Schedule of oral presentations - Howard University, Graduate School

SCHEDULE OF ORAL PRESENTATIONS 

(ALL POSTERS WILL BE DISPLAYED FROM 9 A.M. TO 12:00 NOON IN THE 

BALLROOM OF THE BLACKBURN CENTER) SCHEDULE OF PRESENTATIONS 

ROOM 148 

ARTS AND HUMANITIES 

DIVISION 1 

9:00 A.M. -10:00AM 

9:00 – 9:05 Introductions by Moderators 

9:05 – 9:15 Annie Duru (Communication and Culture) 

Third Wave Feminism and Consciousness Raising of Nigerian Women 

Expatriates through Popular Culture 

9:15 – 9:25 Keisha Mathews (Communication Sciences and Disorders) 

An Examination of Assessment and Treatment Procedures for Bilingual 

Children with Language Disabilities 

9:25 – 9:35 Sonia Mae Brown (English) 

Male-Male Homoeroticism in Antony and Cleopatra 

9:35 – 9:55 Questions and Answers 

10:00 A.M. -11:00AM 


10:05 – 10:15 Kela Francis (English ) 

The Serious Side of Folly: Making Faces, the Internalized “Other,” and Jim 

Dixon’s Class Rebellion 

10:15 – 10:25 Whitney Gibson-Cooke (English) 

Thematic Recurrences in the Work of Victor Sejour 

10:25 – 10:35 Corey Lamont (English) 

“Ou Libéré?” (Are you free?): Paradox of Dis(Embodiment) in Edwidge 

Danticat’s Breath, Eyes and Memory 

10:35 – 10:55 Questions and Answers

11:00 A.M. -12:00 PM 


11:05 – 11:15 Angela McCovery (English) 

(Re)Visions of the Look: The Female Gaze in Jamaica Kincaid’s Annie 

John, Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory, and Jean Rhys’s Wide 

Sargasso Sea 

11:15 – 11:25 Kendra Parker (English) 

Revising the Classic Detective Tale: Hagar’s Daughter as a Medium for 

Social Change 

11:25 – 11:35 Candice Pitts (English) 

Configuring a Third Space: Beka Lamb’s Formulation of an Autonomous 

Identity in the Socio-Cultural and Political Matrices of Pre-Independent 

Belize 


12:00 PM- 1:00 PM 


12:05 – 12:15 Audrey-Ann Sairsingh-Mills (English) 

The Presence of Africa in Selected August Wilson’s Plays 

12:15 – 12:25 Imani Cheers (Mass Communication and Media Studies) 

“Controlling Our Images” Black Women Watching Living Single 

12:25 – 12:35 Nicole Files-Thompson (Mass Communication and Media Studies) 

The Economics of Baby Boy 


1:00 PM -2:00 PM 


1:05 – 1:15 Linda Jones (Mass Communication and Media Studies) 

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Snow Removal 

1:15 – 1:25 Ashley Torrence (Mass Communication and Media Studies) 

Can I Get an Amen? The Relationship between Call and Response and 

Church Membership 


HILLTOP LOUNGE 

SCHEDULE OF PRESENTATIONS 

BIOLOGICAL AND LIFE SCIENCES 

DIVISION 2 

9:00 AM -10:00 AM 


9:05 – 9:15 Fufa Temesgen (Biochemistry) 

The Eleven-nineteen Lysine-Rich Leukemia Protein (Ell) Assembles 

Multiprotein Complexes Containing Transcription Elongation Factors and 

Epigenetic Signaling Molecules 

9:15 – 9:25 Christopher Agard (Biology) 

The Effects of Caudal Autotomy on Righting Behavior in Sceloporus 

Jarrovii 


10:00 AM -11:00 AM 


10:05 – 10:15 Nabanita Kundu (Biology) 

Role of Sumoylation and Phosphorylation: Arabidopsis Scaffold Protein- 

Receptor for Activated C Kinase 1 (RACK1) Mediated Protein-Protein 

Interactions 

10:15 – 10:25 Subhas Mukherjee (Biology) 

