Enriching our Communities
AGENDA

2006 Conference of Ford Fellows
October 20 and 21, 2006

The National Academies
2101 Constitution Ave., NW, Entrance on C Street
Washington, DC 20418

Friday, October 20, 2006

7:15–8:15 am	Buses to The National Academies Building Meet buses outside Key Bridge Marriott Hotel
7:30–9:00 am	Registration – all attendees must register C Street Entrance, National Academies Building
	Sign-Up – Publishers By Appointment
	Sign-Up – One-On-One Interviewing Skills
	Set up Posters – Rotunda
8:00–9:00 am	Working Breakfast for Liaisons and Planning Committee Members Room
	Continental Breakfast Great Hall
9:00–9:30 am	Welcoming Statements and Morning Sessions Auditorium
	Welcome of the Co-Chairs 2006 Yvette Huet-Hudson, University of North Carolina, Charlotte James Jackson, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
	Introduction of the Conference Planning Committee
	Welcome from the National Academies Harvey Fineberg, President of the Institute of Medicine
	Welcome from the Ford Foundation Irma McClaurin, Program Officer, Ford Foundation Ford Fellows Fund Jonathan Yorba, La Plaza de Cultura y Artes Foundation
9:30–10:30 am	Keynote Presentation—“Three the Hard Way: Living Dreams, Loving Life and Losing Tenure in a Post Katrina Environment” Calvin Mackie, Assoc. Prof of Mechanical Engineering, Tulane University, President, Channel ZerO Group
10:30–10:45 am	Break Great Hall
10:45–12:15	Plenary Session (Presentations by Fellows) Auditorium Frank R. Hall, The National Academies, “Is the Ocean Turning from a Base to an Acid? Making the Connection with Global Warming” Roberto G. Gonzales, University of California, Irvine, “Born in the Shadows: How the Sons and Daughters of Unauthorized Migrants Make Ends Meet” Monica A. Coleman, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, “Welcome Spirits: A Theological Construction of Mental Health Challenges (through the Lens of Spirit Possession)”
12:15–1:45 pm 12:30 – 1:00PM	Lunch Boxed Lunches in the Great Hall Poster Session Presenters Available Auditorium Gallery (upstairs) Ramona Austin, Yale University, “Nti Mfumu, Tree of the Chief: The Kongo Staff of Office and Mediation of the Consecrated Chiefs of the Lower Congo” Courtney Marie Bonam, Stanford University, “From Cities to Suburbs: The Implications of Racialized Space” Luz B. Gilbert, University of California, Berkeley, “Comparative Genomic Hybridizations: Assessing the Ability to Recover Evolutionary Relationships” Anna Gruben, Johns Hopkins University, “Civil Society Participation in Brazilian Health and Water Management: Why Decentralization is Not a Cure-All” Olivia Margit Hall, Cornell University, “Slow Food, Big Cheese: Poland in the Europe of Regions” Marco Hatch, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, “Identification of Archaeological Sockeye Salmon Remains as a Proxy for Detecting the Initiation of Reef-Net Fishing” Danielle Marie Holmes, University of Minnesota, “A Prospective Study of Childhood Maltreatment History and its Implications for Unresolved State of Mind in Early Adulthood” D. A. Hunter, City University of New York, “Effects of COX inhibitors on formalin-induced behaviors after estrogen treatment” Nataria T. Joseph, University of California, Los Angeles, “The Effects of Chronic Stress Burden on Psychological and Biological Trajectories of Ethnically Diverse HIV Seropositive Women: Is All Lost Or Is There Hope Through the Ways They Cope?” Sandra Leal, Washington University Medical School, “The Functional Roles of T-Box Genes in Early CNS Development” Lisa Lindeman, University of Wisconsin, Madison, “Do Emotional Burdens Feel Like Physical Burdens? The Root of Some Emotions in Embodied Cognition” Stephen Maldonado, California Institute of Technology, “Chemical Modification of Silicon Surfaces for Stable High Performance Photoelectrodes” Lymarie Maldonado-Baez, Johns Hopkins University, “Recruitment of Endocytic Scaffold Proteins by Clathrin Adaptors: a Requirement for the Progression of Receptor-mediated Endocytosis” Marion R. Martin, Stanford University, “Effects of reagent vibrational excitation on the CI + CD4 reaction” Adebola Osutongun, Georgia Institute of Technology, “Activity Based Approach to Functional Object Recognition” Chuck Striplen, University of California, Berkeley, “The Ecological Role of Pre-colonial Peoples in Central Coastal California: Observations on Ecosystem Management” Julian Vasquez-Heilig, Stanford University, “Progress and Learning of Urban Minorities Students in an Environment of Accountability” Auriel Willette, University of Wisconsin, Madison, “Environmental Context Affects Behavioral, Leukocyte, Cortisol and IL-6 Responses to Low Dose Endotoxemia in the Rhesus Monkey”
