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Graduate Exhibition Archive of Award Winners

1992 Award Winners

Research Poster Option

Arts and Humanities

First Place

  • Michael A. Tomor. College of Arts and Architecture / Art history. "Prophecy, Theology, and Analogy in Velazquez' The Forge of Vulcan: An Announcement of Resurrection and Salvation in Two Seventeenth-Century Spanish Paintings"

Second Place

  • Glenn R. Storey. College of the Liberal Arts / Anthropology. "Pompeii, Rome and Ostia: Population and Urban Civilization"

Honorable Mention

  • Enrico Pucci, Jr.. College of the Liberal Arts / Speech communications. "The Names Project AIDS Memorial Quilt: A Therapeutic Response to the National AIDS Crisis"

Engineering

First Place

  • Raviprakash R. Salagame. College of Engineering / Mechanical engineering. "Computer Aided Shape Optimization for Engineering Design"

Second Place

  • Robert W. Wunder. College of Engineering / Chemical engineering. "Modification/Design of Bimetallic Catalyst Surfaces"

Third Place

  • Sudha U. Kumar. College of Engineering / Electrical and computer engineering. "Text Data Extraction from Microfilm Images of Punched Cards"

Honorable Mention

  • Frederic A. Guerin. College of Engineering / Engineering science and mechanics. "Ferroelectric Ceramics: Fabrication, Characterization, and Applications"
  • Michael B. House. College of Engineering / Engineering science and mechanics. "Metal Matrix Composites: Fabrication, Laser Processing, and Micromechanical Modeling"
  • Raymond F. Hughes. College of Engineering / Engineering science and mechanics. "Ferroelectric Ceramics: Fabrication, Characterization, and Applications"
  • Michael H. Krane. College of Engineering / Aerospace engineering. "Velocity Measurements in a Turbulent Spot -- Implications for Boundary Layer Transition Sound Production"
  • Umesh Lalwani. College of Engineering / Civil engineering. "Evaluation and Prediction of Thermal Effects of the UAJA Wastewater Discharge on Spring Creek"
  • David Wayne Machuga. College of Engineering / Electrical engineering. "A Direct Doppler Detection Lidar System for Middle Atmosphere Winds"
  • Michael Macrorie. College of Engineering / Aerospace engineering. "Flow Visualization of an Unsteady Two-Dimensional Vortex Interacting with a Turbulent Boundary Layer"
  • Subha Maruvada. College of Engineering / Electrical engineering. "A Direct Doppler Detection Lidar System for Middle Atmosphere Winds"
  • Christopher E. McLean. College of Engineering / Aerospace engineering. "An Assessment of a Laser Diode Based Minature Laser Doppler Anemometer"
  • Kenneth C. Meinert, Jr.. College of Engineering / Engineering science and mechanics. "Metal Matrix Composites: Fabrication, Laser Processing, and Micromechanical Modeling"
  • Ioannis Papadakis. College of Engineering / Electrical engineering. "Visual Pattern Recognition Using Morphological Methods: An Artificial Neural Network Approach"
  • Hurriyet Polat. College of Earth and Mineral Sciences / Mineral sciences. "Determination and Manipulation of Electrostatic Charges on Spray Droplets of Surfactant Solutions and Fine Particles"
  • James G. Reisman. College of Engineering / Electrical engineering. "Visual Pattern Recognition Using Morphological Methods: An Artificial Neural Network Approach"

Engineering/Physical Science

Honorable Mention

  • Paul A. T. Haris. College of Engineering / Electrical engineering. "Latitudinal Distribution of Middle Atmospheric Structure (LADIMAS)"

Health and Life Sciences

First Place

  • Thomas L. Serfass. College of Agricultural Sciences / Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences. "River Otter Restoration: The Pennsylvania Experience"

Second Place

  • Jia Li. Eberly College of Science / Biology. "Sequence Evolution of a Non-expressed Gene and the Molecular Basis of Flagellar Antigenic Variations in Salmonella"
  • Lalitha Russell. College of Agricultural Sciences / Dairy and animal science. "Growth Hormone Treatment of Pigs Causes a Dramatic Down-regulation of the Gene for IGF-BP2 in the Liver"

