2022 Scholars Forum Award Winners

Undergraduate

College of Arts and Humanities

Dean's Award

• Teryl Rice, "Making Sense of Ned Rorem's First Piano Sonata" (faculty mentor, Henry Wong Doe)

Outstanding Oral – Tied

• Jacob Wilt, "Everything... They Tried to Destroy:" The Role of Americanization in Native American and Philippine Educational Practices Under American Rule and its Long-Term Impact on Societal Institutions, 1879-1935" (faculty mentor, Soo Lu)

• Taylor Wheeler, "Demonstrating Etruscan Tombs" (faculty mentor, Irene Kabala) 

Eberly College of Business

Dean's Award

• Jocelyn Uber, "A State-Level Analysis of Recidivism in the United States" (faculty mentor, James Jozefowicz)

Outstanding Poster

• Dominic Rocco and Muchen Guo, "Markets to Markets: Which Is More Efficient" (faculty mentor, Todd Potts)

Outstanding Oral

• Taylor Freidman, "The Effects of Unemployed on Crime in the Golden State" (faculty member James Jozefowicz)

College of Education and Communications 

Dean's Award

• Paige Lutza, "Modern Media: Content Analysis of Children's Television Shows vs. YouTube Content" (faculty mentor, Nurhaya Muchtar)

College of Health and Human Services

Dean's Award

• Naijla Alfares, Saja Albedaiwi, and Reem Alyahya, 'The Best Position to Place a Nebulizer in a Ventilator Circuit to Deliver the HIghest Deposition of Aerosol Particles to a Patient" (faculty mentor, William Rogers)

Outstanding Poster

• Sean Bennett, "Examining the Consequences of Dehumanizing in Justification of Police Use of Force Against Minoritized Youth" (faculty mentor, Jennifer Perillo)

Outstanding Oral

• Kaitlyn Sharkey, "I-Sharing: Getting Along in the Workplace" (faculty mentor, Anson Long)

John J. and Char Kopchick College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics

Dean's Award

• Mary Bland, Alexus Bobak, Alec Wentz, and Ellen Yerger, "Identifications to Characterize Beetles in Hemlock Forests of Pennsylvania" (faculty mentor, Ellen Yerger)

Outstanding Poster

• Susie Adams and Jonathan C. Lewis, Brittle Deformation: Fault Analysis in the Eastern Central Range" (faculty mentor, Jonathan C. Lewis)

Outstanding Oral

• Taylor Hudzicki, "Mitigating Harmful Algal Blooms" (faculty mentor, Sudeshna Ghosh)

Women in STEM Awards (sponsored by KCNSM)

Outstanding Poster

• Maria Balega, "IoT Anomaly Detection Using a Multitude of ML Algorithms" (faculty mentor, Waleed Farag)

Outstanding Oral

• Ashlee Brady, "Evaluation of Carbon Xerogels and Diatomite for Dye Removal from Wastewater" (faculty mentor, Andrea Maicaneanu)

Jones White Writing Center Awards

• Ava Pinkham, "Harvesting Resilience: How Gardening has helped Appalachia Cope during COVID-19" (faculty mentor, Amanda Poole)

S-COAM Award

Best Computational Poster

• Alexis Neese, "The Benefits to Agrivoltaics" (faculty mentor, Kimberly Burch)

Sigma Xi Awards

First: 

• Chad McLaren, Matthew Pernelli, Jacob Krinock, “How A Comprehensive Geodatabase Can Be Used to Inform Community Redevelopment” (faculty mentor, John Benhart)

Second: 

• Morgan Hepler, David Lane, “Nano-Engineering a Sensor to Measure to Degradation of Lubricating Oil” (faculty mentor, Gregory Kenning)

Third: 

• Franklin May, “Anomaly Detection Within IoT Devices Using The NSL-KDD Dataset” (faculty mentor, Waleed Farag)

• Kaleb Keech, (David Janetski), Darby Byington, (Douglas Fisher, Eric Billman, Brian Ensign, Casey Bradshaw-Wilson), “Comparison of fish communities represented by different gear types in LeBoeuf Lake, Pennsylvania” (faculty mentor, David Janetski)

• Parker Chadwick, “A Comparative Analysis of Boat Petroglyphs” (faculty mentor, Benjamin Ford)

