The Undergraduate Research Subcommittee is pleased to announce award winners for poster projects in each category and oral presentations, as well as the University Libraries Literacy Awards.

Awards by Categories

#1 Nursing Health & Aging

1st Place: Megan Lucey

• #27-H(HA) The Future of Wearable Healthcare Technology

2nd Place: Francesca Rizzo

• #42-H(HA) Changing the BMI Scales

#2 Nursing Injury & Disease

1st Place: Nicola Giordano

• 20-H(ID) Sleep Your Way to Better Health

2nd Place: Emily Scarfo

• #21-H(ID) The Effectiveness of a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner

#3 Nursing Prenatal & Pediatrics

1st Place: Ashley Lapiers

• #15-H(PP) Outcomes of Breathing Techniques During Labor

2nd Place: Heather Slimak

• #46-H(PP) Effect of a Covid19 Environment on Childhood Obesity

#4 Science

1st Place: Patrick Dougherty

• #3-S Methane: Biosignature of Extraterrestrial Life on Planets Orbiting M-dwarf Stars

2nd Place: Aditya Chakrabarti

• #5-S Exploring the Relationship Between the Mass and the Radius of White Dwarves

#5 Social Science

1st Place: Erika Wheeler

• #1-SS Loneliness and Video Chats During the COVID-19 Pandemic

2nd Place: Emily V. Mattes

• #16-SS Compare and Contrast Resilience Among Individuals Who Have Experienced Trauma Either Directly or Indirectly Through Sexual Violence

#6 Technology

1st Place: Xinyi Chen, Kaizheng Wang

• #14-T Stock Price Analysis Using Markov Chain

2nd Place: William Blaum, Tarangkumar Patel, Jason Wells

• #5-T Lawn and Order

#7 Oral Presentations

1st Place: Micah Cameron

• #2-OP Left Behind: How Pennsylvania Providers of Home and Community Based Services to Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities are Overregulated and Underfunded

2nd Place: Shea Tyler, Jamise Sealey

• #6-OP Helping ELL Students: A Preliminary Solution

2021 Penn State Scranton Undergraduate Research
University Libraries’ Information Literacy Awards

Oral Presentations

Panel #1 – “Healing Arts” panel

Information Literacy Excellence Award Winner: Lauren Sciabbarrasi

• Origami: The Art of Mathematical Reconfiguration

Runner Up: Julia Fessenden

• “Being Related Doesn’t Make Us Family”: An Examination of Found Family in All For the Game and The Raven Cycle

Panel #2 – “Literacy and Imagination” panel

Information Literacy Excellence Award Winner: Micah Cameron

• Left Behind: How Pennsylvania Providers of Home and Community Based Services to Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities are Overregulated and Underfunded

Runner Up: Rachel Veniamin

• Filling in the Blank: A Taxonomy of the Dashes in the Roaring Girl

Runners Up: Shea Tyler and Jamise Sealey

• Helping ELL Students: A Preliminary Solution

Posters

Nursing: Megan Lucey

• The Future of Wearable Healthcare Technology (27H)

Science:  Christian Raoul Toussaint

• Comparing ACL and Achilles Injuries in the Sports World (2S)

Social Science:  Erika Wheeler

• Loneliness and Video Chats During the Covid-19 Pandemic (1SS)

Technology:  Parth Patel and Trusha Patel

• Is No-Code Application Development the Next Big Thing? (3T)