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Showcase of Student Scholarship: 2022 Showcase

2022 Showcase of
Student Scholarship

A Celebration of Mansfield University’s
Student Research and Creative Achievements

 

 

April 20, 2022

View the Program (pdf)

Showcase of Student Scholarship Program - PDF
Cover design by Amanda Rutledge.

six college-aged students holding certificates in front of a neutral background
Outstanding Poster Presentation Award recipients:
Left to right: Carly Root, Kelsey Murphy, Samanta Osorio-Ortiz, Isaac Walker, Alexis Easling, and Micah Yoder. Not Pictured: Kassidy Wood.

English: Professional Writing

Biology

Effects of Fertilizers on Phaseolus Vulgaris poster - links to PDF

History

The Culper Spy Ring poster - links to PDF

Graphic Design

a small puppet in a colorful costume of red, yellow and blue. The puppet has squished features, a broad nose and large mouth. The puppet’s hair is very long and black.

Applehead Puppet
 

A frame with curved blue sides like ocean waves. There’s a large, single eye at the top of the frame. The frame is multicolored earth tones. Inside the frame and recessed is an image of the earth. Surrounding the earth image on the frame are small, colorful stones.

Metal Shrine


By: Makenzie Bray
Faculty Sponsor: Martha Campbell

Graphic Design

Two-dimensional shadow box of Vincent Van Gogh in profile. Inside his torso is a cut out stylized reproduction of Van Gogh’s “Starry Night.” Inside his head where the eye and ear would be is a cut out interpretation of Van Gogh’s sunflower paintings.

Inside Vincent—Shadow Box


By: Lucia Briar
Faculty Sponsor: Martha Campbell

Chemistry: Forensic Science

Detection of Explosives poster - link to PDF

Spanish

Cusco: Then and Now through Martin Chambi's Gaze poster - link to PDF

History

Poster titled Treblink. Contains information on the Treblinka concentration camp

Evil in Treblinka: Ivan the Terrible

By: Anna Conley
Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Karen Guenther

Early Childhood Education

Can Science Corroborate Astrological Predictions? poster - links to PDF

Art

Rectangular box with lid made of clay. Sea green glaze. Blue capital “T” on the lid. Blue infinity symbol on the front of the body of the box.

Father’s Urn


By: Kelly Decker
Faculty Sponsor: Martha Campbell

Art

A small round handwoven grey basket. The weave is loose and the cords are thick, fibrous, and fuzzy. There’s a small round red bead on a thin gold string woven into the top cord of the basket. The gold string goes all the way around the basket, beyond the circumference and ends in a small triangular piece of orange and blue patterned cloth. There are two feathers inserted horizontally into the middle and bottom cords of the basket. The top feather is cobalt blue and the bottom feather is blood red

Native Basket


By: Joseph DelGardo
Faculty Sponsor: Martha Campbell

Communication

The Elephant and His Fruit video - youtube link

Environmental Science

Emerald Ash Borer Management Control Poster PDF

Art

rectangular clay box with white lid. The box narrows at the bottom to an oval base. The lid has an angel with blue wings and a yellow halo on a white background on the top. The sides of the top are blue and there are light blue flowers with green leaves on the side of the box.

Burial Urn in Clay


By: Tawyana Dinsmore
Faculty Sponsor: Martha Campbell

Biology

Developing an Extraction Protocol for High Quality Phage DNA from Sewage Sludge poster - links to PDF

Environmental Science

The Effect of the Hemlock Woolly Adelgid on Stream Conditions in Mill Cove poster - link to PDF

Secondary Education: English

Wild Horses of America: The Mustang paper - links to PDF

English

A “Nu” Frontier: Nuclear Energy Against Climate Change - pdf

Chemistry: Biochemistry

Novel Treatments of Sarin Nerve Agent poster - link to PDF

Secondary English Education

Nothing But a Covered Girl paper - links to PDF

Art

a poster with “Jamaica” in large black letters in the middle of the work. Behind the word is a brown djembe drum and above the drum are 5 peace symbols colored in with brown, orange, yellow and green. There are mountains in the background in various shades of dark green. Below the word “Jamaica” is a red-orange flower and 4 palm trees.

