Graduate Exhibition Archive of Award Winners
2000 Award Winners
Research Poster Option
Arts and Humanities
First Place
- Elizabeth A. Archuleta. College of the Liberal Arts / English. "Cultural Capital of Pueblo Traditions"
- Heide Amante Crawford. College of the Liberal Arts / German. "German Ballads, Vampires and the Aesthetics of Horror"
Third Place
- Ching-Fang Lee. College of Arts and Architecture / Art education. "Reading the Signs: Spaces in Art Museums"
Engineering
First Place
- Arunkumar Sridharan. College of Engineering / Mechanical engineering. "Chemical Cleaning Effect on Performance of Steam Generator Tubes"
Second Place
- Angela Sue Fisher. College of Engineering / Environmental engineering. "Impact of Iron-Reducing Bacteria on Metals and Radionuclides-Interactions with Iron and Natural Organic Matter"
- Srinivasan Ramanathan. College of Engineering / Engineering science and mechanics. "Deicing of Rotorblades using Piezoelectric Actuators"
- Michael Martin Rubano. College of Engineering / Agricultural and biological engineering. "Turbidity as a Surrogate Measure for Suspended Sediment"
- Aaron B. Stephens. College of Agricultural Sciences / Agricultural and biological engineering. "NIR Spectroscopy as a Tool for Real-Time Determination of BOD5"
Third Place
- Suchada Butnark. College of Earth and Mineral Sciences / Fuel science. "Hydrogenation of Coal Tar Fractions and Refinery Streams for the Production of Thermally Stable Jet Fuel"
- Zhengyu Huang. College of Engineering / Nuclear engineering. "Thermal Performance Analyses of TMI NPP Auxiliary Condenser Cw Reduction and Diversion Using Integrated Optimization Procedure"
- William D. Suh. College of Engineering / Engineering science and mechanics. "Micro-Electro-Mechanical Gyroscope Based on Surface Acoustic Wave"
Health and Life Sciences
First Place
- Louise Helen Comas. Intercollege Graduate Degree Program / Plant physiology. "Assessing Root Death and Decomposition in a Study of Canopy Pruning in Concord Grapes"
- Patrick Joseph Drohan. College of Agricultural Sciences / Soil science. "Sugar Maple Decline Site Characteristics in Northern Pennsylvania"
- Ahmed H. Hassan. Eberly College of Science / Biochemistry, microbiology and molecular biology. "Searching for the Right Gene: How Regulatory Complexes Find Their Targets in Chromosomes"
- Susan Renee LeFevre. Intercollege Graduate Degree Program / Environmental pollution control. "Acid Stream Water Remediation using Limestone Sand: Preliminary Results"
- Kristen E. Neely. Eberly College of Science / Biochemistry, microbiology and molecular biology. "Searching for the Right Gene: How Regulatory Complexes Find Their Targets in Chromosomes"
Second Place
- Jason P. Andras. Eberly College of Science / Biology. "Sulfide Uptake by Buried Portions of Cold Seep Vestimentiferans can Sustain Autotrophic Carbon Fixation"
- William J. Dean. College of Health and Human Development / Kinesiology. "A Unified Account for Rhythmic and Discrete Actions"
- John Karl Freytag. Eberly College of Science / Biology. "Sulfide Uptake by Buried Portions of Cold Seep Vestimentiferans can Sustain Autotrophic Carbon Fixation"
- Rejane Lima Guimaraes. Intercollege Graduate Degree Program / Plant physiology. "Control of Green Mold by Tuber Extracts of a Rare Andean Plant"
- Cindy Ann Prins. Eberly College of Science / Biochemistry, microbiology and molecular biology. "Discovery of New Viral Proteins"
- Stefan Schaal. College of Health and Human Development / Kinesiology. "A Unified Account for Rhythmic and Discrete Actions"
Third Place
- Alyssa Courtney Bumbaugh. Intercollege Graduate Degree Program / Genetics. "Variation Among Legionella pneumophila Strains in the Ability to Invade and Multiply within Acanthamoeba"
- Tiffeny Hunter Cross. College of Agricultural Sciences / Pathobiology. "Molecular Cloning and Functional Characterization of Bovine SAPLIP"
- Caner Durucan. College of Earth and Mineral Sciences / Materials science and engineering. "A New Composite Material as Potential Bone Substitute"
- J. T. Echner. Eberly College of Science / Biology. "Living La Vida Tubeworm: Biology and Ecology of a Vestimentiferan Aggregation"
- Tina Marie Kish. College of Medicine / Cellular and molecular biology. "The Development of an HIV-1 SCID-hu Xenograft Model"
- Istvan Ali Urcuyo. Eberly College of Science / Biology. "Living La Vida Tubeworm: Biology and Ecology of a Vestimentiferan Aggregation"
Performance Option
First Place
- Milena Mateeva. College of Arts and Architecture / Performance. ""P.I. Tchaikovsky""
Second Place
- Dephanie W. Lilite. College of Arts and Architecture / Piano pedagogy and performance. ""Piano Sonata in F Minor, Op. 57, No. 23 Allegro ma non troppo" L.v. Beethoven"
Third Place
- Daniel A. Magill. College of Arts and Architecture / Theatre arts. ""Perspective""
Honorable Mention
- Lia M. Jensen. College of Arts and Architecture / Music theory and history. ""Maurice Ravel's Piano Concerto in G Major, First Movement""
Physical Sciences
First Place
- Caroline Marie Loop. Intercollege Graduate Degree Program / Geosciences. "The Alteration of Acid Mine Drainage Chemistry as a Result of the Addition of Fly and Bottom Ash to a Surface Mine Pool"
Second Place
- Rocco Malservisi. College of Earth and Mineral Sciences / Geosciences. "Australian Plate Deformations and Fiordland, New Zealand, Topography"
Third Place
- Stephen Fairhurst. Eberly College of Science / Physics. "Distorted Black Holes"
Social and Behavioral Sciences
First Place
- Shelley Kay Lund. College of Health and Human Development / Communication disorders. "Children's Pictorial Representations of Early Emerging Concepts: Implications for Augmentative and Alternative Communication"
- Janet Kathryn Schulenberg. College of the Liberal Arts / Anthropology. "Atomic Archaeology"
Second Place
- Craig David Morrow. College of the Liberal Arts / Psychology. "Relating Psychosocial Variables in High School to Alcohol Use Trajectories During the Transition to Young Adulthood"
- Lisa M. Stevenson. College of the Liberal Arts / Psychology. "Timing in Fluent Cognitive Skill"
- Natasha Tokowicz. College of the Liberal Arts / Psychology. "How Do "Glass" and "Culture" Differ?: Implications for Bilinguals"
Third Place
- Edward F. Boone, II. College of Business Administration / Business administration. "Bait & Switch: A Benefit to All, or a Benefit to Some?"
- Matthew Thomas Heberling. College of Agricultural Sciences / Agricultural economics. "Valuing the Benefits of Stream Restoration"
- Jennifer L. Juergens. College of Business Administration / Business administration. "Analysts' Long-Term Earnings Growth Forecasts: Wisdom or Wishful Thinking?"
Visual Arts Option
First Place
- Melissa A. Janssen. College of Arts and Architecture / Art. ""Beauty Marks""
Honorable Mention
- William E. Clarkson. College of Arts and Architecture / Art. "Untitled"