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º¬Ðß²ÝÑо¿ÊÒ Research Fellowship

Fellow: Jialing Tian '21
Research Project: Modeling and Analysis of Honeybees' Nest-Site Selection
Faculty Mentor: Jack O'Brien

Christenfeld Summer Research Fellowship

Fellow: Benjamin Simonds '21
Research Project: Frustration as a Moderator of Scapegoating Behavior using Rothschild et al.’s Dual-Motive Model
Faculty Mentor: Zachary Rothschild

Fellow: Michael Tirone '21
Research Project: Predicting Andeans Mountain Paths Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Faculty Mentor: Lauren Kohut

James Stacy Coles Summer Research Fellowship

Fellow: Anaise Manikunda '21
Research Project: Teaching Privacy and Security Concepts
Faculty Mentor: Stacy Doore

Fellow: Camilo Pareja '22
Research Project: Computational-aided Poster Design Assessment to Facilitate Science Communication
Faculty Mentor: Sarah Harmon

Martha Reed Coles Summer Fellowship

Fellow: Aida Muratoglu '21
Research Project: A Site of Inquiry: Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Gardening Philosophy
Faculty Mentor: Tess Chakkalakal

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

Fellow: Audrey Jordan '21
Research Project: Determining the sites at which neuromodulators exert peripheral effects in the American Lobster (Homarus Americanus)
Faculty Mentor: Patsy Dickinson

Fellow: Anthony Yanez '22
Research Project: Effects and interactions of two endogenous amines on the cardiac system of the American Lobster
Faculty Mentor: Patsy Dickinson

Fellow: Benjamin Wong '20
Research Project: Responses of central pattern generators in the American lobster STNS to a family of neuropeptides
Faculty Mentor: Patsy Dickinson

Fellow: Grace Bukowski-Thall '20
Research Project: The role of behavioral diversity in determining the extent to which neuronal patterns are modulated
Faculty Mentor: Patsy Dickinson

Fellow: Madison Thies '21
Research Project: Cellular mechanisms and regulation of stretch feedback in the heart of Homarus americanus
Faculty Mentor: Patsy Dickinson

Fellow: Marie Bergsund '20
Research Project: The role of feedback in determining the stability of the lobster heart in response to temperature perturbations
Faculty Mentor: Patsy Dickinson

Fellow: Ricky Tsang '21
Research Project: Does the need for flexibility in movements drive neuromodulatory capacity?
Faculty Mentor: Patsy  Dickinson

Fellow: Warsameh Bulhan '22
Research Project: Role of Specific Amino Acids in the Function of Allatostatin Peptides in the American Lobster
Faculty Mentor: Patsy Dickinson

Robert and Blythe Edwards Fund for the Arts

Fellow: Caroline Dranow '20
Research Project: To Construct a Memory
Faculty Mentor: James Mullen

Freedman Summer Research Fellowship in Coastal/Environmental Studies

Fellow: Dalia Tabachnik '21
Research Project: Solar Induced Fluorescence (SIF) as an Indicator of Photosynthesis
Faculty Mentor: Barry Logan

Fellow: Elizabeth Baker '22
Research Project: Road salt effects on local Daphnia populations
Faculty Mentor: Mary Rogalski

Fellow: Utku  Ferah '21
Research Project: Local Adaptation Project
Faculty Mentor: Mary Rogalski

Goldsmith Adams Research Award

Fellow: Peter Jacobson '20
Research Project: A Summer in Nepal: Studying and Teaching Language at the  Rangjung Yeshe Institute and Bamboo School

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

Fellow: Brandon Morande '19
Research Project: Salud callejera: Mobilizing cuidado at the margins of neoliberalism
Faculty Mentor: Oyman Basaran

Fellow: Colby Joncas '19
Research Project: Functional Connectivity and Neural Oscillations in Episodic Memory
Faculty Mentor: Erika Nyhus

Fellow: Emily Oleisky '20
Research Project: The relationship between receptor expression and function in patterned generators
in crustacean nervous systems
Faculty Mentor: Patsy Dickinson

Fellow: Ethan Winter '19
Research Project: E. E. Schattschneider and the Development of a National Party System, 1935-1969
Faculty Mentor: Jeffrey  Selinger

Fellow: Grace Wheeler '19
Research Project: The Effects of Emotion Regulation Strategies on Emotion Recognition in Depression
Faculty Mentor: Kelly Parker-Guilbert

Fellow: Hannah Karlan '19
Research Project: New American Farming in Maine
Faculty Mentor: Shana Starobin

Fellow: Julian Garrison '19
Research Project: Salt in the Wound: Relationship between salinity gradients, stomatal morphology, and epigenetics in the common reed, Phragmites australis.
Faculty Mentor: Barry Logan

Fellow: Kacie  Nelson '19
Research Project: Degradation Pathways in Aminonaphthols
Faculty Mentor: Kana Takematsu

Fellow: Kai'olu DeFries '19
Research Project: Photocatalytic Degradation of Ibuprofen, Ketoprofen, and Naproxen 
Faculty Mentor: Elizabeth Stemmler

Fellow: Kitrea Takata-Glushkoff '19
Research Project: Parameterizing Glacier Thinning and Retreat: A Case Study in High Mountain Asia
Pacifica (Kitrea)
Faculty Mentor: Philip Camill

Fellow: Kinaya Hassane '19
Research Project: Shaping Canons and Building Legacies: Collectors and the History of African American
Art
Faculty Mentor: Dana Byrd

Fellow: Lauren Hickey '20
Research Project: The Role of Social Networks in Climate-Resiliency among Farmer-Campesinos in Maine and Bolivia 
Faculty Mentor: Shana Starobin

Fellow: Luke Frankel '18
Research Project: Evaluating ecosystem change in the Gulf of Maine using biogeographic regions derived from satellite observations of sea surface temperature and chlorophyll concentration
Faculty Mentor: Collin Roesler

Fellow: Maddie Rolph '19
Research Project: Mechanisms underlying variable responses to isoforms of the neuropeptide C-type allatostatin (AST-C) in the American lobster, Homarus americanus                                     
Faculty Mentor: Patsy Dickinson

Fellow: Madeleine King '19
Research Project: New American Farming in Maine
Faculty Mentor: Shana Starobin

