UpDate - Vol. 12, No. 28, Page 9
April 22, 1993
Annual conference features student research by women

     The Student Research on Women Conference, which highlights and
recognizes excellence in student research, will be held from 9 a.m.-4 p.m.,
Thursday, April 29, in the Collins Room of the Perkins Student Center and
from 9 a.m.- 3 p.m., Friday, April 30, in Bacchus Room at the Student
Center.
     Liane Sorenson, director of the Office of Women's Affairs and
executive director of the Commission on the Status of Women, and Kate
Conway-Turner, director of the Interdisciplinary Women's Studies Program,
will make the welcoming remarks at 9 a.m., Thursday. Mary Donaldson-Evans,
professor of languages and literatures and chairperson of the Commission on
the Status of Women, will welcome the group at 9 a.m., Friday.
     Presentations on Thursday begin at 9:15 a.m., with discussion periods
at 10:30 a.m., 11:55 a.m., 2:45 p.m. and 3:45 p.m. Lunch will be from
12:15-1:15 p.m.
     The presentations include
     "Nisei Daughter and Coming of Age in Mississippi: Implications of Race
and Gender in 20th Century America" by Laurie E. Adkins, history, 9:15
a.m.;
     "Female Inspiration in the Calvinist Netherlands (Selected Themes of
Devotion, Virtue and Service)" by Marie J. Keane, graduate student, art
history, 9:30 a.m.;
     "Making Meaning, Making Butter: The Material World of Chester County
Farm Women" by Karen Parsons, graduate student, history/material culture,
9:45 a.m.;
     "Minerva Parker Nichols: Pioneer American Woman Architect, 1861-1949"
by Kathleen Sinclair Wood, graduate student, art history, 10 a.m.;
     "An American's Irish Experience: Bessie Bringhurst's Letters from
Abroad, 1914-1919" by Katina L. Manko, graduate student, history, 10:15
a.m.;
     "Patriarchal Psycholinguistics: A Study of Female Construction in
Tobias Smollett's Roderick Random" by Julie O'Leary, graduate student,
English, 10:55 a.m.;
     "Deconstruction of the Binary in Woolf and Barnes" by Marianne Cordrey
Bloxom, graduate student, English, 11:10 a.m.;
     "Emily Dickinson, American Reviews and the 'Yorkshire Girls': The
Brontes' Early Reception in New England" by Christine Modey, graduate
student, English, 11:25 a.m.;
     "Anne Sexton: Transformation as Revision" by Pamela A. Vasile,
graduate student, English, 11:40 a.m.
     "Keeper of the Mysteries: The Essential Elements of Spiritual Rebirth
in the Poetry of H.D." by Jonathan I. Watkinson, English, 1:15 p.m.;
     "Completing the Literary Canon: Two Women Authors' Approaches to the
Woman's Search for Self" by Allison Bojarski, English, 1:30 p.m.;
     "A Flow of One's Own" by Amy Mazziotta, English, 1:45 p.m.;
     "Jane and Janie: Breaking Bars and Taking Charge" by Jennifer Johnson,
English, 2 p.m.;
     "Charlotte Brontes' Shirley: Falling" by Christopher Swanson, English,
     2:15 p.m.;
     "When Gender Intersects with Race: Wallace Thurman's The Blacker the
Berry... and Toni Morrison's Sula" by Allison Bojarski, English, 2:30 p.m.;
     "Integrating Gender into Development Planning: Theoretical Bases and
Policy Responses" by Nina Lauren Petrovich, graduate student, marine
policy, 3:15 p.m.; and
     "The Role of Gender in Integrated Coastal Management for Developing
Countries: The Case of Barbados" also by Petrovich, 3:30.
     Presentations on Friday begin at 9:15 a.m. Discussion periods will be
held at 10:30 a.m., 11:10 a.m., 12:15 p.m., 1:20 p.m and 2:10 p.m. Lunch
wil be held from 11:15 a.m..-noon.
     The presentations include
     "Physical Attractiveness and Its Implications" by Stephanie Victoria
Rohdieck, psychology, 9:15 a.m.;
     "The Classroom Climate: Are There Gender Difference for Today's
College Students?" by Dawn L. Curry, psychology, 9:30 a.m.;
     "The Mythology of Rape" by Linda J. Ebright, women's studies, 9:45 a.m.;
     "An Essay by Any Other Name..." by Kathryn Mitchell, psychology, 10 a.m.;
     "Current Attitudes toward Homosexuality: A Survey and Its
Implications" by Allison Bojarski, pyschology, 10:15 a.m.;
     "The Oral Contraceptive: A Preventative Drug of the Future" by
Kimberly D. Klonowski, biology, 10:55 a.m.;
     "Gender Divisions in Kindergarten: Peer Relations and Learning Center
Use" by Jennifer H. Adams, early childhood development and education, noon;
     "Daughters Giving Care to Aging Mothers: The Impact of Sibling
Relationships" by Rona J. Karasik, graduate student, family studies/
gerontology, 12:20 p.m.;
     "Women and Drugs: Toward a Feminist Perspective" by Kim A. Logio,
graduate student, sociology, 12:35 p.m.;
     "How Gender, Race and Class Oppression Can Explain the Health Status
of Elderly Black American Women" by Jan Burrows, graduate student,
sociology, 12:50 p.m.;
     "Resources and Limits: A Review of Theories of Forcible Rape" by
Frederika E. Schmitt, graduate student, sociology, 1:05 p.m.;
     "Women in Higher Education Administration: Eight Interviews" by Laura
McLaughlin, graduate student, educational development, 1:40 p.m.; and
     "Psychological Gender: Whose Role Is It Anyway? The Impact of
Androgyny and Gender Specific Behavior on Effective Leadership, Management
and Power in Organizations" by Julie Blaine Mitchell, graduate student,
business/communications, 1:55 p.m.
     A reception will follow the presentations at 2:30 p.m. At this time,
the graduate and undergraduate winners of the President's Award for
outstanding papers will be announced.
                                   -Sue Swyers Moncure