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