Fellow: Manlio Calentti '20
Research Project: An experimental and analytical investigation of clinopyroxene sector zoning in two Hawaiian magmas
Faculty Mentor: Emily Peterman

Fellow: Matthew Maguire '19
Research Project: Tension production and sarcomere length in lobster (Homarus americanus) cardiac muscles: the
mechanisms underlying mechanical anisotropy
Faculty Mentor: Amy Johnson

Fellow: Miranda  Miller '19
Research Project: Becoming Brasília: A Gregarious Capital City
Faculty Mentor: Jill Pearlman

Fellow: Noah Dubay '19
Research Project: Madame Medea: European Reimaginings in the 19th Century
Faculty Mentor: Susan Wegner

Fellow: Oratile Monkhei '20
Research Project: Racist Persuasions: How Historical Formations of Chinese Identity Inform Mainland
China’s Contemporary Views of Africans 
Faculty Mentor: Tara Mock

Fellow: Phoebe  Zipper '19
Research Project: Native Sovereignty in the Shatter Zone: The Northern Theater of King Philip's War
Faculty Mentor: Strother Roberts

Fellow: Rosa Rossi-Goldthorpe '19
Research Project: Flow-kick Systems in Neuroscience: Applications to the Treatment of Bipolar Disorder
Faculty Mentor: Mary Lou  Zeeman

Fellow: Sadie LoGerfo-Olsen '19
Research Project: From Stories to Change: Examining the Political Power of Gendered First Person Narratives in the United States
Faculty Mentor: Jay Sosa

Fellow: Sam Brill-Weil '20
Research Project: Characterization of injury-induced changes in the brain circuitry of the cricket, Gryllus bimaculatus
Faculty Mentor: Hadley Horch

Fellow: Samuel Adler '19
Research Project: The Evolution of the Immigrantenfilm in Germany
Faculty Mentor: Jill Smith

Fellow: Sofia Trogu '19
Research Project: Functional Connectivity and Neural Oscillations in Episodic Memory
Faculty Mentor: Erika Nyhus

Fellow: Stephen Pastoriza '19
Research Project: Conceptualizing Beauty and Capturing Love: Images of Women in the Works of Ivan
Turgenev and Aleksei Kharlamov
Faculty Mentor: Alyssa Gillespie

Fellow: Tessa Epstein '19
Research Project: Novel Sugar-Based Gold Inhibitors of Helicobacter pylori
Faculty Mentor: Danielle Dube

Fellow: Tobi Omola '19
Research Project: Fortuno - Music composition, recording, and performance
Faculty Mentor: Vineet Shende

Fellow: Valeria Magallan '19
Research Project: The Role of Quinone Methides in Dimerization of Coniferyl Alcohol in Wood-Based Pyrolysis Oil
Faculty Mentor: Elizabeth Stemmler

Fellow: Zoe Aarons '19
Research Project: Rapid Processing of High Resolution Bamboo Coral Barium/Calcium Records from the California Margin
Faculty Mentor: Michele LaVigne

Hughes Family Summer Research Fellowship

Fellow: David Bombard '22
Research Project: Solar Induced Fluorescence (SIF) as an Indicator of Photosynthesis
Faculty Mentor: Barry Logan

Fellow: Shona Ortiz '21
Research Project: A Thermochronological Study of the Central Appalachian Mountains
Faculty Mentor: Jaclyn Baughman

Kaufman Family Fellowship

Fellow: Jack Beckitt-Marshall '21
Research Project: Vector-based Machine Translation between English and German
Faculty Mentor: Eric Chown

Kibbe Science Fellowship

Fellow: Alexander Burns '21
Research Project: Representations of Real Numbers
Faculty Mentor: Michael King

Fellow: Kimberly Hancock '21
Research Project: Cascades with Overexposure in Social Networks
Faculty Mentor: Mohammad Irfan

Fellow: Nawapan Wattanawanichkul '21
Research Project: A Computation of L(2k + 1, χ4)
Faculty Mentor: Naomi Tanabe

Fellow: Renita Shivnauth '21
Research Project: The Complexity of the Black Scholes Model and the Poisson Process
Faculty Mentor: Patricia  Garmirian

Fellow: Rose Xi '22
Research Project: Natural Language Learning Supports to  Represent STEM Graphical Materials for Students with Vision Impairments
Faculty Mentor: Stacy Doore

Kufe Family Research Fellowship

Fellow: Andrew Bolender '21
Research Project: Chromatin Conformation Analysis of Enhancer Usage
Faculty Mentor: Michael Palopoli

Fellow: Claire Havig '21
Research Project: Sonic Hedgehog Expression During Tooth Development in Danio rerio
Faculty Mentor: William Jackman

Fellow: Edward Bull '20
Research Project: The characterization of glycosylated neuropeptides from the lobster, Homarus americanus
Faculty Mentor: Elizabeth Stemmler

Fellow: Frances  Zorensky '20
Research Project: Isolation of Cell Adhesion Mutations In A Flowering Plant
Faculty Mentor: Bruce Kohorn

Fellow: Ilana Olin '20
Research Project: An Innovative Approach to Improving Antibiotics: Investigating the Efficacy of Inhibiting Pathogen Glycosylation to Synergistically Improve Existing Antibiotics
Faculty Mentor: Danielle Dube

Fellow: Manlio Calentti '20
Research Project: Analysis of sector-zoned clinopyroxene from Kauaʻi, Hawaiʻi
Faculty Mentor: Rachel Beane

Fellow: Onyedika Onuorah '22
Research Project: Tick-borne Invasion of Lyme Disease in Maine
Faculty Mentor: Vladimir Douhovnikoff

Fellow: Yujin Moon '20
Research Project: The examination of 213 bp dlx2b enhancer that is required for the expression of dlx2b gene during tooth formation
Faculty Mentor: William Jackman

Edward E. Langbein Sr. Summer Fellowship

Fellow: Julia Morris '18
Research Project: Using Organic Chemistry to move towards a greener future: experimental investigation into the dimerization of linear alpha olefins
Faculty Mentor: Richard Broene

Fellow: Katharine Morse-Gagne '19
Research Project: Bodily Manifestations of Race and Place in Middle English Literature
Faculty Mentor: Emma Maggie Solberg

