Graduate Exhibition Archive of Award Winners
2016 Award Winners
Research Poster Option
Arts & Humanities
First Place
- Cansu Tari. The College of Arts and Architecture / ARCHITECTURE. "FRAMING A TURKISH CAMPUS SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT SYSTEM"
Second Place
- Dhaval Chheda. The College of Arts and Architecture / ARCHITECTURE. "Developing earthquake resilient structures, using recycled polyester fabrics, to provide low cost housing for the region of Kutch, in Western India."
- Richard Desinord. The College of Arts and Architecture / MUSIC. "Active Stasis: Repetition, Allusion, and The Façade of Discontinuity In Stravinsky’s Histoire du soldat (1918)"
- Kyle King. The College of the Liberal Arts / ENGLISH. "Sports Spectacle, Athletic Activism, and the Rhetorical Analysis of Mediated Sport"
Third Place
- Laura Michael Brown. The College of the Liberal Arts / ENGLISH. "Region and Remembrance: Public Memories of the Civil Rights Movement in Greensboro, North Carolina"
- Shivaram Punathambekar. The College of Arts and Architecture / ARCHITECTURE. "ARCHITECTS ANONYMOUS: Developing a user-friendly, participatory, open-source platform to generate region-specific climatic building design strategies for the ‘anonymous architect’"
- Qian Wu. The College of the Liberal Arts / APPLIED LINGUISTICS. "Learning Chinese as a Second Language in a Semester Abroad in China"
Engineering
First Place
- Virginia Aragon Sanabria. Intercollege Graduate Degree Programs / BIOENGINEERING. "Endothelial Junction Disruption by a Mechanism of VE-cadherin Disassembly and Cell Contractility within a Vascular Tumor Microenvironment"
Second Place
- Jingyao Gu. Intercollege Graduate Degree Programs / ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION CONTROL. "A Case Study: Potential Analysis of Industrial Symbiosis Application on a Chinese Industrial Park"
Third Place
- Gulten Izmirlioglu. The College of Agricultural Sciences / AGRICULTURAL AND BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING. "Ethanol fermentation by Saccharomyces cerevisiae from potato waste hydrolysate in biofilm reactors"
- Elnaz Kermani. The College of Engineering / CIVIL ENGINEERING. "Simulation of Flow through Porous Media using Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Method"
- Aaron Long. The College of Engineering / ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING. "Analysis and Implementation of the Foveated Vision of the Raptor Eye"
Health & Life Sciences
First Place
- Simone Sukhdeo. The College of the Liberal Arts / ANTHROPOLOGY. "The relationship between patterns of subchondral bone apparent density and trabecular bone structure in the hominoid knee"
Second Place
- Elizabeth Adams. The College of Health and Human Development / NUTRITION. "How kids define candy, snacks, and meals: A qualitative study to inform public health policy"
- Kahina Ghanem. Intercollege Graduate Degree Programs / PHYSIOLOGY. "What Can the Domestic Hen Teach Us About Ovarian Function?"
