Undergraduate
Best Poster Awards
Serena Pitel
College of Education and Educational Technology
Mindfulness Based Stress Management
Matthew Stephenson, Daniel Martin
College of Health and Human Services
Trends in Alcohol Consumption: Do Alcohol Habits Transfer from High School to College?
Thomas Wambach
College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Firing Techniques and Their Effects on Susquehannock Ceramic Vessels
Jonathan Henninger
Kopchick College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
The Role of Retinoic Acid in Planarian Regeneration
Chloe DePaola, Rachel Snyder, Katrina Owens, Sarah Scholl, Julie Cash, Amira Al-Qarqaz
Kopchick College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
What Are You Looking At?: Face and Object Recognition during Infancy
Best Performance Award
Kierstin Bolton
Music
Outstanding Presentation Awards
Sarah Zambotti
Investigating DNA Aptamers Binding to IMPDH-Type II Protein Using LIFE Technique
Alisia Drew
Love Can Be Colorblind, But Can You? College Students' Attitudes toward Interracial Dating
Raymond Edwards
One World, One Dream: Gender Equality as a Factor of Success at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games
Jennifer Johnson
Peru: Issues in Development
Brittany Allman
The Effect of Varying Intensities of Aerobic Activity on Physiological and Psychological Well-Being of Breast Cancer Survivors
Ainyae Stratton
The Oprah Effect = The “Midas Touch"
Bridget Widdowson
The Effects of Minimum Wage and Other Socioeconomic Factors on Poverty
Best Bibliography Award
Kierstin Bolton
Chinese Governance in Xinjian Province: Ethnic Dissatisfaction and Tension with Han Chinese
Juried Art Exhibition Awards
Jonathan Burnett
First Place: Modern Architecture Abstract
Kyla Groat
Second Place: Paper Thin
Alison Terndrap
Third Place: Watchdogs
Alyssa Mitchell
Honorable Mention: The Anthropology of a Bad Idea
Outstanding Teacher Work Sample Awards
Allyson Shumar
Best Overall
Doug Trenk
Best Reflection and Intervention
Brittany Meyer
Best Assessment
Sigma Xi Awards
Donald Miller
First Place: Anticipatory Physiological Changes Meditate Immediate Cardiovascular Demands at the Onset of Human Exercise
Mark Smith
Second Place: Petrographic Characterization of Deformation Mechanisms and Kinematics in Post-Cleavage Faults Accommodating Differential Uplift of the Hsuehshan Range: Taiwan
John Riggs
Third Place: The Importance of Interpersonal Connectedness and Shared Subjective Experiences
Best Computational Science Poster Award
Daniel O'Hara
Strain Partitioning Offshore Southeast Taiwan: Evidence from Focal Mechanism Strain Inversions Near the Huatung Ridge
Business Case Competition Awards
A) Catelin Shontz, Cory Hay, Cory Ireland and Kelly Randza
Southwest Airlines in 2008: Culture, Values, and Operating Practices
B) Grey Berrier, Chelsea Wright, Eddie Cervantes, and Jonathan Reiner
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. in 2008: Management's Initiatives to Transform the Company and Curtail Wal-Mart Bashing
Graduate
College of Health and Human Services
First Place: Meigan Robb (Nursing Ph.D.)
“Self-Efficacy with Application to Nursing Education: A Concept Analysis”
Honorable Mention: Chris Felts (Criminology M.A.)
“America's Madhouse: The Criminalization of the Mentally Ill in the United States”
College of Humanities and Social Sciences
First Place: Jeremy Shearer (Administration and Leadership Studies Ph.D.)
“Leadership Effectiveness in Convergent Social Media”
First Place: Neal Stidham (English Ph.D.-Lit/Crit)
“Compiling a Comprehensive Bibliography of Harry Crosby”
Honorable Mention: Rachel Smith (Sociology M.A.)
“The Effects of Involvement in a Theatrical Production on the Beliefs and Behaviors of Participants”
Honorable Mention: Lisa Dugas (Applied Archaeology M.A.)
“Searching for Social Identity in Monongahela Bone and Shell Artifacts”
College of Fine Arts
Gregory Dippell (Music/Performance M.A.)
“The Cello Repertoire of Mark Summer”
Kopchick College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
First Place: Benjamin Tost (Biology M.S.)
“Kin Recognition at the Spiderling Level in the Common House Spider, Parasteatoda tepidariorum (Araneae, Theridiidae)”
Honorable Mention: Shan Min Chin, Chin Hong Siew, Jessica Richards (Biology M.S.)
“Protocols to Optimize cDNA Synthesis and PCR Cloning of Several M-size Double Stranded (ds)-RNA Fragments from Different Isolates of Rhizoctonia solani”
College of Education and Educational Technology
First Place: William Gasior, Brenton Kelly (Comm Media Ph.D.)
“Designing and Developing a Virtual Tour for an Academic Department"
Honorable Mention: James Kinneer (Comm Media Ph.D.)
“Uses and Gratifications of LinkedIn: An Exploratory Study”