Graduate Exhibition Archive of Award Winners
2003 Award Winners
Research Poster Option
Arts and Humanities
First Place
- Janet Woods. College of Arts and Architecture / Theatre. "Costume Design and Prototype for Princess Eboli"
Second Place
- Antonio Jimenez. College of the Liberal Arts / Spanish. ""Participation as Prevention: Second Language Attrition after a Study Abroad Experience""
Third Place
- Jenifer D'Agosta. College of Arts and Architecture / Theatre. "Follies: A Scene Design Monograph"
Engineering
First Place
- Kathiravan Krishnamurthy. College of Agricultural Sciences / Agricultural and biological engineering. "Pulsed UV-Light Sterilization for inactivation of Staphylococcus aureus"
Second Place
- Osama Al-Bataineh. College of Engineering / Bioengineering. "Biomedical Applications of the miniature hollow sphere transducer"
- Chilman Bae. College of Engineering / Bioengineering. "Techniques to Study Endothelial Cell Mechanics & Molecular Dynamics"
- Zuleima T. Karpyn. College of Earth and Mineral Sciences / Petroleum and natural gas engineering. "Multi-Phase Fluid Flow in Fractures: Visualization and Quantification Using X-Ray Computed Tomography"
- Seungjun Lee. College of Engineering / Bioengineering. "Needle-free ultrasonic insulin patch for diabetic patients"
- Tristan Tabouillot. College of Engineering / Bioengineering. "Techniques to Study Endothelial Cell Mechanics & Molecular Dynamics"
Third Place
- Daniel Burford. College of Engineering / Mechanical engineering. "NSF M3 Hybrid Electric Vehicle Education"
- Jason Collens. College of Engineering / Chemical engineering. "A Plant Tissue Culture Based System for High Level Transient Expression of Pharmaceutical Proteins"
- Shivprakash Iyer. College of Engineering / Civil engineering. "Computer Vision based Condition Assessment System for Underground Pipeline Infrastructure"
- Eugene Kung. College of Engineering / Mechanical engineering. "NSF M3 Hybrid Electric Vehicle Education"
- Michelle Robert. College of Engineering / Bioengineering. "New Techniques for the Fabrication of Focused Poly(Vinylidene Fluoride-Trifluoroethylene) Copolymer High Frequency Ultrasound Transducers"
- Khaldon Saleh. College of Engineering / Bioengineering. "Design and evaluation of a 64 elements two dimensional ultrasound phased array for treating benign prostatic hyperplasia"
- Alyson Tews. College of Engineering / Bioengineering. "Pressure-volume characteristics of electroactive polymer membranes"
Health and Life Sciences
First Place
- Ryan Felling. College of Medicine / Neuroscience. "A Compensatory Response of Neural Stem Cells to Stroke"
- Amrik Singh. College of Health and Human Development / Hotel, restaurant, and institutional management. "Analysis of Relative Growth Rates between Domestic and International Earnings of U.S. based Public Restaurant Firms"
Second Place
- Jason Graci. Eberly College of Science / Biochemistry, microbiology, and molecular biology. "Lethal Mutagenesis: A Novel Antiviral Strategy to Treat RNA Virus Infection"
- Abid Abdulaziz Kazi. College of Agricultural Sciences / Entomology. "Entomopathogenic nematodes and Super-oxide dismutase like activity: A tale of host immune evasion"
- Matthew Moran. College of Health and Human Development / Kinesiology. "Effect of Routing and Attachment Site in Split Tendon Transfer of Tibialis Posterior"
Third Place
- Julie Cook. Eberly College of Science / Biochemistry, microbiology, and molecular biology. "CD28 Dependent Activation of Vav and NF-κB is Required for Induction of HIV-1 Expression"
- Sheila Fleischhacker. College of Health and Human Development / Integrative biosciences. "Beyond Hoagies and Hugs: An Exploratory, Theory-Based Analysis of West Philadelphia Head Start Children’s Concepts, Preference and Availability of Fruits and Vegetables"
- Bart Jonghe. Intercollege Graduate Degree Program / Integrative biosciences. "Normal weight 5 year-old girls with overweight mothers are more likely to develop overweight by age 9"
