Graduate Exhibition Archive of Award Winners
1996 Award Winners
Research Poster Option
Arts and Humanities
First Place
- Anne T. Demo. College of the Liberal Arts / Speech communications. "Guerilla Girls in our Midst: Tracking the discursive Tactics in a Jungle of Cultural Politics"
Second Place
- Matthew J. Kinservik. College of the Liberal Arts / English. "A Sinister Macbeth: Charles Macklin's Revolutionary Production of 1773"
Third Place
- Caroline Joan S. Picart. College of the Liberal Arts / Philosophy. "Inside Notes from the Outside"
Honorable Mention
- Claudia M. Leal-Chapa. College of Arts and Architecture / Architecture. "Window to a Child's World: An Exploration and Day-Care Center"
Engineering
First Place
- Glenn E. Sjoden. College of Engineering / Nuclear engineering. "PENTRAN: A 3-D Parallel Transport Code with Complete Phase Space Decomposition"
- Andrew D. Smith. College of Engineering / Mechanical engineering. "Classification of SAMS Data by Unsupervised Neural Networks"
Second Place
- Wannee Chinsirikul. College of Earth and Mineral Sciences / Materials science and engineering. "LCP-Pe in-situ Composite: New Materials for Long Duration Balloon (LDB) and Biomedical Applications"
- Keith A. Lysiak. College of Engineering / Electrical engineering. "High Fidelity Benchmarks for Propagation Model Comparison"
- Alexei V. Petrov. College of Engineering / Electrical engineering. "Optical Adaptive Signal Processing for Mobile Communications Systems and Radar"
Third Place
- Harihara Baskaran. Intercollege Graduate Degree Program / Bioengineering. "Breathing Easier With the Penn State Artificial Lung"
- Martin J. Chiaverini. College of Engineering / Mechanical engineering. "Combustion Processes in Hybrid Rocket Motors for Future Space Propulsion Applications"
- Naesung Lee. Intercollege Graduate Degree Program / Materials. "Surface Mophologies and Structures of (001) Homoepitaxial Diamond Films"
- Vladislav Nodelman. Intercollege Graduate Degree Program / Bioengineering. "Breathing Easier With the Penn State Artificial Lung"
Honorable Mention
- Sajjad Hussain Mahesri. College of Engineering / Chemical engineering. "Thermocapillary Motion of Drops in a Tube"
- Kevin M. Smith. College of Engineering / Agricultural and biological engineering. "Prototype Large Forage Bale Slicer for total Mixed Rations"
- Conrad M. Zapanta. Intercollege Graduate Degree Program / Bioengineering. "In Vivo Observation of Prosthetic Heart Valve Cavitation"
Health and Life Sciences
First Place
- Barbara A. Chicca. Eberly College of Science / Biochemistry, microbiology and molecular biology. "mef2 Encodes a Transcription Factor that is Essential for Myogenesis"
Second Place
- Grover Paul Miller. Eberly College of Science / Chemistry. "Applying a Chain-Shuffling Technique to Improve Catalysis by an Antibody"
- Robert T. Morgan. Intercollege Graduate Degree Program / Ecology. "Automated Biomonitoring of Acid Stress Behavior in Bivalve Molluscs"
- Bruce A. Posner. Eberly College of Science / Chemistry. "Applying a Chain-Shuffling Technique to Improve Catalysis by an Antibody"
Third Place
- Amy M. Bonser. Intercollege Graduate Degree Program / Plant physiology. "Effect of Phosphorus Availability on Basal Root Growth Angle in Bean"
- Andree-Anne Couillard. College of Agricultural Sciences / Agronomy. "Evaluation of Turf Soil Profiles with Near Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy"
- Charles L. Dow. College of Agricultural Sciences / Forest resources. "Urbanization Impacts on Long-Term Evaporation Trends in Eastern United States"
- Jane Elizabeth Smith. College of Medicine / Pharmacology/anesthesia. "Cellular Electrophysiological Effects of Antidepressants in the Aging Hippocampus"
Honorable Mention
- Thomas Eric Blank. College of Medicine / Cellular and molecular biology. "Elucidating the Involvement of GAL3 in Gene Transcription; Discovery of New Mutants and Interactions"
- Jill Ann Bush. College of Health and Human Development / Exercise and sport science. "The Effect of Resistance Exercise on Adrenal Hormone and Lymphokine Plasma Concentrations"
