Graduate Exhibition Archive of Award Winners
1990 Award Winners
Research Poster Option
Arts and Humanities
Second Place
- Patsy McCullough Dunmire. College of Arts and Architecture / Art education. "A Descriptive Study of Church Murals by an Itinerant Artist in Western Pennsylvania and Ohio in the 1940's-50's"
Honorable Mention
- Kurt W. Pitluga. College of Arts and Architecture / Art history. "Classicism, Penn State, and Charles Z. Klauder"
Engineering
First Place
- Yu Tong Morton. College of Engineering / Electrical engineering. "Incoherent Scatter Radar Probing of Ionosphere"
Second Place
- Chinhao Chou. College of Engineering / Chemical engineering. "Platinum Metal Etching in a Microwave Oxygen Plasma"
Third Place
- Paul H. Bent. College of Engineering / Acoustics/ARL/Aeorspace engineering. "Aeroacoustic Noise Generated by a Centrifugal Pump Impeller"
- Bin Zhou. College of Engineering / Electrical engineering. "Computer Simulation of Multitarget Tracking"
Honorable Mention
- Kemal Anbarci. College of Earth and Mineral Sciences / Petroleum and natural gas engineering. "Characterization of Multilayer Composite Reservoirs"
- Phil A. Balaam. College of Engineering / Aerospace engineering. "Microwave Generated Plasmas for Space Propulsion"
- William G. Buttlar. College of Engineering / Civil engineering - structural department. "Timber Bridges 'A NEW IDEA' from the Past"
- Kirk T. Kern. College of Engineering / Computer engineering. "A Neural Network Based Co2 Laser Weld Process Monitor"
- DerChyan Lin. College of Engineering / Engineering science and mechanics. "Sensitivity Analysis of Nonlinear Systems Using Animated Basin of Attraction"
- Juergen Mueller. College of Engineering / Aerospace engineering. "Microwave Generated Plasmas for Space Propulsion"
- Dominic J. Yannuzzi. College of Engineering / Civil engineering - structural department. "Timber Bridges 'A NEW IDEA' from the Past"
Health and Life Sciences
First Place
- Young- Hoo Kwon. College of Health and Human Development / Exercise and sport science. "3-Dimensional Analysis of Yurchenko Vaults Performed by Elite Female Gymnastics During the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games"
Second Place
- Jia Li. Eberly College of Science / Biology. "Genetic Diversity and Relationships Among Strains of Citrobacter diversus Recovered From Cases of Neonatal Meningitis and Other Clinical Sources"
- Thomas J. LoVullo. College of Agricultural Sciences / Forest resources. "Trophic Eggs of Badrid Catfish in Lake Malawi, Africa"
- Karen Sullivan. College of Agricultural Sciences / Dairy and animal science. "Nutritional Supplementation of Lactating Cows Grazing Rotational Pasture Systems"
Third Place
- Richard S. Grippo. Intercollege Graduate Degree Program / Ecology. "Sodium Loss From Trout: An in situ bioassay for Evaluation of Coal Mine Polluted Streams"
- Robert L. Owen. College of Agricultural Sciences / Veterinary science. "Electrocardiogram Amplitude and Renal Function Changes in Birds Reared at Simulated High Altitudes"
Honorable Mention
- Joseph M. Balczon. Intercollege Graduate Degree Program / Ecology. "Responses of Two Microecosystems to Copper Stress"
- Rita Vali Ketelsen. College of Agricultural Sciences / Plant pathology. "Management of Fungicide-Resistant Gray Mold: A Problem in Plant Disease Control"
- John P. Nolan. Eberly College of Science / Cellular and molecular biology. "Fusion of Biological Membranes: Selective Membrane Destabilization"
- Mary E. Russell. Intercollege Graduate Degree Program / Nutrition. "Coronary Heart Disease Risk Factors in American Indians"
- Barbara L. Winters. Intercollege Graduate Degree Program / Nutrition. "Changes in N-3 Fatty Acids of Rat Pups Artificially Reared on Milk Substitutes Containing Different Fats"
Physical Sciences
First Place
- James L. Balliet. College of Agricultural Sciences / Forest resources/ecology. "Understanding the Episodic Acidification of Headwater Streams Through the Use of a Hydrologic Source Separation Model"
- Ursula M. Graham. College of Earth and Mineral Sciences / Geosciences. "The Effects of Elemental Sulfur (So) on the Kinetic Pathways of FeS2, Formation at Low pH"
Second Place
- Atul S. Ramani. College of Earth and Mineral Sciences / Metals science and engineering. "'Forbidden Symmetries?"
Honorable Mention
- Bruce C. Hewitson. College of Earth and Mineral Sciences / Geography. "Global Warming & Regional Climate Change"
- Sarma V. Pisupati. College of Earth and Mineral Sciences / Fuel science. "The Influence of Weathering and Oxidation on the Combustion Behavior of Bituminous Coals"
- Charles E. Roberts. College of Earth and Mineral Sciences / Geography. "Textural Analysis of Urban Satellite Imagery"
Social and Behavioral Sciences
First Place
- Deborah J. Walker. College of the Liberal Arts / Anthropology. "Grandparent Investment Among Mexican Americans: An Evolutionary Perspective"
Second Place
- David M. Reed. College of the Liberal Arts / Anthropology. "Ancient Mayan Nutrition: The Biochemical Evidence"
Honorable Mention
- Marion Kranichfeld. College of Health and Human Development / Human development and family studies. "Demography of Culture Change: Transition from Hunting and Gathering to Sedentism"
- Renee L. Pennington. College of the Liberal Arts / Anthropology. "Infertility and Population Structure in African Pastoralists"
- Jeffrey B. Snipes. College of the Liberal Arts / Administration of justice. "Distinguishing Behavioral Styles of Police Officers"