Submissions are accepted from all undergraduate students at IUP who demonstrate outstanding accomplishment in scholarly activity within their discipline. A variety of presentation formats are available, including individual and group oral presentations, discussion panels, poster sessions, and arts presentations. Types of presentations include:
Faculty are encouraged to bring this opportunity to the attention of students who might be interested in presenting their work. Students are encouraged to consider submitting projects they are currently working on. All submissions must have a faculty sponsor. Be sure to mark your calendars now to be part of this exciting event.
For further details about the forum, go to the Undergraduate Scholars Forum homepage. You can find examples of previous submissions and other helpful information at the About the USF webpage.
Dr. Timothy Mack, Dean, School of Graduate Studies and Research
Dr. Edward Donley, Dr. Beth Mabry, Dr. Lisa Hammett Price, USF 2010 Co-Chairs
]]>The Undergraduate Scholars Forum provides all undergraduate students with an opportunity for scholarly development by presenting their original research, scholarly activities or creative endeavors.
Forum participation is designed to foster scholarship and collegiality among undergraduate students and faculty members and to provide a forum for undergraduate students to discuss their academic work with a community of scholars. The forum will be held on Tuesday, April 7, 2009.
]]>The Undergraduate Scholars Forum provides all undergraduate students with an opportunity for scholarly development by presenting their original research, scholarly activities or creative endeavors. Conference participation is designed to foster scholarship and collegiality among undergraduate students and faculty and to provide a forum for undergraduate students to discuss their academic work with a community of scholars.
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Awards were presented for Best Presentation from each of the nineteen concurrent sessions at the forum. The Best Presentation in Session winners were as follows:
Awards were presented for Best Poster from each college.
Stephanie Fitzpatrick
Department of Special Education and Clinical Services
“School Counseling Needs of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing”
Ginger Lucas, Kevin Martincic, and Robert Ritenour
Department of Criminology
“Community Re-entry after Imprisonment”
Kenneth Glassford
Department of Biology
“Roles of p53 and BCL-2 as Localized Prostate Cancer Indicators, Using Immunohistochemical Analysis”
Kasie Pletcher
Department of Sociology
“I Can Do Anything You Can Do Better: Gender and Perceptions of Leadership Effectiveness”
Jessica Sabol
Department of Theater and Dance
“The Beauty Queen of Leenane”: Unearthing a Culture, Cultivating a Story”
Mallory Blaniar, Anthony Almond, and Paul Valdiserri
Department of Management
“The Economic Effects of Mardi Gras on New Orleans Business Structure”
Robert Roche, Pierino Delli Bovi, Craig Peterson, and Hansen Wijaya
“Making a Great City Better”
Michael Dooley
Department of Music
“Ilijas: Odd Meter and Odd Technique”
The IUP Libraries presented awards for the Best Bibliography for a Submitted Paper or Presentation.
Sasha M. King
Kalin Trevor McDannell
Gina Anne Russo
Lauren Bazala
Sylvia Choi
Sean Riffle
Alisha McCurdy
Tracey Baker
The College of Fine Arts sponsored the Juried Art Exhibit awards.
Jason Brown, “Child in Play”
Matt Madonna, “Reverse Evolution”
Melissa Clutz, “Chestnut”
Kyla Groat, “Silhouette”
Jason Brown, “Child in Play”
Sigma Xi presented awards for the Best Science Poster.
Antonio Scatena
Polymerase Chain Reaction: Amplification of RNA from Tomato Mosaic Virus
Jason Wallach
Social Modulation of HVc auditory response in Taeniopygia guttata, Zebra finch
Caitlin Williamson
Homology Modeling of Influenza A Virus Polymerase Basic 2 Subuint
Nicholas Haynos
Ian Duckworth
Christina Roberts
Monika Hofmann
All presentations, performances, and exhibits are open to the public so please come and support the IUP student researchers. See the Forum Program, which includes times, locations, presentation titles and names of presenters.
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