Congratulations to the 2012 Graduate Exhibition Award Winners in the College of Agricultural Sciences

Health & Life Sciences

First Place

• Audrey Helena Draper - Advisor = Luke Laborde
  The College of Agricultural Sciences/Food Science. "Microbial Survey of Surface Water Used for Fresh Produce Crop Irrigation in Pennsylvania"

Second place

• Amanda Lyn Svoboda – Advisor = Catherine N. Cutter
  The College of Agricultural Sciences/Food Science. "Presence of Shiga-toxin Producing Escherichia coli in Small and Very Small Beef Processing Plants and Resulting Beef Products Detected by a Multiplex Polymerase Chain Reaction Assay"

Third Place

• Joshua Scheinberg – Advisor = Catherine N. Cutter
  The College of Agricultural Sciences/Food Science. "A Microbiological Comparison of Poultry Products Obtained from Farmers' Markets and Supermarkets in Pennsylvania"
• Yeyi Gu – Advisor = Joshua D. Lambert
  The College of Agricultural Sciences/Food Science. "Anti-inflammatory and Anti-Obesity Effects of Cocoa Procyanidins"
• Anna L. Testen – Advisor = Paul Backman
  The College of Agricultural Sciences/Plant Pathology. "Detection and Incidence of Peronospora variabilis in Quinoa Seeds"
• Lingyan Kong – Advisor = Gregory Ziegler
  The College of Agricultural Sciences/Food Science. "Fabrication of pure starch fibers by electrospinning"

Social & Behavioral Sciences

First Place

• Nadia K. Byrnes – Advisor = John Hayes
  The College of Agricultural Sciences/Food Science. "Determining the Relationship Between Personality Variables and Liking of Spicy Foods"
• Carla Shoff – Advisor = Diane Mc Laughlin
  The College of Agricultural Sciences/Rural Sociology. "Spatially varying predictors of teenage birth rates among counties in the United States"

Engineering

First Place

• Mark Williams
  The College of Engineering/Agricultural and Biological Engineering. "Using spatial analysis to assess nitrate sources in two headwater agricultural streams in central Pennsylvania"