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Graduate Exhibition Archive of Award Winners

2004 Award Winners

Research Poster Option

Arts and Humanities

First Place

  • Kathleen M. Anderson. College of the Liberal Arts / French. "A Baroque Banquet: Representations of Meals in France, 1571-1651"

Second Place

  • Kristin Jean Jacobson. College of the Liberal Arts / English. "Recycling Domesticity: Contemporary American Women's Neo-Domestic Fiction"

Third Place

  • Stefanie Rehn Jordan. College of the Liberal Arts / Teaching English as a second language. "Change your metaphors, change your mind: A new approach to the ITA"

Engineering

First Place

  • Milind Suryakant Cholkar. College of Engineering / Electrical engineering. "Optical Combing to Align Photoreceptors in Detached Retinas"
  • Mukesh Ramvir Pratap. College of Engineering / Environmental pollution control. "Evaluation of Upflow Filtration for Stormwater Treatment at Critical Source Areas"
  • Fei Wu. College of Engineering / Electrical engineering. "Optical Combing to Align Photoreceptors in Detached Retinas"

Second Place

  • Julia Bridget Saylor. Capital College / Environmental pollution control. "Disinfection Byproduct Control in Four Small Systems in Pennsylvania"

Third Place

  • Mark Anthony Bechara. College of Agricultural Sciences / Agricultural and biological engineering. "Cultivation Systems for the Button Mushroom Agaricus bisporus"
  • Paul Clarence Deardorff. Capital College / Environmental engineering. "Monitoring of Disinfection Byproducts in Small Water Distribution"
  • Steven J. Jewell. College of Engineering / Electrical engineering. "Development of an Ambulatory, Self-Contained Cough Monitoring"
  • Joseph F. Jones. College of Engineering / Chemical engineering. "Time and Force Scales of Preferential Adhesion of E. coli Bacteria"
  • Marielle R. Narkiewicz. College of Earth and Mineral Sciences / Geo-environmental engineering. "Molecular modeling approaches to examine carbon dioxide interactions and associated coal behavior with carbon dioxide sequestration within"
  • Himanshu Sharma. School of Information Sciences and Technology / Industrial engineering. "Search Engine Performance evaluation through implicit User feedback"

Health and Life Sciences

First Place

  • Loren Benton Byrne. Intercollege Graduate Degree Program / Ecology. "Backyard Landscape Ecology: The Effects of Habitat Structure and Heterogeneity on Arthropod Communities"
  • Bethsebah Nyankomba Gekonge. Eberly College of Science / Biochemistry, microbiology, and molecular biology. "The role of phosphatidylserine in HIV-1 infection of Monocytic cells"

Second Place

  • Christopher John Cifelli. Intercollege Graduate Degree Program / Integrative biosciences. "Retinoic Acid and Lipopolysaccharide Independently Affect the Metabolism of all-trans-Retinoic Acid in Rats"
  • Dae Joon Kim. Intercollege Graduate Degree Program / Integrative biosciences. "Identification and Characterization of a PPARbeta Target Gene in Skin"
  • Sean Newcomer. College of Health and Human Development / Kinesiology. "Vasodilator responses to endothelium and vascular smooth muscle agonists in humans are limb-specific"
  • Alexandra Surcel. Intercollege Graduate Degree Program / Integrative biosciences. "The Interaction Between the Cohesin Complex and Its DNA Partners"

Third Place

  • Alison Louise Bell. College of Agricultural Sciences / Animal science. "Antibiotic, Prebiotic and Probiotic Treatment for Salmonella sp. Reduction in Commercial Laying Hens"
  • Dru Bernthal. College of Agricultural Sciences / Horticulture. "Investigating professional chefs' demand for edamame (Glycine max)"
  • Monica Froicu. College of Agricultural Sciences / Pathobiology. "Accelerated inflammatory bowel disease in the absence of vitamin D receptor: more functions for an old vitamin"
  • Michele Ann Mansfield. College of Agricultural Sciences / Plant pathology. "Fungal Species Isolated from Pennsylvania Corn Silage Using Traditional and Novel Approaches"
  • Upeksha H.N. Nanayakkara. College of Agricultural Sciences / Plant pathology. "Effects of Silicon on Development of Gray Leaf Spot in Perennial Ryegrass Turf"
  • Christine E. Thuring. College of Agricultural Sciences / Horticulture. "How shallow can we go? Determining the minimal depths that will support functional green roofs"

