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      2022 Graduate Exhibition Award winners announced

      UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Sixty-eight Penn State graduate students received awards for their research and creative scholarship in the 37th annual Graduate Exhibition. A complete list of winners is available below.

      First place winners receive $500; second place winners receive $250, and third place winners receive $100.

      Research poster option

      Arts and humanities
      First place

      • Lindsey Chandler, liberal Arts / Spanish,  "Novel Verb Reading in First- and Second-Language Spanish"
      • Katherine Ellis, liberal arts / French, "Does Trauma Have a Race? The Role of French Imperialism in Conceptualizing Trauma and Recovery in Western Medicine (1914-1918)"
      • Farzaneh Oghazian, arts and architecture / architecture, "From Physical Model Making to Calibrated Digital Model For Tensioned Knitted Textile Structures"
      • Brooke Tybush, liberal arts / French, "Sexual Mentorship and Feminist Resistance in Eighteenth-Century French Literature"

      Second place

      • Scott Doebler, liberal arts / history, "Madalena, Plaintiff: Violence, Enslavement, and Survival of a Transatlantic Indigenous Woman, 1535-1553"
      • Robert Klosinsk, the liberal arts / German,  "Stop contrasts in Misiones, Argentina and Ohio, USA"
      • Douglas Kulchar, liberal arts / English, "Applied Demonology: Thermodynamics and Decision"
      • Shuyuan Liu, liberal arts / applied linguistics, "Intercultural online communication during the global pandemic: Polysemiotic pragmatic strategies for effective and cooperative English as a lingua franca synchronous virtual interactions"
      • Katie Warczak, liberal arts / English, "Entangling Narratives: Race, Animality, Disability and the “Science” of Degeneracy in The Island of Doctor Moreau and Dracula"

      Third place

      • Alberto Bejarano Romo, liberal arts / philosophy, "Anibal Quijano and The Coloniality of Power"
      • Steven Casement, liberal arts / history, "Ciphers, Cynics, and Codes: Epistolary Diplomacy During the Restoration"
      • Eric Disbro, liberal arts / French and Francophone studies, "Trans-Inclusive Pedagogies for the Francophone Literature Classroom: A Case Study"
      • Morgane Haesen, liberal arts / French, "An Ever-Bleeding Heart: Life Writings in the Alsace-Lorraine Borderland, 1870-1918"
      • Kelly Kaelin, liberal Arts / history, "To be Proposed as Useful: Women and the Moravian Church in the Atlantic World"
      • Ryan Pilcher, liberal arts / French, "Educating Feeling: Race and Sentimental Science in Aglaé Comte’s Histoire naturelle racontée à la jeunesse"
      • Tasneem Tariq, arts and architecture / architecture, "Impact of Vegetated Infrastructure to Mitigate the Urban Heat Island Effect in Dhaka, Bangladesh."

      Engineering
      First place

      • Vishnu Kumar, engineering / industrial engineering, "Machine Learning based Suicide Prediction and Development of Suicide Vulnerability Index for US Counties"
      • Jingyi Xie, information sciences and technology / informatics, "Iterative Design and Prototyping of Computer Vision Mediated Remote Sighted Assistance"

      Second place

      • Jie Li, arts and architecture / architecture, "Attain building energy efficiency in real life rather than in virtual computer models: examining the energy performance gap between the predicted value and the actual used value"
      • Asif Mahmud, engineering / civil engineering, "Estimation of Crash Type Frequency Accounting for Misclassification in Crash Data"

      Third place

      • Ozguc Capunaman, arts and architecture / architecture, "See - Sense - Respond: Adaptive Intelligent Robotic Fabrication of Fiber-Reinforced Composite Architectural Panels"
      • Dongkuan Xu, information sciences and technology / information sciences and technology, "InfoGCL: Information-Aware Graph Contrastive Learning"

      Health and life sciences
      First place

      • Nina Camillone, agricultural sciences / soil science, "Soil health under shade-grown coffee in Costa Rica"
      • Staci Cibotti, agricultural sciences / entomology, "Differential effects of clothianidin exposure on metabolic rates across life stages in the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus)"
      • Hanim Diktas, health and human development / nutritional sciences, "Promoting vegetable intake in preschool children: Independent and combined effects of portion size and flavor enhancement"
      • Jigar Gosalia, health and human development / kinesiology, "Moderating Effects of Arterial Stiffness on Cognitive Performance in Individuals with Metabolic Syndrome"

      Second Place

      • Vinicius Buiatte de Andrade Alves, agricultural sciences / animal science, "A flavonoid-rich corn cultivar developed at Penn State decreases the impacts caused by Necrotic Enteritis in broilers"
      • Ana Carla Chierighini Salamunes, health and human development / kinesiology, "Energy Deficiency-related Differences Between Japanese And American Female Athletes"
      • Maria da Silva, intercollege / integrative and biomedical physiology, "Endometrial transcriptome in response to intrauterine infusions of secretory proteins from the bovine conceptus"
      • Abbygale Hackenberger, Nese College of Nursing / nursing, "ICU Diaries: A Pilot Program"
      • Anne Johnson, agricultural sciences / entomology, "Effects of spotted lanternfly’s access to tree of heaven on predation by native arthropods"

