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Fitzwater 102 is located in the Marlin Fitzwater Center for Communication on the Third Floor of the Library.
1:00-2:00
Frankly Health Website Editorial Board
Student Panel
Cole Dorman, Sarah Hendricks, Julia Crane, Carina Dillon, Alise Friel, Molly Jones, Alexandra Duddy, Betsy Coughlin, William Quinn, Samantha Casey, Emily James, Annabel Lee, Jocelyn Gagnon, Renee Corriveau, Rachael Wood, Dr. Bennett.
Franklin Pierce University students from the Health Sciences department continued to develop a health information website. The site’s mission statement is “To provide research-based information about important health and wellness topics. Written by undergraduates at Franklin Pierce University. For students by students: to help each other learn, grow, and do good work for themselves and the community.” It is in its second year. The approach that is most prominent is the creation and sharing of evidenced-based healthcare information in a form interesting and understandable by a wide university audience. Ongoing efforts include content creation, advertising and promotion of the website to the University, and creating a constitution for the organization. The product and the process will be discussed.
2:00-3:00
Virtual Walking Tour of Kimball Trail
Student Demonstration
Jillian Carty, et al.
In this demonstration, students in ES 301--Place, Community and Regional History--will take participants on a virtual tour along the Kimball Trail on campus. The following students--Jillian Carty, Frank Celona, Erin Egan, Maria Depierro, Miles Fah, Bill O'Donoghue, Teja Sandadi, and Emalee Frady--studied the forested land behind the football field which belonged to the Kimball family in the 1800s. They counted limb whorls, examined stone walls and explored an early subsistence farm site. Each student designed a trail sign which will be placed along the Kimball Trail this summer.
3:00-4:00
Student Paper Session
Taste Bud Evolution
Brianna Bourque
The research conducted aims to explain the evolution of taste buds from early hominids (apes) to modern day Homo sapiens (humans). Anatomical structure and organ intercommunication will be compared between animals like humans, apes, cats, dogs, mice, and flies. Evolutionary changes across mammal species show similarities in taste bud evolution, and structure. These resemble modern day genetic adaptations that allow many organisms to identify tastes, and to respond to and learn from food tasting experiences. Organismal taste buds are specialized to identify sweet, umami, salty, sour, and bitter flavors to help organisms protect their bodies from toxins, and to more easily discover nutritional foods. However, unlike most other mammals, humans do not have an extra set of taste buds to recognize water sources to maintain homeostasis. Yet, our learned experiences allow us to recognize what foods we need through cravings, and this ability helps us thrive in a variety of environments. Taste is important for survival and organ intercommunication, and helps organisms learn for future tasting experiences.
Dark Deeds in the Dutch Republic: Microhistory's Small but Powerful Lens
Roslyn Hodgkins
This presentation seeks to explore connections between social anxieties and religious instabilities in the Dutch Republic in the 1700s from the following perspectives. The presentation’s large-scale view will also incorporate evidence of how these faith-based turbulences manifested on the micro level. To explore this connection, the history Cunegonde’s Kidnapping: A Story of Religious Conflict in the Age of the Enlightenment as researched by Benjamin J. Kaplan will be employed as the main focus. This microhistory reveals unsettled social relations in the outskirts of the Dutch Republic that contradicts longstanding, common perceptions of the religiously-tolerant Dutch Republic. Microhistories continue to hold significance within the discipline of history because they reveal the perspectives of ordinary people, particularly those who lack public power. Such individuals tend to be marginalized or overlooked in macrohistories and traditional narratives involving political, military, economic or national themes. As this presentation will demonstrate, microhistories afford historians and readers a distinct and useful lens on dimensions of history playing out below the national radar. They yield insight into the mindset of local people that may otherwise be lost to us.