Monday, April 24th - Wednesday, April 26th

Schedule of Events

Monday, April 24 STEM Lecture Hall

Preliminary rounds 2:00-3:00 PM and 3:30-4:30 PM

Final Judging rounds 5:00-6:00 PM

The competition will be conducted through tournament-style

judging of the best 3-minute live presentation of thesis research.

People’s Choice voting throughout.

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION - STEM Lecture Hall—9:30 AM Souls & Machines: Designing the Future of Content Hannah Donovan

Hannah Donovan is a design and product leader based in Brooklyn who currently works at Twitter. Hannah has been building consumer experiences in music, entertainment and media for over a decade and speaks about her work internationally. Most recently, Hannah was leading the Drip team (now part of Kickstarter) at Expa. Before that she was the VP of Design at Ripcord, a product incubator funded by MTV. She also co-founded the song-sharing service “This Is My Jam,” and worked agency-side in Toronto for youth-focused brands. She is a classically trained cellist who loves hip-hop, as well as a classically trained graphic designer who loves patterns. Hannah will share real-world tips and help students understand how to design for content, both for user-generated and user-curated product experience.

Tuesday, April 25

Time Location Title Presenter

11:00 STEM 307 A Preference for Simple versus Complex Stimuli John Burke

11:00 STEM 308 Rendezvous with Rhetoric Donald Marks

11:00 STEM 306 Preschool Speech Language Screenings V. Grover/M. Namazi

12:30 STEM 324 World of Data: Using Unity Game Engine for Scientific Visualization David Joiner

12:30 STEM 307 Alexander Hamilton at Liberty Hall History Panel

2:00 STEM 307 Crowdsourced Idea Generation: The Effect of Exposure to an Original Idea Kai Wang

2:00 STEM 306 Assessment Update: Exploring Assessment of “Active Citizenship” Assessment Panel

2:45 STEM 324 Digital Hand Skills Toward Enhanced Productivity Craig Konyk

3:00 STEM 306 Are Millennials Concerned About Genocide? MAHGS Panel

3: 30 STEM 308 Climate CHANGE in NJ Paul Croft

Faculty Presentation Schedule

Wednesday, April 26

STEM - Atrium 11:30 AM Undergraduate Student Research Award - Presentation of the 2016 Undergraduate Student Research Award, recognizing excellence in undergraduate research or creative work.

3 Minute Thesis Competition—Presentation of 1st place, Runner up, and People’s Choice Awards for 2016.

Wednesday, April 26

Student Oral Presentations Time Location Title Presenter 9:00 STEM 306 Psy.D. Dissertation Symposium—7 presentations See Program

9:00 STEM 307 Social Engineering for Security Attacks Chen/ Iglesias/ Lin

9:00 STEM 317 Anterior Cerebral Artery Stroke Colgan/ Mirza

9:00 STEM 324 “CASTLES” - Climate History: Impacts and Expectations Water Impacts: Capacity in the Kaleidoscope of Society at Kean University Climate Change Analysis, Modeling, Assessment and Policy for NJ Climate Change & Encroachment

Blaire Gomes Tulli, et al., Naomi Horowitz

9:00 STEM 501 Gas Tax– New Jersey Capatasto/ Guido/ Holly

9:30 STEM 317 Using Technology to Support Social Skills in Children with Autism Jurcsek/ Williams/ Vega

9:45 STEM 501 Department of Labor and how it affects our lives Sewell, et al.

10:00 STEM 307 Kean Computer Science/IT Capstone Website Brodley, et al.

10:00 CAS Lobby Research and Technology Student Showcase Students of GE202x

10:30 STEM 317 Building a Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometer (The Primary Ion Source) May/ Shaker

1:00 CAS Lobby Research and Technology Student Showcase Students and Faculty of GE202x

1:15 STEM 318 We are US: A True Cultural Mosaic Manna, et al.

1:30 STEM 324 Evaluation of Monoculture and Polyculture Farming Techniques in China Edeen/ Horowitz

2:00 STEM 308 Nurses’ Attitudes towards Alcohol Abuse Ogunyemi, et al.

2:00 STEM 401 Holocaust & Genocide Symposium—3 presentations See Program

2:30 STEM 307 NJ Fun! Marque/ Park/ Young

2:45 STEM 308 Improving Parental or Guardian Consent for Dental Health in an Urban Env. Lieberman, et al.

3:15 STEM 307 Impact of Global Warming Arroyo/Sorensen/Filipe Feliciano

3:15 STEM 308 Educating Nurses on Congestive Heart Failure to Prevent Hospital Readmission Beauliere, et al.

3:15 STEM 318 Life, Skills, and Linguistics: The World War II Scrapbook DiFranco, et al.

4:00 STEM 307 Climate Change: The World Different As We Know it Carvalho/ Foy/ Lopez

5:00 STEM 307 Early Childhood Colloquium—4 presentations Adani/ Jean/ Vlastaras / Panel

Student Poster Presentations 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM

This year, 235 posters will be on display in the Atrium and on the 6th floor of the STEM building. Join us on Wednesday morning when these students will share their creativity and describe their discoveries.

Atrium: College of Education, College of Liberal Arts, College of Natural, Applied & Health Science, NJCSTM 6th Floor: College of Business & Public Management, Michael Graves College, Nathan Weiss Graduate College, Architecture Showcase ILSE Research Showcase: STEM 5th Floor Theatre Showcase: 9:30 a.m. STEM Lecture Hall, “Breathe In, Speak Out: A Mindful Theatre Experience for the Very Young”

Office of Research and Sponsored Programs Email: orsp@kean.edu Phone: 908-737-3461 RD website: research.kean.edu

Office of Research and Sponsored Programs

Email: orsp@kean.edu Phone: 908-737-3461

RD website: research.kean.edu