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Barakat Fellowship

Fellow: Fiona Doherty '20
Research Project: An Investigation of Islamic Spain
Faculty Mentor: Russell Hopley

91ÑÇÉ«´«Ã½ Research Award

Fellow: Grady Aldrich '18
Research Project: Advanced Material Investigation Through Sculpture
Faculty Mentor: Jackie Brown

Fellow: Evan Baughman '17
Research Project: Class and American Religion
Faculty Mentor: Elizabeth Pritchard

Fellow: Aidan Coyle '17
Research Project: Variation in cold tolerance of the European green crab along the eastern coast of North America
Faculty Mentor: David Carlon

Fellow: Jiaqi Duan '17
Research Project: Driver's of China's Stick Market Volatility: Retail Investors' Behavior and Lack to Indexing
Faculty Mentor: Matthew Botsch

Fellow: Gregory Maslak '17
Research Project: Bank Consolidation and Systemic Risk: M&As During a Crisis
Faculty Mentor:  Gonca Senel

Fellow: Liam Taylor '17
Research Project: Integrated Population Model for a Local Extinction of Tree Swallows (Tachycineta bicolor)
Faculty Mentor: Nathaniel Wheelwright

Fellow: Justin Wallace '17
Research Project: What drives consumer demand for slant?
Faculty Mentor: Daniel Stone

Breckinridge Summer Research Fellowship

Fellow: Nell Fitzgerald '19
Research Project: Are Women's Rights Human Rights? An Analysis of the Modern State Department
Faculty Mentor: Janet Martin

Fellow: Noah Rothman '19
Research Project: Measuring the Ideologies of Federal Election Commissioners 
Faculty Mentor: Michael Franz

Christenfeld Summer Research Fellowship

Fellow: Logan House '17
Research Project: CODOX
Faculty Mentor: Mark Wethli

Craig A. McEwen Student Research Fellowship in the Social Sciences 

Fellow: Ethan Bevington '19
Research Project: There’s no such thing as cheap talk: A machine learning analysis of pre-play communication on Golden Balls 
Faculty Mentor: Daniel Stone

Fellow: Julianna Hauri '18
Research Project: Phobias and Death: A Terror Management View of BII Phobia and Arachnophobia
Faculty Mentor: Zachary Rothschild

James Stacy Coles Fellowship

Fellow: Bennett Sneath '20
Research Project: Mapping the Energetic Landscape for the PNA(P)/Pyridine Chemical Actinometer System: A Full Experimentaland Theoretical Quantum Dynamics Investigation
Faculty Mentor: Soren Eutis

Fellow: Daniel Williams '19
Research Project: Targeting of Helicobacter pylori using photodynamic therapy agents
Faculty Mentor: Danielle Dube

Martha Reed Coles Undergraduate Research Fellowship

Fellow: Sydney To '19
Research Project: Interracial Romances in Asian-American Literature 
Faculty Mentor: Belinda Kong

Henry L. and Grace Doherty Charitable Foundation Coastal Studies Fellowship

Fellow: Tom Diaz '18
Research Project: A Game of Operation: Investigating the Modulatory Effects of Myosuppressin Isoforms on the Homarus Cardiac Ganglia
Faculty Mentor: Patsy Dickinson

Fellow: Genesis Escalante '18
Research Project: The natural contraction amplitudes and stretches of the heart muscles of the American lobster
Faculty Mentor: Amy Johnson

Fellow: Gina Fickera '18
Research Project: The role of the dorsal abdominal artery in providing elastic recoil of the heart of the American lobster
Faculty Mentor: Amy Johnson

Fellow: Matt Maguire '19
Research Project: Determining how differences in orientation and sarcomere length in lobster (Homarus americanus) cardiac muscles relate to passive and active mechanical properties of the heart 
Faculty Mentor: Amy Johnson

Fellow: Ali Miller '18
Research Project: Comparing stomatogastric nervous system modulation in related crab species, Pugettia producta and Libinia emarginata
Faculty Mentor: Amy Johnson

Fellow: Emily Oleisky '20
Research Project: Post-Translational Modifications in Determining the Modulatory Effects of Myosuppressin on the Ligatured Cardiac Ganglion of the American Lobster, Homarus americanus 
Faculty Mentor: Patsy Dickinson

Fellow: John Pietro '19
Research Project: Pressure alters the stroke volume and heart rate of the American lobster Homarus americanus
Faculty Mentor: Amy Johnson

Freedman Summer Research Fellowship in Coastal/Environmental Studies

Fellow: Zoe Borenstein '18
Research Project: Permuting pH: Understanding Ocean Acidification in the Gulf of Maine
Faculty Mentor: Michele LaVigne

Fellow: Madeline Schuldt '18
Research Project: Disease on the Half-Shell: Prevalence and impact of the protistan pathogen MSX on oyster population health throughout the Gulf of Maine
Faculty Mentor: Sarah Kingston

Goldsmith Adams Research Award

Fellow: Ethan Barkalow '18
Research Project: Urban Space on the Frontier: The Development of Sapporo in Meiji Japan
Faculty Mentor: Sakura Christmas

Peter J. Grua and Mary G. O'Connell Faculty/Student Research Award

Fellow: Robert Barron '17
Research Project: Mapping a parrotfish hybrid swarm: the world's largest hybrid zone?
Faculty Mentor: David Carlon

Fellow: Georgia Bolduc '17
Research Project: Carbon Cycling in Maine's Lakes: A Study of Dissolved Organic Carbon Trends
Faculty Mentor: Collin Roesler