SOD2, the Principal Scavenger of Mitochondrial Superoxide, Is Essential 

for Adult Survival but Dispensable for Pre-Adult Development 

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10:25 – 10:35 Daniel Oyugi (Biology) 

Characterization of Major Anticancer Agents in Vernonia Amygdalina 

Fractions 


11:00 AM -12:00 PM 


11:05 – 11:15 Damien Myers (Genetics and Human Genetics) 

Interrogation of the Promoter Region of Chromodomain Helicase DNA- 

Binding Gene 5- A High GC-Rich Region Frequently Hypermethylated in 

Human Cancer 

11:15 – 11:25 Akua Boateng (Nutritional Sciences) 

Estimate of Zinc Deficiency in the Ghanaian Population through the use of 

Phytate and Zinc Values in Common Foods 

11:25 – 11:35 Martha Gay (Pharmacology) 

Caffeine Promotes Cell Survival and Proliferation in Human Prostate 

Cancer Cells 


12:00 PM -1:00 PM 


12:05 – 12:15 Carlana Ramlochansingh (Pharmacology) 

Combination of Low Alcohol and Nicotine Concentrations Leads to 

Apoptosis in SH-SY5Y Cells 

12:15 – 12:25 Chintan Bhanushali (Pharmaceutical Sciences) 

Abdominal Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome in African American: Effect 

of Alcohol, Smoking and Depression 

12:25 – 12:35 Amanda ElBassiouny (Psychology) 

Components of Religious Identity as both Individual and Social 

Dimensions 


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1:00 PM - 2:00 PM 


1:05 – 1:15 Shayla Hart (Psychology) 

Retrospective Memory and Working Memory as Predictors of Prospective 

Memory Performance 

1:15 – 1:25 Ayanna Shivers (Psychology) 

Social Support Dissected: Sources of Support and their Impacts on 

Aspects of Health and Well-being. 

1:25 – 1:35 Candice Wallace (Psychology) 

Racial identity moderates the impact of ostracism and the race of the 

source on self-esteem for African-Americans. 


2:00 PM – 3:00 PM 


2:05 – 2:15 Veronica Womack (Psychology) 

Coping strategies moderate the relationship between cultural mistrust and 

perceived stress in African Americans 

2:15 – 2:25 Brittney Autry (Psychology) 

Race Self Complexity: The Representation of the Family within 

Autobiographical Memories of Race 



ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES 

DIVISION 3 

ROOM 150 

9:00 AM -10:00 AM 


9:05 – 9:15 Yaitza Luna-Cruz (Atmospheric Sciences) 

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Investigating the Impact of Saharan Dust on Tropical Cyclones using 

Airborne Measurement from the NASA DC-8 

9:15 – 9:25 Moses Ukaoma (Chemical Engineering) 

An Investigation of Biotransformation and Bioaccumulation of 

Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) in Vermicompost Systems Using 

Eisenia Foetida Earthworms 

9:25 – 9:35 Yakini Brandy (Chemistry) 

An Improved Synthesis of Symmetrical and Unsymmetrical Imido- 

Naphthoquinone Derivatives as Potential Anticancer Compounds 


10:00 AM -11:00 AM 


10:05 – 10:15 Pogisego Dinake (Chemistry) 

Selective Recognition of Mercury (II) Using New Conformationally 

Preorganized Fluorogenic Calixarenes 

10:15 – 10:25 Esther Effiong (Chemistry) 

Air Quality and Spatial Distribution of Atmospheric Aerosol in NW 

Washington, DC Airshed 

10:25 – 10:35 Malik Lewis (Chemistry) 

Synthesis and Characterization of a Small Library of Dithiocarbamate 

Ester Analogs of Gallic Acid 

for Anticancer Studies 


11:00 AM -12:00 PM 


11:05 – 11:15 Moussa Doumbia (Mathematics) 

Relationships between Malaria Prevalence and Mosquito Populations in 

both Irrigated and Non-irrigated Regions 

11:15 – 11:25 Timothy Myers (Mathematics) 

Some Applications of the Sequence 1,5,22,93, 386,… to Ordered Trees 

and Mountain Range Paths 

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10:25 – 10:35 Dev Phulara (Mathematics) 

Synthesis and Characterization of a Small Library of Dithiocarbamate 

Ester Analogs of Gallic Acid 

for Anticancer Studies 


12:00 PM -1:00 PM 


12:05 – 12:15 Daniel Casimir (Physics and Astronomy) 

Formation and Stability of Nanobubbles on Material Substrates. 