Welcome To Jamaica


By: Madison Fox
Faculty Sponsor: Kenneth Cobb

Art

Four rectangular wood cut prints of children in blacks, whites, and greys. The upper left is an infant’s face close up with the head tilted slightly to the left. The upper right is a girl writing at a desk in a rust-colored dress. The lower left print is two small boys leaning out an open window. The lower right print is a child with downcast eyes with a hood over their head.

Open Your Eyes
 

4 images made from the same woodblock of a child sitting facing away from the viewer on a swing. The upper left, the child wears a red jacket and black pants and is printed on dictionary paper. The upper right, the child and the swing are in black on a light blue background. The lower left, the image is rust color with a grey sketched background. The lower right, the image is repeated and overlapped. The nearest image is dark red, the middle image is black and the back image is white on a dark grey background.

A Million Thoughts at Just One Glance


By: McCauley Fox
Faculty Sponsor: Alan Bennett

Art

a handwoven grey basket shaped like an hourglass vase. The cords are thick and coarse. There are abstract white patterns on the lower half of the basket and the top cord is white. Hanging from the top lip of the vase are four strings of earth-toned beads. Most of the beads are coin-shaped and a few are cylindrical.

Burden Basket
 

a collage sculpture made of colorful stationery in the shape of a sunflower. In the center of the flower is a circle made of pink and grey pearls.

The Life of Mauley


By: McCauley Fox
Faculty Sponsor: Martha Campbell

Art

Mixed media collage. A photo of a blonde woman in profile in the center of the work with a flower crown and lai holding a purple beverage can. On the right the Statue of Liberty in front of purple trees and a mountain range in yellow with the words “Amazing Journey” at the top. On the left a gondolier in front of two story buildings in purple and brown. Above the gondolier is the word “stories” and in the clouds above the buildings are the words “Ready to Explore”

A Future A Head

 

Mixed media collage. A photo of woman with long grey hair in a yellow trilby hat and a blue shirt with pink and blue flowers in the center of the work. Behind her is a green chicken coop with a crowing rooster perched on the top of the coop and 5 white and brown hens on the ground. There is a white sign “Fresh Eggs for sale” in front of the coop. On the right is a picture of a two story cabin with knick knacks on the porch and the words “True Taste” in the sky above the cabin.

Egglectic

 

Mixed media collage. A photo of a stout man with glasses and a grey goatee wearing a brown fedora and a Hawaiian shirt in the center of the work. His right arm has been colored blue and is raised as if to tip his hat. The words “Power Moves” are in black with a yellow background and are placed vertically over the buttons of his shirt. His left arm has been colored green along with the left side of his shirt. There’s a gas light on right side of the work with a “Crafton St” sign directly behind it and the words “THE LIFE” underneath. Behind the signs are a row of black duck decoys on a brown wooden shelf with crow decoys below and small black and white photos above. On the left side of the work are the same duck decoys on a wooden shelf with crow decoys beneath perched on a bookcase. There are more small black and white photos of old time sportsmen above the duck decoys. Above the photos are naturally colored duck decoys on a higher shelf. The deep background is blood red with a rectangle of red brick above and behind the man in the center. In the upper left it says "Just Right. Perfect, Really."

Crafting the Craftsman


I See You
By: Aleksandr Goncharov
Faculty Sponsor: Martha Campbell

History

Failure to Command: Wehrmacht Involvement in Holocaust Atrocities poster - link to pdf

Chemistry: Biochemistry

Tardigrade-Specific Intrinsically Disordered Proteins Expressed in Cryptobiosis presentation - link to PDF

Secondary Education: Social Studies

The History of Orphanages poster - links to PDF

Graphic Design

woodblock reduction print. In the foreground a Cedar Waxwing bird is in profile facing left perched on a grey tree branch, black beak open to eat a cherry. The bird has an orange head, black and blue wings and a white underbelly. The tree branches are bare with a scattering of cherries and are placed horizontally across the work against a blue background. Another Waxwing sits on a branch above and one flys above.