Lifson Family Summer Research Fellowship

Fellow: Isabel Thomas '20
Research Project:Broadway as National Cultural Representation
Faculty Mentor: Theo Greene

Maine Space Grant Consortium Fellowship

Fellow: Adedunmola Adewale '22
Research Project: Discovery of genes required for glycolipids biosynthesis in the gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori
Faculty Mentor: Danielle Dube

Fellow: David Brower '20
Research Project: Variation in Gene Expression in D. melanogaster
Faculty Mentor: Michael  Palopoli

Fellow: Hannah Konkel '20
Research Project: Investigating chromatin conformation and enhancer usage in Drosophila
Faculty Mentor: Mike Palopoli

Fellow: Ida Cortez '20
Research Project: Exploration of Kochen-Specker Colorability 
Faculty Mentor: Manuel Reyes

Fellow: Joanna Lin '22
Research Project: Rapid effects of sex steroids in goldfish (Carassius auratus): behavioral and anatomical approaches.
Faculty Mentor: Richmond Thompson

Fellow: Leah Kratochvil '20
Research Project: Rapid effects of sex steroids on PGF2 approach response in zebrafish (Danio rerio)
Faculty Mentor: Richmond Thompson

Fellow: Michelle Luan '22
Research Project: Computational Design & Synthesis to Facilitate Science Communication
Faculty Mentor: Sarah Harmon

Craig A. McEwen Student Research Fellowship in the Social Sciences

Fellow: Mackey O'Keefe '21
Research Project: An Umpire Among Equals:
The Espoused and Practiced Judicial Philosophy of Chief Justice John Roberts
Faculty Mentor: Maron Sorenson

Fellow: Theodora Hurley '20
Research Project: Reproductive Decision-Making Among Women in MidCoast Maine
Faculty Mentor: Nancy Riley

Micoleau Family Fellowship in the Creative and Performing Arts

Fellow: Nathan Blum '20
Research Project: Non-Prophets: Boys, Technology, and Contemporary Education in the Novel
Faculty Mentor: Brock Clarke

Fellow: Sebastian Hernandez '20
Research Project: A Play in Sketches
Faculty Mentor: Davis Robinson

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

Fellow: Marcus Helble '21
Research Project: A History and Analysis of Iraqi Jewish Emigration to the United States
Faculty Mentor: Idriss Jebari

Patterson/Baird Family Research Fellowship

Fellow: Jairo Izaguirre '22
Research Project: Looking Back at the Lost Generation: Representing Veterans of the First World War in German Literature and Culture during the Weimar Republic & Now
Faculty Mentor: Jill Smith

Rusack Coastal Studies Fellowship

Fellow: Emma Bertke '20
Research Project: The Sea Star Oscillatory Gait: Flow and Inclines
Faculty Mentor: Amy Johnson

Fellow: Kaya Wurtzel '21
Research Project: The Sea Star Oscillatory Gait: Flow and Inclines
Faculty Mentor: Amy Johnson

Fellow: Samuel Milligan '20
Research Project: Fiction on the Coast of Maine
Faculty Mentor: Brock Clarke

Fellow: Sophia Walton '21
Research Project: The Sea Star Oscillatory Gait: Flow and Inclines
Faculty Mentor: Amy Johnson

Stahl Summer Research Fellowship

Fellow: Ishani Agarwal '20
Research Project: Cinematic Reimaginings of Early Christians in Ancient Rome
Faculty Mentor: Catherine Baker

Surdna Foundation Undergraduate Research Fellowship

Fellow: Alyce McFadden '20
Research Project: Rousseau, Ritual, and Revolution
Faculty Mentor: Michael Hawley

Fellow: Augustus Gilchrist '20
Research Project: "The Happiness that Redeems the Bitterness of Previous Pages": Mikhail Zoshchenko and the 19th Century Russian Canon
Faculty Mentor: Alyssa Gillespie

Fellow: Caleb Perez '20
Research Project: Investigating the role of fgf10 in Zebrafish tooth development via a CRISPR-Cas9 generated reporter knockout
Faculty Mentor: Wiliam Jackman

Fellow: Camila Papadopoulo '20
Research Project: Companion
Faculty Mentor: Anthony  Walton

Fellow: Claudine Chartouni '20
Research Project: Contemporary Elite Italian Art Collectors and the Cultural Context that Shaped Them
Faculty Mentor: Arielle Saiber

Fellow: Danielle Horne '20
Research Project: Clonal Plant Response to Loss of Connectivity in Quaking Aspens (Populus tremuloides)
Faculty Mentor: Vladimir Douhovnikoff

Fellow: Daniel Strodel '20
Research Project: Agent Based Modelling of Rental Markets
Faculty Mentor: Jack O'Brien

Fellow: Dani Hove '20
Research Project: A Cure for Neuromancers: Developing Software Solutions to Cyber Sickness with Tunneling and
Predictive Rail Systems
Faculty Mentor: Sarah Harmon

Fellow: Eleanor Sapat '20
Research Project: Chowing Down East: A Collection of Essays Exploring Food, Family and History
Faculty Mentor: Alex Marzano-Lesnevich

Fellow: Emma Bezilla '20
Research Project: Advanced Mammals: Stories
Faculty Mentor: Brock Clarke

Fellow: John Rodgers '20
Research Project: Temporality in Proust, Joyce, and Woolf: A Literary-Philosophical Study
Faculty Mentor: Marilyn Reizbaum

Fellow: John Tarlton '20
Research Project: Dreamland: Essays - A creative nonfiction writing collection
Faculty Mentor: Alex Marzano-Lesnevich

Fellow: Luke Basler '20
Research Project: Constraining the mid-to-low temperature thermal history of the Central Appalachian Mountains using zircon (U-Th)/He thermochronology
Faculty Mentor: Jaclyn Baughman

Fellow: Owen Tuck '20
Research Project: Inhibition of Helicobacter pylori glycoprotein biosynthesis
Faculty Mentor: Danielle Dube

Fellow: Ray Tarango '20
Research Project: Bosques Si, Tala No”: The Uprising of Cherán, Michoacán
Faculty Mentor: Javier Cikota

