Organized by Dr. Eugenia A. Skirta, Department of Mathematics and Mrs. Karen Stylianides, MS, Department of Physical Education Teacher Education

ABSTRACTS
Alphabetical by last name of the presenting author. The first author is the presenting author, unless otherwise specified. Graduate students are denoted with an asterisk.

*Connors, Ryan M.1, Angeli, Jeffry J.1, Angelo, Mark E.1, Bednarczyk, Kyle F.1, Bukoski, Matthew G.1, Devlin, Megan A.1, Fanicase, Justin A.1, Gutschmidt, Amanda E.1, Hamburger, Christopher G.1, Jimison, Jonelle L.1, Kuder, Anthony P.1, Lance, Ashley J.1, Lombardo, Molly A.1, Mallas II, Edward E.1,2, Mc Cann, Cynthia M.1, Miszler, Jason E.3, Monahan, Benjamin1, Nolan, Erik J.1, Patterson, Amy Y.1, Porter, Lisa C.1, Sandt, Alysha M.1, Simcic, Stephanie1, Slater, Mitchell A.1, Sparks, Telsa O.1, Walls, Caleb D.1, 1Department of Mathematics, 2Department of Physics, 3Department of Computer Science, East Stroudsburg University.
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Olivia M. Carducci, Department of Mathematics, East Stroudsburg University.

COMBAT CARBON EMISSIONS: NON-COMMUTERS. - The objective of this model is to estimate the carbon emissions that result from non-commuting vehicles at East Stroudsburg University. Non-commuters include buses used for sporting events and university-owned vehicles. University-owned vehicles include the University Ridge busses, maintenance, and police vehicles. This model will use data provided by the university to evaluate methods of possible reduction for these carbon emissions. This project’s main goal is to assist the university in achieving carbon neutrality while maintaining a reasonable budget. This model will be useful to a successful sustainability campaign. Preserving the environment is an important goal for the faculty and student populations of this university.

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Hayden, Brandi L.1., Tucci, Sarah M.2, Biancamano, Vincent J.3, Wenning, Victoria4, and Ludy, Alyssa L5, 1Undecided, 2Department of Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Management, 3Department of History, 4Department of Communication Studies, 5Department of Psychology, East Stroudsburg University.
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Cem Zeytinoglu, Department of Communication Studies, East Stroudsburg University.
Reducing Carbon Footprint - A carbon footprint is the measure of the amount of carbon dioxide (the major man-made global warming greenhouse gas) that goes into the atmosphere as you go about your daily life. Almost everything you do affects it: turning on a coffee maker, driving a car, buying food, taking a ride on a passenger jet or simply sending an email.
*Hill, Brandon C., Department of Physical Education Teacher Education, East Stroudsburg University.

Faculty Mentor: Mrs. Karen Stylianides, MS, Department of Physical Education Teacher Education, East Stroudsburg University.

TRASH: It’s A Disease. - This is a lesson plan designed to show students how recycling can influence the prevention of various disease spreading caused by different types of pathogens. The students studied how garbage can lead to the spread of disease in third world countries, and how a recycling program could benefit those areas and limit the diseases found there. The students developed a recycling program for the schools to put into place and considered different types of materials that they would like to recycle, and the different types of pathogens that this recycling program could potentially stop from spreading.

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Ludy, Alyssa L.5, Biancamano, Vincent J.3, Tucci, Sarah M.2, Hayden, Brandi L.1, and Wenning, Victoria4, 1Undecided, 2Department of Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Management, 3Department of History, 4Department of Communication Studies, 5Department of Psychology, East Stroudsburg University.
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Cem Zeytinoglu, Department of Communication Studies, East Stroudsburg University.
Zero Waste - Zero waste suggests that the entire concept of waste should be eliminated.  Instead, waste should be thought of as a “residual product” or simply a “potential resource” to counter our basic acceptance of waste as a normal course of events.  Opportunities such as reduced costs, increased profits, and reduced environmental impacts are found when returning these “residual products” or “resources” as food to either natural or industrial systems.  This may involve redesigning both products and processes in order to eliminate hazardous properties that make them unusable and unmanageable in quantities that overburden both industry and the environment.

