91ÑÇÉ«´«Ã½

91ÑÇÉ«´«Ã½ Research Award

Fellow: James Benavides, '25
Research Project: The Effect of Temperature on Metabolic Rate and Growth of the Sea Star Species Asterias forbesi and Asterias rubens
Faculty Mentor: Amy Johnson

Fellow: Sam Borne '26
Research Project: The Causes and Impact of the Decline of Local Media Across Maine and New Hampshire
Faculty Mentor: Henry Laurence

Fellow: Gwendolyn Gleason '25
Research Project: Investigating Secretary of State Speeches Through Context Coding
Faculty Mentor: Janet Martin

Fellow: Gracie Loney '25
Research Project: The Landscape of Campaign Finance in the Digital Age
Faculty Mentor: Michael Franz

Fellow: Ainsley Ramsey '24
Research Project: The effects of the Ukraine-Russian war on states' power dynamics: looking at the global impact
Faculty Mentor: Barbara Elias

Fellow: Ben Turnbull '25
Research Project: The Influence of Social Media in the Media Arena of Competitive Authoritarianism in the Balkans
Faculty Mentor: Christopher Heurlin

91ÑÇÉ«´«Ã½ Summer Language Study Award

Fellow: Miriam Hernandez '26
Program: Chinese Language in Relation to Contemporary Chinese Art
Faculty Mentor: Xioake Jia

Fellow: Kate Ishida '24
Program: German Language School in Berlin
Faculty Mentor: Jens Klenner

Fellow: Sergianni Jennings '26
Program: Japanese Middlebury Language School Immersion Program
Faculty Mentor: Ayami Morita

Fellow: Liat Tesfazgi '24
Program: Amharic Language Study
Faculty Mentor: David Gordon

Christenfeld Summer Research Fellowship

Fellow: Olivia Kenney '25
Research Project:Protestant Influences on American Understandings of Taboo Touch
Faculty Mentor: Jeannie Sellick & Lindsay Rapport

James Stacy Coles Summer Research Fellowship

Fellow: Liam Roehr '25
Research Project: Optimizing the Synthesis of Cyclopentadienylcobalt Diethene
Faculty Mentor: Richard Broene

Martha Reed Coles Summer Fellowship

Fellow: Julia Smart '25
Research Project: Tracking the History of Nonnormative Female Sexualities in Western European Literature from 1670-1835
Faculty Mentor: David Collings

Davis Fall Research Award

Fellow: Yordana Gerdzhikova '23
Research Project: Perspectives on the Right to Privacy from Boston, London, and Berlin
Faculty Mentor: Laura Henry

Henry L. and Grace Doherty Charitable Foundation Coastal Studies Research Fellowship

Fellow: Ahmed Albayaty '25
Research Project: Neural Rhythm responses in STG to unfed hemolymph in Cancer borealis
Faculty Mentor: Daniel Powell

Fellow: Annika Bell '25
Research Project: Microplastic Distribution and Impact on Eastern Oysters across the Harpswell Sound, ME
Faculty Mentor: Katie DuBois

Fellow: Lucy Dutton '25
Research Project: Measuring the distribution of microplastics and the accumulation on Ascophyllum nodosum in the rural ecosystems of Harpswell Sound, ME
Faculty Mentor: Katie DuBois 

Fellow: Cara Fields '25
Research Project: Temperature effects on gait of the sea stars Asterias rubens and A. forbesi
Faculty Mentor: Amy Johnson

Fellow: Renske Kerkhofs '24
Research Project: Sound production and perception in the American lobster (Homarus americanus)
Faculty Mentor: Amy Johnson

Fellow: Stephanie Lemus '25
Research Project: Temperature dependencies of myosuppressin modulation of the cardiac neuromuscular system of the American lobster, Homarus americanus
Faculty Mentor: Daniel Powell

Fellow: Graham Lucas '26
Research Project: Transitional Froude Number in Locomotion of Sea Stars
Faculty Mentor: Amy Johnson

Fellow: Hank Marriott '24
Research Project: Modeling the Oscillatory Gait of Sea Stars Using Froude Numbers
Faculty Mentor: Amy Johnson

Fellow: Eva McKone '26
Research Project: The effects of climate change on temporal and spatial patterns of abundance in the invasive European green crab (Carcinus maenas) in Harpswell Sound
Faculty Mentor: Dave Carlon

Fellow: Brady Nichols '24
Research Project: Analysis of Froude Number as an Indication of Gait Transition in Forbesi Sea Star (Asterias forbesi)
Faculty Mentor: Amy Johnson

Fellow: Abby Steinwachs '25
Research Project: Gait Implications and Genomics of Asterias Hybridization
Faculty Mentor: Amy Johnson

Fellow: Nicky Yoong '24
Research Project: Environmental impact of pH and temperature variation on Zostera Marina meadow structure, physiology, and epifaunal community
Faculty Mentor: Katie DuBois and Barry Logan

Robert and Blythe Edwards Fund for the Arts

Fellow: Sarah Hayward '24
Research Project: Tabletop Roleplaying Games, Improv, and Fanfication as Collaborative Storytelling
Faculty Mentors: Lindsay Livingston and Aviva Briefel

Robert Freedman ’87, P’17 and Anne Cirillo P’17 Student Fellowship Program

Fellow: Isabelle Lee '25
Research Project: Exploring the Non-Classical Crystallization Pathways of Cobalt Hydroxide Carbonate
Faculty Mentor: Ammon Ortoll-Bloch

Freedman Summer Research Fellowship in Coastal/Environmental Studies

Fellow: Almira Arnold '23
Research Project: Epibiont effects on Daphnia host fitness and potential multigenerational impacts (presentation)
Faculty Mentor: Mary Rogalski

