This Friday, May 25, 2012 from 10:00 am to 4:30 pm, please come to the Donald Kennedy Conference Room in The Haas Center for Public Service to hear the Public Service Scholars and the Andrea Naomi Leiderman Fellow present their Senior Honors Theses

10:00 to 10:25 AM – Andrea Naomi Leiderman fellow Presentation:

“Teaching Truth to (Em)Power: Engaging At-Risk Youth in Creating Community Change”

- Michael Tubbs (Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity), under the guidance of Bryan Brown, H. Samy Alim and         Tania Mitchell

10:30 to 11:45 am – Panel I

“The Short-Lived Community School: Limits of Schools as Social Interventions, 1889-2012”

- Jaclyn Le (Political Science), under the guidance of David Labaree

“The Birds, The Bees, And Everything In Between: Exploring The Factors That Influence The Sex Education Experiences Of African-American Youth”

- Mia Shaw (Human Biology), under the guidance of Lisa Medoff and Jennifer Wolf

“Exploring the Civic Identity Development of Diverse Youth in Service-Learning”

- Naomi Shachter (Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity), under the guidance of Anthony Antonio and Tania Mitchell

12:00 to 1:00 pm - LUNCH WILL BE SERVED

1:15 to 2:30 pm – PANEL II

“Sensitivity and Specificity of QuantiFERON-GIT with Addition of Pathogen Associated Molecular Patterns (PAMPS) in Diagnosing active mycobacterium Tuberculosis Infection”

- Lauren Platt (Human Biology), under the guidance of Niaz Banaei and Madeline Slater

“History, Violence, Land: Explaining Local Conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo”

- Caity Monroe (History), under the guidance of Richard Roberts and Sean Hanretta

“Transnational Identity: Intergenerational Differences in the Indian Tibetan Diaspora”

- Tenzin Seldon (Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity), under the guidance of Tanya Luhrmann and Tania Mitchell

2:45 to 4:00 pm – PANEL III

“Deconstructing Illness Experience: Exploring How Migrant and Seasonal Farm Workers in Oregon Perceive Diabetes”

- Rahael Gupta (Human Biology), under the guidance of Donald Barr

“How Parent’s Speech to Infants Varies with Socioeconomic Status and Relates to Children’s Language Outcomes”

- Stacey Christiansen (Human Biology), under the guidance of Anne Fernald and Adriana Weisleder