Fellow: Reyna Parker '20
Research Project: Examining Enhancers and PREs In Relation to Gene Expression in the Eyes Absent Gene Within Drosophila melanogaster
Faculty Mentor: Jack  Bateman

Fellow: Zachary Coddington '20
Research Project: The Spartan Ideal in Modern Political Theory
Faculty Mentor: Robert Sobak

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

Fellow: Frances Weed '21
Research Project: Exploring Perspective in Poetry
Faculty Mentor: Anthony Walton

Fellow: Hadley McCollester '20
Research Project: Short Film Screenplay and Storyboard
Faculty Mentor: Allison  Cooper

Student Faculty Research Grant Fellowships

Fellow: Alanna Haslam '20
Research Project: Resilience in Biological Systems: Analytic Approaches to Flow-kick Dynamical Systems
Faculty Mentor: Mary Lou Zeeman

Fellow: Brittany Hernandez '19
Research Project: From Paleoceanography to Policy: applying historical coastal pH baselines from long lived shells and skeletons to contemporary shellfish aquaculture
Faculty Mentor: Collin Roesler

Fellow: Caleb Eurich '21
Research Project: Computing Ethics Narratives: Embedding Ethics into the º¬Ðß²ÝÑо¿ÊÒ Computer Science Curriculum.
Faculty Mentor: Stacy Doore

Fellow: Donald Detchou '19
Research Project: Directed Interactions During Episodic Memory
Faculty Mentor: Erika Nyhus

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

Fellow: Jordan Ferraras '20
Research Project: Inferring homeostatic structure in microbial systems
Faculty Mentor: Jack O-Brien

Fellow: Julia Perillo '22
Research Project: Computing Ethics Narratives: Embedding Ethics into the º¬Ðß²ÝÑо¿ÊÒ Computer Science Curriculum.
Faculty Mentor: Stacy Doore

Fellow: Julia Zitzmann '20
Research Project: Testosterone's Effect on Olfactory Processing in Carrasius auratus
Faculty Mentor: Richmond Thompson

Fellow: Julie Scholes '20
Research Project: Behavioral analysis of compensatory plasticity in the auditory system of crickets, Gryllus bimaculatus
Faculty Mentor: Hadley Horch

Fellow: Katie Bacall '20
Research Project: The Influence of Warming, Acidification, and Nutrients on the Health of Gulf of Maine Intertidal Communities
Faculty Mentor: Collin Roesler

Fellow: Rosa Rossi-Goldthorpe '19
Research Project: Modeling the Mechanism of Lithium in the Treatment of Bipolar Disorder
Faculty Mentor: Mary Lou Zeeman

Fellow: Rhianna Patel '20
Research Project: Identifying the Role of Theta Oscillations in the Transient Network Dynamics Involved in Episodic Memory
Faculty Mentor: Erika Nyhus

Fellow: Sam Grad '21
Research Project: Computing Ethics Narratives: Embedding Ethics into the º¬Ðß²ÝÑо¿ÊÒ Computer Science Curriculum.
Faculty Mentor: Stacy Doore

Fellow: Samuel Brill-Weil '20
Research Project: Characterization of injury-induced changes in the brain circuitry of the cricket, Gryllus bimaculatus
Faculty Mentor: Hadley Horch

Arnold and Mable Beckman Foundation Scholarship

Fellow: Audrey Muscato '20
Research Project: Mechanisms underlying variable responses to the neuropeptide C-type allatostatin (ASTC) among individuals in the American lobster, Homarus americanus
Faculty Mentor: Patsy Dickinson

Fellow: Hyungyu Lee '19 
Research Project:
Faculty Mentor: Danielle Dube

º¬Ðß²ÝÑо¿ÊÒ Fellowships in the Life Sciences

Fellow: Bethany Thach '21
Research Project: Restoration of Sight in Blind Fruit Flies
Faculty Mentor: Jack Bateman

Fellow: Jacob Dexter-Meldrum '20
Research Project: Pectin Receptors of the Plant Cell Wall and Their Additional Protein Partners
Faculty Mentor: Bruce  Kohorn

Fellow: Liam Healy '22
Research Project: The Sea Star Oscillatory Gait: Flow and Inclines
Faculty Mentor: Amy Johnson

Fellow: Mark West '21
Research Project: effective population size in clonal plant systems
Faculty Mentor: Vlad  Douhovnikoff

Fellow: Owen Silitch '20
Research Project: CRISPR/Cas9 Induced Deletions of Cell Wall-Associated Kinase Genes in Arabidopsis thaliana
Faculty Mentor: Bruce Kohorn

Fellow: Rhianna Patel '20
Research Project: Directed Interactions During Episodic Memory
Faculty Mentor: Erika Nyhus

Fellow: Rootjikarn Moonrinta '21
Research Project: Exploring Interacting-Protein of She3 (Ips1) Function and Its Importance in Hyphal Formation in Candida albicans.
Faculty Mentor: Anne McBride

º¬Ðß²ÝÑо¿ÊÒ Scientific Station at Kent Island Summer Fellowship

Fellow: Emanuel Coleman '22
Research Project: Long-Term Population Monitoring Of The Leach’s Storm-Petrel: The Impacts Of Climate Change And Other Environmental Factors
Faculty Mentor: Patricia Jones

Fellow: Hannah Scotch '22
Research Project: Learning and Memory in Different Pollinator Groups
Faculty Mentor: Patricia Jones

Fellow: Jesse Dunn '20
Research Project: Continuing investigation of shell disease in Cancer borealis (Jonah crab) in the Bay of Fundy
Faculty Mentor: Patricia Jones

Fellow: Maxamillian Muradian '22
Research Project: Forest Regeneration and Health
Faculty Mentor: Patricia Jones

Fellow: Neda Moussapour '22
Research Project: Long-Term Population Monitoring Of The Leach’s Storm-Petrel: The Impacts Of Climate Change And Other Environmental Factors
Faculty Mentor: Patricia Jones

º¬Ðß²ÝÑо¿ÊÒ Scientific Station at Kent Island - Artist in Residence

Fellow: Brianna Cunliffe '22
Research Project: º¬Ðß²ÝÑо¿ÊÒ Scientific Station Artist in Residence
Faculty Mentor: Patricia Jones

