Graduate Exhibition Archive of Award Winners
2002 Award Winners
Research Poster Option
Arts and Humanities
First Place
- Heather Michelle Norton. College of the Liberal Arts / Speech communications. "The Militia Watchdogs: Sounding the Alarm About Hate Groups in America"
Second Place
- Barbara Ann Gannon. College of the Liberal Arts / History. "Colored Comrades: Interracial Comradeship in the Grand Army of the Republic"
Third Place
- Hsiao-Jan Cheng. College of Arts and Architecture / Landscape architecture. "GIS for a Sense of Place"
- Danielle Marie Smith. College of the Liberal Arts / English. "Transgressive Desire in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde"
- Axel Utz. College of the Liberal Arts / History. "Before Western hegemony: Cultural exchange and the roots of Enlightenment"
- Jennifer Lynn Young. College of the Liberal Arts / Speech communications. "The New Media Coverage of Promise Keepers' Stand in the Gap Rally"
Engineering
First Place
- Jin Cao. College of Engineering / Chemical engineering. "Deposition Kinetics on Particles in a Dusty PECVD"
Second Place
- Aaron Mulivor. College of Engineering / Bioengineering. "The Role of the Glycocalyx During Inflammation"
- Charles W. Walker. College of Agricultural Sciences / Environmental pollution control. "The effect of organic amendments on nutrient removal in constructed wetland soil"
Third Place
- Eric Boyer. College of Engineering / Mechanical engineering. "Combustion of HTPB-Based Rocket Fuels Containing Nano-Sized Energetic Particles"
- Remegio B. Confesor. College of Agricultural Sciences / Agricultural and biological engineering. "Nitrogen and Phosphorus Movement From a Manure and Organic-Waste Composting Site"
- Sean Everest Auton Daisley. College of Engineering / Electrical engineering. "Rainfall Estimation form Microwave Attenuation Measurements at 35 GHz"
- Margaret Gitau. College of Engineering / Agricultural and biological engineering. "Determination of the Effectiveness of Phosphorus Control Practices"
- Grant Alexander Risha. College of Engineering / Mechanical engineering. "Combustion of HTPB-Based Rocket Fuels Containing Nano-Sized Energetic Particles"
- Ratna Rani Sharma. College of Agricultural Sciences / Agricultural and biological engineering. "Inactivation of E. Coli O157:H7 on Inoculated Alfalfa Seeds with Low Hydrostatic"
Health and Life Sciences
First Place
- Jenny Ledikwe. College of Health and Human Development / Nutrition. "Obesity and Under-nutrition: There is a Connection in Rural, Older Women"
- Fathima Ameena Nalim. College of Agricultural Sciences / Plant pathology. "Molecular phylogenetic analysis of Fusarium avenaceum"
Second Place
- Alicia Marie Ellis. Intercollege Graduate Degree Program / Ecology. "Population response to climate change: A non-linear modeling approach"
- Rasika Kalamegham. Eberly College of Science / Biochemistry, microbiology and molecular biology. "Characterizing a Novel Glycogen Synthase Kinase (GSK)"
- Dae Joon Kim. Intercollege Graduate Degree Program / Integrative biosciences. "Enhanced Skin Carcinogenicity in PPAR b-NULL Mice"
Third Place
- Loren Benton Byrne. Intercollege Graduate Degree Program / Ecology. "The Soil Arthropods of Urban Lawns under High and Low Maintenance"
- Sharmishtha Dattagupta. Eberly College of Science / Biology. "Tissue Stable Isotope Compositions of Transplanted Hydrocarbon Seep Mussels"
- Bart-Gerard Callay De Jonghe. Intercollege Graduate Degree Program / Nutrition. "Birth order is not associated with overweight status among young girls or to inc"
- Jozsef Geml. College of Agricultural Sciences / Plant pathology. "Molecular evolution and cultivation of agaricus species"
- Nancy A. Johnston. College of Health and Human Development / Nursing. "Minimally Invasive Techniques to Monitor Immune/Endocrine System Activation"