12:15 – 12:25 Philip Kurian (Physics and Astronomy) 

Markov Processes and the McEliece Cryptosystem 

12:25 – 12:35 Mbaye Mamadou (Physics and Astronomy) 

Anomalous Effective Dimensionality on Quantum Gas Adsorption Near 

Nanopores 


1:00 PM – 2:00 PM 


1:05 – 1:15 Dinku Adale (Systems and Computer Science) 

Image Steganography System by Cryptography and Encryption 

Techniques 

1:15 – 1:25 Nana Osafo (Systems and Computer Science) 

Malicious Software Threats in Ghana 

1:25 – 1: 40 Questions and Answers 


SOCIAL SCIENCES 

DIVISION 4 

9:00 AM- 5:00 PM Group (Gallery Lounge) 

2:00 PM-5:00 PM Group (Room 148) 

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9:00 AM- 5:00 PM Group 

9:00 AM -10:00 AM 


9:05 – 9:15 Marvette Abdu (African Studies) 

Education in Complex Emergencies and in Post Conflict Reconstruction: 

A Case Study of the Rwandan Genocide 

9:15 – 9:25 Christopher Daniels (African Studies) 

State Failure Piracy and Terrorism in an Inter-Connected World: Somalia 

as a Test Case for the Global Security Concerns of the 21 st Century 

9:25 – 9:35 Chika Ezeanya (African Studies) 

Education and Development in Africa: Indigenous Knowledge and 

Orthopedic Medicine in West Africa 


10:00 AM -11:00 AM 


10:05 – 10:15 Yohannes Haile (African Studies) 

A Critical Analysis of Employment Related Services as a Determinant of 

Employability among HOPE VI Residents 

10:15 – 10:25 Cara Moyers (African Studies) 

Projecting Nation: Cinema and the Creation of a National Identity in Post- 

Apartheid South Africa 

10:25 – 10:35 Salia Zouande (African Studies) 

Governance and democratic transition in Africa: Understanding “Ivoirité” 

and its repercussions on citizenship and nation-building in Côte d’Ivoire 


11:00 AM -12:00 PM 


11:15 – 11:25 Kirk Adair (Economics) 

Lab Attendance Rates and Academic Performance 

11:25 – 11:35 Effua Afful (Economics) 

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Globalization and Poverty: Differential Effects of Globalization on 

Poverty and Inequality Between Highly Globalized and Relatively Non- 

Globalized Countries 

11:35 – 11:45 Grant Erhuanga (Economics) 

Does Foreign Direct Investment play a significant role in the productivity 

growth of a country? 


12:00 PM -1:00 PM 


12:15 – 12:25 Belinda Mambo (Economics) 

Does Trade Composition have an Effect on Medium Run Growth? A Time 

Series Analysis based on 14 Developed and Underdeveloped Countries 

12:25 – 12:35 Maryam Vuai (Economics) 

Globalization and Income Inequality: A Case for Developing Countries 

12:35 – 12:45 Nicholle Hill (Education) 

Redefining Parent Abuse and Determining its Prevalence, Impact, and 

Risk Factors in the African American Community 


1:00 PM -2:00 PM 


1:05 – 1:15 Courtney Hives (Education) 

Reducing Recidivism in Adolescent African American Females Through 

Holistic Healing 

1:15 – 1:25 Camila Pereira (Education) 

An Examination of Title I Expenditures: A Case Study in the District of 

Columbia Public Elementary Schools 

1:25 – 1:35 Neisha-Ann Thompson (Education) 

All I Really Need to Know…I Learned in Kindergarten: An Evaluative 

Analysis of the Perceived Versus Actual Language Development of 

Hispanic Students in the Pre-Kindergarten Incentive Program 


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2:00 PM -3:00 PM 


2:05 – 2:15 Melinda Williams (Education) 

