Graduate
College of Education and Educational Technology
Dean’s Award (First Place)
Student: Michael J. Boneshefski
Advisor: Joseph Kovaleski
Paper Title: “Rate of Improvement Projections: An Aid to Special Education Decision-Making”
Second Place
Student: Shannon M Phillips-Shyrock
Advisor: Laura Strong
Paper Title: “Cyberbullying in Middle Schools: Students’, Educators’, and Parents’ Perspectives”
Third Place
Student: Dottie J. Morgan
Advisor: Lisa Price
Paper Title: “Efficacy of Color and Spatial Cues for Augmentive and Alternative Communication Boards”
Fourth Place
Student: Huachuan Wen
Advisor: Kelli Paquette
Paper Title: “EFL Learners’ Self-Efficacy and Their English Writing Performances”
Kopchick College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Dean’s Award (First Place)
Student: Stephanie Moon
Advisor: Jeffrey Larkin
Paper Title: “Comparison of Lepidoptera Density Between Native and Non-Native Shrub Species”
Second Place
Student: Amber Nolder
Advisor: Joseph Duchamp
Paper Title: “Bat Response to Oak Regeneration Silviculture”
Third Place
Student: Ethan Cullen
Advisor: Tim Nuttle and Joseph Duchamp
Paper Title: “Impacts of Historic Deer Browse on Present Insectivorous Forest Songbird Communities in the Allegheny National Forest”
College of Health and Human Services
Dean’s Award (First Place)
Student:Paul Hawkins and Robert P Stallings
Advisor: Bitna Kim
Paper Title: “What’s the Score? Exploring Criminal Arrest Rates of the MLB, NBA, NFL, and NHL from 2000-2012”
Second Place
Student: Kyle C Ward
Advisor: Jennifer Roberts
Paper Title: “Rural and Urban College Students’ Perceptions of Released Offenders: Does Location Matter?”
Third Place
Student: Christina L Silvia
Advisor: Teresa Shellenbarger
Paper Title: “Success After Failure: A Case Study Approach”
Fourth Place
Student: Jeffrey J Roth
Advisor: Jennifer Roberts
Paper Title: “An Analysis of the Factors Affecting the Target Choices of Residential Burglars”
College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Dean’s Award (First Place)
Student: Janelle L Newman
Advisor: Gloria Park
Paper Title: “Improving Home-School Partnerships with English Language Learning Families”
Second Place
Student: Alexander W Hall
Advisor: John Benhart
Paper Title: “Lifecycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale gas Development”
Third Place
Student: Stefanie M. Smith and Ryan Spittler
Advisor: Sarah Neusisu
Paper Title: “An Analysis of Johnstown Site (36IN02) Secondary Zooarchaeological Data and Second-Order Taphonomic Processes”
Fourth Place
Student: Matthew D Howryla, Victoria W Harding, and Adam Burke
Advisor: Sarah Neusius
Paper Title: “Cultural Modification of Bone at the Johnstown Site (36IN0002)”
College of Fine Arts
Juried Art Exhibit
Dean’s Award
Student: Peter Mullen
Project: Aluminum Pool
Juror’s Choice Award
Student: Crystal Miller
Project: Sombrero de Fruit y Fur