6th Annual Undergraduate Research Fair

Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Titelman Study, Misciagna Family Center for Performing Arts

Presentations and Winners

Arts and Humanities

Poster #1 (Third Place)
Student: Katlyn M. Palmer
Title: The Life of Walther von der Vogelwelde
Project Adviser: Dr. Ilse-Rose Warg

Engineering

Poster #2
Students: MinKyung Kim and Sarah Gildea
Title: User Friendly Security
Project Adviser: Dr. Jungwoo Ryoo

Health and Life Sciences

Poster #3 (Third Place)
Student: Andrew T. Van Kuren
Title: Prevalence of Parasites Including Strongyloides Robustus in the Endangered Northern Flying Squirrel and co-occurring Southern Flying Squirrel in Pennsylvania
Project Adviser: Dr. Carolyn Mahan

Poster #4 (Second Place)
Student: Carol Opiela
Title: The Effect of Fish Predator Presence on the Response of a Freshwater Snail to Gravity (Geotactic Response).
Project Adviser: Dr. Ed Levri

Poster #5
Student: Andrea N. Dubensky
Title: The Phototactic Response of a Freshwater Snail in Response to the Presence of Fish Predators
Project Adviser: Dr. Ed Levri

Physical Sciences

Poster #6
Student: Stephanie Shishido and Andrew T. Catherine (First Place)
Title: Using Circular Dichroism and Nearest-Neighbor Parameters to Time Potassium KDS of DNA G-quartets
Project Adviser: Dr. Amy Parente

Poster #7
Student: Benjamin R. Beers
Title: Understanding Magnetorheological Fluids: Cobalt Microwire Length Dependence
Project Adviser: Dr. Richard Bell

Poster #8
Student: Jeremy Cardellino (First Place)
Title: Percolation Studies of Metal-insulator Composites at Microwave Frequencies
Project Adviser: Dr. Darin Zimmerman

Social Sciences

Poster #9
Student: Shannon Beaver (First Place)
Title: The Sexual Identity of College Students at Penn State Altoona
Project Adviser: Dr. Elizabeth Seymour

Poster #10
Student: William J. Rusnak
Title: The Effects of Chronotype and Time-of-Day on the Alerting, Orienting, and Executive Components of Visual Attention
Project Adviser: Dr. Robert Matchock

Poster #11
Student: Desiree Sipes (Second Place)
Title: Banned Book Defense: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Project Adviser: Dr. Kirstin Bratt

Poster #12
Student: Katherine Imler
Title: Banned Book Defense: Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
Project Adviser: Dr. Kirstin Bratt

Judges

Thank you to our URF judges for 2008

  • Michael Arter
  • Andrea Boito
  • Alyssa C. Bumbaugh
  • Mihai Comanescu
  • Mary De Jong
  • Tim Dolney
  • Tim Hooper
  • Mary Kananen
  • Laura Palmer
  • Brad Pinter
  • Damon Resnick
  • J. Rowland
  • Darin Zimmerman