Summer Research Recipients

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2020

 

The following students received grants or fellowships to conduct research, community-engaged research or internships, or environmental internships this year.

Research Grants and Fellowships (includes research that was done in Short Term)

Muhammed Abdullah ‘22: Projective Gravity with Applications to Cosmology and Black Holes (Catherine Whiting, Physics & Astronomy), Hoffman Fellowship

Oliver Barrera ‘22: Up against the Cis/Trans Binary: A Book Project and Curricular Development (Erica Rand, Art & Visual Culture and Gender & Sexuality Studies), Summer Research Apprenticeship, Hoffman Fund

Ana Belen Bernhoeft Gutierrez ‘22: QUBES Community Engagement via Social Media Communications (Carrie Diaz Eaton, Digital & Computational Studies), Faculty Grant

Alexander Bickart ‘21: Monitoring Changes in Lichen Diversity at the Bates Morse Mountain Conservation Area Over a 37-Year Period (Brett Huggett, Biology), Dorothy Dole Johnson Fellowship

Martha Bishop ‘21: Enhancing Individual Memories (Andrew Kennedy, Chemistry), INBRE Fellowship

Christian Bradna ‘20: Extreme Starbursts and Outflows: The Formation of Massive Compact Galaxies (Aleksander Diamond-Stanic, Physics & Astronomy), Faculty Grant

Daniel Brady ‘21: Sleep and Mental Health in College Students (Kathryn Low, Psychology), Research Assistantship, Abelson Fund

James Calhoon ‘21: Species Interaction in a Changing Ocean (Katie Dobkowski, Biology), Bates Environmental Internship, Bates Student Reserrch Fund

Mallory Caron ‘21: Enhancing Individual Memories (Andrew Kennedy, Chemistry), INBRE Fellowship

Shelby Cronkhite ‘21: Sleep and Mental Health in College Students (Kathryn Low, Psychology), Research Assistantship, Abelson Fund

Deon Custard ‘21: Shakespeare Studies as Artist and Scholar (Myra Wright, English), Hoffman Fellowship

Michal Cwik ‘20: Ultracold Atomic Physics in Earth and Space (Nathan Lundblad, Physics & Astronomy), Faculty Grant

Aidan Denahy ‘21: A Prelude to Violence? Popular Nationalism and International Conflict (Jiyoung Ko, Politics), Research Assistantship, Stangle Fund

Max Drury ‘22: Applying Peer Review Studies to Interdisciplinary STEM Courses to Promote Better Writing (Stacie Leblanc, Tulane University), Hoffman Fellowship

Sofia Edgar ‘23: Extreme Starbursts and Outflows: The Formation of Massive Compact Galaxies (Aleksander Diamond-Stanic, Physics & Astronomy), Faculty Grant

Kieran Edmonds ‘22: Extreme Starbursts and Outflows: The Formation of Massive Compact Galaxies (Aleksander Diamond-Stanic, Physics & Astronomy), Faculty Grant

Eli Eshaghpour ‘21: Memory, Identity, and Home: A Family History (Carolina Gonzalez Valencia, Art & Visual Culture), Stangle Fellowship

Yiyao (Alex) Fan ‘22: A Prelude to Violence? Popular Nationalism and International Conflict (Jiyoung Ko, Politics), Research Assistantship, Stangle Fund

Liza Folsom ‘21: Geologic Field Research of the Northern Part of the Berlin, NH, 7.5-Minute Quadrangle, NH (Dyk Eusden, Geology), Faculty Grant

John Fraipont ‘23: Datamining of Pyrochloric Materials for Piezo- and Ferroelectric Applications (Geneva Laurita, Chemistry), Faculty Grant

Peter Galloway ‘21: Geologic Field Research of the Northern Part of the Berlin, NH, 7.5-Minute Quadrangle, NH (Dyk Eusden, Geology), Faculty Grant

Mia Gates ‘22: 20 Years of River Restoration in Maine: Using Socioeconomics and Benefit Transfer to Inform Decision Making on Dam Removals (Lynne Lewis, Economics), Faculty Grant

Ben Goldberg ‘21: Bioinformatics of Bobcat339 Interacting with Biological Systems (Andrew Kennedy, Chemistry), Abelson Fellowship

Saliha Gomna Salissou ‘23: Impact of Missionary Activities in Colonial Africa (Luke Chicoine, Economics), Stangle Fellowship

William Green ‘20: 20 Years of River Restoration in Maine: Using Socioeconomics and Benefit Transfer to Inform Decision Making on Dam Removals (Lynne Lewis, Economics), Faculty Grant

Gabriele Gucagaite ‘21: Visualizing Engrams (Andrew Kennedy, Chemistry), Faculty Grant

Lars Gundersen ‘20: The Role of Climate and Land Use on Model Predictions of Phosphorus Loading to Lake Auburn, ME (Holly Ewing, Environmental Studies), Faculty Grant

William Jaekle ‘21: Kinematic Visualization of Outflowing Gas from Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (Aleksander Diamond-Stanic, Physics & Astronomy), Hoffman Fellowship

Katrina Johnson ‘21: Species Interaction in a Changing Ocean (Katie Dobkowski, Biology), Hoffman Fellowship

Natasha Jones ‘22: Extreme Starbursts and Outflows: The Formation of Massive Compact Galaxies (Aleksander Diamond-Stanic, Physics & Astronomy), Faculty Grant

Muhammed Hamza Kalim ‘23: Projective Gravity with Applications to Cosmology and Black Holes (Catherine Whiting, Physics & Astronomy), Hoffman Fellowship

Ariel Lam ‘20: Modeling Metabolism for Lake Auburn, ME (Holly Ewing, Environmental Studies), Faculty Grant

Zhao Li ‘21: The Legacy of One-Child Policy: How It Has Impacted Fertility Behavior (Luke Chicoine, Economics), Stangle Fellowship

Yichun Liu ‘21: Ultracold Atomic Physics in Earth and Space (Nathan Lundblad, Physics & Astronomy), Research Assistantship, Hoffman Fund

John Mieszczanski ‘22: Ultracold Atomic Physics in Earth and Space (Nathan Lundblad, Physics & Astronomy), Faculty Grant

Rebecca Minsley ‘21: Extreme Starbursts and Outflows: The Formation of Massive Compact Galaxies (Aleksander Diamond-Stanic, Physics & Astronomy), Faculty Grant

Hayley Neighmond ‘22: Improving the Wellbeing of the Adolescent Survivors of the Joplin 2011 Tornado (Jeffery Staudinger, Missouri Southern University), Hoffman Fellowship

Thuy (Ivy) Nguyen ‘21: Freshwater Sponge Hosts and Green Algae Symbionts as an Accessible Flexible Model to Understand Intracellular Symbioses (April Hill, Biology), Faculty Grant

Vanessa Paolella ‘21: Water Quality Analysis of the Androscoggin River, 1947-2020 (Beverly Johnson, Geology), Dorothy Dole Johnson Fellowship

Elizabeth Pizzi ‘21: The Investigation of Estrogen Receptor Targeted Therapies and Molecular Biomarkers in Exosomes of Alzheimer’sDisease (Arti Gaur, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center), Abelson Fellowship

Brad Ravenelle ‘21: From War to Games: The Intersection of American Military and Athletic History in the Sport of Biathlon (Joseph Hall, History), Ruggles Fellowship

Gabe Salvi ‘22: Ultracold Atomic Physics in Earth and Space (Nathan Lundblad, Physics & Astronomy), Research Assistantship, Hoffman Fund

Mamta Saraogi ‘21: New Approaches to John Keats: A Reception Amidst British India and Postcolonial Critics (Steven Dillon, English), Ruggles Fellowship

Edgar Sarceno ‘23: Kinematic Visualization of Outflowing Gas from Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (Aleksander Diamond-Stanic, Physics & Astronomy), STEM Scholars Program Student-Faculty Research Grant

Allen Schroeder ‘21: Bioinformatics of Bobcat339 Interacting with Biological Systems (Andrew Kennedy, Chemistry), Abelson Fellowship

Brittany Seipp ‘21: Bioinformatics of Bobcat339 Interacting with Biological Systems (Andrew Kennedy, Chemistry), Kelsey Fellowship, Bates Student Research Fund

Linnea Selendy ‘23: Extreme Starbursts and Outflows: The Formation of Massive Compact Galaxies (Aleksander Diamond-Stanic, Physics & Astronomy), Faculty Grant

Jackson Sell ‘22: Sleep and Mental Health in College Students (Kathryn Low, Psychology), Research Assistantship, Abelson Fund

Jillian Serrano ‘21: Enhancing Individual Memories (Andrew Kennedy, Chemistry), Abelson Fellowship

Tommy Sheils ‘21: Geologic Field Research of the Northern Part of the Berlin, NH, 7.5-Minute Quadrangle, NH (Dyk Eusden, Geology), Faculty Grant

Ilze Smidt ‘21: SREB 3 and 4 Gene Investigation (Tim Breton, University of Maine, Farmington), INBRE Fellowship, MDIBL

Tamsin Stringer ‘22: 20 Years of River Restoration in Maine: Using Socioeconomics and Benefit Transfer to Inform Decision Making on Dam Removals (Lynne Lewis, Economics), Research Assistantship, Stangle Fund

Saylor Strugar ‘21: Enhancing Individual Memories (Andrew Kennedy, Chemistry), INBRE Fellowship

Eisho Takatsuji ‘21: Projective Gravity with Applications to Cosmology and Black Holes (Catherine Whiting, Physics & Astronomy), Pribram-Ruff Fellowship, Bates Student Research Fund

Daniel Tepler ‘21: U.S.-Mexico Migration and Mexico’s Local Electoral Politics: Why Do Return Migrants Run for Office and Win? (Clarisa Pérez Armendáriz, Politics), Summer Research Apprenticeship, Stangle Fund

Chidubem Umeh ‘22: Extreme Starbursts and Outflows: The Formation of Massive Compact Galaxies (Aleksander Diamond-Stanic, Physics & Astronomy), Faculty Grant

Yilun (Lilo) Wu ‘22: Modeling Metabolism for Lake Auburn, ME (Holly Ewing, Environmental Studies), Faculty Grant

Hongyi Zhang ‘21: Late 16th- to Late 17th-Century Period Costume Study for Theater (Christine McDowell, Theater), Hoffman Fellowship

Wenjing Zheng ‘21: The Novel Coronavirus, Closer Looking at the Lives of People in Wuhan People’s Lives (Carolina Gonzalez Valencia, Art & Visual Culture), Tanaka Fellowship

Wuyue Zhou ‘21: Regulating Epigenetics to Enhance Memory (Andrew Kennedy, Chemistry), INBRE Fellowship, MDIBL  

 

Bates Environmental Internships

Audrey Aberg ‘22, Summer Intern ,  Needham Community Farm (MA)

Eliza Blood ‘21, Town Planning Internship, Town of Belgrade Planning Department (ME)

James Calhoon ‘21, Research Intern, Friday Harbor Labratories (WA)

Nathan Delmar ‘21, Climbing Ranger, Shasta Trinity National Forest (CA)

Peter Galloway ‘21, Field Intern, Maine Coastal Program

Dianna Georges ‘22, Intern, Seed Song Farm (NY)

Julia Henderson ‘22, Climate Intern, Montgomery County Government (MD)

Chloe Lo Faro ‘22, Intern, Yellowstone Ecological Research Center (MT)

Sarah MacCormick ‘21, Intern, Passumpsic Valley Trust (VT)

Ian Robertson ‘21, Intern, Next Generation Sea Level, Currents, and Wave Measurement Systems, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (NOAA CO-OPS) (MD)

Kush Sharma ‘23, Project and Research Intern, Protecterra Ecological Foundation, Maharashtra, India

Joanna Vollrath ‘21, Intern, Cottonwood Environmental Law Center (MT)

Hermione Zhou ‘21, Resource Networker and Project Support, Land in Common, Maine Land Share Project

2019

The following students received grants or fellowships to conduct research, community-engaged research or internships, or environmental internships this year.

Research Grants and Fellowships (includes research that was done in Short Term)

David Akinyemi ’21: Development and Analysis of Particle-in-Cell (PIC) Methods for Vlasnov-Poisson Equation (Henry Boateng, Mathematics), Faculty Grant, Department of Energy, Visiting Faculty Program

Owen Bailey ’22: Exploration of Pb-free polar materials for energy and electronic applications (Geneva Laurita, Chemistry and Biochemistry), STEM Faculty-Student Research Grant

Morgan Baxter ’20: Magnetorotational Instability onsets in three dimension (Jeff Oishi, Physics) Faculty Grant, Start-up

Hannah Beams ’21: Development and Analysis of Particle-in-Cell (PIC) Methods for Vlasnov-Poisson Equation (Henry Boateng, Mathematics), Rawlings Fellowship

Gabe Benson ’20: Pollination Phenology and Mechanisms in Lyonia-Ligustrina (Carla Essenberg, Biology), Summer Research Fellowship

Martha Bishop ’21: Testing a Gene Therapy for Pitt-Hopkins Syndrome (Andrew Kennedy, Chemistry and Biochemistry), STEM Faculty-Student Research Grant

Flannery Black-Ingersoll ’19: The Spread of the Birther Conspiracy as an Epidemiological Model (Meredith Greer, Mathematics), STEM Faculty-Student Research Grant

Christine Bourdeau ’21: Testing the consequences of wing flexibility to comprehensive flight performance in freely flying insects (Andrew Mountcastle, Biology), Faculty Grant, National Science Foundation

Avi Brach-Neufeld ’20: Ultracold Atomic Physics on Earth and in Space (Nathan Lundblad, Physics), STEM Faculty-Student Research Grant

Christian Bradna ’20: Probing Dust-Obscured Star Formation and AGN Activity in Massive Ultra-Compact Galaxies (Aleksander Diamond-Stanic, Physics) Faculty Grant, NASA/Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy

James Calhoon ’21: Harvesting freshwater sponges for stem cell cultures (April Hill, Biology), Faculty Grant, National Science Foundation

Jordan Camarillo ’20: Domination in graphs and its applications to public health (Adriana Salerno, Mathematics), Rawlings Fellowship

Mallory Caron ’21: c-Fos driven knockout of Tet2 enzymes and the selective extension of memory (Andrew Kennedy, Chemistry and Biochemistry), INBRE Fellowship

Christopher Castaneda ’20: Connecting high-frequency temperature and oxygen data to phytoplankton (Holly Ewing, Environmental Studies), Faculty Grant, Auburn Water District/Lewiston Water Division

Biruk Chafamo ’22: Dark Matter and Dark Energy from Projective Geometry (Catherine Whiting, Physics), Summer Research Fellowship

Lillian Chang ’20: Gene regulatory pathway analysis in freshwater:algal symbioses (April Hill, Biology), Faculty Grant, National Science Foundation

Gavin Chen ’20: Freshwater sponge surveys and species identification in Central Maine (April Hill, Biology), Faculty Grant, National Science Foundation

Kyle Crans ’20: Characterization of Hybrid Halide Perovskites (Geneva Laurita, Chemistry and Biochemistry), Summer Research Fellowship

Elizabeth Collins ’20: Experimental Optical Diagnostic in Combustion Processes (Sven Eckart, Technische Universität Bergakademi, Freiberg, Germany) Pribram-Ruff Research Fellowship

Deon Custard ’21: Steppenwolf Theatre Company Internship (Steppenwolf Theatre), Seeling Fellowship

William Davis ’21: Re-design of NS/PY 357 Computational Neuroscience (Michelle Greene, Neuroscience), Faculty Grant, Start-up

Emily Erard-Stone ’20: Melt viscosities in silica-undersaturated systems (Genevieve Robert, Geology), Faculty Grant, National Science Foundation

Sofia Esquibies ’21: Transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-β) signaling in Cystic fibrosis (CF) lung disease (Emanuela Bruscia, Yale) Abelson Fellowship

Louisa Gale ’20: Testing a Gene Therapy for Pitt-Hopkins Syndrome (Andrew Kennedy, Chemistry and Biochemistry), INBRE Fellowship

Sommer Glasgow ’21: Teaching Narrative Medicine: Grasping the Concept of Empathy in Medicine (Susan Sample, University of Utah), Summer Research Fellowship

Gabriele Gucagaite ’21: STED Microscopy of DNA Phase Condensation (Travis Gould, Physics), INBRE Fellowship

Gabriele Gucagaite ’21: Delocalized Optical Harmonic Generation as a Probe of the Surface Plasmon-Polaritons in Gold Microplates (Matthew Côté, Chemistry and Biochemistry), Keith Fellowship

Thaddeus Gunther ’21: Use of a novel molecular method to isolate erythrocytes in developing zebrafish (Larissa Williams, Biology), INBRE Fellowship

Alondra Guzman ’21: Gene regulatory pathway analysis in freshwater:algal symbioses (April Hill, Biology), Faculty Grant, National Science Foundation

Dewi Henry ’22: Coastal Monitoring at Bates-Morse Mountain Conservation Area and Black Water Marsh (Beverly Johnson, Geology), Science Fellows Faculty-Student Research Grant

Cameron Huftalen ’19: Beyond Sticks and Stones: The Strange History of Reputation in Modern Britain, c. 1750-2000 (Caroline Shaw, History), Departmental Funds

Phoebe Hyland ’21: Isolation of putative antimicrobial compounds from symbiotic freshwater microalgae (April Hill, Biology), Faculty Grant, National Science Foundation

Joseph Inger ’21: Synthesis of Phenylpropanoid Glycosides (Jennifer Koviach-Côté, Chemistry and Biochemistry), Summer Research Fellowship

Xiaole Jiang ’21: Phenomenology of General Relativity with Projective Geometry (Catherine Whiting, Physics), Summer Research Fellowship

Hannah Johnson ’20: Late Glacial to Holocene Sea Level History of Kapp Linné, Svalbard, Norwegian High Arctic (Michael Retelle, Geology), Dorothy Dole Johnson Fellowship

Katrina Johnson ’21: Carcharius Taurus Predator Behavior and Habitat (Avery Paxton, Duke Marine Laboratory), Summer Research Fellowship

Nick Jones ’20: Delocalized Optical Harmonic Generation as a Probe of the Surface Plasmon-Polaritons in Gold Microplates (Matthew Côté, Chemistry and Biochemistry), STEM Faculty-Student Research Grant

Abigail Kany ’21: Characterizing V1A receptors in goldfish brains (Rick Thompson, Bowdoin College), INBRE Fellowship

Ben Keener ’21: Competitive Federalism/Equal Sovereignty (Charles Tyler, Stanford Law School), Stangle Research Fellowship

Violeta Keifer ’20: Resiliency and change in coral habitats: Effects of Hurricane Irma on shallow water benthic communities (Malcolm Hill, Biology), Faculty Grant, National Science Foundation

Angela Kemfack ’20: Identification, culturing, and sequencing of novel microalgae strains (April Hill, Biology), Faculty Grant, National Science Foundation

Fahim Khan ’20: STED Microscopy of DNA Phase Condensation (Travis Gould, Physics), INBRE Fellowship

Sarah King ’21: DNA barcoding analysis of freshwater sponges (April Hill, Biology), Faculty Grant, National Science Foundation

Jhansi Kolli ’21: Use of a novel molecular method to isolate erythrocytes in developing zebrafish (Larissa Williams, Biology), INBRE Fellowship

Jhansi Kolli ’21: Reconstructing complex mental images (Michelle Greene, Neuroscience), Faculty Grant, Start-up

Nicole Kumbula ’21: Melt viscosities in silica-undersaturated systems (Genevieve Robert, Geology), Faculty Grant, National Science Foundation

Jagjit Lally ’20: Characterization of GR activities ability to promote RNA methylome remodeling (Deniz Dolcen ’12, University of Chicago), Hoffman Research Fellowship

Kathryn Leeke ’20: Neural Correlates of Causal Inference in Rodents (Jean-Paul Noel, New York University), Hoffman Research Fellowship

Jane Lipscomb ’21: Summer Internship (Margaret Kovera, John Jay College of Criminal Justice), Summer Research Fellowship

Yichun Liu ’21: On a Sangaku of Hirohata Shrine: A Study of Japanese (Peter Wong, Mathematics), Tanaka Research Fellowship

Ryan Lizanecz ’20: Stormwater Education, Outreach, and Public Participation (Martha Sheils, New England Environmental Finance Center), Stangle Research Fellowship

Katharine Loughlin ’22: Social media communications and analysis for QUBES and EDSIN (Carrie Diaz Eaton, Digital and Computational Studies), Faculty Grant, QUBES National Science Foundation IUSE Ideas Lab Bio Grant

Munashe Machoko ’21: Biochemistry of Intestinal Alkaline Phosphates in Cell Cultures and Animal Models (Richard Hodin, Massachusetts General Hospital), Abelson Fellowship

Claire MacKay ’20: The Journals of Christiana Weller Thompson (Lillian Nayder, English) Summer Research Apprenticeship

Ojochenemi Maji ’22: The Diverse Bookfinder: Data enhancement, management, and translation (Krista Aronson, Psychology), Summer Research Apprenticeship

Esther Martin ’21: Bedrock Mapping of the Berlin, NH Quad (Dyk Eusden, Geology), Science Fellows Faculty-Student Research Grant

Caitie McGlashan ’22: Representational similarity spaces (Michelle Greene, Neuroscience), Faculty Grant, Start-up

Eli Mihan ’21: Representational similarity spaces (Michelle Greene, Neuroscience), Faculty Grant, Start-up

Rebecca Minsley ’20: Probing Dust-Obscured Star Formation and AGN Activity in Massive Ultra-Compact Galaxies (Aleksander Diamond-Stanic, Physics), Faculty Grant, NASA/Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy

Robyn Moss ’20: Colloidal Synthesis of Novel Heterostructured Semiconductor Nanoplatelets (Maxsym Kovalenko, ETH Zurich), Hoffman Research Support Grant

Dylan Muldoon ’21: Determination of fermentable sugars from symbiotic microalgae (April Hill, Biology), Faculty Grant, National Science Foundation

Madison Murphy ’20: Use of Pyrochlores in Electronic Devices (Geneva Laurita, Chemistry and Biochemistry), Faculty Grant, National Science Foundation

Ivy Nguyen ’21: Isolation of putative antimicrobial compounds from symbiotic freshwater microalgae (April Hill, Biology), Faculty Grant, National Science Foundation

Peter Nguyen ’22: Viscosity of fluorine-bearing mixed alkali-alkaline earth aluminosilicate glasses (Genevieve Robert, Geology), Science Fellows Faculty-Student Research Grant

Chris Novak ’20: Identifying Risk Factors in Exchange Rates (Julieta Yung, Economics), Summer Research Apprenticeship

Jasmine Nutakki ’21: Gene regulatory pathway analysis in freshwater:algal symbioses (April Hill, Biology), Faculty Grant, National Science Foundation

Bryce O’Brien ’20: Understanding Feeding Interactions between Pugettia producta and Nereocystis luetkeana (Katie Dobkowski, Biology) Hoffman Research Fellowship

Jake O’Hara ’21: Exploration of Pb-free polar materials for energy and electronic applications (Geneva Laurita, Chemistry and Biochemistry), STEM Faculty-Student Research Grant

Nell Pearson ’20: Gender Equality in 19th Century Shaker Communities (Joseph Hall, History), Cole Research Fellowship

Kirsten Pelletier ’20: Spatial variability in Lake Auburn phytoplankton (Holly Ewing, Environmental Studies), Faculty Grant, Auburn Water District/Lewiston Water Division

Ashley Pratt ’20: Epigenetic Mechanisms of Memory Formation (Andrew Kennedy, Chemistry and Biochemistry), Faculty Grant

Ursula Rall ’20: Beyond Sticks and Stones: The Strange History of Reputation in Modern Britain, c. 1750-2000 (Caroline Shaw, History) Departmental Funds

Shanzeh Rauf ’21: Epigenetics of Memory Formation and Recall (Andrew Kennedy, Chemistry and Biochemistry) Hoffman Research Fellowship

Anas Reda ’20: Characterizing the DNA-binding profile of macroH2A (Iva Zovkic, University of Toronto, Mississauga), Hoffman Research Fellowship

Meg Robinson ’20: Structural Elucidation and Characterization of Small Molecules Produced on the Human Skin by Commonsal Bacteria (Collen O’Loughlin, Chemistry and Biochemistry), STEM Faculty-Student Research Grant

Abdul Tawab Safi ’20: Understanding the Relationship between Term Spread and Economic Fundamentals (Julieta Yung, Economics), Stangle Research Fellowship

Brittany Seipp ’21: DNA Methylation and Memory (Andrew Kennedy, Chemistry and Biochemistry), Kelsey Fellowship for Neuroscience

