Tahsin Alam '04: Grameen Bank: Changing Microcredit; Áslaug Ásgeirsdóttir, political science, advisor; Stangle Grant for Research in Economics and Law.

J. Vanessa Amaya Roman '05: Groundwater Exploration and Development of Milltown Aquifer in Calais, Maine; Beverly Johnson, geology, advisor; Bates Student Research Fund, Hoffman Research Support Grant.

Edwin Amonoo '04: Funding Economic and Monetary Union in Africa: The Role of Africa's Emerging Markets; Michael Oliver, economics, advisor; Phillips Student Fellowship.

Erin Beirne '05: Investigation of Terrestrial Organic Carbon Cycling on Maine Coastal Environments through the Last 12,000 Years; Beverly Johnson, geology, advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant, NSF Faculty Grant.

Heather Bennett '05: Legislative Success and Political Salience; John Baughman, political science, advisor; Summer Research Apprenticeship.

Erin Bertrand '05: Determination of Mechanisms of Hydrocarbon Metabolism in Aerobic and Anaerobic Organisms; Rachel Austin, chemistry, advisor; Hughes Student-Faculty Research Grant.

Renee Blacken '04: Monastic Life and the Wilderness in Ireland; Otis Fellowship.

Mike Buffo '04: Whitebark Pine Regeneration in North Cascades National Park; Jane Costlow, environmental studies, advisor; Hoffman Fellowship.

Sarah Morgan Carter '03: Arts Education: Who Needs It? Sue Martin, Center for Service-Learning, advisor; CAPHE Community Research Fellowship.

David Charron '05: Exploring the "Theatre of the Oppressed" Qualitatively and Quantitatively; Adam Leff, French; Literatures, advisor; Phillips Student Fellowship.

Jessica Ciak '05: Chiral NMR Shift Reagents; Thomas Wenzel, Chemistry, advisor; NSF Faculty Grant.

Eduardo Crespo '04: U.S. Banks in Emerging Markets and Global Investment Strategy: Financial Market Interactions between Developed and Developing Economies; Hoffman Research Support Grant.

Patrick Cunningham '05: Development of "Chemical Synthesis and Reactivity: Techniques-Oriented Approach," An Integrated Laboratory Short Term Unit; Rachel Austin and Jennifer Koviach, chemistry, advisors; Hughes Curriculum Development Grant.

Dana DiGiando '04: Lead in Urban Soils; Rachel Austin, chemistry, advisor; Hughes Summer Fellowship.

Zana Djapo '04: Macroeconomic Implications of Financing the Small and Medium Sized Enterprises in Bosnia and Herzegovina; Craig Decker, German, Russian, advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant.

Patricia Dunbar '05: Mechanism of Cancer Development; Howard University Cancer Center; Hoffman Research Support Grant.

Marie Farneth '03: Family-Based Community Development in Rural Ecuador; Emily Kane, sociology, advisor; Ruggles Scholarship.

Anna Felton '04: Organic Carbon Cycling in Laminated Sediments from Coastal Lacustrine and Marine Environments, Eastern Canadian Arctic; Michael Retelle and Beverly Johnson, geology, advisors; Hoffman Research Support Grant.

Daisy Fischer '04: Ubiquitin-Mediated Degradation of Picornavirus Proteins; T. Glen Lawson, chemistry, advisor; NSF Faculty Grant.

Erin Gleason '04: Effects of Corticosterone on the Developing Rat; Cheryl McCormick, psychology, advisor; Hughes Student-Faculty Research Grant.

Mercedes Grandin '03: A Part, Yet Apart: South Asians in Asian America; Lavina Shankar, English, advisor; Summer Research Apprenticeship.

Sarah Gray '04: Changes in Neurotransmitter Levels in Response to Sensitization and Cross-Sensitization; John Kelsey, psychology, advisor; Hughes Summer Fellowship.

