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91ÑÇÉ«´«Ã½ Fall Research Award

Fellow: Maryam Akramova, '24
Research Project: Synthesis of N-heterocyclic carbene complexes of coinage metals and their application in the activation of hydrogen
Faculty Mentor: Brandon Tate

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

Fellow: Cassidy Bateman, '24
Research Project: An Exhibition of PFAS Removal Techniques
Faculty Mentors: Barry Logan and Elizabeth Stemmler

Fellow: Katie Draeger, '24
Research Project: Sustainable Affordable Housing and Community Engagement
Faculty Mentor: Eileen Johnson

Fellow: Nuanxi (Sissi) Feng, '24
Research Project: The role of pubertal hormone on female rats' sensitivity to acute ketamine treatment in an early-life-adversity model
Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Honeycutt

Fellow: Clara Jergins, '24
Research Project: Sanctuary Cities in the U.S. in the Context of Asylum-Seeker Representation
Faculty Mentor: Angel Saavedra Cisneros

Fellow: Zach Leibowitz, '24
Research Project: Activation of Hydrogen by Sterically Modulated Coinage Metal Catalysts via Mutual Quenching of Hard/Safe Acid/Base Mismatches
Faculty Mentor: Brandon Tate

Fellow: Sophia Li, '24
Research Project: Counting and Burying Bodies: Navigating Diasporic Selfhood in Chinese-American Fiction 
Faculty Mentor: Belinda Kong

Fellow: Jared Lynch, '24
Research Project: Mitochondrial adaptation in the green crab hybrid zone of the Gulf of Maine
Faculty Mentor: Dave Carlon

Fellow: Phoebe Marin, '26
Research Project: HIST 2970: Intermediate Independent Study - The Convergence of War Films and First Person Shooter Video Games
Faculty Mentor: Patrick Rael

Fellow: Brielle Martin, '24
Research Project: Identifying trends in the Gulf of Maine from shell-derived ocean temperature reconstructions
Faculty Mentor: Michele LaVigne

Fellow: Sophie Nigrovic, '24
Research Project: Evaluation of design parameters for monosaccharide probes used in the metabolic labeling of bacterial glycans
Faculty Mentor: Danielle Dube

Fellow: Hayden Redelman, '24
Research Project: Ruskin and the Politics of Seeing: Art and the Crisis of the 19th Century
Faculty Mentor: Paul Franco

Fellow: Sophia Rutman, '24
Research Project: Prompt Engineering for Narrative Choice Generation
Faculty Mentor: Sarah Harmon 

Fellow: Mia Schwartz, '25
Research Project: Attending AGU Conference to Present about Shell Heaps and Clam Shells as Climate Proxies
Faculty Mentor: Michele LaVigne

Fellow: Jon Sides, '24
Research Project: Revisiting the Mental Representation of Object Properties and State Change in Situation Models
Faculty Mentor: Abhilasha Kumar

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

Fellow: Foje-geh Tendoh, '24
Research Project: Fluorescent Sugar Analogs as probes for Bacterial Uptake
Faculty Mentor: Danielle Dube

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

Fellow: Oliver Wang, '24 
Research Project: Exploring the Crystallization Outcomes of Metal-Organic Frameworks using Various Synthesis Methods
Faculty Mentor: Amnon Ortoll-Bloch

Fellow: Alex Washburn, '25
Research Project: Actigraphy's Midnight Insights: A Computational Exploration of Sleep and Neurodegeneration
Faculty Mentor: Sarah Harmon

91ÑÇÉ«´«Ã½ Research Award

Fellow: Michaela Brough, '27
Research Project: Anthropological Study of Religious Syncretism in Romano-Britain
Faculty Mentor: Barbara Boyd

Fellow: Kenneth Dixon, '27
Research Project: Constructing an Inclusive Commentary for Callimachus
Faculty Mentor: Robert Sobak

Fellow: Bojana Drca, '24
Research Project: How have historical and contemporary environmental policies shaped Serbia's approach to environmental regulation, and what are the societal and economic implications of these policies
Faculty Mentor: Túlio Zille

Fellow: Sage Garver, '27
Research Project: Salt Tolerance of Local Zooplankton Daphnia in Relation to Algae Abundance
Faculty Mentor: Mary Rogalski

Fellow: Chunwen Ko, '25
Research Project: Analyzing Portrayals of External Influence and Democratization in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan
Faculty Mentor: Laura Henry

Fellow: Carina Lim-Huang, '25
Research Project: Urban Policies and Socioeconomic Outcomes: An Interdisciplinary Comparison of Major American Cities
Faculty Mentor: Jessica LaVoice

Fellow: Andy Robinson, '27
Research Project: Political Advertising in American Elections
Faculty Mentor: Michael Franz

Fellow: Gracie Scheve, '25
Research Project: Virulent Parasitism as a Cue for Sex & Diapause Initiation in Daphnia ambigua
Faculty Mentor: Mary Rogalski

Fellow: John Schubert, '26
Research Project: Medicaid enrollment in North Carolina post-expansion: The role of administrative organization
Faculty Mentor: Andrew Rudalevige

Fellow: Aidan Sheeran-Hahnel, '26
Research Project: The Celestial Voice: Rousseau on What Makes Civil Society Worth the Calamity
Faculty Mentor: Paul Franco

