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Summer Research
Fellowship Grants awarded
Students to pursure joint faculty research
ERIE--Penn State Erie, The
Behrend College, has awarded
$15,303 in Undergraduate Student
Summer Research Fellowship
Grants to 20 undergraduate
students.
The grants will permit the
students to pursue joint research
with faculty during the summer
of 1995. Grant money is used to
offset research expenses such as
travel, library loans, materials,
and photocopying.
"Research grants give students
the opportunity to strengthen
their undergraduate experience,"
Dr. Robert Light, the college's
associate dean for research, said of
the annual awards. "Emphasis on
research at the undergraduate level
is still fairly rare, but we've
found it leads to acceptance at
more prestigious graduate
schools, and to better
employment opportunities."
Awards of $9OO were given to
Randy Risjan, a sophomore
business economics major from
Waterford, for his research
proposal, "Retail Sales and the
Erie Economy;" senior
engineering major James McGee,
an Edinboro resident, for
"Aerodynamics of Supermileage
Vehicles;" Daniel Temple of
Erie, a junior electrical
engineering major, for "An Image
Processing System for Dynamic
Scene Change Detection;"
Markus Rodriguez, a junior
English major from Matawan,
N.J., for "The House on Mango
Street: A Play Production;" Erie
resident Lisa Ann Borgia, a
sophomore science major, for
"Evaluation of Relationships
Between Shorebird Abundance
and Invertebrate Densities on
Presque Isle, Erie, Pennsylvania;"
and to Daniel Logan, a
sophomore engineering major
from Glenshaw, for his research,
"Stress Distribution in Granular
Media"
Two math majors from Erie,
junior Matthew Totzke and
sophomore Timothy Wisniewski,
received $1,750 for their research,
"Properties of Random Graphs."
Biology majors Eileen Hyman, a
junior from Wescoville, and
Linda Murphy, a senior from
Butler, were awarded $1,300 for
"RAPD and Isoenzyme
Polymorphisms in Dreissena
polymorpha and Dreissena
bugensis Populations."
Barry Guenther, a junior
history major from Beaver Falls,
received $B9B for his proposal,
"From the Tracks at Mudken:
The United States and the
Manchurian Crisis, 1931-1933;"
$892 was awarded to junior
psychology major Joseph Trettel
and 1994 Penn State-Behrend
graduate Jennifer Trich for their
research, "Individual Differences
in Spatial Perceptions and Mental
Rotation Tasks." Trettel is from
Lower Burrell.
Philadelphia resident Jotham
Austin II received $B9l for
"Genomic Studies of the Tumor
Forming Interspecific Nicotiana
Hybrid" and Erie resident
Palestrina Truong $873 for
"Construction of a Genomic
Library for Genetic Analysis of
Prunus serotina." Both are
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juniors studying biology.
Psychology majors Amy
Yanacek, Kendra Hamler, and
Sonya Solock received $854 to
fund their summer research, "A
Content Analysis of Changes in
the Portrayal of Dominance and
Inequality in Pornographic Films
Across Time." Yanacek, a
junior, is from Meadville; seniors
Hamler and Solock are residents
of Pittsburgh and Sharpsville,
respectively. Kenneth Hull, an
Erie resident, received $695 for
"Survey of Surgical Luminaire
Optical Performance." Hull is a
senior mechanical engineering
technology major.
One student, Erie resident Ray
Graham, Jr., received two
summer research grants.
Graham's first award, of $9OO.
will be used to study "Computer
Recognition of Human Facial
Gestures for Improved Speech
Understanding." With a second
award of $B5O, Graham will also
study "Carbon Monoxide in
Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann
I." Graham is a junior majoring
in electrical engineering.
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