3:00–5:00 pm	One-on-One with Publishers Refectory
2:00–5:00 pm	One-on-One Advising Members Room
2:00–3:00 pm	Special Interest Sessions
	Public Advocacy Room 280 Moderator: Annie Belcourt-Dittloff, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center Participants: Alfonso Morales, University of Wisconsin, Madison Leonard Brown, Northeastern University Billie Jo Kipp, University of New Mexico The special interest session for public advocacy will feature discussion and interaction with three Ford Fellows. Dr. Leonard Brown, Dr. Billie Kipp, and Dr. Annie Belcourt-Dittloff will discuss the public advocacy within the academy. This session will take the form of a discussion circle for Fellows interested in issues to public health, public policy, social justice, and the sciences. The session will follow an open forum for Fellows to discuss potential avenues to address social justice within academia and beyond.  The session will provide an opportunity for Fellows to network with colleagues from diverse academic fields. Although this session will be facilitated with discussion points and resource information, Fellows will be encouraged to share their own personal experiences to create an open dialogue regarding issues pertaining to advocacy.

	Balancing Life and Career Room 150 Moderator: Yvette Huet Hudson, University of North Carolina, Charlotte Participants: Greg Florant, Colorado State University Rita Colon-Urban, SUNY at Old Westbury This session will tackle such issues as balancing career demands with family demands (spouse, children, parents, extended family), dealing with two career couples issues, making time to do other important things in your life, taking leave, etc.   Following brief presentations, there will be an opportunity for discussion of specific issues that attendees would like addressed.
	Dilemmas of Being Senior Faculty Room 250 Moderator: James Jackson, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Participants: JoAnn Moody, National Diversity Consultant Ines Talamantez, University of California, Santa Barbara Many faculty members feel that once tenure is achieved that they will be fully accepted members in their respective universities. Unfortunately, tenure is but one step in a larger process of accomplishment in the academy. What are the special problems that plague faculty of color once they achieve tenure?  This session will provide discussion and possible strategies to address some of the barriers that need to be overcome so that opportunities and statuses associated with senior faculty positions can be achieved.
	Sustaining Community Partnerships – Research Executive Dining Room Moderator: Juanita Dimas, Licensed Psychologist Participants: Manuel Pastor, University of California, Santa Cruz Alaka Wali, The Field Museum Neo Martinez, Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory This workshop explores a crucial question for many Ford fellows—how do we merge our commitment to working with and in historically under-resourced communities with our teaching? This workshop will attempt to cover both practical and ethical questions that emerge from this work. How do we grapple with the intrinsic power dynamics of community based-teaching and research even when we think we're doing socially progressive work?  How do we interrogate the power of the University to make sure that we don't exploit community partners as "a living laboratory" for "our students"? While we’re considering these larger questions, how do we tap into the financial and human resources we need to create successful partnerships? What do we do to make sure this work is recognized and respected by colleagues and promotion committees? And what do we mean by “teaching”? Where can that happen? The three presenters in this session come from different disciplinary backgrounds and work in different arenas: one with local communities, one with international communities and another, who has left the Academy, now incorporates teaching into her community work. We pledge to leave time for a robust discussion.