Fellow: Patrick Sullivan, '26
Research Project: Constructing an Inclusive Commentary for Callimachus
Faculty Mentor: Robert Sobak

Fellow: Noa Winikoff, '25
Research Project: A Comparative Analysis of State Social Media Use in Armed Conflict
Faculty Mentor: Barbara Elias

Fellow: Austin Zheng, '26
Research Project: Marxism and Democracy: The Local Legacy of Shanghai
Faculty Mentor: Salar Mohandesi

91ÑÇÉ«´«Ã½ Summer Language Study Program Award

Fellow: Elizabeth Chmielewski, '26
Program: Princeton in Beijing
Faculty Mentor: Tianwen Han

Fellow: Matteo Silva, '26
Program: Hokkaido International Foundation
Faculty Mentor: Ayami Morita

Fellow: Logan Smith, '26
Program: Middlebury 8-week Russian Summer Language School
Faculty Mentor: Miroslava Nikolova

Fellow: Anastazia Stallworth, '26
Program: Korea University KLC
Faculty Mentor: Belinda Kong 

Christenfeld Summer Research Fellowship

Fellow: Joseph Gordon, '26
Research Project: The Effect of Diversification on Rural Consciousness
Faculty Mentor: Angel Saavedra Cisneros

Fellow: Mingi Kang, '26
Research Project: Poverty Prediction Deep Learning Model
Faculty Mentor: Jeova Farias

James Stacy Coles Summer Research Fellowship

Fellow: Gigi Ford, '27
Research Project: Effect of Dibutyl Phthalate on Neonatal Mouse Spinal Cord and Potential for Rosmarinic Acid as a Potential Protectant
Faculty Mentor: Manuel Diaz-Rios

Fellow: Ryan Kang, '25
Research Project: Behavioral Effects of Double-Stranded RNA Injections into the Cricket, Gryllus bimaculatus, in Response to Predatory Calls
Faculty Mentor: Hadley Horch

Martha Reed Coles Summer Fellowship

Fellow: Isabelle Lee, '26
Research Project: Tales of Enchantment: Exploring the Evolution of the Enchantress Archetype
Faculty Mentor: Emma Maggie Solberg

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

Fellow: Abigail Ainley, '26
Research Project: Effect of Neuromodulation on Peptides in Crabs and Lobster Hearts
Faculty Mentor: Daniel Powell

Fellow: Ahmed Albayaty, '25
Research Project: Neural responses of STG pyloric mill to combination of excitatory and inhibitory modulators in Cancer borealis
Faculty Mentor: Daniel Powell

Fellow: Maggie Broaddus, '25
Research Project: Examining the effects of SLY neuropeptide modulation on the crustacean cardiac system
Faculty Mentor: Daniel Powell

Fellow: Mia Cawley, '27
Research Project: Does the Concentration of the Antimicrobial Peptide (AMP) Hoa-D1 Increase in Response to an Immune System Challenge to the Lobster, Homarus americanus
Faculty Mentor: Elizabeth Stemmler

Fellow: Maren Cooper, '27
Research Project: Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) from Lobsters: Comparing Approaches to Testing for Antimicrobial Activity
Faculty Mentor: Elizabeth Stemmler

Fellow: Nye Duran, '26
Research Project: The Observation of Antimicrobial Peptide Concentration in the American Lobster, Homarus americanus
Faculty Mentor: Elizabeth Stemmler

Fellow: Eleanor Hoff, '26
Research Project: Mitochondrial x nuclear genomic interactions and impacts on cardiac physiology in C. maenas
Faculty Mentor: Dave Carlon

Fellow: Danny Lee, '25
Research Project: The Physiological Effects of a Pork Hide Diet on the American Lobster
Faculty Mentors: Daniel Powell and Jaret Reblin

Fellow: Ella Slaby, '25
Research Project: Hemolymph and Circuit Regulation in Jonah Crab Stomatogastric Ganglion
Faculty Mentor: Daniel Powell

Fellow: Liv Smith, '25
Research Project: Examining the Bioactivity of Antimicrobial Peptides from Homarus americanus
Faculty Mentor: Elizabeth Stemmler

Robert and Blythe Edwards Fund for the Arts

Fellow: Saniya Ridley, '25
Research Project: Freedom in the Form: Black Culture and the Liberation of Movement
Faculty Mentors: Adanna Jones

Freedman Summer Research Fellowship in Coastal/Environmental Studies

Fellow: Inga Dovre, '25
Research Project: Downstream Effects of the Red Rock Dam on Des Moines River Hydrology and Geomorphology 
Faculty Mentor: Jabari Jones

Fellow: Sam Stevenson, '26
Research Project: Monhegan Island Project: teaching science through art
Faculty Mentor: Barry Logan

Goldsmith Adams Language Study Award

Fellow: Elizabeth Chmielewski, '26
Program: Princeton in Beijing
Faculty Mentor: Tianwen Han

Hughes Family Summer Research Fellowship

Fellow: Sree Kandhadai, '27
Research Project: Effect of melatonin and other variables on the photosynthesis of turf grass (Maryland tall fescue)
Faculty Mentor: Barry Logan

Fellow: Zellie Lipman, '26
Research Project: Quantifying Fish Passage Data Necessary for Brunswick Dam Recertification and Management
Faculty Mentor: Vladimir Douhovnikoff