Goldsmith Adams Language Study Award

Fellow: Maya Le '25
Program: Revisionary Scents: The Olfactory Sense in Contemporary Asian Diaspora Literature
Faculty Mentor: Belinda Kong

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

Fellow: Greta Bolinger '23
Research Project: From Pigments to Sugars - Quantifying Sugar Kelp's Seasonal Arc of Photoacclimation and Growth
Faculty Mentor: Collin Roesler

Fellow: Philip Bonanno '23
Research Project: Discussion and Research in Disability Studies
Faculty Mentor: Meredith McCarroll

Fellow: Sydney Bonauto '23
Research Project: Ultrasonic vocalization playback as an affective assay at both neural and behavioral levels: Implications for understanding adversity-induced emotional dysfunction
Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Honeycutt

Fellow: Olivia Bronzo-Munich '23
Research Project: Physiological and genomic investigation of local adaptation in the macroalgae Ascophyllum nodosum
Faculty Mentor: Katie DuBois

Fellow: Sofie Brown '23
Research Project: (Mis)Translations of Uncle Tom's Cabin in Germany through Adaptation and Object
Faculty Mentor: Birgit Tautz

Fellow: Jean Nikolas Clemente '23
Research Project: Timing the Paleozoic oxygenation of the deep ocean using thallium isotopes
Faculty Mentor: Philip Camill

Fellow: Stephanie Dailey '23
Research Project: Investigating the Neuroscience Behind ADHD and Its Educational Implications for College Students
Faculty Mentor: Kathryn Byrnes

Fellow: Aleksandra Dougal '23
Research Project: Investigating the Athlete/Non-Athlete Divide Through Photography and Motion Picture
Faculty Mentor: Michael Kolster

Fellow:  Bojana Drca '24
Research Project: How has the government of Argentina formed narratives about the indigenous Yaghan community in Ushuaia?
Faculty Mentor: Tulio Zille

Fellow: Deva Holliman '23
Research Project: Seeking to Present Honors Research at the Western Society of Naturalists Annual Meeting
Faculty Mentor: Barry Logan

Fellow: Everett Horch '24
Research Project: The Impacts of Ocean Warming on the Growth of Seagrass and Blue Mussels
Faculty Mentor: Katie DuBois 

Fellow: Jared Lynch '24
Research Project: Influence of the mitochondrial genome on patterns of gene expression in response to temperature stress in the European green crab (Carcinus maenas)
Faculty Mentor: Dave Carlon

Fellow: Julia Lyne '23
Research Project: Cuba in the Cold War: Was it Just Communism?
Faculty Mentor: Salar Mohandesi

Fellow: Colleen McAloon '23
Research Project: Phenylisocyanide Ligand Synthesis and Coordination to Cobalt as a Catalyst for the Dimerization of Linear Alpha Olefins
Faculty Mentor: Richard Broene

Fellow: Natsumi Meyer '23
Research Project: Writing With Silence: Recovering, Retelling, and Reconciling with Family Oral Histories from WWII to Present Day
Faculty Mentor: Belinda Kong

Fellow: Elijah Miller-Wilson '23
Research Project: Connected Landscapes: How Environmental Changes Are Driving Cultural Shifts in Ladakh
Faculty Mentor: Claire Robison

Fellow: Lemona Niu '23
Research Project: Analyzing Phytoplankton Bloom and Water Column Vertical Mixing Dynamics of Harpswell Sound with Phytoplankton Photosynthesis Light Response: Physic's view of Biology and Biology's view of Physics in the ocean
Faculty Mentor: Collin Roesler

Fellow: Rebecca Norden-Bright '23
Research Project: The Stories of Sean O'Faolain and the Irish Postcolonial Project
Faculty Mentor: Marilyn Reizbaum

Fellow: Charles O'Brien '23
Research Project: Deconvolving Tidal Transport and Daily Production/Grazing Cycles in Concentration Fluctuation Patterns of Four Major Diatom Taxa with Imaging FlowCytoBot in Harpswell Sound, Maine
Faculty Mentor: Collin Roesler

Fellow: Bridget Patterson '23
Research Project: Using Casco Bay to understand local-scale changes in diversity among Zostera marina ecosystems
Faculty Mentor: Katie DuBois

Fellow: Isabella Quintana '23
Research Project: Small Molecule Inhibition of Helicobacter pylori Glycosylation
Faculty Mentor: Danielle Dube

Fellow: Aadhyasri Ramineni '23
Research Project: Understanding the Tether Between Landscape, Spirituality, and Health in Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, and Tibet
Faculty Mentor: Belinda Kong

Fellow: Eliza Rhee '23
Research Project: The Effects of Temperature on the Mammalian Lumbar Spinal Cord Network
Faculty Mentor: Manuel Diaz-Rios

Fellow: Edwin Sanchez Huizar '23
Research Project: Testimonies and Journalism, a Reconstruction of Zacatecas's Historical Consciousness and Collective Memory Mid a War Against Narcotics
Faculty Mentor: German Cardenas Alaminos

Fellow: Jacey Song '23
Research Project: Enemyship and scapegoating: A look at race and the COVID-19 pandemic
Faculty Mentor: Zachary Rothschild

Fellow: Carl Williams '23
Research Project: Gilded Age Gubernatorial Contests and Broader Lessons in Executive Elections
Faculty Mentor: Jeffrey Selinger

Fellow: Nicholas Yoong '24
Research Project: If you build it will they actually come? How seasonal variation in seagrass habitat structure drives changes in epifaunal community diversity
Faculty Mentor: Katie DuBois