Christopher Guiterman '05: Strain Partitioning and Structural Geology of the Presidential Range, New Hampshire; J. Dykstra Eusden, geology, advisor; Hughes Student-Faculty Research Grant.

Lindsey Hamilton '05: The Effects of Lesions of the N. Accumbens Core or Shell on Context-Specific Locomotor Sensitization to Nicotine; John Kelsey, neuroscience, advisor; Hughes Student-Faculty Research Grant.

Julie Hammond '03: The Black Factory; William Pope.L, theater, advisor; Summer Research Apprenticeship.

Josef Kijewski '04: Examining the Mythology of St. Petersburg; Jane Costlow, Russian, advisor; Hoffman Fellowship.

Challis Kinnucan '03: Computing Reidemeister Classes on Nilpotent and Polycyclic Groups; Peter Wong, mathematics, advisor; Rawlings Grant for Research in Mathematics.

Erol Kohli '05: Turkish Islam in Vienna: A Cause for Fundamentalism; Mishael Caspi, religion, advisor; Christian A. Johnson Summer Research Fellowship.

Kathleen Kolstad '04: Women's Reproductive Health Research; Cheryl McCormick, psychology, advisor; Hughes Summer Fellowship.

Taiki Kubota '04: Japanese Biracial Youth in Japan; Georgia N. Nigro, psychology, advisor; Whitehouse Professorship Fund.

Kelley Kugel '04: Strain Partitioning and Structural Geology of the Presidential Range, New Hampshire; J. Dykstra Eusden, geology, advisor; Hughes Student-Faculty Research Grant.

Jesse Lewin '04: Demographic and Descriptive Study of Herbal Medication Use in a Public, Urban, Emergency Department; Heather Lindkvist, anthropology, advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant.

Mario Lugo '05: Return Migration: Voices of Dominicans and Puerto Ricans; Margaret Maurer-Fazio, economics, advisor; Phillips Student Fellowship.

Michael Lydon '04: Legalized Gambling in Maine: A Safe Bet? Joseph Hall, history, advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant.

Fikile Mahlangu '04: Women and Peacebuilding in Cape Town, South Africa; William Corlett, political science, advisor; Phillips Student Fellowship.

Brent Mann '04: A New Method for the Synthesis of 2-deoxydisaccarides and Synthesis of Disaccharide 1; Jennifer Koviach, chemistry, advisor; Faculty Research Grant, Research Corporation.

Katherine Marshall '04: Responding to Visual Space and Political Aesthetics in Revolutionary Cuba; Lillian Guerra, history, advisor; Phillips Student Fellowship.

Timothy Miller '04: The International Monetary System Under Pressure, 1964-1972; Michael Oliver, economics, advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant, Summer Research Apprenticeship.

Karen Moore '04: Investigation of Terrestrial Organic Carbon Cycling on Maine Coastal Environments through the Last 12,000 Years; Beverly Johnson, geology, advisor; Hughes Student-Faculty Grant.

Elizabeth Morrill '03: Women and Deforestation in Northeastern Tanzania; Peter Rogers, environmental studies, advisor; Ruggles Scholarship.

Prem Neupane '05: Role of Opportunity Cost in the Choice of Educational Attainment: Why Are Children from Lower Castes Underrepresented in Nepalese Schools? Nepal Girls Care Center, Kathmandu, Nepal; Hoffman Research Support Grant.

Andrea Noyes '04: The Business behind Bananas: Influence and Image Creation in the Unionization of the Ecuadorian Banana Industry, Lillian Guerra, history, advisor; Stangle Grant for Research in Economics and Law.

Peter Pawlick '05: The Sabbathday Shakers and Their Interpretations of Nature; Carl Straub, religion, advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant, Faculty Grant.

Benjamin Prevas '04: Kierkegaard and the Wilderness; Carl Straub, religion, advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant.