Publishing Books: What THEY Want Lecture Room Moderator: Franklin W. Knight, Johns Hopkins University Participants: Theresa May, University of Texas Press Seetha Srinivasan, University of Mississippi Press Ian Randle, Ian Randle Publishers Three large, successful but quite different academic publishers—Ian Randle Publishers, the University of Texas Press, and the University of Mississippi Press—will discuss the ways in which their academic presses make their selections and the requirements for making successful submissions. Academic publishing constitutes one of the most important aspects of a successful academic career and this session offers an excellent opportunity to de-mystify the process and gain valuable insights for Ford Fellows' future publishing.

	Negotiating for Success Room 180 Moderator: Otto Santa Ana, University of California, Los Angeles Participants: Daniel Solorzano, University of California, Los Angeles Ron Mickens, Clark Atlanta University In "Negotiating for Success," we will explore strategies for job negotiation that serve both fellows and their communities. Professional success in the academy is much harder to accomplish with a hat-in-hand relationship to the university or college. Moreover, with so much attention placed on salary and status, it is easy to overlook the substantive things that allow fellows to both partner with and support our constituencies outside of the Academy. The first task is to protect ourselves as we move toward tenure and promotion. The scholars on this panel will speak to fellows at all levels about that critical moment negotiation and job selection. How did they negotiate with their institution to enact their vision? What rewarding community partnerships did they strike up? What have they learned? What would they do differently? This workshop will discuss items to negotiate beyond salary, start up funds, and office space including: research and programming assistance and budgets, course releases, professional development funds, and funds and staff support for the work with students of color, community partnerships. Our goal is to empower fellows to empower themselves and the communities they care about.
	Writing for Your Life Board Room Moderator: Irma McClaurin, Writer, Anthropologist, and Program Officer at the Ford Foundation Participants: Janus Adams, Janus Adams Inc. Carroll Parrott Blue, University of Central Florida Debra Magpie Earling, University of Montana
3:15–4:15 pm	Special Interest Sessions (Part 2)
	Public Advocacy of Marginalized Communities Co-Moderators: David Bradley, BRC Acoustics & Technology Consulting Annie Belcourt-Dittloff, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center Participant: Robyn Lingo, Children’s Defense Fund Freedom Schools Room 280 This session will take the form of a discussion circle for Fellows interested in issues related to marginalized groups of ethnic minorities.  The particular groups that will be focused on include gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered (GLBT) people, Native American or Indigenous communities, as well persons with disabilities.  The session will follow an open forum for Fellows to discuss matters pertaining to advocacy within marginalized communities of ethnic minorities. Potential discussion topics include how to handle the double discrimination sometimes facing queer people of color and other underrepresented minorities, how faculty members can serve as mentors and role models for students with similar identities, and methods in which to increase public advocacy for 'minorities within a minority,' both within the marginalized community and in the general public. The session will also provide an opportunity for Fellows to network with people who share similar experiences, forming a safe space within the larger conference. Although this session will be facilitated with discussion points and resource information, Fellows will be encouraged to share their own personal experiences and to create an open dialogue.  The session will maintain a safe environment where confidentiality will be expected of all session participants.
	Balancing Life and Career Room 150 Moderator: Yvette Huet Hudson, University of North Carolina, Charlotte Participants: Greg Florant, Colorado State University Rita Colon-Urban, SUNY at Old Westbury
	Teaching Room 250 Moderator: James L. Rodriguez, San Diego State University Participants: Sidney Lemelle, Pomona College Deena Gonzalez, Loyola Marymount University This session will focus on teaching in classroom settings with varying levels of diversity, size, and student preparation. The session will focus on how to teach larger introductory or survey classes with students from a variety of cultural and disciplinary backgrounds and smaller seminar type classes with advanced students who often have specific expectations of the course and instructor that are aligned with educational and career goals. The session will also discuss advising and mentoring. Finally, this session will address teaching overall as a dimension of professional development. Within this discussion, there will be specific attention to the interpersonal dynamics between instructors and students and between students themselves and the affect of race/ethnicity, gender, and language on these dynamics.