Jillian Serrano ’21: Testing a Gene Therapy for Pitt-Hopkins Syndrome (Andrew Kennedy, Chemistry and Biochemistry), Science Fellows Faculty-Student Research Grant

Maya Seshan ’20: Differentiation of Pluripotent Stem Cells from Ovarian Granulosa Cells for Applications in Fertility Restoration (Richard Anchan, Brigham and Women’s Hospital), Abelson Fellowship

Xuchong Shao ’20: News on US-China Trade War and Foreign Exchange Markets (Julieta Yung, Economics), Stangle Research Fellowship

Jamie Siegart ’21: Recurrent visual processing (Michelle Greene, Neuroscience), Faculty Grant, Start-up

Hazel Simpson ’20: Dyadic Emotion-Related Processes in Irritable and Comparison Youth (Jeffrey Burke, University of Connecticut), Ruggles Fellowship

Francesca Steiner ’19: An Indigenous History of Malaga Island, 1800-1912 (Joseph Hall, History), Departmental Funds

Riley Theriault ’22: Measuring the Kinematics of Outflowing Gas in the Circumgalactic Medium (Aleksander Diamond-Stanic, Physics), STEM Faculty-Student Research Grant

Cristopher Thompson ’19: Probing Dust-Obscured Star Formation and AGN Activity in Massive Ultra-Compact Galaxies (Aleksander Diamond-Stanic, Physics), Faculty Grant, NASA/Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy

Devanshi Trivedi ’22: Reconstructing complex mental images (Michelle Greene, Neuroscience), Faculty Grant, Start up

Chidubem Umeh ’22: Probing Dust-Obscured Star Formation and AGN Activity in Massive Ultra-Compact Galaxies (Aleksander Diamond-Stanic, Physics), Faculty Grant, NASA/Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy

King Valdez ’19: Probing Dust-Obscured Star Formation and AGN Activity in Massive Ultra-Compact Galaxies (Aleksander Diamond-Stanic, Physics), Faculty Grant, NASA/Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy

Eric Viera ’20: Testing the consequences of wing flexibility to comprehensive flight performance in freely flying insects (Andrew Mountcastle, Biology), Faculty Grant, National Science Foundation

Xin Wang ’20: Land and Law in Northwest China, 1800-1950 (Wesley Chaney, History), Departmental Funds

Xingren Wang ’21: Structural Elucidation and Characterization of Small Molecules Produced on the Human Skin by Commonsal Bacteria (Colleen O’Loughlin, Biology), STEM Faculty-Student Research Grant

Emma Lea Wheeler ’20: Arctic hydrological regime shift in a warming climate (Michael Retelle, Geology), Faculty Grant, National Science Foundation

Mitchell Willsey ’20: Synthesis of the Natural Product Linderofruticoside (Jennifer Koviach-Côté, Chemistry and Biochemistry), STEM Faculty-Student Research Grant

Yehe Yan ’20: Dark Matter and Dark Energy from Projective Geometry (Catherine Whiting, Physics), Summer Research Apprenticeship

Hermione Zhou ’21: Determining the fate of donated perishable foods among Maine emergency food providers (Francis Eanes, Environmental Studies), Summer Research Apprenticeship

Wuyue Zhou ’21: Synthesis of TET Enzyme Inhibitors (Andrew Kennedy, Chemistry and Biochemistry), Hoffman Research Fellowship

Wuyue Zhou ’21: Recurrent visual processing (Michelle Greene, Neuroscience), Faculty Grant, Start-up funds

Community-Engagement Projects

Mayele Alognon ’20: L/A Arts, Lewiston, ME, Harward Summer Civic Fellowship

Emma Block ’22: District Court, Lewiston, ME, Harward Summer Civic Fellowship

Valerie Bravo ’21: Hillview, Lewiston, ME, Harward Summer Community Fellowship

Jesus Carrera ’20: New Beginnings, Lewiston, ME, Harward Summer Civic Fellowship

Nora Finley ’20: Nutrition Center, Lewiston, ME, Harward Summer Civic Fellowship

Maria Gray ’22: Outright L/A, Lewiston, ME, Harward Summer Civic Fellowship

Kirsten Koepnick ’21: Auburn Conservation Commission, Auburn, ME, Harward Summer Civic Fellowship

Sophie Landes ’21: Healthy Homeworks, Lewiston, ME, Harward Summer Civic Fellowship

Signe Lynch ’20: Center for Wisdom’s Women, Lewiston, ME, Harward Summer Civic Fellowship

Jenny Martin ’21: Lewiston Recreation, Lewiston, ME, Harward Summer Community Fellowship

Elias Mihan ’21: Auburn Water District, Auburn, ME, Harward Summer Civic Fellowship

Nina Moskowitz ’20: Trinity Jubilee Center, Lewiston, ME, Harward Summer Civic Fellowship

Travis Palmer ’21: Community Concepts, Lewiston, ME, Harward Summer Community Fellowship

Hermione Zhou ’21: Auburn Conservation Commission, Auburn, ME, Harward Summer Civic Fellowship

Internships

Sarah Delany ’20: Operations Intern (Andrew Bancroft-Howard, Wilderness Inquiry, Minneapolis, MN) Bates Environmental Internship

Rex Hirschhorn ’21: Summer Intern (Paige Roth, REVERB, Portland, ME) Bates Environmental Internship

Alexis Hudes ’20: Research Assistant (Paul Bertheau, DAAD, Berlin, Germany) Bates Environmental Internship

Casey Kelley ’21: Assistant Producer (Naomi Beal, PassivHaus, Portland, ME) Bates Environmental Internship

Ronni Mak ’20: Outreach and Education Intern (Erika Fernandez, Lloyd Center for the Environment, Dartmouth, MA) Bates Environmental Internship

Erin Murphy ’21: Intern (Addie Miller, The Center for Wildlife, York, ME) Bates Environmental Internship

Brady Orozco-Herman ’21: Intern (Environmental League of Massachusetts, Boston, MA) Bates Environmental Internship

Maggie O’Shea ’20: Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development Intern (Susannah Dunlap, Lopez Community Land Trust, Lopez Island, WA) Bates Environmental Internship

Benjamin Wilson ’22: Intern (Erin Huber Rosen, Drink Local Drink Tap, Cleveland, OH) Bates Environmental Internship

Otis and Phillips Fellowships

Hannah McKenzie ’20 and Julia Nash ’21: Intricately Woven Identities: Engaging with Tibetan Exile Women in Nepal (Kathmandu, Nepal), Phillips Fellowship

Luis David Molina Rueda ’20: Finding a dramatic voice in my mother tongue: Argentina as a theater-making hub in Spanish (Buenos Aires, San Luis, Puerto Madryn, Argentina), Phillips Fellowship

Jesse Saffeir ’20: Between a wilderness and a wasteland: poetry from Maine’s powerline corridors (Maine), Otis Fellowship

2018

The following students received grants or fellowships to conduct research, community-engaged research or internships, or environmental internships this year.

Research Grants and Fellowships

  • Ross Ackerman ’19: Avian Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) Research (Donald Dearborn, Biology), INBRE-RTF Grant
  • David Akinyemi ’21: Eliminating Errors Occurring in Adaptive-Mesh-Refinement Particle-in-Cell (AMR-PIC) Methods for Vlasov-Poisson Equations (Henry Boateng, Mathematics), Rawlings Fellowship and Faculty Research Grant
  • Bryan Almonte ’19: Bioinformatics and the Human Genome (Dr. Molly Hall, Pennsylvania State) Hoffman Fellowship and Rawlings Fellowship
  • Mansib Tahsin Arko ’21: Adolescent Reproductive Health in Chittagong and Dhaka Cities, Bangladesh (Patrick Otim, History), Hoffman Research Support Grant
  • Jacob Atwood ’19: Searching: An Exploration through Creative Nonfiction Writing of How Millennials Pursue Meaning (Jessica Anthony, English), Ruggles Fellowship
  • Nicholas Barker ’18: Investigation of Factors Motivating the Adoption of Stormwater Best Management Practices (Francis Eanes, Environmental Studies), Sherman Fairchild Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Saleha Belgaumi ’18: Re-Past: Remembering Malaga Site-Specific Installation (Myron Beasley, African American Studies and American Studies; Michael Reidy, Theater), Summer Research Apprenticeship
  • Jeremy Bennett ’21: The Relationship of Algal and Cyanobacterial Blooms to Metabolism of Lake Auburn (Holly Ewing, Environmental Studies), Science Fellows Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Adena Bernot ’20: Discrimination at the Intersection of Race, Sexual Orientation, and Gender Expression: A Resume Audit Study (Maggie Maurer-Fazio, Economics), Stangle Fellowship
  • Zachary Bernstein ’20: Synthesis of Protected Apiose for Incorporation into Luteoside B (Jennifer Koviach-Côté, Chemistry and Biochemistry), Keith Fellowship
  • Jason Boisvert ’18: Role of Nrf proteins in phthalate toxicity, (Larissa Williams, Biology), Faculty Research Grant: INBRE
  • Fintan Browne ’21: Using Automated Feedback to Promote Growth Mindset in Programming Assignments (Matthew Jadud, Digital and Computational Studies), Faculty Research Grant: National Science Foundation
  • Mary Buford Turnage ’19: Hyperoxia-induced plasticity in the control of breathing (Ryan Bavis, Biology), INBRE Fellowship
  • Nolan Burgos ’18: Investigation of Factors Motivating the Adoption of Stormwater Best Management Practices (Francis Eanes, Environmental Studies), Sherman Fairchild Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Jordan Camarillo ’20: How Compact is the Stellar Mass in Eddington-Limited Starburst Galaxies (Aleksander Diamond-Stanic, Physics and Astronomy), Faculty Research Grant
  • Jiayang Chen ’20: Chinese Zodiac Years and Parents’ Investment in Children’s Education (Leshui He), Stangle Fellowship
  • Keila Ching ’19: Liberation through Somatic Experience (Julie Fox, Theater and Dance), Hoffman Research Fellowship and Hoffman Research Support Grant
  • Maya Chrobot ’20: The Effects of Culture on the Conception of Discrimination and Production of Stereotype Threat (Laura Ligouri, Neuroscience), Summer Research Fellowship
  • Eve Cinquino ’19: How Compact is the Stellar Mass in Eddington-Limited Starburst Galaxies (Aleksander Diamond-Stanic, Physics and Astronomy), Faculty Research Grant
  • Nicholas Coker ’19: Investigating the molecular control of leading process branching in migrating cortical neurons (Eric Tucker, West Virginia University), Kelsey Fellowship for Neuroscience and Summer Research Fellowship
  • Catherine Crossin ’20: Environmental Sensing, Data Management, and Analysis (Matthew Jadud, Digital and Computational Studies), Sherman Fairchild Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Michal Cwik ’20: Semiconductor lasers subject to optical perturbations (Hong Lin, Physics and Astronomy), Sherman Fairchild Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Michal Cwik ’20: Environmental Sensing, Data Management, and Analysis (Matthew Jadud, Digital and Computational Studies), Sherman Fairchild Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Laura Daehler ’20: Synthesis of Glucuronic Acid Building Blocks for O-Mannosylated Glycans (Jennifer Koviach-Côté, Chemistry and Biochemistry), Sherman Fairchild Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Carl Deakins ’19: Hip Check: On Race, Queer Gender, and Experiments in Writing (Erica Rand, Gender and Sexuality Studies), Summer Research Apprenticeship
  • Oliver Farnum ’19: The Ethics of Autonomous Vehicles (Susan Stark, Philosophy), Summer Research Fellowship
  • Celia Feal-Staub ’20: Investigation of Factors Motivating the Adoption of Stormwater Best Management Practices (Frances Eanes, Environmental Studies), Sherman Fairchild Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Hannah Fitts ’20: Ultracold Atomic Physics on Earth and in Space (Nathan Lundblad, Physics and Astronomy), STEM Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Courtney Foster ’18: Investigation of Factors Motivating the Adoption of Stormwater Best Management Practices (Frances Eanes, Environmental Studies), Sherman Fairchild Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Matthew Glasgow ’19: Utility of multichannel intraluminal impedance (MII) with pH monitoring (MII-pH) in evaluation of severity and spectrum of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) (Christy Dunst, The Oregon Clinic/Foundation for Surgical Innovation and Education), Hoffman Research Fellowship and Hoffman Research Support Grant
  • Maxwell Gold ’19: Ultracold Atomic Physics on Earth and in Space (Nathan Lundblad, Physics and Astronomy), Sherman Fairchild Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Emma Gomez-Rivas ’19: Synthesis of the Xylose-Glucuronic Acid Repeat in O-Mannosylated Glycans (Jennifer Koviach-Côté, Chemistry and Biochemistry), Sherman Fairchild Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Alondra Guzman ’21: Colombian Glaciers and Climate During the Last Ice Age (Alice Doughty, Geology) Science Fellows Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Madison Hallowell ’20: Environmental Sensing, Data Management, and Analysis (Matthew Jadud, Digital and Computational Studies), Sherman Fairchild Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Alexandra Howard ’19: Epigenetics and Pitt-Hopkins Syndrome (Andrew Kennedy, Chemistry and Biochemistry) Hoffman Research Fellowship and Faculty Research Grant
  • Deandra Hyman ’21: Ugandan Glaciers and Climate Change (Alice Doughty, Geology), STEM Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Xiaole Jiang ’21: Ultracold Atomic Physics on Earth and in Space (Nathan Lundblad, Physics and Astronomy), Sherman Fairchild Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Elizabeth Johnson ’20: Environmental Sensing, Data Management, and Analysis (Matthew Jadud, Digital and Computational Studies), Sherman Fairchild Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Lauryn Kibugi ’21: Environmental Sensing, Data Management, and Analysis (Matthew Jadud, Digital and Computational Studies), Sherman Fairchild Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Lily Kip ’19: Spatial, Narrative, and Bodily Fragmentism in the Post Modern Female Bildungsroman (Sanford Freedman, English), Summer Research Fellowship
  • Nicole Kumbula ’21: Environmental Sensing, Data Management, and Analysis (Matthew Jadud, Digital and Computational Studies), Sherman Fairchild Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Ceria Kurtz ’19: Race-Related Eyewitness Misidentification (Margaret Kovera, John Jay College of Criminal Justice), Hoffman Research Fellowship and Hoffman Research Support Grant
  • Nathanael Kuzio ’19: Tet Inhibitor Design to Improve Cognition (Andrew Kennedy, Chemistry and Biochemistry), Sherman Fairchild Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Jagjit Lally ’20: Analysis of chemical supplementations effect on alcohol sedation in Drosophila melanogaster (Dr. Tariq Ahmad, Colby College), INBRE Summer Fellowship
  • Ariel Lee ’19: Effect of Language and Environment in the Cognitive Processing of Bi-Cultural Individuals (Laura Ligouri, Neuroscience), Hoffman Research Fellowship
  • Lisa LeFeber ’19: Building the foundation for the examination of gender representation within multicultural picture books (Krista Aronson, Psychology), Summer Research Apprenticeship
  • Jacob LeMoine ’20: Origami constructions in number theory (Adriana Salerno, Mathematics), STEM Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Charles Lipscomb ’18: How Compact is the Stellar Mass in Eddington-Limited Starburst Galaxies (Aleksander Diamond-Stanic, Physics and Astronomy), Faculty Research Grant
  • Yichun Liu ’21: Origami constructions in number theory (Adriana Salerno, Mathematics), STEM Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Julie Ludwig ’19: Researching Melanin-Concentrating Hormone in the Context of IBD (Efi Kokkoutou, Beth Israel Medical Center), Summer Research Fellowship
  • Brendan Mackey ’19: Regulation of intracellular Ca2+- signaling by inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptor-binding protein released with inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (Martin Kruse, Biology), Sherman Fairchild Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Melanie Mait ’18: Role of Nfe2 in inner ear development (Larissa Williams, Biology), INBRE Faculty Research Grant
  • Wendy Memishian ’19: Contribution of adenosine receptors to the biphasic HVR of newborn rats (Ryan Bavis, Biology), STEM Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Niamh Micklewhite ’19: Exploring the Three Dimensional Architecture of Vascular Networks in Cycad Leaves (Brett Huggett, Biology), Sherman Fairchild Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Rebecca Minsley ’19: Characterizing Gas Flows in a Large Sample of Nearby Galaxies (Aleksander Diamond-Stanic, Physics and Astronomy), Sherman Fairchild Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Hadley Moreau ’19: Role of Nrf transcription factor proteins in mediating the response to phthalate exposure during development (Larissa Williams, Biology), STEM Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Gwen Muscato ’18: Direct binding of Nfe2 to the zebrafish genome during development (Larissa Williams, Biology) INBRE Faculty Research Grant
  • Gabe Nelson ’20: Origami constructions in number theory (Adriana Salerno, Mathematics), STEM Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Senyo Ohene ’20: Origami constructions in number theory (Adriana Salerno, Mathematics), Sherman Fairchild Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Senyo Ohene ’20: Critical Transitions in the Arctic Permafrost (Raj Saha, Geology and Physics and Astronomy), Sherman Fairchild Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Sam Onion ’20: Melt viscosities in silica-undersaturated systems (Genevieve Robert, Geology) Faculty Research Grant
  • Salim Ourari ’18: Semiconductor lasers subject to optical perturbations (Hong Lin, Physics and Astronomy), Sherman Fairchild Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Ashley Pratt ’20: Hyperoxia-induced plasticity in the control of breathing (Ryan Bavis), INBRE Research Fellowship
  • Evelyn Randazzo ’21: Melt viscosities in silica-undersaturated systems (Genevieve Robert, Geology) Faculty Research Grant
  • Anas Reda ’20: The Regulation of H2A.Z binding to Memory-Related Genes (Iva Zovkic, University of Toronto, Mississauga), Hoffman Research Fellowship and Hoffman Research Support Grant
  • Lena Rintell ’19: All the Right Moves for Subcontractors (and Sodexo LLC Collaboration) (Jack Dennerlein, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Center for Work, Health, and Well-Being), Hoffman Research Fellowship
  • Margaret Robinson ’20: Exploration of Pb-free functional oxides for energy and electronic applications (Geneva Laurita, Chemistry and Biochemistry), Sherman Fairchild Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Eleanor Ross ’19: Apologies and Sexual Misconduct (Georgia Nigro, Psychology), Summer Research Apprenticeship
  • Jason Ross ’19: Exploration of Pb-free functional oxides for energy and electronic applications (Geneva Laurita, Chemistry and Biochemistry), Sherman Fairchild Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Anna Setzer ’19: What’s in a name? Understanding the climate refugee (Jim Richter, Politics), Stangle Research Fellowship
  • Jillian Sheltra ’19: Regulation of neuronal activity by phosphoinositide transfer proteins (Martin Kruse, Biology), INBRE Research Fellowship
  • Hannah Smith ’19: Tet Inhibitor Design to Improve Cognition (Andrew Kennedy, Chemistry and Biochemistry), Sherman Fairchild Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Isabella Stone ’19: XXX (Herman Haller, Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory), INBRE Research Fellowship
  • Haoyu Sun ’19: Tet Inhibitor Design to Improve Cognition (Andrew Kennedy, Chemistry and Biochemistry), Sherman Fairchild Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Mary Szatkowski ’18: Heat conductivity in permafrost soils (Raj Saha, Geology and Physics and Astronomy), STEM Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Cristopher Thompson ’19: How Compact is the Stellar Mass in Eddington-Limited Starburst Galaxies (Aleksander Diamond-Stanic, Physics and Astronomy), Faculty Research Grant
  • Cristopher Thompson ’19: Resolving Higher Order Chromatin Organization in Human Leukemia Cells (Travis Gould, Physics and Astronomy), INBRE Research Fellowship
  • Anh Thai Tran ’19: Portrait Images in the Traditional Vietnamese Art: A Study of Religious Patrons and their Important Roles (Trian Nguyen, Art and Visual Culture), Summer Research Apprenticeship
  • Katherina Tran ’19: Optical Harmonic Generation as a Probe of the Plasmonic Behavior of Microplates (Matthew Côté, Chemistry and Biochemistry), Sherman Fairchild Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Bridget Tweedie ’21: Genomic Diversity of the Vertebrate Immune System: the Neglected Half if the MHC Class II Heterodimer (Donald Dearborn, Biology), Faculty INBRE-RTF Grant
  • Kingdell Valdez ’19: How Compact is the Stellar Mass in Eddington-Limited Starburst Galaxies (Aleksander Diamond-Stanic, Physics and Astronomy), Faculty Research Grant
  • Ruth van Kampen ’19: Structure and Function of New England Forest Trees: Predicting future forest composition by looking back in time (Brett Huggett, Biology), STEM Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Jingming Wei ’19: Labor Market Discrimination at the Intersection of Race and Sexual Orientation (Margaret Maurer-Fazio, Economics), Stangle Research Fellowship
  • Abby Westberry ’19: Navigating the In-Between Spaces: Community, Visibility, and Power within Long-term Motel Residency (Emily Kane, Sociology), Ruggles Research Fellowship
  • Ernestine Whitaker ’20: Exploration of Pb-free functional oxides for energy and electronic applications (Geneva Laurita, Chemistry and Biochemistry), Dorothy Dole Johnson Research Fellowship
  • Samuel Whitaker ’19: Community-Engaged Research: Pollinator-Friendly Gardening in Southern Maine (Carla Essenberg, Biology), Sherman Fairchild Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Emily Woods ’21: Characterizing Gas Flows in a Large Sample of Nearby Galaxies (Aleksander Diamond-Stanic, Physics and Astronomy), Sherman Fairchild Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Lily Yang ’19: Semiconductor lasers subject to optical perturbations (Hong Lin, Physics and Astronomy), Sherman Fairchild Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Alya Yousef ’21: Quipper Research (Pia Verbic, Quipper Research), Summer Research Fellowship
  • Hermione Zhou ’21: Investigation of Factors Motivating the Adoption of Stormwater Best Management Practices (Francis Eanes, Environmental Studies), Sherman Fairchild Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Hermione Zhou ’21: “Local Food” and “Distant Food”: A Comparative Analysis of How Domestic Restaurant Proprietors Perceive and Decide on Sources of Food in China (Xueshi Li, Tsinghua University), Tanaka Research Fellowship
  • Wuyue Zhou ’21: Origami constructions in number theory (Adriana Salerno, Mathematics), STEM Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Tong Zhou ’19: Resolving Higher Order Chromatin Organization in Human Leukemia Cells (Travis Gould, Physics and Astronomy), INBRE Research Fellowship

Community-Engagement Projects

  • Yazmynne Jachai Carter ’19: MetroSquash, Chicago, IL, Harward Summer Civic Fellowship
  • Eliot Chalfin-Smith ’21: Maine Cycling Club Lewiston, ME, Harward Summer Civic Fellowship
  • Christine Cho ’19: L/A Arts, Lewiston, ME, Harward Summer Civic Fellowship
  • Jo Cunningham ’19: The Animation Project, New York, NY, Harward Summer Civic Fellowship
  • Matthew Golden ’19: Achievements by 4 New Bedford, MA, Harward Summer Civic Fellowship
  • Elizabeth Kiley-Bergen ’20: Trinity Jubilee Center, Lewiston, ME, Harward Summer Community Fellowship
  • Nicholas Lambert ’19: Pink Circles and Blue Squares, Los Angeles, CA, Harward Summer Community Fellowship
  • Jennifer Martin ’21: Lewiston Recreation Department, Lewiston, ME, Harward Summer Community Fellowship
  • Jessie Moriarty ’19: Generation Teach, Holyoke, MA, Harward Summer Community Fellowship
  • Nina Moskowitz ’20: Trinity Jubilee Center, Lewiston, ME, Harward Summer Community Fellowship
  • Alexandria Onuoha ’20: Transition House, Inc., Cambridge, MA, Harward Summer Civic Fellowship
  • Miranda Padilla ’19: Observatorio Ciudadano, Santiago, Chile, Harward Summer Civic Fellowship
  • Kirsten Pelletier ’20: Stanton Bird Club, Lewiston, ME, Harward Summer Community Fellowship
  • Eleanor Ross ’19: Center for Wisdom’s Women, Lewiston, ME, Harward Summer Civic Fellowship
  • Jesse Saffeir ’20: St. Mary’s Nutrition Center, Lewiston, ME, Harward Summer Civic Fellowship
  • Mara Stolzenbach ’20: Outright L/A, Lewiston, ME, Harward Summer Community Fellowship
  • Walter Washington ’19: Pine Tree Legal Assistance, Augusta, ME, Harward Summer Community Fellowship

Internships

  • Tess Black ’20: Interpretive Park Ranger Intern, Zion National Park (Gretchen Wise, Lead Park Ranger, Springdale, UT), Bates Environmental Internship
  • Alexandra Cullen ’20: Editorial Intern, SKI Magazine (Samantha Barnes, Content Director, Boulder, CO), Bates Environmental Internship
  • Griffin Golden ’19: Sustainable Energy Intern, GreenMax Capital Advisors (Alexander LaBua GreenMax Capital Advisors, Brooklyn, NY), Bates Environmental Internship
  • Carter Goodell ’19: Intern, Maine Island Trail Association (Brian Marcaurelle, Program Director, Portland, ME), Bates Environmental Internship
  • Dylan Metsch-Ampel ’19: Cool States Policy Intern, U.S. Green Building Council (Alex Hammack, Humarn Resources, Washington, D.C.), Bates Environmental Internship
  • Natalie Moon ’21: Marine Science Summer Camp Intern, New England Aquarium (Lace Anderson Garland, Internship Manager, Boston, MA), Bates Environmental Internship
  • Margaret O’Shea ’20: Intern, Sierra Club, Rocky Mountain Chapter (Hillary Larson, Denver, CO), Bates Environmental Internship
  • Nell Pearson ’20: Historical Horticulture Intern, Plimoth Plantation (Hilary Goodnow, Intern Coordinator, Plymouth, MA), Bates Environmental Internship
  • Lauren Rasich ’19: Intern, Climate Foundation (Brian von Herzen, Executive Director, Woods Hole, MA), Bates Environmental Internship
  • Andrea Russo ’19: Legislative Outreach Intern, Connecticut League of Conservation Voters (Lori Brown, Program Director, Hartford, CT), Bates Environmental Internship
  • Lars Schuster ’20: Intern, Fishpond (Ben Kurtz, President, Denver, CO), Bates Environmental Internship
  • Austin Shaver ’21: Intern, Needham Community Farm (Theresa Strachila, Farm Manager, Needham, MA), Bates Environmental Internship
  • Elliot Wilson ’21: Summer Intern, La Plata Open Space Conservancy (Jamie Johnson, Stewardship Director, Durango, CO), Bates Environmental Internship

Phillips Fellowships

  • Shangwei Deng ’19: Between a Culture of Latin and Modern, Vivarium Novum, Rome, Italy, Phillips Fellowship
  • Johanna Hayes ’19: Creating Moving Bodies that Move Self and Culture, Germany, Spain, and Austria, Phillips Fellowship

2017

The following students received grants or fellowships to conduct research, community-engaged research or internships, or environmental internships this year.

