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Conference Schedule - 2013

Welcome back this Spring!

We wanted to reminder of the upcoming 7th Annual Research Conference (ARC); see www.utpa.edu/csbs-arc for details. The deadline for paper and poster submissions is February 4th. Undergraduate and graduate students are highly encouraged to participate!

This year the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences (CSBS) will holds its annual 7th ARC on April 11-12. 2013. The theme this year is “Educating Our Communities: The Science, Politics, & Pedagogy of Education in a Changing World.”

We wish to invite students to both participate in the poster competition/panels and to attend the ARC presentations.  The content of student posters should be related to the conference theme.

Below is a brief overview of 7th ARC events:

Thursday, April 11, 2013

8:00 am                                   Student Research Poster Competition (Location, 1st floor SBS)                                                    Judging from noon-1pm


List of Authors and Poster Titles:


Yvette Alaniz

Race and ethnic variations in relationship quality between parents- and children-in-laws

Cynthia Cantú

Inter-generational conflict among Hispanic families and social change

Cynthia Delgado, Yvette Hinojosa, Josephine Byrne

Political knowledge and engagement in the 2012 general election

Cesar Del Toro

The lost mind of revolution: Socioeconomics and its pedigree

Milan Dhir

Mass shootings: A mental health perspective

Javier Díaz, Iriss González, Angel Saavedra Cisneros, Agapito López

Mexican elections in times of Facebook

Diego Escalante, Claudia Galán

Studying abroad and its impact on politics

Jose Angel González

Public opinion towards immigration policy: Hidalgo county

Daniela Kuri, Karin Robles, Araceli Ramírez, Luis Correa, Krystal Hernandez, Emmanuel Culebro, Liliana López, Rebecca Nava, Amy A. Weimer

Parent and family factors as predictors of social behavior among Latino children

Deborah M. Lawton

Emotional regulation, family environment, and deliberate self-harm among Hispanic adolescents in south Texas

Janelle Martínez, Erika Valdez, Jesse Acosta, Edna Alfaro, Jessica Lavariega Monforti, Miguel Díaz-Barriga

Academic support from romantic partners and Latin@ students’ academic outcomes

Jayro Matías

Hispanic students attending college

Thalia Morín-Reyna

Barriers to breastfeeding on the Texas-Mexico border; Insights from WIC peer counselors

Yvette Muñoz, Denys Calderón, Edna Alfaro, Jessica Lavariega Monforti, Miguel Díaz-Barriga

Culture and academic outcomes

Rosa Olivares, Jiyong Koo, Nadia García, Ericka Mena, Edna Alfaro, Jessica Lavariega Monforti, Miguel Díaz-Barriga

Latin@ college students’ perception of barriers and academic outcomes

Victor Palacios

The long-term and short-term effects of bullying and its origins

Marissa Passons

Technological advances leading children to live a more sedentary lifestyle

Lisa Peña

Truancy among Hispanic middle and high school children in RGV

Mayeli Sabala

Deferred action: The latest immigration policy

Geoffrey Schwarz

Massive open on-line courses: Potentials and pitfalls

Geoffrey Schwarz, Victor Martínez

Cross border healthcare utilization and the national healthcare crisis

Judy Sifonte

Investigating the relationship of impulsivity with childhood trauma and psychopathy among college students

 

 

9:00 – 10:15 am

Roundtable One: (Location, Ballroom)

 

Building community: Living the Expectations of the Engaged University Experience at UTPA

Chair/Discussant:

Francisco Guajardo

Panelists:

Carlos Alvarado, Eric Booth, Ernesto Cantú, Javier Cantú, Lisa Prieto, Ernesto Ramírez

 

 

10:30 – 11:45 am

KEYNOTE: Dr. Miguel Guajardo, Texas State University (Location, Ballroom)

 

Mapping Our Story: Creating Communities of Inquiry

12:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Dr. Kerry Rockquemore, National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity (Location, ITT International Room)

 

Thinking Mentoring: How to Build Communities of Inclusion, Support & Accountability

Noon – 1:00 pm

Panel One: (Location, Ballroom)

 

The "DREAM ACT" and Beyond: The Future of Immigration Reform in 2013

Chair/Discussant:

Philip Ethridge

Panelists:

Alex Gómez-Clarke, Rosalva Resendiz, Celia Sánchez

 

 

1:10 pm – 2:25 pm

Paper Session One and Two

 

Paper Session One (Location: Cenizo Room)

Chair/Discussant:

Michiyo Hirai

Selene Cavazos

Drug testing & public assistance

Armando Peña, Michiyo Hirai

Attention retraining for female victims of sexual assault

Hector Peña

Attentional bias in sexually assaulted females

 

1:10 pm – 2:25 pm

Paper Session Two (Location: Bronc Room)

Chair/Discussant:

