitle: An Analysis of the Prospect Theoryand its Effects on the Smoking Behaviors ofCollege Students A Study of E-cigarettesTelevision Ads

1:00

Presenter: Ricardo VegaFaculty Mentor: Dr. Ahlam MuhtasebMajor: CommunicationsTitle: Student Learning as Influenced byStigma and Labels

12:40

Presenter: Daniela CisnerosFaculty Mentor: Dr. Ahlam MuhtasebMajor: Communication StudiesTitle: Social Media Influence onCareer Choice

12:20

Presenter: Shane BurrellFaculty Mentor: Mihaela PopescuMajor: Communication StudiesTitle: Identification in VirtualEnvironments; Identifying in Virtual Reality

12:00

Session 8__________________Location: College of Education 213Time: 12:00 pm - 1:20 pmCategory: Humanities & LettersLevel: GraduateJurors: Elizabeth Martin, Hareem Khan, & David Mendelsohn___________________

Presenter: Matthew AthertonFaculty Mentor: Dr. Eun-Ok BaekMajor: Instructional TechnologyTitle: The Efficiency of Using 3dModels to Teach Lifting and RiggingConcepts to Learners of VaryingSpatial Ability

12:20

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Session 9__________________Location: College of Education 219Time: 12:00 pm - 12:40 pmCategory: Engineering & Computer ScienceLevel: Undergraduate & GraduateJurors: Sara Callori, David Maynard, Victoria Seitz,&Essia Hamouda___________________

12:00 Presenter: Alexis Lopez (UG)Faculty Mentor: Dr. Yunfei HouMajor: Computer EngineeringTitle: Parking Occupancy Monitoring System atCSUSB

12:20 Presenter: Sona Perez-Gamboa (G)Faculty Mentor: Dr. Qingquan SunMajor: Computer ScienceTitle: Human Recognition Using aConvolational Long Short-term Memory(C-LSTM) Neural Network.

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