Fellow: Peter Cohen '17
Research Project: Attendance to the Joint Meeting of the Indian Consortium and the American Mathematical Society
Faculty Mentor: Michael King

Fellow: Jefferson Cuartas '14
Research Project: Beyond the Storefront: The Korean American Experience in New York City
Faculty Mentor: Nancy Riley

Fellow: Cameron de Wet '17
Research Project: Using cathodoluminescence to study the mineral kyanite in the only known ultrahigh-pressure rocks in North America
Faculty Mentor: Emily Peterman

Fellow: William Doak '17
Research Project: French and Italian Cafe Spaces and the Third Places They Create in the 20th and 21st Centuries
Faculty Mentor: Arielle Saiber

Fellow: Harrison Fisher '17
Research Project: Applying Granger Causality to Assess Directionality of Theta Oscillations During Episodic Memory Retrieval
Faculty Mentor: Erika Nyhus

Fellow: Adam Glynn '17
Research Project: Dante's contrappasso in Italian and American horror films
Faculty Mentor: Allison Cooper

Fellow: Malcolm Groves '17
Research Project: Excited-State Intermolecular Proton Transfer in Aminonaphthols
Faculty Mentor: Kana Takematsu

Fellow: Starling Irving '17
Research Project: The New England Heroin Epidemic and Heroin-Related Incarcerations
Faculty Mentor: Russ Rymer

Fellow: Arindam Jurakhan '17
Research Project: Music Composition Honors Project
Faculty Mentor: Vineet Shende

Fellow: Casey Krause '17
Research Project: Between Turkey and Germany, from Mutterzunge to Kanak Sprak: Linguistic and Spatial Identities in 20th Century Turkish-German Migrant Literature
Faculty Mentor: Jens Klenner

Fellow: Pieter Martino '17
Research Project: Linking stress phenotype of blue mussels to standing genetic variation amidst a changing climate
Faculty Mentor: Sarah Kingston

Fellow: Hannah Miller '17
Research Project: Seasonal Variability in Carbonate Chemistry of Softshell Clam Mudflats, Gulf of Maine
Faculty Mentor: Michele LaVigne

Fellow: Abby Motycka '17
Research Project: White Backlash in the Civil Rights Movement: A Study of the White Responses to the Little Rock Crisis of 1957
Faculty Mentor: Brian Purnell

Fellow: Alexander Poblete '17
Research Project: The Kinetics of Excited State Proton Transfer in Aqueous Reverse Micellese
Faculty Mentor: Kana Takematsu

Fellow: Meredith Stanhope '18
Research Project: Investigating the multiple binding capabilities of multiple isoforms of C-type alltostatin to previously identified receptor sequences from Homarus americanus
Faculty Mentor: Patsy Dickinson

Fellow: Lydia Woodward '17
Research Project: The Politics of Integration: How Portland's Central African Immigrants, Refugees, and Asylum Seekers Navigate the Law
Faculty Mentor: David Gordon

Fellow: Cordelia Zars '17
Research Project: What is Believed and What is Borrowed: 500 Years of Cultural Appropriation in Spanish Music
Faculty Mentor: Robert Greenlee

Hughes Family Summer Research Fellowship

Fellow: Atticus Carnell '18
Research Project: Just War Theory for the 21st Century: is Climate Change ‘Just Cause’ for War?
Faculty Mentor: Sarah Conly

Fellow: Meera Prasad '19
Research Project: Efficacy of fish passage over the Brunswick-Topsham hydroelectric dam by American shad (Alosa sapidissima)
Faculty Mentor: John Lichter

Kaufman Family Fellowship 

Fellow: Louis Mendez '19
Research Project: The Development of a Mass Spectrometric Method for the Detection of Neuropeptide Receptors in the American Lobster, Homarus americanus
Faculty Mentor: Elizabeth Stemmler

Kibbe Science Fellowship

Fellow: Conor Belfield '19 
Research Project: A Hybrid Parallel-Computing Approach to Total Viewshed Problems
Faculty Mentor: Laura Toma

Fellow: Wil Nichols '19
Research Project: Fitness effects of HCNE knock-outs in Drosophila melanogaster
Faculty Mentor: Michael Palopoli

Fellow: Elizabeth Teeter '18
Research Project: Plutonic Lithics Record Variations in the Magmatic System beneath the Akaroa Volcanic Complex, New Zealand
Faculty Mentor: Rachel Beane

Kibbe Fellowship in Honor of Gabriela Gonzalez

Fellow: Elizabeth Bennewitz '19
Research Project: Bondi Accretion in the Presence of Heating
Faculty Mentor: Thomas Baumgarte

Kufe Family Student Research Fellowship

Fellow: Paige Brown '19
Research Project: The Synthesis and Characterization of Brominated 17α-ethinylestradiol
Faculty Mentor: Soren Eustis

Fellow: Conor McManamy '19 
Research Project: Physical and Biomechanical Modeling of Underwater Locomotion in Sea Stars
Faculty Mentor: Amy Johnson

Fellow: Julia Morris '18
Research Project: Synthesis of Various Phenylisocyanide Ligands and Coordination to a Cobalt Precataylst for the Dimerization of Linear Alpha Olefins
Faculty Mentor: Richard Broene

Fellow: Kacie Nelson '19
Research Project: Characterizing Proton Transfer in Aminonaphthol Models
Faculty Mentor: Kana Takematsu

Fellow: Jack Sharland '18
Research Project: Study of β-amino Thioamide Sidechains in PPII Mimetic Peptoids
Faculty Mentor: Benjamin Gorske