Fellow: Sylvia Bosco '21
Research Project: º¬Ðß²ÝÑо¿ÊÒ Scientific Station Artist in Residence
Faculty Mentor: Patricia Jones

Irma Cheatham Summer Research Fellowship

Fellow: Saned Diaz '20
Research Project: TOPIC: Housing Discrimination in Urban Cities the Bronx and Boston and the role Afro-Latin women have played in Community.
Faculty Mentor: Brian Purnell

Computer Science Student Fellowship

Fellow: Jasper Gordon '21
Research Project: Visualizing Dynamic Influence Networks in Congress and Supreme Court
Faculty Mentor: Mohammad Irfan

Fellow: Jed Perler '21
Research Project: Deploying Deep Learning Models for Organ and Lesion Segmentation
Faculty Mentor: Stephen Majercik

Fellow: Laura Friel '22
Research Project: Representation of Ancient Archeological Site Data: From 2D Datasets to 3D Virtual Environments
Faculty Mentor: Stacy Doore

Cooke Environmental Research Fellowship

Fellow: Calvin Soule '20
Research Project: Exploring Food Insecurity in Maine
Faculty Mentor: Shana Starobin

Fellow: Eleanor Paasche
Research Project: Small Dairy Farms in Maine and Piemonte: A Comparative Analysis of American and European Food Safety Regulations and their Effect on Small Scale Milk Production in Rural Areas
Faculty Mentor: Shana Starobin

Freedman Summer Research Fellowship in Computer Science

Fellow: Luca Ostertag-Hill   '20
Research Project: Influence Networks in Senate
Faculty Mentor: Mohammad Irfan

Gibbons Summer Research Program

Fellow: Abby Gonneville '21
Research Project: Traditional Structures and Outcomes in Africa
Faculty Mentor: Ericka Albaugh

Fellow: Ariana Smith '21
Research Project: 96 Embroidered Textiles
Faculty Mentor: Genevieve LeMoine

Fellow: Cameron Markovsky '21
Research Project: Leveraging Python and MATLAB to enhance quantitative reasoning and conceptual understanding in the Earth Sciences
Faculty Mentor: Jacky Baughman

Fellow: Eric Hall '20
Research Project: Serious Games: Critical Play for History
Faculty Mentor: Patrick Rael

Fellow: Griffin Ng '22
Research Project: Examining Digital Humanities Pedagogy Events and Their Instructors
Faculty Mentor: Crystal Hall

Fellow: Liam Juskevice '21
Research Project: beargov.com: A Congressional Database
Faculty Mentor: Mohammad Irfan

Fellow: Lily Fullam '21
Research Project: The Hand and the Machine: Post-Digital Printmaking at º¬Ðß²ÝÑо¿ÊÒ
Faculty Mentor: Carrie Scanga

Fellow: Matthew Donnelly '22
Research Project: Installation of a Virtual Reality Research Laboratory on º¬Ðß²ÝÑо¿ÊÒ Campus
Faculty Mentor: Stacy Doore

Fellow: Minah Nguyen '20
Research Project: Exploring Scientific and Engineering Practices in Preschoolers' Play
Faculty Mentor: Alison Miller

Alfred E. Golz Fellowship

Fellow: Benjamin Ray '20
Research Project: Historical Narrative of Independence as Taught in Columbia's Public Schools
Faculty Mentor: 

Fellow: Sarisha  Kurup '21
Research Project: France and Their Revolutions
Faculty Mentor: 

IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) Summer Fellowship

Fellow: Aimee An '20
Research Project: Investigating the role of protein Slr1 in mRNA transport of yeast Candida albicans
Faculty Mentor: Anne McBride

Fellow: Alison Ambrosio '22
Research Project: Hedgehog Signaling Importance in Zebrafish Tooth Development
Faculty Mentor: William Jackman

Fellow: Avione Williams '20
Research Project: Testing the Importance of a Possible mRNA Transport Protein for Hyphal Growth in the Pathogenic Fungus Candida albicans
Faculty Mentor: Anne McBride

Fellow: Emma Beane '20
Research Project: Pathogenic growth and mRNA localization in pathogenic fungus Candida albicans
Faculty Mentor: Anne McBride

Fellow: Jacob Kazmi '20
Research Project: The Role of Behavioral Diversity in Determining the Extent to Which Patterns are Modulated
Faculty Mentor: Patsy Dickinson

Fellow: Jasmine Johnson '21
Research Project: Transcriptome sequence validation using PCR and Sanger sequencing
Faculty Mentor: Hadley Horch

Fellow: Jordan Ferraras '20
Research Project: Inferring homeostatic structure in microbial systems
Faculty Mentor: Jack O-Brien

Fellow: Justin Yang '22
Research Project: Gene Regulation's Affect on Phentypic Variation in D. Melanogaster
Faculty Mentor: Michael Palopoli

Fellow: Kodie Garza '21
Research Project: Sine oculis regulation of eyes absent gene
Faculty Mentor: Jack Bateman

Fellow: Lily Poppen '22
Research Project: Visualizing the role of sema1a in the compensatory growth of Gryllus bimaculatus
Faculty Mentor: Patsy Dickinson

O. LaCasce, Jr. Physics Fund Fellowship

Fellow: Jiankun Wu '21
Research Project: Focused Acoustic Wave Generators using Thin Film Photolithography
Faculty Mentor: Madeleine Msall

Fellow: Killian Dickson '20
Research Project: Controlling the rotation of polyatomic molecules with femtosecond laser pulses
Faculty Mentor: Varun Makhija

Fellow: Maria Perez Mendoza '21
Research Project: Oxygen and CO, Measurements at Harvard Forest
Faculty Mentor: Mark Battle

Fellow: Raine Raynor '21
Research Project: The Impact of Metal Processing on the Global Atmospheric Oxygen Budget
Faculty Mentor: Mark Battle

Latin American Studies Student Research Award

Fellow: Diego Grossman '20
Research Project: The Colombo-Venezuelan Border Through the Lens of the Colombian National Press
Faculty Mentor: Nadia Celis

Fellow: Eliana Miller '20
Research Project: Life is but a Game: Simulacra and Deceit in Argentine Literature and Games
Faculty Mentor: Carolyn Wolfenzon

