HSS 203	Seyda Türk Smith, Chair	Acculturation Symposium
8:30	Jayde Bello	Perceptions of suicide based on who and why: Ethnicity, location and cause matters
9:00	Joseph Camacho	Male Mindsets on Muscularity: A Study of Acculturation and Body Dissatisfaction
9:30	Gemma Datuin	Westernization and Attitudes Toward Gay and Lesbian Individuals Among University of Guam Students
10:00	Aaron San Nicolas	Acculturation and Gender Identity: Heterosexual College Students’ Gender Classifications of  Intersex, Transgender and Genderqueer Individuals
10:30	Katherine Mafnas	Hayi I Ma’gas Guini? (Who is in Charge Here)
11:00	Joanna Caasi Macaraeg	Psychological Distress and Help-seeking Attitudes of Cancer Patients and Caregivers on Guam
11:30	Jacquelin Meno Gouniai	Does Acculturation Define Well-being?: A Prototype Analysis of Psychological Well-being from the Chamorro and Filipino Students' Perspective

 

HSS 110	Stephen Acabado, Chair	Archaeology
10:00	Charmaine Ledesma	Hunting and domestication:  the Ifugao complementary system
10:15	Jacy Moore	Agricultural development and settlement patterns in early Ifugao societies
10:30	Mariana Sanders and John Peterson	Geoarchaeology in the Philippines:  Connecting People to their Landscapes
10:45	Peterson, Acabado, Ledesma, Moore, and Sanders	The Togcha Bridge Site:  A Chronicle of Ancient Coastal Settlement on Guam
11:00	Dixon, Schaefer, and McCurdy	Traditional Chamorro Farming Innovations During the Spanish and Philippine Contact Period on Northern Guam
11:15	Stephen Acabado	Community Archaeology:  Lessons from the 2012 Field Season of the Ifugao Archaeological Project
11:30	Joffrey Martinez	Ifugao, Philippines:  Understanding Migrational Patterns in the Old Kiyyangan Village
11:45	Lon Bulgrin	Ceramics from the Rosario House

 

HSS 101		Business
9:00	Kevin Ho	A Study on the Intention to Adopt Wireless Services on Guam
9:30	Daiji Fujii	Evolving Technological Capabilities in Turmoil
10:00	Martha G. Suez-Sales	Ethical Risk Assessment
10:30	Soon S. Jarng, Carl Swanson, Frank Lee and Joseph Zou	Hearing Aid Technology and Industry

  

HSS 301	John Moss, Chair	Education
9:00 – 10:00	Mark Ombrello and Danny Peck	Be the Moodle: Practical Applications of Online Technology in and out of the Classroom
10:00	John Moss	Discourses of Trouble and Discipline  The Psychiatricization of Educational Practice
10:30	Yukiko Inoue-Smith and Yoshikazu Nakayama	Vocational Motivation and Aspirations for Marriage among Undergraduate Women: The Case of Okayama University
2:30 – 3:30	Felicity Cruz Grandjean	A Conceptual Approach to Encourage Quality Child-Adult-Technology Interaction: Introducing the Storying With Technology Approach to Guam Parents
3:30	Bryan Bansil	Factors Influencing the Stress and Mental Health Status of College Students on Guam

 

HSS 305	Elizabeth Kelley Bowman, Chair	English
2:00	Leiana S. A. Naholowa'a	The Bio/Other Mother: Same-Sex Parenting in Guam's Legend of Sirena
2:30	Tabitha Espina	Palatable Experiences: Filipina Identity on Guam Through Three Generations
3:00	Arvin Novelo	Fractured Identity:  An Exploration of Monstrosity in the Videogame, Bioshock
3:30	Chris Hartig	NPR Argo Blogging Project

 

HSS 207	Amy Owen, Chair	Environmental & Life Sciences
1:00	Mohammad H. Golabi	Waste is a consequence of life - yet it is a resource that needs to be recovered in order to avoid future environmental crisis in Guam and other islands in Micronesia
1:30	Amy Owen	How does Guam’s culture relate to a sustainable economy?
2:00	Shubir Ghosh, Jeried Calaor, Shermaine Garcia, Rebecca Kim, and Gabriel M. Lapid	Exploring the Spastin Enzyme in Nerve Regeneration using Bioinformatics Databases
2:30	Shubir Ghosh, Jeried Calaor, Shermaine Garcia, Rebecca Kim, and Gabriel M. Lapid	Bioinformatics Analysis of Human BAP1 Tumor Suppressor: Targeting Potential Regulators as a Therapeutic

 

HSS 303	Michelle Blas, Chair	Gender Studies
1:00	Michael P. Perez	Gender Transcendence and Grace: Bridging Aesthetics and Social Dynamics in Women's Soccer/Football
1:30	Sarah Smith	The Reproductive Bodies of Transnational Women: Chuukese Reproduction in Guam
2:00	Jason Vest	Spike Lee and Black Women
2:30	Su Sie Kim	MMPI-2 Profiles in Relation to Complex PTSD of Female Sex Workers

 

HSS 305	Michelle Blas, Chair	Humanities
10:00	Jeffrey Meyer	An Exploration of the Meaning of Galant in the Late-Baroque Era
10:30	Curtis Rigsby	Nothingness & Teleology
11:00	Kim Skoog	Assessing Martydom:  A comparative and critical study of self-inflicted-death

 

HSS 306	Arun Swamy, Chair	International Relations
10:00	Yun-Chul Baek	A Research on the Guaranteed Fundamental Rights  of the Protection of Private Information in the Korea
10:30	Sungbum Jung	Network Organization: Essence
11:00	Ron McNinch	How Internet Driven Media and Social Synthesis Will Develop Global Human Power in East Asian in the Near Future:  The Guam Case of Social Integration Based on Television and Interactive Media Social Discussion from Talk Radio
11:30	James Sellmann and Richard Colfax	Global Soaring People from Guam and the USA in East Asia

