Graduate Exhibition Archive of Award Winners
2004 Award Winners
Research Poster Option
Arts and Humanities
First Place
- Kathleen M. Anderson. College of the Liberal Arts / French. "A Baroque Banquet: Representations of Meals in France, 1571-1651"
Second Place
- Kristin Jean Jacobson. College of the Liberal Arts / English. "Recycling Domesticity: Contemporary American Women's Neo-Domestic Fiction"
Third Place
- Stefanie Rehn Jordan. College of the Liberal Arts / Teaching English as a second language. "Change your metaphors, change your mind: A new approach to the ITA"
Engineering
First Place
- Milind Suryakant Cholkar. College of Engineering / Electrical engineering. "Optical Combing to Align Photoreceptors in Detached Retinas"
- Mukesh Ramvir Pratap. College of Engineering / Environmental pollution control. "Evaluation of Upflow Filtration for Stormwater Treatment at Critical Source Areas"
- Fei Wu. College of Engineering / Electrical engineering. "Optical Combing to Align Photoreceptors in Detached Retinas"
Second Place
- Julia Bridget Saylor. Capital College / Environmental pollution control. "Disinfection Byproduct Control in Four Small Systems in Pennsylvania"
Third Place
- Mark Anthony Bechara. College of Agricultural Sciences / Agricultural and biological engineering. "Cultivation Systems for the Button Mushroom Agaricus bisporus"
- Paul Clarence Deardorff. Capital College / Environmental engineering. "Monitoring of Disinfection Byproducts in Small Water Distribution"
- Steven J. Jewell. College of Engineering / Electrical engineering. "Development of an Ambulatory, Self-Contained Cough Monitoring"
- Joseph F. Jones. College of Engineering / Chemical engineering. "Time and Force Scales of Preferential Adhesion of E. coli Bacteria"
- Marielle R. Narkiewicz. College of Earth and Mineral Sciences / Geo-environmental engineering. "Molecular modeling approaches to examine carbon dioxide interactions and associated coal behavior with carbon dioxide sequestration within"
- Himanshu Sharma. School of Information Sciences and Technology / Industrial engineering. "Search Engine Performance evaluation through implicit User feedback"
Health and Life Sciences
First Place
- Loren Benton Byrne. Intercollege Graduate Degree Program / Ecology. "Backyard Landscape Ecology: The Effects of Habitat Structure and Heterogeneity on Arthropod Communities"
- Bethsebah Nyankomba Gekonge. Eberly College of Science / Biochemistry, microbiology, and molecular biology. "The role of phosphatidylserine in HIV-1 infection of Monocytic cells"
Second Place
- Christopher John Cifelli. Intercollege Graduate Degree Program / Integrative biosciences. "Retinoic Acid and Lipopolysaccharide Independently Affect the Metabolism of all-trans-Retinoic Acid in Rats"
- Dae Joon Kim. Intercollege Graduate Degree Program / Integrative biosciences. "Identification and Characterization of a PPARbeta Target Gene in Skin"
- Sean Newcomer. College of Health and Human Development / Kinesiology. "Vasodilator responses to endothelium and vascular smooth muscle agonists in humans are limb-specific"
- Alexandra Surcel. Intercollege Graduate Degree Program / Integrative biosciences. "The Interaction Between the Cohesin Complex and Its DNA Partners"
Third Place
- Alison Louise Bell. College of Agricultural Sciences / Animal science. "Antibiotic, Prebiotic and Probiotic Treatment for Salmonella sp. Reduction in Commercial Laying Hens"
- Dru Bernthal. College of Agricultural Sciences / Horticulture. "Investigating professional chefs' demand for edamame (Glycine max)"
- Monica Froicu. College of Agricultural Sciences / Pathobiology. "Accelerated inflammatory bowel disease in the absence of vitamin D receptor: more functions for an old vitamin"
- Michele Ann Mansfield. College of Agricultural Sciences / Plant pathology. "Fungal Species Isolated from Pennsylvania Corn Silage Using Traditional and Novel Approaches"