Fellow: Ellen Gyasi '20
Research Project: Politics of Positionality: An Exploration into Black Personhood in Brazilian Universities
Faculty Mentor: Joseph Jay Sosa

Fellow: Elijah Koblan-Huberson '20
Research Project: French Antillean Identity: Across Lands and Seas
Faculty Mentor: Hanetha Vete-Congolo

Fellow: Elyse Veloria '20
Research Project: Performing Identity: Bachata and Developing Dominicanidad
Faculty Mentor: Adanna Jones

Fellow: Lauren Elliott '20
Research Project: Bilingual and Dual Language Programs: Language and Cultural Preservation in Texas
Faculty Mentor: Margaret Boyle

Littlefield Summer Research Fellowship

Fellow: Chiamaka Okoye '21
Research Project: Assembling genes involved in Helicobacter pylori’s glycoprotein biosynthesis
Faculty Mentor: Danielle Dube

Fellow: Gabby Vandendries '21
Research Project: Effect of Solvent on 8-amino-2-naphthol
Faculty Mentor: Kana Takematsu

Fellow: Michael Harris '20
Research Project: N-Heterocyclic Carbenes as Constrained Ligands for Selective Olefin Dimerization
Faculty Mentor: Richard Broene

Fellow: Ruby Ahaiwe '21
Research Project: 
Faculty Mentor: Elizabeth Stemmler

Fellow: Sean Xie '21
Research Project: Examining the Photochemistry of Cyano-substituted Aminonaphthol
Faculty Mentor: Kana Takematsu

Dana Walker Mayo Research Fellowship

Fellow: Carlos Campos '22
Research Project: Photocatalytic Degradation of Common Pharmaceuticals and Characterization of their Products
Faculty Mentor: Elizabeth Stemmler

Fellow: Fiona O'Carroll '22
Research Project:
Faculty Mentor: Elizabeth Stemmler

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship

Fellow: Alicia Echavarria '21
Research Project: Representation of women in films about possession and witchcraft
Faculty Mentor: Allison Cooper

Fellow: Amie Sillah '20
Research Project: Afro-Mod: Mickalene Thomas, and 'Post-Black' Ways of Preservation
Faculty Mentor: Jay Sosa

Fellow: Destiny Kearney '21
Research Project: Africana Studies/visual arts
Faculty Mentor: Judith Casselberry

Fellow: Elijah Koblan-Huberson '20
Research Project: French Antillean Identity: Across Lands and Seas
Faculty Mentor: Hanetha Vete-Congolo

Fellow: Ellen Gyasi '20
Research Project: Politics of Positionality: An Exploration into Black Personhood in Brazilian Universities
Faculty Mentor: Jay Sosa

Fellow: Fanta Traore '20
Research Project: Medical Documentation and effects on individuals
Faculty Mentor: Krista VanVleet

Fellow: Josiah Oakley '21
Research Project:
Faculty Mentor: Judith Casselberry

Fellow: Ray Tarango '20
Research Project: Bosques Si, Tala No”: The Uprising of Cherán, Michoacán
Faculty Mentor: Marcos Lopez

Fellow: Uriel Lopez-Serrano '20
Research Project: Distortion of an Artist: Performing and Writing Sor Juana in the 21st Century
Faculty Mentor: Elena Cueto

Nyhus Travel Grant

Fellow: Faria Nasruddin '20
Research Project: Indo-Guyanese Civic Development and Politicization, 1918-1950
Faculty Mentor: 

Fellow: Joseph Hilleary '20
Research Project: Pre-colonial Conceptions of the Moroccan National Identity
Faculty Mentor: 

Paller Neuroscience Research Fellowship

Fellow: Emily Oleisky '20
Research Project: How does stretch of the cardiac muscle behind the cardiac ganglion affect output of the motor neurons of the cardiac ganglion? 
Faculty Mentor: Patsy Dickinson

Fellow: Jacob Kazmi '20
Research Project: Does digestive system neuromodulation underlie diet diversity? 
Faculty Mentor: Patsy Dickinson

Fellow: Marie Bergsund '20
Research Project: The role of feedback in determining the stability of the lobster heart in response to temperature perturbations
Faculty Mentor: Patsy Dickinson

Fellow: Samuel Brill-Weil '20
Research Project: The correlative study of compensatory plasticity within the auditory system of the cricket, Gryllus bimaculatus. 
Faculty Mentor: Hadley  Horch

Riley Research Award

Fellow: Amanda Rickman '20
Research Project: Uptown-Downtown Kingston: The Embodiment of Class in Jamaican Dancehall
Faculty Mentor: Willi Lempert

Fellow: Ari Mehrberg '20
Research Project: Lesbian Herstory to Lesbian Present: Identity, Culture, and Community in a Changing Social Climate
Faculty Mentor: Krista Van Vleet

Fellow: Ellen Gyasi '20
Research Project: Politics of Positionality: An Exploration into Black Personhood in Brazilian Universities
Faculty Mentor: Jay Sosa

Jacob Jasper Stahl Summer Fellowship for the Study of Mediterranean Antiquity

Fellow: Nicole Tjin A Djie '21
Research Project: From the Alphabet to the Odyssey: Learning Attic Greek in an Immersive Learning Program
Faculty Mentor: Robert Sobak

Allen Wells Latin American Studies Fellows

Fellow: Brandon Morande '19
Research Project: Salud Callejera (Street Health) 

Fellow: Ray Tarango '20
Research Project: How an indigenous community in central-Mexico organized against the threat of violence in order to protect their land

Ajmera Funded Internship Grant

Fellow: Aidan King '21
Organization: Cultivating Community

Fellow: Annecy Schiffer '21
Organization: The Portland Parks Conservancy

Fellow: Francesca-Beth Haines '20
Organization: St. Mary's Regional Medical Center

Fellow: Fredericka Hibbs '21
Organization: Millinocket Town Office

Fellow: Julie Coticchia '20
Organization: College Guild

Fellow: Marianne Tissot '20
Organization: Bellevue Project Healthcare

Fellow: Salim Salim '20
Organization: City of Portland's Legislative and Appointments Committee

Fellow: Steven Miyawaki '20
Organization: Disparities Research Unit at the Massachusetts General Hospital

