2017 Celebration of Scholarship winners announced

by Rachel Olszewski, University Relations, Wilkes-Barre

Coordinated by Penn State Wilkes-Barre and the campus’ Nesbitt Library, the 2017 Celebration of Scholarship competition drew more than 140 poster entries this year. The winners were announced prior to the end of the spring semester:

Best Poster Presentation for Applied Sciences

  • Blaise Waligun, Colby Karnes, Emily Miller, Greg Bronsberg, and Kathryn Waclawski “Will It Make It?” (faculty adviser: Violet Mager)
  • Aaron Martinez “The Effect of Target Intensity and Target-Instrument Geometry on Terrestrial Laser Scanner Accuracy” (faculty adviser: Dimitrios Bolkas)

Best Poster Presentation for Humanities

  • Tanner MacDougall “The Importance of Mechanical Engineering at The Fairmount Water Works” (faculty advisers: Bill Bachman and Terry Clemente)

Best Poster Presentation for Natural Sciences

  • Adam Curry “Does Caffeine Lead to Cannibalism? A Test in Tenebrio Molitor” (faculty adviser: Renee Rosier)

Best Poster Presentation for Social Sciences

  • Ingrid Ritchie “Examining the (In) Equalities in Structural Covariates of Gender-Specific Drug Arrest Counts” (faculty adviser: Rick Dierenfeldt)

Best Overall Poster

  • K. Jacob Gibbs “Fire Station Response Time Analysis” (faculty adviser Dimitrios Bolkas)
  • Alexa Webby, Heidi Kile, Adam Garnett, and Curtis Evans “SWOT Analysis: McDonald’s” (faculty adviser: John Weber)

Nesbitt Library Information Literacy Award

  • Matthew Caines “Perceptions of the Death Penalty Among College Students” (faculty adviser: Rick Dierenfeldt)

Dr. Rosier’s Telescoping Spoon Award

  • Adam Curry “Does Caffeine Lead to Cannibalism? A Test in Tenebrio Molitor” (faculty adviser, Renee Rosier)
  • Mitchell MacDougall “How Will Microwaves Affect The Germination Of Sunflower Seeds” (faculty adviser Renee Rosier)

Honorable mentions

  • Shaina Shelton “How Cults Recruit New Members”
  • Jonathan Santos and Khalid Liburd “Construction Survey Column Stakeout for a High-rise Building”
  • Emma Evans “Attitudes: Shaping and Forming Our Behavior”
  • Jacob Fullmer “Priming, and the Effect it Can Have on Obesity Rates”
  • Jon Schwartz and Ron Neher “Luzerne County Voting Patterns 2000-2016”
  • Vincent Pavill, Joseph Hall, and Anthony LaTorre “Making Mjolnir: An Experiment with Electromagnetivity”
  • Greg Strazdus “Implementation of Google for Education: A Case Study of the Dallas School District in Pennsylvania”
  • Susan Huey “Sharswood Revitalization?”
  • Shaina Shelton “Blue Chip Farm Animal Refuge: A Place of Healing”
  • Kathryn Waclawski “Roller Coaster Physics”
  • Wyatt McMarlin and Graham Speace ArcGIS Case Study of the “Great St. Patrick’s Day Flood of 1936” in Pittsburgh, PA
  • Hasham Jaffri, Amari Boyd, Khalid Liburd, Zacharia Sao, and Shikongha Cyril Tankam T”horium Based Nuclear Power: Future or Bust”

For more information, visit http://sites.psu.edu/wbscholarship.