Peter J. Grua and Mary G. O’Connell Summer Research Award

Fellow: Brendan Hill '25
Research Project: Molecular Additives for Polymorph Control of Paracetamol Crystallization
Faculty Mentor: Amnon Ortoll-Bloch

Fellow: Adi Pall-Pareek '24
Research Project: Retail Investor Behavior in FinTech Trading Apps
Faculty Mentor: Matthew Botsch

Fellow: Katie Rea '25
Research Project: Photochemical Impacts on Cobalt Catalysts in Linear Alpha Olefin Production
Faculty Mentor: Richard Broene

Hughes Family Summer Research Fellowship

Fellow: Owen Chambers '25
Research Project: Local Adaptive Ability of Freshwater Zooplankton Daphnia to Sea Salt and Road Salt
Faculty Mentor: Mary Rogalski

Kaufman Family Fellowship

Fellow: Khue Anh Tran '25
Research Project: Exploring the Queer Mechanics and Sensibilities of Hyperpop
Faculty Mentor: Angel Matos

Kibbe Science Fellowship

Fellow: Arav Agarwal '23
Research Project: Zeros of Generalized Zeta Functions
Faculty Mentor: Naomi Tanabe

Fellow: Quinn Battagliese '25
Research Project: Analyzing Patterns in Facial Expressions of Rats Exposed to Ultrasonic Vocalization Using the Pose Estimation Software, DeepLabCut
Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Honeycutt

Fellow: Tom Han '25
Research Project: Comparative Analysis of Auditory Response Characteristics in Regenerated and Non-Injured Gryllus bimaculatus: A Statistical Approach
Faculty Mentors: Jack O'Brien & Hadley Horch

Fellow: Kristen Kinzler '25
Research Project: Addition of Hydrogen Bonding Groups to Peptoid Catalysts to Increase Enantioselectivity
Faculty Mentor: Benjamin Gorske

Fellow: Sam Koegler '26
Research Project: Using Fluorescence to Verify Enhancer Function as a Cause of Diversity in Fruit Flies
Faculty Mentor: Michael Palopoli

Fellow: Alaijah Rubianes '24
Research Project: Investigating Pin3 Function in the Opportunistic Fungal Pathogen Candida albicans
Faculty Mentor: Anne McBride

Fellow: Karin van Hassel '24
Research Project: Electronic Interactions of Thionated Peptoid Side Chains for Polyproline Type II Helix Mimicry
Faculty Mentor: Benjamin Gorske

Koelln Fall Research Fellowship

Fellow: Alexandra Ashraf '24
Research Project: Musical Revivals for a New Generation of Audiences
Faculty Mentor: German Cardenas Alaminos

Fellow: Miki Rierson '23
Research Project: Recovery and Redress in Asian Immigrant Food Writing
Faculty Mentor: Belinda Kong

Kufe Family Research Fellowship

Fellow: Sarah Conant '24
Research Project: Reconstruction of developmental pathways in Sciara coprophila through the determination and visualization of homologous genes
Faculty Mentor: Jack Bateman

Fellow: Francis Diaz '26
Research Project: Effects of dibutyl phthalate (DBP) on locomotor activity of mice spinal cord
Faculty Mentor: Manuel Diaz-Rios

Fellow: Zelia Egan '25
Research Project: Diprotic Excited State Proton Transfer in Ionic Liquids
Faculty Mentor: Kana Takematsu

Fellow: Nicholas Everin '25
Research Project: Explaining 96C Enhancer Action in trans in Drosophila melanogaster
Faculty Mentor: Jack Bateman

Fellow: Jasmine Jia '25
Research Project: The Role of Gap Junctions on Spinal Locomotor Activity
Faculty Mentor: Manuel Diaz-Rios

Fellow: Alena Lemeshova '26
Research Project: Influence of ultrasonic vocalization playback on emotional distress and neurochemical changes: Impact of early life adversity, developmental stage and sex on emotional dysfunction in rats
Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Honeycutt

Fellow: Aidan Michelow '25
Research Project: Synthesis of a catalyst for renewable fuel production
Faculty Mentor: Brandon Tate

Fellow: Morgan Richter '24
Research Project: Influence of regulatory genetic variation on phenotypic variation in Drosophila fruit flies
Faculty Mentor: Michael Palopoli

Fellow: Claire Stoddard '25
Research Project: Investigating the Effects of Ring-containing-sidechains on Peptoid Conformation
Faculty Mentor: Benjamin Gorske

Lifson Family Summer Research Fellowship

Fellow: Grace Lott '26
Research Project: The Living Grateful Dead: Surviving Sounds of Psychedelic Culture
Faculty Mentor: Willi Lempert

Maine Space Grant Consortium Undergraduate Research Experience

Fellow: Eshani Baez '25
Research Project: Understanding the effects of ultrasonic vocalization on behavioral facial expressions in rats using the pose estimation software: DeepLabCut
Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Honeycutt

Fellow: Aniqa Chowdhury '26
Research Project: Screening Small Molecule Glycosylation Inhibitors and Assessing Their Impact on Glycoprotein Biosynthesis and Bacterial Fitness
Faculty Mentor: Danielle Dube

Fellow: Karen Gonzalez '25
Research Project: The Effects of Stress on Protein Aggregation in Candida albicans
Faculty Mentor: Anne McBridge

Fellow: Caleb McDaniels '25
Research Project: River Sediment Sampling in Western Greenland
Faculty Mentor: Evan Dethier

Fellow: Sai Neelagiri '25
Research Project: Using Reporter Transgenes to Verify Polymorphic Enhancers in Drosophila
Faculty Mentor: Michael Palopoli