Fellow: Tatum Wilson '20
Organization: The MacDowell Colony 

Fellow: Ural Mishra '20
Organization: International Alert Nepal

Alumni Council Internship Award in Memory of Maurice Littlefield '41

Fellow: Audrey Reuman '21
Organization: Center for Psychiatric Research at Maine Medical Center Research Institute 

Fellow: Cole Crawford '20
Organization: The W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research

Annual Fund for Career Readiness Award

Fellow: Anais Leroy '20
Organization: Program for Medical Education Innovations and Research

Fellow: Andrew Moore '21
Organization: Bellevue Hospital

Fellow: Anne Boasberg '22
Organization: º¬Ðß²ÝÑо¿ÊÒ 

Fellow: Audrey Aitelli '20
Organization: Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School Department of Radiation Oncology 

Fellow: Carmen Caterina '20
Organization: Long Creek Youth Development Center

Fellow: Claudia Pou '20
Organization: Legal Aid Society

Fellow: Danny Little '22
Organization: Visual Attention Laboratory

Fellow: Devin McKinney '21
Organization: Boston Childrens Hospital

Fellow: Elizabeth Fosler-Jones '20
Organization: Catholic Charities

Fellow: Emily Oleisky '20
Organization: Spinal Surgery Quality and Outcomes Lab at Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Fellow: Gabrielle Unipan '21
Organization: Montgomery County Office of the Public Defender

Fellow: Gloria Zhao '20
Organization: Bellevue Project Healthcare

Fellow: Hope Keeley '21
Organization: Williamstown Theatre Festival

Fellow: Julia Gottreich '21
Organization: Andersen Lab at Northwestern University

Fellow: Laura Cooper '20
Organization: University of Connecticut School of Engineering

Fellow: Lily McVetty '21
Organization: Brunswick-Topsham Land Trust

Fellow: Lucy Sydel '22
Organization: Movement Research

Fellow: Miguel Diaz Segura '20
Organization:Year Up-Los Angeles

Fellow: Peyton Jackson '21
Organization: Tufts Medical Center

Fellow: Safa Saleh '22
Organization: MaineHealth

Fellow: Srinivasan Pandiyan '21
Organization: Northeastern University-Feinberg School of Medicine

Fellow: Usira Ali '22
Organization: Portland Housing Authority

Fellow: William Donaldson '20
Organization: Volunteer Lawyers Network

Peter Buck Internship Award

Fellow: Alexander Lee '20
Organization: Thayer School of Engineering Dartmouth College

Fellow: Amanda Cassano '22
Organization: Association of American Indian Affairs

Fellow: Cynthia Kelsey '20
Organization: The Quad Manhatten

Fellow: Douglas Dubosky '20
Organization: Rhode Island Hospital Division of Surgical Research

Fellow: Elena Sparrow '22
Organization: Town of Brunswick

Fellow: Emilia Lawler '22
Organization: Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium

Fellow: Eugen Cotei '21
Organization: Institut de Ciencias del Mar

Fellow: Julia Marangoni '21
Organization: National Head Start Association

Fellow: Katherine Pady '21
Organization: Cultivating Community

Fellow: Kathleen Armenta '21
Organization: Rural & Migrant Ministry

Fellow: Kevin Elk '20
Organization: The Jackson Laboratory

Fellow: Michael Dean '22
Organization: Baystate Medical Center 

Fellow: Safiya Osei '21
Organization: SportsPro Physical Therapy and Aquatic Center

Career Planning Internship Award

Fellow: Anna Martens '20
Organization: Cemuchca Institute of Music

Fellow: Audree Grand Pierre '21
Organization: The Center for Psychiatric Research at Maine Medical Center Research Institute

Fellow: Garrett  Mitman '22
Organization: Island Hoops Project

Fellow: Haley Maurice '20
Organization: Sunrise Movement

Fellow: Katheryn Kiser '21
Organization: University of Illinois College of Medicine at Rockford

Fellow: Kendall Rogers '21
Organization: Harlem Lacrosse

Fellow: Laila McCain '21
Organization: Breakthrough Collaborative

Fellow: Laura Raley '21
Organization: The Telling Room

Fellow: Livia Kunins-Berkowitz '22
Organization: Maine People's Alliance

Fellow: Lucas Johnson '22
Organization: Self Created Internship-Mental Health Legislation Creation for the State of Virginia

Fellow: Mary Kretchmer '21
Organization: Midcoast Hospital Addiction Resource Center

Fellow: Max Freeman '22
Organization: Heartland Alliance

Fellow: Nicholas Bower '22
Organization: Perry Institute for Marine Science

Fellow: Niels Wright '21
Organization: Massachusetts General Hospital

Fellow: Ryan Telingator '21
Organization: PEAR Institute

Fellow: Tashi Brundige '21
Organization: Cultivating Community

Delta Sigma Internship Award

Fellow: Brianna Canning '21
Organization: Coeur D'Alene Summer Theatre 

Denning Summer Fellowship

Fellow: Aneka Kazlyna '20
Project: Women’s Islamic Initiative in Spirituality and Equality, New York City, NY

Fellow: Annie Rose '20
Project: Tedford Housing, Brunswick, ME

Fellow: Charlotte Hall '20
Project: Mental health and suicide, Palo Alto, CA

Fellow: Charlotte Youkilis '20
Research Project: Cultivating Community, Falmouth, ME

Fellow: Eliza  Stup '20
Project: Tahirih Justice Center, Washington DC

Fellow: Julianna  Kiley '20
Project: The Telling Room, Portland, ME

Fellow: Luca DeAngelis '20
Project: ACLU of Maine, Portland, ME

Fellow: Nathanael DeMoranville '20
Project: AS220, Providence, RI

Fellow: Praise  Hall '20
Project: Research Institute in Sociology and Social Inequality at Texas A&M, College Station, TX

Global Citizens Grant

Fellow: Arien Nguyen '21
Organization: Madres Deportadas, Tihuana, Mexico

Fellow: Julia Rohde '20
Organization: Collateral Repair Project, Amman, Jordan

Fellow: Lianna Harrington '21
Organization: Association CREAR, Playa Samara, Costa Rica

Fellow: Morgan Edwards '22
Organization: PeacePlayers, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Fellow: Marina MacKinnon '20
Organization: Safe Passage, Guatemala City, Guatemala