Research Grants and Fellowships

  • Paige Ahlholm ’18: Effects of Floral Vegetation Surface Topography on Wing Wear in Bumblebees (Andrew Mountcastle, Biology), Sherman Fairchild Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Joseph Alp ’18: Neuroepigenetic Therapies to Improve Memory (Andrew Kennedy, Chemistry), Sherman Fairchild Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Chelsea Anglin ’19: “Press START”: An Exploration of Videogame Consumerism and its Effects on the Development of Communication Skills of Japanese Youth (Joanna Sturiano, Asian Studies), Tanaka Fellowship
  • Emily Bacon ’18: Regulation of Transcription by 6S RNA (Karen Wassarman, University of Wisconsin, Madison), Hoffman Research Fellowship
  • Michael Bancroft ’18: Construction and Testing of a Periodic, Magnetohydrodynamic Equatorial βplane Model for Stellar Magnetism (Jeffrey Oishi, Physics), STEM Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Nicholas Barker ’18: Buried Stump/Sand Horizon (Beverly Johnson, Geology), Sherman Fairchild Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Lindsey Beauregard ’18: Genome-scale Investigation of Spatial Heterogeneity in the Olfactory System (Jason Castro, Neuroscience), Faculty Research Grant: National Science Foundation
  • Ethan Benevides ’18: Prenatal Stress and Plasticity in the Neural Control of Breathing (Ryan Bavis, Biology), INBRE Fellowship
  • Ethan Benevides ’18: Living Greek in Greece, (Rebecca Corrie, Art and Visual Culture), Maliotis Fellowship
  • Gabe Benson ’20: Measuring Relationships between Flower Size and Reward Production in Local Plant Species (Carla Essenberg, Biology), Faculty Research Grant
  • Christian Bradna ’20: Star Formation: Black Hole Growth, and Feedback in the Local Universe (Aleksander Diamond-Stanic, Physics), Faculty Research Grant: Maine Space Grant Consortium
  • Alex Brown ’17: Verbal Metaphor in One to One Instrumental Music Instruction at Bates College (Janet Bourne and Gina Fatone, Music), McGinty Fund for the Humanities, Faculty Scholarship Grant
  • Anabel Carter ’18: Mapping the Wing Costal Break across the Hymenopteran Phylogeny (Andrew Mountcastle, Biology), Sherman Fairchild Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Hazel Cashman ’18: A Revised Determination of the Paleolake Shoreline of Glacial Lake Israel and its Relationship to Surrounding Archaeological Sites: Jefferson, NH (Dyk Eusden, Geology), Hoffman Research Fellowship
  • Elliot Chun ’18: Cognitive Musicology Research and Analysis (Janet Bourne, Music), Bates Summer Research Fellowship
  • Eve Cinquino ’19: Measuring the Physical Properties of Galactic Winds with Optical Spectroscopy (Aleksander Diamond-Stanic, Physics), Faculty Research Grant: Maine Space Grant Consortium
  • Jason DeFelice ’17: Trainer in Peripheral Biomarker Analysis (Nancy Koven, Neuroscience), Faculty Research Grant
  • Kwamae Delva ’18: Measuring the Physical Properties of Galactic Winds with Optical Spectroscopy (Aleksander Diamond-Stanic, Physics), Faculty Research Grant
  • Jade Donaldson ’18: Data Collection on Oxytocin and Psychosocial Health in Adults (Nancy Koven, Neuroscience), Faculty Research Grant: National Institutes of Health
  • Jack Doyle ’18: Mapping Eelgrass Blue Carbon Stocks in Maine (Beverly Johnson, Geology), Sherman Fairchild Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Chris Dsida ’18: Imaging Intact Neural Circuits (Travis Gould, Physics), Sherman Fairchild Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Emily Erard-Stone ’20: Synthesis of fluorine-bearing mixed alkali and alkali-alkaline earth aluminosilicate glasses (Geneviève Robert, Geology), STEM Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Andrew Fasciano ’20: RUI: Melt viscosities in silica-undersaturated systems (Geneviève Robert, Geology), Faculty Research Grant: National Science Foundation
  • Dylan Franks ’18: Cinematic Collaboration in the Lewiston-Auburn Community (Charles Nero, Rhetoric), Ruggles Fellowship
  • Colby Galliher ’18: Yemen and the al-Houthi Rebellion: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (Senem Aslan, Politics), Stangle Fellowship
  • Caroline Gettens ’18: Epigenetic Mechanisms of Memory Formation and Maintenance (Andrew Kennedy, Chemistry), Faculty Research Grant: INBRE
  • Emma Goff ’18: Zone of Privacy Argument Reexamined (Stephen Engel, Politics), Stangle Fellowship
  • Sophia Gottlieb ’17: How Compact is the Stellar Mass in Eddington-Limited Starburst Galaxies (Aleksander Diamond-Stanic, Physics), Faculty Research Grant: Space Telescope Science Institute
  • Tianyao Huang ’18: Experimental Investigation of Dynamics in Quantum Dot Lasers (Hong Lin, Physics), Sherman Fairchild Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Samra Husremovic ’18: Rational Design of Biofuels Catalysts (Rachel Austin, Columbia University/Barnard College), Hoffman Fellowship and Hoffman Research Support Grant
  • Julia Kavanagh ’18: Prenatal Stress and Plasticity in the Neural Control of Breathing (Ryan Bavis, Biology), INBRE Fellowship
  • Fahim Sakil Khan ’20: Star Formation, Black Hole Growth, and Feedback in the Local Universe (Aleksander Diamond-Stanic, Physics), Sherman Fairchild Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Samuel Kroger ’20: Critical Transitions in the Arctic Permafrost (Raj Saha, Geology and Physics), STEM Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Ashley Kulesza ’18: Salt Marsh Blue Carbon (Beverly Johnson, Geology), Sherman Fairchild Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Owen Lewis ’19: In vitro Characterization of Ribonucleases from the Organism that Causes Lyme Disease (Paula Schlax, Chemistry), STEM Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Jon Lindgren ’20: Bees and Blueberries: Signaling Rewards and Reproductive Success in the Maine Lowbush Blueberry Vaccinium angustifolium (Carla Essenberg, Biology), Faculty Research Grant
  • Grace Link ’19: Study of Drug Development Against Parasitic Protein Kinase Pathways (John Siekierka, Montclair State University), Hoffman Research Fellowship
  • Charles Lipscomb ’18: How Compact is the Stellar Mass in Eddington-Limited Starburst Galaxies? (Aleksander Diamond-Stanic, Physics), Faculty Research Grant: Space Telescope Science Institute
  • India Lissak ’18: Investigating a Novel Sleep Stage in Minimally Conscious State (MCS) Patients (Nicholas Schiff, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY), Hoffman Research Fellowship
  • Oriana Lo Cicero ’20: Synthesis of Fluorine-Bearing Mixed Alkali and Alkali-alkaline Earth Aluminosilicate Glasses (Geneviève Robert, Geology), Science Fellows Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Henry Loeffler ’18: Biophysical Heterogeneity of Olfactory System Circuits (Jason Castro, Neuroscience), Faculty Research Grant: National Science Foundation
  • Hope Logan ’18: Bees and Blueberries: Signaling Rewards and Reproductive Success in the Maine Lowbush Blueberry Vaccinium angustifolium (Carla Essenberg, Biology), Hoffman Research Fellowship
  • Wanyi Lu ’19: Imaging Intact Neural Circuits (Jason Castro, Neuroscience), Sherman Fairchild Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Zach Magin ’18: Chronic Alcohol Study and Food Cues Study (Rachel Hart, Yale University), Hoffman Research Fellowship
  • Ronni Mak ’20: Exploring the Utility of Field Assessment of Cyanobacteria Blooms by Citizen Scientists (Holly Ewing, Environmental Studies), Science Fellows Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Gabriel McGinn ’18: Hydrologic and Limnologic studies in a High Arctic Glacial Watershed, Svalbard, Norwegian Arctic (Michael Retelle, Geology), Sherman Fairchild Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Catherine Merton ’18: Synthesis of O-Mannosylated Oligosaccharides (Jennifer Koviach-Côté, Chemistry), Faculty Research Grant: INBRE
  • Joshua Moise-Silverman ’18: Examining the Effect of Endogenous and Exogenous Stressors on Gene Expression and Behavior in Neuroendocrine Development (Sally Radovick, Child Health Institute of New Jersey), Bates Summer Research Fellowship
  • Kate Moody ’17: Neuropsychological Assessment Trainer (Nancy Koven, Neuroscience), Faculty Research Grant
  • Hadley Moreau ’19: Reward Viability, Flower Size Cues, and Bumblebee Behavior (Carla Essenberg, Biology), Sherman Fairchild Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Katrina Muñoz ’18: Fear Extinction and Sleep across the Spectrum of Severity in Posttraumatic Hyperarousal (Dr. Edward Pace-Schott, Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Psychiatry), Kelsey Fellowship for Neuroscience and Hoffman Research Fellowship
  • Gwen Muscato ’18: Investigation of Cell Signaling Interactions During Zebrafish Tooth Development (William Jackman, Bowdoin College), INBRE Fellowship via Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory
  • Bridget Nolan ’18: The Lesbofeminista Movement in Valparaíso, Chile (Loring Danforth, Anthropology) Hamill Fellowship
  • Karly Oettgen ’19: CaMKII subunit exchange in vivo in Drosphilia (Leslie Griffith, Brandeis University), Bates Summer Research Fellowship
  • Senyo Ohene ’20: How Compact is the Stellar Mass in Eddington-Limited Starburst Galaxies? (Aleksander Diamond-Stanic, Physics), Faculty Research Grant: Maine Space Grant Consortium
  • Salim Ourari ’18: Experimental Investigation of Dynamics in Quantum Dot Lasers (Hong Lin, Physics), Sherman Fairchild Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Salim Ourari ’18: Ultracold Atomic Physics on Earth and in Space (Nathan Lundblad, Physics), Sherman Fairchild Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Jacob Pantazis ’17: Elucidating the Molecular Consequences of Phthalate Toxicity during Zebrafish Development (Larissa Williams, Biology), Faculty Research Grant
  • Theodore Pender ’18: Mathematical Models of National Healthcare Approaches (Meredith Greer, Mathematics), Sherman Fairchild Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Summer Peterson ’18: The Stress & Justice Adolescent Imaging Study (Krista Aronson, Psychology), Hoffman Research Fellowship and Hoffman Research Support Grant
  • Ashley Pratt ’20: Hypercapnic Ventilatory Response and Metabolism of Developing Quail (Ryan Bavis, Biology), Science Fellows Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Laura Rand ’18: Storm-petrel Genetics: Testing the Dogma that the Major Histocompatibility Complex IIa (MHCIIa) is Non-Polymorphic (Donald Dearborn, Biology), Faculty Research Grant: INBRE
  • Samantha Reiss ’18: Phenotypic Plasticity, Photosynthesis, and Carbon  Budgeting in Pitch Pine (Picea rigida) Growing across a Wide Range of Environmental Gradients (Brett Huggett, Biology), Sherman Fairchild Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Olga Revzina ’18: Nonsuicidal Self Injury as a Risk Factor for Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors (Kathryn Fox, Harvard University), Hoffman Research Fellowship and Hoffman Research Support Grant
  • Samuel Rickerich ’18: Sea Level Change in Finnmark, North Coastal Norway (Michael Retelle, Geology), Faculty Research Grant: National Science Foundation and Small Point Grant
  • Bria Riggs ’18: Black Carbon Glacial Deposits and Water Quality in the Cordillera Blanca, Peru (Holly Ewing, Environmental Studies), Hoffman Research Fellowship and Hoffman Research Support Grant
  • Bennett Rollins ’18: Nanoscale Fluorescence Imaging of DNA and RNA (Travis Gould, Physics), INBRE Fellowship
  • Jose Ruiz ’18: Star Formation, Black Hole Growth, and Feedback in the Local Universe (Aleksander Diamond-Stanic, Physics), Sherman Fairchild Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Alex Salazar ’20: Measuring Relationships between Flower Size and Reward Production in Local Plant Species (Carla Essenberg, Biology) Faculty Research Grant
  • Aria Sanders ’18: Effects of Lead on Development of Type II Diabetes (Stephanie Richards, Biology), Bates Summer Research Fellowship
  • Martin Saps ’18: Nudity and the Law: Public Opinion’s Role in Shaping Public Morality Legislation (Stangle Fellowship)
  • Nicholas Sergay ’18: Ultracold Atomic Physics on Earth and in Space (Nathan Lundblad, Physics), Sherman Fairchild Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Gabriella Shpilsky ’19: Evolution of Modular Genes and Proteins: A Source of Eukaryotic Novelty (Andrea Tilden, Colby College), INBRE Fellowship via Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory
  • Hannah Smith ’19: Epigenetic Implications in Long Term Memory (Andrew Kennedy, Chemistry), Bates Summer Research Fellowship
  • Haoyu Sun ’19: Neuroepigenetic Therapies to Improve Memory (Andrew Kennedy, Chemistry), Sherman Fairchild Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Deepsing Syangtan ’18: Study of RpoS expression in Borrelia Burgdorferi (Dr. Frank Gherardini, Rocky Mountain Laboratory), Hoffman Research Support Grant and Faculty Research Grant: National Institutes of Health
  • Mary Szatkowski ’18: Ocean Chemistry and Paleoclimate through Cenozoic Era (Jack Murphy, Princeton University), Hoffman Research Support Grant
  • Priyanka Takle ’19: Probing and Manipulation Neural Circuits in Humans (Molly Lucas, Etkin Lab, Stanford University), Bates Summer Research Fellowship
  • Sophia Thayer ’18: Exploring Western Maine Environmental History (Joseph Hall, History), Summer Research Apprenticeship
  • Benjamin Tonelli ’18: Pulmonary Tissue Characteristics as a Biomarker for Nodule Malignancy (Charles Kinsey, University of Vermont), Bates Summer Research Fellowship and Hoffman Research Support Grant
  • Kingdell Valdez ’19: Measuring the Physical Properties of Galactic Winds with Optical Spectroscopy (Aleksander Diamond-Stanic, Physics), Faculty Research Grant: Maine Space Grant Consortium
  • Ruth van Kampen ’19: A Laboratory Test of the Magnet Species Effect: Do Flowers of a Preferred Color Attract Bumblebees to Flowers of a Less Preferred Color? (Carla Essenberg, Biology), Faculty Research Grant
  • Xiaomeng Wang ’19: Nanoscale Fluorescence Imaging of DNA and RNA (Travis Gould, Physics), INBRE Fellowship
  • Kelly Wassarman ’18: Neuroepigenetic Therapies to Improve Memory (Andrew Kennedy, Chemistry), Sherman Fairchild Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Maxwell Watson ’18: Will Plant Congeners Native to Maine Support Greater Pollinator Abundance and Diversity than their Nonnative Congeners? (Carla Essenberg, Biology), Dorothy Dole Johnson Fellowship
  • Jackie Welch ’18: Data Collection on Oxytocin and Psychosocial Health in Adults (Nancy Koven, Neuroscience), Faculty Research Grant: National Institutes of Health
  • Gillian Wilcox ’18: The Role of Carbohydrates in the Identification of Olfactory Alterations in Schizophrenia (Kanoelani Pilobello, McLean Hospital), Bates Summer Research Fellowship
  • Amelia Wilhelm ’18: Osmolarity and RNA Decay in the Organism that Causes Lyme Disease (Paula Schlax, Chemistry), STEM Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Kristine Zengeler ’19: Epigenetic Mechanisms of Memory Formation and Maintenance (Andrew Kennedy, Chemistry), Keith Fellowship in Chemistry
  • Xinyuan Zhang ’19: Epigenetic Mechanisms of Memory Formation and Maintenance (Andrew Kennedy, Chemistry), Faculty Research Grant: INBRE
  • Ke Zhao ’18: Synthesis of O-Mannosylated Oligosaccharides (Jennifer Koviach-Côté, Chemistry), Faculty Research Grant: INBRE

Community-Engagement Projects

  • Analea Angot ’20: Trinity Jubilee Center, Lewiston, ME, Harward Summer Community Work Study Fellowship
  • Anton Brown ’18: St. Mary’s Nutrition Center, Lewiston, ME, Harward Summer Community Work Study Fellowship
  • Arnaldo Contreras ’18: Lewiston Middle School, Lewiston, ME, Harward Summer Community Work Study Fellowship
  • Sarah Freyd ’19: East African Community Services, Seattle, WA, Harward Summer Civic Fellowship
  • Katie Hartnett ’18: Oasis Free Clinics, Brunswick, ME, Harward Summer Civic Fellowship
  • Paola Herrera ’19: Pink Circles and Blue Squares, Los Angeles, CA, Harward Summer Civic Fellowship
  • Sadie Homeier ’18: Art of Awareness, South Portland, ME, Harward Summer Civic Fellowship
  • Tara Humphries ’18: New Beginnings, Lewiston, ME, Harward Summer Civic Fellowship
  • Grace Jurkovich ’18: Center for Wisdom’s Women, Lewiston, ME, Harward Summer Civic Fellowship
  • Julia Mehl ’19: Beyond Housing, St. Louis, MO, Harward Summer Civic Fellowship
  • Rachel Minkovitz ’19: L/A Arts, Lewiston, ME, Harward Summer Civic Fellowship
  • Keenan Shields ’18: St. Mary’s Nutrition Center, Lewiston, ME, Harward Summer Civic Fellowship
  • Joseph Tulip ’18: Maine Mobile Health Program, Harrington, ME, Harward Summer Civic Fellowship

Internships

  • Connor Gray ’18: Intern, Greater Yellowstone Coalition (Charles Wolf Drimal, Water Conservation Associate, GYC, Bozeman, MT), Bates Environmental Internship
  • Madelyn Heart ’18: Intern, Conservation Law Foundation (Paul Calzada, Human Resources, Boston, MA), Bates Environmental Internship
  • Julia Nemy ’18: Education and Community Intern, Island Institute (Nancy McLeod Carter, Human Resources, Rockland, ME), Bates Environmental Internship
  • Andrea Russo ’19: Stormwater Intern, Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (Donna Seresin, Sanitation Engineer, Hartford, CT), Bates Environmental Internship
  • Sarah Sachs ’18: Beyond Coal Campaign Outreach Intern, The Sierra Club (Jessica Koski, Associate Organizing Representative, Seattle, WA), Bates Environmental Internship
  • Claire Sickinger ’18: Bureau of Air Management Intern, Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (Kate Knight, Environmental Analyst, Hartford, CT), Bates Environmental Internship

Otis and Phillips Fellowships

  • Kawai Marin ’18: Rooted in Movement: A Search for the Sacred Among the Trees, Yosemite National Park and San Francisco, CA, Otis Fellowship
  • Keenan Shields ’18: Coloring in the Lines: The History of Social Art in El Cerro, Puerto Rico, Phillips Fellowship
  • Nathaniel Stephenson ’18: Russian Theatrical and Cultural Contextualization in Moscow (International Foundation for Theatre Education and Research, Greer Gerni), Phillips Fellowship
  • Emilio Valadez ’18: Gather and Break! The World of Outdoor Bboying/Girling Culture in Japan, Phillips Fellowship

2016

The following students received grants or fellowships to conduct research, community-engaged research or internships, or environmental internships this year.