Matthew R. '72, P'02 & Marcia A. P'02 Kaufman Family Fellowship

Fellow: Avery Cutler, '26
Research Project: Modeling Trends Portland, ME Homelessness: A Statistical Analysis and Application of the Compartment Model
Faculty Mentor: Jack O'Brien

Kibbe Science Fellowship

Fellow: Emma Barker, '25
Research Project: Investigating Occurrence of Harmful Phytoplankton Species in Harpswell Sound through Imaging Flow CytoBot Data
Faculty Mentor: Collin Roesler

Fellow: Alexa Comess, '26
Research Project: Effects of plasticizer di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate and neuroprotectant turmeric acid on mammalian spinal locomotor activity
Faculty Mentor: Manuel Diaz-Rios

Fellow: Eoin Gallagher, '27
Research Project: Investigating Hard-Soft Acid-Base Mismatch Catalysts for Renewable Fuel Synthesis
Faculty Mentor: Brandon Tate

Fellow: Gabe Gitter-Dentz, '25
Research Project: Using Geochronology to Examine the Relationship Between Magmatism and Deformation in the Western Idaho Shear Zone
Faculty Mentor: Claire Harrigan

Fellow: Ben Halperin, '25
Research Project: Measuring the continued effects of the Buford Dam, Georgia on the Chattahoochee River using remote sensing
Faculty Mentor: Jabari Jones

Fellow: Victoria Jang, '26
Research Project: Investigating the Effects of Ionic Liquid Additives on Metal-Organic Framework Crystallization
Faculty Mentor: Amnon Ortoll-Bloch

Fellow: Meadow Jennings, '26
Research Project: Assessing the effect of di-2-ethylhexyl phthalate on fictive locomotion and the neuroprotectant properties of turmeric in neonatal mice
Faculty Mentor: Manuel Diaz-Rios

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

Fellow: Katie Rea, '25
Research Project: Synthesis of Cobalt Catalyst Complexes through Photochemistry
Faculty Mentor: Richard Broene

Fellow: Tommy Reynolds, '26
Research Project: Research on Vertebrate Tooth Development
Faculty Mentor: William Jackman

Fellow: Daniel Rivera, '25
Research Project: "The Room Problem": A Case Study on Pluton Emplacement at the Western Idaho Shear Zone
Faculty Mentor: Claire Harrigan

Fellow: Ivy Stevens, '25
Research Project: Exploring the role of promoter eya-1C in Drosophila melanogaster
Faculty Mentor: Jack Bateman

Fellow: Ayla Taylor, '26
Research Project: Early Life Adversity Induced Changes to DNA Methylation in a Homogenous Parvalbumin Cell Population
Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Honeycutt

Fellow: Piper Wilson, '26
Research Project: Plasticizer Intake and Motor Control in the Rat Model
Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Honeycutt

Kufe Family Research Fellowship

Fellow: Ephraim Boamah, '25
Research Project: Characterizing the effects of pre-natal exposure to plasticizer Dibutyl phthalate on motor activity in rat offspring
Faculty Mentor: Manuel Diaz-Rios

Fellow: Rhys Edwards, '25
Research Project: Shining a Light on Antimicrobial Peptide Pore Formation
Faculty Mentor: Michael Henderson

Fellow: Timmy Gee, '25
Research Project: Hard-Soft Acid-Base Mismatch for Renewable Fuel Production
Faculty Mentor: Brandon Tate

Fellow: Sophie Gold, '25
Research Project: Characterizing DEHP-induced locomotor dysfunction on the mammalian spinal CPG network and curcumin as a potential neuroprotectant
Faculty Mentor: Manuel Diaz-Rios

Fellow: Brendan Hill, '25
Research Project: Influence of Polymer Additives on Mefenamic Acid/Nicotinamide Cocrystals
Faculty Mentor: Amnon Ortoll-Bloch

Fellow: Liam Roehr, '25
Research Project: Greening the Synthesis of Cp*Co Catalyst Complexes
Faculty Mentor: Richard Broene

Fellow: Young Seo, '26
Research Project: Cooperative n → π* interactions via thionatied peptoid side chains for promoting PPII helical structure
Faculty Mentor: Benjamin Gorske

Edward E. Langbein Sr. Summer Fellowship

Fellow: Alex Tully, '24
Research Project: Strangers in the Village: Democratic Poetry and the Politics of Love in the Political Thought of Hannah Arendt and James Baldwin
Faculty Mentor: Jean Yarbrough

Lifson Family Summer Research Fellowship

Fellow: Jane Shanahan, '24
Research Project: How do we utilize technology in classroom settings for good: An analysis of technology's effects on learning memory and attention in university STEM classes
Faculty Mentor: Samuel Putnam

Maine Space Grant Consortium Undergraduate Research Experience

Fellow: Divya Bhargava, '26
Research Project: Investigating the role of pseudaminic acid on Helicobacter pylori adhesion to human cells
Faculty Mentor: Danielle Dube

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: Daphne Garcia, '26
Research Project: Investigating the relationship between eya and disco in Drosophila eyes
Faculty Mentor: Jack Bateman

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: Ingrid Krishnan, '26
Research Project: Studying the effect of cyp26 onset timing in Danio rerio tooth development
Faculty Mentor: William Jackman

