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Graduate Exhibition Archive of Award Winners

1989 Award Winners

Research Poster Option

Arts and Humanities

Honorable Mention

  • Daniel E. Willis. College of Arts and Architecture / Architecture. "Substance and Imagination: An Investigation of the Material Nature of Architecture"

Engineering

First Place

  • Sagar V. Kamarthi. College of Engineering / Electrical engineering. "Optical Neural Networks and Their Applications in Manufacturing"

Third Place

  • Mechteld Veltman Hillsley. College of Engineering / Agricultural and biological engineering. "Fluid Flow and Osteoporosis"
  • Radha Krishnan. College of Engineering / Mechanical engineering. "Image Processing Applications"
  • Juergen K. Plischke. College of Engineering / Chemical engineering. "Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy Applied to the Characterization of Supported Silver Catalysts"
  • Kathleen M. Reich. College of Engineering / Agricultural and biological engineering. "Fluid Flow and Osteoporosis"

Health and Life Sciences

First Place

  • Barbara White Pennypacker. College of Agricultural Sciences / Plant pathology. "Verticillium Wilt of Alfalfa - Resistance Alfalfa and Its Performance Under Drought Stress"

Second Place

  • Bob Ai. Eberly College of Science / Cellular and molecular biology. "The Secret Life of Plants: Molecular Biology of a Botanical Taboo"
  • Siree Chaiseri. College of Agricultural Sciences / Food science. "Thermal Characteristics and Fatty Acid Composition of Fats from Theobroma sp"
  • Anuradha Singh. Eberly College of Science / Cellular and molecular biology. "The Secret Life of Plants: Molecular Biology of a Botanical Taboo"
  • Donna Ann Williams. College of Health and Human Development / Exercise and sport science. "Replication of Skeletal Muscle Microcirculation with Vascular Casting"

Third Place

  • Lynne M. Sieminski-Brodzina. College of Agricultural Sciences / Physiology. "Can Pituitary Hormones Help Fight Disease? The Ability of Prolactin to Modulate Immune Responses"

Honorable Mention

  • Charles J. Barden. College of Agricultural Sciences / Ecology. "Red Oak Seedling Root Growth"
  • William P. Hunt. College of Agricultural Sciences / Food science. "Diglyceride Kinase of Rhizobium meliloti 1021"

Physical Sciences

First Place

  • Christopher A. Shuman. College of Earth and Mineral Sciences / Geosciences. "Use of Spot Satellite Panchromatic Digital and Photographic Remote Sensing Imagery for Lineament Analysis"

Second Place

  • Peter J. Fawcett. College of Earth and Mineral Sciences / Geosciences. "Computer Modeling of Paleoclimates"

Honorable Mention

  • Melanie J. Chrunyk. Eberly College of Science / Chemistry. "Protein Structures Using NMR Spectroscopy"
  • Bryan R. Swistock. Intercollege Graduate Degree Program / Forest resources/ecology. "Sources of Water in an Acidic Mountain Stream"

Social and Behavioral Sciences

First Place

  • James J. Sheehy. College of the Liberal Arts / Anthropology. "Ethnoarchaeology and Ceramic Production in pottery Workshop in Teotihuacan, Mexico"

Second Place

  • Lola Wood Geselowitz. College of the Liberal Arts / Psychology. "Psychophysiological Measures of Cognitive Processing"

Third Place

  • Yuhua Li. College of Health and Human Development / Psychology. "Perceptual and Atmospheric Contributions to the Moon Illusion"

Honorable Mention

  • Dorothy A. Humpf. College of the Liberal Arts / Agricultural communications. "Coosa: Health and Demography in a 16th-Century Southeastern Chiefdom"

Previous Winners by Year

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