Graduate Exhibition Archive of Award Winners
1994 Award Winners
Research Poster Option
Arts and Humanities
First Place
- Christiane R. Schonfeld. College of the Liberal Arts / German. "Street-Walking the Metropolis: Prostitutes in German Expressionism"
Second Place
- Jeffrey Kovac. College of Arts and Architecture / Theatre arts. "The Theatrical Production of Quilt: Exploring the Collaborative Process between Scene Designer, Lighting Designer, and Technical Director"
- Randy J. Ploog. College of Arts and Architecture / Art history. "Manierre Dawson and the Origins of Abstract Painting in the United States"
- Daniel L. Walker. College of Arts and Architecture / Theatre arts. "The Theatrical Production of Quilt: Exploring the Collaborative Process between Scene Designer, Lighting Designer, and Technical Director"
Third Place
- Tobi Louise Kester. College of Arts and Architecture / Landscape architecture. "Interpreting History in the Landscape"
Engineering
First Place
- Daniel T. Heinze. College of Engineering / Industrial and management systems engineering. "Computational Cognitive Linguistics"
Second Place
- Steven C. McKinley. College of Engineering / Electrical engineering. "Optical Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Water Vapor"
- Reza Sharifi. College of Earth and Mineral Sciences / Fuel science. "Future Energy Needs of the United States: Can Coal Replace Oil and Natural Gas in Industrial Boiler Applications?"
Third Place
- Teresa L. Dixon. College of Engineering / Electrical engineering. "A Wavelet Transform Approach to Parameter Estimation of a Distributed Object"
- Kelly A. Kennedy. College of Engineering / Engineering science and mechanics. "Nonequilibrium Alloying of Graded Solute in Aluminum Thin Films"
- Jeffrey P. Newman. College of Engineering / Electrical engineering. "Optical Fiber Memory: A New Generation of Massive Information Storage"
- Shameem Siddiqui. College of Earth and Mineral Sciences / Petroleum and natural gas engineering. "Experimental Verification of Three-Phase Displacement Theory in Porous Media Using X-Ray Computer Tomography"
- Robert W. Wunder. College of Engineering / Chemical engineering. "Scratching the Surface: The Use of Microcalorimetry to Detect Differences Between Bulk and Surface in FePd/Graphite Catalyst Particles"
- Feng Zhao. College of Engineering / Electrical engineering. "Optical Fiber Memory: A New Generation of Massive Information Storage"
Honorable Mention
- Grant William Braught. College of Engineering / Electrical engineering. "A Neural Architecture for Learning Hexapod Locomotion Based Upon Insect Neurophysiology"
- Jeffrey A. Cieslak. College of Engineering / Civil and environmental engineering. "The Effects of Climatic Variations on a Salt Water-Fresh Water Interface"
- Thomas H. D'Alfonso. College of Engineering / Agricultural engineering. "Quality Control of Nutritional and Environmental Factors in Laying Hen Production"
- Stephen Russell Messier. College of Agricultural Sciences / Agricultural engineering. "Statewide GIS Screening of Selected Corn Pesticides in Groundwater"
- Brian Wong. College of Engineering / Aerospace engineering. "Computer Simulation of the Droplet Evaporation Process by Molecular Dynamics Method with Parallel Processing"
Health and Life Sciences
First Place
- Jessica E. Stehr. Eberly College of Science / Entomology. "Insects' Fight Against Foreign Invaders: Addition of FAD-Glucose Dehydrogenase to the Arsenal"
Second Place
- Michelle Lynn Eck. College of Agricultural Sciences / Food science. "A Replica Plating Strategy for the Identification of Osmoregulatory Mutants of Staphylococcus Aureus"
- Neel Kumar Krishna. College of Medicine / Microbiology and immunology. "Targeting of the RSV Gag Protein to the Endoplasmic Reticulum"
Third Place
- Luis Fabricio Medina-Bolivar. Intercollege Graduate Degree Program / Plant physiology. "The Biology and Engineering of Plant Root Cultures for Large-Scale Production of Phytochemicals"
