2021 Award Winners

Research Presentation

Arts & Humanities

First Place

• Michael Nowak. Arts and Architecture / Architecture. "Designing 'Safe' Schools: Identifying Areas of Research in School Safety & Security"

Second Place

• Maria Puscama. The Liberal Arts / Spanish. "Acoustic correlates of diphthong/hiatus contrast in L2 Spanish learners"
• Paulina Rodriguez. The Liberal Arts / History. "“Deportistas! Mexican American Women, Sporting Citizenship, and Belonging in the Twentieth Century”"

Third Place

• Liana Glew. The Liberal Arts / English. "Documenting Insanity: Paperwork and Patient Narratives in Psychiatric History"
• Camila Gutierrez Fuentes. The Liberal Arts / Comparative Literature. "Boys Love in Latin America: The Migration of Aesthetics in Contemporary Graphic Narrative"
• Francesco Lacopo. The Liberal Arts / History. ""The Curious Case of Ancona: “Levantines,” Accommodationism, and Papal Imperialism in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean, 1532-1555""
• Brooke Tybush. The Liberal Arts / French. "Like Mother Like Daughter: Maternity, Sexuality, and the Courtesan Mother in 18th-century French and Francophone Literature"

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Engineering

First Place

• Amy Farley. Earth and Mineral Sciences / Geographic Information Systems. "Open-source, serverless web-mapping:A Case Study for the Agriculture Industry"

Second Place

• Prakash Purswani. Earth and Mineral Sciences / Energy and Mineral Engineering. "Impact of Wettability on Capillary Phase Trapping using Pore-Network Modeling"

Third Place

• Asif Mahmud. Engineering / Civil Engineering. "Analyzing Effect of Preliminary Preference and Inertia in Unlabeled Choice Experiment"

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Health & Life Sciences

First Place

• Maria Da Silva. Intercollege / Integrative and Biomedical Physiology. "Expression of immune tolerance molecules in peripheral blood leukocytes of dairy heifers during early pregnancy"

Second Place

• Christian Cantos. Intercollege / Plant Biology. "Targeted gene editing via CRISPR/Cas for rice crop improvement"
• Gabrielle Dillon. Health and Human Development / Kinesiology. "Cutaneous microvascular endothelial function is impaired in adults who are nocturnal blood pressure non-dippers compared to dippers."

Third Place

• Kiana Coleman. Agricultural Sciences / Food Science. "Anti-Inflammatory Effects of Cocoa Supplementation in a Mouse Model of Inflammatory Bowel Disease"
• Chandlar Kern. Agricultural Sciences / Animal Science. "Role of the bovine PRAMEY protein in sperm function during in vitro fertilization (IVF)"
• Justin Shih. Agricultural Sciences / Plant Pathology. "Speed Breeding Disease Resistant Rice Using Novel Precision Genome Editing Tools"

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Physical Sciences & Mathematics

First Place

• Sierra Melton. Earth and Mineral Sciences / Geosciences. "Iceberg calving and meltwater drainage at the ice-cliff terminus of Helheim Glacier, Greenland"

Second Place

• Julia Carr. Earth and Mineral Sciences / Geosciences. "Quantifying changes in bed state and grain mobility in steep bedrock rivers through repeat photogrammetric surveys"

Third Place

• Claire Kelling. Eberly College of Science / Statistics. "A Two-Stage Cox Process Model with Spatial and Nonspatial Covariates"

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Social & Behavioral Sciences

First Place

• Aaishay Haque. Capital College / Applied Behavior Analysis. "Optimizing Schedules of Reinforcement for Skill Acquisition: A Systematic Review"

Second Place

• Samuel Bestvater. The Liberal Arts / Political Science. "From Clicks to Collective Action: How Online Activism Promotes Individual Protest Mobilization"
• Kendra Flood. Agricultural Sciences / Agricultural and Extension Education. "Extended Contract Beliefs of Pennsylvania Agriculture Teachers"
• Ryan Naylor. Health and Human Development / Recreation, Park and Tourism Management. "Livelihood Sovereignty and Social Capital: Analyzing Social Capabilities in times of Economic Transition and Climate Instability"

Third Place

• Trevor Bero. The Liberal Arts / Spanish. "Rhotic variation in northern Belize"
• Dylan Davis. The Liberal Arts / Anthropology. "Archaeology Highlights Strategies for Coping with Climate Change"
• Quinn Wade. Intercollege / Neuroscience. "Role of Tim-2 in CNS Myelination"
• Bi Yang. Health and Human Development / Hospitality Management. "“Chef recommended” or “most popular”? Cultural differences in customer preference for recommendation labels"

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Design Option

First Place

• Jennifer Delac. Arts and Architecture / Theatre. ""Take a Walk in My Shoes""

Second Place

• Alyssa Ridder. Arts and Architecture / Theatre. "Les Mis: The Video Game"

Third Place

• Elizabeth Andrzejewski. Arts and Architecture / Architecture. "Konrad Wachsmann’s Shift from Product to Process: Prefiguring Automated Industrialized Building in Architecture Through Developments in “Universal” Building Machines"
• Ryan Douglass. Arts and Architecture / Theatre. "Jekyll and Hyde: Designing the Spectacular and the Intimate for The MUNY Stage"

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Performance Option

First Place

• Junwen Liang. Arts and Architecture / Piano Performance. "Ravel's Alborada del gracioso"

Second Place

• Ciara Newman. Arts and Architecture / Pedagogy and Performance. ""Mescíku na nebi hlubokém" from Antonín Dvorák's Ruslaka: Performed by Ciara Emily Newman, soprano"

Third Place

• Euna Kim. Arts and Architecture / Piano Performance. "Liszt Rigoletto Paraphrase"
• Jennifer Rocco. Arts and Architecture / Performance. "Shalom Aleichem, Rov Feidman! by Béla Kovács"

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Video Option

First Place

• Oladuni Lasisi. The Liberal Arts / Anthropology. "Quantifying hair morphology with new methods in sample preparation and image analysis"

Second Place

• Rebecca Fleeman. College of Medicine / Biomedical Sciences. "Understanding the Combined Effects of Genetic and Lifestyle Risk Factors For Alzheimer’s Disease"
• Morgane Haesen. The Liberal Arts / French. "An Ever-Bleeding Heart: Life Writings in the Alsace-Lorraine Borderland, 1870-1920"

Third Place

• Si Chen. Earth and Mineral Sciences / Geosciences. "Superhydrous Hematite and Goethite: A Potential Water Reservoir in the Red Dust of Mars?"
• Mustafa Rifat. Engineering / Industrial Engineering. "Effect of as-built Surface Roughness on the Surface Smoothing and Residual Stress Development in 3d Printed Ti-6Al-4V after Shot Peening"

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Visual Arts Option

First Place

• Olorunfemi Kinrin. Arts and Architecture / Art. "DISCRIMINATION AND HUMANITY"

Second Place

• Madeleine Quinn. Arts and Architecture / Art. "Scopaesthesia"

Third Place

• Alexandra Russell. Arts and Architecture / Art. "When it has passed, what will you keep?"

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