Fellow: Sammi McLemore, '25
Research Project: The role of semaphorin signaling in the cricket's auditory plasticity
Faculty Mentor: Hadley Horch

Fellow: Cassidy Scott, '24
Research Project: Identifying sexual dimorphism in epigenetic markers and behavior following Early Life Adversity and Acute Ketamine Treatment
Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Honeycutt

Craig A. McEwen Student Research Fellowship in the Social Sciences

Fellow: Sofia Fogg, '26
Research Project: Constructing Community: The Politics and Architecture of American Public Spaces
Faculty Mentor: Jill Pearlman

Fellow: Colin Wojciechowski, '26
Research Project: Emery's Dilemma
Faculty Mentor: Stephen Meardon

Micoleau Family Fellowship in the Creative and Performing Arts

Fellow: Andrew Mott, '26
Research Project: Landscape as a Tool in Creative Fiction
Faculty Mentor: Brock Clarke

Fellow: Chris Zhang, '25
Research Project: “Love Me or Kill Me”: Sarah Kane and the Theater of Cruelty
Faculty Mentor: Marilyn Reizbaum

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

Fellow: Elana Sheinkopf, '25
Research Project: Finding New Rhymes and Rhythms: Searching for Queer Temporalities Through the Poetic Medium
Faculty Mentor: Samia Rahimtoola

Rusack Coastal Studies Fellowship

Fellow: Eli Franklin, '25
Research Project: Ocean Acidification & Oyster Reef Restoration in Phippsburg, Maine
Faculty Mentor: Michèle LaVigne

Fellow: Emma Mazlish, '26
Research Project: Using High-Performance Liquid Chromatography to Quantify Phytoplankton Community Concentrations in Harpswell Sound
Faculty Mentor: Collin Roesler

Fellow: Caroline Vauclain, '25
Research Project: Total Alkalinity at Oyster Reef Restoration Sites
Faculty Mentor: Michèle LaVigne

Fellow: Henry Zucco, '25
Research Project: Assessing potential oyster reef restoration sites in Casco Bay via analysis of aragonite saturation
Faculty Mentor: Michèle LaVigne

William B. Sorabella '97 Global Health Fellowship Fund

Fellow: Esteban Tarazona Guzman, '25
Research Project: Optimize design parameters of monosaccharide-based reporters
Faculty Mentor: Danielle Dube 

Surdna Foundation Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program

Fellow: Yari Aguirre, '25
Research Project: Politics and Acculturation: How Identity and Acculturation Intersect with Politics
Faculty Mentor: Ángel Saavedra Cisneros

Fellow: Ella Beyreis, '25
Research Project: Adaptation in Translation of George Sand's Gabriel
Faculty Mentor: Charlotte Daniels

Fellow: Paul Boardman, '25
Research Project: Formation through Forms -- A Creative Bridge between the Digital and Physical Worlds
Faculty Mentor: Brock Clarke

Fellow: Ben Bockmann, '25
Research Project: Predicting Sustainability Measures from Satellite Imagery using Deep Learning
Faculty Mentor: Jeova Farias

Fellow: Alyssa Bommer, '25
Research Project: Feminist Translation: Facing the Challenge of Gendered Language When Translating Monique Wittig’s Les Guérillères
Faculty Mentor: Madeline Bedecarre

Fellow: Jennifer Ferry, '25
Research Project: Psychological Exploration into Emotional-Based Education and Childcare, Observational Study at the 91ÑÇÉ«´«Ã½ Children's Center
Faculty Mentor: Allison Miller

Fellow: Bob Fu, '25
Research Project: Human Values and Artificial Intelligence Systems: A Philosophical Examination of Alignment
Faculty Mentor: Scott Sehon

Fellow: Emma Gibbens, '25
Research Project: Establishing directionality of information flow for post-retrieval monitoring in episodic memory
Faculty Mentor: Erika Nyhus

Fellow: Tom Han, '25
Research Project: Enhancing Auditory System Analysis in Gryllus bimaculatus Through Advanced Statistical and Machine Learning Techniques
Faculty Mentors: Jack O'Brien and Hadley Horch

Fellow: Ella Jones, '25
Research Project: Shit Happens to Pretty Girls
Faculty Mentor: Brock Clarke

Fellow: Jonathan Lerdau, '25
Research Project: Jewish Anti-Zionism in Late 19th Century Italy
Faculty Mentor: Robert Morrison

Fellow: Yanevith Peña, '25
Research Project: Elucidating the Effects of Plasticizer Dibutyl Phthalate and Rosmarinic Acid on Rat Affective Behavioral and Neural Outcomes
Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Honeycutt

Fellow: Mira Pickus, '25
Research Project: That One Woman Play No One Wants to See: Disgust, Vanity, Nourishment, and the Dramatizing of Stream of Consciousness
Faculty Mentor: Abigail Killeen

Fellow: Alex Richardson, '25
Research Project: Exploring the Intersection of Statistics and Topological Data Analysis
Faculty Mentor: Jack O'Brien

Fellow: Rachel Scruby, '25
Research Project: Modern Mythologies: Translating French Cultural Constructions
Faculty Mentor: Katherine Dauge-Roth

Fellow: Claire Stoddard, '25
Research Project: Investigating the effects of incorporating a charged residue on pore formation by alamethicin
Faculty Mentor: Michael Henderson