Fellow: Moncia Xing '19
Research Project: Divergence in Chromatin Conformation between Drosophila Species Reflected in white gene Position Effect Variegation
Faculty Mentor: Michael Palopoli

Edward E. Langbein Sr. Summer Fellowship

Fellow: Alana Luzzio '17
Research Project: Assessing Genomic Variation in a Population of Bivalves from the Gulf of Maine
Faculty Mentor: Sarah Kingston

Lifson Family Summer Research Fellowship in the Social Sciences

Fellow: Philip Maier '18
Research Project: Historical Period Analysis of the Fama-French CAPM Models 
Faculty Mentor: Matthew Botsch

Maine Space Grant Consortium Fellowship

Fellow: Sylvia Jimenez '19
Research Project: Analyzing the molecular underpinnings of injury response in Gryllus bimaculatus CNS using single-cell RNAseq
Faculty Mentor: Hadley Horch

Fellow: Emma Kane '18
Research Project: Investigating the role of rapidly-modulated testosterone in pheromone-induced olfactory processes in the common goldfish, Carassius auratus
Faculty Mentor: Richard Thompson

Fellow: Jack Moynihan '19
Research Project: Determining the Roles of Semaphorin 1a Protein in Adult Plasticity in Gryllus bimaculatus
Faculty Mentor: Hadley Horch

Fellow: Cirkine Sherry '18
Research Project: Physiological implications of sexually dimorphic auditory interneuron recovery in Gryllus bimaculatus
Faculty Mentor: Hadley Horch

Fellow: Kay Torrey '19 
Research Project: Context-specific effects of vasotocin on social approach in the goldfish
Faculty Mentor: Leah Wilson

Fellow: Courtney Willey '20
Research Project: Physiological implications of sexually dimorphic auditory interneuron recovery in Gryllus bimaculatus
Faculty Mentor: Hadley Horch

Fellow: Tucker Williams '18
Research Project: Machine Learning for Identification and Generalization of Appliances in Smart Homes
Faculty Mentor: Sean Barker

Micoleau Summer Research Fellowship

Fellow: Sophie de Bruijn '18
Research Project: From Diller to Schumer: The History of Gendered Political Comedy in the United States
Faculty Mentor: Sarah Bay-Cheng

Patterson/Baird Family Research Fellowship

Fellow: Alec Ferguson-Hull '19
Research Project: Jazz Quintet for Strings
Faculty Mentor: Vineet Shende

Patterson Research Fellowship  

Fellow: Justin Flaumenhaft '18
Research Project: The New Metaphysicians: Philosophy, Computers, and the Pursuit of Artificial Intelligence
Faculty Mentor: David Hecht

Phocas Family Fellowship

Fellow: Brittany Hernandez '19
Research Project: Ocean coastal acidification: Development of a spectrophotometric method for monitoring seawater pH at the 91ÑÇÉ«´«Ã½ Coastal Studies Center 
Faculty Mentor: Michele LaVigne

Fellow: Jenny Ibsen '18
Research Project: Mapping Portland’s Working Waterfront: A Spatial History
Faculty Mentor: Jill Pearlman

Rusack Coastal Studies Fellowship 

Fellow: Cory Alini '18
Research Project: Efficient Computations of Flooding Scenarios for the Coast of Maine
Faculty Mentor: Laura Toma

Fellow: Satya Kent '19
Research Project: Sediment Dynamics and the Stability of Maine's Largest Salt Marsh 
Faculty Mentor: Peter Lea 

Fellow: Maya Morduch-Toubman '18
Research Project: On the Water in Harpswell – Stories About Harpswell & Its Working Waterfront
Faculty Mentor: Sarah McMahon

Fellow: Aleksia Silverman '19
Research Project: Writing Fiction About the Maine Coast  
Faculty Mentor: Brocke Clarke 

Surdna Undergraduate Fellowship

Fellow: Frankie Ahrens '18
Research Project: Abstracted Biology
Faculty Mentor: Mark Wethli

Fellow: Carly Berlin '18
Research Project: An Explorations of "Two Countries" in One City
Faculty Mentor: Meredith McCarroll

Fellow: Sarah Bonanno '18
Research Project: Surveillance and Social Structure in The Changeling
Faculty Mentor: Aaron Kitch

Fellow: William Brockett '18
Research Project: Innovation and Information in Equity Markets: A Non-Monotonic Relationship
Faculty Mentor: Daniel Stone

Fellow: Jeonguk Choi '18
Research Project: A Study of Oxidane
Faculty Mentor: Erin Johnson

Fellow: Diya Chopra '18
Research Project: Youth, Agency, and Migration: The Effects of the Refugee Crisis on Unaccompanied Minors in Greece
Faculty Mentor: Krista Van Vleet

Fellow: Sophia Conwell '18
Research Project: Thionation of Peptoids for Enhanced Biomimicry
Faculty Mentor: Benjamin Gorske

Fellow: Laura Cotter '18
Research Project: Proton Transfer in Aminonaphthols
Faculty Mentor: Kana Takematsu

Fellow: Olivia Erickson '18
Research Project: Hannah Arendt and the Centrality of Political Life
Faculty Mentor: Paul Franco

Fellow: Nate Forlini '18
Research Project: The Truth is Out There: Conspiracy Theories as part of American Political and Cultural Life
Faculty Mentor: David Hecht

Fellow: Ira Li '18
Research Project: Kochen-Specker Colorability of 5-adic Vector Space
Faculty Mentor: Manuel Reyes

