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Previous Fairs - 2011

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

Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities Fair

  • Posters
    • Undergraduate Poster Sample Entry Form
    • Poster Exhibition Judging Form
    • Internship Poster Presentation Judging Form
  • Oral Presentations
    • Oral Presentation Sample Entry Form
    • Oral Presentation Judging Form
  • Exhibitions and Performances
    • Performance and Exhibition Sample Entry Form
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  • SARI/CITI
  • Previous Fairs
    • Previous Fairs - 2022
    • Previous Fairs - 2019
    • Previous Fairs - 2018
    • Previous Fairs - 2017
    • Previous Fairs - 2016
    • Previous Fairs - 2015
    • Previous Fairs - 2014
    • Previous Fairs - 2013
    • Previous Fairs - 2012
    • Previous Fairs - 2011
    • Previous Fairs - 2010
    • Previous Fairs - 2009
    • Previous Fairs - 2008
    • Previous Fairs - 2007
    • Previous Fairs - 2006
    • Previous Fairs - 2005
    • Previous Fairs - 2004
    • Previous Fairs - 2003

See Also

  • Library Guide for Succeeding at the Fair
  • Honors Program
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