UNDERGRADUATE
EBERLY COLLEGE OF BUSINESS
DEAN'S AWARD: FIRST PLACE BUSINESS CASE COMPETITION
- Robert Kanick, Kellan Gustine, Mark Fanelli, and Connor Adrian - "OneMap"
OUTSTANDING PRESENTATION AWARD: SECOND PLACE BUSINESS CASE COMPETITION
- Lauren Piecknick, Justina Mascaro, Megan Woodworth, and Kelsey McCullough - "FoodSnap"
COLLEGE OF EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATIONS
DEAN'S AWARD
- Stephanie Lauble and Shara Wohlegemuth - "A Comparison of Kindergarten Mathematics Textbooks' Presentation of Counting"
OUTSTANDING PRESENTATION AWARD
- JingHui Xu - "Feminism in China"
OUTSTANDING POSTER AWARD
- Emily Kolojejchick, Rebecca Frederick, and Maria Schall - "Triangle Inequality Theorem"
COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS
OUTSTANDING PRESENTATION AWARD
- Hannah Kauffmann - "The Accent Work of 'Sweeny Todd'"
BEST PERFORMANCE
- Christopher Singer, Amanda Valinotti, and Nyasia Vasquez - "The Eye of the Storm: A Work Created Through Laban Choreutics Scales Based in Modern Dance"
JURIED ART - FIRST PLACE
- Christine Evans - "Submariner"
COLLEGE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
DEAN'S AWARD
- Daniel Tomascik - "Can the Crimson Hawks go D1? A Business Report on the NCAA's Division 1, IUP's Potential, and Whether Reclassification is Worth It
OUTSTANDING POSTER AWARD
- Kalie Hoover and Patrick Delvernois - "Effect of Music Relaxation and Rest Breaks in Reducing Fatigue During Repetitive Manual Tasks"
COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
DEAN'S AWARD
- Kayla Willis - "The Changing Image of Indigenous Americans Over Time"
OUTSTANDING PRESENTATION AWARD
- Carlee Benhart - "Guess Who? A Case Study of College Student Relationship to Crime Statistics in PASSHE Collegiate Counties"
OUTSTANDING POSTER AWARD
- Wyatt Stitely - "Using Remote Sensing techniques to analyze the regional effects of Urban Growth Boundary in Lexington, Kentucky"
KOPCHICK COLLEGE OF NATURAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS
DEAN'S AWARD
- Denali Davis and Autumn Toki - "Investigation of Bioactivity of a New Ruthenium-based Photocisplatin Analog"
OUTSTANDING PRESENTATION AWARD
- Claire Shemon and Jacob King - "Annotation of a new bacterial virus genome discovered by IUP students"
OUTSTANDING POSTER AWARD
- Kayla Korczynski - "Researching Stormwater Runoff at the White Township Recreation Complex in Indiana County, Pennsylvania"
PEER CHOICE AWARD
- Stephanie Lauble and Shara Wohlegemuth - "A Comparison of Kindergarten Mathematics Textbooks' Presentation of Counting"
WOMEN IN MATHEMATICS, SCIENCE, AND TECHNOLOGY
- Denali Davis and Autumn Toki - "Investigation of Bioactivity of a New Ruthenium-based Photocisplatin Analog"
SIGMA XI AWARDS
First Place Poster
- Madilyn Sodowsky - "Harmful Algal Blooms in Lake Erie: A Case-Study of Stormwater Management Techniques in Cleveland, Ohio"
Second Place Poster
- Kaitlin Knopsnider - "Estimating the timing of hemlock woolly adelgid infestation of light to moderately declining eastern hemlocks using tree ring analysis"
Third Place Poster
- Randall Koziel - "New Synthetic Route to Benzyl Esters"
Honorable Mention
- Gregory Boring - "The Effect of Digital Evaluation on 7th Grade Students"
- Ting-An Fang and Alvyn Berg - "Variability of residual chlorine in swimming pool water and determination of chlorine consumption for maintaining hygienic safety of bathers with a simple mass balance model"
S-COAM BEST COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE AWARD
- Victor Sansing and Kaleb Levicky - "Malware Classification using Fusion of Neural Networks"
GRADUATE
COLLEGE OF EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATIONS
DEAN'S AWARD
- Rebecca Bosley and Jeff Morris - "Concurrent Validity of the CogMed ADHD Rating Scale"