- Upeksha H.N. Nanayakkara. College of Agricultural Sciences / Plant pathology. "Effects of Silicon on Development of Gray Leaf Spot in Perennial Ryegrass Turf"
- Christine E. Thuring. College of Agricultural Sciences / Horticulture. "How shallow can we go? Determining the minimal depths that will support functional green roofs"
Physical Sciences and Mathematics
First Place
- Keisha Neva Johnson. College of Agricultural Sciences / Soil science. "Use of Coal Combustion By-Products (CCPs) to Reduce Phosphorus Solubility and Movement into Water Resources"
Second Place
- Corene Janel Matyas. College of Earth and Mineral Sciences / Geography. "Geographical Tools to Aide Tropical Cyclone Rainfall Forecasts"
Third Place
- Jennifer Lynn Nemitz. College of Earth and Mineral Sciences / Geosciences. "Detection, Fate, and Transport of Pharmaceuticals at Penn State's Living Filter Project"
Social and Behavioral Sciences
First Place
- Latricia Evette Best. College of the Liberal Arts / Demography. "Racial Differences in the Prevalence and Burden of Diabetes"
Second Place
- Chandrakala Ganesh. College of Health and Human Development / Health policy and administration. "A Profile of Medicare Beneficiaries with Alzheimer's Disease"
- Marian E. Ghebrial. College of the Liberal Arts / Psychology. "Hormone-Behavior Correlates among Male and Female Psychopathic Participants: Relationship to Gray's Model of Behavioral Inhibition and Activation Systems"
- Debdatta Sengupta. College of Agricultural Sciences / Rural sociology. "Assessing the Impact of Women's Inclusion on the Management of Common Property Forests in West Bengal"
Third Place
- Sang-Hoon Bae. College of Education / Workforce education and development. "A Study of the Effects of the ISO 9000 Quality Management System on Educational Outcomes of Schools"
- Laura Marie Dininni. College of Agricultural Sciences / Agricultural and extension education. "Sources of Information Cited in Agricultural Biotechnology News Stories in 2002"
- Koel Ghosh. College of Agricultural Sciences / Agricultural, environmental and regional economics. "Socially Optimal Strategies in Ecological Restoration under Climate"
- Scott William Hammerstedt. College of the Liberal Arts / Anthropology. "Mississippian Community Organization in Western Kentucky"
- Tristana Harvey. College of Education / Counselor education. "Study of Ethnic Minority Students' Expectations of the Multicultural Resource Center"
- Liberty Orense Inciong. College of Agricultural Sciences / Agricultural and biological extension. "PA Extension Educators' Perception of Community Engagement in Local Food System Programming"
- Mary Jennison Kipp. College of Agricultural Sciences / Agricultural, environmental and regional economics. "Valuing Tradeoffs Among Quality-of-Life Attributes: Climate Change and Development as Vehicles of Change in Cape May County, New Jersey"
- Nalova Elaine Westbrook. College of Communications / Media studies. "Media as Movement for Social Change: the Black Press's Coverage of Decolonization of Africa During the Modern Civil Rights Movement, 1960-1965"
Performance Option
First Place
- Regiane Hiromi Yamaguchi. College of Arts and Architecture / Piano pedagogy and performance. "Scherzo No. 2, Op. 31 in B-flat Minor by Frederic Chopin"
Second Place
- Mihovil Karuza. College of Arts and Architecture / Performance. "Johann Sebastian Bach: Suite No. 5 in C-Minor for Solo Cello"
Third Place
- David Knauss. College of Arts and Architecture / Music education. ""The Singing Spirit""
Visual Arts Option
First Place
- Anna Divinsky. College of Arts and Architecture / Art. "Fruits of Nature"
Second Place
- Jennifer Marie Hines. College of Agricultural Sciences / Art. "Crevices"
- Joo Yeon Woo. College of Arts and Architecture / Art. "My Day by Day Stories"