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Graduate Exhibition Archive of Award Winners

2015 Award Winners

Research Poster Option

Arts & Humanities

First Place

  • Abram Foley. The College of the Liberal Arts / ENGLISH. "Hambone's Call"

Second Place

  • Farah Abdel Galil. The College of Arts and Architecture / ARCHITECTURE. "Beyond Artwork (A reappraisal of textiles in architectural museum settings)"
  • Ana Cortejoso De Andres. The College of the Liberal Arts / SPANISH. "Born to be a Star: Representing the Writer as a Global Celebrity in Contemporary Hispanic Narrative"
  • Nicholas Henry. The College of the Liberal Arts / GERMAN. "The Offline and Online Effects of Processing Instruction: An Investigation of case-markings in L2 German"

Third Place

  • Kimberly Buescher. The College of the Liberal Arts / APPLIED LINGUISTICS. "Developing narrative literacy in a second language through concept-based instruction and a division-of-labor pedagogy."
  • Bernardo Diaz De Astarloa. The College of the Liberal Arts / ECONOMICS. "Learning by Doing, Import Competition and the Dynamics of US Solar PV Manufacturing"
  • Sara DiCaglio. The College of the Liberal Arts / ENGLISH. "Diagnosing Growth: The Problem of Development in Reproductive Culture"
  • Bethany Mannon. The College of the Liberal Arts / ENGLISH. "Identity and Activism in Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Women’s Memoirs"
  • Matthew Price. The College of the Liberal Arts / ENGLISH. "Geographies of Circulation: Dickens, Capital, and the Production of Minor Spaces"

Engineering

First Place

  • Chen Zhong. The College of Information Sciences and Technology / INFORMATION SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY. "PEER INTO CYBER SECURITY ANALYSTS’ MINDS: CAPTURING AND STUDYING THEIR COGNITIVE PROCESSES OF ANALYTICAL REASONING"

Second Place

  • Mehmet Unal. The College of Engineering / CIVIL ENGINEERING. "Quantifying tradeoff to facilitate efficient trade space exploration of complex data"

Third Place

  • Ameya Chandrayan. The Capital College / ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING (HARRISBURG). "Intelligent Distributed Control and Operation of a Microgrid test-bed using Multi-Agents"
  • Behnoosh Parsa. The College of Health and Human Development / KINESIOLOGY. "Do single and bimanual human grasping data result from minimizing the same optimal criterion? – An inverse optimization approach"

Health & Life Sciences

First Place

  • Aviroop Dutt-Mazumder. The College of Health and Human Development / KINESIOLOGY. "Critical fluctuations of dynamic postural stability as a function of oscillatory platform movement"
  • Fabio Giallongo. The College of Agricultural Sciences / ANIMAL SCIENCE. "Effects of slow-release urea and rumen-protected methionine and histidine on performance of dairy cows fed a metabolizable protein-deficient diet"

Second Place

  • Angela Campbell. The College of Health and Human Development / HEALTH POLICY AND ADMINISTRATION. "The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit as a Facilitator of Breastfeeding Among Low Birth Weight Infants"
  • Justin Wager. The College of Health and Human Development / KINESIOLOGY. "The spring-like function of the plantar aponeurosis and its contribution to foot movements during running"

Third Place

  • Lina Jamis. The College of Medicine / ANATOMY. "A Silent Symphony: Unconventional Myosins and Human Hereditary Hearing Loss"
  • Deepkamal Karelia. Intercollege Graduate Degree Programs / MOLECULAR TOXICOLOGY. "Identification of a novel NSAID-derived small molecule as a potential pancreatic cancer theraputic"
  • Sara Klee. The College of Agricultural Sciences / PLANT PATHOLOGY. "Using Fluorescent Labeling to Gain Insight into Fire Blight Disease Development"
  • Glenn Watson. Intercollege Graduate Degree Programs / NEUROSCIENCE. "Zona incerta regulates communication between superior colliculus and POm"

Physical Sciences & Mathematics

First Place

  • Debasish Saha. The College of Agricultural Sciences / SOIL SCIENCE. "GLOBAL WARMING AND BIOENERGY: IT’S ABOUT HOT SPOTS AND HOT MOMENTS"

Second Place

  • Zakaria Al Balushi. Intercollege Graduate Degree Programs / MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING. "The Impact of GaN and AlN Nucleation by Metalorganic Chemical Vapor Deposition on Epitaxial Graphene"

Third Place

  • Nikolay Balashov. The College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, / METEOROLOGY. "Developing Regional Statistical Model for the Analysis and Prediction of Air Pollution"

Social & Behavioral Sciences

First Place

  • Partha Mukherjee. The College of Information Sciences and Technology / INFORMATION SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY. "Social TV and the Social Soundtrack: Significance of Second Screen Interac-tion during Television Viewing"

Second Place

  • Tamara Peyton. The College of Information Sciences and Technology / INFORMATION SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY. "Sociotechnical Ecology of Pregnancy as a Lifecourse Transition Process"
  • Jonathan Reader. The College of Health and Human Development / HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AND FAMILY STUDIES. "Negative Life Events and Associations with Marital Quality Across the First Two Years of Parenthood"

Third Place

  • Sungwoo Choi. The College of Health and Human Development / HOTEL, RESTAURANT, AND INSTITUTIONAL MANAGEMENT. "The Impact of Online Reviews on Hotel Booking Intention: The Moderating Role of Consumer Power and Perceived Risk"
  • Eric Dyrdahl. The College of the Liberal Arts / ANTHROPOLOGY. "Interregional Interaction and Craft Production at Las Orquideas, Imbabura, Ecuador"
  • Christina Temes. The College of the Liberal Arts / PSYCHOLOGY. "A Multilevel Examination of Risk for Borderline Personality Disorder and Associated Outcomes"
  • Chih-Hsiang Yang. The College of Health and Human Development / KINESIOLOGY. "Implementation of Behavior Change Techniques in Mobile Apps for Physical Activity"

Performance Option

First Place

  • Corie Auger. The College of Arts and Architecture / MUSIC - PEDAGOGY AND PERFORMANCE. ""Una voce poco fa," from Il Barbiere di Siviglia"

Second Place

  • Anna Siampani. The College of Arts and Architecture / MUSIC - PEDAGOGY AND PERFORMANCE. "Sonetto 104 del Petrarca"

Third Place

  • Austin Oprean. The College of Arts and Architecture / MUSIC. "Vuelta del Fuego"
  • Ronald Javier Villabona Valbuena. The College of Arts and Architecture / PERFORMANCE. "Sonata For Two Violins"

Video Option

First Place

  • Craig Rood. The College of the Liberal Arts / COMMUNICATION ARTS AND SCIENCES. "Deliberating in the Aftermath of Mass Shootings"

Second Place

  • Sayed Amin Afzal. The College of Agricultural Sciences / AGRONOMY. "Leafy - Leaf Water Content Sensor"

Third Place

  • Kathryn Falvo. The College of the Liberal Arts / HISTORY. "“Free him wholly from the lusts of the flesh pots”: A History of Vegetarianism in Nineteenth Century America"

Visual Arts Option

First Place

  • Xiaojiao Shao. The College of Arts and Architecture / ART. "Mzae of life"

Second Place

  • Kevin Reilly. The College of Arts and Architecture / ART. "The Money Tree"

Third Place

  • Emily Burns. The College of Arts and Architecture / ART. "Gender Performance"
  • Xin Wen. The College of Arts and Architecture / ART. "Turn Over Two Sides"

Previous Winners by Year

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