1997 Award Winners

Research Poster Option

Arts and Humanities

First Place

• Ihab M.K. Elzeyadi. College of Arts and Architecture / Architecture. "Designing for Visual Comfort in the Non-Orthogonal Office Space: The Physical, Psychological, and Social Effects of Tilted Windows on Employees Perceived Comfort in the Indoor Work Environment"

Second Place

• Heather Richardson Hayton. College of the Liberal Arts / Comparative literature. "Making Love Work: The Social Function of Desire in the Middle Ages"

Honorable Mention

• Don-John Dugas. College of the Liberal Arts / English. "Marketing the Bard: Jacob Tonson's 1709 Edition of The Works of Mr. William Shakespeare"
• Paola Gemme. College of the Liberal Arts / English. "Domesticating Foreign Struggles: Narratives of the Italian Risorgimento and American National Identity, 1820-1870"
• Deborah J. Santiago. College of Arts and Architecture / School of music. "An Investigation of Vocalization as an Instrumental Rehearsal Technique"

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Engineering

First Place

• Robert Todd Klaput. College of Engineering / Aerospace engineering. "Preliminary Study of Active Flow Control Around an Isolated Airfoil"

Second Place

• Edgard B. Carvalho. College of Engineering / Chemical engineering. "The Elicitation of Plant Root Cultures for the Production of Chemicals"
• Xian Liu. Intercollege Graduate Degree Program / Materials. "Submicron X7R Dielectric Materials"
• Colleen Diane Merritt. College of Engineering / Chemical engineering. "The Elicitation of Plant Root Cultures for the Production of Chemicals"
• Gary L. Neal, Jr.. College of Engineering / Mechanical engineering. "Global Workpiece Positioning System"

Third Place

• Roderick S. Thomas. College of Agricultural Sciences / Agricultural and biological engineering. "Development of a Programmable, Multiple Supplement Cattle Feeder for Pasture Use"
• Lily May Wang. Intercollege Graduate Degree Program / Acoustics. "Characterizing the Radiated Sound Field around a Violin Source using Planar Nearfield Acoustic Holography"

Honorable Mention

• Sajid H. Alavi. College of Agricultural Sciences / Agricultural and biological engineering. "A Dynamic Microbial Growth Model for Packaged Milk"
• Manjirnath Chatterjee. College of Engineering / Electrical engineering. "Automatic SPICE Netlist Generation from Schematic Diagrams using Feedforward Neural Networks"
• Tom Obuya Owino. College of Engineering / Agricultural and biological engineering. "Time Domain Reflectometry for Water Content Measurement in Greenhouse Growing Mediums"
• Gregory R. Simon. College of Engineering / Electrical engineering. "Automatic SPICE Netlist Generation from Schematic Diagrams using Feedforward Neural Networks"

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Health and Life Sciences

Second Place

• Jennifer Dawn Miller. Intercollege Graduate Degree Program / Plant physiology. "Ozone Induction of the Death Program"
• Jorge M. Vivanco. College of Agricultural Sciences / Plant pathology. "MIRABILIS EXPANSA, A Promising Crop from the Andes of Peru"
• Christina E. Wells. Intercollege Graduate Degree Program / Plant physiology. "Fine Root Turnover in Apple: Implications for Fruit Tree Physiology and Management"

Third Place

• Zucai Suo. Eberly College of Science / Chemistry. "How HIV-1 Reverse Transcriptase Reads through RNA Secondar Structures"
• Istvan Ali Urcuyo. Eberly College of Science / Biology. "Vestimentiferan Growth in the Hydrothermal Vent System of the Juan de Fuca Ridge"
• Michael P. Woods. Intercollege Graduate Degree Program / Cellular and molecular biology. "Elucidating the Ga13p-Gal80p-Gal4p Transcription Activation Switch"

Honorable Mention

• Derek Lindbergh Kalp. College of Arts and Architecture / Landscape architecture. "The Effect of the Exterior Environment on the Level of Engagement of Alzheimer's Disease Residents in Interior Spaces of an Alzheimer's Care Facility"
• Gina M. Pighetti. College of Agricultural Sciences / Veterinary science. "Dietary Vitamin E and Selenium Impairs Iron Internalization by Immune Cells"
• Chunlei Su. College of Agricultural Sciences / Veterinary science. "Isolation of Virulence Genes Expressed in Staphylococcus aureus by Subtrative Hybridization"
• Lisa M. Tarantino. Intercollege Graduate Degree Program / Genetics. "Mapping Genes for Alcohol-Related Traits in Mice"

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Physical Sciences

First Place

• Darren M. Williams. Eberly College of Science / Astronomy and astrophysics. "Habitable Moons around Extrasolar Giant Planets"

Second Place

• Lora L. Burns. College of Medicine / Biochemistry and molecular biology. "A Comparison of the Folding Mechanism of Three B-Sheet Proteins with Similar Structures"

Third Place

• Timothy D. Dunbar. Eberly College of Science / Chemistry. "Molecular Wires and Self-Assembled Monolayers"

Honorable Mention

• James G. Kushmerick. Eberly College of Science / Chemistry. "Absorption Dynamics of Benzene on Ni(110) at 4K"

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Social and Behavioral Sciences

First Place

• Myeong-Ho Sohn. College of the Liberal Arts / Psychology. "Does Practice Make Perfect? Well, not exactly."

Second Place

• Cynthia Pellock. College of Education / Adult education, instructional systems, and vocational and industrial education. "Community Costs of Technical Skills Deficits: A Pennsylvania Case Study"
• Alisa N. Strauss. College of the Liberal Arts / Anthropology. "Late Archaic Band Territoriality in Central Pennsylvania"
• Holly L. Tucker. College of Education / Adult education, instructional systems, and vocational and industrial education. "Community Costs of Technical Skills Deficits: A Pennsylvania Case Study"

Third Place

• Feng-Hsin Fiona Liu. College of Education / Adult education, instructional systems, and vocational and industrial education. "The Effectiveness of a Multiperspective Electronic Performance Support Systems (EPSS) in a Whole Language Reading, Writing, and Children's Literature Classroom"
• Natasha A. Milller. College of the Liberal Arts / Psychology. "An Investigation of Language Production Errors in Bilinguals"
• Mrutyunjay Sarangi. College of Agricultural Sciences / Agricultural economics and rural sociology. "Pattern of Fertility Decisions and Contraceptive Use in Rural India"
• Po-Ching Wang. College of Education / Adult education, instructional systems, and vocational and industrial education. "The Effectiveness of a Multiperspective Electronic Performance Support Systems (EPSS) in a Whole Language Reading, Writing, and Children's Literature Classroom"

Honorable Mention

• Stephanie L. Hyatt. College of Health and Human Development / Human development and family studies. "Modeling Stage Sequentional Data on Substance Use Using Latent Transitional Analysis"
• Hilary B. Kluger. College of the Liberal Arts / Anthropology. "Well-Being in Medieval Southern Europe: "Man Cannot Live by Bread Alone""
• Julie R. Kraut. College of the Liberal Arts / Economics. "A Dynamic Analysis of Young Women's Family Formation Decisions"
• Janet Kathryn Schulenberg. College of the Liberal Arts / Anthropology. "Well-Being in Medieval Southern Europe: "Man Cannot Live by Bread Alone""

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