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

Fellow: Jori Grialou, '26
Research Project: Moose Adventures: Writing and Illustrating a Picture Book 2024
Faculty Mentors: Brock Clarke and James Mullen

Student Faculty Research Grant

Fellow: Ava Biasotti, '26
Research Project: To identify an astrophysical counterpart to the neutrino, IceCube-221223A, detected in 2022. A potential counterpart, an active galaxy was detected and observed with multiwavelength observations
Faculty Mentor: Fe McBride

Fellow: Nathan Bukowski-Thall, '26
Research Project: Analyzing optical data from the Hobby-Eberly Telescope, focusing on high-redshift sources
Faculty Mentor: Fe McBride

Fellow: Anna Chen, '26
Research Project: Generalize earlier results on the precession of the orbits of primordial black holes inside neutron stars, so that they account for realistic equations of state
Faculty Mentor: Thomas Baumgarte

Fellow: Amanda Cooney, '26
Research Project: Understanding mechanisms of memory search using big data
Faculty Mentor: Abhilasha Kumar

Fellow: Nuanxi (Sissi) Feng, '24
Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Honeycutt

Fellow: Jack Frohling, '26
Research Project: Physical modeling of jetted active galaxies
Faculty Mentor: Fe McBride

Fellow: Evan Lucca, '25
Research Project: A Geometric Approach to Computing Nash Equilibria in Network Games
Faculty Mentor: Mohammad Ifran

Fellow: Luca Mckerley Coronado, '26
Research Project: Examining the Effect of the Spätzle-Toll Signaling Pathway on the Maintenance of the Deafferented Auditory Circuit
Faculty Mentor: Hadley Horch

Fellow: Liz Perot, '26
Research Project: Analyzing IceCube cascade events and identifying potential X-ray counterparts
Faculty Mentor: Fe McBride

Fellow: Kevin Reeves, '26
Research Project: Spaetzle and Toll receptors effects on dendrite length and density in Gryllus bimaculatus
Faculty Mentor: Hadley Horch

Fellow: Zach Reynolds, '24
Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Honeycutt

Fellow: Alec Rothkowitz, '26
Research Project: Study influence games literature and devise algorithms for efficient equilibria computation
Faculty Mentor: Mohammad Ifran

Fellow: Emily Simons, '24
Research Project: Devise discretized approximation algorithms for approximate Nash equilibria computation in influence games and their generalizations. The summer research particularly aims to focus on general graphs with cycles
Faculty Mentor: Mohammad Ifran

Fellow: Sadie Smith, '25
Research Project: Code and analyze data, and support some summer writing efforts as well (preparing conference proposals and/or reports)
Faculty Mentor: Alison Miller

Fellow: Catherine Benavides, '27
Research Project: IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) National Institutes of Health award
Faculty Mentor: Michael Palopoli

Fellow: Lily Curtis, '26
Research Project: IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) National Institutes of Health award
Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Honeycutt

Fellow: Elijah Dumdie, '25
Research Project: Molecular Characterization of Toll/Spz Proteins in the Cricket
Faculty Mentor: Hadley Horch

Fellow: Mya Grant, '26
Research Project: What Causes Increased Gene Expression on a Specific 96C Gene Location
Faculty Mentor: Jack Bateman

Fellow: Dylan Herring, '27
Research Project: Researching the Role of srGAPs in Filopodia Development in the Henderson Lab
Faculty Mentor: Michael Henderson

Fellow: Gabe O'Brien, '26
Research Project: The visualization and characterization of homologous maternal effect genes in Bradysia coprophila
Faculty Mentor: Jack Bateman

Fellow: Natalie Peralta, '26
Research Project: Determining the phospholipid binding specificity of srGAP membrane-binding proteins
Faculty Mentor: Michael Henderson

Fellow: Alicia Ross, '25
Research Project: The Influence of Toll-6.1 and Toll-6.2 Pathways in the Development of Gryllus bimaculatus
Faculty Mentor: Hadley Horch

Fellow: Ben Sachs, '26
Research Project: IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) National Institutes of Health award
Faculty Mentor: Hadley Horch

91ÑÇÉ«´«Ã½ Fellowships in the Life Sciences

Fellow: Aale Agans, '25
Research Project: Implementing DIPA-CRISPR in Bradysia coprophila for Affordable and Accessible Genetic Editing
Faculty Mentor: Jack Bateman

Fellow: Eva Ahn, '26
Research Project: Local Adaptation and Parasite Tolerance in Daphnia Populations
Faculty Mentor: Mary Rogalski

Fellow: Ellie Chan, '25
Research Project: Improving Understanding and Modeling of Carbon Dioxide Fluxes in Urban Spaces via Turfgrass Monitoring
Faculty Mentor: Barry Logan

Fellow: Stephanie Christianson, '26
Research Project: Effects of the plasticizer DBP on spinal locomotor activity through the lumbar CPG network and turmeric as a potential neuroprotective
Faculty Mentor: Manuel Diaz-Rios

Fellow: Tyler Deane, '25
Research Project: Evaluation of Rosmarinic Acid as a Neuroprotectant Against Dibutyl Phthalate
Faculty Mentor: Manuel Diaz-Rios