Fellow: Daniel Rivera '25
Research Project: Refining Isotopic Oxygen Analysis in Molluscs
Faculty Mentor: Michele La Vigne

Craig A. McEwen Student Research Fellowship in the Social Sciences

Fellow: Sam Cooper '24
Research Project: Finding Purpose Amid Precarity: Philosophical Anthropology and Life on Tour with Dead and Company
Faculty Mentors: Aliosha Barranco Lopez & Shreyas Sreenath

Fellow: Juliana Covey '24
Research Project: Significance of Friendship Breakups: The Downfall of Friendship within Film and Television
Faculty Mentor: Willi Lempert

Micoleau Family Fellowship in the Creative and Performing Arts

Fellow: Tess Davis '24
Research Project: The Contemporary American West: A Proposed Creative Writing Collection
Faculty Mentor: Anthony Walton

Fellow: Carolina Weatherall '25
Research Project: Writing for Awareness: Addressing Themes of Chronic Illness, Envy, and Self Identity Through a Summer of Fiction Writing
Faculty Mentor: Brock Clarke

Ellen M. P'78 and Herbert M. Patterson '42, P'78 Research Fellowship

Fellow: Tatum Coffey '25
Research Project: Nuclear Legacies: Representations in Literature and Film of French Nuclear Testing in Algeria from 1960 to 1966
Faculty Mentor: Meryem Belkaid

Patterson/Baird Family Research Fellowship

Fellow: Mina Zanganeh '25
Research Project: From Colonies to Combat: A Comparative Analysis of Colonial and Black Soldiers in Francophone and American World War II Literature
Faculty Mentor: Meryem Belkaid

Roberts Research Award

Fellow: Grace Carrier '23
Research Project: Investigation in Shared Equity Housing
Faculty Mentor: Theodore Greene

Fellow: Rene Cisneros '23
Research Project: Sacred Images and Identity Formation: A Cultural and Religious Critique of the Oaxacan Guelaguetza
Faculty Mentor: Claire Robison

Rusack Coastal Studies Fellowship

Fellow: Callie Godfrey '25
Research Project: The Ogunquit Dike Swarm
Faculty Mentor: Emily Peterman

Fellow: Everett Horch '24
Research Project: Soft Shell Clams and Eelgrass Interactions in Maine Mud Flats
Faculty Mentors: Katie DuBois & Brian Beal

Fellow: Peyton Lewis '25
Research Project: The Ogunquit Dike Swarm
Faculty Mentor: Emily Peterman

Fellow: Noah Antonio '25
Research Project: Rate of infection by Labyrinthula zosterae on Zostera Marina in warm-adapted and cold- adapted eelgrass in the Gulf of Maine
Faculty Mentor: Katie DuBois

Surdna Foundation Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program

Fellow: Caleb Adams-Hull '24
Research Project: Examining the Beliefs of Maine Business Owners about the B Corp Certification
Faculty Mentor: Dan Stone

Fellow: Lyle Altschul '23
Research Project: Inorganic Nutrient Dynamics in Harpswell Sound
Faculty Mentor: Collin Roesler

Fellow: Sam Angevine '24
Research Project: Toll-7 As A Candidate for Differential Expression in G. Bimaculatus CNS Structural Plasticity
Faculty Mentor: Hadley Horch

Fellow: Lilly Browder '24
Research Project: Unruly Relics: the hidden histories of the North Maine Woods
Faculty Mentor: Shreyas Sreenath

Fellow: Silas Brown '24
Research Project: Past the Pamphlet: A Fictional Exploration of the Life of Phebe Ann Jacobs
Faculty Mentor: Brock Clarke

Fellow: Colleen Doucette '24
Research Project: What Do You Mean By Love?
Faculty Mentor: Samia Rahimtoola

Fellow: Natasha Haft '24
Research Project: Understanding Transcrustal Magmatic Systems through Plutonic Lithics
Faculty Mentor: Rachel Beane

Fellow: Ana Kim '24
Research Project: Sticky Hands
Faculty Mentor: Zahir Janmohamed

Fellow: Hannah Kim '24
Research Project: Postmemory and the Image-Text
Faculty Mentor: Hilary Thompson

Fellow: Sophia Li '24
Research Project: Ethnic Credibility and Construction of Chinese-American Literary Canon
Faculty Mentor: Belinda Kong

Fellow: Agnes Macy '24
Research Project: Movement with Meaning: Traversing Landscape and Time in West Greenland 2023
Faculty Mentor: Susan Kaplan

Fellow: Stephanie McCurrach '24
Research Project: Sagan & Co: Rediscovering the Literary Geographies of Forgotten Woman Writers
Faculty Mentor: Katherine Dauge-Roth

Fellow: Emma Paterson-Dennis '24
Research Project: Graphic Novel Production
Faculty Mentors: Angel Matos & Mary Hart

Fellow: Hayden Redelman '24
Research Project: Ruskin and the Politics of Seeing
Faculty Mentor: Paul Franco

Fellow: Christine Reimer '24
Research Project: SEM Analysis of Plutonic Lithics from the Ohakuri Caldera, New Zealand
Faculty Mentor: Rachel Beane

Fellow: Zack (Cash) Reynolds '24
Research Project: Neuroanatomical Changes in the BLA-PFC Circuit in Response to ELA are Sex-Specific
Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Honeycutt

Fellow: Alex Tully '24
Research Project: Politics, Shakespeare, and Visions of Human Greatness
Faculty Mentor: Paul Franco

Fellow: Tianrui (Terry) Zhang '24
Research Project: Evaluating the effect of the Inflation Reduction Act's electric vehicle incentives on EV sales and the environment
Faculty Mentor: Guillermo Herrera