OUTSTANDING PRESENTATION AWARD
- Rachel Schierra - "21st Century Skill Development in One-to-one Initiative High Schools: Developing a validated, reliable instrument"
OUTSTANDING POSTER AWARD
- Taylor Whited, Brianne France-Layton, Shaina Sclesky, and Taylor Rainey - "Is Tapping the Solution"
COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS
Best Performance
- Edward Dunlap - "The Oru Seco: Music Religion, Slavery and Conquest"
JURIED ART - FIRST PLACE
- Tyler Stanton - "Objects of Material Culture"
COLLEGE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
DEAN'S AWARD
- Jennifer Chicca - "Nursing Faculty Roles in the Alternative Clinical Teaching Model of Preceptorships"
OUTSTANDING PRESENTATION AWARD
- Nathan Kruis - "A Preliminary Assessment of the Role Social Stigma Plays in Law Enforcement Officers' Responses to Opioid Overdoses"
OUTSTANDING POSTER AWARD
- Lisa Balestrino, Taylor Campbell, Alyssa Sabo, and Abigail Hallmark - "Food Insecurity Among University Students: Exploring its Existence, Effects, and Enhancement of Interventions"
COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
DEAN'S AWARD
- Amanda Barclay - "Zaatari Refugee Camp and Land-Use/Cover Change: Assessing Refugee Impact on Environmental Degradation and Urban Growth"
OUTSTANDING PRESENTATION AWARD
- Bakheet Almatrafi - "Don't cite, Write it!: Encouraging Academic Participation in Wikipedia"
OUTSTANDING POSTER AWARD
- Andrew Malhotra - "LiDAR and Archaeology: A Comparison with Near-Ground Remote Sensing at Fort Allen and Squirrel Hill"
KOPCHICK COLLEGE OF NATURAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS
DEAN'S AWARD
- Kevin Powell and Sean Rhoades - "Improving ARMIA Time-Series Forecasting of Stock Prices with Extra-Model Financial Data from SEC Filings"
OUTSTANDING PRESENTATION AWARD
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Amanda Cribbs - "An Analysis of Social Aggression Among Main Characters in Tweens' Favorite TV Shows"
OUTSTANDING POSTER AWARD
- Tyler Maykovich - "Biogeographic Analysis of Neoceratopsids"
3 MINUTE THESIS
JUDGE'S AND PEER CHOICE AWARD
- Jenny Willis - "Can Diet Cure MS? The Impact of a Modified Ketogenic Diet on Autoimmunity in a Murine Model of Multiple Sclerosis"
PEER CHOICE AWARD
- Heather Lash, Sara Ritter, and Austyn Diaz - " Utilizing GIS for Trail Route Visualization - The Export-Delmont Trail Connection of the Westmoreland Heritage Trail"
WOMEN IN MATHEMATICS, SCIENCE, AND TECHNOLOGY
- Amanda Cribbs - "An Analysis of Social Aggression Among Main Characters in Tweens' Favorite TV Shows"
SIGMA XI AWARDS
FIRST PLACE POSTER
- Kevin Powell, Sean Rhodes, and Cassandra Pray - "Discrete Event Simulation of Hospital Patient Flow Using Arena Simulation Software"
SECOND PLACE POSTER
- Angela Spagnoli - "Native plants have more herbivory by insects by the end of the growing season in a wetland"
THIRD PLACE POSTER
- Andrew Malhotra - "LiDAR and Archaeology: A comparison with Near-Ground Remote Sensing at Fort Allen and Squirrel Hill"
HONORABLE MENTION
- Angela Rooker, Chantal Sisko, and Madilyn Sodowsky - "Spatial Survey of Historic and Environmental Features of Reastone Property, Powdermill Nature Reserve, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania"
- Ross Owen - "A GIS Approach to the Management of Prehistoric Archaeological Resources within Michaux State Forest"
IUP LIBRARIES AWARD
FIRST PLACE
- Rebecca Bosley and Jeff Morris - "Concurrent Validity of the CogMed ADHD Rating Scale"
SECOND PLACE
- Abdul Habib Khalid - "Developing University Student Creativity and Critical Thinking Skills in Under-Resourced Contexts: Teaching Strategies"
THIRD PLACE
- Carley Smathers - "Qualitative Research in the Digital Environment: Exploring the Boundary Between Public and Private Information"