The Ohio State University at Newark

Photo (l to r) Sheroz Faisal, Piper Clark, Mirza Sheraz, Jarrett Rardon, Elijah Colvin, Jamie Theis, Associate Professor Nathanial Swigger (research forum coordinator), Bernice Agyepong and Mackenzie Elliott

Oral Presentations, Completed Research:

1st Place: Elijah Colvin
“Seasonal Pattern of Activity and Mortality in Northern Short Tailed Shrews”

2nd Place: Jamie Theis
“’You’re Not My People!’ Ostracizing Burdensome Social Groups"

Poster Presentations, Completed Research:

1st Place: Bernice Agyepong
“Evaluating the Five Facets of Mindfulness to Predict COVID-19 Stress.”

2nd Place: Mackenzie Elliott
“A Mixed-method Approach to Understanding COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake in the U.S.

Poster Presentations, Proposed Research:

1st Place: Jarett Rardon
“The Effect of Prosody and Referent Animacy on Novel Noun Learning”

2nd Place: Piper Clark and Mirza Sheraz
“’y r u not txting me back?’ Social Exclusion in Mobile Phone Communication”

Winning presentations were awarded cash prizes.
Each category receives $200 for first place and $100 for second place.

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Photo at right, top to bottom: 1st place winners, Elijah Colvin, Bernice Agyepong, Jarett Rardon

Oral Presentation, Completed Research:

1st Place: Abigail Sedziol
The Silent Speaker: The Impact of Emojis on Nonverbal Communication During a Pandemic
2nd Place: Rebecca Gager
Women in the Mexican Revolution: Feminism on the March

Oral Presentation, Proposed Research:

1st Place: Kayla Kuckway
Aza-peptide Michael Acceptors for the Improved Treatment of Multiple Myeloma
2nd Place: Fan Fei
Spread and Dynamics of COVID 19: A Data Visualization and Exploration Study

Winning presentations were awarded cash prizes.
Each category receives $200 for first place and $100 for second place.

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Oral Presentation, completed research:

1st Place: Lauren Marks-Strauss
2nd Place: Erin Becker

Poster Presentation, completed research:

1st Place: Logan Graves & Jessica Parker
2nd Place: Jacob Roahrig

Poster Presentation, proposed research:

1st Place: Abigail Sedziol & Michelle Rogers
2nd Place: Austin Brammer & Ian McTeague

Winning presentations were awarded cash prizes.
Each category receives $200 for first place and $100 for second place.

15th Annual Student Research Forum Winners

L to R: 2nd place winners Ross Boley and Maria Bowen; Associate Professor Nathaniel Swigger, and first place winners Celeste Hinerman, Jason Tippie and Calaudia Kuchan; missing from photo: Megan Gallaher (1st-seen in top photo at right), Lynzi Morehouse (2nd-seen below) and Rashmiah Amer (2nd-seen in bottom photo at right).

Oral Presentation, Completed Research
First Place – Megan Gallaher: Nineteenth Century Literary History and Liverpool
Second Place – Maria Bowen: You, Me & 9/11

Oral Presentation, Proposed Research
First Place – Calaudia Kuchan: Going to the Dark Side: Do Ostracized Individuals Choose Dark Triad Interaction Partners?
Second Place – Ross Boley: What Does Your Computer Desktop Say About You? Perceiving Personality from Computer Desktops

Poster Presentation, Proposed Research
First Place – Jason Tippie: Mindful Ostracism
Second Place – Lynzi Morehouse: Anxiety, Music and Risky Decision Making

Poster Presentation, Completed Research
First Place – Celeste Hinerman: Bike! Bike? Bike: An Examination of Children’s Comprehension of Intentional Prosody
Second Place – Rasmiah Amer: Aza-peptide Michael Acceptor Inhibitors for the 20S Porteasome

First place award winners received a $200 cash prize; second place award winners received a $100 cash prize.

14th Annual Student Research Forum Winners

L to R 1st place winners: Ross Boley, Zachary Sparks, Dr. Nathaniel Swigger, Nicholas Clawson and Meisha Runyon.

L to R 2nd place winners: Calaudia A. Kuchan, James Sullivan, Dr. Nathaniel Swigger, and Edward J. Cox IV. Not pictured Tom Crook.

Oral Presentation, Completed Research

First Place – Ross Boley: "Tolerance is a Virtue: The Relation Between Burden Tolerance and Exclusion."
Second Place – Edward J. Cox IV: "Hell on the Wabash."

