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2007 Undergraduate Exhibition Award Winners

Gerard A. Hauser Prize

Larisa Heiphetz

Psychology
College of the Liberal Arts
Tentative and Direct Uses of Language

Arts and Humanities

1st Place

Nicole Belolan

American Studies
College of the Liberal Arts
The Allure of Rural Ruins and A Micro-Agricultural Analysis in Southwestern Ferguson Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania. 1860-1870

2nd Place

Amanda Rosol

Corporate Communications
Penn State Beaver
Corporate Codes of Ethics: Window Dressing or Applied Standards

Course-Based Projects (all disciplines)

1st Place

Paul Russ, Smeal College of Business
Sarah Erdlin, College of Agricultural Sciences
Daniel Schuette, College of Engineering
Caroline Egan, College of the Liberal Arts
Steve Kirsch, College of Information Sciences and Technology
Chris George, College of Engineering
EDTHP 297H Honors Leadership Jumpstart Project P.A.W.S. (Providing Awareness for World Sustainability)

2nd Place

Lindsey Santora and Arlee Scripp
Corporate Communications
Penn State Greater Allegheny
COMM 494 Research Projects
The Discourse of Internet Mediums, Specifically Blogs, Are They Effecting or Not Effecting the Emergence of Our Current Participatory Culture?

3rd Place

Amanda Maksin, Melvena Davis, Christopher Simko, and Andrae King
Corporate Communications
Penn State Greater Allegheny
COMM 494 Research Projects
The Work of Ellen J. Staurowsky: Why Do We Want to Know This in Higher Education?

Engineering

1st Place

Luke Breon

Engineering Science and Mechanics
College of Engineering
Tomographic Imaging of Wall Thinning in Pipes

2nd Place

Elizabeth Fedorowicz

Geo-Environmental Engineering
College of Earth and Mineral Sciences
Gasification of Cattle Industry Waste Products as a Means of Carcass Disposal and Energy Production

3rd Place

Benjamin Cooper

Bioengineering
College of Engineering
Penn State Pediatric Ventricular Assist Devise: Valve Impact of Fluid Dyamics

Health and Life Sciences

1st Place

Hanna Xu

Biology
Eberly College of Science
The effects of Exendin-4 and Prolactin on Beta Cell Proliferation of Neonatal PERKK Knockout Mice and Their Wild Type Littermates

2nd Place

Andrew Siefert

Environmental Resource Management
College of Agricultural Sciences
The Effects of Fish in a Stream Food Web

3rd Place

Pradeep Selvan

Science
Eberly College of Science
Cloning and Characterization of Chicken Nucleobindiin-2 (NUCB2)

Honorable Mention

Mary Shaw

Biological Anthropology
College of the Liberal Arts
A Comparative Analysis of Pubic Symphysis Aging Techniques

Physical Sciences

1st Place

Tina Lin

Physics
Eberly College of Science
Growth and Characterization of ZnSe Nanowires

2nd Place

Stephanie Fiorenza

Astrophysics
Eberly College of Science
A Search for Short Timescale Structure in Gamma Ray Burst GRB041223

3rd Place

Gary Joanis and Alicia Davis

Life Science
Penn State Berks
Organically Modified Montmorillonite: Theoretical Calculations

Social and Behavioral Sciences

1st Place

Myro Joy Olida

Psychology
College of the Liberal Arts
Speaking vs. Typing in a Second Language: An Investigation of Bilingual Language Production

2nd Place (tie)

Kate Ericsson

Political Science
College of the Liberal Arts
The American Message: Using Public Diplomacy to Analyze Ourselves

Rodney Hughes

Economics
College of the Liberal Arts
A "Modified Prisoners' Dilemma" Approach to Progress in t he World Trade Organization's Agricultural Trade Negotiations

Public Scholarship

1st Place

Mary Nunn

Landscape Architecture
College of Arts and Architecture
Reconnecting People and Place: Spring Creek Canyon Management Strategy

2nd Place

Aline Niyonkuru

International Politics
College of the Liberal Arts
Burundi Education and Duhindikibiri Projects

3rd Place

Genevieve Wilde

Secondary Education - Biological Science
College of Education
Evaluation and Revision of a National Standards-Based 4-H Embryology Curriculum

Performance

1st Place

Gretchen Renshaw

Euphonium Performance
College of Arts and Architecture
Euphonium
Pantomine by Philip Sparke

2nd Place

Lisa Duke

Flute Performance and Music Composition
College of Arts and Architecture
Flute
Haiku from Four Poems for Solo Flute by Lisa Duke Syrinx by Claude Debussy

3rd Place

Jennifer Taglieri

Music Education
College of Arts and Architecture
Piano
Prelude to Pour le Piano by Claude Debussy Bagatelles Op. 5 #1, 4, 2 by Alexander Tcherepnin

Honorable Mention

Ryan DeNardis

Music Composition
College of Arts and Architecture
Original composition for Disklavier player piano Doc Ock (Cold Fusion)