Niemann, Roy A., Department of Physics, East Stroudsburg University.
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Mark Stewart, Department of Physics, East Stroudsburg University.

SOLAR CELLS INDOORS? - There may be a benefit to bringing a solar panel indoors. The benefit is that it may reduce the cost of mounting the solar cell and allow for temperature control. One drawback is that the glass may absorb some of the potential solar energy. My research consists of experimentally comparing power collected by the solar cell without glass with the power collected behind two different types of glass (tinted glass of the new Science Technology Building and the Gessner Science Hall.) The effect of glass on solar collection is likely well known both theoretically and experimentally, however, my work quantifies results specifically for several sites on ESU’s campus.

Patterson, Amy Y.1, Angeli, Jeffry J.1, Angelo, Mark E.1, Bednarczyk, Kyle F.1, Bukoski, Matthew G.1, Connors, Ryan M.1, Devlin, Megan A.1, Fanicase, Justin A.1, Gutschmidt, Amanda E.1, Hamburger, Christopher G.1, Jimison, Jonelle L.1, Kuder, Anthony P.1, Lance, Ashley J.1, Lombardo, Molly A.1, Mallas II, Edward E.1,2, Mc Cann, Cynthia M.1, Miszler, Jason E.3, Monahan, Benjamin1, Nolan, Erik J.1, Porter, Lisa C.1, Sandt, Alysha M.1, Simcic, Stephanie1, Slater, Mitchell A.1, Sparks, Telsa O.1, Walls, Caleb D.1, 1Department of Mathematics, 2Department of Physics, 3Department of Computer Science, East Stroudsburg University.
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Olivia M. Carducci, Department of Mathematics, East Stroudsburg University.

COMBAT CARBON EMISSIONS: COMMUTERS. - The objective of this model is to estimate the carbon emissions of the commuters for East Stroudsburg University. This model will use data provided by the university to evaluate methods of possible reduction for these carbon emissions. For purposes of this model, commuters are defined as faculty, staff, and students who do not live on campus. This model will take into account these scheduling variations amongst students, faculty, and staff. This project’s main goal is to assist the university in achieving carbon neutrality while maintaining a reasonable budget. This model will be useful to a successful sustainability campaign. Preserving the environment is an important goal for the faculty and student populations of this university.

Tucci, Sarah M.2, Biancamano, Vincent J.3, Ludy, Alyssa L.5, Hayden, Brandi L.1, and Wenning, Victoria4, 1Undecided, 2Department of Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Management, 3Department of History, 4Department of Communication Studies, 5Department of Psychology, East Stroudsburg University.
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Cem Zeytinoglu, Department of Communication Studies, East Stroudsburg University.

Ecological Conservation - In order to improve the environmental quality, it is not only needed to conduct pollution control around the city urban itself, but also needed to strengthen the ecological conservation and construction at city-wide and regional level. The long-term objective for a permanent improvement of the urban environment needs a healthy regional ecological system.

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Wenning, Victoria4, Tucci, Sarah M.2, Biancamano, Vincent J.3, Hayden, Brandi L.1, and Ludy, Alyssa L.5, 1Undecided, 2Department of Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Management, 3Department of History, 4Department of Communication Studies, 5Department of Psychology, East Stroudsburg University.

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Cem Zeytinoglu, Department of Communication Studies, East Stroudsburg University.

Alternative Energy Sources - While energy surrounds us in all aspects of life, the ability to harness it and use it for constructive ends as economically as possible is the challenge before mankind. Alternative energy refers to energy sources which are not based on the burning of fossil fuels or the splitting of atoms. The renewed interest in this field of study comes from the undesirable effects of pollution (as witnessed today) both from burning fossil fuels and from nuclear waste byproducts. Fortunately there are many means of harnessing energy which have less damaging impacts on our environment.