Nellie C. Watterson Summer Fellowship in the Creative and Performing Arts

Fellow: Mei Bock '24
Research Project: Writing A New New York
Faculty Mentor: Brock Clarke

Wolstencroft Fellowship

Fellow: Miriam Hernandez '26
Research Project: Chinese Language in Relation to Contemporary Chinese Art
Faculty Mentor: Xioake Jia

Student Faculty Research Grant

Fellow: Emma Akuyeva '25
Research Project: The Effects of Chronic Application of Caffeine on Spinal Locomotor Activity of the Neonatal Mouse Spinal Cord
Faculty Mentor: Manuel Diaz-Rios

Fellow: Parker Beatty '24
Research Project: Characterizing the Motor Activity Patterns of the Mammalian Spinal Cord Neural Network
Faculty Mentor: Manuel Diaz-Rios

Fellow: Sydney Bonauto '23
Research Project: finishing some grant-related research and writing a manuscript
Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Honeycutt

Fellow: Victoria Dunphy '24
Research Project: Transvection and Promoter Choice at the Eyes Absent Gene of Drosophila
Faculty Mentor: Jack Bateman

Fellow: Audrey Fillion '25
Research Project: Exploring the Role of Transcriptional Enhancers in Evolutionary Adaptability
Faculty Mentor: Michael Palopoli

Fellow: Kyla Gary '25
Research Project: Investigating the Role of Toll-7 Protein in the Developing Peripheral Nervous System of Gryllus bimaculatus
Faculty Mentor: Hadley Horch

Fellow: Josh Goldstein '25
Research Project: Behavioral Analysis of Gryllus bimaculatus following injury-induced deafferentation and exploring the role of Toll-8
Faculty Mentor: Hadley Horch

Fellow: Imani Myers '25 
Research Project: Understanding messenger RNA transport in Candida albicans by examining Protein Ips2
Faculty Mentor: Anne McBride

Fellow: Alicia Ross '25
Research Project: The Potential Influence of Spaetzle-Toll Pathways in the Development of Gyrllus bimaculatus
Faculty Mentor: Hadley Horch

Fellow: Madisyn Thomas '25
Research Project: Behavioral and neurochemical effects of early life adversity as modeled by maternal separation of rats: Ultrasonic vocalization playback-induced stress and subsequent immunohistochemical microscopy of brain tissue
Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Honeycutt

Fellow: Alexandra Arndt '23

Fellow: Song Eraou '23

Fellow: Julia Lyne '23

Fellow: Geoffrey Atulo '24
Research Project: Investigation of the catalytic competency of imidazolium N-oxides at the N-termini of peptoid turn catalysts for trifluoromethylation of carbonyls.
Faculty Mentor: Benjamin Gorske

Fellow: Caity Berry '23
Research Project: Investigate how fictional narratives can be applied to discuss ethical issues related to the development of artificial intelligent-enabled technologies
Faculty Mentors: Fernando Nasc & Eric Chown

Fellow: Jack Callahan '23
Research Project: Studying Triplet photosensitization of naphthols and mentor Mario Mero
Faculty Mentor: Kana Takematsu

Fellow: Sarah Clarke '23
Research Project: supporting data analysis and dissemination efforts. Additionally, Sarah will play a key role in training new undergraduate researchers who will be hired to work on my projects
Faculty Mentor: Alison Miller

Fellow: Rahul Dasgupta '24
Research Project: To identify and explore undesirable market-related behaviors for their potential to be: discovered by an intelligent agent, harmful to other market participants, and detected/mitigated through some combination of intrinsic and extrinsic mechanisms
Faculty Mentor: David Byrd

Fellow: Charlie Galicich '24
Research Project: Investigate how fictional narratives can be applied to discuss ethical issues related to the development of artificial intelligent-enabled technologies
Faculty Mentors: Fernando Nasc & Eric Chown

Fellow: Ana Gunther '23
Research Project: analyses of Arctic soil cores and vegetation classification from Baffin Island, Canada. We will also develop a manuscript that will be submitted for publication at the end of the summer
Faculty Mentor: Phil Camil

Fellow: Wilder Harwood '24
Research Project: Study a black hole system that is a possible neutrino emitter with newly obtained NuSTAR X-ray data
Faculty Mentor: Fe McBride

Fellow: William Jorgensen '24
Research Project: To identify and explore undesirable market-related behaviors for their potential to be: discovered by an intelligent agent, harmful to other market participants, and detected/mitigated through some combination of intrinsic and extrinsic mechanisms
Faculty Mentor: David Byrd

Fellow: Evan Lucca '25
Faculty Mentor: Mohammad Irfan

Fellow: Brielle Martine '24
Research Project: Testing the accuracy of stable oxygen isotope calibrations for clam shells
Faculty Mentor: Michele LaVigne

Fellow: Elise Martin '23
Research Project: Relationship between neuromodulatory capacity and diet across majoid crab species
Faculty Mentors: Patsy Dickinson & Elizabeth Stemmler

Fellow: Eduardo Mendoza '24
Research Project: Analyzing BIPOC and LGBTQ+ representation in American Film and Television Series, Primarily by curating moving image clips that illustrate the use of the close-up in the 21st century. 
Faculty Mentor: Allison Cooper

Fellow: Rachel Nealon '23
Research Project: Studying ionic liquid effects of naphthol derivatives and mentor Zelia Egan
Faculty Mentor: Kana Takematsu

Fellow: Sebastian Perez '25
Research Project: Synthesizing and Characterizing Schiff base photoacid/photoacid candidates
Faculty Mentor: Kana Takematsu

Fellow: Ibrahim Saleh '23
Research Project: Synthesizing and Characterizing Schiff base photoacid/photoacid candidates and mentor Sebastian Perez
Faculty Mentor: Kana Takematsu

