Graduate Exhibition Archive of Award Winners
1995 Award Winners
Research Poster Option
Arts and Humanities
Second Place
- Norval L. Bard, Jr.. College of the Liberal Arts / French. "Iconography and the Bayeux Tapestry"
- M. Travis DiNicola. College of Arts and Architecture / Art education. "The Palmer Museum of Art, ONLINE"
- Roberta A. Young. College of Arts and Architecture / Landscape engineering. "Addressing Contemporary Issues in Historic Landscapes: A Case Study Focusing on Eastwood Cemetery in Lancaster, Massachusetts"
Third Place
- Laura R. Moorhead. College of Arts and Architecture / Landscape architecture. "Improving Bird Habitat and Water Management in a Residential Landscape"
Honorable Mention
- Ulrike Brisson. College of the Liberal Arts / Comparative literature. "Women on the Move: Women's Travel Literature as Evidence of finding the "Self" in the "Other""
Engineering
First Place
- Juan-Carlos Maymir. Intercollege Graduate Degree Program / Bioengineering. "Mean Velocity and Reynolds Stress Measurements in Regurgitant Jets of Tilting Disk Heart Valves"
Second Place
- Michael C.J. Bradford. College of Engineering / Chemical engineering. "The Catalytic Reforming of Methane with Carbon Dioxide"
- Deborah Susan Maymir. Intercollege Graduate Degree Program / Bioengineering. "A Comparative Study of Cavitation on Prosthetic Heart Valves"
Third Place
- Brett D. Guenther. College of Engineering / Electrical engineering. "Investigation of Novel Fiber Sensor"
Honorable Mention
- Grant William Braught. College of Engineering / Electrical engineering. "Applications of Modern Control Theory to the Control of Artificial Superorganisms"
- Stephen E. Cumblidge. College of Engineering / Nuclear engineering. "Examining Reactor Pressure Vessels Using Position Annihilation Lifestime Spectroscopy"
- Ramnath Ganesan. College of Engineering / Engineering science and mechanics. "A Numerical Method to Integrate Parabolic Equations"
- Tracy D. Hudson. College of Engineering / Electrical engineering. "Optical Pattern Recognition with A Joint Transform Correlator"
- C.J. Lee. College of Engineering / Chemical engineering. "Deposit forming Tendency of Automotive Crankcase Lubricants"
- Jinwhan Lee. College of Engineering / Industrial and management science engineering. "Intelligent Integrated Diagnostics (IID) for Powder Injection Molding (PIM) Process"
- Jun Li. College of Earth and Mineral Sciences / Materials science and engineering. "Fly or Fall -- The Effects of Surface in Developing Thermally-Stable Jet Fuels for Super--Sonic Jet Aircraft"
- Guowen Lu. College of Engineering / Electrical engineering. "Optical Pattern Recognition with A Joint Transform Correlator"
- Vivek M. Palekar. College of Engineering / Chemical engineering. "Deposit forming Tendency of Automotive Crankcase Lubricants"
- Christopher M. Poe. College of Engineering / Civil and environmental engineering. "Design of Low-Speed Urban Streets"
- Marjorie A. Rawhouser. Intercollege Graduate Degree Program / Bioengineering. "A Model of Controller Electronics in a Brushless DC Motor Controlled by Pulse Width Modulation"
- Rajesh J. Shah. College of Engineering / Chemical engineering. "Deposit forming Tendency of Automotive Crankcase Lubricants"
- Andrew D. Smith. College of Engineering / Mechanical engineering. "Classification of space Acceleration Measurement Systems (SAMS) Data Using Neural Networks"
- Steven W. Spadt. Intercollege Graduate Degree Program / Bioengineering. "Development of the Total Artificial Heart Motor Evaluation System"
Health and Life Sciences
First Place
- Kai Loenne Nielsen. College of Agricultural Sciences / Horticulture. "Fractal Analysis of Bean root Systems"
Second Place
- Amy E. Renauld. College of Agricultural Sciences / Veterinary science. "Identification of in vitro Cytochrome P450 Modulators for Detecting Induction Produced by Prototype Inducers Including a Coplanar Polychlorinated Biphenyl in the Mallard Duck"
- Michelle B. Vettese-Dadey. Eberly College of Science / Biochemistry, microbiology and molecular biology. "The Function of Acetylated Histone N-Termini in Transcription Factor Binding to Nucleosomal DNA"
Third Place
- Laurie A. Bishel. Intercollege Graduate Degree Program / Ecology. "Soil Properties of Natural Reference Wetlands and Wetland Mitigation Projects in Pennsylvania"
- Keith J. Gooch. College of Engineering / Aerospace engineering. "Why Does Atherosclerosis Occur Where It Does?"
