Graduate Exhibition Archive of Award Winners
2019 Award Winners
Research Poster Option
Arts & Humanities
First place
- Elizabeth Tuttle. The Liberal Arts / French. "Distributing Dissent: The Material Culture of Feminism and Anti-Imperialism in Interwar France"
Second place
- Jamie Kim. The Liberal Arts / Applied Linguistics. "What makes students talk: Mobilizing student responses in classroom interaction"
- Zoe Mandel. Education / Educational Leadership. Copresented by Tiana Cowan "Production, Placement, and Retention of Secondary STEM Teachers of Color: A Case Study of Texas"
Third place
- Marika Hall. The Liberal Arts / Applied Linguistics. "Riding on commitment and marketing: Language teachers as policymakers in a Finnish Secondary and Upper Secondary school"
- Andrea Middleton. Arts and Architecture / Art History. "Geographic Specificity and the Worship of Arsinoe II Philadelphus"
- Brice Peterson. The Liberal Arts / English. "Regeneration in Early Modern English Literature"
Engineering
First place
- Saman Barzegari. Engineering / Civil Engineering. "Evaluating the use of bio-binders as partial replacement of asphalt binders"
Second place
- Anahita Bharadwaj. Agricultural Sciences / Agricultural and Biological Engineering. "Accelerating lignocellulosic anaerobic digestion by cotreatment"
Third place
- Amir Reza Aref Laleh. Engineering / Engineering Science and Mechanics. "Development of high energy and power density electrochemical capacitors"
- Carlos Fernandez Pulido. Agricultural Sciences / Agricultural and Biological Engineering. "Anthracite as a Filter Media to Remove Petrogenic Hydrocarbons From Stormwater"
- Rudy Haluza. Engineering / Engineering Science and Mechanics. "Using Forensic Failure Analysis to Improve Underwater Sustainable-Energy Structures"
- Rizki Prasetyaningtyas. Intercollege / Environmental Pollution Control. Copresented by Saskia Putri "Fruit Peels as Natural Adsorbents to Remove Chromium (Cr6+) from Synthetic Textile Wastewater"
Health & Life Sciences
First place
- Oliver Wilson. Health and Human Development / Kinesiology. "Gender differences in college student physical activity, and campus recreational facility use and comfort"
Second place
- Elizabeth Adams. Health and Human Development / Nutritional Sciences. "Ecological momentary assessment of using food to soothe during infancy in the INSIGHT responsive parenting intervention"
- Brandon Yusko. Intercollege / Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Biosciences. "The aryl hydrocarbon receptor mediates resistance to a chemotherapeutic agent in head & neck cancer"
Third place
- Sihui Gao. Intercollege / Plant Biology. "Identification and mapping of late blight resistance QTLs in the wild tomato accession PI 224710 (Solanum pimpinellifolium)"
- Hyo Gun Kim. Health and Human Development / Kinesiology. "CALORIC RESTRICTION ATTENUATES DISUSE-INDUCED ATROPHY AND APOPTOTIC FEATURES IN RAT SKELETAL MUSCLE"
- Valerie Sullivan. Health and Human Development / Nutritional Sciences. "Dried fruit and vascular health: a randomized crossover trial."
Physical Sciences & Mathematics
First place
- Debmalya Nandy. Eberly College of Science / Statistics. "Covariate Information Number for Feature Screening in Ultrahigh Dimension"
Second place
- Kirsty McKenzie. Earth and Mineral Sciences / Geosciences. "Constraints on Subduction Zone Kinematics from Surface Observations"
Third place
- Weiming Hu. Earth and Mineral Sciences / Geography. "A High-Performance Computing System for Probabilistic Weather Forecasts"
Social & Behavioral Sciences
First place
- Alexandra Leong Mattern. The Liberal Arts / Psychology. "Is perception of social dominance threat associated with the severity of subsequent aggression perpetration?"
- Adrianna Richards. Capital College / Clinical Psychology. "Child Physical Abuse, Traumatic Sexual Experiences, and Subsequent Cognitive Well-Being"
Second place
- Anne Beatty-Martinez. The Liberal Arts / Spanish. "Using brain potentials to understand variation in grammatical gender processing"
- Mihaela Ciulei. Health and Human Development / Nutritional Sciences. "Maternal and infant iron status are related to mother-infant interactions"
Third place
- Sinhae Cho. The Liberal Arts / Psychology. "Motivating Engagement with Social Justice Issues through Compassion Training: A Multi-Method Randomized Control Trial"
- Scott Graupensperger. Health and Human Development / Kinesiology. "HEAVY EPISODIC DRINKING PREDICTS PEER GROUP CENTRALITY: SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS WITHIN COLLEGE CLUB SPORT TEAMS"
- Michael Panza. Health and Human Development / Kinesiology. "Associations between Adolescents Mental Health and Participation in Organized Sport: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis"
Design Option
First place
- Tania Barrenechea Barreda. Arts and Architecture / Theatre. "From the eyes of a child, the scenic design for Penn States 2019 production of To Kill a Mockingbird"
Second place
- Austin Rausch. Arts and Architecture / Theatre. "Restriction of Dress in Tolstoy's Anna Karenina"
Third place
- Jenna Houck. Arts and Architecture / Theatre. "Barnum; A Scenic Design Monograph"
Performance Option
First place
- Cecilia Sakong. Arts and Architecture / Piano Performance. "Exploring Das Jahr by Fanny Mendelssohn"
Second place
- Jorge Moron Ivars. Arts and Architecture / Piano Performance. "Malagueña"
Third place
- Joseph Greeby. Arts and Architecture / Performance. "Nocturnal Dance: Solo for the Modern Marimbist"
Video Option
First place
- William Rice. Health and Human Development / Recreation, Park and Tourism Management. "Reservoir of Silence: Road noise and the visitor experience in Death Valley National Park"
Second place
- Bari Fuchs. Health and Human Development / Recreation, Park and Tourism Management. Copresented by Nicole Reigh "Knowledge following an intervention to improve self-regulation of food intake does not predict self-regulation in preschoolers"
- Michael Hart. The Liberal Arts / English. "Up the Academy: English Studies and the Makings of an Illiberal Education"
Third place
- Mudiwa Pettus. The Liberal Arts / English. "African American Rhetorical Education in the Age of Booker T. Washington"
Visual Arts Option
First place
- Ashlyn Pope. Arts and Architecture / Art. "Where I'm Bound"
Second place
- Zsuzsanna Nagy. Arts and Architecture / Art. "in the now"
Third place
- John Domenico. Arts and Architecture / Art. "Polymer Prevalence"