20th Annual Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities Fair
Saturday, April 9, 2022
Adler Athletic Complex
Presentations and Results
Social Sciences
- First Place: Rachel Kosaka, Tyler Frye, Alicia Williams—“Punitive Attitudes Toward Sex Offenders: Does Offender Sex Matter?
- Second Place: Jazzmine McCauley, Abigail Harvey, Cassandra Gartley, Tyler Frye—“An Empirical Assessment of the Relationship Between Jail Population Size and County-level Crime Rates in Central Pennsylvania”
- Third Place: Lindsay Fusco, Ziwei Lin, Rachel Kosaka, Tyler Frye—“Media Exposure and Perceptions of Police”
Physical and Natural Sciences
- First Place: Zachary Bell—“Protein Solubility Optimization of RNA-Helicase from Psychrobacter”
- Second Place: Philip Chamberlin—“To Improve Photovoltaics: Simulation and Nanotube Synthesis”
- Third Place: Gracie Harlow—“A test of the enemy release hypothesis in the New Zealand mud snail Potamopyrgus antipodarum”
Engineering, Information Sciences and Technology, and Mathematics
- First Place: Makayla Ianuzzi, Joshua Hollingshead—“Development and Experimentation of a Continuously Rotating Detonation Engine”
- Second Place: Andrew Sherren, Kyle Fink, Joshua Eshelman—“Road Energy Harvesting & Smart Highway”
- Third Place: Emma Hoover, Jessica Shearer—“Rooted Trees Connected to the Tribonacci Numbers”
Arts and Humanities
- First Place: McKenna Hurd—“Invisible Things”
- Second Place: Maleah Orr—“Analyzing Anti-COVID-19 Vaccine and Anti-Mask Postings on Online Forums in Central Pennsylvania”
- Third Place: Madisyn Simington—“Mother's Days”
Internships
- First Place: Alicia Williams—“Impact of Co-Parenting Negligence: How Custody Agreements Impact Teen Parenting”
- Second Place: Kevin Karpovich—“Crossroads of Addiction”
- Third Place: Cierra Rhodes—“Generational Poverty and Negative Stereotypes”