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Undergraduate Scholars Forum Award Winners

Eberly College of Business and Information Technology

Dean's Award for Excellence — First Place Award

• Markita Jackson, Kelci Zimmerman, Jonathan Shaffer, and Kaleigh Lowers
  “Business Case Competition: Amazon's Big Data Strategy Case”

College of Education and Educational Technology

Dean's Award for Excellence — First Place Award

• Katlyn Plotzer
  “Fracking and Wind Turbine Noise: Hearing and Health Effects”
  

Best Poster Award

• Tammy Moberly
  “The Effect of Student Teaching Performance on Learning Outcomes”

College of Fine Arts

Dean's Award for Excellence — First Place Award

• Zachary Gaylord-Everett
  “An Examination of the Composition Style of Keiko Abe”

Best Presentation

• Kyle Reidmiller
  “Fairies and Freaks: An Exploration of Queer Identity and Theory through Visual Art”

College of Health and Human Services

Dean's Award for Excellence — First Place Award

• Shannon Bollard, Kacey Bush, Emma Cassese, and Alyssa Vescera
  “Use of Vitamin D in Preventing Elderly Patient Falls: An Evidence-Based Practice Review”

Best Poster Award

• Jennifer Danyi and Emily Packer
  “Alarm Fatigue”

Outstanding Presentation Award

• Hali Santiago
  “Rape Myths among Undergraduate Criminology and Criminal Justice Majors: Does Class Matter?”

College of Humanities and Social Sciences

Dean's Award for Excellence — First Place Award

• Patrick Edwards and Hannah Mercer
  “An Analysis of Gender Inequality in Professional Tennis”
  

Best Poster Award

• Alyssa Hyziak
  “Life on the Conemaugh: Spatial Analysis of Artifact Distributions of the Monongahela Tradition at the Johnston Site (36In2) in Southwestern Pennsylvania”

Outstanding Presentation Award

• Robert Matchett
  “Perception of Disability: The Impact of Visibility”

Kopchick College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics

Dean's Award for Excellence — First Place Award (Tie)

• Ian Bright and Derek Hanely
  “An Analysis of Optimizing Philanthropic Investment Allocation in Undergraduate Education”

• Shannon Kovalchick
  “Express Yourself: An Investigation of Increased Emotional Disclosure through the Person Body Outline Art Activity”

Best Poster Award

• Charles Cavallotti
  “Analysis of Focal Mechanism Solutions to Investigate an Apparent Aseismic Zone Beneath the Central Range, Taiwan”

Outstanding Poster Award

• Sara McBride and William Gerardi
  “Forest Fragmentation Deer Density and Lyme Disease Risk in the Allegheny National Forest: A Small Mammal Perspective”

Sigma Xi Honor Society Poster Awards

First Place Award

• Allison Berry
  “High Uplift Rates Coincident with Normal Faulting, Southern Central Range, Taiwan”

Second Place Award

• Alyssa Hyziak
  “Life on the Conemaugh: Spatial Analysis of Artifact Distributions of the Monongahela Tradition at the Johnston Site (36In2) in Southwestern Pennsylvania”

Third Place Award

• Aaron Seidel and Jesse Stitt
  “Using Spatial Applications to Assess Habitat Needs for a Declining Species”

��ɫӰ�� Libraries Best Bibliography

First Place Award

• Katie Lynch

Second Place Award

• Bria Thomas

Honorable Mention

• Victoria Stone

Environmentally Conscious Organization (ECO) Awards:

• Katlyn Plotzer
  “Fracking and Wind Turbine Noise: Hearing and Health Effects”
• Cody Stewart
  “Native Pennsylvania Plants in a Green Roof Setting: Evaluating Germination and Survival of Four Species”
  

Student Government Association Peer Choice

• Shannon Bollard, Kacey Bush, Emma Cassese, and Alyssa Vescera
  “Use of Vitamin D in Preventing Elderly Patient Falls: An Evidence-Based Practice Review”

Scholarships — Creating Opportunities for Applying Mathematics (S-COAM) Computational Science Poster Award

• Samuel Grieggs
  “A RANSAC Based Approach to Leaf Matching”

Social Media

• Tessa Narins
• Savey Joyner

Graduate Scholars Forum Award Winners

College of Education and Communications

Dean's Award for Excellence — First Place Award

• Megan Rescinito and Alexandra Walters
  “Improving School Climate: Using SWPBIS to Improve Student Behavior”

Second Place Award

• Rachel Schiera
  “A Construct Shift From Colleagues to Teams in a Collaborative Teaching Environment in the Middle East”

Third Place Award

• Krista Streyle
  “SWPBIS: Implementation Level and Office Discipline Referrals”

College of Fine Arts

Dean's Award for Excellence — First Place Award

• Rachel Precht
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College of Health and Human Services

Dean's Award for Excellence — First Place Award

• Jaeyong Choi
  “Media Cultivates Fear of Crime but for Whom? Examination of Competing Audience Hypotheses about the Impact of Media”

Second Place Award

• Shavonne Arthurs
  “Beyond Boozing: College Student Drinking Patterns”

Third Place Award

• Lindsey Smathers
  “The Concept of Justice: An Evaluation of Comic Book Filmography”

College of Humanities and Social Sciences

Dean's Award for Excellence — First Place Award

• Lama Alharbi
  “Revisiting the Local in the Flows of ‘Globalization': Examining Saudi Hip Hop as a Discourse and Culture”

Second Place Award

• Justin Nicholes
  “Measuring Ownership of Creative versus Academic Writing”

Third Place Award

• Kelsey Shaulis
  “Family and Health Service Utilization Among Aging Immigrants in the United States”

Kopchick College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics

Dean's Award for Excellence — First Place Award

• Thomas Firneno
  “Species Boundaries and Population Structure in Closely Related Mesoamerican Toads (Incilius coccifer complex)”

Second Place Award

• Erich Hofmann
  “Using DNA Barcoding to Reveal Cryptic Species of Neotropical Anoles”

Third Place Award

• Kirsten Johnson
  “American Woodcock Use of Early Successional Communities Managed for Golden-Winged Warblers”
  

Three-Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition

President's Award

• Lynnan Mocek
  “The Effectiveness of Syllabus Design on Course Information Retention by At-Risk First Semester College Students”

Peer Choice Award

• Erich Hofmann
  “Revealing Cryptic Species through Integrative Taxonomy: A Case Study in Neotropical Anoles”

Sigma Xi Honor Society Poster Awards

First Place Award

• Jamie Arthurs
  “Examining Implicit Learning in Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Using Eye Tracking to Determine Whether Implicit Learning is Impaired or Intact”

Second Place Award

• Alexander Blake
  “Computational Modelling for the Determination of the Optical and Dielectric Constants of Thin and Ultra-Thin Metallic Films”

Third Place Award

• Kusuma Anand
  “Stimulus Valence Influences Auditory Discrimination Training Speed and Profile in Finches”

��ɫӰ�� Libraries Best Bibliography

First Place Award

• Jaeyong Choi
  

Honorable Mention

• Kelsey Shaulis
  

Graduate Student Assembly Peers Choice

First Place Award — Presentation

• Lynnan Mocek
  “The Effects of Syllabus Design on Course Information Retention by At-Risk First Semester College Students”

Second Place Award — Poster

• Roqayah Almatrouk, Nada Alsulami, and Samah Hawsawi
  “Shared Governance”

Third Place Award — Presentation

• Lama Alharbi
  “Revisiting the Local in the Flows of ‘Globalization': Examining Saudi Hip Hop as a Discourse and Culture”

Social Media

• Alaina Howse
  
• Abdullah Alosaimi