Physical Sciences and Mathematics

First Place

  • Keisha Neva Johnson. College of Agricultural Sciences / Soil science. "Use of Coal Combustion By-Products (CCPs) to Reduce Phosphorus Solubility and Movement into Water Resources"

Second Place

  • Corene Janel Matyas. College of Earth and Mineral Sciences / Geography. "Geographical Tools to Aide Tropical Cyclone Rainfall Forecasts"

Third Place

  • Jennifer Lynn Nemitz. College of Earth and Mineral Sciences / Geosciences. "Detection, Fate, and Transport of Pharmaceuticals at Penn State's Living Filter Project"

Social and Behavioral Sciences

First Place

  • Latricia Evette Best. College of the Liberal Arts / Demography. "Racial Differences in the Prevalence and Burden of Diabetes"

Second Place

  • Chandrakala Ganesh. College of Health and Human Development / Health policy and administration. "A Profile of Medicare Beneficiaries with Alzheimer's Disease"
  • Marian E. Ghebrial. College of the Liberal Arts / Psychology. "Hormone-Behavior Correlates among Male and Female Psychopathic Participants: Relationship to Gray's Model of Behavioral Inhibition and Activation Systems"
  • Debdatta Sengupta. College of Agricultural Sciences / Rural sociology. "Assessing the Impact of Women's Inclusion on the Management of Common Property Forests in West Bengal"

Third Place

  • Sang-Hoon Bae. College of Education / Workforce education and development. "A Study of the Effects of the ISO 9000 Quality Management System on Educational Outcomes of Schools"
  • Laura Marie Dininni. College of Agricultural Sciences / Agricultural and extension education. "Sources of Information Cited in Agricultural Biotechnology News Stories in 2002"
  • Koel Ghosh. College of Agricultural Sciences / Agricultural, environmental and regional economics. "Socially Optimal Strategies in Ecological Restoration under Climate"
  • Scott William Hammerstedt. College of the Liberal Arts / Anthropology. "Mississippian Community Organization in Western Kentucky"
  • Tristana Harvey. College of Education / Counselor education. "Study of Ethnic Minority Students' Expectations of the Multicultural Resource Center"
  • Liberty Orense Inciong. College of Agricultural Sciences / Agricultural and biological extension. "PA Extension Educators' Perception of Community Engagement in Local Food System Programming"
  • Mary Jennison Kipp. College of Agricultural Sciences / Agricultural, environmental and regional economics. "Valuing Tradeoffs Among Quality-of-Life Attributes: Climate Change and Development as Vehicles of Change in Cape May County, New Jersey"
  • Nalova Elaine Westbrook. College of Communications / Media studies. "Media as Movement for Social Change: the Black Press's Coverage of Decolonization of Africa During the Modern Civil Rights Movement, 1960-1965"

Performance Option

First Place

  • Regiane Hiromi Yamaguchi. College of Arts and Architecture / Piano pedagogy and performance. "Scherzo No. 2, Op. 31 in B-flat Minor by Frederic Chopin"

Second Place

  • Mihovil Karuza. College of Arts and Architecture / Performance. "Johann Sebastian Bach: Suite No. 5 in C-Minor for Solo Cello"

Third Place

  • David Knauss. College of Arts and Architecture / Music education. ""The Singing Spirit""

Visual Arts Option

First Place

  • Anna Divinsky. College of Arts and Architecture / Art. "Fruits of Nature"

Second Place

  • Jennifer Marie Hines. College of Agricultural Sciences / Art. "Crevices"
  • Joo Yeon Woo. College of Arts and Architecture / Art. "My Day by Day Stories"

Previous Winners by Year

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