Sara Klee, 2017 Data Visualization Award winner

USDA NIFA Predoctoral Fellow and Ph.D. candidate Sara Klee was selected as the winner of the 2017 Data Visualization Award, offered by the University Libraries’ Data Learning Center. Klee earned second place in the health and life sciences poster competition for her poster, “Taking Advantage of Native Phyllobacteria to Manage Fire Blight Disease in Pennsylvania’s Apple Orchards.”

Designed to increase digital information literacy by raising awareness of the importance of data visualization, the award celebrates good examples and provides a $250 prize to overall winners in the Graduate Exhibition poster session, with data visualization judged separately from the other poster criteria.

Klee’s poster is shared on ScholarSphere, Penn State University’s institutional repository, under a Creative Commons license. Please visit the ScholarSphere site to learn more about this service.

The full list of Graduate Exhibition winners can be viewed here: http://news.psu.edu/story/459244/2017/03/29/2017-graduate-exhibition-award-winners-announced.

For more information, please contact the Data Learning Center via datalearning@psu.edu.