Jessica Lavariega Monforti

Lupe Flores

Revisiting the past, writing the present: Incorporating autoethnography and community narratives in new histories of the lower Rio Grande Valley

Paul Jorgensen

Pay to play: Political money in south Texas

Jessica Lavariega Monforti, Melissa Michelson, Annie Franco

Language, identity and vote choice: A survey experiment among Texas Republicans

Luz Murillo, Janine Schall

“They didn’t teach us well” Helping Mexican-origin university students develop academic literacies

 

 

2:30 pm – 3:45 pm

Paper Session Three: (Location, Bronc Room)

Chair/Discussant

Darrin Rogers

Monique Cano, Elizabeth Sommo

Safe schools healthy students initiative

Amy Cummins, Polet Garza

Young adult novels that educate about self-harm behaviors

Deborah Lawton, Emanuel Cervantes, Darrin Rogers

Associations between self-harm and sexually aggressive tendencies

Olga Real Najarro

Educating communities in mental health: The role of literature and voluntary organizations

 

 

2:30 pm – 3:45 pm

Roundtable Two: Hazards, Disasters, and Society (Location, Ballroom)

Chair/Discussant

Walter Díaz

Walter Díaz

Puerto Rico tsunami warning and mitigation program-LANTEX assessment surveys

Lynn Vincentnathan

Rights, wrongs, and climate change: Our harmful enlightenment paradigm

Havidán Rodríguez

Hazards, Disasters, and Society

 

4:30 – 6:00 pm

Paper Session Four: (Location, Ballroom)

Chair/Discussant

John Cook

David Carren

The three burials of Melquiades Estrada: An examination

John Cook

Implementing a course in difficult dialogues for valuing diversity: The employment of college course requirements for civic engagement and service earning in inculcating in a community value for diversity

Veronica Estrada, Maria Reyes

Las "Fresas" del valle: A growing student demographic in south Texas schools

Letitia Harding

Education for tomorrow: The role of the community in a student-focused educational model

Ernesto Ramírez

Beyond education to educación – aplicando sentipensante para cultivar la comunidad.

 

Friday, April 12, 2013


9:00 – 10:30 am

Meet & Greet for Students, Faculty & Staff
(Location: Ballroom Lobby & Bronc Room)
with light refreshments

10:35 – 11:50 am

Special Roundtable: Voter Education, Mobilization & Politics (Location, Ballroom)

 

Melissa Michelson, Ph.D. Mobilizing Inclusion: Increasing Latino Participation Through Get-out-the-Vote Campaigns
Eliza Alvarado, AACT Board President, Your Vote, Your Voice

Noon – 1:15 pm

Paper Session Five & Roundtable Three

 

Paper Session Five: (Location, Ballroom)

Chair/Discussant:

Edna Alfaro

Edna Alfaro, Jessica Lavariega Monforti, Miguel Diaz-Barriga

Mexican origin college students' self-efficacy

Jerwen Jou

Does false memory behave like true memory in the Sternberg Memory Search Paradigm: Revealing the nature of false memory

Sarah Stegall, Darrin Rogers, Emanuel Cervantes

The SIS: Development of a public-domain measure of random responding

 

 

Noon – 1:15 pm

Roundtable Three: Finding Oneself in a First-Year Educational Psychology Course: Developing Voice through Culturally Relevant Pedagogy (Location, Bronc Room)

Chair/Discussant:

Ernesto Ramírez

Panelists:

Ernesto Ramírez; Jose Saldívar, Michelle Alvarado

 

 

1:30 – 3:00 pm

Panel Two (Location, Ballroom)

Panel Two:

Sexual Aggression in Social, Cognitive, and Local Contexts

Chair/Discussant:

Darrin Rogers

Casandra Catache, Brenda Gómez

Responsibility in sexual coercion: Effects of perceiver acculturation, gender, and marital status

Emanuel Cervantes

Consequences of machismo value/experience inconsistency

Gustavo Martínez, Brittany Castro

Rape myth acceptance correlations and sexual abuse history

Lori Pérez, Samiha Cruz, Polet Garza

The crosswise technique for studying sexual aggression.

 

 

3:15 – 4:30 pm

Panel Three & Roundtable Four

Panel Three:

Genius, Lying, and Education (Location, Bronc Room)

Chair:

William Sokoloff

Panelists:

David Anshen, William Sokoloff, Francisco Villarreal

 

 

Roundtable Four:

Measuring Poverty Alleviation: Toward an effective framework of achieving poverty eradication (Location, Cenizo Room)

 

Javier Pérez

 

 

6:00 – 8:30 pm

Closing Ceremonies, By RSVP Only (Location, Ballroom)

 

Closing Remarks: Provost Havidán Rodríguez

 

 

 

Keynote: Kati Haycock, President, The Educational Trust
Achievement and Opportunity in America: Where are we? What’s next?

 

 

 

Performance by UTPA Ballet Folklórico

 

 

 

Banquet (by RSVP only)