Fellow: Natalie Faillace, '26
Research Project: The causal role of theta oscillations in episodic memory
Faculty Mentor: Erike Nyhus

Fellow: Erik Infante, '26
Research Project: Plant fluorescence in relation to CO2 assimilation
Faculty Mentor: Barry Logan

Fellow: Ruth Olujobi, '25
Research Project: Accessing the molecular effects of Di-2-ethylhexyl phthalate (DEHP) and rosmarinic acid in the mice spinal locomotor network
Faculty Mentor: Manuel Diaz-Rios

Fellow: Annabella Williams, '26
Research Project: New Forests: Investing In Our Land and Future
Faculty Mentor: Barry Logan

Burns Fellowship

Fellow: Sam Bonauto, '25
Research Project: Development of a Backpack Sized Ratiometer to Determine Surface Fluxes of CO2 and O2
Faculty Mentor: Mark Battle

Fellow: Juan Diego DelPrado, '26
Research Project: Numerical simulations of primordial black holes and neutron stars/white dwarfs
Faculty Mentor: Thomas Baumgarte

Fellow: Benjamin Pinto Arroyo, '25
Research Project: Research on High Frequency IDTs and Sezawa Waves at Paul-Drude Institute
Faculty Mentor: Madeleine Msall

Fellow: Simon Thomas, '25
Research Project: Carbon Dioxide and Oxygen in Forests: Comparing Data from Harvard Forest and the WLEF Tower
Faculty Mentor: Mark Battle

Irma Cheatham Summer Research

Fellow: Gracie Loney, '25
Research Project: "Finding Community After the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre."
Faculty Mentor: Brian Purnell

James Stacy Coles Summer Research Fellowship in Chemistry

Fellow: DK Kang, '25
Research Project: Examining uptake of fluorescent sugar probes in bacteria
Faculty Mentor: Danielle Dube

Fellow: Anika Sen, '26
Research Project: Investigation of the Influence of Different Side Chains Surrounding the Thionated Residue on Peptoid Secondary Structure
Faculty Mentor: Benjamin Gorske

Cooke Environmental Research Fellowship

Fellow: Liliana Restrepo, '26
Research Project: Cooke Environmental Research Fellowship with Naugatuck Valley Health Department
Faculty Mentors: Mary Lou Zeeman

Fellow: Gabe Sarno, '25
Research Project: Cooke Environmental Research Fellowship with Shell+Claw
Faculty Mentors: Mary Rogalski

Theodore Samuel Danzig '22 Memorial Fellowship Fund

Fellow: Ari Bersch, '25
Research Project: When Populists Come to Power
Faculty Mentors: Henry Laurence

Denning Summer Fellowship

Fellow: Hanna Cha, '25

Fellow: Elizabeth Gill, '25

Fellow: Karen Gonzalez, '25

Fellow: Frances Hornbostel, '25

Fellow: Jingyuan Huang, '25

Fellow: Fatima Kunjo, '25

Fellow: Brian Liu, '25

Fellow: Ryan Ngo, '25

Fellow: Eleina Sturk, '25

Fellow: Ciara Tran, '24.5

Fellow: Alex Washburn, '25

Freedman Summer Research Fellowship in Computer Science

Fellow: Justas Bardauskas, '27
Research Project: Using Satellite Imagery to Predict the Poverty Rate at a Given Location
Faculty Mentor: Jeova Farias

Fellow: Ulemj Munkhtur, '26
Research Project: Using Artificial Intelligence to Improve the K-Means Clustering Algorithm
Faculty Mentor: Jeova Farias

Gibbons Summer Research Program

Fellow: Adam Carlisle, '25
Research Project: The Economic Impacts of Disinfection By-Products in Drinking Water on Communities
Faculty Mentor: Erik Nelson

Fellow: Katherine Cheston, '25
Research Project: Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum: Engaging High and Middle School Students with Virtual Lesson Plans
Faculty Mentors: Susan Kaplan and Genevieve LeMoine

Fellow: Matthew Goodman, '26
Research Project: Cultivating “Diverse” Student Bodies
Faculty Mentor: Ingrid Nelson

Fellow: Anneke Halliday, '25
Research Project: Dialogues in Afrolatinidad
Faculty Mentors: Michele Reid-Vazquez and Christian Puma Ninacuri

Fellow: Richard Lim, '27
Research Project: CompCog: Modeling Search within the Mental Lexicon
Faculty Mentor: Abhilasha Kumar

Fellow: Louisa Linkas, '26
Research Project: Mapping Damage of Winter Storms on the Maine Coast
Faculty Mentor: Jeova Farias

Fellow: Maya Tang, '27
Research Project: Measuring the Impact of Artificial Intelligence Technology on Employment and the Work Environment in the Legal Industry
Faculty Mentor: Tatyana Avilova

Global Citizens Fellowship

Fellow: Nate Berg, '27

Fellow: Mila Bonometti, '26

Fellow: Lex Davis, '26

Fellow: Jimmy Netherton, '26

Fellow: Luisa Wolcott-Breen, '25

Alfred E Golz Fellowship

Fellow: Kiana Gonzalez, '26
Research Project: A Narrative History of the Puerto Rican Healthcare System
Faculty Mentor: Javier Cikota

