Graduate Exhibition Archive of Award Winners
2014 Award Winners
Research Poster Option
Arts & Humanities
First Place
- KATJA STUCKATZ. The College of the Liberal Arts / GERMAN. ""A Contribution to Modern World Poetry" Ernst Jandl and the International Avant-Garde"
Second Place
- LACEY K GOLDBERG. The College of Arts and Architecture / LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE. "Identifying and Conserving the Scenic Viewsheds of the Loyalsock Trail"
- ASHLEY LYNNE ROCCAMO. The College of the Liberal Arts / GERMAN. "When Should We Teach Pronunciation? Comparing Training Effects in Elementary and Intermediate Level German Classrooms"
- SANDRA EMILIE ROUSSEAU. The College of the Liberal Arts / FRENCH. "Plus moyen de s’amuser? Comic Memory in M’Quidèch the first Algerian Comics Magazine"
Third Place
- PATRICIA ANNE GAEL. The College of the Liberal Arts / ENGLISH. "POETRY, DRAMA, AND FICTION IN THE LONDON MARKETPLACE, 1737-1749"
- CHRISTOPHER CARL OECHLER. The College of the Liberal Arts / SPANISH. "The Uses of History and Memory in Golden Age Drama: Fuente Ovejuna and Twentieth-Century Spanish Theater"
- DAWN TAYLOR. The College of the Liberal Arts / COMPARATIVE LITERATURE. "Jorge Amado's "The Country of Carnaval": Brazilian Literature, Politics, and Society in the 1930s"
- KRISTINA RICHELLE WEIMER. The College of Arts and Architecture / MUSIC EDUCATION. "Types of Mentoring Activities Experienced by Novice Music Teachers"
Engineering
First Place
- PIERRE THURIER. The College of Engineering / AEROSPACE ENGINEERING. "Design of a Thermal Control Device using Topology Optimization"
Second Place
- HASAN COBAN. The College of Engineering / AGRICULTURAL AND BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING. "CONVERSION OF PHENYLALANINE TO PHENYLPYRUVIC ACID BY MICROBIAL FERMENTATION"
- XINMIAO WANG. The College of Engineering / AGRICULTURAL AND BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING. "Evaluation of blended electrolyzed oxidizing water for one-step cleaning-in-place of milking systems"
Third Place
- ADITI KHADILKAR. The College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, / Energy and Mineral Engineering. "Modeling agglomerate growth in fluidized bed combustion and gasification systems"
- MEHMET UNAL. The College of Engineering / CIVIL ENGINEERING. "Balancing tradeoffs: Modeling to support post-earthquake decision making and resource allocation of distributed bridge-transportation networks"
- Kyle Williams. The College of Information Sciences and Technology / INFORMATION SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY. "Using Documents to Search for Documents"
Health & Life Sciences
First Place
- Jason Wittenbach. The Eberly College of Science / PHYSICS. "What birdsong can tell us about the neuroscience of language"
Second Place
- STEPHANIE NICOLE FEARNBACH. The College of Health and Human Development / NUTRITION. "Intake at a single, palatable buffet test meal is associated with body composition in 4- to 6-year-old children."
- JORDAN GAINES. The College of Medicine / NEUROSCIENCE. "Slow-Wave Sleep Declines Faster in Adolescent Males than Females"
- ANDREW HUHN. The College of Medicine / NEUROSCIENCE. "Children with Anorexia Nervosa Differentially Process Social and Reward Cues"
- HAN-WEI SHIH. The Eberly College of Science / PLANT BIOLOGY. "Monitoring dynamic changes in plastid Ca2+ levels using the FRET-based Ca2+ sensor YC3.6"
Third Place
- FEON W CHENG. The College of Health and Human Development / NUTRITION. "Everyone Needs Folic Acid is a digital program with content and face validity for low-income populations"
- REBECCA KADDIS. The College of Medicine / CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY. "Straight from the Source: Selecting and Packaging Retroviral RNA into Assembling Virus Particles"
- MANASI KAMAT. The College of Agricultural Sciences / IMMUNOLOGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES. "Expression of genes and proteins in myeloid lineage cells in the endometrium of dairy heifers during the estrous cycle and early pregnancy."
