Undergraduate
Eberly College of Business and Information Technology
Dean's Award
- August Bolinger - "Determinants of Video Game Success"
Faculty Mentor: Dr. James Jozefowicz
Outstanding Presentation Award
- Justina Mascaro - "Predictability of Women in NCAA Division II Basketball Tournaments"
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Stephanie Jozefowicz
College of Education and Communications
Dean's Award
- Ty McGregor - “Still Life After Death: Searching for Identity in the Works of Clara Peeters”
Faculty Mentor: Ms. Rachel Fox
Outstanding Presentation Award
- Ty McGregor - “Still Life After Death: Searching for Identity in the Works of Clara Peeters”
Faculty Mentor: Ms. Rachel Fox
College of Fine Arts
Dean's Award
- Gwen Himes - "Putti: The Wise Fools of the Baroque"
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Irene Kabala
Outstanding Presentation Award
- Abigail McCoy, Kayla Prough - “Theatre in a Pandemic: Shaping the New “Normal”, Greener Theatre”
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Nancy Pipkin-Hutchinson
Outstanding Performance Award (Tie)
- Matthew Mantini - "Death and Memory: Two Songs of Christina Rosetti"
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Zach Collins
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Dylan Opalinski - “Suite for Trombone”
Faculty Mentor: Dr. David Martynuik
Juried Art
- Jessica Jones - "Tense Relations"
Faculty Mentor: Mr. Sean Derry
College of Health and Human Services
Dean's Award
- Brooke Zawalnicki (pictured above), Cody Dreibelbis - “The Effects of Peer Mentoring on Improving Critical Thinking and Clinical Judgment Decision Making Skills”
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Taylor Edwards
Outstanding Presentation Award
- Hawra Ali Abusaab, Sara Alshareef, Mawadh Alfarshoti - “Respiratory therapists' perceptions of the efficacy of differing airway clearance techniques used in United States”
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jackie Heisler
Outstanding Poster Award
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Brooke Zawalnicki, Cody Dreibelbis - “The Effects of Peer Mentoring on Improving Critical Thinking and Clinical Judgment Decision Making Skills”
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Taylor Edwards
College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Dean's Award
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Ryan Lichtenwalner - “Domestic Terrorism and the Economy”
Faculty Mentor: Dr. James Jozefowicz
Outstanding Presentation Award
- Danika Polka - “Baseball Salaries: How They Are Determined”
Faculty Mentor: Dr. James Jozefowicz
Outstanding Poster Award
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Nikki Wilcox - “A Comparative Analysis of Remains at Bermondsey Abbey and Merton Priory”
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Andrea Palmiotto
Kopchick College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Dean's Award
- Sarah Grandinette - “Identifying Peptides that Bind to lhx1a and Affect Kidney Development in Zebrafish”
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Cuong Diep
Outstanding Presentation Award
- Kamryn Giesler - “Theory of Mind and Social Inferencing Within the Broad Autism Phenotype”
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Lisa Newell
Outstanding Poster Award
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Badi Zhou - “Models for Diffusion of Hydrogen on Graphene”
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Majid Karimi
Women in STEM Award
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Sarah Grandinette - “Identifying Peptides that Bind to lhx1a and Affect Kidney Development in Zebrafish”
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Cuong Diep
Phi Kappa Phi Award
- Arie Van Wieren - “Site-Directed Mutagenesis Studies of Lys261, a Key Residue for MT-AIr Activity”
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Sudipta Majumdar
Library Research Award
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Alexa M. Hershberger and Tom Clark - "Macroinvertebrate and Benthic Algae Recovery After Abandoned Mine Remediation in Bear Run, Indiana County, PA"
Faculty Mentor: Dr. David Janetski, Department of Biology
Graduate
College of Education and Communications
Dean's Award
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Rebecca Bosley, Regan Chalk - “Examining the Diagnostic Accuracy of Direct Attention Measures”
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jenna Hennessey
Outstanding Poster Award
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Kathleen Ammerman - “An Observational Study of the Relationship between Driver Education Curriculum, School-wide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports, and Teen Driving Behaviors"
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Timothy Runge
College of Health and Human Services
Dean's Award
- Elizabeth Clinger, Gregory Annan, Cheyenne Sky - “Influences and Impacts on Sports Nutrition Knowledge of College Athletes”
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Nicole Clark
Outstanding Presentation Award
- Cynthia Pugh - “Occupational Exposures to Engineered Nanomaterials”
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Luz Stella Marin
Outstanding Poster Award
- Paige Finkenbinder, Paige Linnert, Kristen McGill, Jennifer Bohland-Anhalt - “How has the COVID-19 Pandemic Impacted Food Security Status and Dietary Habits of Undergraduate and Graduate College Students at a Small, Rural University?”
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Nicole Clark
College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Dean's Award
- Gage Huey - “Skeletons, Statistics, and Social Relationships: Faunal Analysis at the Philo II Village, Muskingum County, Ohio”
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Andrea Palmiotto
Outstanding Presentation Award
- Elizabeth Laughlin - “Analyzing Ghostly Elements in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein”
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Melanie Holm
Outstanding Poster Award
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Gage Huey - “Skeletons, Statistics, and Social Relationships: Faunal Analysis at the Philo II Village, Muskingum County, Ohio”
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Andrea Palmiotto
Kopchick College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Dean's Award
- Nicholas Christensen - “Evaluation of Brook Trout Dispersal and Spawning Activity Following Culvert Removal”
Faculty Mentor: Dr. David Janetski
Outstanding Poster Award
- Angela Spagnoli, Breanna McGhee, Nicholas Greene - “Identification of Pseudo-replicates and the Appropriate Use of Inferential Statistics”
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Ellen Yerger
Phi Kappa Phi Award
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Jennifer Chicca - “Weathering the Storm of Uncertainty: A Theory of New-to-Setting Nurses' Role Acquisition”
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Elizabeth Palmer
Library Research Award
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Elizabeth Clinger, Gregory Annan, and Cheyenne Sky - "Sports Nutrition Knowledge of IUP Collegiate Athletes: How It Is Influenced and Impacted"
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Nicole Clark, Department of Food and Nutrition
3 Minute Thesis
- Erin Lewis - “What the Fork? Can ‘The Good Place' Really Teach us Morals and Ethics?”