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2014 Scholars Forum Award Winners
Undergraduate
Eberly College of Business and Information Technology
Dean’s Award for Excellence - Business Case Competition First Place Award
Travis Meyer, Christina Bryner, Nicholas Hooper, Marc Colon and Alexandra Larch
“Netflix”
Business Case Competition Second Place Award
Derek Schmidt, Ali Tappe, Lara Weisbach, Morgan Hoover and Haley Kramer
“Blue Nile, Inc.”
Business Case Competition Third Place Award
Naria Willis, Emily Simpson, Lauren Petronic and Brad Taylor
“Case Study: Netflix”
College of Education and Educational Technology
Dean’s Award for Excellence
Emily Romberger
“Impacts on Health and Hearing from Hydraulic Fracturing (’Fracking’) in Local PA Residents”
College of Fine Arts
Dean’s Award for Excellence
Steven Moon
“Polyphony for the Solo String Instrument: Structural Expression in J.S. Bach’s Works for Solo Violin and Cello”
Best Poster Award
Devon Pettie
“The Optimist - Dramaturgy”
Student Exhibition
Best in Show
David Havrilla
“Rigs”
3D Award
J.M.Wasko
“Counterweight”
2D Award
Andrea Petrillo
“Sonorous”
Honorable Mention #1
Hanna Cramer
“Last Days of Steel Redux”
Honorable Mention #2
Cheyenne Helman
“U.S. Coin Poison Ring”
College of Health and Human Services
Dean’s Award for Excellence
Cherise M. Key
“To Pump or Not to Pump: An Analysis of Indiana University of Pennsylvania Female Perceptions of Health Risks Associated with Wearing High Heeled Shoes”
Best Poster Award
Jessica Wallace, Amy Fairman, Olivia Pannabecker and Jera Scott
“Analysis of Academic Success Factors in Student Athletes”
College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Dean’s Award for Excellence
Vincent Lopez
“How Important is Grit to the Success of Minority College Students?”
Best Poster Award
Josie Bash
“Overcoming Barriers to Academic Success Among First-Generation College Students”
Conner McLain
“Preliminary Analysis of Ground Stone Tools from the Johnston Site”
Outstanding Presentation Award
Zackary Nelson and Riley Smith
“A Revolution on Tap: Determinants of Microbrewery Prevalence at the State Level”
Erik Vogel
“The Impact of the Sulphur Creek Acid Mine Drainage Site on the Macro Invertebrate Community in Adams Township”
Kopchick College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Dean’s Award for Excellence
Matthew Papinchak, Laura Murdaugh and Allan Hall
“The Possible Involvement of Orexin in the Regulation of Green Anole
(Anolis carolinensis)
Aggressive Behavior”
Best Poster Award
Allan Hall
“Prevalence of ADHD Symptoms in a College Student Population”
Outstanding Presentation Award
Estefania Alba Rodriguez
“Therapeutics for Acute Myeloid Leukemia Derived from
Oplopanax Horridus”
Ashleigh Craig and Theresa Scarnati
“Pricing Behaviors of Large Carriers in the United States Airline Industry”
ECO Award Winner
Carrie Aitkins and John Osborn
“Digital Ethnography for Sustainable Development in Indiana, PA”
Sigma Xi and S-COAM Award Winners
Sigma Xi Best Science Poster - First Place Award
Peter Greenawalt
“The Computational Investigation of Hydrogen Gas Absorption on Graphene Sheets Using the Eley-Rideal Mechanism”
Sigma Xi Second Place Award
Kyle Zelesnick, Ty Sampsell, Stephen Deak and Mary Chey
“A Novel Approach for Detecting and Monitoring the Health Status of Environmental Waters for Tomato Mosaic Virus (ToMV)”
Sigma Xi Third Place Award
James Wagner
“Morphometric Analysis for Characterizing Submarine Drainage Networks: East Scotian Slope Canyon System, Offshore Novia Scotia”
S-COAM Best Computational Science Poster
James Volosky and Ryan Brown
“Spatial Improvement Analysis for the Dirt and Gravel Roads in the Little Mahoning Watershed”
Best Bibliography Award Winner
Melissa King
“Gendering Tamriel: Character Creation in The Elder Scrolls Video Games Series and Gender Stereotypes”
Special Awards
Best Overall Tweet
Aijah Baruti-Goodwin
“The Effects of Parenting Styles and Family Structure on the Personal Adjustment of College Students”
Best Selfie
Vincent Paparella
Graduate
College of Education and Educational Technology
Dean’s Award for Excellence - First Place Award
Huachuan Wen
“Online Social Networking and Writing in College”
Second Place Award
Jamie Brandon
“Educating for Security: A Mixed Methods Study of Information Technology Security Programs and Protection of Personally Identifiable Information in Higher Education”
Third Place Award
Timothy Hall
“Beyond SWPBIS: Effects of Large-Scale Implementation of CICO”
College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Dean’s Award for Excellence - First Place Awards
Adam Mengel
“Bat Use of Edge and Interior Habitat in Managed Forest”
Chiaothong Yong
“Psychological Screening on International Students”
Second Place Award
Chad Clair
“Landscape Level Analysis of the Allegheny Woodrat (
Neotoma magister
) across Pennsylvania”
Third Place Award
Michelle Myers-Claypole and Daniel Peles
“Seasonal Activity and Abundance of the Blacklegged Tick) (
Ixodes scapularis)
and Infection Prevalence of the Lyme Disease Bacterium (
Borrelia burgdorferi
) in Mid-Western Pennsylvania”
College of Health and Human Services
Dean’s Award for Excellence - First Place Award
Shavonne Arthurs
“Biological Drives and Social Reinforcement: Why College Students Drink”
Second Place Award
Matthew Rutt
“Effects of Different Modes of Recovery on Rates of Removal of Blood Lactate”
Third Place Award
Dylan Mudlo
“Effects of Unilateral Versus Bilateral Squat and Plyometric Training Upon Athletic Performance Outcomes”
College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Dean’s Award for Excellence - First Place Award
Robert Welch
“Poetry as Teacher, Teacher as Mediator: The Lesson of John Keats”
Second Place Award
Daniel Sandrowicz
“Spatial Improvement Analysis for the Dirt and Gravel Roads in the Little Mahoning Watershed”
Third Place Award
Kristina Navnyko
“The Impact of Standardized Testing on EFL in Russia”
College of Fine Arts
Dean’s Award for Excellence - First Place Award
Tyler Kulp
“Six-Mallet Techniques, Grips, and Compositions for Marimba”
Second Place Award
Erika Stearly
“Take a Painting”
Student Exhibition
Best in Show
Eric Brennan
“Ramon”
Departmental Award
Jim Battistelli
“Scale Whale Projection”
ECO Award
Matthew Huff
"White Township Stormwater Resource Inventory"
Sigma Xi Award
Courtney Nicks
“The Use of Genetic Data to Examine Patterns of Fisher Recolonization”
Best Selfie
Michelle Cole
Best Overall Tweet
Aijah Baruti-Goodwin
“The Effects of Parenting Styles and Family Structure on the Personal Adjustment of College Students”