- Doug Greger. College of Agricultural Sciences / Animal science. "Male Pseudohermaphroditism in the Pig: Identification & Preliminary Hormonal Investigations of Intersex Pigs on Remote Islands in the Republic of Vanuatu, Southwest Pacific"
- Timothy C. Morton. College of Agricultural Sciences / Entomology. "Criocerine Leaf Beetles use Host Plant Chemicals in a Frass-Based Defense"
- Jun Shi. Eberly College of Science / Biology. "Expression and Regulation of Expansis Genes in Cucumber Seedlings"
- Michael P. Woods. Intercollege Graduate Degree Program / Cellular and molecular biology. "Elucidating the Involvement of GAL3 in Gene Transcription; Discovery of New Mutants and Interactions"
Physical Sciences
First Place
- Sanjay A. Monie. Intercollege Graduate Degree Program / Materials. "Surface Reactivity of Aluminum Nitride"
Second Place
- Cullen M. Flanders. College of Agricultural Sciences / Agronomy. "Horseradish Roots Can Decontaminate Polluted Soils"
- Eric M. Snyder. Eberly College of Science / Chemistry. "Femtosecond Laser-Induced Coulomb Explosion of Clusters"
Third Place
- Arthur Lee Carkner. Eberly College of Science / Astronomy and astrophysics. "Observations of Young Solar Type Stars"
- Yalei Kuang. Eberly College of Science / Physics. "Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Atomic Force Microscopy Study of Homoepitaxial Diamond (001) Films"
- Darren M. Williams. Eberly College of Science / Astronomy and astrophysics. "Habitable Planets with High Obliquities"
Honorable Mention
- Chuma Mbalu Keswa. College of Earth and Mineral Sciences / Materials science and engineering. "Dissolution of Alumina in Alkaline Solutions: Implications for Nuclear Waste Treatment"
- Robert J. Kuligowski. College of Earth and Mineral Sciences / Meteorology. "Quantitative Precipitation Forecasting Using Artificial Neural Networks"
- David P. Long. Eberly College of Science / Chemistry. "Lanthanide Alkyl and Hydride Complexes Containing the Tris (Pyrazolyl) Borate Ligand and Their Catalytic Activity with Olefins"
- Christopher J. Poulsen. College of Earth and Mineral Sciences / Geosciences. "Linkage Between Climatic Factors and Regional Oceanography in the mid-Cretaceous"
Social and Behavioral Sciences
First Place
- Esi K. Colecraft. Intercollege Graduate Degree Program / Nutrition. "Acceptance of Sun Dried Mangoes as a Food-Based Strategy to Improve Year Round Vitamin A Security in Kwabia, Ghana"
- Alina M. Perez-Febles. College of the Liberal Arts / Psychology. "Looking Forward: Urban Girls' Expectations for the Future"
Second Place
- Kathleen E. Cox. College of Education / Educational psychology and school psychology/SPLED. "The Role of Autonomy in Promoting Engagement in Literacy Tasks"
- Janet M. Friedmann. Intercollege Graduate Degree Program / Nutrition. "Predicting Early Non-elective Readmission in Older Adults"
Third Place
- Anne Bennett Edwards. College of Health and Human Development / Human development and family studies. "Caregivers' Health Seeking Behavior: Impact of the Intensity of Stressors"
- Kelly Anne Mollica. College of Business Administration / Management science and information systems. "Social Networks of Women, Minorities, and White Males in an Organizational Setting"
- Richard M. Thomas. College of the Liberal Arts / Anthropology. "A Mitochondrial DNA Insertion and Implications for Human Origins"
Honorable Mention
- Michael C. Dalbor. College of Health and Human Development / Hotel, restaurant and institutional management. "The Nature of Risk in the Restaurant Industry"
- Sunghye Park. College of Education / Curriculum and instruction. "Development and Validation of a Self-Efficacy Beliefs Instrument for Korean Prospective Elementary School Teachers"
- Connie Neff Russo. College of Education / Adult education, instructional systems, and vocational and industrial education. "Metacognitims of Expert and Novice Professional Sales-Teachers"
- Jacqueline C. Shin. College of the Liberal Arts / Psychology. "Continuous Behavioral Measurement of Mental Activity: Reaching a Calculate"