- Christine V. Jurasinski. Intercollege Graduate Degree Program / Physiology. "Amino Acids but no Insulin Agument Protein Synthesis in Skeletal Muscle During Sepsis"
Honorable Mention
- Kristen M. Aherne. College of Agricultural Sciences / Animal science. "Isolation and Characterization of Bovine Mammary Endothelial Cells"
- Amy M. Bonser. Intercollege Graduate Degree Program / Plant physiology. "Phosphorus Deficiency Affects Gravitropism in Bean"
- Alison Hiller-Harmon. College of Agricultural Sciences / Forest resources. "Forest Stewardship Demonstration Area: Assessing Educational Effectiveness"
- Naomi C. Lovallo. College of Agricultural Sciences / Entomology. "Effects of parasitism by Cotesia congregatus on the immune activity of FAD-Glucose dehydrogenase (GLD) in Manduca sexta hosts"
- Timothy J. Mayer. College of Medicine / Microbiology and immunology. "EGFR and PDGFR Expression in Cervical Epithelium During Carcinogenesis"
- Grover Paul Miller. Eberly College of Science / Chemistry. "Applying a Chain-Shuffling Technique to Enhance Catalysis by an Antibody"
- Tong Kun Pai. Intercollege Graduate Degree Program / Nutrition. "Stearate Modified VLDL Lipid Composition and Particle Size Differently From Other Saturated Fatty Acids"
- Bruce A. Posner. Eberly College of Science / Chemistry. "Applying a Chain-Shuffling Technique to Enhance Catalysis by an Antibody"
- Tatyana Shcherban. Intercollege Graduate Degree Program / Biology. "Isolation and Cloning of Expansion Genes"
Physical Sciences
First Place
- Nanlin Deng. Eberly College of Science / Chemistry. "The Preparation of Combinatorial Libraries of Cyclophanes for use as Selectors in Preparative Scale Chiral Separations"
Second Place
- Ray J. Hoobler. Eberly College of Science / Chemistry. "Laser Controlled Chemistry: Changes in Atom-Dimer Density Resulting from Atomic Orientation"
- Leena Selvaraj. College of Earth and Mineral Sciences / Materials science and engineering. "Potential Thermal Stabilizers for Jet Fuels Above 400 Degrees C"
Third Place
- Frances G. Cooper. College of Earth and Mineral Sciences / Geosciences. "Using Carbon Isotopes to Determine Past El Nino Events"
- Pawel J. Keblinski. Eberly College of Science / Physics. "Growth of Interfaces: Mechanism, Dynamics and Structures"
Honorable Mention
- Karen L. Bice. College of Earth and Mineral Sciences / Geosciences. "Numerical Climate Model Simulation of Paleoclimatic Controls on the Distribution and Quality of Early Cretaceous Lacustrine Petroleum Source Rocks"
- Joan M. Ramage. College of Earth and Mineral Sciences / Geosciences. "Early Pleistocene Proglacial Lake Lesley, West Branch Susquehanna River, Pennsylvania"
- Craig R. Robinson. Eberly College of Science / Astronomy and astrophysics. "Evidence for Solar-like Activity Cycles in Magnetic Cataclysmic Binaries"
- Troy A. Schilling. Eberly College of Science / Physics. "Geometry of Quantum Mechanics"
- Donald E. Smith. College of Agricultural Sciences / Agricultural and biological engineering. "Tillage Effects on Random Roughness and Residue Cover for RUSLE Soil Loss Prediction in the Northeast"
- Matthew Alan Stough. Intercollege Graduate Degree Program / Materials. "Solid Solubility and Diffusivity in Zirconiz/Alumina Ceramics"
- Peter Wei. College of Engineering / Chemical engineering. "Modeling the Afterglow Region of a Microwave Generated Nitrogen Plasma"
Social and Behavioral Sciences
First Place
- Lisa Rose Ludvico. College of the Liberal Arts / Anthropology. "Reproductive Strategies of Harem Females"
- Dawn A. Obeidallah. College of Health and Human Development / Human development and family studies. "Picking Up the Pace: Accelerated Life Course & Adolescents' Development"
Second Place
- Donna K. Strong. College of Education / Curriculum and instruction. "Fifth and Sixth Grade Students' Explanations of Global Warming and Ozone: Conceptions Formed Prior to Classroom Instruction"
Third Place
- Sherrie M. Bartell. Penn State Harrisburg / Public administration. "Public Budgeting Laboratory: A Computer-Based Instructional Delivery System"
Honorable Mention
- Anne Bennett Edwards. College of Health and Human Development / Human development and family studies. "Employed Family Caregivers of Cognitively Impaired Elderly: An Application of Role Theory"
- Joan E. Graham. College of Health and Human Development / Human development and family studies. "Someone Who Cares: Evaluation of a School Advisor Program"
- Julia D. Grant. College of Health and Human Development / Human development and family studies. "Genetic and Environmental Influences on Cognitive Performances: Some Preliminary Results from the Adult Russian Twin Study"
- Tammy Babe Means. College of Education / Adult education, instructional systems, and vocational and industrial education. "Relevance and ARCS Motivational Model of Instructional Design"
- Kathleen K. Miller. College of Agricultural Sciences / Agricultural economics and rural sociology. "Economic Restructuring in the Northeast: Nonmetro Counties in a Changing Economy"
- Richard A. Moraga. College of the Liberal Arts / Psychology. "EEG Correlates of Psychological Dissociation: Modeling Awareness States"
- Kristen N. Robinson. College of the Liberal Arts / Sociology. "The Relationship Between Lifestyle Behavior and Degree of Morbidity Before Death"
- Becky L. Spritz. College of the Liberal Arts / Psychology. "Parental Influence on Young Children's Coping with Stress"