Winter Feast


By: Jeanne Kagle
Faculty Sponsor: Alan Bennett

Psychology

Posting vs. Scrolling: How Social Media Use Relates to Personality poster - link to PDF

Environmental Science

Effects of Climate Change on US Ski Resorts and their Economies poster - pdf

English

English

Chemistry: Forensic Science

Biological Mechanism of Ricin poster - Link to PDF

Chemistry: Forensic Science

Ignitable Liquids poster - link to PDF

English

The Purgatory Theory - PDF

Geosciences

Structural and Sedimentological Description of a Potentially Translocated Coarse Block Downstream of the Pennsylvania Grand Canyon poster - link to PDF

Art History

small wall-hanging shrine. Thick, black frame around a recessed picture of a woman’s face. The face is done in a stark black and white. The eyes are wide set and heavily lined and the hair is black with bangs. The lips mouth and nose are wide. She is looking up and to the right. Below her portrait are black petaled flowers with red centers on a white background.

Personal Shrine


By: Mataya Nickerson
Faculty Sponsor: Martha Campbell

Geosciences

Effectiveness of Halophytes on Reducing Road Salt Pollution poster - links to PDF

English

Graphic Design

Drawing a deck of green cards whose backs have a poplar leaf in the center and smaller leaves in 4 corners of the deck. The cards are set on a lavender background.

3 illustrated tarot cards face up on a grey patterned tablecloth. Leftmost card says "The Hight Priestess II" and features violets with a mottled green background. The middle card says "The Hermit IX" and shows purple flowers on stalks at the water's edge with a gree tree in the background. The right most card says "The Magician I" and shows a black kettle over a fire and a yellow orange flower above the fireplace.

The Flower Tarot Deck


By: Eowyn Robinson
Faculty Sponsor: John Shanchuk

Graphic Design

small, primitive voodoo doll with crumpled face, bulging eyes and no hair. It’s wearing dark blue pants and a red long-sleeved shirt open to expose a white torso. There are multiple straight pins inserted all over its body.

Haitian Voodoo Doll


By: William Romano
Faculty Sponsor: Martha Campbell

Environmental Biology

Sequestration of Toxic Metals by Wild Mushrooms near Abandoned Coal Mine Tailings poster - links to PDF

Graphic Design

Oil Painting of a scenic overlook. In the lower foreground is a brown wooden fence. In the middle ground on the left is a maple tree whose leaves have turned red and on the left is a spindly pine tree. In the background is a lower green and yellow mountain with cloud cover at the top.

Oil painting of a body of water reflecting trees and with a bridge over a spillway. On the right edge of the work is a large evergreen tree. To the left of the large evergreen is a wood utility pole with power lines running horizontally across the work. Behind the spillway and slightly off center is a smaller evergreen tree. In the background is a deciduous forest in late fall/early winter when all the leaves are off the trees. The sky is a cloudy blue-grey.

See the Parks


By: Amanda Rutledge
Faculty Sponsor: Kenneth Cobb

Graphic Design

Showcase of Student Scholarship event poster - links to PDF

Showcase of Student Scholarship call for participation poster - links to PDF

Poster designs for the Showcase of Student Scholarship 2022


By: Amanda Rutledge

Graphic Design

Typefaces and Tropes Reel Edition - Links to PDF

Environmental Science

Evaluating the Decrease in Salmon population – Pulaski, NY poster - links to PDF

Geoscience

Effect of Visual Aids on Understanding Environmental Education Presentations poster - links to PDF

Geoscience

Pennsylvania Elk Population Conservation Through Allotted Hunting Licenses poster - link to PDF

Art History

Monoprint of 6 marine invertebrates arranged on a gray background. One purple, one burgundy, and one turquoise tube worm are in the foreground. One black mollusk, and one yellow, and one green tube worm are in the background.