Fellow: Nur Schettino '24
Research Project: Study a black hole system that is a possible neutrino emitter with newly obtained NuSTAR X-ray data
Faculty Mentor: Fe McBride

Fellow: Gracie Scheve '25
Research Project: Collaborating with me and Jaret Reblin (co-I) on the development of teaching materials design to instruct remote sensors on the plant physiological ecology underlying their observations and to instruct physiologists on remote sensing applications
Faculty Mentor: Barry Logan

Fellow: Mia Schwartz '25
Research Project: a multi-institution undergraduate science communication fellowship with collaborators at Hamilton College, Iowa State, and Claremont Colleges. All participants will travel to 91ÑÇÉ«´«Ã½ in August to collaborate in person during a five-to-ten-day workshop at the Schiller Coastal Studies Center where we will share scientific results and work together to identify a target audience, design, and implement a plan for communicating our scientific results outside of our own scientific community.
Faculty Mentor: Michele LaVigne

Fellow: Luke Van Laningham '25
Research Project: Luke and I will be looking at what are called Cayley graphs. These graphs encode symmetries of certain objects. My intention is to better understand what are known as the expansion properties of these graphs. 
Faculty Mentor: Eric Ramos

Fellow: William Warlick '24
Research Project: To identify and explore undesirable market-related behaviors for their potential to be: discovered by an intelligent agent, harmful to other market participants, and detected/mitigated through some combination of intrinsic and extrinsic mechanisms
Faculty Mentor: David Byrd

Fellow: Carson Williams '24
Faculty Mentor: Mohammad Irfan

91ÑÇÉ«´«Ã½ Fellowships in the Life Sciences

Fellow: Tori Bacal '26
Research Project: Testing the response of Gulf of Maine Ascophyllum nodosum to warming ocean temperatures
Faculty Mentor: Katie Dubois

Fellow: Devin Bellevue '24
Research Project: Characterizing the Motor Activity Patterns of the Thoracic Spinal Cord Neural Network
Faculty Mentor: Manuel Diaz-Rios

Fellow: Sabrina DaSilva '24
Research Project: Unidirectional diversity hypothesis in Willow tree species Salix exigua and Salix laevigata along riparian corridors
Faculty Mentor: Vladimir Douhovnikoff

Fellow: Joanne Du '24
Research Project: Role of Polycomb group proteins in reduced eyes absent gene expression in Drosophila melanogaster
Faculty Mentor: Jack Bateman

Fellow: Jolie Ganzell '25
Research Project: Comparing Morphology and Genetics in Differentiating Between Asterias rubens and Asterias forbesi
Faculty Mentor: Amy Johnson

Fellow: Emma Gibbens '25
Research Project: Examining the effects of semaphorin-induced neuroplasticity on the negative phonotactic responses of Gryllus bimaculatus
Faculty Mentor: Hadley Horch

Fellow: Emily Jones '24
Research Project: Molecular Characterization of Toll 2 Proteins in the Cricket Nervous System
Faculty Mentor: Hadley Horch

Fellow: Aeri Ko '25
Research Project: The effect of calcium-activated potassium channels on spinal locomotor rhythm
Faculty Mentor: Manuel Diaz-Rios

Fellow: Isabelle Lockhart '24
Research Project: Investigating the localization and stress response of a prion-forming protein in the fungus Candida albicans
Faculty Mentor: Anne McBride

Fellow: Matt Morales '25
Research Project: Protein Aggregation and Stress Response in Candida albicans
Faculty Mentor: Matt Morales

Fellow: Kaya Patel '26
Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Honeycutt

91ÑÇÉ«´«Ã½ Public Service Fellowships 

Fellow: Nicko Aguillon '24

Fellow: Matthew Audi '24

Fellow: Jai Duval '24

Fellow: Skyla Hong '26

Fellow: Jingyuan Huang '25

Fellow: Nicholas Huang '24

Fellow: Boaz Malakoff '24

Fellow: Amory Malin '24

Fellow: Abigail Martin '26

Fellow: Dov McGuire-Berk '24

Fellow: Aidan Reid '24

Fellow: Ugne Stasiukynaite '24

Fellow: Karam Sutham '25

Fellow: Lauren Traum '24

91ÑÇÉ«´«Ã½ Scientific Station Fellowship

Fellow: Eva Ahn '26
Research Project: Pollination of Wild Low-Bush Blueberry / Learning and Memory in Different Pollinator Groups
Faculty Mentors: Patricia Jones & Ian Kyle

Fellow: Cora Dow '24
Research Project: 91ÑÇÉ«´«Ã½ Scientific Station Artist-in-Residence
Faculty Mentors: Patricia Jones & Ian Kyle

Fellow: Liliane Fanburg '23
Research Project: Social Behavior in Herring Gulls (Ecology & Computer Science)
Faculty Mentors: Patricia Jones & Ian Kyle

Fellow: Danny Lee '25
Research Project: Long-Term Population Monitoring of the Leach's Storm-Petrel: The Impacts of Climate Change and Other Environmental Factors
Faculty Mentors: Patricia Jones & Ian Kyle

Fellow: Oscar Nigam '25
Research Project: Population Dynamics in Savannah Sparrows
Faculty Mentors: Patricia Jones & Ian Kyle

Fellow: Charlie O'Brien
Research Project: Island Stewardship
Faculty Mentors: Patricia Jones & Ian Kyle

Fellow: Sejal Prachand '24
Research Project: Long-Term Population Monitoring of the Leach's Storm-Petrel: The Impacts of Climate Change and Other Environmental Factors
Faculty Mentors: Patricia Jones & Ian Kyle