	Sustaining Community Partnerships – Teaching Executive Dining Room Co-Moderators: Juanita Dimas, Licensed Psychologist David Simmons, University of South Carolina This workshop explores a crucial question for many Ford fellows—how do we merge our commitment to working with and in historically under-resourced communities with our teaching? This workshop will attempt to cover both practical and ethical questions that emerge from this work. How do we grapple with the intrinsic power dynamics of community based-teaching and research even when we think we're doing socially progressive work? How do we interrogate the power of the University to make sure that we don't exploit community partners as "a living laboratory" for "our students"? While we’re considering these larger questions, how do we tap into the financial and human resources we need to create successful partnerships? What do we do to make sure this work is recognized and respected by colleagues and promotion committees? And what do we mean by “teaching”? Where can that happen? The three presenters in this session come from different disciplinary backgrounds and work in different arenas: one with local communities, one with international communities and another, who has left the Academy, now incorporates teaching into her community work. We pledge to leave time for a robust discussion.
	Publishing Books: What YOU Want Lecture Room Moderator: Franklin Knight, Johns Hopkins University Participants: Irma McClaurin, Writer, Anthropologist, and Program Officer at the Ford Foundation Theresa Hernandez, University of Houston The specific requirements for publishing varies between disciplines and even individuals so this session is designed to review some of the needs of would-be authors and how they may expeditiously place their manuscripts.  Although the session will have presenters, the audience will be provided with ample opportunity to ventilate their specific needs.
	Negotiating for More Success Room 180 Moderator: Federico Subervi, Texas State University Participants: Ron Mickens, Clark Atlanta University Dianne Pinderhughes, University of Notre Dame Almost everything can be negotiated. The process begins when you are called in for the job interview and continues long after you land your first appointment.  The session will outline strategies for getting the support you need and deserve, both financially and professionally.
	Publishing Science Articles Board Room Moderator: Wilson Francisco, Arizona State University Participants: Susan Antón, New York University Frank Hall, The National Academies
4:30–6:00 pm	Academic Freedom Auditorium Moderator: Franklin W. Knight, Johns Hopkins University Participants: Miguel Tinker-Salas, Pomona College Mary Frances Berry, University of Pennsylvania Mary Frances Berry of the University of Pennsylvania, Miguel Tinker-Salas of Pomona College, and Franklin Knight of Johns Hopkins University will speak on their experiences and perceptions regarding the state of academic freedom in the United States, post 9/11. The session will provide ample time for Q&A and comment from the audience.
5:30—7:00 pm	Representatives from other Fellowship Programs and Resources Outside Auditorium Gary L. Garrison, Council for International Exchange of Scholars Alyson Reed, The National Postdoctoral Association Irelene P. Ricks, The Biotechnology Institute Cynthia R. Robinson, Science & Technology Policy Fellowships, American Association for the Advancement of Science Jean H. Shin, Minority Affairs Program, American Sociological Association Patricia M. Sokolove, Fellowship Training Program, Office of Intramural Training and Education, National Institutes of Health Bruce (Will) Morrison, Smithsonian Institution
6:00–8:00 pm	Reception Great Hall
6:30–8:30 pm	Buses to The Key Bridge Marriott Hotel Meet buses outside the C Street Entrance

The National Academies
2101 Constitution Ave., NW, Entrance on C Street
Washington, DC 20418

Saturday, October 21, 2006

7:30–8:30 am	Buses to The National Academies Building Meet buses outside Key Bridge Marriott Hotel
7:45–8:45 am	Continental Breakfast Great Hall
8:45–9:00 am	Announcements and Opening Sessions Auditorium
9:00- 10:00 am	Keynote Presentation—“Living in Two Worlds” Nancy B. Jackson, Deputy Director, International Security Center, Sandia National Laboratories