- Youngcho Kim. Intercollege Graduate Degree Program / Neuroscience. "Expression of the D1 Dopamine receptor dDA1 is regulated by Apterous, a LIM homeodomain transcription factor in Drosophila melanogster"
- Kiranmai Kocherlakota. Eberly College of Science / Integrative biosciences. "Signals required for Myogenesis"
- Michele Nagy. College of Agricultural Sciences / Plant pathology. "Influence of Agronomic and Ensiling Practices on Mycotoxin Accumulation in Pennsylvania Corn Silage"
- Katie Streicher. College of Agricultural Sciences / Integrative biosciences. "Altered ICAM-1 Expression in Aortic Endothelial Cells with Modified 15-HPETE Production"
- Xiaolong Yang. College of Agricultural Sciences / Entomology. "Effect of Varroa Mites on the Immune System of Honey Bees"
- Zhengjian Zhang. School of Graduate Professional Studies / Biochemistry, microbiology, and molecular biology. "Multiple Redundant Mechanisms Regulate the Yeast DNA Damage Inducible Genes"
Physical Sciences and Mathematics
First Place
- Jason Robert Stairs. Eberly College of Science / Chemistry. "The Study of Delayed Ionization in the Newest Form of Carbon, the Bucky Ball"
Second Place
- Denis Bergeron. Eberly College of Science / Chemistry. "Chemical neutralization and functionalization of charged metal clusters"
Third Place
- Keh-Chiang Ku. Eberly College of Science / Physics. "Semiconductor Spintronics"
Social and Behavioral Sciences
First Place
- Sojourner Ruth Marable. College of Communications / Media Studies. "THE CINCINNATI BOYS MUST NOT DIE: Urban perspectives and print media's framing of the April 2001 Cincinnati uprising"
Second Place
- Edward Glantz. School of Information Sciences and Technology / Information sciences and technology. "Evaluating the Effectiveness of Moderated Chat Rooms for Student Exam Reviews"
- Yifeng Hu. College of Communications / Mass Communications. "Liberating Friendships through IM? Examining the Relationship between Instant Messaging and Intimacy"
- Xiaorong Shao. College of Agricultural Sciences / Training and development. "Empowering teachers to implement curriculum innovations in Chinese agricultural schools"
- Vivian Smith. College of Communications / Mass Communications. "Liberating Friendships through IM? Examining the Relationship between Instant Messaging and Intimacy"
Third Place
- Camille Cassidy. College of Health and Human Development / Kinesiology. "The Price of Competence: Predicting Risk for Burnout with Achievement Goals"
- Claire Dush. College of Health and Human Development / Human development and family studies. "Husbands, wives, boyfriends, girlfriends: What kinds of relationships make people happy?"
- Mira Hidajat. College of the Liberal Arts / Demography. "Socio-Demographic Determinants of Comorbidity at the Time of Death in Four Asian American Groups"
- Rebecca Holland. College of Health and Human Development / Human development and family studies. "Child Care Quality and Language Development in 2-year-olds: The Role of Caregiver-Child Verbal Interaction"
- Roderick Lee. School of Information Sciences and Technology / Information sciences and technology. "A Preliminary Assessment of the Perception and Use of Technology in Complex Social Environments"
- Flora Nankhuni. College of Agricultural Sciences / Agricultural, environmental and regional economics. "Investigating the Environment-Population Vicious Circle of Poverty: The Case of Africa and Malawi."
Performance Option
First Place
- Sik Lai Sung. College of Arts and Architecture / Piano pedagogy and performance. "Carnaval Op. 9 by Robert Schumann"
Second Place
- Yi-Fan Chen. College of Arts and Architecture / Performance. "Schumann sonata in G minor, op.22, movement 1"
Third Place
- Peter Dawson Buck. College of Arts and Architecture / Composition-Theory. ""…that go so far." for Flute/Piccolo, Percussion, Violin, Viola and Cello"
Visual Arts Option
First Place
- Peter Johnson. College of Arts and Architecture / Art. "Untitled."
Second Place
- Jodi Brown. College of Arts and Architecture / Art. "Examining Self Representation"
Third Place
- Mervi Pakaste. College of Arts and Architecture / Art. "It Is No Fun Being Fat"