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Graduate Exhibition Archive of Award Winners

1993 Award Winners

Research Poster Option

Arts and Humanities

First Place

  • Marie Hornbeck Gillette. College of the Liberal Arts / Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. "Translation of Medieval Spanish Manuscripts onto CD-ROM for Study"

Second Place

  • Paul S. Briggs. College of Arts and Architecture / Art education. "Problems in Art and Christianity or Art and Society: Issues of Iconoclasm and Essentialism"
  • Delbert D. Doughty. College of the Liberal Arts / Comparative literature. "Alienation and Anger and Spite and Spleen: A History of the 'Underground Man'""

Third Place

  • Nancy Rose Sherer. Penn State Harrisburg / Humanities. "Who Are the Three Graces and Why Does Their Image Persist?: Iconography and Phenomenology Point to Temporality as Their Theme"

Engineering

Second Place

  • Amulya Kumar Garga. College of Engineering / Electrical/computer engineering. "Neural Network Design and Structural Training Using Voronoi Diagrams"
  • Paul A. T. Haris. College of Engineering / Electrical engineering. "Performance Analysis of the LAMP Rayleigh/Raman Lidar System"
  • Joseph M. Reinhardt. College of Engineering / Electrical/computer engineering. "Toward Efficient Morphological Shape Representation"
  • Christine A. Retherford. College of Engineering / Agricultural and biological engineering. "Greenhouse Container Water Content and Electric Conductivity Measurements"

Third Place

  • Chris Coulston. College of Engineering / Computer engineering. "A Biological-Based Neural Network Model of the Leech Local Bending Reflex"
  • Thomas H. D'Alfonso. College of Engineering / Agricultural engineering. "Stochastic Models of Nutrient Distribution in Poultry Diets"
  • Christopher W. Gabrys. College of Engineering / Engineering science and mechanics. "Advanced Energy Storage Flywheel Battery"
  • Brian G. Wiedner. College of Engineering / Aerospace engineering. "The Application of Liquid Crystal Thermography Techniques to Aero Propulsion Heat Transfer Research"
  • Jianyang Xie. College of Earth and Mineral Sciences / Fuel science. "Can Coal Water Fuel (CWF) Replace Oil? - Material Issues on Erosion and Deposition"

Honorable Mention

  • Christopher L. Davis. College of Engineering / Aerospace engineering. "A Modal Strain Energy Approach to the Prediction of Resistively-Shunted Piezoceramic Damping"
  • Leon W. Heisey. College of Engineering / Agricultural and biological engineering. "Automation of an Intermittent Overhead Sprinkling Frost Protection System for an Apple Orchard"
  • Michael J. Machulsky. College of Engineering / Electrical/computer engineering. "Dual-Polarization Microwave Remote Sensing of an Oklahoma Hailstorm"
  • Imed Eddine Mbarki. College of Engineering / Electrical/computer engineering. "Efficient Replicated Remote File Comparison"
  • Geb W. Thomas. College of Engineering / Industrial and management systems engineering. "Virtual Point-and-Direct Robotics"
  • Thomas M. Walsh. College of Engineering / Electrical/computer engineering. "Dual-Polarization Microwave Remote Sensing of an Oklahoma Hailstorm"

Health and Life Sciences

First Place

  • Holly F. Dressman. Eberly College of Science / Veterinary science. "Degenerate Primer-Directed, Polymerase Chain Reaction Assays for Variable Sequences Within the S1 Gene of Avian Infectious Bronchitis Virus (IBV)"
  • Peter A. Emanuel. Eberly College of Science / Cellular and molecular biology. "Participation of TAF's in the Recognition of Promoter Sequences"

Second Place

  • Magnus H. Johannsson. Eberly College of Science / Biology. "Environmental Effects on Male Success in Plants"
  • Moses Kariuki Njenga. College of Agricultural Sciences / Veterinary science. "Early Arterial Changes Associated with Marek's Disease Virus Infection in Chickens"
  • Mauricio Quesada. Intercollege Graduate Degree Program / Biology. "Environmental Effects on Male Success in Plants"

Third Place

  • Marie E. DeLorenzo. Intercollege Graduate Degree Program / Ecology. "Effects of Acidic Deposition on Algal Assemblages in Temporary Ponds"
  • Diana C. Emanuel. College of Health and Human Development / Communication disorders. "The Effects of Otitis Media with Effustion of the Auditory and Attention Systems of Children"
  • Scott M. LeGrand. Eberly College of Science / Biochemistry. "Genetic Algorithm-Based Conformational Search"
  • Steven John Ritter. Intercollege Graduate Degree Program / Nutrition. "n-(4 Hydroxyphenyl) retinamide (HPR) and Nephrectomy Alter Plasma Retinol and RBP Concentrations"
  • Cheryl L. Tarr. Eberly College of Science / Biology. "Systematics and Conservation Genetics of Hawaiian Honeycreepers"
  • James J. Zaczek. College of Agricultural Sciences / Forest resources. "Grafting-Mediated Meristem Selection Influences Rooting Success of Oak"