- Freddy Magdama Tobar. The College of Agricultural Sciences / PLANT PATHOLOGY. "The importance of endophytes in developing molecular detection methods: The case for race 4 of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense causing Panama disease on bananas"
Third Place
- Weslie Khoo. The College of Agricultural Sciences / FOOD SCIENCE. "Efficacy of Chewing Gum as a Delivery System for Water and Fat Soluble Vitamins"
- Yurika Matsui. Intercollege Graduate Degree Programs / MOLECULAR, CELLULAR, AND INTEGRATIVE BIOSCIENCES. "Large Tumor Suppressor 1 (Lats1) Regulation in Growth Control"
- Alexandra Serpi. The Eberly College of Science / BIOLOGY. "Immune response of Tobacco Hornworms following consumption of Horsenettle trichomes"
Physical Sciences & Mathematics
First Place
- John Leeman. The College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, / GEOSCIENCES. "Laboratory Observations of the Spectrum of Fault Slip: Implications for Slow Earthquakes"
Second Place
- Juan Callejas Moreno. The Eberly College of Science / CHEMISTRY. "Electrocatalytic and Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution Using Iron Phosphide Nanoparticles"
Third Place
- Alison Franklin. The College of Agricultural Sciences / SOIL SCIENCE. "Presence of three antibiotics in wheat plants and groundwater at The Living Filter: a wastewater reuse site"
- Nicholas Holschuh. The College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, / GEOSCIENCES. "Investigating the Potential for Reconfiguration of the Antarctic and Greenland Ice Sheets"
Social & Behavioral Sciences
First Place
- Austin Barrett. The College of Health and Human Development / RECREATION, PARK AND TOURISM MANAGEMENT. "Much has Changed Since the ‘90s, but not Americans’ Love for Local Parks"
Second Place
- Fatemeh Abdollahi. The College of the Liberal Arts / PSYCHOLOGY. "Syntactic Processing in Child and Adult Second Language Learners: a neurocognitive investigation"
- Maria Del Rosario Castro Bernardini. The College of Agricultural Sciences / RURAL SOCIOLOGY. "Up before dawn: Agricultural wage workers' responses to work-family dilemmas. A case study of two asparagus producing towns in Ica - Peru"
- Michael Evans. School of Nursing / NURSING. "Somatic Awareness and Self-Symptom Recognition in Advanced Heart Failure Patients"
- Roshan Nayak. The College of Agricultural Sciences / AGRICULTURAL AND EXTENTION EDUCATION. "On-Farm Food Safety Practices and Farm Science Centers in India: Programming Needs and Barriers"
Third Place
- Andrew Gladfelter. The College of the Liberal Arts / CRIMINAL JUSTICE. "Person-Place Mismatch and Its Implications for Victimization and Discrimination"
- Jonathan Reader. The College of Health and Human Development / HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AND FAMILY STUDIES. "Father-Figure Involvement Deferentially Predicts Adolescents' Risky Sexual Behavior Depending on Experience of Childhood Abuse"
- Kaila Thorn. The College of Agricultural Sciences / AGRICULTURAL AND EXTENTION EDUCATION. "Gaining Farmer's Preceptions on the Impact of Climate Change"
- Jennifer Wertalik. The College of Education / SPECIAL EDUCATION. "Comparison of Two Instructional Methods to Increase Accuracy of Activities of Daily Living for Adolescents with Autism"
Performance Option
First Place
- Carrie Greer. The College of Arts and Architecture / THEATRE. "“Depuis le Jour” from Louise and “The Audience Song”"
Second Place
- Yin Yu. The College of Arts and Architecture / PIANO PEDAGOGY AND PERFORMANCE. "Das Jahr (The Year) and A Calendar Set"
Third Place
- David Phillips. The College of Arts and Architecture / PERFORMANCE. "Trio Con Brio – Ronald Villabona Valbuena, violin; David Phillips, viola; Pai Liu, cello; Serenade in C Major, Op. 10"
Video Option
First Place
- Amin Azizi. Intercollege Graduate Degree Programs / MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING. "Freestanding van der Waals Heterostructures: Controlling Materials at the Atomic Level"
Second Place
- Wyatt Culler. The College of Engineering / MECHANICAL ENGINEERING. "Experimental Investigation of Flame Interaction"
Third Place
- Krista Quesenberry. The College of the Liberal Arts / ENGLISH. "“Reading at the Intersection of Modernist, Feminist, and Lifewriting Studies”"
Visual Arts Option
First Place
- Lindsey Landfried. The College of Arts and Architecture / ART. "Drawing Machines"
Second Place
- Stephanie Seguin. The College of Arts and Architecture / ART. "Interconnections"
Third Place
- Hani Kim. The College of Arts and Architecture / ART. "Epilogue"