- Abid Abdulaziz Kazi. College of Agricultural Sciences / Entomology. "Characterization of Heterorhabditis bacteriophora surface coat proteins"
- Joel Mcneal. Eberly College of Science / Biology. "Systematics and Molecular Evolution of the Parasitic Plant Genus Cuscuta"
- Emily Elizabeth Phillips. College of Agricultural Sciences / Ecology. "Brook Trout and Blacknose Dace Metrics as Indicators of Episodic Acidification"
- Shiva Kumar Tyagarajan. Eberly College of Science / Biochemistry, microbiology and molecular biology. "Investigation of Different JCV Genotypes And Their Altered Pathogenicity"
Physical Sciences and Mathematics
First Place
- Jason Robert Stairs. Eberly College of Science / Chemistry. "Study of Delayed Ionization in the Zirconium Metallocarbohedrene (Met-Car)"
Second Place
- Eric Wisniewski. Eberly College of Science / Chemistry. "A New Time-of-Flight Gating Method for Analyzing Kinetic Energy Release"
Third Place
- Malati Raghunath. Eberly College of Science / Chemistry. "Ferrocene based chiral metal catalysts - Design, Synthesis and Applications"
Social and Behavioral Sciences
First Place
- Michael Aitkenhead. College of the Liberal Arts / Anthropology. "Modeling Infectious Disease Dynamics in Modern and Pre-industrial Societies"
Second Place
- Kristina Elaine Gibson. College of Earth and Mineral Sciences / Geography. "'11,000 vacant lots, why take our garden plots?' NYC Community Gardens"
- Claire M. Kamp Dush. College of Health and Human Development / Human development and family studies. "Premarital Cohabitation and Marital Quality and Stability: Change Across Cohorts?"
- Denise Kathleen Wallin. College of the Liberal Arts / Demography. "Why Stay Married? Rewards, Barriers and Marital Stability"
- Carl John Wendt. College of the Liberal Arts / Anthropology. "Archaeological Investigations at an Olmec Community"
Third Place
- Manal Boushra. College of Communications / Media Studies. "Being "green": environmental attitude and purchasing behavior"
- Emily Denman Hansel. College of Agricultural Sciences / Forest resources. "Private Riparian Landowners' Attitudes on Conversation: Jacobs Creek Watershed"
- Rosemarie Patricia Krebs. College of Health and Human Development / Hotel, restaurant and institutional management. "Role of managerial support and coping skills as a moderator to EL outcomes"
- Shih-Chiung Lai. College of Health and Human Development / Kinesiology. "The Application of Information Entropy"
- Sojourner Ruth Marable. College of Communications / Media Studies. "Being "green": environmental attitude and purchasing behavior"
- Gottfried Mayer-Kress. College of Health and Human Development / Kinesiology. "The Application of Information Entropy"
- Tracey Ellen Rizzuto. College of the Liberal Arts / Psychology. "Longitudinal Effects of Technology Implementation on Work Attitudes"
- Kosha Darlington Sabin. College of the Liberal Arts / Psychology. "Who Dunnit: Mood, Information Processing, and Group Problem-Solving"
- Jacob Sosnoff. College of Health and Human Development / Kinesiology. "The Application of Information Entropy"
Performance Option
First Place
- Sik Lai Sung. College of Arts and Architecture / Piano pedagogy and performance. "Ravel's Alborada del gracioso (Morning-Song of the Jester) and Chopin's Black Key Etude"
Second Place
- Tyrus Matthew Lemerande. College of Arts and Architecture / Theatre arts. "A Little Touch of Harry in the Night"
Third Place
- Ginna Mary Virginia Hoben. College of Arts and Architecture / Theatre arts. "pierced!"
Visual Arts Option
First Place
- B. Jenny Ann Rogers. College of Arts and Architecture / Art. "Painting Entry - Drawlings"
Second Place
- Matthew Steven Everett. College of Arts and Architecture / Art. "Painting Entry - Matt Waiting, Matt Waiting"
Third Place
- Harriet Elizabeth Hacker. College of Arts and Architecture / Art. "Printmaking Entry - Past=Present"