Utilization of a Womanist Perspective When Examining the Motivators 

and Barriers of Black Women’s Professional Attainment 

2:15 – 2:25 Melvin Barrolle (History) 

Identity Formation in Liberia: Exploring a New Paradigm 

2:25 – 2:35 Jude Daceus (History) 

Saint-Domingue a Difficult Case: Class Struggle before Marx 

1625-1791 


3:00 PM -4:00 PM 


3:05 – 3:15 Jametta Davis (History) 

Aren’t I an American? Black Women and the Great Depression 

3:15 – 3:25 Jarvis Hargrove (History) 

United States Navy and the Africa Squadron: The Role of Krumen in the 

Suppression of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade from West Africa 

3:25 – 3:35 Marcia Headley (History) 

Nineteenth Century Haiti through British West Indian Eyes 


4:00 PM -5:00 PM 


4:05 – 4:15 Myra Houser (History) 

Standing by the Main: A Brief History of the Southern Africa Project of 

the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights under Law 

4:15 – 4:25 Ronald Noel (History) 

African Initiatory Rites and Secret Societies: The Ethnic Disposition of the 

African Persona 

4:25 – 4:35 Pedro Rivera (History) 

Carlos A. Cooks: Bridging Two Eras of Black Nationalism 

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2:00 PM -5:00 PM Group 

2:00 PM -3:00 PM 


2:05 – 2:15 Stephen Graves (Political Science) 

Promoted to First Class: A Theoretical Approach to the Study of African 

American Identity, Citizenship, and Standing 

2:15 – 2:25 Caroline Harper (Political Science) 

The Ability of Specialized Programs to Provide Psycho-Social Support to 

Black Women with Breast Cancer 

2:25 – 2:35 Ravza Kan (Political Science) 

Turkey as "The Other" In the EU Discourse 

2:35 – 2:45 Laura Matias (Political Science) 

The Deconstruction of Knowledge: Understanding the Experiences of 

Illegal and Legal Hispanic Immigrants in the United States through 

Edward Said’s Conception of Orientalism and the Relationship Between 

Power, Knowledge and Representation 


3:00 PM -4:00 PM 


3:05 – 3:15 Nicholas Owen (Political Science) 

A Conceptual Way of Organizing International Affairs at Howard 

University 

3:15 – 3:25 Melissa Williams (Political Science) 

Vision for Unity: Free Movement of Labor under the Caribbean Single 

Market 

3:25 – 3:35 Charles Chukwuani (Social Work) 

Healthy Life for Depressed IGBO Immigrants: Utilizing Small Group as a 

Treatment Plan in Alleviating Depression Symptoms among Elderly 

IGBO Immigrants 

3:35 – 3:45 Elma Kaiser (Social Work) 

Stressed urban migration of rural women in Bangladesh: Challenges and 

coping strategies 

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3:45- 3:55 Questions and Answers 

4:00 PM -5:00 PM 


4:05 – 4:15 Amanda Bisset (Social Work) 

E. Franklin Frazier; A Pioneer in African American Studies and Race 

Relations 

4:15 – 4:25 Nicole Branch (Sociology and Anthropology) 

Perceptions of Howard University’s Presence in the Community: A 

Community Technical Assistance Project (CTAP) 

4:25 – 4:35 Bryan Ellis (Sociology and Anthropology) 

A Historical Materialist Analysis of the Labor of Black Males in 

Professional Sport in the United States: From Chattel Slavery to 

Globalization 

4:35 – 4:45 Camonia Long (Sociology and Anthropology) 

Breast Cancer in Young Women in Generation Y 



UNDERGRADUATE, POST DOCTORAL & PROFESSIONAL 

9:00 AM- 2:00 PM Group (ROOM 142) 

2:00 PM- 6:00 PM Group (Room 150) 

DIVISIONS 5, 6 

9:00 AM- 2:00 PM Group (ROOM 142) 

9:00 AM -10:00 AM 


9:05 – 9:15 Nana Brantuo (African Studies) 

