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Graduate Exhibition Archive of Award Winners

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Graduate Exhibition Archive of Award Winners

2024 Award Winners

Research Poster Option

Arts & Humanities

First place

  • Brandon Johnson. The Liberal Arts / Communication Arts and Sciences. "The Rhetoric of The CEO Presidency"

Second place

  • Sarah Cathry Dweik. The Liberal Arts / Communication Arts and Sciences. "Memory Work in the “Old Cities” of Bethlehem and Hebron"

Third place

  • Maria Jose Andrade Gabino. The Liberal Arts / Spanish. "Negotiating Homosociality and Masculinities: Pedro Henríquez Ureña and the Ateneo de la Juventud Mexicana"
  • Gavin Davis. The Liberal Arts / English. "The Dividing Blade: The Sword as an Ideologically Contested Object it the Literature of Tenth-Century England"
  • Minjin Kim. The Liberal Arts / Applied Linguistics. "Exploring the potential of using ChatGPT for rhetorical move-step analysis: The impact of prompt refinement, few-shot learning, and fine-tuning"

Data Visualization Award

First place

  • Ram Neupane. Agricultural Sciences / Plant Pathology. "Peeling the Rotten Onion: A Three-Year Bacterial Survey of Onion Fields across Pennsylvania and New York"

Second place

  • Jisung Yuk. Health and Human Development / Kinesiology. "Concurrent anodal HD-tDCS to the posterior parietal cortex modulates the learning of a direction skill task"

Honorable mention

  • Abby Gancz. The Liberal Arts / Anthropology. "Ancient dental calculus derived oral microbiomes as markers of disease in past populations"
  • Kittiphum Pawikhum. Agricultural Sciences / Agricultural and Biological Engineering. "Design End-effector for Automatic Mushroom Harvesting"
  • Yue Yan. Engineering / Bioengineering. "Personalized Intravescial Immunotherapy for Bladder Cancer"
  • Yanqiu Yang. Agricultural Sciences / Agricultural and Biological Engineering. "Approach to Biodiversity Protection: Employing AI and IoT Systems for the Containment of Box Tree Moth Proliferation"

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

First place

  • Keegan Peterson. Health and Human Development / Kinesiology. "More Barriers, Less Benefits: LGBTQ+ College Student’s Perceptions Impacting Physical Activity Participation"

Second place

  • Negar Dehghan. Arts and Architecture / Art. "Bake The Night Away: A Yalda Celebration Festival"

Third place

  • Forough Yazdanpanah. Arts and Architecture / Art. "Welcome to my world"

Engineering

First place

  • Yanqiu Yang. Agricultural Sciences / Agricultural and Biological Engineering. "Approach to Biodiversity Protection: Employing AI and IoT Systems for the Containment of Box Tree Moth Proliferation"

Second place

  • Sujay Hosur. Engineering / Electrical Engineering. "MagSonic: Hybrid Magnetic-Ultrasonic Wireless Interrogation of Millimeter-Scale Biomedical Implants with Magnetoelectric Transducer"
  • Yue Yan. Engineering / Bioengineering. "Personalized Intravescial Immunotherapy for Bladder Cancer"

Health & Life Sciences

First place

  • Jisung Yuk. Health and Human Development / Kinesiology. "Concurrent anodal HD-tDCS to the posterior parietal cortex modulates the learning of a direction skill task"

Second place

  • Mengzhu Tang. Agricultural Sciences / Pathobiology. "The role of vitamin D in host resistance to H1N1 influenza infection"

Third place

  • Ram Neupane. Agricultural Sciences / Plant Pathology. "Peeling the Rotten Onion: A Three-Year Bacterial Survey of Onion Fields across Pennsylvania and New York"
  • Sherif Olanrewaju. Nese College of Nursing / Nursing. "Invisible Minority: The Experiences of Migrant Nurses Caring for Older Adults in U.S Long-Term Care Facilities. A Preliminary Finding"

Physical Sciences & Mathematics

First place

  • Ayat Tassanov. Eberly College of Science / Chemistry. "Prediction and accelerated laboratory discovery of AMMQ3 compounds using tolerance factor approach"

Second place

  • Tejal Shirsat. Agricultural Sciences / Soil Science. "Spatio-temporal Heterogeneity in Snow and Glacier Melt Runoff: Implications for Water Management in the Western Himalayas Transboundary Chenab River Basin"

Third place

  • Rory Changleng. Earth and Mineral Sciences / Geosciences. "Diamonds trace formation of 3 Ga continental roots"
  • Shreya Mathela. Eberly College of Science / Chemistry. "Optical Signatures of Dopant Defect Coupling in Vanadium doped Tungsten Disulfide Monolayers"

Social & Behavioral Sciences

First place

  • Makenna Lenover. The Liberal Arts / Anthropology. "Irritable bowel syndrome and the nutrition transition: contextualizing modern disease within cultural shifts"

Second place

  • Madisen Plunkert. Agricultural Sciences / Education, Development, and Community Engagement. "Implementing Agricultural Literacy in Pennsylvania Elementary and Middle Schools: Perceptions of Principals"

Third place

  • Sana Ahrar. Arts and Architecture / Architecture. "Mapping Community Dynamics: Integrating Social and Spatial Perspectives in decoding the functioning of Mixed-income Informal Neighborhoods"
  • Daisuke Hayashi. Health and Human Development / Nutritional Sciences. "Reactivity to food cues and energy intake among women with binge-eating disorder: a pilot ecological momentary assessment study"

Design Option

First place

  • Andre Brandao de Castro. Arts and Architecture / Theatre. "The Scenic Experience of "Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812""

Second place

  • Michael Ciaramitaro. Arts and Architecture / Theatre. "When Stars Collide: Designing Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812"

Performance Option

First place

  • Zephyr Wills. Arts and Architecture / Performance. Copresented by Vinicius Vieira "The A to Z Trio"

Second place

  • Isabella Scotti. Arts and Architecture / Performance. Copresented by Jack Kerness, Paul Robeson and Michael Valente ""Derivative" by Jlin from the Album "Perspective" - Electronic Composition to Acoustic Performance"

Third place

  • Jonida Lazellari. Arts and Architecture / Piano Performance. "Emma Lou Diemer- Toccata for Piano (1979)"
  • Rui Zhang. Arts and Architecture / Piano Performance. "Zhao Zhang’s Numa Ame and its Exploration of Eastern and Western Musical Elements."

Video Option

First place

  • Connor Huxman. Engineering / Mechanical Engineering. "Flexible Orthopaedic Implants for Improved Bone Healing"

Second place

  • Yiwen Zhang. The Liberal Arts / Criminology. "Do “Plea Rewards” Exist in Prison?"

Third place

  • Casey Tilley. The Liberal Arts / Comparative Literature. "Brazilian Cordel on the Amazon: Grassroots Poetry Between Extraction and Conservation"
  • Megan Veltri. The Liberal Arts / Anthropology. "The Effect of Early and Late Life Chronic Social Stress on the Cellular Morphology of the Spheno-Occipital Synchondrosis in Female Post-natal Mice"

Visual Arts Option

First place

  • Negar Dehghan. Arts and Architecture / Art. "Bake The Night Away: A Yalda Celebration Festival"

Second place

  • Forough Yazdanpanah. Arts and Architecture / Art. "Welcome to my world"

Third place

  • Elizabeth Krick. Arts and Architecture / Art. "Climate Changed: II-IV; and Untitled: I & II"

Previous Winners by Year

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