IVAN ALLEN COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER CONFERENCE          in association with GTRIC  

Friday, January 31, 2014, Hall Building, Room 102, 10am-6pm

10:05 am: Opening Remarks: Nekabari Goka (INTA)

10:10am-11:15am: National Innovation Systems

Chair: Jonah Bea-Taylor (HTS)

Taylor Smith (INTA), “Military Innovation in the Russian Federation”

Xiaojing Sun (SPP), “The Role of Public Policy and Markets in the Development of the Solar Energy Industry in China”

Jonathan Huang (INTA), “The Dilemma of and Strategy for a Defense Technology First-Mover: An Opportunities Framework for Military Investments in Emerging Science and Technology”

Jonah Bea-Taylor (HTS), “Nanotechnology in Thailand: defining the role of emerging technologies in achieving sustainable development”

 11:20-12:20pm: China, Technology, and National Development

Chair: Xiuli Sun (ECON)

Liang Yao (HTS), “Revisiting Chinese Nationalism: The National Products Movement and the Coca-Cola Protest in Shanghai, 1945-1949”

Xiuli Sun (ECON), “How Chinese Manufacturing Firms Get New Technology: To Innovate or to License?”

Tracy Hsiao (HTS), “The Evolution of American and Chinese Acupuncture”

Xiaoning Dai (HTS), “Beyond script: in search of the modern ‘nation-state’ through the National Language Romanization Movement and the Latinized New Script Movement in Republican China”

 12:20-12:35 pm: LUNCH BREAK

 12:35-1:25pm: Global Markets and Economics 

Chair: Mingge Wu (ECON)

Erin Sexton (INTA), “Storm Warnings: A Comparative Analysis of the International Climate of the 1930s and Today”

Ran Wang (ECON), “How is Price Discrimination Influenced by Cost Efficiency and Market Power?”

 1:30-2:35pm:  Power Industries

Chair: Alex Smith (SPP)

Noah Solomon (INTA), “Biofuels as a Solution to U.S. Navy Oil Dependence”

Hannah Weksler (HTS), “Electrified Chicken: Poultry Farming as an Outlet for Electrical Expansion in the Interwar Years (1910-1940)”

Madhusudan Kamat (CEE), “Lightning as a potential source for electricity production”

Alyse Taylor, ECE and Alex Cheu (EE), “International Smart Grid Survey to Develop Policy Recommendations for the Future U.S. Electric Grid”

 2:45-3:50pm:  Social Identity and Technology

Chair: Tom Jenkins (DM/LMC)

Michael Madaio (DM/LMC), “Distributed Cognition in the Classroom: Digital Texts, Students, and New Modes of Interaction

Christopher Lee DeLeon (DM/LMC), “Gameplay and Interaction Design Lessons Learned from 219 Daily Prototypes”

Sybrina Atwaters (HTS) “Mediating Deviance: Conflict and Contestation within the Sacred Corridors of 3-D (Three-Dimensional) Virtual Worlds”

Respondent: Michael Vogel, DM/LMC

 3:55-5:15pm: Technology in Urban Environments

Chair: Kelechi Uzochukwu (SPP)

Eric Joseph Chisholm (SPP), “Minor League Baseball Stadiums and Gentrification”

Kelechi Uzochukwu (SPP), “The Effects of Neighborhood Constructs on Childhood Obesity: Understanding Racial and Spatial Disparities”

Gloria Ross (HTS), “Mapping the Development of Atlanta's Food Deserts from 1980 – 2010”

Johann Weber (SPP), “Policy Analysis of Open Streets Programs as Policy Tools”

Mollie Taylor (INTA), “Collaboration of Inventors across Cities and Time”

Matt Cox (SPP), “Too Rich to Care? Following Carbon Emissions in 100 US Metropolitan Areas”

 5:15-6pm: Reception