Research Grants and Fellowships

  • Yara Abdelhady ’18: Ultracold Atomic Physics in Optical Lattices and on Orbital Prototype Atom Chips (Nathan Lundblad, Physics), Sherman Fairchild Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Bryan Almonte ’18: Seasonal Changes in Lake Metabolism as Calculated from High-Frequency Buoy Data (Holly Ewing, Environmental Studies), Faculty Research Grant
  • Melody Altschuler ’17: Gaming for Autism to Mold Executive Skills (Susan Faja, Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School), Bates Summer Research Fellowship and Hoffman Research Support Grant
  • Emily Bacon ’18: Measuring RNA Decay in Borrelia burgdorferi: Effects of Cell Growth Rate on mRNA Lifetimes (Paula Schlax, Chemistry), Faculty Research Grant: National Institute of Health
  • Caroline Barnes ’19: When Egypt Meets the Aegean: Interconnections in the Bronze-Age Eastern Mediterranean, Hamill Fellowship and Maliotis Fellowship
  • Daniel Basuk ’19: The People’s House: Representation and Responsiveness in the Antebellum U.S. House of Representatives (John Baughman, Politics), Summer Research Apprenticeship
  • Ethan Benevides ’18: Age-dependence of Hypoxia-induced Plasticity in the Neural Control of Breathing (Ryan Bavis, Biology), INBRE Fellowship
  • Ethan Benevides ’18: Living Greek in Greece, Maliotis Fellowship
  • Niccolo Bigagli ’17: All-optical molecular alignment and orientation and single attosecond pulse generation through high-order harmonic generation and double optical gating, (Hirofumi Sakai, University of Tokyo), Hoffman Fellowship
  • Katherine Blandford ’18: Arab Americans and the Cross-Racial Relationship Plot (Therí Pickens, English), Summer Research Apprenticeship
  • Madeline Bruno ’17: Quantifying the Effects of Fluorine in Alkali-rich, Silica-poor Magmas (Genevieve Robert, Geology), Bates Summer Research Fellowship and Hoffman Research Support Grant
  • Jeremy Cairns ’19: Identification of Pathogens in Maine Honeybees (Paula Schlax, Chemistry), Sherman Fairchild Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Olin Carty ’17: Effects of Fluorine on the Viscosity of Silica-undersaturated Aluminosilicate Melts (Genevieve Robert, Geology) Sherman Fairchild Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Zoe Chace-Donohue ’18: Physical Fitness and Physical Therapy Programs for Brain-Injury Survivors (Peter Noonan, Supportive Living, Inc., Lexington, MA), Hoffman Fellowship
  • Kelsey Chenoweth ’17: Buried Stumps and Methane Emissions in Salt Marshes (Beverly Johnson, Geology), Sherman Fairchild Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Keila Ching ’18: Costume and Scenic Design for The Barber of Seville, Theater at Monmouth (Michael Reidy and Christine McDowell, Theater), Summer Research Apprenticeship
  • Tiago Correia ’17: Ultracold Atomic Physics in Optical Lattices and on Orbital Prototype Atom Chips (Nathan Lundblad, Physics), Sherman Fairchild Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Isobel Curtis ’17: Forest Composition and Succession at Bates-Morse Mountain Conservation Area in Response to the Pathogenic Insect Hemlock Woolly Adelgid (Brett Huggett, Biology), STEM Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Jason DeFelice ’17: The Role of Endogenous Oxytocin in Adult Psychosocial Adjustment (Nancy Koven, Psychology) Faculty Research Grant: National Institute of Health
  • Marina Dickson ’17: Japan-Korea Relations and Shared Northeast Asian Security Issues (James Richter, Politics), Tanaka Fellowship
  • Nathan Diplock ’17: Can Gardening with Native Plants Support Maine Pollinators? (Carla Essenberg, Biology) Bates Summer Research Fellowship and Hoffman Research Support Grant
  • Erik Divan ’17: Geological Bedrock Mapping of the Gilead and Bethel Quadrangles, Maine (Dyk Eusden, Geology), Hoffman Research Support Grant and Billings Fund
  • Emma Dunn ’17: The Impact of Hemlock Woolly Adelgid Infestation on Carbon Allocation and Growth in Eastern Hemlock Trees (Brett Huggett, Biology), Sherman Fairchild Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Theodore Eagle ’17: Archaeological Fieldwork in Helike, Southwestern Shore of the Gulf of Corinth (Helike Society and the University of Patras), Maliotis Fellowship
  • Airel Estrella ’18: Neural Dependence of Fin Regeneration in Zebrafish (Nancy Kleckner, Biology), STEM Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Gregory Fitzgerald ’17: Discovering German Culture: City Treasure Hunts in Berlin (Jakub Kazecki, German and Russian Studies), Summer Research Apprenticeship
  • Jeremy Glover ’17: International Medieval Congress, Leeds, UK (Sylvia Federico, English), Hoffman Research Support Grant
  • Alex Gogliettino ’17: Cocaine Dependence: Neural Activity during Craving and the Effect of Gender (Marc Potenza, Yale Program for Research on Impulsivity and Impulse Control Disorders), Bates Summer Research Fellowship and Kelsey Prize for Neuroscience Research
  • Paige Guevarra ’18: Floral Reward Cues and the Plants’ Dilemma (Carla Essenberg, Biology), Science Fellows Summer Research Grant
  • Cristopher Hernandez Sifontes ’18: Intensive Greek Program; Love in Greek Antiquity (Greek Studies on Site; Norwegian Institute of Athens), Maliotis Fellowship
  • Ian Hillenbrand ’17: Geological Bedrock Mapping of the Jefferson Quadrangle, NH (Dyk Eusden, Geology), Hoffman Research Support Grant and Faculty Research Grant: NH Geological Survey
  • William Hilton ’17: Modern Sediment Distribution and Analysis of Phosphorous Loading, Lake Auburn, Maine (Holly Ewing, Environmental Studies and Michael Retelle, Geology), Dorothy Dole Johnson Research Fellowship
  • Sarah Holmes ’17: Neural Basis of Caudal Fin Regeneration in Zebrafish (Nancy Kleckner, Biology), INBRE via Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory
  • Tremearne Hotz ’17: Cancer Research at MSKCC ( Susan Slovin, MD, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center), Scher Fellowship
  • Tianyao Huang ’18: Characteristics of Instabilities in High-power Vertical-cavity Surface-emitting Lasers (Hong Lin, Physics), STEM Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Samra Husremovic ’18: Designing a Catalytic Upgrading Route for Biofuels (Rachel Austin, Barnard College, New York), Bates Summer Research Fellowship and Hoffman Research Support Grant
  • Aashu Jha ’17: Upgrading the Communication System and Data Logging Mechanism at the Cosmic Ray and Solar Radiation Station at the Snowden Summit, Wales (Karen Aplin, Cosmic Ray and Solar Radiation Station, Wales, UK), Bates Summer Research Fellowship and Hoffman Research Support Grant
  • Praneet Kang ’17: Role of MyD88 in Neutrophil Response to Fungal Infection of Zebrafish Swimbladders (Robert Wheeler, University of Maine), INBRE via Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory
  • Emma Katz ’17: Effect of Distribution of Non-rewarding Flowers on Visitation Rates by Bumblebees (Bombus impatiens) (Carla Essenberg, Biology), Bates Summer Research Fellowship
  • Allen Kendunga ’18: Implementation of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court in Uganda, Stangle Fellowship and Bates Student Research Fund
  • Colin Kraft ’17: Geological Bedrock Mapping of the Jefferson Quadrangle, NH (Dyk Eusden, Geology), Hoffman Research Support Grant and Faculty Research Grant: NH Geographical Survey
  • Ashley Kulesza ’18: Buried Stumps and Methane Emissions in Salt Marshes (Beverly Johnson, Geology), Sherman Fairchild Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Morgan Leeson ’18: Curating and Research at the Charles Dickens Museum, London (Lillian Nayder, English), Summer Research Apprenticeship and Ruggles Fellowship
  • Yutong Li ’18: Nutrition and Secondary Health Issues for Brain-Injured Residents (Peter Noonan, Supportive Living, Inc., Lexington, MA), Hoffman Fellowship
  • Claire Markonic ’17: Small Point and Phippsburg Coastal Geology Internship (Michael Retelle, Geology), Faculty Research Grant: Small Point Operating Corporation
  • Cassidy Martin ’19: Living Greek in Greece (Paideia Institute for Humanistic Study), Maliotis Fellowship
  • Christiane McCabe ’16: Bolterskardet Lake Coring (Michael Retelle, Geology), Summer Research Fellowship
  • Madeline McLean ’17: Cellular and Molecular Regulation of Zebrafish Ear Development and Response to Chemical Exposure (Larissa Williams, Biology), INBRE Fellowship
  • Catherine Merton ’18: Synthesis of O-Mannosylated Oligosaccharides (Jennifer Koviach-Côté, Chemistry), Faculty Research Grant: INBRE via RTF
  • Parker Nelson ’17: Christiana Weller Thompson’s Diary: Transcription and Annotation (Lillian Nayder, English), Ruggles Fellowship
  • Quang Nguyen ’17: Bioinformatic Analysis of the Role of Nfe2 during Oxidative Stress (Larissa Williams, Biology), Faculty Research Grant: INBRE
  • Charlotte Oettgen ’19: The Role of Experience in the Development and Maturation of Neural Circuits (Stephen Van Hooser, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA), Hoffman Fellowship
  • Salim Ourari ’18: Optimization of the Tunable Range of Microwave Signals Generated with Optical Injection (Hong Lin, Physics), Faculty Grant: Bates Faculty Development Grant
  • Salim Ourari ’18: Designing and Building an Aerial Instrument to Measure Sea Ice Thickness (Raj Saha, Geology and Physics), Sherman Fairchild Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Daniel Peeples ’17: Episodic Theater and the Ritualization of Community (Brooke O’Harra, La Mama Experimental Theatre Group, NY) Bates Summer Research Fellowship
  • Randy Peralta ’17: What’s in Your Library? An Investigation into Who is Represented in Public Library Picture-Book Holdings in the U.S. (Krista Aronson, Psychology), Summer Research Apprenticeship
  • Noel Potter ’17: Monitoring Recent Changes in a High Arctic Watershed, Svalbard, Norwegian High Arctic (Michael Retelle, Geology), STEM Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Duncan Reehl ’17: Modern Music and the Sound of Zen, NY, Hoffman Research Support Grant
  • Azure Reid-Russell ’17: Adapting the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) to Encompass Key Constructs in Suicidality Research (Matthew Nock, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA), Hoffman Fellowship and Hoffman Research Support Grant
  • Olga Revzina ’18: Infliction: Pain and Self-Criticism (Kathryn Fox, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA), Hoffman Fellowship and Hoffman Research Support Grant
  • Sam Rickerich ’18: Small Point and Phippsburg Coastal Geology Internship (Michael Retelle, Geology), Faculty Research Grant: Small Point Operating Corporation
  • Lindsay Ryder ’19: Archaeological Fieldwork at Stobi and the Emporion Pistiros (Balkan Heritage School), Maliotis Fellowship
  • Erik Saberski ’17: Defining Human Consciousness (Hal Blumenfeld, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT), Hoffman Fellowship
  • Divyamaan Sahoo ’17: Measurement and Application of Impulse Response, Rawlings Fellowship
  • Lisa Slivken ’18: Thistle Farm, Nashville, TN, Hamill Fellowship
  • Ezekiel Smith ’19: Broke but Patriotic: Why Poor Americans Love Their Country (Francesco Duina, Sociology), Summer Research Apprenticeship
  • Monata Song ’17: Age-dependence of Hypoxia-induced Plasticity in the Neural Control of Breathing (Ryan Bavis, Biology), INBRE Fellowship
  • Daniel Stames ’17: Assessing Methane Emissions in a Hydrologically Restored Salt Marsh (Beverly Johnson, Geology), Sherman Fairchild Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Deepsing Syangtan ’18: RNA Decay in the Organism that Causes Lyme Disease (Paula Schlax, Chemistry), INBRE Fellowship
  • Priyanka Takle ’19: Testing for the Systemic Differences in Cognitive Impairments in Diabetic Patients with and without Diabetic-Related Amputations (Susan Ropacki, Palo Alto Dept. of Veterans Affairs, CA), Hoffman Fellowship and Hoffman Research Support Grant
  • Dylan Thombs ’18: Rural Outmigration and Its Effects on Rural Education (Mara Tieken, Education), Summer Research Fellowship
  • Alexandra Ulin ’17: Role of Nfe2 in the Transcriptional Response to Oxidative Stress (Larissa Williams, Biology) Faculty Research Grant: INBRE
  • Ana Urbina Vargas ’17: Potential Impacts of Cyanobacteria on Drinking Water Supplies in Maine (Holly Ewing, Environmental Studies) Faculty Research Grant
  • Xioameng Wang ’19: A Laboratory Test of the Magnet Species Effect on Floral Attractiveness (Carla Essenberg, Biology), Faculty Research Grant
  • Ian Wax ’19: Modeling the Indian Monsoon (Raj Saha, Geology and Physics), Faculty Grant: Bates Faculty Development Grant
  • Audrey Wheatcroft ’17: Geological Bedrock Mapping of the Gilead and Bethel Quadrangles, Maine (Dyk Eusden, Geology), Hoffman Research Support Grant and Billings Fund
  • Samuel Whitaker ’18: RNA Decay in the Organism that Causes Lyme Disease (Paula Schlax, Chemistry), INBRE Fellowship
  • Gwenyth Williams ’17: Monitoring Recent Changes in a High Arctic Watershed, Svalbard, Norwegian High Arctic (Michael Retelle, Geology), STEM Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Ke Zhao ’18: Synthesis of O-Mannosylated Oligosaccharides (Jennifer Koviach-Côté, Chemistry) Faculty Research Grant: INBRE via RTF
  • Guyu Zhu ’17: Topological Spaces and Their Properties (Pallavia Jayawant, Mathematics), Rawlings Fellowship
  • Bruno Zicarelli ’17: Testing Eco-Evolutionary Trophic Cascades in California Freshwater Ecosystems (Eric Palkovacs, Long Marine laboratory, Santa Cruz, CA), Bates Summer Research Fellowship

Community-Engagement Projects

  • Kate Berger ’17: Maine Immigrant and Refugee Services, Lewiston, ME, Harward Summer Civic Fellowship
  • Jason DeFelice ’17: Boys and Girls Club, Auburn, ME, Harward Community Work-Study Fellowship
  • Madison Ekey ’17: Community Health Partners, Bozeman, MT, Harward Summer Civic Fellowship
  • Vuong Huynh ’18: Auburn Recreation Department, Auburn, ME, Harward Community Work-Study Fellowship
  • Robert Ibarra ’17: California Conference for Equality and Justice, Long Beach, CA, Harward Community Work-Study Fellowship
  • Sadie James ’17: School Square, Portland, ME, Harward Summer Civic Fellowship
  • James Pardo ’18: Sitka Fine Arts Camp, Sitka, AK, Harward Community Work-Study Fellowship
  • Matt Phillips ’17: College for ME-Androscoggin, Lewiston, ME, Harward Summer Civic Fellowship
  • Paul Phillips ’18: Sitka Fine Arts Camp, Sitka, AK, Harward Community Work-Study Fellowship
  • Alicia Rabideau ’17: Center for Wisdom’s Women, Lewiston, ME, Harward Summer Civic Fellowship
  • Anna Roy ’18: Migrant Justice, Burlington, VT, Harward Summer Civic Fellowship
  • Jose Ruiz ’18: Youth Development Organization, Lawrence, MA, Harward Summer Civic Fellowship
  • Fatima Sacko ’17: Women’s Prison Association, New York, NY, Harward Community Work-Study Fellowship
  • Fatima Saidi ’17: International Institute, St. Louis, MO, Harward Summer Civic Fellowship
  • Ahmed Sheikh ’17: Raise-Op Housing Cooperative, Lewiston, ME, Harward Summer Civic Fellowship
  • Lisa Slivken ’18: Thistle Farms, Nashville, TN, Harward Community Work-Study Fellowship
  • Cristopher Thompson ’19: Boys and Girls Club, Auburn, ME, Harward Community Work-Study Fellowship
  • Sam Wheeler, ’17: One Tree Center, Portland, ME, Harward Summer Civic Fellowship

Internships

  • Jonathan Anderson ’17: Bond Research Intern, Rhode Island Audubon Society (Meg Kerr, Director of Policy, RI Audubon Society) Bates Environmental Internship
  • Joshua Caldwell ’19: KLT Ronald Joseph Summer Intern, Kennebec Land Trust (Jean-Luc Theriault, Stewardship Director, Kennebec Land Trust, Winthrop, ME) Bates Environmental Internship
  • Marcus Delpeche ’17: Intern, Consortium for Energy Efficiency (Ed Wisniewski, Executive Director of CEE, Boston, MA) Bates Environmental Internship
  • Lauren Drumgold ’19: Intern, Hope Veterinary Clinic (Hedda Burnett, Medical Director, Hope Veterinary Clinic, Brooklyn, NY) Bates Environmental Internship
  • Zsofia Duarte ’18: Intern, Nezinscot Farm, Turner, ME (Gloria Varney, owner, Nezinscot Farm), Bates Environmental Internship
  • Allison Hill ’17: Environmental Intern: Reproductive Capacity of a Coastal Forage Fish and Critical Ecosystem Component, NOAA, Beaufort, NC (Amy Schueller, NOAA Supervisor), Bates Environmental Internship
  • Amy Katz ’17: Intern, Trails 2000, Durango, CO, Bates Environmental Intern
  • Kristen Kelliher ’16: Intern, Eco Himal Nepal (Phinjo Sherpa, Project Manager, Eco Himal Nepal), Bates Environmental Internship
  • Halie Lange ’17: Intern, CES, Inc., Lewiston, ME (Dennis Kingman, Vice President, CES), Bates Environmental Internship
  • Sadie Mae Palmatier ’18: Intern, Ecosystem Research Group, Hot Springs, SD (Gregory Kennett, President, EcoSystem Research Group), Bates Environmental Internship
  • Avery Wolfe ’18: Intern, Alaska Mountain and Wilderness Huts Association, Anchorage, AK (Tom Callahan, Executive Director, Alaska Mountain and Wilderness Huts Association), Bates Environmental Internship


Phillips Fellowships

  • Katherine McNally ’17: Changing Oceans, Changing Lives: Shetland’s Whitefish Fishermen and their Tenacious Hold on Tradition, (Dr. Ian Napier, North Atlantic Fisheries College Marine Center), Phillips Fellowship
  • Divyamaan Sahoo ’18: Audio Collections and Recollections: From Buffalo to New York City, Center for 21st Century Music, University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, Phillips Fellowship

2015

The following students received grants or fellowships to conduct research, community-engaged research or internships, or environmental internships this year.

Research Grants and Fellowships

  • Sarah Baker ’16: Geologic Mapping of the Jefferson 7.5′ Quad, NH (Dyk Eusden, Geology), Faculty Grant: USGS/NHGS State Map Grant
  • Anna Berenson ’16: RNA Decay in Borrelia burgdorferi, the Organism that Causes Lyme Disease (Paula Schlax, Chemistry), INBRE Fellowship
  • Niccolo Bigagli ’17: Development of the Neutral and Ion Mass Spectrometer (NIM) for ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) Mission, (Peter Wurz, University of Bern, Switzerland) Bates Summer Research Fellowship and Hoffman Research Support Grant
  • Mary Anne Bodnar ’16: Modern Dance Summer Research (Carol Dilley, Dance), Ruggles Fellowship
  • Milan Brankovic ’17: Bubble-Geometry Physics with Magnetically Trapped Bose-Einstein Condensates (Nathan Lundblad, Physics), Summer Research Apprenticeship and Faculty Research Grant
  • Andre Brittis-Tannenbaum ’16: Monitoring Nutrient Input from an Alewife Migration under an Improved Fish Ladder in Nequasset Lake, ME (Beverly Johnson, Geology), Dorothy Dole Johnson Fellowship
  • Charlotte Cabot ’17: Assessment of Student Data for the New England Consortium on Assessment and Student Learning (NECASL) Study (Kathryn Graff Low, Psychology), Dean of the Faculty’s Office
  • Camille Campion ’16: Benzimidazolone Synthesis via Oxidative C-H Animation (Patrick Jokiel, Chemistry), Faculty Research Grant
  • Jordan Cargill ’16: Geologic Mapping of the Jefferson 7.5′ Quad, NH (Dyk Eusden, Geology) Faculty Grant: USGS/NHGS State Map Grant
  • Mark Chatkin ’16: Examining the Scope of the Palladium (II) Mediated Synthesis of Benzimidazalone (Patrick Jokiel, Chemistry), Hoffman Fellowship
  • Yuying Chen ’16: Exploring Malignancy-inducing pathways of the RIT1 Gene (Alice Berger, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT), Bates Summer Research Fellowship and Hoffman Research Support Grant
  • Dana Cohen-Kaplan ’16: Resurvey of Galena Creek Rock Glacier, Absaroka Mountains, WY (Michael Retelle, Geology), Hoffman Fellowship
  • Tiago Correia ’17: Detecting Single Atoms in a Multi-well Potential (Andrea Bergschneider, Ruprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg), Hoffman Fellowship
  • Yarisamar Cortez ’17: Gendered Community Responses to Border Dynamics (Claudia Aburto Guzman), Bates Student Research Fund
  • Nicole Cueli ’16: Small Point Coastal Geology Internship (Michael Retelle, Geology), Faculty Grant: Small Point Association
  • William Curley ’16: Task-related Modulation of the EEG in Healthy Controls and Brain-injured Patient Subjects (Jason Castro, Psychology), Bates Summer Research Fellowship
  • Camille Cushman ’16: Kinetics of Infectious EMCV Virion Formation in Infected Ubiquitin-Protein Ligase Knockdown Mouse Cells (T. Glen Lawson, Chemistry), Faculty Grant: National Institutes of Health
  • Brielle Dalvano ’16: Highy Sulfated Cyclodextrins as Water-soluble Chiral NMR Solvating Agents for Cationic Substrates (Thomas Wenzel, Chemistry), Faculty Grant: National Science Foundation
  • Lucia De Rose ’16: Light Manipulation with Silicon Photonics, for On-chip Biodetection and Off-chip Biosensor Readout (Travis Gould, Physics), Hoffman Fellowship
  • Rebecca Dobbin ’16: Neural Dependence of Regeneration in Juvenile Zebrafish (Nancy Kleckner, Biology), INBRE Fellowship
  • Fan Dong ’17: Quantifying Health Benefits of Fracking: The Decline of Coal and Air Quality (Nathan Tefft, Economics), Stangle Fellowship
  • Callum Douglass ’16: A Study of the Intensity and Directional Dependence of Nonlinear Optical Signals Generated by Plasmonic Gold Nanorods (Matthew Côté, Chemistry), Summer Research Apprenticeship
  • Tayla Duarte ’17: Live Imaging of Zebrafish Peripheral Nerve Degeneration and Caudal Fin Regeneration (Nancy Kleckner, Biology), Science Fellows Research Grant
  • Emma Dunn ’17: The Impact of Hemlock Wooly Adelgid Infestation on Sugar and Starch Reserves in Eastern Hemlock Trees (Brett Huggett, Biology), STEM Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Henry Finklestein ’16: South China Sea Dispute: US-Asia Institute Research Internship (James Richter, Politics), Bates Student Research Fund
  • Samuel Gazecki ’16: Is Prefrontal Cortical Activation Necessary for Association between Two Temporally Distinct Events? (Alex Kwan, Yale University) Bates Summer Research Fellowship and Hoffman Research Support Grant
  • Matthew Gee ’16: Cortisol Levels in Response to Divergent Attitudes toward Community Service (Georgia Nigro, Psychology), Bates Summer Research Fellowship and Hoffman Research Support Grant
  • Julia Gordon ’16: Psycholegal Research in Psychology (Amy Douglass and Michael Sargent, Psychology), Summer Research Apprenticeship
  • Paige Guevarra ’18: Synthesis of Mixed-Alkali Aluminosilicate Glasses (Genevieve Robert, Geology), Science Fellows Summer Research Grant
  • Cailene Gunn ’16: Assessing Carbon Dynamics in Maine Salt Marshes: Carbon Stocks and Rates of Loss in the Island-Bay Complex and Methane Emissions along a Salt Marsh Salinity Gradient (Beverly Johnson, Geology), STEM Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Greggory Heller ’16: Investigating Physiological Changes after Social Odor Rearing (Jason Castro, Psychology) Summer Research Apprenticeship
  • Jake Henderson ’16: Role of Nuclear Factor Erythroid 2 (Nfe2) in the Oxidative Stress Response during Development (Larissa Williams, Biology), INBRE Fellowship
  • Ian Hillenbrand ’17: Small Point Coastal Geology Internship (Michael Retelle, Geology), Small Point Coastal Geology Internship
  • Cora Hirschfeld ’16: Polygamy in Cameroon (Loring Danforth, Anthropology), Hamill Fellowship and Bates Student Research Fund
  • Caroline Holme ’16: RNA Decay in Borrelia burgdorferi, the Organism that Causes Lyme Disease (Paula Schlax, Chemistry), INBRE Fellowship
  • Samra Husremovic ’18: A Study of the Intensity and Directional Dependence of Nonlinear Optical Signals Generated by Plasmonic Gold Nanorods (Matthew Côté, Chemistry), STEM Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Ayse Ikizler ’15: The Octagonal Tower of the Nine-Graded Lotus Structure (Trian Nguyen, Art and Visual Culture), Hoffman Research Support Grant
  • Aashu Jha ’17: Controlling Output of Vertical-cavity Surface-emitting Lasers via Optical Perturbations (Hong Lin, Physics), Hoffman Fellowship
  • Yifeng Jiang ’16: SCO vs. CSTO: New Regional Integration and Competition in Central Asia in the 21st Century (James Richter, Politics), Stangle Fellowship
  • Nicole Kanu ’15: Celebrity and Disability: Lights, Camera, Illness (Therí Pickens, English), Summer Research Apprenticeship
  • Michelle Kelley ’16: Cellular Regulation of Zebrafish Development and Response to Chemical Exposure (Larissa Williams, Biology), INBRE Fellowship
  • Detmer Kremer ’16: Renegotiating Intersectionality: The Reconciliation Process of Religious and Cultural Identities in Baha’i Communities in the Netherlands, Samoa, Latvia, and Lithuania (Loring Danforth, Anthropology), Anthropology Department Fellowship
  • Juergen Kritschgau ’16: Categorization through Environmental Interaction: A Study of Artificial Intelligence and Distributed Representation (William Seeley, Philosophy), Hoffman Fellowship
  • Abigail Leberman ’16: Genome Scale Analysis of Olfactory Bulb Molecular Heterogeneity (Jason Castro, Psychology) INBRE Fellowship
  • Jillian Legere ’16: Organic-soluble Resorcinarenes as Chiral NMR Solvating Agents (Thomas Wenzel, Chemistry) Faculty Grant: National Science Foundation
  • Rebecca Leloudis ’16: Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis Infection Frequency among Amphibians within Polluted and Non-Polluted Waterbodies of Maine (Larissa Williams, Biology) Bates Summer Research Fellowship and Mount David Fellowship
  • Seth Lieberman ’16: Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy of Intact Neural Circuits (Jason Castro, Psychology), INBRE Fellowship
  • Hanna Loeb ’16: Neural Dependence of Regeneration in Juvenile Zebrafish (Nancy Kleckner, Biology), INBRE Fellowship
  • Carolyn MacDonald ’16: Intermittent Hyperoxia and Development of the Control of Breathing (Ryan Bavis, Biology), Faculty Grant: National Institutes of Health R15
  • MacKenzie MacRae ’16: A Characterization of Biomarkers Linked to Cognitive Decline (Jan Krzysztof Blusztajn, Boston University School of Medicine), Hoffman Fellowship
  • Samuel Mark ’16: Exploring the Role of Oceanic and Atmospheric Forcing on Arctic Marine Climate from Newly Developed Annual Shell-based Records in Coastal Norway (Michael Retelle, Geology), Faculty Grant: National Science Foundation Collaborative Research
  • Christiane McCabe ’16: High Resolution Sedimentological, Geochemical, and Mineralogical Analysis of Annual Sediment Traps, Linnevatnet (Michael Retelle, Geology), Hoffman Fellowship and Hoffman Research Support Grant
  • Jane McLarney ’16: Cloning, Purification, and Activity of the Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases Arih1, Arih2, and DTX3L (T. Glen Lawson, Chemistry), INBRE Fellowship
  • Filip Michalsky ’16: Development of a New 3D Printer for the Rapid Prototyping of Microfluidic Devices (Frederik Kotz, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Germany), Hoffman Fellowship
  • Cira Mollings Puentes ’16: Phosphated Cyclodextrins as Water-soluble Chiral NMR Solvating Agents for Cationic Substrates (Thomas Wenzel, Chemistry), Faculty Grant: National Science Foundation
  • Armando Javier Morales Urritia ’16: Lightsheet Microscopy (Travis Gould, Physics), Faculty Research Grant
  • Denali Nalamalapu ’17: Educational Discrimination against the Marginalized Roma Minority in Serbia (James Richter, Politics), Bates Student Research Fund and Anthropology Department Grant
  • Khoi Tuan Nguyen ’16: Adaptive Optics for Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy (Travis Gould, Physics), STEM Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Caitlin O’Toole ’16: Intermittent Hyperoxia and Development of the Control of Breathing (Ryan Bavis, Biology), Faculty Grant: National Institutes of Health R15
  • Salim Ourari ’18: Bubble-Geometry Physics with Magnetically Trapped Bose-Einstein Condensates (Nathan Lundblad, Physics), Summer Research Apprenticeship
  • Salim Ourari ’18: Spectral and Polarization Characteristics of High Power Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers (Hong Lin, Physics), STEM Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Melissa Paione ’16: Assessment of Student Data for the New England Consortium on Assessment and Student Learning (NECASL) Study (Kathryn Graff Low, Psychology) Dean of the Faculty’s Office
  • Elizabeth Patterson ’16: Carbon Sequestration and Storage in the Salt Marshes and Seagrass Beds of Lagoa Dos Patos, Rio Grande, Brazil (Beverly Johnson, Geology), Bates Student Research Fund
  • Carly Peruccio ’16: Les Femmes Guides de Montagne: Reconfiguring Gendered Spheres in Morocco (Loring Danforth, Anthropology), Ruggles Fellowship and Hamill Fellowship
  • Paul Phillips ’18: Monitoring Recent Changes in a High Arctic Watershed, Svalbard, Norwegian High Arctic (Michael Retelle, Geology), Science Fellows Summer Research Grant
  • Jessica Plotnikov ’16: Cancer Research at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (Dr. Howard Scher), Scher Fellowship
  • Noel Potter ’17: Resurvey of Galena Creek Rock Glacier, Absaroka Mountains, WY (Michael Retelle, Geology), Hoffman Fellowship
  • Nicholas Pray ’15: Role of Nuclear Factor Erythroid 2 (Nfe2) in the Oxidative Stress Response during Development (Larissa Williams, Biology), INBRE Research Assistantship
  • Theodore Rube ’16: Who Governs Lewiston? Mapping Political Networks in an American City (Jeffrey Paller, Politics), Stangle Fellowship
  • Sophia Salas ’15: Role of Nuclear Factor Erythroid 2 (Nfe2) in the Oxidative Stress Response during Development (Larissa Williams, Biology) INBRE Research Assistantship
  • Nabil Saleem ’15: Role of Nuclear Factor Erythroid 2 (Nfe2) in the Oxidative Stress Response during Development (Larissa Williams, Biology) INBRE Research Assistantship
  • Larissa Sambel ’16: Optimization of Bacterially-Expressed Mammalian Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases Arih1, Arih2, and DTX3L Purification (T. Glen Lawson, Chemistry), Faculty Grant: National Institutes of Health
  • Julia Savage ’16: Exploring the Role of Oceanic and Atmospheric Forcing on Arctic Marine Climate from Newly Developed Annual Shell-based Records in Coastal Norway; High-Resolution Sedimentological, Geochemical, and Mineralogical Analysis of Annual Sediment Traps, Linnevatnet (Michael Retelle, Geology), Faculty Grant: National Science Foundation Collaborative Research and STEM Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Nicholas Sergay ’18: Radiofrequency-Dressed Two- and Three-Dimensional Optical Lattices (Nathan Lundblad, Physics), STEM Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Lily Shi ’17: Policy of Successive Chinese Governments (Shuhui Yang, Chinese) Tanaka Fellowship
  • Rebecca Smith ’16: Effects of CO2 and Mixed Alkalis on the Viscosity and Heat Capacity of Silicate Melts (Genevieve Robert, Geology), STEM Faculty-Student Research Grant
  • Sarah Stanley ’16: Coding Corporate Social Responsibility Activities (Alero Akporiaye, Politics), Faculty Research Grant
  • Nancy Tran ’16: Role of Nuclear Factor Erythroid 2 (Nfe2) in the Oxidative Stress Response during Development (Larissa Williams, Biology), INBRE Fellowship
  • Michael Varner ’17: Economic Determinants of Household Expenditures on Dietary Supplements (Nathan Tefft, Economics), Faculty Grant: Bates Faculty Development Grant
  • Gwenyth Williams ’17: Resurvey of Galena Creek Rock Glacier, Absaroka Mountains, WY (Michael Retelle, Geology), Hoffman Fellowship
  • Madeleine Youniss ’15: Confocal Microscopy Imaging (Nancy Kleckner, Biology), Bates Student Research Fund

