Undergraduate
Eberly College of Business
Dean's Award for Excellence: First Place Award
- Anthony Maticic, Elam Gates, Maria Hoge, Alec Martin, and Seth Peterman
“Chipotle Analysis”
College of Education and Educational Technology
Dean's Award for Excellence: First Place Award
- Mercedes Diehl
“The Media Portrayal of Stonewall”
Outstanding Presentation Award
- Justin Cobb
“Portrayals of Refugees in the Stories of Broadcast News Media”
College of Fine Arts
Dean's Award for Excellence: First Place Award
- William King
“Samba: Its Influences and Impact”
Outstanding Presentation Award
- Sydnee Elder
“A Role for Facilitation in Theater”
College of Health and Human Services
Dean's Award for Excellence: First Place Award
- Abigail Hallmark, Shannon Lynch, and Charolette Dorsey
“Cracking the Egg on Diabetes”
Outstanding Presentation Award
- Jessica Talbot
“Quality Improvement: Hand Hygiene Compliance in an Acute Setting”
College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Dean's Award for Excellence: First Place Award
- Zachary Harmon, Megan Bisi, Rahdira McPhail, and Maggie George
“Recovery from the Outside: Perceptions of Social Bonds Regarding Addiction”
Outstanding Presentation Award
- Jeremy Miller
“Socio-economic Impacts of Gentrification: Case Study of Five Neighborhoods in the Atlanta Metropolitan”
Kopchick College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Dean's Award for Excellence: First Place Award
- Aaron Seidel
“Application of Ground Penetrating Radar and Petrophysical Modeling to Investigate Methane Dynamics”
Outstanding Presentation Award
- Joshua Shaffer, Mara Menk, Elisabeth Smith, and Christina Maziarz
“Anithistamine induced weight gain and dopaminergic neurotransmission: Is there a link?”
ECO—Ecologically Conscious Organization
- Jesse Stitt
"Tropical Rainforest Destruction in Nigeria: Applying Remote Sensing Techniques to Measure Changes in Landscape Cover from 2002 to 2013" - Ian Dickie
"Interpreting Stage-Discharge Response During Storm Events in Marsh Run, West Branch."
IUP Libraries Information Literacy Awards
- Zachary S. Harmon, Maggie George, Megan Bisi, and Rahdirah McPhail
"Recovery from the Outside: Perceptions of Social Bonds Regarding Addiction" - Travis Anderson
"Testing and Comparing the Quick Change Orifice Well Tester" - Chevaen C. Dawson
"Effects of Class Size on Students' Academic Performance"
Sigma Xi Awards
- Christopher Volpe, Kalif Coates, Danielle Knight, Savannah Buday, and Micaela Roda
“Perceptions of Drugs and Violence on IUP's Campus” - Jeffery Larkin
“Long-term response of an eastern brook trout population to lime treatment in a stream impacted by acid mine drainage” - Jordan Treaster and Brandon Andrews
“Land Use Index Maps to Assist in Reviving a Rapidly Aging Population”
S-COAM Best Computational Science Award
- Tristan Burger
“Heroin Use and the Crime Rate in Pennsylvania Modeled with OLS and SOM Analysis”
Student Government Association Peer Choice
- Kiera Estes
"Design, Synthesis, and Spectroscopic Studies of a Ru(II) Polypyridyl Complex Containing Bulky Ligands" - Jessica Talbot
"Quality Improvement: Hand Hygiene Compliance in an Acute Setting"
Social Media
- Mary Chey
- Emily McAfoose
Graduate
College of Education and Educational Technology
Dean's Award for Excellence: First Place Award
- Daniel Dieter
“Man Optional: The Media Ecology of Robot A I”
Second Place
- Keith Weible
“Reliability of Automated Analysis of Laryngeal Diadochokinesis”
Third Place
- Haylee Peace
“Concurrent Validity of the Tiered Fidelity Inventory Implementation Measure”
College of Health and Human Services
Dean's Award for Excellence: First Place Award
- Cassie Smolic, Erin Smucker, Farnaz Sabetpour, and Katheryn Willey
“Calcium Consumption and the Female College Athlete: Non-Dairy vs Dairy Calcium-Rich Sources”
Second Place
- Lindsay Eckenrode, Thea Behm, Megan Prisk, Liza Walker, Anne Genereux, and Jaeyong Choi
“Factors That Affect Bariatric Patient Food Choices When Eating Out”
Third Place
- Jaeyong Choi
“Media Consumption and Public Confidence in Policing
College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Dean's Award for Excellence: First Place Award
- Jared Divido
“Testing the use and reliability of 3D Scanning Technology in the Construction of a Digital Comparative Faunal Bone Collection”
Second Place
- Robert Matchett
“Disability Inclusion Workshops: Steps towards Creating an Inclusive Community”
Third Place
- Olivia Maderer
“‘There and Back Again': The Historical Search for Home, Identity, and Humanity through Tolkien and Tennyson”
Kopchick College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Dean's Award for Excellence: First Place Award
- Derek Hanley
“Graph Theory and the Double-Critical Graph Conjecture”
Second Place
- Erich Hofmann
“A Nonadaptive Radiation in a Complex of Highland Anoles (Dactyloidae)”
Third Place
- Benjamin Gressler
“Modeling Landscape Connectivity and Gene Flow of Fisher (Pekania Pennanti) in Pennsylvania”
Three-Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition
Judge's Award
- Ingrid Krecko
“The Circle of Sadness: Improving Children's Emotion Competence through the Film ‘Inside Out'”
Peer Choice Award
- Terrance Hudson
“Why Teach? What Motivates African American Males to Choose Careers in Teaching”
Graduate Student Assembly Peers Choice
- Matthew Hassett
"The Empirical Knowledge Base on the Concealed Carry of Firearms on Campus: A Systematic Review" - Haylee Peace
"Concurrent Validity of the Tiered Fidelity Inventory Implementation Measure"
Social Media
- Benjamin Martin
- Matt Vanhorn