Fellow: Michael Gordon, '25
Research Project: The Pale in Comparison: The Bund, Nationalism, and Competing Visions of Turn-of-the-Century Jewish Emancipation
Faculty Mentor: Salar Mohandesi

Fellow: Jason Olaru-Hagen, '25
Research Project: The Legacy of the Ceausescu Dictatorship
Faculty Mentor: Salar Mohandesi

Kappa Psi Upsilon Maine Based Environmental Fellowship

Fellow: Issie Gale, '25

Fellow: Evan Grauer, '26

Fellow: Chase Lenk, '26

Fellow: Naomi Lopez, '26

Fellow: Eli Mears, '26

Fellow: Asher Savel, '26

Fellow: Chloe Sheahan, '26

Fellow: Zoe Stonorov, '25

Fellow: Selima Terras, '26

Fellow: Wren West, '25

Fellow: Justin Whitney, '25

Fellow: Eden Zumbrun, '26

William D. Littlefield Fund Fellowship

Fellow: Daniel Chi, '24
Faculty Mentor: Benjamin Gorske

Fellow: Mohammed Chowdhury, '25
Research Project: Development of transition metal catalysts for renewable energy storage
Faculty Mentor: Brandon Tate

Fellow: Sam Koegler, '26
Research Project: Exploring Positive Charges' Ability to Increase Chiral Peptoids' Enantioselectivity in Trifluoromethylation Reactions
Faculty Mentor: Benjamin Gorske

Fellow: Pilar Saavedra-Weis, '25
Research Project: Examining Inhibition of Glycoprotein Biosynthesis by O-anthracene glycosides in Helicobacter pylori
Faculty Mentor: Danielle Dube

Maine Community Fellowship

Fellow: Nasra Abdirahman, '26

Fellow: Yasmine Biyashev, '26

Fellow: Caitlin Cowan, '26

Fellow: Mason Daugherty, '25

Fellow: Gary Hernandez, '27

Fellow: Yusur Jasim, '25 

Fellow: Ben Johnson, '26

Fellow: Georgia Katkov, '26

Fellow: Sophia Poeschla, '26

Fellow: Ruby Pollack, '25

Fellow: Carolyne Sauda, '27

Fellow: Charlotte Sweet, '25

Dana Walker Mayo Summer Research Fellowship

Fellow: Gabriel Bloom-O'Sullivan, '25
Research Project: Characterizing the Role of Carboxylic Acid Substituents in the Photocatalytic Degradation of Ibuprofen Structural Variants
Faculty Mentor: Elizabeth Stemmler

Fellow: Runqin Chen, '26
Research Project: The Effect of Cellulose Polymer Additives on Properties of Mefenamic acid/Nicotinamide Cocrystals
Faculty Mentor: Amnon Ortoll-Bloch

Fellow: Pranav Vadlamudi, '26
Research Project: Elucidating the Effects of Ionic Liquids on the Synthesis of Cobalt and Aluminum-Based Metal Organic-Frameworks (MOFs)
Faculty Mentor: Amnon Ortoll-Bloch

McKeen Center Washington, DC

Fellow: Jack Andrews, '25

Fellow: Violet Apodaca, '25

Fellow: Camille Beaulieu, '25

Fellow: Victor Ferreira Souza, '26

Fellow: Ruby Fyffe, '26

Fellow: Ange Ishimwe, '25

Fellow: Chelsea Moddy, '25

Fellow: Shivani Schmulen, '26

Fellow: Charlotte Tagupa, '26

Fellow: Eleanor Donahue, '25

Fellow: Rithmaka Karunadhara, '26

Fellow: Daniel Lee, '27

Fellow: Ashley Morash, '26

Fellow: Ben Weintraub, '26

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship

Fellow: Kirstin Hayes, '26

Fellow: Phoebe Marin, '26

Fellow: Kaavya Mundkur, '26

Fellow: Becca Silva, '26

Fellow: Julia Xiang-Wang, '26

Paller Neuroscience 2024-2025 Academic Year Fellowship

Fellow: Ephraim Boamah, '25
Research Project: Characterizing the effects of pre-natal exposure to plasticizer Dibutyl phthalate on motor activity in rat offspring
Faculty Mentor: Manuel Diaz-Rios

Fellow: Emma Gibbens, '25
Research Project: Establishing Directionality of Information Flow for Post-retrieval Monitoring in Episodic Memory
Faculty Mentor: Erika Nyhus

Fellow: Cassidy Scott, '25
Research Project: Identifying sexual dimorphism in epigenetic markers and behavior following Early Life Adversity and Acute Ketamine Treatment
Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Honeycutt

Matilda and John Riley Research Award

 

Fellow: Moana Gregori, '26
Research Project: Investigating the effect of microfinance programs on revitalizing Assam’s Muga silk weaving culture by enhancing weavers’ self-efficacy
Faculty Mentor: Krista Van Vleet

Fellow: Hamda Hussein, '25
Research Project: AI Perpetuates Inequality Experienced by People of Color
Faculty Mentor: Oyman Basaran

Fellow: Avery Leisle, '25
Research Project: “Education is the Most Important Thing”: Lessons in Empowering New Mainers
Faculty Mentor: Krista Van Vleet

Fellow: Anya Workman, '25
Research Project: Plants and People: Ethnography on Two Rural Minnesota Farms
Faculty Mentor: Willi Lempert