- ERIC SCOTT O'NEAL. The College of Agricultural Sciences / PLANT PATHOLOGY. "Intraspecific root grafting and clonal growth in Ailanthus altissima and their role in transmission of Verticillium nonalfalfae"
Physical Sciences & Mathematics
First Place
- TOMASZ MODZELEWSKI. The Eberly College of Science / CHEMISTRY. "Nucleation of Hydroxyapatite by Carboxy Functionalized Biodegradable Polyphosphazenes"
Second Place
- PHILLIP BAKER SCHAFER. The Eberly College of Science / PHYSICS. "Recognizing noisy speech using simulated neurons"
Third Place
- SUBHASIS CHAUDHURI. The Eberly College of Science / CHEMISTRY. "High pressure chemical vapor deposition to make multifunctional optical fibers"
- CAROLINE CHRISTENSEN. The Eberly College of Science / CHEMISTRY. "Surface-Initiated Polymerizations for Organic Thin Film Transistors"
- MATTHEW FORREST POYTON. The Eberly College of Science / CHEMISTRY. "Can Copper Bind To Lipid Membranes In The Human Body?"
Social & Behavioral Sciences
First Place
- Emily Coyle. The College of the Liberal Arts / PSYCHOLOGY. "Play with a STEM Toy: The Role of Children, Parents, and Gender-Based Marketing"
Second Place
- KAMERON MODING. The College of Health and Human Development / HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AND FAMILY STUDIES. "Infants’ acceptance of green vegetables and fruits show differential effects on weight change"
- ROSHAN NAYAK. The College of Agricultural Sciences / AGRICULTURAL AND EXTENTION EDUCATION. "Trends in Effectiveness of On-Farm Food Safety Workshops: Challenges and Opportunities"
- Daniel Ragan. The College of the Liberal Arts / SOCIOLOGY. "Changes in the effects of peer beliefs and behavior during adolescence: A longitudinal social network analysis"
Third Place
- Adriene M. Beltz. The College of the Liberal Arts / PSYCHOLOGY. "Sex Differences in the Resting State Brain Function of Cigarette Smokers and Links with Smoking-Related Behavior"
- ANGELA GALE CAMPBELL. The College of Health and Human Development / HEALTH POLICY AND ADMINISTRATION. "Men, Marriage and Health: Using Longitudinal Data to Examine Selection Bias"
- JEFFERY LEROY HART. The College of Education / SPECIAL EDUCATION. "Exercise and children with behavior problems: A meta-analysis of single case studies"
- MOE KISHIDA. The College of Health and Human Development / KINESIOLOGY. "Daily Physical Activity Enhances Resilient Resources for Symptom Management in Middle-Aged Women"
- Julia Laskorunsky. The College of the Liberal Arts / CRIME, LAW AND JUSTICE. "Helping Judges Predict Risk: The Smart Sentencing Approach"
- JACLYN MAHER. The College of Health and Human Development / KINESIOLOGY. "Habit Strength Moderates the Effects of Facilitated Action Planning on Physical Activity but Not Sedentary Behavior"
Performance Option
First Place
- LINDSAY MARIE MCGINNIS. The College of Arts and Architecture / VOICE PERFORMANCE AND PEDAGOGY. "Les contes d’Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann)"
Second Place
- Graduate Woodwind Quintet. The College of Arts and Architecture / PERFORMANCE. "Nielsen Woodwind Quintet, Op. 43;"
Third Place
- Graduate Brass Quintet. The College of Arts and Architecture / PERFORMANCE. "Escape (2001), Brass Quintet No. 1 Op. 5"
- Graduate Piano Trio. The College of Arts and Architecture / PERFORMANCE. "Piano Trio No. 1 in D Minor. Op 49"
Visual Arts Option
First Place
- ROBERTO LUGO. The College of Arts and Architecture / ART. "In every ghetto"
Second Place
- BECH WILLIAM EVANS. The College of Arts and Architecture / ART. "Pots"
Third Place
- EVAN WEST. The College of Arts and Architecture / ART. "Appropriated Objects"