Fellow: Kevin Li '18
Research Project: Continued Fraction Algorithms and their Applications to Complex Numbers and Higher-Dimensional Lattices
Faculty Mentor: Michael King

Fellow: Emma Moesswilde '18
Research Project: Knowing Landscape, Knowing Country: Improvement, Enlightenment, and Ideas of Nature in Scotland, 1750-1815
Faculty Mentor: Meghan Roberts

Fellow: Sam Monkman '18
Research Project: Claims and Consistency: Outlining a Rights-Based Deontic Logic
Faculty Mentor: Scott Sehon

Fellow: Helen Ross '18
Research Project: Civic Virtue and the Domestic Sphere: Examining the Role of Women in Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Émile and Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America
Faculty Mentor: Jean Yarbrough

Fellow: Philip Wang '18
Research Project: Towards the Automatic Detection of Archaeological Looting Using Computational Methods
Faculty Mentor: Lauren Toma

Nellie C. Watterson Fellowship in the Creative and Performing Arts 

Fellow: Evelyn Beliveau '19
Research Project: Brandeis in Siena: Painting and Art History in Italy
Faculty Mentor: Mark Wethli

Wolstencroft China Fellowship 

Fellow: Maisie Campbell '19
Research Project: Global Mindset: Studying in China with Princeton in Beijing
Faculty Mentor: Songren Cui

Fellow: Leah Alper '17
Research Project: Pharmaceutical in the Environment: Sorption of Polyfuctional Ionogenic Organic Compounds
Faculty Mentor: Dharni Vasudevan

Fellow: Manlio Calentti '20
Research Project: Reconstructing pressure-temperature paths from metamorphic rocks of the Rhodope Mountains in Eastern Greece
Faculty Mentor: Emily Peterman

Fellow: Luke Carberry '18
Research Project: Creating Robust Validation Data Sets from Moored Optical Observations
Faculty Mentor: Collin Roesler

Fellow: Jorge Gomez '18
Research Project: Predicting the Sorption of Substituted Pyridines to Aluminosilicate Clay
Faculty Mentor: Dharni Vasudevan

Fellow: Caleb Gordon '18
Research Project: The use of CRISPR-Cas9 genome-editing systems to assess the role of four transcription factors in regulating dlx2b expression in the zebrafish Danio rerio
Faculty Mentor: William Jackman

Fellow: Eric Guiang '18
Research Project: Pharmaceutical in the Environment: Sorption of Polyfuctional Ionogenic Organic Compounds
Faculty Mentor: Dharni Vasudevan

Fellow: Waverly Harden '19
Research Project: Dynamics of Hollow Elliptical Cylinder Arrays
Faculty Mentor: Christopher Chong

Fellow: Ian Klansky '17
Research Project: Resilience Quantification in One and Two Dimensional Flow-Kick Systems 3
Faculty Mentor: Mary Lou Zeeman

Fellow: Emma Landes '19
Research Project: Evaluation of the Effects of Difference in Size and Electronic Structure on Sorption of Anti-Inflammatory Anionic Polyfuctional Ionogenic Organic Compounds to Soils via Surface Complexation and Cation Bridging
Faculty Mentor: Dharni Vasudevan

Fellow: Alicia Lima '19
Research Project: The onset of instability in supermassive stars
Faculty Mentor: Thomas Baumgarte

Fellow: Suzanne Martin
Research Project: Assessing promoter preference of diverse enhancers in cultured Drosophila cells
Faculty Mentor: Jack Bateman

Fellow: Reyna Parker '20
Research Project: Examining Mutations of the Eya gene within Drosophila
Faculty Mentor: Jack Bateman

Fellow: Sovannarath Pong '17
Research Project: Variable responses to multiple isoforms a neuropeptide, C-type allatostatin (AST-C), by the cardiac neuromuscular system of the American lobster, Homarus americanus
Faculty Mentor: Patsy Dickinson

Fellow: Alixander Pupo '18
Research Project: Variable responses to multiple isoforms a neuropeptide, C-type allatostatin (AST-C), by the cardiac neuromuscular system of the American lobster, Homarus americanus
Faculty Mentor: Patsy Dickinson

Fellow: Cindy Rivera '18
Research Project: Top-Down and Bottom-up Peptidomics for the Identification of Crustacean Neuropeptides and Precursor-Related Peptides Predicted By Transcriptomics
Faculty Mentor: Elizabeth Stemmler

Fellow: Samuel Shaheen '18
Research Project: Pyridine Sorption to Aluminosilicate Clays: Influence of Solid Phase Composition and Structure Faculty Mentor: Dharni Vasudevan

Fellow: Pacifica Takata-Glushkoff '19
Research Project: Investigating the Ultrahigh-Pressure Metamorphic History of the Rhodope Metamorphic Complex
Faculty Mentor: Emily Peterman

Alfred E. Golz Fellowship

Fellow: Harrison DiPrinzio '18
Research Project: Prison Farming Programs in Maine
Faculty Mentor: Sarah McMahon

Fellow: Lucia Ryan '19
Research Project: History of Racial Violence in American Cities
Faculty Mentor: Brian Purnell

Beckman Scholarship 

Fellow: Wayland Chiu '18
Research Project: Determination of the mechanism of enhancer-action for competing cis and trans promoters in Drosophila
Faculty Mentor: Seth Ramus, Jack Bateman

Fellow: Grace McKenzie-Smith '17
Research Project: Transcriptional dynamics of trans- and cis-acting enhancers in Drosophilia 
Faculty Mentor: Seth Ramus, Jack Bateman