Ammonoids

Monoprints
By: Adyn Ulrich
Faculty Sponsor: Alan Bennett

Monoprint of a stylized marine arthropod in grey, green, purple, and black. The arthropod’s coloring is blended into the background. The drawing uses heavier black lines to distinguish the animal from the background.

Anomalocaris

Monoprints
By: Adyn Ulrich
Faculty Sponsor: Alan Bennett

Monoprint of three marine tube worms and a salamander-like animal. The tube worms are in the foreground and are purple, blue and red. A green salamander is in the background. They are placed against a black background.

Tiktaalik annd Ammonoids

Monoprints
By: Adyn Ulrich
Faculty Sponsor: Alan Bennett

Art History

A repeating tile pattern of black flounders on a white background. The flounder are arranged diagonally in each tile creating repeating x’s. There are 16 flounder in the pattern-four across and four down.

Flounder

Stamps
By: Adyn Ulrich
Faculty Sponsor: Alan Bennett

A repeating tile pattern of black manta ray on a white background. The rays are placed on the diagonal in each tile. There are 16 manta rays in the pattern-four across and four down.

Manta Ray

Stamps
By: Adyn Ulrich
Faculty Sponsor: Alan Bennett

A repeating tile pattern of black and grey minnows on a blue-green background. The minnows are arranged diagonally in each tile creating repeating x’s

Minnows

Stamps
By: Adyn Ulrich
Faculty Sponsor: Alan Bennett

A repeating tile pattern of pink and black anteaters on a white background. The anteaters are placed on the diagonal in each tile. There are 16 anteaters in the pattern-four across and four down.

Pink Anteaters

Stamps
By: Adyn Ulrich
Faculty Sponsor: Alan Bennett

Repeating tile pattern of pink and pale yellow flower-like shapes with black centers and a blue background.

Tile

Stamps
By: Adyn Ulrich
Faculty Sponsor: Alan Bennett

Art History


By: Adyn Ulrich
Faculty Sponsor: Alan Bennett

History

The Pennsylvania Navy presentation - links to PDF

Art

Monotype of a house cat in blue ink on a white background. The cat’s eyes are round and its nose is triangular. The ears are white and the face and tail are darker blue than the body.

Blue Cat
 

graphite and ink sketch of old men. The man in the lower, middle foreground is in profile. He has deep-set eyes, a bump on his nose, a mustache and a cleft chin. Multiple lines on his face and neck obscure his features. Coming out of his head is another man with an extremely elongated neck. He is in ¾ profile and his mouth is slightly open. He has an aquiline nose and his eyes appear to be rolled back in his head. The third man is on the left of the work. His portrait is the largest of the three. He is facing the viewer, his mouth is slightly open and his eyes appear to be shut. The ear that’s visible to the viewer is large and his nose is broad. His hair flames upward toward the top of the work.

Sketch of Old Man ID


By: Kendal Warren
Faculty Sponsor: Martha Campbell

Art

pastel still life of two small gourds arranged in front of a cloth on a table. The gourd on the left is shaped like a small pumpkin. The gourd on the right oblong. There’s a small book in front of the gourds in the middle foreground. On the right of the work is half of a planter with a cactus in it.

Gourds


By: Kendal Warren
Faculty Sponsor: Kenneth Cobb

Art

Photograph of a basin-shaped white mushroom with ribs around the top and a slender white stem. The forest is blurred in the background.

Tryptic - Mushroom (left)

A Small World: A Macro Photography


By: Jessica Watters
Faculty Sponsor: Martha Campbell

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Photograph of a small umbrella-shaped light-yellow mushroom with a white stem centered in a bed of moss surrounded by pine needles in the foreground

Tryptic - Tiny Unbrellas (right)

A Small World: A Macro Photography


By: Jessica Watters
Faculty Sponsor: Martha Campbell

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Photograph of two small umbrella-shaped dark yellow mushrooms with thick dark yellow stems, one slightly taller and partially overlapping the other, in a bed of moss

Tryptic - Tiny Unbrellas (middle)

A Small World: A Macro Photography


By: Jessica Watters
Faculty Sponsor: Martha Campbell

View a PDF of A Small World

Photograph of a small umbrella-shaped light-yellow mushroom with a white stem to the right of center in a bed of moss and pine needle litter

Tryptic - Tiny Unbrellas (left)

A Small World: A Macro Photography


By: Jessica Watters
Faculty Sponsor: Martha Campbell

View a PDF of A Small World

Photograph of four oblong dark red leaves at the end of a branch with the underside of the leaves showing.

