The Ohio State University at Newark

The Effects of Receiving Not Enough or Too Much Eye Contact
CONNOR CARPENTER
Faculty Sponsor: James H. Wirth (Psychology)
Category: Proposed Research, Poster

Effects of Stimulus Intensity and Signal-to-noise Ratio on Inverse Effectiveness
LOGAN E. GRAVES & JESSICA L. PARKER
Faculty Sponsor: Christopher W. Robinson (Psychology)
Category: Completed Research, Poster - 1st Place Winner

Speak the Beat: The Influence of Rhythm on Speech Production
ELIZABETH CHAMPLIN, ELISE MABRY & ABIGAIL SEDZIOL
Faculty Sponsor: Julie M. Hupp (Psychology) and Melissa K. Jungers (Psychology)
Category: Completed Research, Poster

Auditory Distractibility in the Visual Modality: Reverse Effects of Perceptual Load Hypothesis
JACOB SCHLAEGEL
Faculty Sponsor: Christoper W. Robinson (Psychology)
Category: Completed Research, Poster

Mind the Gap: Pause Persistence with Adults and Children
AUSTIN BRAMMER & IAN McTEAGUE
Faculty Sponsor: Julie M. Hupp (Psychology) and Melissa K. Jungers (Psychology)
Category: Proposed Research, Poster - 2nd place winner

Aza-Peptide Carbonyls as Immunoproteasome Inhibitors
MICHAEL FLEISHER
Faculty Sponsor: Oslem Dogan-Ekici (Chemistry and Biochemistry)
Category: Proposed Research, Poster

Quantifying Predation in Early Cambrian Trilobites from the Poleta Formation, Nevada
DREW PARDI
Faculty Sponsor: Jill S. Leonard-Pingel (Earth Sciences)
Category: Proposed Research, Poster

Listen to Audio Presentation

Kids Got Rhythm: Rhythmic Priming of Children’s Speech Prosody
MICHELLE ROGERS & ABIGAIL SEDZIOL
Faculty Sponsor: Julie M. Hupp (Psychology) and Melissa K. Jungers
(Psychology)
Category: Proposed Research, Poster - 1st Place Winner

Interconnected Imperialism, Policy and People: The Refugee Crisis in the United States
LAUREN MARKS-STRAUSS
Faculty Sponsor: Alcira Dueñas (History)
Category: Completed Research, Oral - 1st Place Winner

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"