10:00–5:00	One-on-One with Publishers Refectory
10:00—5:00	One-on-One Advising Members Room
10:15–10:30 am	Break
10:30–11:30 am	Academic Exchange Sessions
	Philosophy and Religion Room 280 Moderator, Jualynne Dodson, Michigan State University Rhonda Gonzales, University of California, Los Angeles “You Can't Heal What You Don't Understand: Unearthing Early Religious Epistemologies in Pre-Colonial Tanzania” Cary Miller, University of California, Riverside “Ojibwe Leadership in the Early Nineteenth Century” Christopher Tirres, Harvey Mudd College “John Dewey, Religious Faith, and Mestizo Liturgy”
	Anthropology Room 150 Moderator, Erick Castellanos, Ramapo College of New Jersey Alex Chavez, University of Texas, Austin, ”Huapango Arribeño: Transnational Performance and the Mexican Immigrant Experience” Christopher Estrada, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, “Cultivating Continuity: The Ligas Camponesas, the MST, and the Interrupted History of Agrarian Reform in Brazil” Elizabeth Perez, University of Chicago Divinity School “Serving Afro-Cuban Gods on Chicago's South Side: Healing and Conversion to Santeria in one African-American Community”
	Physical Sciences and Mathematics Room 180 Moderator, Erika T. Camacho, Loyola Marymount University Marion Martin, Stanford University, “Effects of reagent vibrational excitation on the CI + CD4 reaction” James Mickens, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, “Diagnosing Message Drops in Cooperative Forwarding Systems” Ulrica Wilson, University of California, San Diego, “Classifying Division Algebras”
	Psychology (Clinical & Experimental) Lecture Room Moderator, Billie Jo Kipp, University of New Mexico Victoria Coleman, American University, “Obstetrician-Gynecologists’ Screening Patterns for Anxiety during Pregnancy” Lisa Lindeman, University of Wisconsin, Madison, “Do Emotional Burdens Feel Like Physical Burdens? The Roots of Some Emotions in Embodied Cognition” Monica Tsethlikai, University of California, Santa Cruz, “The Influence of Another Perspective on Children's Recall of Previously Misconstrued Events”
	Cultural Studies Auditorium Moderator, Kimberly Blockett, Smithsonian Institution Armando Garcia, Cornell University, “Theatres of Conquest: Mestizaje and the Haunting of the Postcolonial Imaginary” Lilia Raquel Rosas, University of Texas, Austin, “San Antonio of the Imagination: The Shaping of Sin City” Cord J. Whitaker, Duke University, “‘Race War’ in the Siege of Jerusalem and Africa”
	Sociology Board Room Moderator, Hokulani Aikau, University of Hawaii, Manoa Leisy Abrego, University of California, Los Angeles, “Transnational Families as Social Networks: Who Migrates and Who Does Not?” Alfonso Gonzales, University of California, Los Angeles, “Towards a Theory of Anti-Immigrant Politics in North America” Rocio Rosales, University of California, Los Angeles, “Loose Women in a Confining State: Liberating Ideology and Economic Constraints in Cuba”
	Biomedical Sciences & Molecular Biology Room 250 Moderator, Veronica Sandoval, Procter & Gamble Pharmaceuticals Christina Medina, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, “A Role for ARC, an Apoptosis Inhibitor, in Breast Cancer” Kileen Mershon, University of California, Los Angeles, “Generation of Recombinant Human IgGs Against GXM with Alterations in Effector Functions” OrLando Yarborough, Yale University, “Molecular mechanisms of WNK kinase blood pressure control and electrolyte homeostasis: Canine Transcriptome & Proteome Comparative Analysis”
11:30–12:30	Lunch Great Hall
1:00-2:30	Workshops by Level and Discipline Predoctoral & Dissertation Sciences Auditorium Co-Moderators: Erika Camacho, Loyola Marymount University Steve Wirkus, California State Polytechnic University Participant: Becky Marquez, Cornell University Graduate school begins with courses and finishes with research. To complete your PhD, you need to be successful in both of these areas. This workshop will attempt to give you suggestions and ideas on how to maximize your graduate experience. We will address various aspects the school graduate in the biological, physical, and natural sciences. We will talk about the first years of graduate school, including how to survive graduate school, taking courses, qualifying exams, and how to successfully transition into research with a good advisor.
