21st Annual Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities Fair

Saturday, April 15, 2023
Adler Athletic Complex

Presentations and Results

Arts & Humanities

  • First place: Amy Norris—“50 Shades of Orange”
  • Second place: Meghann Mignogna—“State of Mine”
  • Third place: Abraham Onkst—“Abraham Onkst Artist Talk”

Behavioral and Social Sciences I

  • First place: Rebecca Reeder & Hailey Burchfield—“Examining Associations Between Fathers’ Investment and Adult Sons’ Attitudes and Behaviors”
  • Second place: Olivia Smith—“Characterizing Dietary Intake in Relation to Body Weight and Body Weight Perceptions in Division III Student Athletes”
  • Third place: Pamela Lantz & Olivia Ronan—“Parents’ Expected Reactions to Sexual Orientation Disclosures”

Behavioral and Social Sciences II

  • First place: Makaylah Bangura, Deyana Dye, Yursa Haroon, Woodnie Andre, & Marianna Di Balsamo—“Examining the Effects of Procedural Justice and Utilitarian Assessments of Police on Racial Differences in Legitimacy Assessments”
  • Second place: Eemonie Moore
  • Third place: Nicholas Glunt, Lam Tung Vo, Lacee Barnhart, & Brooke Colledge—“Guns and Gun Accessories: An Assessment of Gun Owners' Acquisition and Use of Firearm Accessories”

Engineering & Physical Sciences

  • First place: Dillan, Dantos, Kyle Rennell, Emily Dale, Ben Love—“Spectroscopic Investigations of Deep Eutectic Solvents”
  • Second place: Mallorie Keith—“Pinacolborane Reduction of Carbonyl Compounds”
  • Third place: Angela Bunk—“Comparison of Steady-State and Dynamic Burning Rates of AP Composite Propellants”

Health & Life Sciences

  • First place: Nicole Bailey—“Yearly variation in the population density and reproduction of an aquatic invader, Potamopyrgus antipodarum”
  • Second place: Gavin Suter—“A Test of the Enemy Release Hypothesis Using the Invasive New Zealand Mud Snail, Potamopyrgus antipodarum”
  • Third place: Cortney McMath—“Improving Focus in ADHD: Non-pharmacological vs. Pharmacological Management Techniques”

Internships/Programmatic Oral Presentations

  • First place: Alyson Cover—“Fostering Good Health and Wellbeing Through Blended Case Management”
  • Second place: Haven Feathers—“Supporting Students Needs and Successes: My Time as a School Counseling Intern”
  • Third place: Jenna Cumming—“Power to the Students: Creating Awareness for Diversity on Campus”

Internships/Programmatic Poster Presentations

  • First place: Dawson Luzier, William Ferry, & Nicholas Martino—“PSU Altoona Women in Engineering Project 2023”
  • Second place: Amelia Paterno—“Getting Comfortable with the Uncomfortable: Creating a Dialogue Facilitation Program”
  • Third place: Katanna Yohn—“Athletic/Personal Training”

Mathematics, Computing, & Information Technologies

  • First place: Emma Hoover—“On Compositions & Polygon Dissections”
  • Second place: Ian Eckenrode—“Software for Visualization and Analysis of Lattice Paths with Obstructions”
  • Third place: Joshua Krish, Sarah Kidd, Kaitlyn Estright, Kyle Glass, & Alexander Lieb—“Auditing Framework for IoT Devices & Networks”

Sustainability Award

  • First place: Makaylah Bangura, Deyana Dye, Yursa Haroon, Woodnie Andre, & Marianna Di Balsamo—“Examining the Effects of Procedural Justice and Utilitarian Assessments of Police on Racial Differences in Legitimacy Assessments”
  • Second place: Mallorie Keith—“Pinacolborane Reduction of Carbonyl Compounds”
  • Third place: Sabiha Sultana—“Efficient Synthesis of Lignin Model Compounds”

Library Award

  • First place: Cortney McMath—"Improving Focus in ADHD: Non- pharmacological vs. Pharmacological management techniques"
  • Tie for second place: Rachel Sleeth & Connor Oakes—“Air Temperature and Diet are not Associated with Oxygen Consumption Rate in Banded Crickets, Gryllodes sigillatus” and Ian Eckenrode—" Software for Visualization and analysis of lattice paths with obstructions"