The Anthropology, Geospatial and Earth Sciences Department had 40 student presentations at the twenty-first annual IUP Scholars Forum on April 8, 2026. They gave both oral and poster presentations, and one applied archaeology graduate student participated in the Three-Minute Thesis Competition Finals.
Student award winners Jenna Conrad and Toni Venslosky
We commend all our students for the hard work they put in on their projects that were presented this spring. They represented the Department well in the work they did and how they presented the material. The full program is available, and more information can be found on the IUP Scholars Forum website.
Congratulations to the following students for also bringing home awards from the event.
Three-Minute Thesis People’s Choice Award
- Abdul Jones , Brown’s Farm: A 19th and 20th Century African American Farmstead
Kopchick College Undergraduate Outstanding Podium Presentation
- Abigail Trimble, Legacy in Limbo: Energy Transition and AI Data Centers in a Former Appalachian Coal Town
Kopchick College Graduate Dean’s Award
- James Duke, The John and Julia Hopkins House: Excavating Black History in Gettysburg's Third Ward
Kopchick College Graduate Outstanding Poster Presentation
- Savannah Weinrich, Vessel Technology and Function at the Chester Field Shell Ring Site
Women in STEM Undergraduate Poster Award
- Toni Venslosky, Assessment of Microplastic Contamination in Stream Sediments of the Stoney Run Watershed
- Jenna Conrad, An Analysis of Microwear of Tyrannosaurid Teeth
Scholars Forum and Three Minute Thesis student winners from the AGES Department