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Penn State Altoona
Seventh Annual Undergraduate
Research Fair
Tuesday, April 14, 2009, 3:00 - 5:00 PM
Slep Student Center
The Seventh Annual Altoona Undergraduate Research Fair (URF) is open to all Penn
State Altoona students and was held on Tuesday, April
14, 2009 in the Slep Center between 3:00 PM and 5:00. The judges used this
rubric, in evaluating each poster (and question-answer session with
each student). The eighteen posters presented in the 2009 URF (one was
withdrawn) are listed below.
Art and Humanities
Poster #1 (Third
Place)
Students: Katedra
Richardson
Title: On the
Shoulders of Giants: Rhetoric and Social Empowerment from Douglass to Obama
Project
Advisor: Sandra Petrulionis
Poster #2
Student: Marina
Johnson
Title: Jillian,
Directed by Marina Johnson
Project
Advisor: Robin Reese
Engineering
Poster #3 (Third
Place)
Students: Russell
Glass, Vince Yeager, and Amber Miller
Title: Effects of
Oxidizer Composition and High Nitrogen Materials on the Burning Rate of
Hydroxyl-Terminated Polybutadiene-Based Solid Fuels
Project
Advisor: Grant Risha
Poster #4
(Withdrawn)
Health and Life Sciences
Poster #5
Student: Jonathan Guth
Title: A
Survey of Streams in New York and Pennsylvania for the Presence of the Invasive
New Zealand Mud Snail
Project
Advisor: Edward Levri
Poster #6
Student: Janel
Huffman
Title: The Effect
of Inflorescence Size on the Pollination Success of Mountain Laurel (Kalmia
Latifolia)
Project
Advisor: Edward Levri
Poster #7
Students: Carol Opiela,
Andrea Dubensky, and Ashley Mears
Title: The Effect
of Predators on the Response of an Aquatic Snail to Light
Project
Advisor: Edward Levri
Poster #8 (Third
Place)
Student: Samantha
Pedder
Title: Prevalence
of Parasites in the Endangered Northern Flying Squirrel and other Members of the
Squirrel Family (Sciuridae)
Project
Advisor: Carolyn Mahan
Poster #9 (First
Place)
Students: Andrew
VanKuren
Title: The
Potential Effects of Clearcut Size, Clearcut Age, and Deer Management on Oak
Regeneration in Central Pennsylvania
Project
Advisor: Carolyn Mahan
Poster #10 (Third
Place)
Student: Andrew
Catherine
Title: Using
Circular Dichroism and Nearest-Neighbor Parameters to Tune Potassium KB's of DNA
G-Quartets
Project
Advisor: Amy Parente
Poster #11
Student: Brittany
Bovard
Title: Impacts of
Agricultural Chemical Use on Bat Activity and Insect Diversity on Eastern
Pennsylvanian Farms
Project
Advisor: Michael Gannon
Physical Sciences
Poster #12 (First
Place)
Student: Jin-Kwang
Kim
Title: Chameleon
Calcium Sensor
Project
Advisor: Marta Maurer
Poster #13 (Third
Place)
Students: Heather
McKinney
Title: Photoresponsive
Photonic Crystal Hydrogel
Project
Advisor: Marta Maurer
Poster #14 (Third
Place)
Students: Sydney
Moser, Kayla Foor, and Joseph Filer
Title: Revolutionizing
Magnetorheological Elastomers: Use of Nanowires to Enhance Controllable
Elasticity
Project
Advisor: Richard Bell
Social Sciences
Poster #15 (Second
Place)
Students: Collette
Tesauro and Anjali Rajpara
Title: The
Intercorrelation of Dermatoglyphic Characteristics, 2D:4D Ratio, and Spatial
Ability
Project
Advisor: Robert Matchock
Poster #16 (First
Place)
Students: Katlin
Farnon
Title: Multiple
Intelligences in the Economics Classroom
Project
Advisor: Barbara Wiens-Tuers
Poster #17
Student: Kristen
Snider
Title: The Quality
of Room Arrangement in Preschool Classrooms
Project
Advisor: Margaret Benson
Poster #18
Students: Lori
Bower, Darlene Pennington, and Amy Greene
Title: Advocating
Acceptance: Advancing Social Awareness and Responsibility in the Elementary
Classroom Through Children's Literature
Project
Advisor: Kirstin Bratt
Poster #19 (Second
Place)
Students: Tim
Walters
Title: Marital
Status, Social Support, Combat Experience, and the Need for VA Services Among
Vietnam Veterans
Project
Advisor: Dan Lago
The judges for
the 2009 URF include:
Richard Bell
Eric Charles
Mihai Comanescu
Mary DeJong
Timothy Dolney
Adam Hartstone-Rose
Mary Kananan
Dan Lago
Joseph Petrulionis
Damon Resnick
Nicholas Rowland
Matthew Weeg
L.A. Wilson
For a list of the prize winners from the first four URF competitions, look here.
List of
the 2007 URF competition, look here.
List of the 2008 URF competition, look
here.
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