Honorable Mention

  • Heping Cao. Intercollege Graduate Degree Program / Plant physiology. "Bt1 Gene Encodes the Most Abundant and Organelle-Specific Proteins in Amyloplast Membranes of Developing Endosperm Cells of Maize"
  • Tong Kun Pai. Intercollege Graduate Degree Program / Nutrition. "Effects of Saturated and Monosaturated Fatty Acids on Cholestrogenesis and Lipogenesis in Hepatocyte Culture"
  • Tamara T. Reese. College of Agricultural Sciences / Veterinary science. "Interactions Between Chicken Macrophages and Lipopolysaccharide"
  • Eric M. Schaffer. Intercollege Graduate Degree Program / Nutrition. "The Chemopreventive Retinoid, N-(4-Hydroxyphenyl) retinamide, Induces Retinol-Binding Protein Secretion from Liver and Uptake by Kidney in the Rat"
  • Lisa H. Whitmer. College of Agricultural Sciences / Forest resources. "House Bat Maternity Colonies: Bat Boxes and Management Implications"
  • Patricia A. Zipfel. College of Medicine / Pharmacology. "Regulation of the Activation State of p21 by Transforming Growth Factor-B in Intestinal Epithelial Cells"

Physical Sciences

First Place

  • Stephan J. Stranick. Eberly College of Science / Chemistry. "The AC Scanning Tunneling Microscope: A New Tool for Studying Insulators"

Second Place

  • Bart W. Kimble. College of Engineering / Engineering science and mechanics. "Experimental Methods in Nonlinear Stability Analysis of Dynamical Systems"
  • Kevin W. Kinzie. College of Engineering / Aerospace engineering. "An Experimental Stud of Mixing in Supersonic Flow"

Third Place

  • James M. Adams. College of Engineering / Nuclear science and physics. "III-V Semiconductors: An Investigation of Surface Properties by Perturbed Angular Correlation Spectroscopy"
  • Craig R. Robinson. Eberly College of Science / Astronomy and astrophysics. "The Simultaneous Multiwavelength Campaign on the Cataclysmic Variable TT Ari:X-ray Photmetry and Spectroscopy with the ROSAT Satellite"

Honorable Mention

  • Anna Maria Agustsdottir. College of Earth and Mineral Sciences / Geosciences. "Volatile Release Rates Integrated Over Four Decades at Grimsvotn Volcano, Iceland"
  • Wei Xing Guo. College of Earth and Mineral Sciences / Geosciences. "Numerical Simulation of Temperature-Driven Air Flow and Oxygen transport in Soils with Applications"
  • Suzette Keefe Pangrle. College of Earth and Mineral Sciences / Materials science and engineering. "The Effect of Aging Media and Time of the Evolution of Porosity in Silica-based Ceramics"

Social and Behavioral Sciences

First Place

  • Stephen T. Sherry. College of the Liberal Arts / Anthropology. "Mismatch Distribution Analysis of Human mtDNA: New Evidence for Recent Episodes of Dramatic Population Growth"

Second Place

  • Vegavhini Subramaniam. College of the Liberal Arts / Sociology. "Do Model Minorities Earn More? The Case of Asian Indians in the United States"
  • Ann Julia Ward. College of the Liberal Arts / Anthropology. "Child Nutrition and Agricultural Development on the Highland Fringe of Papau New Guinea, 1977-1991"

Third Place

  • Julie A. Burnings. College of Education / Educational psychology and school psychology/SPLED. "The Effect of Repeated Listening Experiences on the Intelligibility of Synthesized Speech"
  • Eric J. Hanlon. College of Engineering / Architectural engineering. "Organizing Building Construction Information"
  • David B. McNaughton. College of Education / Educational psychology and school psychology/SPLED. "The Effect of Repeated Listening Experiences on the Intelligibility of Synthesized Speech"
  • John I. Messner. College of Engineering / Architectural engineering. "Organizing Building Construction Information"
  • David B. Yerger. College of Business Administration / Economics. "A Structural Test For Market Power With Application To The U.S. Wood Pulp Export Industry"

Previous Winners by Year

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