9th Annual Undergraduate Research Fair
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Slep Student Center
Presentations and Winners
Engineering
Poster #1
Student: Drew Bittner, Amber Miller, and Jordan Sell
Title: Characterization of jet atomization, impingement, and ignition delay of gelled hypergolic rocket fuels and oxidizers
Project Adviser: Grant Risha
Poster #2
Student: Vincent Yeager, Nick Becker, and Paul Mitchell
Title: Decomposition of solid fuels under rapid conductive heating
Project Adviser: Grant Risha
Poster #3 (Second Place)
Student: Amber Miller, Vincent Yeager, Nathanial T. Conlin
Title: Impact measurements to determine coefficient of resistitution using a high velocity air cannon
Project Adviser: Grant Risha
Poster #4 (Third Place)
Student: Amber Miller and Vincent Yeager
Title: Characterization of combustion performance of gaseous hydrocarbon fuels using a bi-propellant rocket engine
Project Adviser: Grant Risha
Poster #5 (Third Place)
Student: Jordan Sell, Joshua Benton, and Nathanial Conlin
Title: Study of solid fuel regression rates with nano-sized particles in the presence of a high-voltage electric field
Project Adviser: Grant Risha
Physical Sciences
Poster #6
Student: Ryan M. Pearson and Patricia F. High
Title: Temperature-dependent hydrolytic activity of copper-binding hydrogel systems
Project Adviser: Michael Bukowski
Poster #7 (First Place)
Student: Danhao Ma and Derek Caplinger
Title: Investigation of the influence of magnetic field on surface plasmons in Fe3O4-elastomer composite
Project Adviser: Kofi Adu
Poster #8 (First Place)
Student: Brennan Healy, Scott Jorbel, and Evan Cullen
Title: Percolation simulations in two dimensions using Mathematica
Project Adviser: Hooper, Weisel, Zimmerman
Poster #9 (Second Place)
Student: Benjamin Knisely, Kevin Ninehouser, and Joshua Noble
Title: Percolation studies of metal-insulator samples
Project Adviser: Bell, Weisel, Zimmerman
Poster #10
Student: Kendra Sheaffer
Title: Assessing course-integrated compare and contrast activities using students' similarity ratings of problems
Project Adviser: Fran Mateycik
Health & Life Sciences
Poster #11
Student: Rachel H. Bilka
Title: Mass-length relationship for different clones of the New Zealand mud snail
Project Adviser: Edward Levri
Poster #12 (Third Place)
Student: Frank Wendt and Eric Malmberg
Title: Diversity of the 16S rRNA genes of uncultured microorganisms from Antarctic permafrost
Project Adviser: Corien Bakermans
Poster #13
Student: Kevin Pulver and Alexis Meers
Title: Forest condition in and around a site cleared for a Marcellus well pad and a wind turbine: a case study in north-central Pennsylvania
Project Advisers: Mahan and Finley
Social & Behavioral Sciences
Poster #14
Student: Paige Kaminski and Caitlin Ligenza
Title: High Tech? The use of technology in context of early speech pathology
Project Adviser: Yeonsun (Ellie) Ro
Poster #15
Student: Stephen McFall
Title: Evidence-based administration in higher education: English 202A project
Project Adviser: Nicholas Rowland
Poster #16 (First Place)
Student: Justin Didyoung
Title: The comparison of moral decision making between theists and non-theists
Project Adviser: Nicholas Rowland
Poster #17
Student: Ty Miller and Alex Kinney (Third Place)
Title: Procurement of packaged software: The role of gap-analysis during adoption decisions
Project Adviser: Nicholas Rowland
Poster #18 (Third Place)
Student: Mark E. Singer
Title: The geometry of social perception in the Heider-Simmel task
Project Adviser: Eric Charles
Poster #19 (Second Place)
Student: Kelly Hartman
Title: The cooperative video game study: Does cooperative multiplayer mediate aggression?
Project Adviser: Eric Charles
Judges
Many thanks to our judges for 2011
- Kofi Adu
- Corien Bakermans
- Richard Bell
- Andrea Boito
- Michael Bukowski
- Eric Charles
- Mihai Comanescu
- Timothy Dolney
- Lisa Emili
- Tim Hooper
- Mary Kananan
- Ed Levri
- Carolyn Mahan
- Fran Mateycik
- Joe Petrulionis
- Grant Risha
- Laura Rotunno
- Nicholas Rowland
- Matt Weeg