Agriculture- The Road towards Economic Independence for Africa 

9:15 – 9:25 Tamara Williams (African Studies) 

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The Asian Conquest of African Beauty 


10:00 AM -11:00 AM 


10:05 – 9:15 Patrick Daley (Biology) 

The Effect of Fatty Acid Saturation and Unsaturation on the Properties of 

Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) Produced by Escherichia coli 4401-B 

10:15 – 10:25 Kionna Ervin (Biology) 

Edaphic and Density Effects on the Competitive Ability of the Ni- 

Hyperaccumulator Alyssum Murale 

10:25 – 10:35 Zakiya Qualls (Biology) 

The Importance of Non-Conserved Regions of the E. Coli Molecular 

Chaperone, CLPB in Protein Remodeling 


11:00 AM -11:40 PM 


11:05 – 11:15 Shavonne Collins (Microbiology) 

The Anticancer Drug, Doxorubicin, in Combination with Eosinophil 

Cultured Supernatants Inhibits MCF-7 Breast Cancer Cell Growth In Vitro 

11:15 – 11:25 Eunice Dixon (Pharmacology) 

Cytotoxicity of 1, 4-Napthoquinone Analogs in Androgen-Dependent and 

–Independent Prostate Cancer Cell Lines 


12:00 PM -1:00 PM 


12:05 – 12:15 Omar Harding (Political Science) 

Out with the Old and in with the New: A Triangulative Analysis of 

Gentrification 

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12:15 – 12:25 Adam Salters (Political Science) 

A Triangulative Analysis of the Effects of the World Wide Recession and 

the Negligence of the American Public Using the Capitalist Theory 

12:25 – 12:35 Aleja Parson (Psychology) 

Quality of Life despite HIV/AIDS: An Exploration of the Use of 

Alternative Treatments by HIV Positive African American Women 


1:00 PM -2:00 PM 


1:05 – 1:15 Brigee Jackson (Sociology and Anthropology) 

Dispelling the Rumors: Community Service in and around Howard 

University 

1:15 – 1:25 Jessica Stevenson (Sociology and Anthropology) 

Perceptions of the Pleasant Plains Community 

1:25 – 1:35 Marie Jose Villas Boas (Sociology and Anthropology) 

The Therapeutic Itinerary of African Brazilian Low-Income Families and 

Spirituality as a Source of Coping and Healing 

1:35 – 1:45 Howard Sueing (Systems and Computer Science) 

The Modeling and Analysis of the Washington Metropolitan Area Bus 

System as a Wireless Vehicular Node Network 

1:45-1:55 Questions and Answers 

2:00 PM- 6:00 PM Group (Room 150) 

2:00 PM -3:00 PM 


2:05 – 2:15 Stephen Greene (Dentistry) 

miRNA-101 Suppresses Cancer Cell Proliferation through Mediation of 

Cyclooxygenase 2 

2:15 – 2:25 R. Stewart McWilliams (Physics and Astronomy) 

Ultra-Fast Heating and Spectroscopy of Simple Molecules under Ultra- 

High Pressure 

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2:25 – 2:35 Bernard Kwabi-Addo (Medicine) 

The Role of Epigenetic DNA Methylation Changes and Prostate Cancer 

Disparity in African Americans and Caucasian Males 


3:00 PM -4:00 PM 


3:05 – 3:15 Olusola Obayomi-Davies (Surgery) 

Surgical Approach, Risks, and Outcomes of Paraesophageal Hiatal Hernia 

Repair: An Analysis of the Nationwide Inpatient Sample Database 

3:15 – 3:25 Bolorunduro Oluwaseyi (Surgery) 

National Incidence and Trends of Hospitalizations for Gunshot Injuries: A 

10 Year Review 

3:25 – 3:35 Tolulope Oyentunji (Surgery) 

Injured Children in Adult Level 1 Trauma Centers: Who Benefits from 

Added Specialized Care? 

3:35 – 3:45 Karleena Tuggle (Surgery) 

Laparoscopic Versus Open Appendectomy in Complicated 

Appendicitis: A Review of the NSQIP Database 


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