	Predoctoral & Dissertation Humanities Board Room Moderator: Natalia Molina, University of California, San Diego Participants: Heather Williams, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Juan Mah y Busch, Loyola Marymount University Estevan Rael-Galvez, State Historian of New Mexico
	Predoctoral & Dissertation Social Sciences Lecture Room Moderator: Rhacel Parrenas, University of California, Davis Participants: Ethelene Whitmire, University of California, Los Angeles Vilna Bashi Treitler, Rutgers University Cynthia Feliciano, University of California, Irvine
	Jr. Faculty Quantitative Social Sciences & Sciences Room 280 Moderator: Yvette Huet-Hudson, University of North Carolina, Charlotte Participants: James Curry, University of Colorado Mark Lawson, University of California, San Diego Alfonso Morales, University of Wisconsin, Madison
	Jr. Faculty Humanities & Social Sciences Room 180 Moderator: Peniel Joseph, SUNY at Stony Brook Participants: Ben Vinson, Johns Hopkins University Geoffrey Ward, Northeastern University This workshop provides strategies for junior faculty in the social sciences and humanities. Discussion will cover a wide range of topics concerning junior faculty, including balancing scholarly commitment and social activism; securing publishing opportunities; successfully navigating departmental politics; and surviving the tenure process.  Junior faculty from underrepresented groups often emerge out of the isolation of graduate school only to find themselves on the margins of campus, departmental, and disciplined based cultures of academe. Thus, this workshop will discuss strategies for creating professional networks; balancing a personal life with professional responsibilities; and mentoring undergraduate, graduate, and, at times, colleagues.  It is our hope that this workshop fosters active and stimulating dialogue and encourages junior faculty to imagine their careers and possibilities inside of the academy in new and innovative ways.
	Postdoctoral Sciences Room 148 Moderator: Beronda Montgomery-Kaguri, Michigan State University Participants: Sekazi Mtingwa, Massachusetts Institute of Technology John Carlos Garza, Southwest Fisheries Science Center Ingrid Padilla, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Postdoctoral experience is a requirement for most academic careers in research science and engineering, as well as for many positions in industry and government.  As such, the importance of planning for a successful postdoctoral experience cannot be underestimated.  In this session, we will discuss the necessity of purposefully mapping out a postdoctoral research plan and the career beyond.  We will address timing, funding and institutional location of postdoctoral experiences, as well as strategies for choosing a supportive mentor and host laboratory, interacting with your mentor, and transitioning into the next career position.
	Postdoctoral Humanities Room 250 Moderator: Ernesto Chavez, University of Texas, El Paso Participants: Shanna Benjamin, Johnson C. Smith University Ula Taylor, University of California, Berkeley This workshop will deal with three issues: (1) How to use your fellowship year wisely and productively; (2) How to make sure your work gets published; and (3) How to ensure the attainment of tenure and promotion by making the right connections, publishing, and being an active member of the profession.  The presentations on these subjects will be brief allowing ample time for discussion.  We encourage the attendance of those who will be helped by the information provided, but also welcome scholars whose experience can enhance the conversation.
	Postdoctoral Social Sciences Room 150 Moderator: James Jackson, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Participants: Michelle Neyman Morris, California State University—Chico Iris Lopez, City College of New York This workshop provides strategies for junior and senior postdoctoral fellows in the social sciences. Discussion will cover a wide range of topics concerning goals of postdoctoral study in laboratory based and more humanistic disciplines, selecting an appropriate location, mentoring, and expectations of productivity. Other topics include issues related to job negotiation for junior faculty positions, e.g. job search, interviewing, salary, release time, travel funds, and how the postdoctoral experience relates to the tenure process. Both graduate students and mid-career faculty from underrepresented groups often find it difficult to be fully accepted in universities. It is our hope that this workshop fosters active and stimulating dialogue and provides prospective and active postdoctoral scholars strategies to open effective opportunities to move their careers in the academy in new and innovative ways.
