Graduate Exhibition Archive of Award Winners
1998 Award Winners
Research Poster Option
Arts and Humanities
First Place
- Lisa R. Barry. College of the Liberal Arts / Speech communications. "Maternal Sacrifice as Liberation: Tactics of Rhetorical Resistance in BLONDE VENUS"
Second Place
- John Andrew Otten. College of Arts and Architecture / Landscape architecture. "Spring Creek Riparian Restoration Project"
Honorable Mention
- Holly J. Henry. Penn State Harrisburg / English. "Virginia Woolf, Fascism, and the Politics of the British Science Academy"
- Lori M. Jirousek. College of the Liberal Arts / English. "Immigrant Ethnographers: Critical Observations at the Turn of the Century"
- James P. Weeks. College of the Liberal Arts / History. "Creating Gettysburg: Memory, Market, and an American Shrine"
Engineering
First Place
- Danijela Vorkapic. College of Engineering / Chemical engineering. "Solvent Effects of Titania Synthesis - Kinetic and Collodial Stability Aspects"
Second Place
- Burhanettin Koc. College of Engineering / Electrical engineering. "Piezoelectric Ceramic Transformer"
- Colleen Diane Merritt. College of Engineering / Chemical engineering. "Development of a Flourescent Plant Root System for the Characterization of Chemical Production in Root Bioreactors"
- Zhizhong Zhuang. College of Engineering / Physics. "Polarization Properties of Liquid Crystals"
Third Place
- Obika C. Nwobi. College of Engineering / Aerospace engineering. "Molecular Dynamics Studies of Properties of Supercritical Fluids"
Honorable Mention
- Reh-Lin Chen. Intercollege Graduate Degree Program / Acoustics. "Cool sounds -- Thermoacoustic Prime Movers and Refrigerators"
- Lalitha Devi. College of Engineering / Computer science and engineering. "Visual Tracking of Human Arm Dynamics by Multiple Cue Integration"
- Mahmoud Abd Elhamid. College of Earth and Mineral Sciences / Materials science and engineering. "The Effect of Benzotriazole on the Kinetics of the Hydrogen Absorption by Iron"
- Anat Grant. Intercollege Graduate Degree Program / Acoustics. "Cool sounds -- Thermoacoustic Prime Movers and Refrigerators"
- Sevgi Kilic. College of Engineering / Chemical engineering. "Dynamics of Silica Gels by Dynamic Light Scattering"
- Matthew E. Poese. Intercollege Graduate Degree Program / Acoustics. "Cool sounds -- Thermoacoustic Prime Movers and Refrigerators"
- Richard James Ruhala. Intercollege Graduate Degree Program / Acoustics. "Study of Tire/Pavement Interaction Noise"
- Dongwook Suh. College of Engineering / Mechanical engineering. "Implementation of RBNN to Improve Repetitive Trajectory Performance of Robotic System"
Health and Life Sciences
First Place
- Brian K. Meyer. College of Agricultural Sciences / Veterinary science. "XAP2 is a Subunit of the Unliganded AII Receptor Core Complex and Exhibits Transcriptional Enhancer Activity"
Second Place
- John B. Bowzard. College of Medicine / Microbiology and immunology. "Identification of a Second Site Suppressor on an RSV Capsid Mutation"
- Luis F. Del Aguila. Intercollege Graduate Degree Program / Physiology. "Tumor Necrosis Factor-Alpha Impairs Insulin Stimulation of P13-Kinase Activation in Muscle Cells"
- Jaime A. Fenimore. Intercollege Graduate Degree Program / Genetics. "Oxidative Free Radical Production During Encapsulation in MANDUCA SEXTA"
- Kerry Anne Whitelock. Intercollege Graduate Degree Program / Nutrition. "Effect of Zinc Deficiency on Longitudinal Bone Growth"
Third Place
- Eric J. Biddinger. College of Agricultural Sciences / Horticulture. "Improved Fiber Pots for Container Nursery Production"
- Patricia L. Opresko. College of Medicine / Biochemistry and molecular biology. "An Error-Prone Mutant of DNA Polymerase B"
- Cindy Ann Prins. Eberly College of Science / Biochemistry, microbiology and molecular biology. "Genetic and Biochemical Analysis of JC Virus Early Proteins T'135, T'136 and T'165"
- Kathleen T. Rousche. Intercollege Graduate Degree Program / Poultry science. "Alleviating Arthritis: Use of a Bioreactor System to Generate Implants for Articular Cartilage Regeneration"
- Lori C. Zeringue. Eberly College of Science / Biochemistry, microbiology and molecular biology. "Using Enzymes as Tools: Structural Studies of the Serine Protease Subtilisin"
Honorable Mention
- Jonathan R. Davies. College of Medicine / Cellular and molecular biology. "NIPC Interacts with NIMA, a Cell Cycle Regulating Protein Kinase, and may Promote Programmed Cell Death in Aspergillus Nidulans"
- Jing Yao. College of Medicine / Microbiology and immunology. "Functional Characterization of the Human Leukemia Virus Type 1 Enhancer Region"
Physical Sciences
First Place
- Hiromu Sakurai. Eberly College of Science / Chemistry. "Met-Cars: Stability and Ionization Potentials of Cage-Like Metal-Carbon Clusters"
Second Place
- Robert F. Dias. College of Earth and Mineral Sciences / Geosciences. "Isotopic Studies of Organic Acids in Oil-Associated Waters"
Third Place
- Michael C. Demchik. College of Agricultural Sciences / Forest resources. "Response of Northern Red Oak to Selected Site Treatments"
Honorable Mention
- Sherman M. Ponder. Eberly College of Science / Chemistry. "FERRAGELS: Reclaiming Contaminated Waters"
Social and Behavioral Sciences
First Place
- Lori A. Francis. College of Health and Human Development / Human development and family studies. "I Think You've Had Enough: Perceptions of Daughter's Body Size Predicts Maternal Control"
Second Place
- Frank R. Avenilla. College of Health and Human Development / Human development and family studies. "Family and Community Connections: The relationship between social ties and educational and employment outcomes among adolescent single mother families"
- Carla R. Chamberlin. College of the Liberal Arts / Speech communications. "Communication Styles in Reflective Supervision"
- Anastasia R. Snyder. College of Health and Human Development / Human development and family studies. "Family and Community Connections: The relationship between social ties and educational and employment outcomes among adolescent single mother families"
- Lynn Marie Vacca. College of the Liberal Arts / History. "Steelworkers in Aliquippa, PA: Building a Union"
Third Place
- Mrutyunjay Sarangi. College of Agricultural Sciences / Agricultural economics and rural sociology. "Women's Empowerment: Freedom from Male Dominance or Quest for Capacity-Building"
Honorable Mention
- Gerard D. Hoefling. College of Health and Human Development / Human development and family studies. "Anorexia Nervosa as Relational Disorder"
- Kristen E. Johnston. College of the Liberal Arts / Psychology. "Influences on Preschoolers' Toy Preferences for the Self and Others"
- Eve C. Shellenberger. College of Education / Curriculum and instruction. "An Ethnographic Case Study of Three Homeschooling Families in Central Pennsylvania and Their Socio-cultural Support Groups"
- Kathleen A. Sillman. College of Education / Curriculum and instruction. "Preservice Teachers' Use of Metaphors to Guide Teaching and Learning"
- Lisa E. Szechter. College of the Liberal Arts / Psychology. "Children's Understanding of Photographs: Interventions and Implications"