13th Annual Undergraduate Research Fair
Saturday, April 18, 2015
Misciagna Family Center for Performing Arts
Presentations and Winners
Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Oral Presentations
- 1st Place “Underground Railroad” – Tyler Hummel, Bethany Harker, Austin Beebe
- 2nd Place “Choosing to Dream Again: The Recreation of the American Dream in Suzanne Collin’s The Hunger Games Trilogy” – Becca Betty
- 3rd Place “How James Baldwin Changed Society” – Diana Fackler
Health, Life, and Physical Sciences Oral Presentations
- 1st Place “Standardization of Over-Dimensional Load Measurement Using Laser-Based Technology” -- Alexander Reinsmith
- 2nd Place “Interfacial Chemistry of Al-CNT Composite” – Shelby Stigers
- 3rd Place “Temporal infection rates of chytrid fungus (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis) on green frog (Lithobates clamitans melanota) populations in Pennsylvania wetlands” – Victoria Gould
Computing/Information Technology and Engineering Posters
- 1st Place “Burning Rate Characterization of High-Energy Solid Fuels and Oxidizers” – James “Bo” Pratt
- 2nd Place “Multiscale Modeling of Boundary Layer Development” – Vada Palochko and Christopher Ryba
- 3rd Place “A Framework to Validate Security Controls of Cloud Service Providers (CSPs)” – Kelsey Karpinski, Taryn Walker, Brennen Kelly
Sciences Posters
- 1st Place “Water Quality Monitoring in the Juniata River Watershed” – Angela Spagnoli and Catherine Kilgus
- 2nd Place “Engineering Lignin for Antimicrobial Agents” – Chloe Deng
- 3rd Place “Does the production of defensive spines come at a reproductive cost in an aquatic snail?” – Teresa Sirnic
Performances
- 1st Place “Illumination” a Dance Performance – Danielle Johnson, Megan Brobeck, Catherine Averill, Karlie Esworthy, Sam Bacza, Kyonna McClain, Kadheem McLeod
- 2nd Place Brahm’s “Intermezzo in E Minor, No. 2, Op. 119” – Annette Nagle
- 3rd Place “On What I Don’t Forget” a Poetry Presentation – Heather Myers