Tryptic - New Growth (right)

A Small World: A Macro Photography


By: Jessica Watters
Faculty Sponsor: Martha Campbell

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Photograph of five small, dark red leaves clustered on the end of dark brown branch

Tryptic - New Growth (middle)

A Small World: A Macro Photography


By: Jessica Watters
Faculty Sponsor: Martha Campbell

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Photograph of a cluster of small, dark red leaves on a slender dark red tree branch. The tree bark in the background is blurred.

Tryptic - New Growth (left)

A Small World: A Macro Photography


By: Jessica Watters
Faculty Sponsor: Martha Campbell

View a PDF of A Small World

Photograph of the underside of a basin-shaped white mushroom with ribs flaring out from the center. The stem is slender and the green background is blurred.

Tryptic - Mushroom (right)

A Small World: A Macro Photography


By: Jessica Watters
Faculty Sponsor: Martha Campbell

View a PDF of A Small World

Photograph of the top of a shallow basin-shaped white mushroom. The mushroom is slightly off center and has ribs along the full circumference.

Tryptic - Mushroom (middle)

A Small World: A Macro Photography


By: Jessica Watters
Faculty Sponsor: Martha Campbell

View a PDF of A Small World

A poster with “A Small World” written at the top in white. The middle image is a yellow fungus growing on a tree branch on the forest floor. The poster is advertising Jessica Watter’s macro photography exhibit at the Red Skillet in Wellsboro, PA in conjunction with Mansfield University. The details are written across the bottom of the poster in white on a purple background. The exhibit was November 13 through 19, 2021 with a closing reception on November 19, 2021 from 6 to 8 pm

A Small World Poster

A Small World: A Macro Photography


By: Jessica Watters
Faculty Sponsor: Martha Campbell

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Photograph of the forest floor with bright green moss sloping upward from the bottom left to the upper right of the photo. There are small trumpet shaped fungus sprinkled throughout the moss.

Tryptic - Forest Floor (middle)

A Small World: A Macro Photography


By: Jessica Watters
Faculty Sponsor: Martha Campbell

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A photograph of a small, crinkled yellow mushroom growing on a dark brown tree branch on the forest floor littered with pine needles. The mushroom is being eaten by a small tan slug.

Simple Life

A Small World: A Macro Photography


By: Jessica Watters
Faculty Sponsor: Martha Campbell

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Photograph of shelf mushrooms on a tree with bright sunshine coming from the top left that leaves the mushrooms dark and partially obscured

Morning Mushrooms

A Small World: A Macro Photography


By: Jessica Watters
Faculty Sponsor: Martha Campbell

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Photograph of small brown grass stalks covered in white fuzzy seeds

Fuzzy Grass

A Small World: A Macro Photography


By: Jessica Watters
Faculty Sponsor: Martha Campbell

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Photograph of small plant on the forest floor with green leaves arranged like cabbage leaves.

Forest Cabbage

A Small World: A Macro Photography


By: Jessica Watters
Faculty Sponsor: Martha Campbell

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Biology

Comparison of Evolution Rate of Ciprofloxacin Resistance among Staphylococcus epidermidis Isolates poster - links to PDF

Electronic Media - Public Relations

Snider Hockey Black Hockey History Tour Recap Video

English: Professional Writing

The Relationship between LGBTQ+ Community and Film Development paper - link to PDF

Chemistry: Biochemistry

Streamlining Diagnosis of Desmoplakin-Linked Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathy poster - link to PDF