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”
IUP 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
“Echo”
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”
IUP 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