Student Research Forum winners

Proposed research oral presentation

1^st place: Maria Jaurbe (student); Elizabeth Weiss (faculty); “The Impact of Parenting Style and Communication on Sexual Confidence, Attitudes and Well-Being in Young Adults”

2^nd place: Eve Harrison (student); Julie Hupp (faculty); “Novel Word Learning Through Use of Gestures and Prosodic Information”

Proposed research poster presentation

1^st place: Rachel Howard (student); James Wirth (faculty); "Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish:" Responding to a Burdensome Group Member Leaving 

2^nd place: Karina Tellez-Sanchez, Claire Gaulin and Noah Browning (students); Melissa Jungers and Julie Hupp (faculty); “An Examination of Adjective Dimensions using a Stroop Task in Preschool Children”

Completed research oral presentation

1^st place: Shelby Gambill (student); Elizabeth Weiser (faculty); “Working on a Building: Reflection, Selection and Deflection at the Ryman”

2^nd place: Lillian Grooms, Brooke Dutro, Alexis Herrmann, Emma Stine and Bailey Stranges (students); Adrian Rodgers (faculty); “How AI Provides a Reading Analysis vs. Pre-Service Teacher Analysis”

Completed research poster presentation

1^st place: Eve Harrison, Audra Lacy, Ellie Funk and Ashley McCarthy (students); Julie Hupp and Melissa Jungers (faculty); “Acoustic Speech Properties and the Impact on Novel Verb Comprehension”

2^nd place: Molly Rudduck (student); Jennifer Kowalsky (faculty); “Anticipated Regret Messages and Seasonal Flu Vaccine Uptake Intention: A Randomized Controlled Trial”

Oral presentation, completed research

1st place: Cecilia Carlisle, "Exploring Rhythm and Melody as Modes of Language Acquisition with Novel Words"

2nd place: Sarah Wilson, "Examining Textbooks to Support Prospective Teachers’ Pedagogical Content Knowledge of Geometry"

Oral presentation, proposed research

1st place: Molly Rudduck, "Mardi Gras Indian Culture Throughout Generations"

Poster presentation, completed research

1st place: Kerianne Bowyer, "Exploring the Use of Environmental DNA as a Tool for Surveying Native Solitary Bee Nests"

2nd place: Molly Rudduck, "Psychological Reactance, Dimensions of Vaccine Hesitancy, and Vaccine Uptake Behavior"

Poster presentation, proposed research

1st place :Lydia Painter, "The Effects of Multimodal Processing with The Stroop Task Using Pupillometry"

2nd place: Alexander Porter, "Rumination and Decision Making after False Feedback"

Oral presentation, completed research

1st place: Piper Clark, "Who do you listen to? The effects of perceived gender on decision making."

Oral presentation, proposed research

1st place: Piper Clark, "Does this picture make me look too much like my actual self? The psychological effects of photo editing."

Poster presentation, completed research

1st place: Sydney Barna, "Vasovagal symptoms following seasonal influenza and COVID-19 vaccination: The impact of fear."

2nd place: Hannah McCoy, "Comparing Live-Dead Ostracod Assemblages to Connect to Climate Change."

Poster presentation, proposed research

1st place: Kerianne Bowyer, "Beneficial insect abundance and richness at two sites in Lima, Ohio."

2nd place: Cecilia J. Carlisle, Kamala Sharma, Samantha McDonald and Jarret Rardon; "Time flies so linek: Exploring the use of prosody for adjective learning in children."

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”

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

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

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

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.”

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.

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?

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"