Undergraduate
Eberly College of Business
Dean's Award: First Place Business Case Competition
- Valerie Berryman, Kelly Kumetis, Josh Edgar, Noah Donahue - "SpikeSense"
Outstanding Presentation Award: Second Place Business Case Competition
- Benjamin Snyder, Brandon Aguirre, Julia Nitchman, Dominique Sgobba - "Civita"
College of Education and Communications
Dean's Award
- Katelyn Ryan, Elizabeth Grieggs, and Emily Reisz - “Under Representation of Students Enrolled in Communication Sciences and Disorders Programs”
Outstanding Presentation Award
- Taylor Jones - “Representation of African Americans in the Media”
College of Fine Arts
Dean's Award
- Catherine Kasun - "The Effect of Altissimo Experience on Overall Clarinet Tone"
Outstanding Presentation Award (Tie)
- Gabrielle Goril - “The Unexpected Intersectionality Between Music, Horses, and Children with Disabilities”
- William King - “Joe Hisaishi: Emotions Through Music in Film”
Juried Art - First Place
- Sam Tyson - "Tea Pot"
Juried Art - Second Place
- Nick DeLeone - "The Altar I Built You Made Great Kindling"
College of Health and Human Services
Dean's Award
- Lynzi Smith - “An Interprofessional Clinical Simulation Experience with Nutrition, Nursing, and Speech-Language Pathology Students Increases Confidence and Satisfaction”
Outstanding Presentation Award
- Joshua Garcia and Hyeonna Bak - “Predictors of Prison Rape Myths: Rape Myths or Attitudes toward Prisoners?”
Outstanding Poster Award
- Chris Shultz and Amber Vaughan - “Ergonomics Evaluation of Cleaning Spray Bottles in Housekeeping”
College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Dean's Award
- Olivia Habacivch and Katelyn Hendricks - "The Effects of Unemployment on Property and Violent Crime Rates in the United States"
Outstanding Presentation Award
- Alexandra Mansfield - “'Strike' while the iron is hot: Analyzing strategic communication during the faculty strike”
Outstanding Poster Award
- Hannah Morris - “Foodways and Food Choices of IUP Students”
Kopchick College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Dean's Award
- Denali Davis and Ty Stewart - “Inhibition of DNA Amplification by Photoactive Ru(II) and Ru(II)Pt(II) Based Polypyridyl Complexes Using PCR Studies”
Outstanding Presentation Award
- Victoria Jakicic - “A Theoretical Foundation for the Application of Basic Research in Perception to Prosthetic Vision"
Outstanding Poster Award
- Rebekah Mikeasky - “Immunohistochemical Characterization of Autophagy in the Planarian Flatworm"
Peer Choice Award
- Taylor Pierre and Cierra Givner - “CBPR Approach to Assessing the Health Needs of IUP's Student Community”
Graduate
Eberly College of Business
Dean's Award
- Manaswita Choudhary - "A Canadian University Trump Bump? Changes in Google Search Activity in India for Canadian and U.S. Universities"
Outstanding Presentation Award
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Reema Sammour - "Handling Accounts Receivables: A Marketing Point of View"
College of Education and Communications
Dean's Award
- Rachel Schiera - "Phase One: Dimensions of 21st Century Skills in High School-based One-to-One Initiatives"
Outstanding Presentation Award
- Daniel Dieter - "Capabilities Knowledge and Public Perception of Workplace Robots & AI"
Outstanding Poster Award
- Abby Wallace, Catherine Burns, Savannah Tryon, and Megan Brown - "Myth or Fact: TouchPoint (BLAST)"
College of Fine Arts
Dean's Award
- Edward Dunlap - "Folkloric Music of Ghana: Function, Mythology and Common Practices"
Juried Art - First Place
- Lauren Scavo - "Overgrown"
Juried Art - Second Place
- Tyler Gaston - "Hope, 2018"
College of Health and Human Services
Dean's Award
- Nathan Kruis and Chunghyeon Seo - "Application of Social Learning Theory to Substance Use: A Meta-Analysis"
Outstanding Presentation Award
- Amy Fiorentini - "An Examination of Physiological Responses during Simulated Occupational Stress of EMT Students in a Hyperthermic Condition"
Outstanding Poster Award
- Fatimah Alhassan and Hanan Al-Shammari - "The Effect of Using Safe Designed Needles on Needle Stick Injury"
College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Dean's Award
- Mesfer Alqahtani - "Geospatial investigation of circular stone structures in Northern Saudi Arabia"
Outstanding Presentation Award
- Robert Matchett - "Disability Inclusion Workshops: Steps to Creating an Inclusive Community"
Outstanding Poster Award
- Jun Akiyoshi - "Short Autobiographical Teacher Narratives: My Two Language Teacher Identities as an ESL Teacher and as a JFL Teacher"
Kopchick College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Dean's Award
- Kassandra Scioli - "Looking good: An examination of how the valence of news photographs affects jurors"
Outstanding Presentation Award
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Benjamin Gressler - "Developing a Movement Pathway Prediction Model for Fisher (Pekania pennanti) using Circuitscape"
Outstanding Poster Award
- Suzanne Craig, Emily Sterner, and Rebekah Mikeasky - "Characterizing a role for the timeless circadian rhythm gene in planarian regeneration"
3 Minute Thesis
Judge's and Peer Choice Award
- Tejas Mahadevan Padmanabhan - "Testing the R1 peptide on kidney development in zebrafish"
Peer Choice Award
- William Patrick, Adam Miller, Jillian Wagner, and Mallory Smith - "Long-Term Health Care Professionals' Perceptions of Best Practices and Barriers to Caring for Residents with Alzheimer's Disease"