      Third place

      • Mark Colapietro, health and human development / kinesiology, "Use of Blood Flow Restriction Training Among Sports Medicine Practitioners in North America"
      • Daniel Davis, health and human development / kinesiology, "The 'Springy' and Rigid Behavior of the Human Foot in Running"
      • Gabrielle Dillon, health and human development / kinesiology, "Nitric Oxide-dependent Cutaneous Vasodilation is not Altered in Adults Following SARS-CoV-2 Infection"

      Physical sciences and mathematics
      First place

      • Nour Hawila, College of Medicine / biostatistics, "Bayesian Analysis of Interrater and Intrarater Reliability with Multilevel Data"

      Social and behavioral sciences
      First place

      • Paige Cunningham, health and human development / nutritional sciences, "Lower inhibitory control is related to greater food intake across meals varying in portion size"
      • Courtney Gerver, liberal arts / psychology, "Examining the effects of a creativity-specificity induction on creative divergent thinking and memory in aging"
      • Jason Griffin, liberal arts / psychology, "Evaluating Eye Gaze Perception Deficits in Autism Spectrum Disorders Using a Computational Modeling Approach."
      • Maggie Hernandez, liberal arts / anthropology, "Noventa Millas: Migration history, genomic ancestry, and health disparities among Cuban immigrants and Cuban-Americans in Miami, Florida"
      • Renkai Ma, information sciences and technology / informatics, "'How advertiser-friendly is my video?': YouTuber’s Socioeconomic Interactions with Algorithmic Content Moderation"
      • Jamison Malcolm, agricultural sciences / agricultural and extension education, "Beyond Participation: A Case Study of Youth As Researchers and Community Development in North Philadelphia"

      Second place

      • Ayse Akyildiz, health and human development / recreation, park and tourism management, "Agent-Based Microsimulations for Emergency Evacuation in Rocky Mountain National Park"
      • Cole Callen, liberal arts / Spanish, "Grammatical variation in children's acquisition of Brazilian Portuguese"
      • Kevin Rosenfield, liberal arts / anthropology, "Co-evolution of male and female mating strategies in non-human primates"
      • Tianfang Wang, liberal arts / applied linguistics, "The Concept of Conceptual Metaphor as a Psychological Tool for English Learners’ L2 Development"
      • Xunyue Xue, health and human development / hospitality management, "Instant Karma: the role of karmic-investment mindset in charitable giving"

      Third place

      • Sana Ahrar, arts and architecture / architecture, "Delhi’s leisure spaces: Patterns of spatial use in a mixed-income informal settlement"
      • Barbara Atanga, health and human development / hospitality management, "Corporate Sociopolitical Activism (CSA): Consumer response to contribution type"
      • Kendra Flood, agricultural sciences / agricultural and extension education, "Principals' Perceptions and the Decision-Making Process on Extended Contracts for Agricultural Education Teachers"
      • Kerby Goff, liberal arts / sociology, "Ecumenism and Women’s Higher Education as Precursors to World Society: A Network Analysis of Global Protestant Higher Education in the Early 20th Century"
      • Kaitlin Riegler, liberal arts / psychology, "Prospective Implications of Insufficient Sleep for Athletes"
      • Sonya Trawick, liberal arts / Spanish, "Revisiting the Concept of "Triggering" of Code-Switching"
      • Jason Williamson, liberal arts / psychology, "Workplace Loneliness: The Role of Political Identity Dissimilarity and Organizational Identification"

      Design option
      First place

      • Elena Vazquez, arts and architecture / architecture, "Bistable kinetic screen for daylight control in buildings"

      Second place

      • Alexis Chin, liberal arts / German, "(Co)constructing Antiracist Pedagogy: Expanding on standing departmental approaches to foreign language teaching"
      • Rosalind Isquith, arts and architecture / theater,"Designing a Neurodivergent Stage: A Scenic Design for "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time""

      Third place

      • Jeremy Eiben, arts and architecture / theater, "Tartuffe - A Look into Period and Modern Design"

      Performance option
      First place

      • Cecilia Leskowicz, arts and architecture / performance, "(un)broken"
      • Wenyi Xiong, arts and architecture / piano performance, "Performing on “The Serpent's Kiss”"

      Second place

      • Andrea Alvarado Troncoso, arts and architecture / performance, "Loeffler Rhapsodie for Viola, Oboe, and Piano"

      Third place

      • Rebecca Reeder, arts and architecture / performance, "Wind Quintet in G minor by Paul Taffanel"
      • Malcolm Taylor, arts and architecture / performance, "Tchik for Solo Snare Drum"

      Video option
      First place

      • Mary Smith, agricultural sciences / plant pathology, "Annotating the genomicially concealed weapons of Pseudomonas syringae"

      Second place

      • Taylor Hare, liberal arts / English, "Reading Access: Disability, Textuality, and the Editorial Tradition of Early Modern English Drama"
      • Connor Huxman, engineering / mechanical engineering,"'Implanting Flexibility' - Leveraging Mechanical Compliance for Improved Orthopedic Implants"

      Visual arts option
      First place

      • Emily Wright, arts and architecture / art,"To Make Food for Your Siblings"

      Second place

      • Harrison Boden, arts and architecture / art, "Death Becomes Her"

      Third place

      • Mengqi Xu, arts and architecture / art, "Vessel - The Food Eats You Back When You Eat"

      Data Visualization Award

      Offered by the University Libraries’ Data Learning Center

      • Staci Cibotti, agricultural sciences / entomology, "Differential effects of clothianidin exposure on metabolic rates across life stages in the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus)"

       

      Last Updated April 7, 2022

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