Community-Engagement Projects

  • Emma Bilodeau ’16: Head Start, Lewiston, ME, Harward Center Summer Student Fellowship
  • Claire Brown ’17: District Court, Lewiston, ME, Harward Center Summer Student Fellowship
  • Katrina Buchta ’16: Lewiston Middle School Summer Engagement, Lewiston, ME, Harward Center Summer Student Fellowship
  • Jason DeFelice ’17: Outright L/A, Lewiston, ME, Harward Center Summer Student Fellowship
  • Christina Felonis ’17: L/A Arts, Lewiston, ME, Harward Center Summer Student Fellowship
  • Alexandra Freed ’16: Clubbed Thumb Theater, NY; Bates Dance Festival, Lewiston, ME, Community Work-Study Fellowship
  • Jonah Greenawalt ’16: Lewiston Middle School Summer Engagement, Lewiston, ME, Harward Center Summer Student Fellowship
  • Jose Herrera ’17: L/A Arts, Lewiston, ME, Community Work-Study Fellowship
  • Gabriel Imber ’17: Compassionate Care ALS, MA, Harward Center Summer Student Fellowship
  • Margaux Joselow ’16: Pine Tree Legal Assistance, Lewiston, ME, Harward Center Summer Student Fellowship
  • Rachel Marks ’17: Assessment Research, Center for Anti-Violence Education, Brooklyn, NY, Harward Center Summer Student Fellowship
  • Ayesha Sharma ’18: Educator Sexual Misconduct, Darkness to Light, Charleston, SC, Harward Center Summer Student Fellowship
  • Suzannah Smith ’16: Nutrition Center, Lewiston, ME, Harward Center Summer Student Fellowship
  • Anna Sucsy ’16: Montello School Summer Program/Hillview Summer Program, Lewiston, ME, Community Work-Study Fellowship
  • Katherine Van Patten ’17: One Tree Center, Portland, ME, Harward Center Summer Student Fellowship
  • Brianna Wilson ’18: Boys and Girls Club, Auburn, ME, Harward Center Summer Student Fellowship

Internships

  • Nicholas Bardin ’17: Business Development and Executive Intern, TerraCycle, Trenton, NJ (Richard Perl, TerraCycle), Bates Environmental Internship
  • Abigail Bierman ’16: Wildlife Rehabilitation Intern, Blue Ridge Wildlife Center, Boyce, VA (Heather Sparks, Blue Ridge Wildlife Center), Bates Environmental Internship
  • Mary Rebecca Ferguson ’18: Family and Youth Education Intern, Massachusetts Audubon Society, Newburyport, MA (Lisa Hutchings, Massachusetts Audubon Society), Bates Environmental Internship
  • Aine Fitzgerald Coleman ’16: Intern at Orkestai Farm, Planting Fields Arboretum, Oyster Bay, NY (Alethea Vasilas, Planting Fields Arboretum), Bates Environmental Internship
  • Elizabeth Horstmeyer ’16: Hawaii Service Trip Leader, Overland Adventures, Oahu, Hawaii (Jonathan Igoe, Overland Adventures), Bates Environmental Internship
  • Clara Jessup ’16: International Volunteer, Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds, Cape Town, South Africa (Marguerite du Preez, Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds), Bates Environmental Internship
  • Anna Marr ’17: Environmental Health and Safety Intern, New York City Department of Environmental Protection, Flushing, NY, Bates Environmental Internship
  • Jack Martel ’17: Environmental Health Intern, Environmental Health Strategy Center, Portland, ME (Jenny Rottmann, Environmental Health Strategy Center), Bates Environmental Internship
  • Max Millslagle ’17: Intern in Living History, The High Desert Museum, Bend, OR (Linda Evans, The High Desert Museum), Bates Environmental Internship
  • Toby Myers ’16: Research Assistant, Corporacion Forestal Nacional, Chaihuin, Cadillal and Valdivia, Region of the Rivers, Chile (Patricio Contreras Bravo, Parque Nacional Alerce Costero Corporación Nacional Forestal), Bates Environmental Internship
  • Tyler Sheffield ’16: Property Stewardship Intern, Sebasticook Land Trust, Unity, ME (Jennifer Irving, Sebasticook Land Trust), Bates Environmental Internship

Otis and Phillips Fellowships

  • Melody Altschuler ’17: Naturalistic Social Cognition in Berlin (Annie Wertz, Max Plank Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany), Phillips Fellowship
  • Britta Clark ’16: Ecosophy X: Revisiting the Deep Ecology Movement in Norway, Otis Fellowship
  • Mae Lubetkin ’16: Studying Sitar and Indian Cello in New Delhi: An Exploration of Indian Classical Music, Phillips Fellowship
  • Katherine McNally ’17: The Ocean Is Not Just Beautiful: Oral Histories from the Island of Grand Manan and the Atlantic, Otis Fellowship
  • Cira Mollings Puentes ’16: Childhood and Young Adult Cancer in Costa Rica and Jamaica, Phillips Fellowship
  • Michela Moscufo ’16: Ecosophy X: Revisiting the Deep Ecology Movement in Norway, Otis Fellowship
  • Deshun Peoples ’17: Jingdezhen Pottery: Porcelain at its Source, Phillips Fellowship
  • Miles Schelling ’16: Studying Sitar and Indian Cello in New Delhi: An Exploration of Indian Classical Music, Phillips Fellowship

2014

The following students received grants or fellowships to conduct research, community-engaged research or internships, or environmental internships this year.

Research Grants and Fellowships

  • John Allen ’15: Application of Transition Metal-Catalyzed C-H Amination to the Synthesis of Benzimidazolones (Patrick Jokiel, Chemistry), INBRE Faculty-Student Research Grant.
  • Melody Altschuler ’17: Social Preferences Of At-Risk Infants (Dr. Karen Wynn, Infant Cognition Center, Yale University), Hoffman Fellowship.
  • Erekle Antadze ’17: Bridging Caucases and the EU: Security Challenges (Dr. Alexander Rondeli, Georgian Foundation for Strategies and International Studies), Hoffman Fellowship and Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Kendra Asklof ’15: Influence of Developmental Hyperoxia on Diaphragm Muscle Fiber Types (Ryan Bavis, Biology) INBRE Faculty-Student Research Grant.
  • Daniel Bak ’15: Salvage Cryotherapy as therapy for patients who have persistent or recurrent dysplasia after radiofrequency ablation for dysplastic Barret’s Esophogus (Dr. Mandeep Sawhney, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center), Hoffman Fellowship.
  • William Bronson ’15: Population imaging of neuronal activity following social odor rearing (Jason Castro, Psychology), STEM Faculty-Student Research Grant.
  • Timothy Campbell ’15: Carbon Cycling in Lakes of the Boreal Forest-Tundra Ecotone: Labrador, Canada (Timothy Cook, Worcester State University), Bates Summer Research Fellowship.
  • Sarah Cancelarich ’15: Regulation of gene expression in Spirochotes (Paula Schlax, Chemistry), Faculty Grant, INBRE.
  • Nathaniel Cash ’15: Temperature Stabilization of Diode Lasers for Long-Term Frequency Stability in Bose-Einstein Condensation Experiments (Nathan Lundblad, Physics), Faculty Grant, NASA.
  • Robert Cesar ’16: Lack of Transparency as a Gateway to Corruption in Slovakia (Abel Ravasz, Publicus Slovensko), Stangle Fellowship and Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Michelle Devoe ’15: Bedrock mapping in the Dartmouth Range, NH (J. Dykstra Eusden, Geology), Faculty Grant, U.S. Geological Survey, Educational Component of the National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program.
  • Alison Dowey ’16: Cationic and anionic cyclodextrins as chiral NMR shift reagents (Thomas Wenzel, Chemistry), Faculty Grant, National Science Foundation.
  • Tayla Duarte ’17: Chiral NMR Shift Reagents (Thomas Wenzel, Chemistry), STEM Faculty-Student Research Grant.
  • Jackson Emanuel ’15: Regulation of gene expression in Spirochotes (Paula Schlax, Chemistry), Faculty Grant, INBRE.
  • Henry Finkelstein ’16: Failing the Arts: The Soviet Regime’s and the Chinese Communist Party’s Use of Opera to Advance their Political Ideologies, China 1949-1976 and USSR 1918-1953 (James Richter, Politics), Stangle Fellowship.
  • Marycarmen Flores ’15: Health Disparities Research Internship-The Inequalities faced by undocumented individuals in need of a transplant (Dr. David Ansell, Rush University Medical Center), Ruggles Fellowship and Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Katlyn Flynn ’15: How Previous Military Services Affects a Veteran’s Hiring Potential in the Civilian Labor Market (Margaret Maurer-Fazio, Economics), Faculty Grant, Stangle.
  • Ramya Ghantasala ’15: Learning and Memory in Survivors of Experimental Abdominal Sepsis (Benjamin Singer, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Michigan) Bates Summer Research Fellowship.
  • Alexandra Hakusui ’15: STED Microscopy of Granule Cell Spine Necks (Travis Gould, Physics) Faculty-Student Research Grant, INBRE.
  • William Hallett ’15: Disquiet International Literary Conference (Sanford Freedman, English), Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Emily Hayes ’15: STED Microscopy of Granule Cell Spine Necks (Travis Gould, Physics), Faculty-Student Research Grant, INBRE.
  • Jameson Jones ’15: Generational Aesthetic and Thematic Differences in Nicaraguan Poetry (Robert Strong, English) Bates Summer Research Fellowship.
  • Robin Jones ’15: Youth, Nationalism, and Masculinity in Post-Conflict Sri Lanka (Steven Kemper, Anthroplogy), Bates Summer Research Fellowship.
  • Aliza Khurram ’15: Time-delay signatures in external-cavity vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (Hong Lin, Physics) Faculty Grant, National Science Foundation and Bates Faculty Development Fund.
  • Song Kim ’15: Effects of intermittent hyperoxia/hypoxia on respiratory control (Ryan Bavis, Biology), Faculty Grant, National Institute of Health.
  • Katherine Kirwin ’15:Screening for Potential EMCV 3C Protease-Targeting Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases (T. Glen Lawson, Chemistry), Faculty Grant, National Institute of Health.
  • Anna Lanoue ’15: Brain imaging studies in psychiatric disorders (Matcheri Keshavan, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center), Bates Summer Research Fellowship.
  • Samuel Learner ’15: “Post-Revolutionary Anglicanism in Boston, MA” (Dennis Grafflin, History), Ruggles Fellowship.
  • Xintao Li ’16: Self-organization of student-led NGOs in Guangzhou, China (Margaret Creighton, History), Tanaka Research-Study Grant in Asia.
  • Benjamin Lovitz ’15: REU in Mathematics (Dr. Joel Foisy, SUNY Potsdam), Rawlings Grant and Bates Student Research Fund.
  • Mark McCauley ’15: Coastal resilience, planning and policy: Identifying critical land use links (Laura Sewall, Harward Center for Community Partnerships), Summer Research Apprenticeship.
  • Benjamin Merkert ’15: between changing coastal systems and adaptive communities (Michael Retelle, Geology), STEM Faculty-Student Research Grant.
  • Meredith Miles ’15: Avian Vocal Performance as an Indicator of Fitness (Donald Dearborn, Biology), Mount David Fellowship.
  • Alexandra Millstrom ’15: Effects of intermittent hyperoxia/hypoxia on respiratory control (Ryan Bavis, Biology), Faculty Research Grant, National Institute of Health.
  • Asha Mohamud ’15: Determining Effects of Lead (Pb) on Liver Glucose Metabolism in a manner contributing to the development of Type II Diabetes (Todd Leff, Wayne State School of Medicine: Department of Pathology), Hoffman Fellowship and Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Cira Mollings-Puentes ’16: Cationic cyclodextrins as chiral NMR shift reagents (Thomas Wenzel, Chemistry), Faculty Research Grant, National Science Foundation.
  • Alexandra Morrow ’16: Radio Production and Oral History at Atlantic Public Media (Viki Merrick, Atlantic Public Radio) Hoffman Fellowship and Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Danielle Muñoz ’15: Cultural Identity through Brazilian Dance at the Viva Danca Festival (Debi Irons, Dance), Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Khoi Tuan Nguyen ’17: Characterizing Optical Aberrations in Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy (Travis Gould, Physics), STEM Faculty-Student Research Grant.
  • Manh Hoang Nguyen ’16: Should the Federal Reserve pay negative interest rate on commercial banks’ reserves? (Paul Shea, Economics), Stangle Fellowship.
  • Akachukwu Obi ’15: The Role of Size and Geometry in the Plasmonic Behavior of Gold Nanorod (Matthew Côté, Chemistry) STEM Faculty-Student Research Grant.
  • Kate Paladin ’15: Food Security and Climate Change Vulnerability Among Nicaragua’s Coffee Farmers (Iris Stewart-Frey, Santa Clara University), Summer Research Fellowship.
  • Jia Ahn Pan ’16: The Role of Size and Geometry in the Plasmonic Behavior of Gold Nanorod (Matthew Côté, Chemistry) STEM Faculty-Student Research Grant.
  • Sonish Pant ’16: Did Fiscal Consolidations Episodes work? (Daniel Riera-Crichton, Economics), Summer Research Apprenticeship.
  • William Patton ’15: Synthesis and evaluation of resorcinarenes as chiral NMR shift reagents (Thomas Wenzel, Chemistry), Faculty Research Grant, National Science Foundation.
  • Katherine Paulson ’15: Role of chemically diverse oxidative stress agents in zebrafish development (Larissa Williams, Biology), Faculty-Student Research Grant, INBRE at Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory.
  • Michelle Pham ’15: Insights into the Quality of Life, Health, and Family Structures of Vietnamese Female Factory Workers in the Garment Industry (Emily Kane, Sociology), Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Amanda Pierog ’15: How Previous Military Services Affects a Veteran’s Hiring Potential in the Civilian Labor Market (Margaret Mauer-Fazio, Economics), Bates Summer Research Fellowship.
  • Samuel Predham ’16: Synthesis of Diversely Substituted Benzimidazolones via Hypervalent Iodine Mediated C-H Amination (Patrick Jokiel, Chemistry), Hoffman Fellowship.
  • Regan Radulski ’15: Independence Day Ball Dance Camp: A Study in Partner Dynamics, Movement and Career (Carol Dilley, Dance), Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Yolanda Rodriguez ’15: Chiral NMR Shift Reagents (Thomas Wenzel, Chemistry), STEM Faculty-Student Research Grant.
  • Sophie Salas ’15: Role of nuclear factor, erythroid 2 (Nfe2) in the oxidative stress response during development (Larissa Williams, Biology), Faculty-Student Research Grant, INBRE.
  • Nabil Saleem ’15: Role of nuclear factor, erythroid 2 (Nfe2) in the oxidative stress response during development (Larissa Williams, Biology), Faculty-Student Research Grant, INBRE.
  • Larissa Sambel ’16: Expression and Activity Characterization of Cloned E6AP Ubiquitin-Protein Ligase (T. Glen Lawson, Chemistry), Faculty-Student Research Grant, INBRE via Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory.
  • Anne Schwarzwalder ’15: Regulation of gene expression in Spirochotes ( Paula Schlax, Chemistry), Faculty Research Grant, INBRE.
  • Adnan Shami Shah ’15: Exploring Sinefungin Scaffolds as Privileged Protein Methyltransferase Inhibitors (Dr. Minkui Luo, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center), Hoffman Fellowship, Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Quincy Snellings ’15: Madness and Black Cultural Production (Therí Pickens, English), Summer Research Apprenticeship.
  • Christian Sundstrom ’15: Synthesis of Ashitabaol A (Jennifer Koviach-Côté, Chemistry), STEM Faculty-Student Research Grant.
  • Emmanuel Toroitich ’15: Mechanistic Studies of the Radical Scavenging Activity of Phenylpropanoid Glycosides (Jennifer Koviach-Côté, Chemistry), Faculty-Student Research, INBRE.
  • Tessa Walther ’15: Environmental Monitoring and Paleoclimate Research in the Norwegian High Arctic (Michael Retelle, Geology), STEM Faculty-Student Research Grant.
  • Sarah Xiao ’15: Bedrock mapping in the Mt. Washington West 7.5′ NH quad (J. Dykstra Eusden, Geology), U.S. Geological Survey StateMap grant.
  • Joshua Zimmer ’15: Localization, Stability, and Cytotoxicity of Picornavirus 3C Proteases in Ubiquitin-Protein Ligase Knockdon Cells (T. Glen Lawson, Chemistry), Faculty Research Grant, National Institute of Health.

Community-Engagement Projects

  • Brenna Callahan ’15: Montello School, Lewiston School Department; and Hillview Family Development, Lewiston Housing Authority; Lewiston, ME, Community Work-Study Fellowship.
  • Evan Cooper ’15: Pine Tree Legal Assistance, Lewiston, ME, Harward Center Summer Student Fellowship.
  • Alexandra Druck ’16: Maine People’s Alliance, Portland, ME, Harward Center Summer Student Fellowship.
  • Madison Ekey ’17: Montanans Against Toxic Burning, Bozeman, MT, Harward Center Summer Student Fellowship.
  • Brett Emmons ’15: Tree Street Youth, Lewiston, ME, Community Work-Study Fellowship.
  • Isabel Ferguson ’16: Donors Choose, New York, NY, Harward Center Summer Student Fellowship.
  • Olivia Gregorius ’15: Carpe Mundi, Portland, OR, Harward Center Summer Student Fellowship.
  • Nick Michaud ’15: Fort Kent Recreation and Parks Department, Fort Kent, ME, Harward Center Summer Student Fellowship.
  • Lydia Mitchell ’15:Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, Harward Center Summer Student Fellowship.
  • Sarah Miller ’15: Museum L-A, Lewiston, ME, Community Work-Study Fellowship.
  • Emma Noto ’16:Friends of the Children, Portland, OR, Harward Center Summer Student Fellowship.
  • Katherine Nunez ’17: One Voice, Los Angeles, CA, Community Work-Study Fellowship.
  • Michelle Palma ’15: Hillview Family Development, Lewiston Housing Authority, Lewiston, ME, Community Work-Study Fellowship.
  • Carly Peruccio ’16: Adult Learning Center, Lewiston Adult Education, Lewiston, ME, Harward Center Summer Student Fellowship.
  • Yessenia Saucedo ’16: Oakland Community Organizations, Oakland, CA, Harward Center Summer Student Fellowship.
  • Jonathan Schwolsky ’16: L/A Arts, Lewiston, ME, Harward Center Summer Student Fellowship.
  • Nick Steverson ’15: Tree Street Youth, Lewiston, ME, Community Work-Study Fellowship.
  • Barbara VanDerburgh ’15: Beloit Poetry Journal, Farmington, ME, Harward Center Summer Student Fellowship.
  • Audrey Zafirson ’16: Maine Volunteer Lawyers Project, Portland, ME, Harward Center Summer Student Fellowship.

