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2016 Scholars Forum Award Winners
Undergraduate Scholars Forum Award Winners
Eberly College of Business and Information Technology
Dean’s Award for Excellence — First Place Award
Markita Jackson, Kelci Zimmerman, Jonathan Shaffer, and Kaleigh Lowers
“Business Case Competition: Amazon’s Big Data Strategy Case”
College of Education and Educational Technology
Dean’s Award for Excellence — First Place Award
Katlyn Plotzer
“Fracking and Wind Turbine Noise: Hearing and Health Effects”
Best Poster Award
Tammy Moberly
“The Effect of Student Teaching Performance on Learning Outcomes”
College of Fine Arts
Dean’s Award for Excellence — First Place Award
Zachary Gaylord-Everett
“An Examination of the Composition Style of Keiko Abe”
Best Presentation
Kyle Reidmiller
“Fairies and Freaks: An Exploration of Queer Identity and Theory through Visual Art”
College of Health and Human Services
Dean’s Award for Excellence — First Place Award
Shannon Bollard, Kacey Bush, Emma Cassese, and Alyssa Vescera
“Use of Vitamin D in Preventing Elderly Patient Falls: An Evidence-Based Practice Review”
Best Poster Award
Jennifer Danyi and Emily Packer
“Alarm Fatigue”
Outstanding Presentation Award
Hali Santiago
“Rape Myths among Undergraduate Criminology and Criminal Justice Majors: Does Class Matter?”
College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Dean’s Award for Excellence — First Place Award
Patrick Edwards and Hannah Mercer
“An Analysis of Gender Inequality in Professional Tennis”
Best Poster Award
Alyssa Hyziak
“Life on the Conemaugh: Spatial Analysis of Artifact Distributions of the Monongahela Tradition at the Johnston Site (36In2) in Southwestern Pennsylvania”
Outstanding Presentation Award
Robert Matchett
“Perception of Disability: The Impact of Visibility”
Kopchick College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Dean’s Award for Excellence — First Place Award (Tie)
Ian Bright and Derek Hanely
“An Analysis of Optimizing Philanthropic Investment Allocation in Undergraduate Education”
Shannon Kovalchick
“Express Yourself: An Investigation of Increased Emotional Disclosure through the Person Body Outline Art Activity”
Best Poster Award
Charles Cavallotti
“Analysis of Focal Mechanism Solutions to Investigate an Apparent Aseismic Zone Beneath the Central Range, Taiwan”
Outstanding Poster Award
Sara McBride and William Gerardi
“Forest Fragmentation Deer Density and Lyme Disease Risk in the Allegheny National Forest: A Small Mammal Perspective”
Sigma Xi Honor Society Poster Awards
First Place Award
Allison Berry
“High Uplift Rates Coincident with Normal Faulting, Southern Central Range, Taiwan”
Second Place Award
Alyssa Hyziak
“Life on the Conemaugh: Spatial Analysis of Artifact Distributions of the Monongahela Tradition at the Johnston Site (36In2) in Southwestern Pennsylvania”
Third Place Award
Aaron Seidel and Jesse Stitt
“Using Spatial Applications to Assess Habitat Needs for a Declining Species”
IUP Libraries Best Bibliography
First Place Award
Katie Lynch
Second Place Award
Bria Thomas
Honorable Mention
Victoria Stone
Environmentally Conscious Organization (ECO) Awards:
Katlyn Plotzer
“Fracking and Wind Turbine Noise: Hearing and Health Effects”
Cody Stewart
“Native Pennsylvania Plants in a Green Roof Setting: Evaluating Germination and Survival of Four Species”
Student Government Association Peer Choice
Shannon Bollard, Kacey Bush, Emma Cassese, and Alyssa Vescera
“Use of Vitamin D in Preventing Elderly Patient Falls: An Evidence-Based Practice Review”
Scholarships — Creating Opportunities for Applying Mathematics (S-COAM) Computational Science Poster Award
Samuel Grieggs
“A RANSAC Based Approach to Leaf Matching”
Social Media
Tessa Narins
Savey Joyner
Graduate Scholars Forum Award Winners
College of Education and Communications
Dean’s Award for Excellence — First Place Award
Megan Rescinito and Alexandra Walters
“Improving School Climate: Using SWPBIS to Improve Student Behavior”
Second Place Award
Rachel Schiera
“A Construct Shift From Colleagues to Teams in a Collaborative Teaching Environment in the Middle East”
Third Place Award
Krista Streyle
“SWPBIS: Implementation Level and Office Discipline Referrals”
College of Fine Arts
Dean’s Award for Excellence — First Place Award
Rachel Precht
“Echo”
College of Health and Human Services
Dean’s Award for Excellence — First Place Award
Jaeyong Choi
“Media Cultivates Fear of Crime but for Whom? Examination of Competing Audience Hypotheses about the Impact of Media”
Second Place Award
Shavonne Arthurs
“Beyond Boozing: College Student Drinking Patterns”
Third Place Award
Lindsey Smathers
“The Concept of Justice: An Evaluation of Comic Book Filmography”
College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Dean’s Award for Excellence — First Place Award
Lama Alharbi
“Revisiting the Local in the Flows of ‘Globalization’: Examining Saudi Hip Hop as a Discourse and Culture”
Second Place Award
Justin Nicholes
“Measuring Ownership of Creative versus Academic Writing”
Third Place Award
Kelsey Shaulis
“Family and Health Service Utilization Among Aging Immigrants in the United States”
Kopchick College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Dean’s Award for Excellence — First Place Award
Thomas Firneno
“Species Boundaries and Population Structure in Closely Related Mesoamerican Toads (Incilius coccifer complex)”
Second Place Award
Erich Hofmann
“Using DNA Barcoding to Reveal Cryptic Species of Neotropical Anoles”
Third Place Award
Kirsten Johnson
“American Woodcock Use of Early Successional Communities Managed for Golden-Winged Warblers”
Three-Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition
President’s Award
Lynnan Mocek
“The Effectiveness of Syllabus Design on Course Information Retention by At-Risk First Semester College Students”
Peer Choice Award
Erich Hofmann
“Revealing Cryptic Species through Integrative Taxonomy: A Case Study in Neotropical Anoles”
Sigma Xi Honor Society Poster Awards
First Place Award
Jamie Arthurs
“Examining Implicit Learning in Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Using Eye Tracking to Determine Whether Implicit Learning is Impaired or Intact”
Second Place Award
Alexander Blake
“Computational Modelling for the Determination of the Optical and Dielectric Constants of Thin and Ultra-Thin Metallic Films”
Third Place Award
Kusuma Anand
“Stimulus Valence Influences Auditory Discrimination Training Speed and Profile in Finches”
IUP Libraries Best Bibliography
First Place Award
Jaeyong Choi
Honorable Mention
Kelsey Shaulis
Graduate Student Assembly Peers Choice
First Place Award — Presentation
Lynnan Mocek
“The Effects of Syllabus Design on Course Information Retention by At-Risk First Semester College Students”
Second Place Award — Poster
Roqayah Almatrouk, Nada Alsulami, and Samah Hawsawi
“Shared Governance”
Third Place Award — Presentation
Lama Alharbi
“Revisiting the Local in the Flows of ‘Globalization’: Examining Saudi Hip Hop as a Discourse and Culture”
Social Media
Alaina Howse
Abdullah Alosaimi