Jasper Jacob Stahl Fellowship for the Study of Mediterranean Antiquity

Fellow: Gianna Turk, '24
Research Project: Living Latin in Rome - Paideia Institute
Faculty Mentor: Robert Sobak

Allen Wells Travel & Research Award

Fellow: Kaitlyn Brunner, '25
Research Project: Environmental Exploitation in Vaca Muerta: Exploration of the Pampa and Argentina Environmental Imaginations
Faculty Mentor: Carolyn Wolfernzon

Fellow: Catalina Dezha, '25
Research Project: Changing the Meaning
Faculty Mentor: Jay Sosa

Fellow: Anneke Halliday, '25
Research Project: Understanding Cultural Competence in Mobile Unit Healthcare for Migrant Workers in Maine

Fellow: Zerimar Ramirez, '25
Research Project: The Historical Process of National Identity: anti-Haitianism and the Dominican Archives in the Independence Period
Faculty Mentor: Irina Popescu

Class of 2024.5

Zac Borden                                                                                    

Meredith Stetter                                                                                  

Talia Traskos-Hart

Class of 2025

Emma Akuyeva                                                                                    

Noah Alexander

Yasemin Altug

Nia Ashby

Candice Ballarin

Jenna Barac

Annika Bell

Taira Blakely

Anna (Fiona) Bor

Lia Busby

Liam Carvajal Janke

Hilary Castro

Owen Chambers

Tatum Coffey

Max Danenhower

Alina Dau

Angela Delgado

Lucy Dutton

Esthan Estrada

Cole Fairfield 

Cara Fields

Audrey Fillion

Jolie Ganzell

Sujan Garapati

Josh Goldstein

Seth Gorelik

Owen Gramley

Sapphire Hall

Thomas Hall

Siena Harrigan

Ayhorng Heng

Ella Henry

Austin Hiscoe

Charlotte Hodge 

Ilo Holdridge

Zunain Husain

Benjamin Israel

Amerlia Jacobson

Rania Aminmohamed S Janmohamed

Jasmine Jia

Alexander Kaye

Olivia Kenney

Yassine Khayati

Rebekah Kim

Aeri Ko

Penn Lee

Nat Loh

Robert Long

Hank Marriott

Grace Mattern

Miranda Huang

Alexander "Sasha" McFarland

Mario Mero

Aidan Michelow

Austria Morehouse

Kevin Murray

Imani Myers

Saivaahini Neelagiri

Amanda Newcombe

Claire Nguyen

Jondall Norris

Emma Olney

Conor Padmanabhan

Sejal Patel

Sebastian Perez

Zoe Peterson

Alejandro Ramos

Iris Reyes

Ella Riccio

Arly Rodriguez

Sara Schrag

Arjuna Sivapala

Sally Solotaroff-Webber

Philip Spyrou

Abigail Steinwachs

Sophia Tottene Darvas

Khue Anh Tran

Benjamin Turnbull

King Weatherspoon

Maya White

Hanna Wurdack

Hewan Yoseph

Campbell Zeigler 

Class of 2026

Luciano Agudelo

Miles Bartlett

Andrea Becker

Samuel Borovoy

Oliver Bruce

Chinwe Bruns

Emma Butterfield 

Colin Campbell

Alessandro Benedetto Carelli 

Oliver Clachko

Patrick Clark

Charlotte Clements

Emily Collins 

Paul Conti

Andrea Cordova Cisneros 

Sara Coughlin

Emma Crum

Sophie Cullen

Ethan Danielson

Anthony DiChiara

Ashton Dunlap

Lily Echeverria 

Adam Ewing

David Reynaldo Fuentez

Miles Goodell

Everett Gordon

Kyra Hacker

Evie Hamer

Nikki Harris

June Hartman

Hunter Hong

Eden Horton

Charlotte Iannone

Logan Johnson

Delaney Jones

Rafeeq Kassam-Jiwani

Phoebe Kolff

Erin Lamping

Danielle Lancaster

Jung Yeon (Paulina) Lee

William Lesko

Ava Liversidge

Abigail Martin

Rachea McDonald 

Andrew Mendelson

Neiman Mocombe

Nicholas Mott

Patrick Neal

Aurelie Nishimwe

Michael Norton

Katherine O'Connell

Alexander Ordentlich

Iran Pacheco Martinez

Natalie Peralta

Ana Pumayalli

Abigail Ramirez

Emma Randall-Jarrard

Shumaim Rashid

Grace Raymond

Rohan Rosen

Hailey Ryan

Sebastian Sahlman

Ellie Saksena

Siara Soule

Blythe Thompson

Eric Traub

Samuel Turrigiano

Nicholas Viscusi

Hanako Walker

Elizabeth Walsh

Maddie Wilkin

Tom Wilson

Seamus Woodruff

Justin Wright

Dylan Zhang

Class of 2027

Rafael Almeida

Enes Aykuter

Karime Borrego

Dila Cakir

Courtland Callis

Grace Chang

Si Ting Chen

Gisela Contreras

Nicholas Enbar-Salo

Carlos Hernandez Santiago

Stella Johnson

Peyton Jones

Conner Lee

Masha Pesniak

Eric Pieper

Vinci Shi

Weiyan Su

Sage Tonomura-MacDonald

Sinan Tuncer

Valerie Whitten