Internships

  • Jordan Becker ’15: Environment Maine (Emily Figdor, Environment Maine), Bates Environmental Internship.
  • Caroline Caldwell ’15: Zapata Ranch Intern (Kate Matheson, Zapata Ranch), Bates Environmental Internship.
  • Rebecca Culp ’15: Safe Water Network (Stacy Johnson, Safe Water Network), Bates Environmental Internship.
  • Phillip Dube ’16: Local Governments for Sustainability (Louise Naude, ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability), Bates Environmental Internship.
  • Thomas Fitzgerald ’16: Massaschusetts Audubon Society Wildlife Care Team Intern (Flavio Sutti, Massachusetts Audubon Society), Bates Environmental Internship.
  • Aashu Jha ’17: Association of District Development Committees of Nepal, Renewable Energy Program Intern (Hem Raj Lamichhane, Association of District Development Committees of Nepal), Bates Environmental Internship.
  • Neema Kafwimi ’17: Intern for the National Environmental Management Council (O.Mbate, National Environmental Management Council, Dar-es-Salaam), Bates Environmental Internship.
  • Dani Klein ’17: Common Roots (Carol McQuillen, Common Roots), Bates Environmental Internship.
  • Benjamin Pardee ’15: Lower East Side Ecology Center (Caroline Kruse, Lower East Side Ecology Center), Bates Environmental Internship.
  • Fiona Robins ’15: Ecological Assessment Intern at the Natural Areas Conservancy (Helen Forgione, Fort Totten Park, Queens, NY), Bates Environmental Internship.
  • Sarah Stanley ’16: Vaughan Woods State Park Intern (Glen Dochtermann, Vaughan Woods State Park), Bates Environmental Internship.

Phillips Fellowships

  • Barbara Crespo ’15: Empowered Refugees and the Spread of Education (Patricia Buck, Education), Phillips Fellowship.
  • Detmer Kremer ’16: Ocean Spirits (Kate Rooney, Ocean Spirits), Phillips Fellowship.
  • Erick MacLean ’15: Examining Vaccines in Bangladesh: An Exploration of South Asian Culture (Larissa Williams, Biology), Phillips Fellowship.
  • Edward Poneman ’15: Empowered Refugees and the Spread of Education (Patricia Buck, Education), Phillips Fellowship.

2013

The following students received grants or fellowships to conduct research, community-engaged research or internships, or environmental internships this year.

Research Grants and Fellowships

  • Olalekan Afuye ’14: Nonlinear Optical Harmonic Generation in Nanorods (Michael Durst, Physics), Research Volunteer.
  • Kathryn Ailes ’14: Power and Privilege in Black Science Fiction (Therí Pickens, English), Summer Research Apprenticeship.
  • Abigail Alexander ’14: Actions of Opioids on Accessory Olfactory Bulb Function (Jason Castro, Psychology), INBRE Faculty-Student Research Grant.
  • John Allen ’15: Investigation of a Urea-Directed C-H Activation Strategy toward the Synthesis of Functionalized Benzimidazolone Derivatives (Patrick Jokiel, Chemistry), INBRE Faculty-Student Research Grant.
  • Saad Ansari ’14: Simultaneous Spatial and Temporal Focusing (Michael Durst, Physics), Mount David Research Fellowship.
  • Alexandra Balter ’14: Late Holocene Climate Change in Svalbard, Norwegian High Arctic (Michael Retelle, Geology), STEM Faculty-Student Research Grant.
  • Jennifer Bergeron ’14: Ribosomal Protein Gene Regulation in Borrelia bugdorferi (Paula Schlax, Chemistry), Faculty Grant, INBRE.
  • W. Evan Beinecke ’14: The Role of Glycosylation in Neural Signaling and Plasticity (Kaneolani Pilobello, L’École Normale Supérieure de Paris), Bates Summer Research Fellowship, Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Daniel Birkhead ’14: Cancer Research (Michael Morris, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, NY), Scher Fellowship.
  • Halward Blegen ’14: Hyperoxia, BDNF, and the Development of Respiratory Control (Ryan Bavis, Biology), INBRE Faculty-Student Research Fellowship.
  • David Born ’13: Determining the Three-Dimensional Structure of AlkB: Closing In (Rachel Austin, Chemistry), Faculty Grant: National Institutes of Health.
  • Ashley Brooks ’14: Thermal Conversion of Wood Waste to Biofuels (Rachel Austin, Chemistry), Faculty Grant, U.S. Department of Energy.
  • Mira Carey-Hatch ’14: Cationic Cyclodextrins as Chiral NMR Shift Reagents (Thomas Wenzel, Chemistry), Faculty Grant, National Science Foundation.
  • Yuying Chen ’16: Transcriptional Regulation of the Nuclear Factor Erythroid-2-related Factor (nrf) Family by the Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor (AHR) (Larissa Williams, Biology), INBRE Faculty-Student Research Fellowship.
  • Saebyul Choe ’14: Bedrock Mapping in the Newry-Gilead Region of Western Maine (J. Dykstra Eusden, Geology), Faculty Grants, Maine Geological Survey and the Billings Fund.
  • Tze Huey Chong ’15: Lead Binding to Metallothionein-3 (Rachel Austin, Chemistry), Faculty Grant, National Science Foundation.
  • Barbara Crespo ’15: Grassroots Efforts to Increase Educational Opportunities among Unregistered Refugees in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (Patricia Buck, Education), Summer Research Apprenticeship.
  • Erin Curry ’14: Laser-scanning Microscopy for Biomedical Imaging (Michael Durst, Physics), STEM Faculty-Student Research Grant.
  • Sacheth De Silva ’15: Lead Binding to Metallothionein-3 (Rachel Austin, Chemistry), Faculty Grant, National Science Foundation.
  • Peter Dixon ’14: Molecular Dynamics of Guided Axon Growth (Paul Forscher, Yale University), Bates Summer Research Fellowship.
  • Thuy My Do ’16: Shamanism and How to Make the Universe Right: Art and Artifacts from the Yao and Others in Southern China and Northern Viet Nam (Trian Nguyen, Art and Visual Culture), Summer Research Apprenticeship.
  • Alison Dowey ’15: Cationic Cyclodextrins as Chiral NMR Shift Reagents (Thomas Wenzel, Chemistry), Faculty Grant, National Science Foundation.
  • Sara El Assaad ’14: Monitoring Changes on Small Point, Seawall, and Popham Beaches, Phippsburg, ME (Michael Retelle, Geology), Faculty Grant, Small Point Operating Company.
  • Colleen Fitzgerald ’14: Reflections of Machismo in Argentine Tango (Elizabeth Eames, Anthropology), Ruggles Fellowship; Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Destany Franklin ’14: Neuropeptide Modulation of Feeding Behavior: A Role in Susceptibility to Parasites? (Nancy Kleckner, Biology), INBRE Faculty-Student Research Fellowship.
  • Caleb Glassman ’14: Neuropeptide Modulation of Feeding Behavior: A Role in Susceptibility to Parasites? (Nancy Kleckner, Biology), INBRE Faculty-Student Research Fellowship.
  • Grace Glasson ’14: Queer Hips and Popularized Kink (Erica Rand, Art & Visual Culture and Gender and Sexuality Studies), Faculty Grant, Bates Faculty Development Fund.
  • Astrid Gleaton ’13: Lead Binding to Metallothionein-3 (Rachel Austin, Chemistry), Faculty Grant, National Science Foundation.
  • Spencer Goossens ’15: Polarization Dynamics of a Current-modulated Vertical-cavity Surface-emitting Laser Subject to Optical Feedback (Hong Lin, Physics), Faculty Grant, National Science Foundation.
  • Charles Grant ’14: Meditative Uses of Thangka Painting: A Study of Tibetan Arts in Exile (Trian Nguyen, Art and Visual Culture), Hoffman Fellowship.
  • Yang Guo ’14: Studies of Ultracold Atomic Vapor and Bose-Einstein Condensation (Nathan Lundblad, Physics), STEM Faculty-Student Research Grant.
  • Christopher Halsted ’14: Sedimentological and Mineralogical Analyses of a Little Ice Age Geocatastrophe in the Shetland Islands, UK (Michael Retelle, Geology, and Gerald Bigelow, History), Faculty Grant, National Science Foundation.
  • Grace Hamilton ’15: Determining the Three-Dimensional Structure of AlkB: Closing In (Rachel Austin, Chemistry), INBRE Faculty-Student Research Grant.
  • Cameron Held ’14: LiDAR Lineament and Fracture Analysis of the White Mountain National Forest (J. Dykstra Eusden, Geology), Faculty Grant, the Billings Fund.
  • Justin Johal ’14: Clinical Features Associated with Epstein-Barr Virus in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients (Ajit Limaye, University of Washington Medical Center, WA), Bates Summer Research Fellowship.
  • Alexandra Jones ’15: Resorcinarenes as Organic-soluble Chiral NMR Shift Reagents (Thomas Wenzel, Chemistry), Faculty Grant, National Science Foundation.
  • Daniel Jordan ’14: Role of Nfe2 in Regulating Hedgehog Genes during Development (Larissa Williams, Biology), Faculty Grant.
  • Brian Kennedy ’14: Marine Technology in the Gulf of Maine (Robert Martin, Maine Technology Institute), Stangle Fellowship.
  • Aliza Khurram ’15: Polarization Dynamics of a Current-modulated Vertical-cavity Surface-emitting Laser Subject to Optical Feedback (Hong Lin, Physics), Faculty Grant, National Science Foundation.
  • Aliza Khurram ’15: Photothermal Imaging of Nanoparticles (Michael Durst, Physics), Research Volunteer.
  • Katherine Kirwin ’15: Screening the Effects of Ubiquitin System Enzyme siRNA Knockdowns in EMCV 3C Protease Stability (T. Glen Lawson, Chemistry), Faculty Grant, National Institutes of Health.
  • Jivko Kozarov ’14: Are Renewable Energy Investments in Bulgaria Doomed? A Study of the Grid Access Fee in the Bulgarian Renewable Market (Alejandro Dellachiesa, Economics), Stangle Fellowship.
  • Andrea Lauden ’14:  Evaluation of the Degree to which Alewives Contribute to Nutrient Dynamics in Nequasset Lake (Beverly Johnson, Geology), Faculty Grant, Maine EPSCoR.
  • Mary Lewis ’13: Thermal Conversion of Wood Waste to Biofuels (Rachel Austin, Chemistry), Faculty Grant, U.S. Department of Energy.
  • Sarah Logan ’14: Hyperoxia, BDNF, and Development of Respiratory Control (Ryan Bavis, Biology), INBRE Faculty-Student Research Grant.
  • Emma Lutz ’15: Baseline Assessment of Early Childhood Caries and Malnutrition (Karen Sokal-Gutierrez, UC-Berkeley/UCSF Joint Medical Program), Bates Summer Research Fellowship, Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Mariya Manahova ’14: Neural Correlates of Changes in Attitude toward Others (Nalini Ambady and Brent Hughes, Stanford University, CA), Bates Sumer Research Fellowship, Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Edwin Mapfuwa ’15: Determining the Three-Dimensional Structure of AlkB: Closing In (Rachel Austin, Chemistry), STEM Faculty-Student Research Grant.
  • Claire McGlave ’15: Clearway Minnesota Menthol and Tobacco Cessation Study (Kola Okuyemi, University of Minnesota Center for Health Disparities Research), Hoffman Fellowship.
  • James Meyo ’14: Transcriptional Regulation of the Nuclear Factor Erythroid-2-related Factor (nrf) Family by the Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor (AHR) (Larissa Williams, Biology), INBRE Faculty-Student Research Grant.
  • Carlo Miani ’13: Translation of Scipio Slataper’s Essay “Il mio Carso” (“My Karst”) from Italian to English (Raluca Cernahoschi, German), Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Cira Mollings-Puentes ’16: Water-soluble Chiral NMR Shift Reagents for Anions (Thomas Wenzel, Chemistry), STEM Faculty-Student Research Grant.
  • Kathleen Morrill ’15: Induction of the Ubiquitin-Protein Ligase DTXL3 in NIH3T3 Cells (T. Glen Lawson, Chemistry), Faculty Grant, National Institutes of Health.
  • Aung Myint ’14: Authoritarianism and Judicial Empowerment (James Richter, Politics), Ruggles Fellowship.
  • Aung Myint ’14: The Impact of Energy Consumption, Output, and Trade on Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Mercosur Member States: A Panel Cointegration Analysis (Alejandro Dellachiesa, Economics), Summer Research Apprenticeship.
  • Tara Notarianni ’14: Purification from Mouse Cells if Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases that target the EMCV 3C Protease (T. Glen Lawson, Chemistry), Faculty Grant, National Institutes of Health.
  • Alex Nowak ’14: Tropical Linear Algebra and Its Applications (Catherine Buell, Mathematics), Rawlings Fellowship.
  • Stepan Ochodek ’14: Analysis of Error Occurrence in Photovoltaic Power Plants and Mitigation of Associated Economic Cost (Alejandro Dellachiesa, Economics), Stangle Fellowship.
  • Jacqueline Ordemann ’15: Determining the Three-Dimensional Structure of AlkB: Closing In (Rachel Austin, Chemistry), STEM Faculty-Student Research Grant.
  • Kate Paladin ’15: Patterns of the Cyanobacterium Gloeotrichia in Three Maine Lakes and Presentation of Long-term Data on the Web (Holly Ewing, Environmental Studies), Faculty Grant, National Science Foundation.
  • Jia-ahn Pan ’16: Resorcinarenes as Organic-soluble Chiral NMR Shift Reagents (Thomas Wenzel, Chemistry), Faculty Grant, National Science Foundation.
  • Nicholas Pray ’15: Growth Rate of the Soft-shelled Clam (Mya arenaria) along the Coast of Maine (William Ambrose, Biology), Hoffman Fellowship, Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Jacob Sandor ’14: Actions of Opioids on Accessory Olfactory Function (Jason Castro, Psychology), INBRE Faculty-Student Research Grant.
  • Anabel Schmelz ’14: Lake Auburn Water Quality as It Relates to Gloeotrichia Abundance and Controls on Division (Holly Ewing, Environmental Studies), Faculty Grant, Lake Auburn Watershed Protection Commission.
  • Adnan Shami Shah ’15: Lead Binding to Metallothionein-3 (Rachel Austin, Chemistry), Faculty Grant, National Science Foundation.
  • Yanying Sheng ’16: The Returning Rural-Urban Migration in China (Francesco Duina, Sociology, and Wei Ouyang, Sun Yat-Sen University, China), Tanaka Research-Study Grant in Asia; Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Albert Shi ’14: Optical Tweezers (Michael Durst, Physics), Mount David Research Fellowship.
  • Santina Snow ’14: Cis Acting Factors Controlling Gene Expression in Borrelia burgdorferi (Paula Schlax, Chemistry), Faculty Grant, INBRE.
  • Joshua Sturtevant ”14: LiDAR Lineament and Fracture Analysis of the White Mountain National Forest (J. Dykstra Eusden, Geology), Faculty Grant: the Billings Fund.
  • Devin Tatro ’14: The Sebei of Eastern Uganda (Loring Danforth, Anthropology), Hamill Fund for Research in Anthropology.
  • Allison Tsomides ’14:  Role of Nfe2 in Regulating Hedgehog Genes during Development (Larissa Williams, Biology), Faculty Grant.
  • Sula Watermulder ’14: Bedrock Mapping in the Newry-Gilead Region of Western Maine (J. Dykstra Eusden, Geology), Faculty Grants, Maine Geological Survey and the Billings Fund.
  • Hang Yin ’15: Civil Society and the New Authoritarianism in Russia and China (James Richter, Politics), Summer Research Apprenticeship, Hoffman Research Support Grant.

Community-Engagement Projects

  • Elisabeth Baird ’14, The Nutrition Center of Maine, St. Mary’s Health System, Lewiston, ME, Harward Center Summer Student Fellowship.
  • Merrill Brady ’14, Free Health Clinic at Trinity Jubilee Center, Lewiston, ME, Harward Center Summer Student Fellowship.
  • Benjamin Breger ’15: Lake Auburn Watershed Protection Commission, Auburn, ME, Community Work-Study Fellowship.
  • Stephanie Caplan ’14: L/A Arts, Lewiston, ME, Harward Center Summer Student Fellowship.
  • Teika Carlson ’15, Hillview Family Development, Lewiston Housing Authority, Lewiston, ME, Harward Center Summer Student Fellowship.
  • Lexie Carter ’14, Lewiston School Department, Lewiston, ME, Community Work-Study Fellowship.
  • Denise Del Villar ’16, Camp Ronald McDonald for Good Times, Los Angeles, CA, Community Work-Study Fellowship.
  • Brett Emmons ’15, Tree Street Youth, Lewiston, ME, Community Work-Study Fellowship.
  • Theodosia Fehsenfeld ’16, Futurewise, Seattle, WA, Harward Center Summer Student Fellowship.
  • Mikka Macdonald ’16, International Rescue Committee, Baltimore, MD, Harward Center Summer Student Fellowship.
  • Sarah Maneval ’14, Volunteer Lawyers Project, Portland, ME, Harward Center Summer Student Fellowship.
  • Andrea Meyer ’14, Lewiston School Department, Lewiston, ME, Community Work-Study Fellowship.
  • Alexandra Morrow ’16, Children’s Museum of New Hampshire, Dover, NH, Harward Center Summer Student Fellowship.
  • Kathryn Polio ’15, Community Concepts, Lewiston, ME, Harward Center Summer Student Fellowship.
  • Madelene Santizo ’16, Uncommon Good, Claremont, CA, Community Work-Study Fellowship.
  • Nicholas Steverson ’15, Tree Street Youth, Lewiston, ME, Community Work-Study Fellowship.
  • Cody Tracey ’15, Jane Doe, Inc., Boston, MA, Harward Center Summer Student Fellowship.
  • Maria Vargas ’16, Kids Unlimited, Medford, OR, Community Work-Study Fellowship.
  • Fidelia Zelaya-Aleman ’15, American Institute for Cancer Research, Washington, DC, Community Work-Study Fellowship.

Internships

  • Hally Bert ’14: Internship, City of Takoma Environmental Policy and Sustainability, WA, Bates Environmental Internship.
  • Nicole Brill ’15: Internship, Soluxe Energy Solutions, CT, Bates Environmental Internship.
  • Rebecca Culp ’15: Marketing Internship, Lower East Side Ecology Center, NY, Bates Environmental Internship.
  • Nicole Danser ’15: Executive Assistant, Green Corps, CA, Bates Environmental Internship.
  • Jeyna Diallo ’16: DC Greenworks, Washington, DC, Bates Environmental Internship.
  • Jared Krawitz ’14: Larkin Trade International, China, Bates in Asia Internship.
  • Mae Lubetkin ’16: Agricultural Leadership Apprenticeship, Vermont Youth Conservation Corps, VT, Bates Environmental Internship.
  • Akachukwu Obi ’15: Internship, Kebetkache Women and Development Resource Centre, Nigeria, Bates Environmental Internship.
  • Ashleen O’Brien ’15: Agricultural Internship, Nezinscot Farm, ME, Bates Environmental Internship.
  • Zuhayr Reaz ’16: Internship, WaterAid Bangladesh, Bates Environmental Internship.
  • Brittany Reid ’15: Internship, Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, Bates Environmental Internship.
  • Sarah Mae Silverberg ’15: Shorebird Monitor, Goosewing Beach Preserve, The Nature Conservancy, RI, Bates Environmental Internship.
  • Brenton Talbott ’14: Larkin Trade International, China, Bates in Asia Internship.
  • Ngoc Han Tran Thi ’14: Argosy XAC Composite Materials Ltd., China, Bates in Asia Internship.

Phillips and Otis Fellowships

  • Alexandra Balter ’14: Environment as a Shaper of the Samí Reindeer Herding Culture, Norway, Otis Fellowship.
  • Rachel Baumann ’14: Berlin Then and Now: The Holocaust as It Is Remembered, Germany and Poland, Phillips Fellowship.
  • Asha Mohamud ’15: Africans4Africa: a Pan-African Endeavor, Tanzania, Phillips Fellowship.

2012

The following students received grants or fellowships to conduct research, community-based research or internships, or environmental internships this year.