Robert S Goodfriend Summer Internship Award

Fellow: Abigail Wu '21
Organization: Chinaccelerator

Fellow: Bianca Torres '20
Organization: Luhring Augustine Gallery

Fellow: Caroline Kranefuss '20
Organization: Phood

Fellow: Holly Lyne '21
Organization: WGBH

Fellow: Ian Ward '20
Organization: The Portland Press Herald

Fellow: Ingabire Kayihura '21
Organization: University of Rochester Department of Orthopaedics

Fellow: John Galusha '20
Organization: American Beatbox 

Fellow: Noah Keates '20
Organization: Lone Wolf Media

Fellow: Siena Wiedmann '20
Organization: ZU Bakery

Fellow: Yifei Xu '22
Organization: China Accelerator

Kappa Psi Upsilon Environmental Justice Fellowship

Fellow: Nathanial Chang '20
Research Project: Kappa Psi Upsilon Environmental Justice Fellowship, Cultivating Community
Faculty Mentor: Eileen Johnson

Kappa Psi Upsilon Maine Based Fellowship

Fellow: Anna Messinger '21
Research Project: Kappa Psi Upsiin Environmental Fellowship, Maine Department of Environmental Protection
Faculty Mentor: Eileen Johnson

Fellow: Beckett Slayton '21
Research Project: Kappa Psi Upsilon Environmental Fellowship, Coastal Enterprises Inc
Faculty Mentor: Eileen Johnson

Fellow: Claire Reboussin '21
Research Project: Kappa Psi Upsilon Environmental Fellowship, Growing to Give
Faculty Mentor: Eileen Johnson

Fellow: Cooper Dart '21
Research Project: Kappa Psi Upsilon Environmental Fellowship, Town of Brunswick
Faculty Mentor: Eileen Johnson

Fellow: Emma Kyzivat '21
Research Project: Kappa Psi Upsilon Environmental Fellowship, Bath City Manager's Office
Faculty Mentor: Eileen Johnson

Fellow: Mohamed Oday '20
Research Project: Kappa Psi Upsilon Environmental Fellowship, Maine Coast Fishermen's Association
Faculty Mentor: Eileen Johnson

Fellow: Nick Suarez '21
Research Project: Kappa Psi Upsilon Environmental Fellowship, Town of Topsham Department of Planning and Development
Faculty Mentor: Eileen Johnson

Fellow: Riley Harris '20
Research Project: Kappa Psi Upsilon Environmental Fellowship, Environmental Health Strategy Center
Faculty Mentor: Eileen Johnson

Fellow: Samara Nassor '22
Research Project: Kappa Psi Upsilon Environmental Fellowship, The Nature Conservancy
Faculty Mentor: Eileen Johnson

Fellow: Sarah Corkum '21
Research Project: Kappa Psi Upsilon Environmental Fellowship, Natural resources Council of Maine
Faculty Mentor: Eileen Johnson

Kappa Psi Upsilon Sustainability Fellowship

Fellow: Zachary Kaplan '21
Research Project: Kappa Psi Upsilon Sustainability Fellowship, JVE (Jeunes Volontaires pour l'Environnement) International
Faculty Mentor: Eileen Johnson

Sabra and Richard B. '62 Ladd Government Internship Award

Fellow: Helen Wang '20
Organization: Embassy of Canada

Fellow: Jonas Cortes '20
Organization: Federal Trade Commission

Maine Community Fellowship

Fellow: Anne McKee '20
Community Partner: Merrymeeting Gleaners, midcoast Maine

Fellow: Archer Thomas '21
Community Partner: Portland Housing Authority, Portland, ME

Fellow: Clare Murphy '20
Community Partner: Mid-Coast Hunger Prevention Program, Brunswick, ME

Fellow: Elise Hocking '22
Community Partner: Tedford Housing, Brunswick, ME

Fellow: Jessica Bae '22
Community Partner: ArtVan, Brunswick, ME

Fellow: Mohamed Kilani '21
Community Partner: Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project, Portland, ME

Fellow: Mollie Eisner '21
Community Partner: Catholic Charities, Portland, ME

Fellow: Lily Tedford '22
Community Partner: The Telling Room, Portland, ME

Fellow: Sarah Brigid Konefal '20
Community Partner: Oasis Free Clinics, Brunswick, ME

Thomas & Hannah McKinley Scholarship & Entrepreneur Grant

Fellow: Acadia  Mezzofanti '19
Organization: Copley Society

Mellam Family Foundation Fund for Internship Support/Goodfriend

Fellow: Kate Lusignan '21
Organization: Portland Press Herald

Mellam Family Foundation Fund for Internship Support/Ladd

Fellow: Michael McAlarney '21
Organization: US Department of Treasury, Federal Financing Bank

Midcoast Forum on Foreign Relations

Fellow: Younju Koh '22
Organization: People For Successful Korean Unification

Nikuradse-Matthews Public Interest Summer Fellowship Award

Fellow: Bianca Allende Boyd '21
Organization: Safe Passage/Camino Seguro

Scott & Anne Perper Internship Award

Fellow: Brianna White-Ortiz '21
Organization: Down East Gallery

Fellow: Emilia Majersik '22
Organization: Forager

Fellow: Esra Park '21
Organization: Fuloop 

Fellow: Finnegan Woodruff '21
Organization: Buck Products

Fellow: Francis Rose '21
Organization: Levine Carpentry & Contracting

Fellow: Jared Foxhall '22
Organization: China Accelerator

Fellow: Renae Anderson '21
Organization: Excel Physical Therapy

Preston Public Interest Career Award

Fellow: Brandon Lee '21
Organization: PajuMill Assisted Living Center

Fellow: Caroline Hastings '21
Organization: Maine Youth Court 

Fellow: Diego Villamarin '20
Organization: Bellevue Hospital

Fellow: Douglas Bencomo '21
Organization: The Society of St. Vincent de Paul

Fellow: Emma  Beaulieu '21
Organization: Sexual Assault Support Services of Midcoast Maine

Fellow: Favour Ofuokwu '21
Organization: Bellevue Project Healthcare

Fellow: Kiany Probherbs '21
Organization: Facesny

Fellow: Rahul Prabhu '22
Organization: Parikrma Hunaity Foundation