Third Place

  • Randall L. Peper. College of Agricultural Sciences / Veterinary science. "Tumor Necrosis Factor alpha and the Pathogenesis of Influenza A Viral Pneumonia"

Honorable Mention

  • Robert P. Bennett. College of Medicine / Microbiology and Immunology. "A Functional Assembly Domain Shared by RSV and HIV"
  • Carolyn G. Engstrom. College of Agricultural Sciences / Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences. "Development and Test of Remote Marking techniques for Red Squirrels"
  • Simon J. McQueen-Mason. Intercollege Graduate Degree Program / Plant physiology. "Proteins That Induce Cell Wall Expansion in Plants"
  • Jane Haynes Pierzga. Intercollege Graduate Degree Program / Exercise and sport science. "Quantification of Spatial Relationships Between Neuromuscular Junctions and Microvessels in Hamster Cremaster Muscle"
  • Elizabeth R. Sharlow. Intercollege Graduate Degree Program / Genetics. "Age-associated Decreases in Immune Response: 1ck mRNA Expression in a T-cell Enriched Murine Splenocyte Population"
  • James A. Strauss. Eberly College of Science / Biology. "Biomarkers of Aging: A Longitudinal Aging Study of Hematocrit, Glucose Tolerance, and Urine Concentrating Ability in a Barrier Maintained Population in HS Mice"
  • Inigo A. Zabalgogeazcoa. College of Agricultural Sciences / Plant pathology. "Studies of Commercial Varieties of Barley Which Contain an Unusual Virus-like, Sexually Transmitted Nucleic Acid"

Physical Sciences

First Place

  • Kyehyun Cho. College of Earth and Mineral Sciences / Materials science and engineering. "Design Changes for Decreasing Crevice Corrosion Based on the IR>IR* Criterion"
  • George H. Kacandes. College of Earth and Mineral Sciences / Geosciences. "The Chemical Kinetics of the Smectite to Illite Reaction: How Mud Turns to Shale"

Third Place

  • Windsor A. Morgan, Jr.. Eberly College of Science / Astronomy and astrophysics. "Soft X-Ray Spectral Properties of Quasars"

Honorable Mention

  • Ta-king Chen. Eberly College of Science / Chemistry. "Construction of Carbon Nano-Electrodes and Their Use to Monitor Neurotransmitters at a Single Human Synapse"
  • Craig R. Robinson. Eberly College of Science / Astronomy and astrophysics. "ROSAT High Resolution Imager Observations of the Soft X-Ray Emitting Pulsar PSR0656+14"
  • Timothy G. Strein. Eberly College of Science / Chemistry. "Construction of Carbon Nano-Electrodes and Their Use to Monitor Neurotransmitters at a Single Human Synapse"
  • Richard J. Thompson. Eberly College of Science / Astronomy and astrophysics. "ROSAT High Resolution Imager Observations of the Soft X-Ray Emitting Pulsar PSR0656+14"

Social and Behavioral Sciences

First Place

  • Jeffrey T. Andre. College of Education / Psychology. "Measuring and Predicting the Effects of Alcohol on Visual Sensitivity"

Second Place

  • Barbara A. Hunter. College of Education / Psychology. "Token Resistance and Compliance to Sex among Men"

Third Place

  • Randall L. Peper. College of Agricultural Sciences / Veterinary science. "The Effects of Housing on the Research Performance of Laboratory Rabbits"
  • Geoffrey F. Turner. College of Health and Human Development / Human development and family studies. "By the Case or By the Bottle: Drinking Patterns Among Whites, Blacks, or Native Americans"
  • Mark T. Whary. College of Agricultural Sciences / Veterinary science. "The Effects of Housing on the Research Performance of Laboratory Rabbits"
  • Candice A. Yekel. College of the Liberal Arts / Psychology. "An Assessment of Spatial Skills and Their Experiential Correlates"

Honorable Mention

  • Anne C. Stone. College of the Liberal Arts / Anthropology. "Social Patterns among the Prehistoric Oneota Determined by DNA Analysis of Bone"

Previous Winners by Year

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