Oral Presentation, Proposed Research

First Place – Nicholas Clawson: "Recognizing the Dark Sky of a Local State Park and Its Scientific Potential."
Second Place – James Sullivan: "A Gap Year: Why Students, Universities and America Should Say Yes!”

Poster Presentation, Completed Research

First Place – Meisha Runyon: "Decision Making as a Function of Delusion Proneness."
Second Place – Tom Crook: "The Effect of Effort on Iowa Gambling Task Performance.”

Poster Presentation, Proposed Research

First Place – Zachary Sparks: "The Goldilocks Effect: Determining When Eye Contact is Not Too Much or Not Too Little."
Second Place – Calaudia A. Kuchan:"Help! I Need Somebody. Help! Not Just Anybody! Determining Who Ostracized Individuals Want to Interact With.”

1st place award winners received a $200 cash prize; 2nd place award winners received a $100 cash prize.

13th Annual Student Research Forum Winners

L to R: Brandon Porter, Brittany Myers, Carrie Bowlby, Coryn Coleman, Dr. Nathaniel Swigger and Jacob Brower; absent from photo: Robert Burkhart and Khadijah Mbai

Oral Presentation, Completed Research

First Place - Robert Burkhart: "Testing the Utility of Stable Isotopes for Analyzing Bee Foraging Patterns"
Second Place – Coryn Coleman and Khadijah Mbai: "Identifying Achievements and Barriers of ESL Immigrant Students in Order to Support Their Success"

Poster Presentation, Proposed Research

First Place - Carrie Bowlby: "Information Processing and Humor Development"
Second Place - Brittany Myers: "Investigating Precursor and Prompt Emission of Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs)"

Poster Presentation, Completed Research

First Place - Coryn Coleman and Brandon Porter: "The Effect of Rate Priming on Information Processing" and "The Effect of Prosody on Decision Making in Adults and Children: Speech Rate Influences Speed and Quality of Decisions"
Second Place - Jacob Brower: "Project Wild Coshocton: A Camera-Trapping Program to Monitor Bobcats (Lynx Rufus) in Coshocton County, Ohio.

1st place award winners received a $200 cash prize; 2nd place award winners received a $100 cash prize.

12th Annual Student Research Forum Winners

Oral Presentation, Completed Research

First Place - Wesley Barnhart, Reward Processing and Risky Decision Making in Disordered Eating
Second Place – Jessica Parker and Krysten Chadwick, Examining Cardiac and Behavioral Responses in a Modality Dominance Task

Oral Presentation, Proposed Research

First Place - Nikki Cotton, Sunrise to Sunset: Reproductive and Longevity Technologies in Science Fiction and Medicine
Second Place - Ben Betulius, Quantum Mechanics, Determinism, and Pseudoscience

Poster Presentation, Completed Research

First Place - Krysten Chadwick, External Influences on Risk-Taking Behavior
Second Place - Jessica Parker, Effects of Auditory Input on Spatial Serial Response Time Task

Poster Presentation, Proposed Research

First Place - Riane Paige, A Participatory Action Research Project of Parole Board Decisions for “Old Law” Offenders
Second Place - Tom Crook, Gamer Grit: Does Experience in a Game Give Frequent Video Game Players More Confidence in Completing Real-World Tasks?

11th Annual Student Research Forum Winners

Event held Wednesday, March 11th, 2015
Newark campus, John Gilbert Reese Center

Oral Presentation, Completed Research:

First place: Carolyn Dunifon, "Heart Rate Variability Associated with Attentional Control in High-Load Flanker Tasks"

Second place: Amanda Hunt, "Adolescent Literature for Young Adults vs. for Adults"

Oral Presentation, Proposed Research:

First place: Ashley Theodore, "Maintaining Black Culture through Mardi Gras Indian Suits"

Second place: Torah Silvera, "Mardi Gras Indians: Exploring the Intersection of History, Community, and Culture in a Unique Tradition"

Poster Presentation, Completed Research:

First place: Krysten R. Chadwick, "Prosodic Processing by Individuals with Williams Syndrome"

Second place: Lindsey Rike, "The Cross-Domain Priming of Language and Motor Rate"

Poster Presentation, Proposed Research:

First place: Michael Madson, "Spectral Lags of Swift GRBs with Prompt Optical Emission"

Second place: Austin Hulse, "Spectral Lags of Swift Gamma-Ray Bursts with Precursor Emission"