  • Afuye ’14, Olalekan: Two-Photon Imaging in Scattering Biological Tissue (Michael Durst, Physics; Pribram-Ruff Research Fund in Physics)
  • Ailes ’14, Kathryn: Children’s Department Assistant and Summer Reading Program Coordinator, Lewiston Public Library, Lewiston, ME (Harward Center for Community Partnerships Summer Community Work-Study Fellowship)
  • Akinruntan ’13, Akinyele: Black Speculative Fiction (Therí Pickens, English; Summer Research Apprenticeship)
  • Ansari ’14, Saad: Modeling Photonic Crystals (Hong Lin, Physics; Mount David Research Fellowship)
  • Baker-White ’13, Matthew: Ranger, Climbing Information Center, Mount Rainier National Park (Stefan Logfren, Mount Rainier National Park; Feldman Environmental Internship)
  • Barbato ’15, Jacob: Inmate Reflections on Sentencing, Saratoga Town Court, Schuylerville, NY (Harward Center for Community Partnerships Summer Student Fellowship)
  • Barry ’13, Eric: Fish Barrier Assessment and Water Chemistry of the Pleasant River Watershed, West Bethel, Maine (Androscoggin River Watershed Council, Summer Intern)
  • Bennett ’13, Alison: Intern for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Susan Russo, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; Otis Environmental Internship)
  • Bergeron ’14, Jennifer: Molluscan Neuropeptides in the Regulation of Feeding-Related Behaviors (Nancy Kleckner, Biology; Maine INBRE Fellowship)
  • Black-Ingersoll ’13, Myles: Polarization Dynamics in a Multimode Vertical-cavity Surface-emitting
  • Laser (VCSEL) Subject to Both Optical Feedback and Current Modulation (Hong Lin, Physics, faculty grant, National Science Foundation)
  • Bolden ’15, Alexander: Tree Street Youth Program Coordinator, Tree Street Youth, Lewiston, ME (Harward Center for Community Partnerships Summer Community Work-Study Fellowship)
  • Bou ’14, Erik:  Tree Street Youth Program Coordinator, Tree Street Youth, Lewiston, ME (Harward Center for Community Partnerships Summer Community Work-Study Fellowship)
  • Boyce ’13, Eve: Androscoggin Land Trust Intern (Jonathan LaBonte, Androscoggin Land Trust; Feldman Environmental Internship)
  • Breger ’14, Benjamin: Intern for the Amherst (MA) Conservation Department (David Ziomek, Amherst Conservation Department; Otis Environmental Internship)
  • Brown ’13, Jennifer: Mechanistic Studies of the Radical Scavenging Activity of Phenylpropoanoid Glycosides (Jennifer Koviach-Côté, Chemistry; Maine INBRE Fellowship)
  • Burt ’13, Juan: Exploring Corruption through Experimental Economics (Michael Murray, Economics; Bates Summer Research Fellowship)
  • Carrillo ’13, Bryan: The Riemann Zeta Function and Prime Numbers (Dawn Nelson, Mathematics; Rawlings Fellowship for Research in Mathematics)
  • Chelangat ’13, Winnie: Exploring the Structure and Mechanism of Alkane Monooxygenase (Rachel Austin, Chemistry; Maine INBRE Fellowship)
  • Chiao ’13, Chester: The Biogeochemical Cycling of Nitrogen and the Importance of Marine-Derived Nutrient Delivery to Nequasset Lake, Woolwich, ME (Beverly Johnson, Geology, faculty grant, EPSCoR)
  • Cohen ’13, Lianna: Application of Protein Transfections toward Evaluating EMCV 3C Protease Toxicity (T. Glen Lawson, Chemistry; Maine INBRE Fellowship)
  • Collins ’13, Larisa: Exercise, Executive Function, and Excellence: A Brain-Based Applied Curriculum (Nancy Koven, Psychology; Hoffman Fellowship)
  • Countey ’14, Jedd: Program Assistant, Maine People’s Resource Center, Lewiston, ME (Harward Center for Community Partnerships Summer Student Fellowship)
  • Cravero ’13, Anne: Arsenic and Environmental Plasticity in Killifish (Bruce Stanton, Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory; Maine INBRE Fellowship)
  • DeAngelis ’13, Kate: Does Chronic Developmental Hyperoxia Alter Ventilatory Responses to Carbon Dioxide? (Ryan Bavis, Biology; Maine INBRE Fellowship)
  • Dolcen ’13, Deniz: Research Internship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, NY  (Stephanie Richard, Biology; Scher Fellowship)
  • Ellis ’14, Rachel: Evaluating the Risk of Snares to Chimpanzees in Kibale National Park, Uganda (Sonya Kahlenberg, Biology; A. V. Davis Fellowship in Biology)
  • Favaloro ’14, Sonja: Collective Farming and Living at Red Earth Farms, MO (Red Earth Farms; Otis Fellowship)
  • Fetrow ’13, Kate: Overcoming Machismo Culture: Understanding the Struggle for Women’s Rights in Ecuador (Clarisa Pérez-Armendáriz, Politics; Phillips Fellowship)
  • Fitzgerald ’14, Colleen: Argentina’s Contested Narratives around the Tango (Elizabeth Eames, Anthropology; Hamill Fund for Research in Anthropology)
  • Forrest ’13, Samantha: Opiate Kappa Receptor Antagonist nor-BNI May Reduce the Aversive Consequences of Opiate Withdrawal (John Kelsey, Psychology; Mount David Research Fellowship)
  • Gawarkiewicz ’13, Ellen: Spatial and Temporal Variability in the Abundance of Gloeotrichia echinulata in Lake Sunapee, NH (Holly Ewing, Environmental Studies, faculty grant, National Science Foundation)
  • Geng ’13, Tianhen: Internship at Squam Lakes Natural Science Center (Amanda Gillen, Squam Lakes Natural Science Center; Otis Environmental Internship)
  • Gleaton ’13, Astrid: Pb(II) Binding to Metallothionein-3 (Rachel Austin, Chemistry; faculty grant, National Science Foundation)
  • Goldstein ’13, Alyson: The Dynamic Interaction between Eyewitnesses and Investigators (Amy Douglass, Psychology; faculty grant, National Science Foundation)
  • Gough ’13, Jayme: Developing Catalysts for the Hydrodeoxygenation of Biofuels (Rachel Austin, Chemistry; faculty grant, U.S. Department of Energy)
  • Hakusui ’15, Alexandra: Dynamics of a current-modulated vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser subject to optical feedback (Hong Lin, Physics; Early Career Summer Research Opportunity in Science and Math)
  • Harning ’13, David: Late Holocene Climate Change in New Zealand: A Geochemical and Sedimentological Investigation of Lake Sediment Cores (Beverly Johnson, Geology; Hoffman Fellowship)
  • Hartt ’14, Angeleque: Synthesis of Ashitabaol (Jennifer Koviach- Côté, Chemistry; Early Career Summer Research Opportunity in Science and Math)
  • Huang ’14, Nicole: Disability Services in Cochabamba, Bolivia (Francisca López, Spanish; Phillips Fellowship)
  • Ilyas ’13, Amna: Sacred Musical Tradition of Hamd and Naat in Pakistan (Gina Fatone, Music; Ruggles Fellowship and Hoffman Research Support Grant)
  • Jones ’13, Travis: Experiencing Circus Performance and the Circus Performer Experience (Martin Andrucki, Theater; Hoffman Fellowship and Seeling Design Fellowship)
  • Jones ’13, Travis: Constructing Art in a Public Space: Studying the New York City High Line (Erica Rand, Art and Visual Culture and Women and Gender Studies; Hoffman Fellowship)
  • Kassa ’13, Lundat: Program Coordinator, Ethiopian Community Center Summer Program, Washington, D.C. (Harward Center for Community Partnerships Summer Student Fellowship)
  • Kenlock ’14, Kathilee: Photothermal Imaging of Nanoparticles and Mitochondria (Michael Durst, Physics; Mount David Research Fellowship)
  • Kennedy ’14, Brian: Unpeeling the Banana Coast of Greenland (Otis Fellowship)
  • Kowlessar ’12, Douglas: Chinese Business Practices (Xing Fan, Asian Studies, Tanaka Fellowship for Research in Asia)
  • Kwon ’13, Su Hyun: Technos International Week Fellow (Tanaka Foundation/Technos Week)
  • Landino ’13, Samantha: Incubation of Nicotine-Induced Locomotion Sensitization: A Model for Drug Relapse (John Kelsey, Psychology; Summer Research Apprenticeship)
  • Landry ’14, Madeline: Leader, Downtown Summer Gardens, Lots to Gardens, Lewiston, ME (Harward Center for Community Partnerships Summer Student Fellowship)
  • Lei ’14, Lei: An Audit Study of Hiring Practices in Chinese Firms (Margaret Maurer-Fazio, Economics; Summer Research Apprenticeship)
  • Levine ’15, Rachel: Technos International Week Fellow (Tanaka Foundation/Technos Week)
  • Lewis ’13, Mary: Developing Catalysts for the Hydrodeoxygenation of Biofuels (Rachel Austin, Chemistry; Mount David Research Fellowship)
  • Longdon ’14, David: Funding Low-Income Farmers in Ghana: The Eden Tree Limited Initiative (Alejandro Dellachiesa, Economics; Stangle Fellowship for Economics and Law and Hoffman Research Support Grant)
  • MacDonald ’13, Ryan: Geographic Variation of Growth Rates in Adult Soft-shelled Clams, Mya arenaria, along the Maine Coast (William Ambrose, Biology; A. V. Davis Fellowship in Biology)
  • Maginn ’13, Conor: Holocene Variations in Hypoxia and Paleoproductivity along the Oregon Margin (REU, Oregon State University)
  • Manahova ’14, Mariya: Decoding Cortical Maps in High Temporal Resolution Using Magnetoencephalography (Thomas Carlson, University of Maryland at College Park, Hoffman Fellowship)
  • Mapfuwa ’15, Edwin: Exploring the Structure and Mechanism of Alkane Monooxygenase (Rachel Austin, Chemistry; Early Career Summer Research Opportunity in Science and Math)
  • March ’13, Ryan: Does Chronic Developmental Hyperoxia Alter Ventilatory Responses to Carbon Dioxide? (Ryan Bavis, Biology; Maine INBRE Fellowship)
  • Mauck ’13, Henry: Geographic Variation of Growth Rates in Adult Soft-shelled Clams, Mya arenaria, along the Maine Coast (William Ambrose, Biology; A. V. Davis Fellowship in Biology)
  • Max ’13, Laura: The Effect of Novel Drug Rasagiline on Cognitive Deficits of Parkinson’s Disease (Nancy Koven, Psychology; Mount David Research Fellowship)
  • Min ’12, Sophy: Defining Promise: A Comparative Study of Optional Standardized Testing Policies in American College and University Admission Offices (William Hiss, Advancement and Asian Studies; Seedlings Foundation Grant)
  • Morris ’13, Danielle: Intern for The Refugee Response (Sean Belt, The Refugee Response; Feldman Environmental Internship)
  • Mushi ’13, Desmond: Assessing the Impact of Microfinance on Poverty Reduction in Rural Households (Alejandro Dellachiesa, Economics; Hoffman Fellowship)
  • Myint ’14, Aung: Foreign Policy in Myanmar and U.S. Foreign Policy in Southeast Asia (James Richter, Politics; Stangle Fellowship for Economics and Law and Hoffman Research Support Grant)
  • Myint ’14, Aung: Growth, Trade and the Environment: Water Pollution from Industrial Sources (Alejandro Dellachiesa, Economics; Summer Research Apprenticeship)
  • Namdol ’15, Tenzin: Technos International Week Fellow (Tanaka Foundation/Technos Week)
  • Navarrete ’13, Nathalie: Statelessness and Human Rights: A Case Study of Dominico-Haitians (Senem Aslan, Politics, and Mary Rice-DeFosse, French and Francophone Studies; Ruggles Fellowship)
  • Obi ’15, Akachukwu: Variation in the Abundance of Gloeotrichia echinulata in Local Maine Lakes (Holly Ewing, Environmental Studies, faculty grant, National Science Foundation)
  • Ogilvie ’14, Margaret: Case Management Intern, District Court, Lewiston, ME (Harward Center for Community Partnerships Summer Student Fellowship)
  • O’Leary ’13, Colin: Isolation and Characterization of Neuropeptides Involved in Feeding Modulation in the Central Nervous System of the Pond Snail, Helisoma trivolvis (Nancy Kleckner, Biology; A. V. Davis Fellowship in Biology)
  • Ordemann ’15, Jacqueline: Exploring the Structure and Mechanism of Alkane Monooxygenase (Rachel Austin, Chemistry; Maine INBRE Fellowship)
  • Paladin ’15, Kate: Intern for Green Action (Bradley Angel, Green Action; Otis-Feldman Environmental Internship)
  • Pickoff ’13, Margaret: An Analysis of Blue Carbon Stocks in Maine Salt Marshes (Beverly Johnson, Geology; Harward Center for Community Partnerships, Sarah Trafton Memorial Endowment)
  • Poneman ’15, Edward: Advancing Ceramic Technique and Gaining Inspiration through Studio Immersion (Tyler Gulden, Art and Visual Culture; Hoffman Fellowship)
  • Qambi ’15, Naima: Summer Program Coordinator, Hillview Family Development, Lewiston Housing Authority, Lewiston, ME (Harward Center for Community Partnerships Summer Community Work-Study Fellowship)
  • Reedich ’13, Lisa: Biochemical Indices in Detecting Spatial and Temporal Variation in the Growth of Soft-shelled Clams along the Coast of Maine (William Ambrose, Biology; Maine INBRE Fellowship)
  • Regan ’13, Kevin: What’s Next? How Americans Make Sense of Transitions in Life (Francesco Duina, Sociology; Summer Research Apprenticeship)
  • Shah ’15, Adnan Shami: Lead Interactions with Metallothionein-3 (Rachel Austin, Chemistry, faculty grant, National Science Foundation)
  • Smith ’14, Conor: Improving Conservation Education around Kibale National Park, Uganda (Sonya Kahlenberg, Biology; Phillips Fellowship)
  • Sturtevant ’14, Joshua: Unpeeling the Banana Coast of Greenland (Otis Fellowship)
  • Sullivan ’13, Kimberly: College Application and Financial Aid Support Program Coordinator, Tree Street Youth, Lewiston, ME (Harward Center for Community Partnerships Summer Student Fellowship)
  • Sun ’14, Bojian: An Audit Study of Hiring Practices in Chinese Firms (Margaret Maurer-Fazio, Economics; Hoffman Fellowship)
  • Thompson ’13, Natalie: What Jane Austen Read: How Both Popular and Classic Literature Influenced Austen’s Novels (Lillian Nayder, English; Bates Summer Research Fellowship)
  • Tilchin ’13, Carla: Lyme Borreliosis Screening for Borrelia DNA in Avian Reservoir Hosts (Donald Dearborn, Biology; Maine INBRE Fellowship)
  • Toohey ’13, Margaret: Volunteer Lawyers Project Intern, Pine Tree Legal Assistance, Portland, ME (Harward Center for Community Partnerships Summer Student Fellowship)
  • Valles ’13, Matthew: Optimal parameters for chaos synchronization of two multimode vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (Hong Lin, Physics, faculty grant, National Science Foundation)
  • Wallace ’13, Josefine: Does Shipping Late-Gestation, Pregnant Rats Alter the Respiratory Control of Their Offspring? (Ryan Bavis, Biology; A. V. Davis Fellowship in Biology and Mount David Research Fellowship)
  • Watson ’13, Caroline: Contribution of Large Precipitation Events to Sediment Loading in Lake Sunapee, NH (Holly Ewing, Environmental Studies, faculty grant, National Science Foundation)
  • Wescott ’13, Amanda: Dynamics of barrier beach and pocket beach systems, Phippsburg, Maine (Michael Retelle, Geology, faculty grant, Small Point Operating Corp.)
  • White ’13, Elisabeth: Geographic Variation of Growth Rates in Adult Soft-shelled Clams, Mya arenaria, along the Maine Coast (William Ambrose, Biology; A. V. Davis Fellowship in Biology)
  • Yin ’15, Hang: NGO Status and Censorship in Guangdong (James Richter, Politics; Bates Summer Research Fellowship)

2011

The following students received grants or fellowships to conduct research this year.

  • Hakimah Abdul-Fattah ’13: Native Labeled Jewelry (Charles Carnegie, Anthropology), Hamill Fund for Research in Anthropology
  • Tiarra Abell ’12: The Necessity of a Child Life Specialist (Heather Lindkvist, Anthropology), Hamill Fund for Research in Anthropology
  • Olalekan Afuye ’14: Infrared Spectroscopic Study of TOPO-CdSe Surface Chemistry (Joshua Henry, Chemistry), Hoffman Fellowship
  • Joseph Ajamu ’14: Synthesis of Spiroketal Enol Ether Natural Products (Jennifer Koviach-Côté, Chemistry), Early Career Student Research Opportunities
  • Akinyele Akinruntan ’13: Barriers to Mental Health Care among New Mainers (B Street Health Center, St. Mary’s Health System), Harward Center for Community Partnerships Community-Based Research Fellowship
  • Cynthia Alexandre-Brutus ’13: Culture and Identity within the Rastafarian Religion, Jamaica and Ethiopia (Melinda Plastas, Politics), Phillips Fellowship for Cross-Cultural Exploration
  • Brigit Anderson ’12: Exhumation and Paleotopography of the Presidential Range, NH, from Apatite Fission Track Ages, (J. Dykstra Eusden, Geology), Mount David Research Fellowship
  • R. Casey Andersen ’12: Legal Assistant Intern, The Nature Conservancy, Arlington, VA, Otis Environmental Internship
  • Hannah Archibald ’13: Genomic Interrogation and Perturbation of Natural Fungal-Host Cell Surface Dynamics (Robert Wheeler, University of Maine, Orono), INBRE Fellowship
  • Nazsa Baker ’12: Black Women’s Entrepreneurship through Beauty Salons, (Charles Carnegie, Anthropology) Hamill Fund for Research in Anthropology
  • Arjada Bardhi ’12: Innovating under Uncertainty: A Dynamic Programming Approach to a Multi-stage Innovation Race with Intermediate Licensing (Bonnie Shulman, Mathematics), Stangle Fellowship for Research in Economics and Law
  • Colin Barry ’12: Hydrogeological Investigations of Ditchplug Restoration on the Sprague River Marsh, Phippsburg, ME (Beverly Johnson, Geology), Harward Center for Community Partnerships faculty grant
  • Jennifer Bergeron ’14: Translational Regulation in Diverse Prokaryotes (Paula Schlax, Chemistry), INBRE faculty grant
  • Alyse Bigger ’12: Effectiveness of Literacy Efforts (Tree Street Youth, Trinity Episcopal Church), Harward Center for Community Partnerships Community-Based Research Fellowship
  • Ashley Brooks ’14: Field and Laboratory Research in Climate Reconstruction Using Sclerochronology (William Ambrose, Biology), Early Career Student Research Opportunities
  • Jennifer Brown ’13: Synthesis and Radical Scavenging Activity of Phenylopropanoid Glycosides (Jennifer Koviach-Côté, Chemistry), INBRE Student-Faculty Grant in Biology and Biochemistry
  • Shlesma Chhetri ’12: Deaths Caused by Malnutrition in Rural Nepal (Heidi Taylor and Sawyer Sylvester, Sociology), Ruggles Fellowship for Pre-Thesis Research
  • Sarah Cleary ’12: Synthesis and Radical Scavenging Activity of Phenylopropanoid Glycosides, Jennifer Koviach- Côté, INBRE Student-Faculty Grant in Biology and Biochemistry
  • Josalynne Cottery ’12: Literacy for Youth, Memphis, TN (Francesco Duina, Sociology), Hoffman Fellowship
  • Naomi Crimm ’13: Distribution of Gloeotrichia in Some Maine Lakes, (Holly Ewing, Environmental Studies), National Science Foundation faculty grant
  • Allison DiSalvo ’12: Effects of Developmental Hyperoxia on Spiracle Opening in Drosophila (Ryan Bavis, Biology), A. V. Davis Student Fellowship in Biology
  • Deniz Nesli Dolcen ’13: The Role of Glutamate in the Modulation of the Standard Pattern of Feeding in the Pond Snail, Helisoma trivolis (Nancy Kleckner, Biology), INBRE Student-Faculty Grant in Biology and Biochemistry
  • Heather Doolittle ’12: Digital Bedrock Mapping of Small Point, ME (J. Dykstra Eusden, Geology), U.S. Geological Survey EdMap faculty grant
  • Joseph Ekpenyong ’12: The Efficiency of Algorithms (Jonathan Webster, Mathematics), Rawlings Fellowship for Research in Mathematics
  • Catherine Elliott ’12: More Effectively Meeting the Legal Needs of the Low-Income Population of Maine (Volunteer Lawyers Project), Harward Center for Community Partnerships Community-Based Research Fellowship
  • Charles Emple ’12: LGBT Organizing in Madrid: Envisioning Community across Generations (Loring Danforth, Anthropology), Bates Summer Research Fellowship
  • James Epstein ’13: Environmental Intern, Sabbathday Lake Association, New Gloucester, ME, Otis Environmental Internship
  • Sarah Fallon ’12: Postnatal Growth and Critical Periods of the Developing Carotid Body (Ryan Bavis, Biology), INBRE Student-Faculty Grant in Biology and Biochemistry
  • Alicia Fannon ’13: The 1901 World’s Fair, Buffalo, NY (Margaret Creighton, History), Student Research Apprenticeship
  • Ellen Gawarkiewicz ’13: Distribution of Gloeotrichia in Some Maine Lakes (Holly Ewing, Environmental Studies), National Science Foundation faculty grant
  • Tiahen Geng ’13: Distribution of Gloeotrichia in Some Maine Lakes (Holly Ewing, Environmental Studies), National Science Foundation faculty grant
  • Dharina Gonzalez ’12: Changed in Migration: Do International Moves Create or Simply Liberate Political Agency? (Clarisa Pérez-Armendáriz, Politics), Student Research Apprenticeship
  • Samuel Gretz ’12: Synthetic Studies of Koshikalide (Jennifer Koviach-Côté, Chemistry), O’Leary Fellowship in Chemistry or Biochemistry
  • Yang Guo ’14: Ultracold Atoms with a Magneturoptical Trap (Nathan Lundblad, Physics) Student Research Apprenticeship
  • David Harning ’13: A Comparative Study of Amino Acid Concentrations in Various Fish Tissues (Beverly Johnson, Geology), National Science Foundation faculty grant
  • Kaitlin Harrison ’12: The Eroticism and Evolution of Undress throughout Centuries in Japan (Sarah Strong, Japanese), Hoffman Fellowship
  • Amna Ilyas ’13: Exploring the Sacred Musical Traditions of ‘Hamd’ and ‘Naat’ in Pakistan (Hiroya Miura and Amos Libby, Music; Muhammad Arshad Chaudry in Pakistan), Tanaka Fellowship for Research in Asia
  • Romina Istratii ’12: Toward a Less Food Insecure World: Developing a Life-Cycle Accounting-Based Model for the Better Comparison of Different Agricultural Practices (Alejandro Dellachiesa, Economics), Stangle Fellowship for Research in Economics and Law
  • Emily Kaldjian ’12: Environmental Degradation and Self-Recognition in Armenia (Cristina Malcolmson, English), Phillips Fellowship for Cross-Cultural Exploration
  • Lundat Kassa ’13: Effects of a New Soccer Program for Girls (Somali Bantu Youth Association), Harward Center for Community Partnerships, Community-Based Research Fellowship
  • Douglas Kempner ’12: How Ballot Initiatives Relate to People’s Understanding of Voting (Maine People’s Alliance), Harward Center for Community Partnerships Community-Based Research Fellowship
  • Kathilee Kenlock ’14: The Physics of Matter in the Vapor Phase Cooled to Nanokelvin Temperatures (Nathan Lundblad, Physics), Early Career Student Research Opportunities
  • Mollie Kervick ’13: The Creative Writing Component of a Summer Camp for Local Youth (Camp Smiles, Lewiston Department of Recreation), Harward Center for Community Partnerships Community-Based Research Fellowship
  • Umar Ali Khan ’13:  Impact of Madrases on the Economic Growth of Pakistan (Francesco Duina, Sociology), Bates Summer Research Fellowship
  • Linda Kugblenu ’13: Women’s Experiences in Morocco (Charles Nero, Rhetoric), Phillips Fellowship for Cross-Cultural Exploration
  • Kara Leasure ’12: The Role of Glutamate in the Modulation of the Standard Pattern of Feeding in the Pond Snail, Helisoma trivolis (Nancy Kleckner, Biology), INBRE Student-Faculty Grant in Biology and Biochemistry
  • Lei Lei ’14: Audit Study of the Hiring Practices of Chinese Firms (Margaret Maurer-Fazio, Economics), Bates Summer Research Fellowship
  • Sophie Leonard ’12: Mathematical Modeling of Gloeotrichia echinulata (Meredith Greer, Mathematics), Mellon Innovation Grant
  • Mary Lewis ’13: Translational Regulation in Diverse Prokaryotes (Paula Schlax, Chemistry), INBRE faculty grant
  • Jennifer Lindelof ’12: Digital Bedrock Mapping of Small Point, ME (J. Dykstra Eusden, Geology), U.S. Geological Survey EdMap faculty grant
  • Jennifer Lindelof ’12: Late Holocene Sediment Records in Shetland Lochs (Michael Retelle and Beverly Johnson, Geology), National Science Foundation faculty grant
  • David Longdon ’14: Parental Involvement in and Contributions to the Summer Youth Program (Lots to Gardens), Harward Center for Community Partnerships Community-Based Research Fellowship
  • Kelley Madden ’12: Translational Regulation in Diverse Prokaryotes (Paula Schlax, Chemistry) INBRE faculty grant
  • Qasim Mahmood ’13: The Experimental Bribery Game: A Study Comparing Results from Pakistan and the United States (Michael Murray, Economics), Hoffman Research Fellowship
  • Adelaide Makwaia ’14: Internship, Tansheq Tanzania Unlimited, Department of Environment, Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, Otis Environmental Internship
  • Haley Manchester ’12: Effects of Developmental Arsenic Exposure in Mice (Rebecca Sommer, Biology), INBRE Fellowship
  • Rebecca Merten ’12: The 1901 World’s Fair, Buffalo, NY (Margaret Creighton, History), Student Research Apprenticeship
  • James Meyo ’14: Cloning Ribosomal Protein Leader Sequences into a Shuttle Vector for Expression in Borrelia burgdoferi (Paula Schlax, Chemistry), Mount David Research Fellowship
  • Leigh Michael ’12: Lumber, Landscapes, and Livelihoods: The Complex Relationships of the Logging Industry (Jane Costlow, Environmental Studies), Otis Fellowship
  • Peter Miller ’12: Beach Monitoring, Phippsburg, ME (Michael Retelle, Geology), Small Point Operating Company faculty grant
  • Lesley Mo ’12: Lead-Binding to Metallothioneins (Rachel Narehood Austin, Chemistry), INBRE Student-Faculty Grant in Biology and Biochemistry
  • Timothy Molnar ’11: Common Index Divisors: Their Historical Development (Jonathan Webster, Mathematics), Student Research Apprenticeship
  • Desmond Ngarami Mushi ’13: Historical and Cultural Origins of Pan-Africanism (James Richter, Politics), Phillips Fellowship for Cross-Cultural Exploration
  • Aung Myint ’14: The Role of the International Community in Democracy in Myanmar (James Richter, Politics), Hoffman Fellowship
  • Caroline Neville ’12: Elimination of a CPA in Morphine-Dependent Rats by Blocking Reconsolidation with Propranolol (John Kelsey, Psychology), Bates Summer Research Fellowship
  • Cody Newman ’11: Hydrodeoxygenation of Fast Pyrolysis Oil over Ruthenium Catalysts (Rachel Narehood Austin, Chemistry), Beckman Scholarship for Research in Science
  • Mary Osborne ’13:  Leadership Training Model (Maine People’s Alliance), Harward Center for Community Partnerships Community-Based Research Fellowship
  • Cheri-Ann Parris ’13: Arsenic Exposure in Mice (Rebecca Sommer, Biology), A. V. Davis Fellowship in Biology
  • Saba Parvez ’12: Biomarker from Circulating Tumor Cells in Castrate-Resistant Prostate Cancer Patients (Howard I. Scher, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center), Hoffman Fellowship
  • Margaret Pickoff ’13: Internship, The Garden Ecology Project, New York, NY, Otis Environmental Internship
  • David Pierce ’12: Injection Dynamics in a Multimode Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser (Hong Lin, Physics), Mellon Innovation Fund
  • Kevin Regan ’13: Atomic Force Microscope-Based Manipulation of Plasmonic Nanoparticles (Matthew Côté, Chemistry), Hoffman Fellowship
  • Olivia Romeo ’13: Ecological Stability Analysis (Gideon Eschel, Bard College Math REU), Bates Summer Research Fellowship
  • Olivia Romeo ’13: Shell Geochemistry Research Project (William Ambrose, Biology), Mount David Research Fellowship
  • Albert Shi ’14: Ultracold Atoms with a Magneturoptical Trap (Nathan Lundblad, Physics), Student Research Apprenticeship
  • Haley Sive ’12: Digital Bedrock Mapping of Small Point, ME (J. Dykstra Eusden, Geology), U.S. Geological Survey EdMap Grant
  • Elisabeth Sonshine ’12: Late Holocene Fluctuations in Eelgrass Abundance in Penobscot Bay, Gulf of Maine (Beverly Johnson, Geology), National Science Foundation faculty grant
  • Angela Su ’12: Lead-Binding Metallothioneins (Rachel Narehood Austin, Chemistry), INBRE Student-Faculty Grant in Biology and Biochemistry
  • Kimberly Sullivan ’13: Effectiveness of the SAT and College Prep Programs (Tree Street Youth, Trinity Episcopal Church), Harward Center for Community Partnership Community-Based Research Fellowship
  • Guoging Sun ’13: A Housing Consumption Puzzle’s Resolution (Michael Murray, Economics), Student Research Apprenticeship
  • Phoebe Tamminen ’14: Classical Mythology in Context (Lisa Maurizio, Classical and Medieval Studies), Student Research Apprenticeship
  • Ross Terada ’14: Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser (VCSEL) Research (Hong Lin, Physics), Early Career Student Research Opportunities
  • Charles Thaxton ’12: David Foster Wallace: Infinite Jest (Sanford Freedman, English), Bates Summer Research Fellowship
  • Kristina Tobin ’12: Postnatal Growth and Critical Periods of the Developing Carotid Body (Ryan Bavis, Biology), INBRE Student-Faculty Grant in Biology and Biochemistry
  • Shannon Walsh ’12: Mathematical Modeling of Ferritin Removal via Therapeutic Phlebotomies (Z. M. Szczepiorkowski, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center), Hoffman Fellowship
  • Sili Wang ’13: Audit Study of the Hiring Practices of Chinese Firms (Margaret Maurer-Fazio, Economics), Bates Summer Research Fellowship
  • Tianjao Yan ’11: Translating Classical Chinese Scripts (Trian Nguyen, Art and Visual Culture), Student Research Apprenticeship
  • Somi Yoon ’12: Effectiveness of Music Training on Verbal Memory, Foreign Language Acquisition, and Emotional Cognition (Sorieoulim), Harward Center for Community Partnerships Community-Based Research Fellowship
  • Yu Zhang ’13: Injection Dynamics in a Multimode Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting laser (Hong Lin, Physics), Mellon Innovation Grant

2010

The following students received grants or fellowships to conduct research this year.