2:45-3:45	Measuring Success in a Culture of Assessment Auditorium Moderator, James Jackson, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Participants: Sharon Collins, University of Illinois, Chicago Pauline Brooks, Independent Evaluation Consultant Molly Tovar, Director of Leadership and Scholars Relations, Gates Millennium Scholars Program The current culture of assessment requires all academics to find ways to demonstrate their success.  In particular, Ford Fellows need to understand the importance of measuring outcomes for themselves and programs in which they participate.  Through surveys, the inclusion of data in fellowship applications, and mid-term and final reports, Ford Fellows can help to demonstrate the value of the Ford Program and ensure its continuation in the future.
4:00-5:00 pm	Academic Exchange Sessions
	History Room 180 Moderator, Armando Alonzo, Texas A&M University Robert Alexander Gonzalez, Tulane University, “Pan-Americanism as a Model for Americanization, or vice versa: Comparing the Pan-American and Daughters of American Revolution Buildings in Washington, D.C.” Psyche Williams-Forson, University of Maryland, College Park, "What the Colored Women Need[s] is an Opportunity to Make Money": African American Women, Food Service, and the Railroad” Nazera Wright, University of Maryland, College Park, “Girlhood in African American Literature, 1880-1950”
	Counseling and Education Room 148 Moderator, Daniel Solozano, University of California, Los Angeles Grace Benigno, University of Maryland, “A Critical Social Perspective on Young Children’s Everyday Mathematical Events” Catherine Medrano, University of California, Santa Barbara, “The Smart vs. The Hardworking: The Academic Self-Concepts of Mexican-Descent GATE Students” Azucena Rangel, University of Texas, Austin, “Teacher Expectations, Self-Fulfilling Prophecy and Stigmatized Students?”
	Performance Studies, Art History, Ethnomusicology & Communication Auditorium Moderator, Eileen M. Hayes, University of North Texas Mark Broomfield, University of California, Riverside, “Dance of the Male Goddess” Desiree Garcia, Boston University, “Sound Possibilities: Race, Cinema, and the All-Black Cast Hollywood Musical” Lucia Suarez, Amherst College, “Citizenship and Dance in Brazil”
	Language, Literature, Linguistics Lecture Room Moderator, Joseph N. Clarke, Rice University Jeane Breinig, University of Alaska, “Haida Language Revitalization: From Decline to Growth in Three Short Years” Gloria Chacon, University of California, Santa Cruz, “Against the grain: Contemporary Mayas and the Production of Literature” Reginald Jackson, Princeton University, “Scripting the Moribund: The Genji Scrolls' Aesthetics of Decomposition”
	Social Sciences Room 150 Moderator, Kimberly Morrison, Stanford University Alvaro Huerta, University of California, Berkeley, “’The Answer is Blowin' in the Wind’: A Case Study of Latino Gardeners Organizing in Los Angeles” Steven McKay, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, “Born to Sail, Born to Serve? Racial Formation and the Filipino Niche in Global Shipping” Jamila Michener, University of Chicago, “Perceiving is Believing: African American Youth, Perception of Neighborhood Context and Political Trust”
	Biological Sciences Room 280 Moderator, Susan Anton, New York University Courtney Robinson, University of Wisconsin, Madison “A peek inside the black box: hillslope ecohydrological responses to simulated summer rainfall in Western Oregon” Shanna Williams, University of Florida “Orbit Shape Variation between Populations and the Sexes”
	Engineering Room 250 Moderator, Ingrid Padilla, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Ramón Colorado, Rice University, “Silica-coated Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes (SWNTs) for Incorporation into Functional Composites” Michelle Dawson, Harvard Medical School, “The Role of Mesenchymal Bone Marrow-derived Cells in Tumor Formation” Julia Rasooly, Stanford University, “Development of a Piezoelectric Microjet Injector for Transdermal Drug Delivery”
5:00–5:30 pm	Closing Auditorium
5:15–6:15 pm	Buses to The Key Bridge Marriott Hotel Meet buses outside the C Street Entrance