Fellow: Sara Spicer '18
Research Project: Interfering with the Expression of Guidance Molecules Sema1a and Sema2a to Determine Neural Growth Patterns in Cricket Embryos 
Faculty Mentor: Seth Ramus, Hadley Horch

Fellow: Meredith Stanhope '18
Research Project: Role of peptide modifications in differentially modulating multiple components of a rhythmic neuromuscular system in the American lobster, Homarus americanus
Faculty Mentor: Seth Ramus, Patsy Dickinson

Bowdion Life Sciences Research Fellowship

Fellow: Rowan Etzel '19
Research Project: A Sea Star’s Bouncing Gait: Characterizing the Locomotion Patterns of Asterias forbesi
Faculty Mentor: Amy Johnson

Fellow: Maddi Kuras '18
Research Project: A Sea Star’s Bouncing Gait: Characterizing the Locomotion Patterns of Asterias forbesi
Faculty Mentor: Amy Johnson

Fellow: Nura McGill '20
Research Project: The AST-C Neuromodulator's Interaction with the Lobster's Cardiac Ganglion
Faculty Mentor: Patsy Dickinson

Fellow: David Michaelson '20
Research Project: Identification of Proteins Responsible for Neuronal Compensatory Plasticity
Faculty Mentor: Hadley Horch

Fellow: Salam Nassar '18
Research Project: A Sea Star’s Bouncing Gait: Characterizing the Locomotion Patterns of Asterias forbesi
Faculty Mentor: Amy Johnson

Fellow: Pauline Unietis '20
Research Project: Is Bait on the Plate? Diet Analysis of Green Crabs in the Gulf of Maine
Faculty Mentor: Sarah Kingston

91ÑÇÉ«´«Ã½ Scientific Station

Fellow: David Anderson '19
Research Project: Effects of local population density on reproductive success and feeding behavior of the Savannah Sparrow
Faculty Mentor: Ed Minot

Fellow: Lilly Bailey '18

Fellow: Brennan Clark '20
Research Project: Poetry and Photography at Kent Island
Faculty Mentor: Elizabeth Muther

Fellow: Claire Goffinet '19
Research Project: Leech’s Storm Petrel’s Chatter Response to Predator Vocalizations
Faculty Mentor: Ed Minot

Fellow: Emma Greenberg '18
Research Project: Habitat Characteristics as Determinants of Burrow Density of Leach’s storm-petrel on Kent Island, New Brunswick, Canada
Faculty Mentor: Ed Minot

Fellow: Matthew Keller '20
Research Project: Artist-in-Residence: Photography on Kent Island
Faculty Mentor: Ed Minot

Fellow: Colin Tiernan '17
Research Project: Could Kent Island’s South End Be Reforested? A Transplantation Experiment
Faculty Mentor: Ed Minot

Fellow: Zoe Wood '18
Research Project: Host Plant Preferences of Philaenus spumarius, the meadow spittlebug
Faculty Mentor: Ed Minot

Cooke Environmental Fellowship

Fellow: Mikayla Kifer '19
Partner: Brunswick Topsham Land Trust's Tom Settlemire Community Garden

Fellow: Jamie Ptacek '17
Partner: Political Ecology of Maine's Agricultural System

E.O. LaCasce Jr. Physics Fellowship

Fellow: Satya Butler '19
Research Project: Stability of Supermassive Stars
Faculty Mentor: Thomas Baumgarte

Freedman Fellowship in Computer Science

Fellow: Dylan Parsons '18
Research Project: Developing a Low-Configuration Sensing Platform for Single Electronic Devices
Faculty Mentor: Sean Barker

Gibbons Summer Research Program

Fellow: Zoe Aarons '19
Research Project: Analysis of large geochemical data sets to extract climate histories from corals
Faculty Mentor: Michele LaVigne

Fellow: Quyen Ha '18
Research Project: Reading China: Big Data, Small Genres, and a Network of Collaboration
Faculty Mentor: Birgit Tautz

Fellow: Katherine Henneberger '20
Research Project: Women’s Rights Are Human Rights; U.S. Secretaries of State Speech Analysis with NVivo
Faculty Mentor: Janet Martin

Fellow: Xin Jiang '20
Research Project: Maine Arctic Trail Map and Crocker Land Expedition Online
Faculty Mentor: Susan Kaplan

Fellow: Jessica Solis '19
Research Project: Interaction Among Brain Areas During Memory Retrieval
Faculty Mentor: Erika Nyhus

Fellow: Stephanie Sun '18
Research Project: Mapping Nomads: Charting Environmental Change in Inner Mongolia (1930–2010)
Faculty Mentor: Sakura Christmas

Fellow: Michael Walsh '19
Research Project: Examine how teacher preparation programs in Maine select, orient, and compensate cooperating teachers
Faculty Mentor: Alison Riley Miller

Fellow: Grace Wheeler '19
Research Project: Mindfulness-based intervention as a treatment alternation for tic disorders
Faculty Mentor: Hannah Reese

Fellow: Dean Zucconi '19
Research Project: The Intersection of Digital Humanities and Italian Studies
Faculty Mentor: Crystal Hall

IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) Summer Fellowship

Fellow: Hailey Blain '18
Research Project: Analysis of Glycoprotein Production in Antibiotic Resistant Strains of Helicobacter pylori
Faculty Mentor: Danielle Dube

Fellow: Edward Bull '20
Research Project: Effect of the Deletion of 4 HCNEs on Drosophila melanogaster
Faculty Mentor: Michael Palopoli

