15th Annual Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities Fair

Saturday, April 8, 2017
Misciagna Family Center, Hawthorn Building, and Eve Chapel

Presentations and Winners

Performances and Exhibitions

  • 1st place: Emily Beam – “Da Vinci at the HeART of Anatomy”
  • 2nd place: Aaron James & Leila McCrumb – Performance of Act II Scene I from Same Time Next Year
  • 3rd place: Ger Ogot – “Doubting Thomas”

Oral Presentations

Computing and Information Technology

  • 1st place: Andrew Kurtz, Joseph Pfeffer, & Hannah Roddy – “Desktop Visualization Evaluation”
  • 2nd place: Jessica Seifer & Michelle Colucci – “Security Risk Analysis Internet of Everything Dashboard”
  • 3rd place: Andrew Kurtz, Joseph Gualdoni, & Ilva Myzyri – “The Step”

Arts & Humanities

  • 1st place: Henry Baust – “The Art That Dignifies You: Medieval Martial Arts and Modern Reconstruction”
  • 2nd place: Olivia Wertz – “Temporary Roadblocks: How Mental Illness Disrupts the Characters’ Coming of Age in The Bell Jar and The Catcher in the Rye”
  • 3rd place: Jacquelyn Tew – “Victorian Tea Set”

Posters

Engineering and Computing and Information Technology

  • 1st place: Stephen Moxim & Curtis Bell – “Opportunities in Nanowire Production through Impure Aluminum Oxide Templates”
  • 2nd place: Evan English & Dan Stacey – “A New Framework for Business Applications of Cloud Computing”
  • 3rd place: Matt Littler & Eric Crisp – “Investigation of Cylindrical Coefficient of Restitution (CCOR) and Dynamic Stiffness of Baseballs”

  • Physical Sciences

  • 1st place: Angela Spagnoli – “The Use of LiDAR Data Sets and Stochastic Depression Analysis to Predict the Locations of Vernal Pools”
  • 2nd place: Nathan Moyer – “Collection of water quality data, Juniata River watershed, Blair County Pennsylvania”
  • 3rd place: James Pence & Kevin Zhang – “Preparation of Dilignol Model Compounds”

Social and Behavioral Sciences

  • 1st place: Sierra Satterfield – “Application of the Death Penalty Among Racial Minorities in the United States”
  • 2nd place: Victoria Denz – “Combating Proactive Interference in Visuospatial Working Memory”
  • 3rd place: Aaron Artz – “Occupation and the Death Penalty”

Health, Life & Behavioral Sciences

  • 1st place: Sydney Fochler – “Effects of Exercise on Anxiety Behaviors in Zebrafish”
  • 2nd place: Tracie Cobb Irvin & Victoria Gould – “Assessing Spatial Learning and Memory in Small Squamate Reptiles”
  • 3rd place: Rebecca Luft – “The influence of fish odor on the dispersal behavior of an invasive snail”

Internships

  • 1st place: Jacob Vaughn -- “Conservation and Perception of Pennsylvania Snakes: Juniata Valley Audubon Society and Shaver's Creek Environmental Center, Petersburg, PA”
  • 2nd place: Jonathan Willett -- “Rethinking a Security System to Prevent the Hacking of Your Car”
  • 3rd place: Kayla Holliday “Corrections, Gender, and Rehabilitation: State Correctional Institute Rockview.”

The University Libraries Award for Information Literacy:

Sierra Satterfield – “Application of the Death Penalty Among Racial Minorities in the United States”