7th Annual Undergraduate Research Fair
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Slep Student Center
Presentations and Winners
Art and Humanities
Poster #1 (Third Place)
Students: Katedra Richardson
Title: On the Shoulders of Giants: Rhetoric and Social Empowerment from Douglass to Obama
Project Adviser: Sandra Petrulionis
Poster #2
Student: Marina Johnson
Title: Jillian, Directed by Marina Johnson
Project Adviser: Robin Reese
Engineering
Poster #3 (Third Place)
Students: Russell Glass, Vince Yeager, and Amber Miller
Title: Effects of Oxidizer Composition and High Nitrogen Materials on the Burning Rate of Hydroxyl-Terminated Polybutadiene-Based Solid Fuels
Project Adviser: Grant Risha
Poster #4 (Withdrawn)
Health and Life Sciences
Poster #5
Student: Jonathan Guth
Title: A Survey of Streams in New York and Pennsylvania for the Presence of the Invasive New Zealand Mud Snail
Project Adviser: Edward Levri
Poster #6
Student: Janel Huffman
Title: The Effect of Inflorescence Size on the Pollination Success of Mountain Laurel (Kalmia Latifolia)
Project Adviser: Edward Levri
Poster #7
Students: Carol Opiela, Andrea Dubensky, and Ashley Mears
Title: The Effect of Predators on the Response of an Aquatic Snail to Light
Project Adviser: Edward Levri
Poster #8 (Third Place)
Student: Samantha Pedder
Title: Prevalence of Parasites in the Endangered Northern Flying Squirrel and other Members of the Squirrel Family (Sciuridae)
Project Adviser: Carolyn Mahan
Poster #9 (First Place)
Students: Andrew VanKuren
Title: The Potential Effects of Clearcut Size, Clearcut Age, and Deer Management on Oak Regeneration in Central Pennsylvania
Project Adviser: Carolyn Mahan
Poster #10 (Third Place)
Student: Andrew Catherine
Title: Using Circular Dichroism and Nearest-Neighbor Parameters to Tune Potassium KB's of DNA G-Quartets
Project Adviser: Amy Parente
Poster #11
Student: Brittany Bovard
Title: Impacts of Agricultural Chemical Use on Bat Activity and Insect Diversity on Eastern Pennsylvanian Farms
Project Adviser: Michael Gannon
Physical Sciences
Poster #12 (First Place)
Student: Jin-Kwang Kim
Title: Chameleon Calcium Sensor
Project Adviser: Marta Maurer
Poster #13 (Third Place)
Students: Heather McKinney
Title: Photoresponsive Photonic Crystal Hydrogel
Project Adviser: Marta Maurer
Poster #14 (Third Place)
Students: Sydney Moser, Kayla Foor, and Joseph Filer
Title: Revolutionizing Magnetorheological Elastomers: Use of Nanowires to Enhance Controllable Elasticity
Project Adviser: Richard Bell
Social Sciences
Poster #15 (Second Place)
Students: Collette Tesauro and Anjali Rajpara
Title: The Intercorrelation of Dermatoglyphic Characteristics, 2D:4D Ratio, and Spatial Ability
Project Adviser: Robert Matchock
Poster #16 (First Place)
Students: Katlin Farnon
Title: Multiple Intelligences in the Economics Classroom
Project Adviser: Barbara Wiens-Tuers
Poster #17
Student: Kristen Snider
Title: The Quality of Room Arrangement in Preschool Classrooms
Project Adviser: Margaret Benson
Poster #18
Students: Lori Bower, Darlene Pennington, and Amy Greene
Title: Advocating Acceptance: Advancing Social Awareness and Responsibility in the Elementary Classroom Through Children's Literature
Project Adviser: Kirstin Bratt
Poster #19 (Second Place)
Students: Tim Walters
Title: Marital Status, Social Support, Combat Experience, and the Need for VA Services Among Vietnam Veterans
Project Adviser: Dan Lago
Judges
The judges for the 2009 URF include:
- Richard Bell
- Eric Charles
- Mihai Comanescu
- Mary DeJong
- Timothy Dolney
- Adam Hartstone-Rose
- Mary Kananan
- Dan Lago
- Joseph Petrulionis
- Damon Resnick
- Nicholas Rowland
- Matthew Weeg
- L.A. Wilson