Fellow: Daniel Do '17
Research Project: Optimizing an Approach for the Identification of Antimicrobial Peptides in the American Lobster, Homarus americanus, via Transcriptomics and LC-MS/MS-Based Proteomics
Faculty Mentor: Elizabeth Stemmler

Fellow: Harrison Fisher '17
Research Project: Creating a Transcriptomic Tool to Assess the Molecular Control of Compensatory Neuronal Plasticity in Gryllus bimaculatus
Faculty Mentor: Hadley Horch

Fellow: Danielle Horne '20
Research Project: Position effect variegation in the white gene as an assay for chromatin conformation in Drosophila hybrids
Faculty Mentor: Michael Palopoli

Fellow: John Kennealy '18
Research Project: An in Vivo Analysis of Enhancer-Promoter Specificity in Drosophila
Faculty Mentor: Jack Bateman

Fellow: Thomas King '17
Research Project: A DNA/FISH Investigation of the Relationship between Homologous Chromosome Pairing and Transvection in Drosophila
Faculty Mentor: Jack Bateman

Fellow: Shannon Knight '18
Research Project: Determining the role of Semaphorin proteins in the compensatory growth observed in adult Gryllus bimaculatus
Faculty Mentor: Hadley Horch

Fellow: Paige Pfannenstiel '17
Research Project: The contributions of peptides, elastic ligaments, and arteries to stretch feedback in the heart of the lobster, Homarus americanus
Faculty Mentor: Amy Johnson

Fellow: Tossapol Pholcharee '18
Research Project: Modeling the Differentiation of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Using Single Cell RNA Sequencing (scRNA-seq) Data
Faculty Mentor: Mingyang Lu

Fellow: Dennis Zambrano '17
Research Project: The role of semaphorins in nervous system development
Faculty Mentor: Hadley Horch 

Irma Cheatham Summer Research Fellowship

Fellow: La Toya Tanisha Francis '18
Research Project: The Social Control and Surveillance of Black Women in the Criminal Justice System
Faculty Mentor: Brian Purnell

Fellow: LaShanda Harbin '18
Research Project: The Repercussions of Violence on Schools in Ghettos
Faculty Mentor: Brian Purnell

James Stacy Coles Summer Research Fellowship in Chemistry

Fellow: Stephan DeCarlo '18
Research Project: Elucidation of Structure-Function Relationships for Peptoid Catalysts of Enantioselective Trifluoromethylation
Faculty Mentor: Benjamin Gorske

Fellow: Ryan Keefe '18
Research Project: 8-Quinoyl-Tetramethylcyclopentadiene: A Supporting Ligand for the Cobalt Catalyzed Dimerization of Linear α-Olefins
Faculty Mentor: Richard Broene

Fellow: Patrick Kelly '18
Research Project: Synthesis of [ethene-η5-[1-(8-quinolyl)-2,3,4,5-tetramethylcyclopentadiene]-cobalt(I) for Linear α-Olefin Dimerization
Faculty Mentor: Richard Broene

Fellow: Valeria Magallan '19
Research Project: Reactions Responsible for Aging in Wood-Based Pyrolysis Oil: The Role of Formic and Acetic Acid
Faculty Mentor: Elizabeth Stemmler

Kaempfer Summer Art Grant

Fellow: Diana Furukawa '18

Fellow: Nevan Swanson '18

Latin American Studies Research Grant

Fellow: Genevieve de Kervor '18
Research Project: An Investigation of Television’s Role in the Transition to Democracy Following the 1988 Chilean Plebiscite
Faculty Mentor: Allen Wells

Fellow: Jonah Watt '18
Research Project: The Chilean Winter and a History of Discontent: A History of the Chilean Student Movement
Faculty Mentor: Allen Wells

Littlefield Summer Fellowship 

Fellow: Sydney Avitia-Jaques '17
Research Project: Environmental Health Strategy Center/Prevent Harm, Portland ME

McKee Photography Grant

Fellow: Octavio Castro '19

Fellow: Meghan Parson '19

Fellow: Jacob Reiben '17

Mellon Humanities Grant

Fellow: Shinhee Kang '18
Research Project: Women and the Good Life in the Middle Ages
Faculty Mentor: Dallas Denery

Fellow: Amber Orosco '19
Research Project: Iconographic and Chemical Analysis of the Molinari Medals in the 91ÑÇÉ«´«Ã½ Museum of Art (BCMA)
Faculty Mentor: Susan Wegner

Fellow: Benjamin Wu '18
Research Project: The Exploration and Digitization of the Molinari Medals Collection
Faculty Mentor: Susan Wegner

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship

Fellow: Walter Chacon  '17

Fellow: Emiley Charley '17

Fellow: Harrison Dunne-Polite '19
Faculty Mentor: Brian Purnell

Fellow: Christabel Fosu-Asare '18

Fellow: Kinaya Hassane '19 
Faculty Mentor: Dana Byrd

Fellow: Adaiah Hudgins-Lopez '18
Faculty Mentor: Liz Muther

Fellow: Faith Macharia '17

Fellow: Montserrat Madrigal '18
Faculty Mentor: Ann Kibbie, Margaret Boyle

Fellow: Osa Fasehun '18
Faculty Mentor: Judith Casselberry

Fellow: Justin Pearson '17

Fellow: Adira Polite '18

Fellow: Evelyn Sanchez Gonzalez '17

Fellow: Juliana Villa '19
Faculty Mentor: Ingrid Nelson

Fellow: Pamela Zabala '17

Paul L. Nyhus Travel Grant

Fellow: Shea Necheles '18
Research Project: Exploring Surrogacy: Looking at India’s Transnational Industry
Faculty Mentor: Rachel Sturman

