Strike a Spark Conference 2021

The Center for Undergraduate Research held its 2021 Strike a Spark Conference on Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity on April 21, 2021. The presentations highlighted the efforts of our students who engaged in research, scholarship and creative expression ​last year.

Results

Graduate

• 1^st Place - Emily Behm (Graduate Student), “The Disproportionality of Minority Students in Special Education in Urban Settings”
• 2^nd Place - Colleen Moyer (Graduate Student), “You Can't Recover if You're Gone . . . MAT and Harm Reduction”   

Undergraduate

Creative Works

• 1^st Place - James Sible, Michael Sanchez, Jhony Perez, and Tyler Urban, “The Fabulous Baking Co: Website and Content Management Suite”
• 2^nd Place - Shauna Fahad, “It's Virtually Showtime! Theatre Performance During a Pandemic”

Oral Presentations

• 1^st Place - Chloe Faris, “Investigating the Role Bacteria Play in AMD Passive Remediation Systems”
• 2^nd Place - Joseph Pagano, “Measuring Customer Satisfaction amidst COVID-19: Observations on Telehealth and Social Work Practice”
• 3^rd  Place - Sarah Moehring and Makenzie Cree, “The Effects of Alprazolam on Wound Healing and Regeneration in Planaria”

Poster Presentations

College of Science and Technology - Class Project

• 1^st Place - Larry Wiles, “Soil-Based Bacterial Colonies: A Potential Source of Novel Antibiotics to Combat Antibiotic Resistance”
• 2^nd Place - Thomas Forsythe, Julietta Maffeo, Ryan Marietta, and Najah Kadhim, “Subsonic Open-Loop Wind Tunnel”
• 3^rd Place - Sarah Benson, “Fast Fashion and its Impact on the Environment: Can Brands Make a Cost-Effective Change?”
• Honorable Mention - McKayla Kling and Abigale King, “The Uncovering of Antibiotic Producing in Soil Samples in South-Western Pennsylvania”  

College of Science and Technology - Individual Project

• 1^st Place - Samantha Richard, “Characterization and Antibiotic Screening of Soil Fungi”
• 2^nd Place - Raelynne Grabill, “Understanding Bacterial Communication and Group Behavior to Combat the Antibiotic Resistance Crisis”
• 3^rd Place - Ian Wolfe, “Conformational Studies on a Novel Paraburkholderia Isolate”
• Honorable Mention
  • Lauryn Avery, “The Effects of Glyphosate on Chicken Embryo Development”
  • Ashley McIntosh, “Investigating the Antibiotic Properties of Ganoderma lucidum Extract”

College of Education and Liberal Arts - Class Project

• 1^st Place - Erin Patrick, “Maple Syrup Urine Disease”
• 2^nd Place - Caden Moran, “Flora Williams Biography: A Singing Suffragette”
• 3^rd Place - Kendall Clevenger, “Uncovering the Lives of the Way Makers: Suffragettes”
• Honorable Mention
  • Krista Wycinsky, “Down Syndrome”
  • Skyra Heckman, “Child Abuse: Prevention and Treatment Act of 1974”

College of Education and Liberal Arts - Individual Project                                               

• 1^st Place - Hannah Wyman, “The Problem with ‘Yellow Fever’ & The Sexual Fetishism of Asian American Women in Film”