Graduate Exhibition Archive of Award Winners
1991 Award Winners
Research Poster Option
Arts and Humanities
Second Place
- Donna E. Lawrence. College of Arts and Architecture / Theatre arts. "Costume Design and Costume Construction for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead"
Third Place
- John Nicolas Spiro. College of the Liberal Arts / Comparative literature. "FROM PARIS TO HOLLYWOOD: TRANSLATING EPISTOLARITY INTO FILM. A Study of Theoretical Implications Comparing Three cinematic Adaptations of Choderlos de Laclos' Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782)"
Honorable Mention
- Fabrice Kenwood. College of Arts and Architecture / Theatre arts. "Adapting Autocad (a Computer Drafting Program) Towards Applications in Technical Theatre"
Engineering
First Place
- Sridhar Canumalla. College of Engineering / Engineering science and mechanics. "High Pressure Infiltration Casting and Nondestructive Characterization of MMC's"
Second Place
- Michael B. House. College of Engineering / Engineering science and mechanics. "ALUMINUM COMPOSITES: Fabrication, Elevated Temperature Behavior and Non-Linear Finite Element Analysis"
Honorable Mention
- John M. Cory, Jr.. College of Engineering / Aerospace engineering. "Dynamic Characterization of a Composite Lattice Structure with an Integrated Fiber-Optic Strain Sensor"
- Stephen A. Grot. College of Engineering / Electrical and computer engineering. "Thin Film Diamond Electronics"
- Kuisoon Kim. College of Engineering / Aerospace engineering. "A Hue Capturing Based Liquid Crystal Technique for Heat Transfer Studies"
- Jesus Pascual. College of Engineering / Aerospace engineering. "Dynamic Characterization of a Composite Lattice Structure with an Integrated Fiber-Optic Strain Sensor"
Health and Life Sciences
First Place
- Alan L. McConnell. College of Agricultural Sciences / Food science. "Evaluation of Wash Treatments for the Improvement of Quality and Shelf-life of Fresh Mushrooms"
Second Place
- Carol L. Kuss-Wymer. Intercollege Graduate Degree Program / Plant physiology. "Tobacco Protoplasts Differentiate into Elongate Cells Without Microtubule Depolymerization"
- Durland L. Shumway. College of Agricultural Sciences / Forest resources. "Hydraulic Architecture of Red Oak and Yellow-poplar Seedlings"
Honorable Mention
- Laurie G. Landry. Intercollege Graduate Degree Program / Plant physiology. "Protein Oxidation: A Link Between Ozone Stress and Leaf Aging?"
- Callie Jo Schweitzer. College of Agricultural Sciences / Forest resources. "Red Oak and Red Maple Seedling Response to Simulated Acid Precipitation, Browsing, and Soil Acidification Stresses"
- James A. Strauss. Eberly College of Science / Biology. "Biomarkers of Aging: Changes in HS Mouse Erythrocyte Mass and Area with Respect to Donor Age"
Physical Sciences
First Place
- Sundar V. Atre. College of Earth and Mineral Sciences / Polymer science. "Chemistry in Two Dimensions"
Second Place
- Mohamed S. El-Maazawi. Eberly College of Science / Chemistry. "Lasers and Surfaces"
Honorable Mention
- Gregory D. Berthiaume. Eberly College of Science / Astronomy and astrophysics. "Soft X-Ray Imaging Spectroscopy of the Puppis A Supernova Remnant Using CCD's"
- Christopher A. Shuman. College of Earth and Mineral Sciences / Geosciences. "Analysis of Bedrock Fracture Features Across the Appalachian Plateau in New York"
- David Verdonck. College of Earth and Mineral Sciences / Geosciences. "Dynamic Interaction of Individual Fault Segments in the San Andreas Fault System, California: Implications for Earthquake Hazard Assessment in the San Francisco Bay Area"
Social and Behavioral Sciences
First Place
- Kevin Chen. College of the Liberal Arts / Sociology. "Television Viewing and Social Perception: A Re-examination of TV Cultivation Effects"
- Melissa Diamanti. College of the Liberal Arts / Anthropology. "Use of Space in an Archaeological Site"
Second Place
- Nancy L. Dahlgren. College of the Liberal Arts / Acoustics. "Performance Testing for Computer Speech Recognition Using Benchmark Data and a Minimally Varying CV (Consonant-Vowel) Syllable Set"
Third Place
- Rebecca S. Bigler. College of the Liberal Arts / Psychology. "Occupational Interests: Attitudinal, Personality, and Experiential Correlates"
Honorable Mention
- Haw- Jan Wu. College of Business Administration / Business logistics. "Transportation Option Selection Using Stochastic Lead Time Demand Simulation"