Fellow: Caroline Rosen '18
Research Project: Showing Nobility: The English Aristocracy’s Performance and Conceptions of Self in the 14th and 15th Centuries
Faculty Mentor: Dallas Denery

Fellow: Christian Zavardino '17
Research Project: How Irish Catholic Indentured Servants Challenged English Planter Domination
Faculty Mentor: Allen Wells

Paller Research Fellowship

Fellow: Emma Kane '18
Research Project: Investigating the role of rapidly-modulated testosterone in pheromone-induced olfactory processes in the common goldfish, Carassius auratus
Faculty Mentor: Richmond Thompson

Fellow: Shannon Knight '18
Research Project: Determining the Molecule Basis of Compensatory Growth in Adult Crickets
Faculty Mentor: Hadley Horch

Fellow: Ali Miller '18
Research Project: Comparing the relative modulation in the stomatogastric nervous system of related crab species
Faculty Mentor: Patsy Dickinson

Fellow: Cindy Rivera '18
Research Project: Identification of H. americanus Lobster Neuropeptides through Mass Spectrometry and Transcriptomics
Faculty Mentor: Elizabeth Stemmler

Fellow: Cirkine Sherry '18
Research Project: Parental Use of Community Resources for Children with Disabilities: What Helps, and Why It Matters
Faculty Mentor: Nancy Riley

Riley Research Award

Fellow: Dia Su '18
Research Project: Parental Use of Community Resources for Children with Disabilities: What Helps, and Why It Matters
Faculty Mentor: Nancy Riley

Harry T. Anastopoulos Fellowship

Fellow: Yoonjin Seo '19
Partner: Beth Israel Hospital

Annual Fund for Career Readiness

Fellow: Ryan Keefe '18
Partner: Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Chestnut Hill, MA

Fellow: Christopher De Los Angeles Avina '19
Partner: Northwoods Wildlife Center, Minocqua, WI

Fellow: Augustus Gilchrist '20
Partner: Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies, Republic of Georgia

Peter Buck Internship Fund

Fellow: Ava Alexander '18
Partner: Early Childhood Cognition Lab, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Fellow: Ida Cortez '20
Partner: Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal, State of Louisiana, Gretna, LA

Fellow: Luca DeAngelis '20
Partner: American Civil Liberties Union of Maine, Portland, ME

Fellow: Jeff Joseph '19
Partner: Harvard School of Public Health and 91ÑÇÉ«´«Ã½ Department of Mathematics, Boston, MA

Fellow: Marshal Landrum '18
Partner: University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN

Fellow: Elizabeth Miller '18
Partner: The National Marine Life Center, Buzzards Bay, MA

Fellow: Martinique Ogle '18
Partner: Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA

Fellow: Dana Pierce '18
Partner: The Department of Astronomy at Columbia University, New York, NY

Fellow: Amanda Perkins '18
Partner: Center for the Study of Global Christianity, South Hamilton, MA

Fellow: Emily Ruby '19
Partner: Democratic National Committee, Washington, DC

Fellow: Benjamin Torda '18
Partner: Chemical and Biological Engineering Department, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO

Fellow: Cheng-Chun (Kevin) Yu '19
Partner: Cultural Survival, Cambridge, MA

Community Matters in Maine Fellowship: Environmental Studies

Fellow: McClure Brower '18
Partner: Maine Migrant Health Program

Fellow: Claire Day '18
Partner: Merrymeeting Food Council and Maine Coast Fisherman's Association

Fellow: Lauren Hickey '20
Partner: Town of Brunswick

Fellow: Ripley Mayfield '19
Partner: Town of Topsham

Fellow: Nickie Mitch '18
Partner: The Nature Conservancy 

Fellow: Aaron Rubin  '19
Partner: Stantec

Community Matters in Maine Fellowship: McKeen Center

Fellow: Abdul Latif Armiyaw '18
Partner: Mid-Coast Hunger Prevention Program, Brunswick, ME

Fellow: Julianna Burke '18
Partner: ArtVan, Brunswick, ME

Fellow: Steven Colin '18
Partner: Preble Street, Portland, ME

Fellow: Miranda Dils '19
Partner: Mitchell Institute, Portland, ME

Fellow: Olivia Giles '20
Partner: The Gathering Place, Portland, ME

Fellow: Bridget Hoke '20
Partner: Portland Housing Authority, Portland, ME

Fellow: Sarah Lim '18
Partner: Community Financial Literacy, Portland, ME

Fellow: Victoria Lowrie '18
Partner: Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project, Portland, ME

Fellow: Julie Scholes '20
Partner: Partners for World Health, Portland, ME

Delta Sigma Arts Fellowship

Fellow: Miles Brautigam '19
Partner: Space Gallery, Portland, ME

Fellow: Samuel Kyzivat '18
Partner: Maine Youth Orchestra, Portland, ME

Denning Summer Fellowship

Fellow: Lindsey Duff '18
Partner: Social and emotion development using multi-cultural programming, Salem, MA

Fellow: Scout Gregerson '18
Partner: Public health in Mid Coast Maine, Brunswick, ME

Fellow: Zachary Herbert '18
Partner: Food systems and healthy nutrition in Maine, Brunswick, ME

Fellow: Kevin Hernandez '18
Partner: Lation masculinity and access to health resources in LGBT communities, Los Angeles, CA

