College of Arts and Sciences Research Conference

Session: Environmental Water Issues: Bacteria, Algae and Chemicals
Chairperson: Atilla Tuncay, Department of Chemistry, Physics and Astronomy

• Challenges in microbial water quality monitoring on the Northern Indiana Beaches.
  Katarzyna Przybyla-Kelly, USGS, Great Lakes Science Center, Lake Michigan Ecological Research Station, Porter, IN
• Mechanistic Determinations in the Photocatalysis of Cladophora, a Lake Michigan Alga. Aditya Shah, Jennifer Susoreny, Julie Peller, Department of Chemistry

Keynote Speakers: Chuck Gallmeier and Stephanie Shanks-Meile, Indiana University Northwest

Title: Gravers: Deaners, Nat-Packers, Sheiks, and the Civil Religion of Dead Celebrity Icons

Keynote Speaker: Sarah Vowell

Reading Excerpts from: The Partly Cloudy Patriot and other works

Session: Analyzing images: Political propaganda, picture books and slasher films
Chairperson: Bill Allegrezza, Department of English

• Illustration, the Childlike Art. George Bodmer, Department of English