Graduate

College of Arts and Humanities

Juried Art Dean's Award

• Adeline Kubicsek, "Keypot" (faculty mentor, Sharon Massey)

Juried Art Honorable Mentions

• Rose Burger, “Blue Herring Teapot” (faculty mentor, Sharon Massey)

• Caitlyn Boggs, “Life in a Tabasco Bottle” (faculty mentor, Sharon Massey)

Eberly College of Business

Dean’s Award

• Kevin Froggatt, Kaiya Leighty, Cassidy Zandier, Mashayla Valentine, and Evan Donovan, “The Bizi App” (faculty mentor, Stephen Osborne)

Outstanding Poster

• Erica Zamborsky, Devan Owens, Marina Myachina, and Dylan Morgan, “Nano-Technology TTI Sensor Project – Business Development Plan” (faculty mentor, Stephen Osborne)

College of Education and Communications

Dean’s Award

• Donny Bryant, “The Racialized Film Perspicuity” (faculty mentor, Nurhaya Muchtar)

Outstanding Oral

• Abby Fuhrman, “Gender inequality in another form: How the unequal coverage of women's sports is impacting female athletes.” (faculty mentor, Nurhaya Muchtar)

College of Health and Human Services

Dean’s Award

• Kelly Sherretts, Lauren Lucas, and Jeffrey Morris, “Internalizing and Externalizing Behaviors in ADHD” (faculty mentor, Jenna Hennessey)

Outstanding Oral

• Danielle Covolo, Melissa Swauger, Dana Hysock Witham, Daniel Heckert, and Christian Vaccaro, “From Discovery to Recovery: Parents’ Emotion Work to Transcend Fallout From a Child’s Opioid Use Disorder” (faculty mentor, Melissa Swauger)

John J. and Char Kopchick College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics

Dean’s Award

• Amanda Filmyer, “Raw Material Usage of Formal and Expedient Stone Tools at the Squirrel Hill Site” (faculty mentor, Lara Homsey-Messer)

Outstanding Poster

• Jiahan Liu, “Statistically analysis for Newport Site” (faculty mentor, Lara Homsey-Messer)

Outstanding Oral

• Amelia Newton, “Work Effort and Perceived Exertion While Wearing a Passive Exoskeleton in Industrial Overhead Tasks” (faculty mentor, Wanda Minnick)

Women in STEM Awards (sponsored by KCNSM)

Outstanding Poster

• Raeann Motacek and Lillian Gonzales, “The Effects of Varying Soil PH & Aluminum Foil on the Elemental Composition of Bones” (faculty mentor, Andrea Palmiotto)

Outstanding Oral

• Raeann Motacek and Lillian Gonzales, “The Effects of Varying Soil PH & Aluminum Foil on the Elemental Composition of Bones” (faculty mentor, Andrea Palmiotto)

Jones White Writing Center Awards

• Raeann Motacek and Lillian Gonzales, “The Effects of Varying Soil PH & Aluminum Foil on the Elemental Composition of Bones” (faculty mentor, Andrea Palmiotto)

S-COAM Award

Best Computational Poster

• Alicia Deak, Zaryn Good, Ryan Gress, “Comparative Study of IoT-TON Machine Learning Algorithms” (faculty mentor, S. Ezekiel)

Sigma Xi Awards

First: 

• Emily Lessman, “Spatial Procedures to Analyze the Hazards to Communities and Infrastructure in Savannah, Georgia from a Direct Hit from a Category 3 Hurricane” (faculty mentor, John Benhart)

• Robert Szczotka, “Testing Sampling Survey Techniques at Mary Rinn” (faculty mentor, William Chadwick)

Second: 

• Rufus James, “Characterizing the effects of chloroquine treatment on planarian tissue maintenance” (faculty mentor, Robert Major)

• Anthony Kamler, “The Impact of Side: A Statistical Investigation of Humeral Osteometric Data” (faculty mentor, Andrea Palmiotto)

Third:

• Amer Lukcik, “Flood Risk Analysis - Two Lick Creek Watershed in Indiana County, PA” (faculty mentor, John Benhart)

Honorable Mentions

Parker Meiss, Cory Gaye, (Luz Stella Marina, Majed Zreiqat, Wanda Minnick), “Using Wearable Technology to Assess Slips, Falls and Trips in Construction Industry” (faculty mentor, Wanda Minnick)