Fellow: Michelle Jeong '18
Partner: Accessibility and efficacy of WIC resources in Maine, South Portland, ME

Fellow: Sarah Kelly '18
Partner: Evaluation of resources for persons with mild to profound developmental disabilities, Chicago, IL

Fellow: Jude Marx '18
Partner: Migrant workers in Maine, Literacy through photography method of education, Milbridge, ME

Fellow: Liam Nicoll '18
Partner: Changing healthcare resources for recent immigrants in Maine, Portland, ME

Fellow: Lili Ramos '18
Partner: Mental health resources available to youth in urban and rural settings, New York, NY

Fellow: Daisy Wislar '18
Partner: Intersection of disability, sexuality, and sexual assault, Washington, DC

Environmental Studies Environmental Justice Fellowship

Fellow: Hannah Karlan '19
Research Project: Cultivating Community
Faculty Mentor: Eileen Johnson

Environmental Studies Sustainability Fellowship

Fellow: Hannah Berman '18
Partner: Natural Resources Council of Maine
Faculty Mentor: Eileen Johnson

Fellow: Ally Fromson-Ho '19
Partner: Sierra Club
Faculty Mentor: Eileen Johnson

Global Citizens Grant

Fellow: Leah Howard '18
Partner: The Healing House in Cusco, Peru

Fellow: Theodora Hurley '20
Partner: Association Educativa y Cultura El Arte Sano in Urubamba, Sacred Valley of the Incas, Cusco, Peru

Fellow: Morgan Rielly '18
Partner: Collateral Repair Project in Amman, Jordan

Fellow: Sophie Sadovnikoff '19
Partner: Nkosi's Haven in Johannesburg, South Africa

Fellow: Jing Xie '18
Partner: Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Chinese Medicine Psychiatry Hospital in Shanyin, China

Nikuradse-Matthews Summer Public Interest Fellowship

Fellow: Alexa Gray '19
Partner: Maine Volunteer Lawyer's Project, Portland, ME

Preston Public Interest Career Fund

Fellow: Anu Asaolu '19
Partner: Bellevue Hospital, New York , NY

Fellow: Maurice Asare '19
Partner: Innocence Project, New York, NY

Fellow: Anna Blaustein '19
Partner: St. Mary's Nutrition Center, Lewiston, ME

Fellow: William Britton III '18
Partner: Bellevue Hospital, New York, NY

Fellow: Max Byron '19
Partner: Planned Parenthood of New England, Portland, ME

Fellow: Elena Gleed '18
Partner: HIAS Refuge Organization, Silver Spring, MD

Fellow: Carlos Holguin '19
Partner: Child, Youth, Office of the Chief Social Worker N.Z., Wellington, New Zealand

Fellow: Darlene Ineza '19
Partner: Partners in Health, Rwanda 

Fellow: Madeleine King '19
Partner: Cultivating Community, Lisbon, ME

Fellow: Swapnika Mallipeddi '19
Partner: Abhyasa Vidyalayam: Deepa Memorial Charitable Trust, Andhra Pradesh, India

Fellow: Daniel Miro-Chinea '19
Partner: Gulf Coast Legal Services, St. Petersburg, FL

Fellow: Emilie Montgomery '18
Partner: The BOMA Project, Nanjuki, Kenya

Fellow: Benjamin Painter '19
Partner: People in Need Nepal & Axiam Education, Nepal & South Africa

Fellow: Raquel Santizo '19
Partner: The Representation Project, San Francisco, CA

Fellow: Senay Yibrah '19
Partner: Year Up, Boston, MA

Fellow: James Young '20
Partner: Harlem Lacrosse, Boston, MA

Richard B. '62 and Sabra Ladd Government Internship

Fellow: Matthew Pascale '18
Partner: Office of Congressman Patrick Meehan, Washington, DC

Fellow: Ezra Rice '19
Partner: Office of United States Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Washington, DC

Robert S. Goodfriend Summer Internship

Fellow: Camille Farradas '19
Partner: Artnet Worldwide Corporation, New York, NY

Fellow: Catherine Hanson '19
Partner: YSC Sports Marketing, Wayne, PA

Fellow: Surya Milner '19
Partner: The Times Record, Brunswick, ME

Fellow: Tobi Omola '19
Partner: Warner Music Group, New York, NY

Fellow: Claire Phillips '19
Partner: Consortium for Energy Efficiency, Boston, MA

Fellow: Theo Richards '19
Partner: Southward Brewery, London, England

Fellow: Mackenzie Schafer '19
Partner: Soluciones Generales de Ingenieria S.L., Zaragoza, Spain

Fellow: Jacon Stein '19
Partner: Poin, Inc., New York, NY

Fellow: Ruilin Yang '20
Partner: SOSV (Chinaccelerator), Shanghai, China

Scott and Anne Perper Internship Fund

Fellow: Catherine Price '19
Partner: Dana Warp Mill, Westbrook, ME

Fellow: Francisco Navarro  '19
Partner: Dentons Munoz, Guatemala City, Guatemala

SEANET Bioregional Internship

Fellow: Hugh Cipparone '19
Partner: Eileen Johnson

Thomas A. McKinley '06 and Hannah Weil McKinley Summer Fellowship 

Fellow: Charlotte Borden '19
Partner: Maine Coastal Regional Reentry Center, Belfast, ME

Williams Family Internship Fund

Fellow: Cordelia Stewart '19
Partner: Pure Water for the World, Inc., Haiti, Honduras, Maine