Fellow: Brad Schoenthaler '24
Research Project: Effects of Rockweed Harvesting on Intertidal Invertebrates and Algae
Faculty Mentors: Patricia Jones & Ian Kyle

Fellow: Helena Souffrant '25
Research Project: Effects of Rockweed Harvesting on Intertidal Invertebrates and Algae
Faculty Mentors: Patricia Jones & Ian Kyle

Fellow: Reed Warburton '23
Research Project: Island Stewardship
Faculty Mentors: Patricia Jones & Ian Kyle

Cooke Environmental Research Fellowship

Fellow: Angela Delgado '25
Research Project: Analyzing the Use of Solar Panels in Southern California’s South Bay Area
Faculty Mentors: Barry Logan & Eileen Johnson

Fellow: Ashwini Sahasrabudhe '25
Research Project: Trailside Trespassers: Mapping Invasive Plant Species in Lyme Land Trust Preserves
Faculty Mentors: Eileen Johnson

Theodore Samuel Danzig '22 Memorial Fellowship Fund

Fellow: Julianna Brown '24
Research Project: The Place of Religion in Liberalism
Faculty Mentors: Paul Franco

Denning Summer Fellowship

Fellow: Colter Adams '24

Fellow: Anna Diaconu '24

Fellow: Katie Draeger '24

Fellow: Shoshi Gordon '24

Fellow: Clara Jergins '24

Fellow: Andrew Kaleigh '24

Fellow: Rory Kliewer '24

Fellow: Jane Olsen '24

Fellow: Sophia Pantzer '24

Fellow: Paul Wang '24

Gibbons Summer Research Program

Fellow: Ephraim Boamah '25
Research Project: Assessing the effects of the environmental pollutant Dibutyl Phthalate on motor activity in the mammalian spinal cord and the neuroprotective effects of Rosmarinic Acid
Faculty Mentor: Manuel Diaz-Rios

Fellow: Sophie Brett '25
Research Project: Anticipating and removing barriers to the dissemination of educational research: Supporting the Bridging Preschool and Kindergarten Science project (NSF #2201673) through an intentional and robust web presence
Faculty Mentor: Alison Miller

Fellow: David Guan '25
Research Project: Extremal invariants in families of highly symmetric graphs
Faculty Mentors: Eric Ramos & Thomas Pietraho

Fellow: Justin Huang '24
Research Project: The Effect of Competition, Inflation, and Economic Policy on the Pricing of Electric Vehicles
Faculty Mentor: Erik Nelson

Fellow: Benjamin Israel '25
Research Project: The Capability Approach and its Technological Applications
Faculty Mentor: Fernando Nascimento

Fellow: Anya Workman '25
Research Project: Digital Ricoeur
Faculty Mentor: Fernando Nascimento

Global Citizens Fellowship

Fellow: Astrid Braun '24

Fellow: Sapphire Hall '25

Fellow: Sabrina Kearney '26

Fellow: Phincho Sherpa '25

Fellow: Pranav Vadlamudi '26

Alfred E Golz Fellowship

Fellow: Lucas Dufalla '24
Research Project: Internship at Public Source
Faculty Mentor: Source

Fellow: Seth Gorelik '25
Research Project: The Human Cost of Nuclear Ambition: The Dark History of Soviet Nuclear Testing in Kazakhstan
Faculty Mentor: David Hecht

Fellow: Ian Morrison '24
Research Project: Internship at New England Historic Genealogical Society
Faculty Mentor: Patrick Rael

Fellow: Talia Traskos-Hart '25
Research Project: The history of labor organizing at U.S. colleges and universities
Faculty Mentor: Connie Chiang

Kappa Psi Upsilon Maine Based Environmental Fellowship

Fellow: Libby Boutin '24

Fellow: Julia Kate Bradley '25

Fellow: Addison Davis '25

Fellow: Neena Goldtwaite '24

Fellow: Ilo Holdridge '25

Fellow: Jillian Horton '24

Fellow: Connor Hovendon '24

Fellow: Talia Mirel '24

Fellow: Emma Olney '25

Fellow: Owen Ratliff '25

Littlefield Summer Research Fellowship

Fellow: Morgan Adams '24
Research Project: "Using Thin-Film Polymeric Surfaces for Aspirin Polymorph Control"
Faculty Mentor: Amnon Ortoll-Bloch

Fellow: Miles Bartlett '26
Research Project: Bimetallic Catalyst Project
Faculty Mentor: Brandon Tate

Fellow: Gabriel Bloom-O'Sullivan '25
Research Project: Characterizing Cobalt Hydroxide Carbonate Crystallization Pathways on Functionalized Surfaces
Faculty Mentor: Amnon Ortoll-Bloch

Fellow: Jotham Casey '25
Research Project: "Synthesizing Bimetallic Catalysts for Hydrogen Activation in the Production of Renewable Fuels"
Faculty Mentor: Brandon Tate

Fellow: Lily Clifford '26
Research Project: Computational Analysis of the Mechanism for C-H activation by a Fe(dmpe)2 Complex
Faculty Mentor: Sean Lutz

Fellow: Mario Mero '25
Research Project: Excited State Proton Transfer within 2-Naphtol Triplet Excited State
Faculty Mentor: Kana Takematsu

Fellow: Devin O'Loughlin '24
Research Project: Investigating the Impact of Electron-Withdrawing Side Chains on Trifluoroacetic Acid Degradation of N-Acylated Peptoids
Faculty Mentor: Benjamin Gorske

Fellow: Foje-Geh Tendoh '24
Research Project: Investigation of Bacterial Glycans and Glycan Transporters using Novel Sugar Probes
Faculty Mentor: Danielle Dube