- Kai Loenne Nielsen. College of Agricultural Sciences / Horticulture. "Carbon Costs and Phosphorous Acquisition Efficiency of Root Systems"
- Divakar Ramakrishnan. Intercollege Graduate Degree Program / Plant physiology. "The Biology and Engineering of Plant Root Cultures for Large-Scale Production of Phytochemicals"
- Callie Jo Schweitzer. College of Agricultural Sciences / Forest resources. "Early Indicators of Acidification: A Whole Watershed Approach to Studying Forest Response"
- Gurmeet Singh. Intercollege Graduate Degree Program / Plant physiology. "The Biology and Engineering of Plant Root Cultures for Large-Scale Production of Phytochemicals"
Honorable Mention
- Suzanne E. Baker. College of Agricultural Sciences / Veterinary science. "Murine Cytomegalovirus Infection Causes Inflammation of the Aorta and Enhances Atherosclerotic Fatty Streak Development"
- Heping Cao. Intercollege Graduate Degree Program / Plant physiology. "Specificity of Bt1 Gene Expession in the Control of Starch Deposition"
- Helene McGinley Cleveland. College of Agricultural Sciences / Forest resources. "Comparison of Inventory Methods to Determine Vegetative/Wildlife Habitat Structure"
- James Dean Fluckey. Intercollege Graduate Degree Program / Physiology. "Arginine Stimulated Insulin Secretion from Pancreatic Islets Is Increased Following Resistance Exercise"
Physical Sciences
First Place
- Jody Marie Mesaros. Eberly College of Science / Chemistry. "Continuous Electrophoretic Separations in Narrow Channels"
Second Place
- Stephen F. Cartier. Eberly College of Science / Chemistry. "Formation of Metallocarbohedrenes by the Direct Laser Vaporization of Metal Carbides"
- Chuma Mbalu Keswa. College of Earth and Mineral Sciences / Materials science and engineering. "Occurrence of Mantle Fluids within Megacrysts from the Tanoma Kimberlite Dikes, Indiana County, Pennsylvania"
- Brent D. May. Eberly College of Science / Chemistry. "Formation of Metallocarbohedrenes by the Direct Laser Vaporization of Metal Carbides"
Third Place
- Craig R. Robinson. Eberly College of Science / Astronomy and astrophysics. "An Analysis of X-Rays from a Binary Star System Containing a Present-Day Sun and a Future Sun"
- Glenn Thompson Visscher. Eberly College of Science / Chemistry. "Poly(Phenylcarbyne): A Polymer Precursor to Diamond-Like Carbon"
Social and Behavioral Sciences
First Place
- Raymond L. Simmers-Wolpow. College of Education / Curriculum and instruction. "Reading in the Shadows of Sabbath Candlelight: A Case Study Investigating the Means by Which Acts of Literacy Can Establish and Affirm Personal Connections Among Generations"
Second Place
- J. William Hug. College of Education / Curriculum and instruction. "How Do Prospective Teachers Participating in a Residential Outdoor Education Program Understand the Process of Learning to Teach"
- Paul H. Kwon. College of the Liberal Arts / Psychology. "A Longitudinal Study of the Hopelessness Theory of Depression: A New Measure for Assessing Depressogenic Attributional Style"
- Sharon M. McGroder. College of Health and Human Development / Human development and family studies. "Gender Differences in Young Adolescents' Self-Worth and Family Socialization Practices: Exploring the Gender Intensification Hypothesis"
Third Place
- Carrie A. McKeague. College of Education / Educational psychology. "Effect of Study Strategies and Reader-Generated versus Text-Based Study Aids on the Comprehension of Expository Text"
- Daphne Diane Minner. College of Health and Human Development / Human development and family studies. "Children's Reflections on Environmental Problems, Behavior, and the Future"
- Jill Diane Salisbury. College of Education / Educational psychology. "Difference in the Metacognitive Awareness and Performance of High and Low Verbal-Ability College Students on Tasks Involving the Elaboration Learning Strategy"