 

HSS 303	Clarisa Quan, Chair	Linguistics
11:00	Hyun-Jong Hahm	Grammatical and Anaphoric Agreement in American Sign Language
11:30	Woon-Yoon Hyo	Differential pattern of reading Hangul and Hanja in Korean language

 

HSS 303	Lilnabeth P. Somera, Chair	Media Studies
9:00	Brenda Atalig	Identity is Malafunkshun: Modern Media as an Entangled Ritual
9:30	Lilnabeth P. Somera	“If we build it, they will come” (and eat!) : A content analysis of the social media presence of Guam restaurants

 

HSS 201	Todd Ames, Chair	Micronesian Studies
9:00	Carlos Madrid	The Importance of Manuscript Research for the History of the Marianas
9:30	Francisco Ruiz Aldereguia	The Spanish Galleons: origin and organization
10:00	David Atienza	The genesis of the Spanish Black Legend in the Marianas
10:30	Jessica Jordan	Living on "Islands Too Beautiful for their Names"
1:00	Todd Ames	Contemporary Maritime Culture in the Western Pacific: A Touch of Tradition
1:30	Andrew Romolo Orsini and Vinni Orsini	Revealing the Chamorro: A Socio-Historical Study
2:00	Ann Ames	Sustainability and the Micro-Finance Model
2:30 – 3:30	Lola Quan Bautista	Breadfruit & Open Spaces

 

HSS 306	David Atienza, Chair	Pacific Asian Studies
1:00	Ramel D. Tomaquin	The Mamanwas Culture in Transition
1:30	Joshua Gabriel S. Tobias	Across the Pacific - Defining What It Means to be Filipino
2:00	Laurie Ipanag Tumaneng	The ParticipAsian Problem: Exploring Low Political Participation among Asian Americans
2:30	Judit Erika Magyar	Alternative History: Person and Professional in the Reports of Mizuno Hironori
3:00 – 4:00	Natalia Chargualaf	UOG and East Asia: The Natural Connection

 

 

HSS 302	Anne Perez Hattori, Chair	Pacific History
9:30	Michael Clement Jr.	I Don’t Like it Sa’ ti Månnge’: Working-Class Chamorro Men, Country Western Songs and Counter-Hegemonic Discourse in Post-WWII Guam
10:00	Anne Perez Hattori	Betel Mania, from Culture to Cancer: Digestive and Discursive Uses of the Betel Nut (Areca catechu) on Guam
10:30	Evelyn Flores	Reclaiming the Suppressed Through Testimonio: Excavating Crucial Roles of Women in Subversive Acts of War and Political Struggle Through Oral Histories
11:00	Sharleen Santos-Bamba	The Literate Lives of Chamorro Women in Guam
11:30	James Perez Viernes	Big Navy’s Lady: Uncle Sam’s Legacy of Feminine Discourse and the Chamorros of Guam”

 

HSS 203	Mary Fegurgur & Iain Twaddle, Chairs	Clinical Psychology
1:00 – 2:00	Maressa Aguon, Jason Taitano, Yvette Guison, and Morgan Perry	Topics will include:  a) Chamorro  Father-daughter Relationship and Marital Satisfaction; b) The Effect of Spirituality and Marital Happiness ; c) A Profile of Guam's Youth with Juvenile Delinquency and High Recividism, and d) Exploratory study of Guam's Females with Conduct Behaviors.
2:00 – 3:00	Amy Romero, Camarin Meno, Jean Macalinao, and Alyssa Romine	Topics will include: 1) mental health care for Asian/Pacific Islander cancer patients in Guam; 2) multigenerational narratives of coping and resilience among Chamorro women victims of violence; 3) deconstructing images of poverty in the Philippines; and 4) experiences of stigma among Guam's federal parolees with a history of substance abuse.

 

HSS Atrium	Michael Ehlert, Chair	Experimental Psychology
10:00 – 3:00	PY 305 Students	Do you see what I see?  Do you hear what I hear?  Or, if a tree falls in the forest….
2:00 – 4:00	PY 210 Students	Investigating parameters of the Stroop effect: Poster session for Introduction to Experimental Psychology research projects

 

HSS 309	Joseph Zou, Chair	Science and Technology
9:30	Wai-Chi Lau	Ontological Implications of Quantum Entanglement
10:00	Aaron Cruz, Domingo Espinosa, Peter Kwon, Yi Liang and Zyrus Calaor	Developing Web-pages and vidoe using Multimedia Technology
10:30	Jose Olivares, James Digno, Rhea Rengulbai, Aurelio Billedo Jr., and Richard Taitano	Learning Software Development Based on Constructivism Learning Theory
11:00	Julius Bonifacio, Krital Taimanglo,  and Nyssa Galanto	Developing Software using Cooperative Learning Method
11:30	Chris Magtoto, David sablan, Mai Nguyen, Domien Fowler and Christianna Borja	Developing Digital Movie based on Software Engineering Principles

 

HSS 305	Michelle Blas, Chair	Taotaomona Studies
8:00	Michael Clement, Sr.	1001 Humbug Stories
8:30	Michelle Blas and Elizabeth Kelley Bowman	Honored Ancestor and Colonial Subject: The Taotaomo’na and Shakespeare’s Ariel
9:00	Clarisa Quan and  Marilyn Salas	Living Literature:  The Interplay between Narrative Structure and Common Themes in Taotaomona Stories