Fellow: Bryant Ung '24
Research Project: Metabolic Labeling of glycans on common gut bacteria
Faculty Mentor: Danielle Dube

Fellow: Dana Zhao '26
Research Project: Computational Investigation of C–H Activation by Fe(dmpe)2
Faculty Mentor: Sean Lutz

Maine Community Fellowship

Fellow: Fiona Bor '25

Fellow: Alex Kelly '25

Fellow: Daniel Kotorri '25

Fellow: Carina Lim-Huang '25

Fellow: Cora Livingston '24

Fellow: Fay O'Donnell '24

Fellow: Brooks Peters '24

Fellow: Emely Reyes '25

Fellow: Jack Selig '24

Fellow: Jiahn Son '25

Fellow: Caroline Vauclain '25

Dana Walker Mayo Summer Research Fellowship

Fellow: Candice Ballarin '25
Research Project: Using Cyclic Carbenes As Catalysts in an Olefin Dimerization
Faculty Mentor: Richard Broene

Fellow: Charlotte Hodge '25
Research Project: "Bimetallic Catalyst Synthesis in the Study of Alternative Renewable Fuel Sources"
Faculty Mentor: Brandon Tate

Fellow: Meredith Stetter '23
Research Project: Exploring para-substituted phenylisontriles for the dimerization of LAOs
Faculty Mentor: Richard Broene

Fellow: Will Surks '24
Research Project: Investigating the impact of Helicobacter pylori glycans on immune recognition and response
Faculty Mentor: Danielle Dube

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program

Fellow: Alexandra Camargo '25

Fellow: Miguel Pavon '25

Fellow: Zerimar Ramirez '25

Fellow: Christine Ramos '24

Fellow: Gabrielle Waller-Whelan '25

Paller Neuroscience 2023-2024 Academic Year Fellowship

Fellow: Katrina Carrier '24
Research Project: Combinatorial Effects of Temperature and Salinity on the Nervous System of the Lobster Homarus Americanus
Faculty Mentor: Daniel Powell

Fellow: Grant Griesman '24
Research Project: Differential temperature resiliencies in the two cell types of the Homarus americanus cardiac ganglion
Faculty Mentor: Daniel Powell

Fellow: Zack Reynolds '24
Research Project: Neuroanatomical Changes in the BLA-PFC Circuit in Response to ELA are Sex-Specific
Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Honeycutt

Fellow: Josie Tidmore '24
Research Project: Neural compensation in response to salinity perturbation in the lobster cardiac ganglion
Faculty Mentor: Daniel Powell

Fellow: Karin van Hassel '24
Research Project: Modulation of the stretch feedback pathway by neuropeptides in the heart of the lobster, Homarus americanus
Faculty Mentor: Daniel Powell

Volpe Summer Research Fellowship in Digital and Computational Studies

Fellow: Ashley Morash '26
Research Project: Applying Computer Vision to Foster the Common Good in Rural Areas of Developing Countries
Faculty Mentor: Fernando Nascimento

Allen Wells Travel & Research Award

Fellow: Katie Draeger '24
Research Project: Community Based Conversation on the island Santa Cruz inn the Galápagos
Faculty Mentor: Gustavo Faveron

Fellow: Andrea Rodriguez '25
Research Project: Decolonializing Early Childhood Education in Colombia
Faculty Mentor: Irina Popescu

Fellow: Alondra Rodriguez '24
Research Project: Restorative Justice in Argentina
Faculty Mentor: Javier Cikota

Fellow: Juliana Vandermark '24
Research Project: Controversy of the Crypto-Jews in New Mexico
Faculty Mentor: Javier Cikota

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Caroline Adams
Jack Andrews
Emma Barker
Miles Berry
Megh Bindra
Sam Bonauto
Pieter Breuker
Kiley Briand
Janet Briggs
Kaitlyn Brunner
Jonah Bussgang
Hayden Byrne
Keysha Cain-Garr
Catherine Cao
Adam Carlisle
Hanna Cha
Anju Chenaux-Repond
Jake Cusack
Mason Daugherty
Julia DeLuca
Brendan Deppen
Grady Etheridge
Abby Flanagan
Caleb Friedman-Spring
Elizabeth Gill
Will Goddard
Geoffrey Golan
Michael Gordon
Alex Grand'Pierre
Anneke Halliday
Lori Hashasian
Jack Hepp
Holliss Hirsch
Aden Ho
Andrew Hoadley
Jed Hoggard
Frances Hornbostel
Hamda Hussein
Lily Huynh
Will Hyde
Ange Ishimwe
Luna Jiang-Qin
Mary John
Sydney Jones
Emma Kilbride
Avery Kirby
Jess Klein
Chunwen Ko
Fatima Kunjo
Jonathan Lerdau
Joy Liu
Maya Malenfant
Zack Marchese
Carter McCray
Sammi McLemore
Jack Moore
Ryan Ngo
Jason Olaru-Hagen
Ruth Olujobi
Joseph Park
Yanevith Pena
Drew Phillips
Benjamin Pinto Arroyo
Linguo Ren
Alexander Richardson
Molly Richardson
Marc Rosenthal
Kavi Sarna
Mia Schiff
Rachel Scruby
Isabel Sharp
Nick Sibiryakov
Ella Slaby
Arlenys Soler
Alan Svendsen
Esteban Tarazona
Mitri Traile
Kenny Ventress
Vaughn Vial
Yaerin Wallenberger
Alex Washburn
Thomas Weller
Wren West
Jennifer Wheeler
Noa Winikoff
Maile Winterbottom
James Yoo
Mingjie Yuan
Chris Zhang

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