Aaron Putnam '04: Arctic Lacustrine Sediments as a Proxy for Climate Change: An Analysis of Devon, Bathurst, and Corwallis Island Sediments, Nunavut, Canada; Michael Retelle, geology, advisor; Bates Student Research Fund, Hoffman Research Support Grant, NSF Faculty Grant.

Lauren Randall '04: Carboxymethylated Cyclodextrins and their Lanthanide Complexes as Chiral NMR Shift Reagents; Thomas Wenzel, chemistry, advisor; Hughes Student-Faculty Research Grant.

Jason Ratterty '05: CFTR and Interactive Proteins from Shark Rectal Gland; Dr. Jack Riordare, Mt. Desert Island Biological Laboratory, advisor; BRIN Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship.

Regina Readling '04: The Role of OX40 Ligand in Alterosclerosis; Dr. Beverly Paigeu, Jackson Laboratory, advisor; BRIN Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship.

Christopher Richards '05: Carboxymethylated Cyclodextrins and their Lanthanide Complexes as Chiral NMR Shift Reagents; Thomas Wenzel, chemistry, advisor; Hughes Student-Faculty Research Grant.

Victor Rivera '05: Return Migration: Voices of Dominicans & Puerto Ricans; Baltasar Fra-Molinero, Spanish, advisor; Phillips Student Fellowship.

Daniel Robarts '04: Effects of Corticosterone on the Developing Rat; Cheryl McCormick, neuroscience, advisor; Hughes Student-Faculty Research Grant.

Ayana Sawai '04: Studies on the Effects of 17-AAG, CI-1040 and AAL-881 (RAF and MEK Inhibitors) on Melanoma Cancer Cells with N-RAS and B-RAF Mutations; Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; Hoffman Research Support Grant, Hughes Summer Fellowship, Scher Fellowship.

Hillary Schwab '04: Understanding Political Identity in British Columbia's Community Forest Movement; Bamfield Huu-ay-aht Community Forest Society; Hoffman Research Support Grant.

Juyong Shim '05: Complimentary Herbal Medicine for Periodontal Disease; Pamela Baker, biology, advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant.

Eric Stanculescu '05: Understanding Creek Origins in the Colonial Southeast; Joseph Hall, history, advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant.

Andrew C. Strokes '05: Energy Use, Culture, and Natural Place in Joquicingo, Mexico; Otis Fellowship.

John Sullivan '04: Analysis of Embryonic Gene Expression in T Cell a Dynein Light Chain; Antonio Planchart, biochemistry, advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant.

Elyssa Tardif '04: Editing Felicia Skene's Hidden Depth, Lillian Nayder, English, advisor; Summer Research Apprenticeship.

Lucia Tiererova '06: The Watermark Initiative: WWW Implementation and Data Base Integration Project; Robert Allison, religion and James Hart, information services, advisors; Summer Research Apprenticeship.

Katie Trautz '04: Scottish Heritage Festivals: A Shared Sense of Place; Hoffman Research Support Grant.

Christopher Urban '04: Can Quechua Agriculture and Religious Pracices Survive Economic Development and Change? Otis Fellowship.

Nicholas Violi '05: Redesigning the Teaching of Differential Equations Class, math 219; Meredith Greer, Mathematics, advisor; Hughes Curriculum Development Grant.

Allison Wensley '05: Chiral NMR Shift Reagents; Thomas Wenzel, chemistry, advisor; NSF Faculty Grant.

Kathryn Whorf '04: Comparative Analysis of the Structure and Genetic Sequence of Synaptojanin 2 as Isolated from Brain and Testis Tissue of Thaplotype Mice; Antonio Planchart, biochemistry, advisor; Hughes Summer Fellowship.

Jason Zopf '05: Chiral NMR Shift Reagents; Thomas Wenzel, chemistry, advisor; NSF Faculty Grant.

Jamil Zraikat '05: The Creative Economy: Can It Apply to Lewiston-Auburn?; James Hughes, economics, advisor; CAPHE Community Research Fellowship.