The Psychology Department's St. Mary's Projects (SMP) for Fall 2020 will be presented digitally as a result of the pandemic requirements put in place by the State of Maryland to limit the spread of COVID-19. We will be collecting and presenting our SMP posters and oral presentations through this website. Its contents are best viewed on a computer.
To view students' posters (available on Nov 23) or slideshow videos (available the day after they present) asynchronously, just click on the pages for Posters and Oral Presentations and then student's respective sub-pages (also linked below).
For Oral and Poster Presentations: If you are not the presenter or mentor, begin with your microphone muted*. When you enter the room, please verify that your microphone is muted. It should be by default. To check, put the mouse in the Blackboard Collaborate window and look at the microphone icon. If there is a slash through it and lines of the image are not colored, the microphone is muted. If the icon is green, please click on the microphone image to mute your microphone.
For Oral Presentations: If you have a question, type the question in the "chat" feature with an audience of "everyone". If you put your mouse in the Blackboard Collaborate session window, you should see a purple tab to the bottom right. Click on that and a horizontal panel of icons at the bottom right of the screen. Click on the speech bubble "Chat" icon, then type in your question. Be sure the drop-down audience menu in the chat window says "everyone". At the conclusion of the planned remarks in an oral presentation, the faculty mentor will begin asking questions of the student from the chat window in the order they appeared. *Time permitting, you can use the "raise hand" icon and then ask questions with an un-muted microphone if/when the presenter indicates it is allowed and calls on you.
For Poster Presentations: You may find it useful to open the presenter's Psychology SMP Portal Google Site Sub-page in a separate window from the one in which you have the Blackboard Collaborate window/session open (e.g., https://sites.google.com/smcm.edu/psycsmp-portal-fall2020/home/posters/paige-wilde) or simply use the view controls within Blackboard Collaborate to zoom-in on the shared JPG or PDF. That way you can hear/see the poster elevator talk and be able to look at the poster most clearly. At the conclusion of the planned remarks in a poster presentation, the student will respond to questions from the chat window in the order they appeared. *Time permitting, you can use the "raise hand" icon and then ask questions with an un-muted microphone if/when the presenter indicates it is allowed and calls on you.
Click the purple button in the bottom right-hand corner to find the chat
Audio/Video/Raise Hand
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2:00 p.m. - Paige Wilde, poster presentation of "Telehealth Rehabilitation for Physical Therapy Patients" (mentor: Jennifer Tickle)
2:30 p.m. - Ruby Turner, oral presentation of "Mental Health Help Seeking Among African American College Students" (mentor: Ayse Ikizler)
9:30 a.m. - Dominique Davenport, oral presentation of "'The Talk': Black Men's Racial Identity and Racial Socialization" (mentor: Scott Mirabile)
10:00 a.m. - Sofia Byrne, poster presentation of "Sexually Explicit Media's Effect on Sexual Behaviors and Fantasies, Sexual Scripts, and Relationship Satisfaction" (mentor: Scott Mirabile)
10:30 a.m. - Jonathan Parcell, poster presentation of "Mood and Arousal Hypothesis with Lyric-less Music "Moody Music" (mentor: Rich Platt)
11:00 a.m. - Carly Pollock, poster presentation of "Effects of Combined Nicotine and Ethanol Exposure on Drug Seeking Behaviors in Adult Rats" (mentor: Gina Fernandez)
11:30 a.m. - Shannon Kirk, poster presentation of "Impact of Fluoxetine on Neurodegeneration and Anxiety in Adolescent Rats Following Binge Alcohol Consumption" (mentor: Torry Dennis)
12:00 p.m. - Daniel Mixson, poster presentation of "Sexually Explicit Media's Effect and Relationship with Sexual Behaviors and Sexual False Self" (mentor: Scott Mirabile)
Note: Poster presenters will be available for their full 30-minute block to give an "elevator talk" of their project to whomever pops in to the session during the block and will answer questions as prompted. Oral presentations will last 20-minutes followed by Q&A.
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