  • Babatunde ’11, Victor: Exosomes as a Tool to Search for Ovarian Cancer Stem Cell Biomarkers(Stephanie Richards, Biology and Pamela Baker, Biology), Hoffman Fellowship for Independent Research
  • Baker ’12, Nazsa: Neuroimmunology Diseases (Nancy Kleckner, Biology), Hoffman Research Support Grants
  • Bardhi ’12, Arjada: On Cooperation Incentive Schemes in Conflict-Affected Areas: A Game-Theoretic Approach to the Role of Microfinance in the Postwar Dynamics of Metrovica, Kosovo(Bonnie Shulman, Mathematics), Stangle Fellowship for Research in Economics and Law
  • Basnet ’11, Amod: Microhydroelectricity Projects for Rural Electrification (Hong Lin, Physics), Hoffman Research Support Grants
  • Bobko ’13, Alexey: Microeconimics of Limited Choice (Margaret Maurer-Fazio, Economic), Hoffman Research Support Grant
  • Cadden ’11, Margaret: Effects of Vitamin D on Cognitive Functioning in MS Patients (Nancy Koven, Psychology), Hoffman Fellowships for Independent Research
  • Carlton ’10, Anne: The Effect of Low-Dose Arsenic Exposure on the Development of Type II Diabetes (Rebecca Sommer, Biology), Beckman Scholarship for Research in Science
  • Chhetri ’12, Shlesma: Intern, Bio Gas Plant and Recycling Papers, Women Environment’s Preservation Committee, Kupondole, Nepal, Oak Environmental Internships
  • Cory ’11, Samuel: In vitro Affects of Hyperbaric Hyperoia on Chronic Wound Biofilms (Lee Abrahamsen, Biology), Hoffman Research Support Grants
  • Cravero ’13, Anne: Intern, Alaska Longline Fishermen’s Association, Sitka, AK, Oak Environmental Internships
  • Dagnogo ’11, Kadidia: The Role of Education on Senegalese Women in Senegal and Little Senegal (NYC) (Alexandre Dauge-Roth, French), Bates Summer Research Fellowship
  • deWet ’11, Gregory: Glacier Research in Svalbard, Norwegian Arctic (Michael Retelle, Geology), Bates Summer Research Fellowship, Hoffman Fellowships for Independent Research
  • Edwards ’11, Terehas: Addressing Global Feminism: Contemporary Women’s Activism in Japan, Freeman Foundation Grant for the Study of East Asia, Tanaka Memorial Foundation for Research Travel in Asia
  • Gawarkiewicz ’13, Ellen:Environmental Education Intern: Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Falmouth, MA, Oak Environmental Internships
  • Giroux ’11, Justin: An Infrared Spectroscopic Study of the Surface Chemistry of Cadmium Selenide (Joshua Henry, Chemistry), Hoffman Fellowships for Independent Research
  • Go ’11, Hiromi: Internship at W.R. Grace & Co.Shanghai, China, Freeman Foundation Student Summer Internships
  • Harrison ’11, Bryan: Identification of Novel Components Related to the RNAi Machinery in Antigenic Variation in Giardia (Pamela Baker, Biology), Bates Summer Research Fellowship
  • Howe ’11, Emily: Unite for Sight, Ghana, Phillips Fellowship for Cross-Cultural Exploration
  • Istratii ’12, Ronina: Internship at Juming MuseumTaipei, Taiwan, Freeman Foundation Student Summer Internships
  • Karakus ’11, Mert: Individual Identity vs. Nation-Building: Limits of Turkish Nationalism(Francesco Duina, Sociology), Hoffman Research Support Grants
  • Karakus ’11, Mert: Internship at the Fulbright Economics Teaching ProgramHO Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Freeman Foundation Student Summer Interships
  • Kindley ’11, Carter: Paleostress Analysis of Mesozoic Fractures and Basalt Dikes (J. Dykstra Eusden, Geology), Bates Summer Research Fellowship
  • Knowles ’11, Ingrid: Advanced Topics in Salt Marsh Management Restoration Adapts to Climate Change (Beverly Johnson, Geology) Bates Student Research Fund
  • Koster ’11, Alexander: Speech through the Musical Lens (James Parakilas, Music), Ruggles Fellowship for Pre-Thesis Research
  • Lambright 12, Daniel: The Legal and Economic Implications of African Immigration into China(Leila Kawar, Politics), Freeman Foundation Grant for the Study of East Asia, Tanaka Memorial Foundation Grant for Research Travel in Asia
  • Lee ’11, Dae Ro: Internship at the Zhong Shan Argosy Protective Garment Company Limited,Zhongshan, China, Freeman Foundation Student Summer Internships
  • Leigh ’12, Michael: Intern, Oakland Parks Sierra Club, Berkeley, CA, Oak Environmental Internships
  • Little ’12, Robert: Helping People and Orangutans through Video, Indonesia, Phillips Fellowship for Cross-Cultural Exploration
  • Maliwanag ’11, Marissa: Relationship between Ocean Temperatures and Annual Growth Rates of the Soft-Shelled Clam (Myra arenaria) in the Gulf of Maine from 4200 BP-500 BP (William Ambrose, Geology), Bates Student Research Fund
  • Mangar ’11, Joanna: Synthesis and Radical Scavenging Activity of Phenyl Propanoid Glycosides(Jennifer Koviach-Côté, Chemistry), INBRE Student-Faculty Grants in Biology and Biochemistry
  • McGhee ’12, Sean: Teaching Math in Ghana (Teaching), Phillips Fellowship for Cross-Cultural Exploration
  • McNulty ’11, Lucas: Internship at the Argosy XAC Composite Materials, Ltd.Xian and Shaghai, China, Freeman Foundation Student Summer Internships
  • Mete ’12, Metehan: Internship at Argosy International, Inc.Shanghai, China, Freeman Foundation Student Summer Internships
  • Nawreen ’11, Nawshaba: Effects of Apomorphine in NMDA Glutamate Receptor Induced Current and Its Role in Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) (Nancy Kleckner, Biology), Hoffman Research Support Grants
  • Newman ’11, Cody: Upgrading Pyrolysis Oils (Rachel Austin, Chemistry), Beckman Scholarship for Research in Science
  • Nguyen ’11, Thao:In Vitro Function of Types III Secretion System of Shigella Flexneim Aerobic and Anaerobic Conditions (Pamela Baker, Biology), Bates Summer Research Fellowship
  • Niraula ’10, Anzela: Effects of Nicotine Administration on Impulsive Choice in Rats and Its Role in c-Fos Expression in the Basolateral Amygidala (John Kelsey, Psychology), Hoffman Fellowships for Independent Research
  • Noto ’12, Patricia: Intern, Southside Community Land Trust, Providence, RI, Oak Environmental Internships
  • Okot ’11, Paul: Internship at Bunun Cultural and Educational FoundationTaidong County, Taiwan, Freeman Foundation Student Summer Internships
  • Pender-Cudlip ’10, Marilla: Reaction Mechanisms of Metalloenzymes that Catalyze the Oxidation of Alkanes (Rachel Austin, Chemistry), Beckman Scholarship for Research in Science
  • Posner ’11, Emma: Rethinking Gender and Sexuality in Childhood (Emily Kane, Sociology), Summer Research Apprenticeship Grant
  • Robinson ’12, Vanessa: Cancer Research, Scher Fellowship
  • Rosenthal ’10, Sabrina: Gauging Impacts of Refugee Women’s Secondary-School Completion(Patricia Buck, Education), Summer Research Apprenticeship Grant
  • Runnals ’11, Keegan: Analysis of the Kinematics of Nomal Faults in the Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland (E. Dykstra Eusden, Geology), Bates Summer Research Fellowship
  • Sandstrom ’13, Ursula: Political Intern, Sierra Club Cascade Chapter, Seattle, WA, Oak Environmental Internships
  • Shahinyan ’12, Gohar: Planting the Roots of Self-Empowerment and Community in Armenia, Otis Fellowship for the Exploration of Individuals, Societies and the Environment
  • Su ’12, Angela: Lead Biochemistry: Interaction with Metallothioneins (Rachel Austin, Chemistry), Student-Faculty Grants in Biology and Biochemistry
  • Tadmor ’11, Ada: Institutions and the Economy (Francesco Duina, Sociology), Summer Research Apprenticeship Grant
  • Tollin ’12, Marc: Building an Ultracold Atomic Physics Experiment (Nathan Lundblad, Physics and Astronomy), Summer Research Apprenticeship Grant
  • Udeh ’12, Obichukwu: The Legal and Economic Implications of African Immigration into China(Clarisa Pérez-Armendáriz, Politics), Freeman Foundation Grant for the Study of East Asia, Tanaka Memorial Foundation Grant for Research Travel in Asia
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  • Vashakidze ’11, Ketevan: Actilingua Scholarship for Promoting the German Language (Craig Decker, German), Bates Student Research Fund, Hoffman Research Support Grants
  • Vingiano ’11, Alison: Searching for Identity in Exile: Feminism and Nationalism in Displaced Tibetan Communities (John Baughman, Politics), Stangle Fellowship for Research in Economics and Law
  • Walsh ’12, Shannon: Picornaviral 3C Protein Polyubiquitylation (T. Glen Lawson, Chemistry), Hoffman Fellowships for Independent Research
  • Walsh ’12, Shannon: Analyzing Proficiency Tests of Stem Cell Processing (Jennifer Koviach-Côté, Chemistry, and Peter Wong, Mathematics), Hoffman Fellowships for Independent Research
  • Yan ’11, Tian Jao: Labor Force Participation of China’s Rural Women and the Elderly (Margaret Maurer-Fazio, Economics), Summer Research Apprenticeship Grant
  • Yan ’11, Tian Jao: Translation of Classical Chinese on Buddhist Sculpture (Trian Nguyen, Art and Visual Culture), Hoffman Research Support Grant

2009

The following students received grants or fellowships to conduct research this year.

  • Anderson ’10, Katelyn:Addiction Recovery Management Service Program (John Kelly, MGH-Harvard Center for Addiction Medicine), Hoffman Fellowships for Independent Research.
  • Babatunde ’11, Victor: Summer Internship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer (Howard Scher, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center), Hughes Fellowships for Independent Research in the Sciences.
  • Baker ’12, Nazsa: Human Neural Stem Cells (Nilzar Suayah, University of Medicine and Dentistry, NJ), Hoffman Research Support Grants.
  • Bardhi ’12, Arjada: The Challenges of the Era of Commercialization in Albania (Perlat Sula, Opportunity Albania), Stangle Grants for Research in Economics and Law.
  • Bernier ’11, Katherine: Testing the Hypothesis that Lead Binds to Metallothionein (Rachel Austin, Chemistry), Hughes Student-Faculty Research Grants.
  • Bok ’10, Jared:Institutions and the Economy (Francesco Duina, Sociology), Summer Research Apprenticeships.
  • Booth ’10, Edwin: On the Acid Western (Steven Dillon, English), Hoffman Research Support Grants.
  • Born ’10, Erik: Modal Dynamics of a Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser with Optical Feedback(Hong Lin, Physics), Hughes Student-Faculty Research Grants.
  • Boyer ’10, Samuel: Buddhism Philosophy: Theory and Practice (Margaret Drescher, Windhorse Farm, Nova Scotia), Hoffman Research Support Grants.
  • Byers ’10, Barbara: Arts Immersion in Indonesia, Phillips Fellowship for Cross-Cultural Exploration.
  • Cader ’11, M. Masid: Ethics in Apparel: An Investigation into MAS Holdings’ Sustainable Practices and Its Effect on Sri Lankan Women and their Communities (Chandi Abeygunawardene, MAS Capital Ltd, Sri Lanka), Hoffman Research Support Grants.
  • Carlton ’10, Annie: The Effect of Low-Dose Arsenic Exposure on the Development of Type II Diabetes(Rebecca Sommer, Biology), Beckman Scholarship for Research in Science.
  • Castro ’10, Carlos:Paleostress Analysis of Mesozoic Fractures and Basalt Dikes, Mt. Washington Region, NH (J. Dykstra Eusden, Geology), Hughes Student-Faculty Research Grants.
  • Chung ’11, Harry: Galactic Dark Matter Signature on the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation(Eric Wollman, Physics), Hughes Student-Faculty Research Grants.
  • Diker ’12, Furkan: The Evolution of Turkish Cartoons in Relation to the New Turkish Constitution in 1961(Salih Memecan, Turkish Cartoonist), Hoffman Fellowships for Independent Research.
  • Djugostran ’11, Vitalie: Financial Infrastructure Development in Russia (David Aschauer, Economics), Hoffman Fellowships for Independent Research and Hoffman Research Support Grants.
  • Evans-Brown ’09, Samuel: Telling the “Lewiston Story”: A Cultural Analysis of Somali Secondary Migration to Lewiston, ME (Heather Lindkvist, Anthropology), Summer Research Apprenticeships.
  • Frisbie ’10, Chad: Biking the Ring Road: Rethinking the Icelandic Landscape, Otis Fellowship for the Exploration of Individuals, Societies, and the Environment.
  • Gallo ’09, Miranda: Characterization of Novel GluR5/6/7 IR Cell Group in Central Pattern Generator of the Buccal Ganglia in the Pond Snail, Helisoma trivolvis (Nancy Kleckner, Biology), Beckman Scholarship for Research in Science.
  • Garber ’10, Peter: Increasing the Efficiency of the Raman Spectroscopy and Atomic Force Microscopy Equipment.
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  • Gardner ’10, J. Patrick: Paleostress Analysis of Mesozoic Fractures and Basalt Dikes, Mt. Washington Region, NH (J. Dykstra Eusden, Geology), Hughes Student-Faculty Research Grants.
  • Ghita ’12, Cosmin: Investigation Causes of Political Apathy in Romania’s Youth (Áslaug Ásgeirsdóttir, Politics), Hoffman Research Support Grants.
  • Gilmon 10, Alicia: Pluck: A History of Hair Removal in America (Rebecca Herzig, Women and Gender Studies), Hoffman Research Support Grants.
  • Giroux ’11, Justin: An Infrared Spectroscopic Study of the Surface Chemistry of Cadmium Selenide(Joshua Henry, Chemistry), Hughes Student-Faculty Research Grants.
  • Guilford ’10, Samuel: The End of the World: From Apocalypse and Nuclear Armageddon to Posthumanity and Ecocide (Denis Sweet, German), Hoffman Research Support Grants.
  • Harris ’11, Carolyn: Long Term Records of Nearshore Foodweb Dynamics in the Gulf of Maine(Beverly Johnson, Geology), Hughes Student-Faculty Research Grants.
  • Joyce ’10, Christopher: Robert Kennedy and the Civil Rights Movement (Hilmar Jensen, III, History), Hoffman Research Support Grants.
  • Julian ’10, Brendan: Manifestations and Philosophy of Capoeira in Bahia, Brazil (Eduardo David de Oliveica, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil), Hoffman Research Support Grants.
  • Kaluba ’10, Chomba: Using Art to Fight Poverty and Empower Children of Guatemala, Phillips Fellowship for Cross-Cultural Exploration.
  • Karakus ’11, Mert: The Role of Religious Rules in Modern Finance: The Growth and the Regulation of Islamic Banking (Daniel Riera-Crichton, Economics), Hoffman Research Support Grants and Stangle Grants for Research in Economics and Law.
  • Karamatullah ’10, Emaan: An Analysis of Executive Compensation and Shareholder Wealth (Carl Schwinn, Economics), Hoffman Research Support Grants.
  • Kilbride ’10, Madison: A Relational Approach to Speech Perception (Mark Okrent, Philosophy),Ruggles Scholarship for Pre-Thesis Research.
  • Kong ’10, Lina:Collaborative Project with Research Group at University of Maine to Develop Catalysts to Convert Wood Waste into Fuels (Rachel Austin, Chemistry), Hughes Student-Faculty Research Grants.
  • Lee ’10, Julia: Internship with Cornell University Migrant Farmworker Program (Mary Jo Dudley, Cornell Farmworker Program), Hoffman Research Support Grants.
  • Liljestrand ’11, Jennelle: Learning and Emotional Assessment (Brian Willoughby, Massachusetts General Hospital), Hoffman Research Support Grants.
  • Loopesko ’10, William: Yukon Bound: Documenting the Passage and Presence of Humans in The Last Great Wilderness, Otis Fellowship for the Exploration of Individuals, Societies, and the Environment.
  • Mangar ’11, Joanna: Identification of Cis-Acting Elements Involved in Translational Regulation of Ribosomal Proteins in Diverse Bacteria (Paula Schlax, Chemistry), Hughes Student-Faculty Research Grants.
  • McClellan ’09, Lisa: AIRS: Advanced Interdisciplinary Research in Singing (Annabel Cohen, University of Prince Edward Island), Hoffman Research Support Grants.
  • McIntrye ’10, Jean: Numerical Simulation of Single Nuclear Spins in Diamond (Lilian Childress, Physics), Hughes Student-Faculty Research Grants
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  • Milholland ’10, Russell: Yukon Bound: Documenting the Passage and Presence of Humans in The Last Great Wilderness, Otis Fellowship for the Exploration of Individuals, Societies, and the Environment.
  • Mohandas ’10, Anita: Political Rhetoric in the Supreme Court: The Use of the ‘Ideograph’ to Sustain American Judicial Ideology (Stephanie Kelley-Romano, Rhetoric), Hoffman Research Support Grants.
  • Moschitto ’11, Matthew: Developing New Techniques for Fabricating, Characterizing, and Manipulating Plasmonic Nanostructures.
  • Nawreen ’11, Nawshaba: Investigating the Effect of BRAC’s Ultra Poor Program on Parental Decisions Regarding Child Schooling and Child Labor (Sved Hashemi, BRAC Development Institute, Dhaka, Bangladesh), Hoffman Research Support Grants.
  • Nguyen ’10, Ngoc Bich Tram: Optimal Stopping and Maximizing Expected Profits in Fishery Management for the Case of Vietnamese Catfish Farming (Michael Murray, Economics), Tanaka Memorial Foundation Grant for Research Travel in Asia.
  • Nunes ’11, Stephen: The IMF Bailout in Pakistan: Investigating Its Roots and Exploring Its Consequences (Michael Murray, Economics), Hoffman Research Support Grants.
  • O’Brien ’11, Sean: Iron and Small RNA Regulation of Biofilm Determinant Genes in Aggregatibacteractinomycetemcomitans (Frank Scannapieco, SUNY Buffalo School of Dental Medicine), Hughes Fellowships for Independent Research in the Sciences.
  • Okano ’11, Lauren: Exploring Tourism through a Different Lens (Elke Morris, Art and Visual Culture), Hoffman Research Support Grants.
  • Palombo ’10, Nola: Modal Dynamics of a Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser with Optical Feedback (Hong Lin, Physics), Hughes Student-Faculty Research Grants.
  • Pender-Cudlip ’10, Marilla: Reaction Mechanisms of Metalloenzymes that Catalyze the Oxidation of Alkanes (Rachel Austin, Chemistry), Beckman Scholarship for Research in Science.
  • Rashkov ’11, Michael:Fighting the Crisis: Bulgaria’s Response to the World Economic Downturn, 2008-09 (David Aschauer, Economics), Hoffman Research Support Grants.
  • Reilly ’10, Katherine: Playful Learning and Cortisol Levels in a Preschool Population (Georgia Nigro, Psychology), Summer Research Apprenticeships.
  • Rodgers ’09, Winthrop: Vietnamese Digital Image Retouching (Trian Nguyen, Art and Visual Culture), Hoffman Research Support Grants.
  • Roebuck ’10, Hannah: Streamwater Chemistry and Nutrient Loading to Lake Sunapee, NH (Holly Ewing, Environmental Studies), Hughes Student-Faculty Research Grants.
  • Roy ’11, Amrita: Developing a Fiber-Optic Experiment for Advanced Teaching Laboratory (Hong Lin, Physics), Hoffman Research Support Grants.
  • Sinisgalli ’10, Scott: Analysis of Understanding about Vitamin D Deficiency and Treatment within the B Street Patient Population, Lewiston, ME (Karen Palin, Biology), Hughes Student-Faculty Research Grants.
  • Smeltzer ’10, Benjamin: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies of Single Nuclear Spins in Diamond(Lilian Childress, Physics), Hughes Student-Faculty Research Grants.
  • Su ’12, Angela: Testing the Hypothesis that Lead Binds to Metallothionein (Rachel Austin, Chemistry), Hughes Student-Faculty Research Grants.
  • Tan ’11, Lirong: Economics Well Being of China’s Minorities (Margaret Maurer-Fazio, Economics), Summer Research Apprenticeships.
  • Vashakidze ’11, Ketevan: Economics of Copyright Law (James Hughes, Economics), Hoffman Research Support Grants.
  • Willemsen, C. Challen: The Effect of Non-Native Tree Species on Orchid Populations in Guatemala City (Holly Ewing, Environmental Studies), Hughes Fellowships for Independent Research in the Sciences.
  • Villahermosa ’11, Sasha: Testing the Hypothesis that Lead Binds to Metallothionein (Rachel Austin, Chemistry), INBRE Student-Faculty Research Grants in Biology and Biochemistry.
  • Webber ’11, Kaitlin: The Tradition of Sustainability: Folklore and Organic Farming in Scotland, Otis Fellowship for the Exploration of Individuals, Societies, and the Environment.
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  • Wong ’11, Mi Shan: Internship at the Malaysian Institute of Economic Research (Lee Kim Bian, Malaysian Institute of Economic Research), Stangle Grants for Research in Economics and Law.
  • Woolworth ’10, Nathalie: Green Gold: Soy as a Food and Industry in Argentina (Loring Danforth, Anthropology), Hoffman Research Support Grants.
  • Yan ’11, Tianjiao: Economics Well Being of China’s Minorities (Margaret Maurer-Fazio, Economics), Summer Research Apprenticeships.
  • Zhang ’10, Alexia: The Marine Rosetta Stone: Oceanic Moorings Help Translate Clam-Growth Patterns to Ecosystem Drivers (William Ambrose, Biology), Hughes Student-Faculty Research Grants.
  • Zhang ’10, Alexia: Localizing Glutamate Receptor Subunits in the Central Nervous System of the Pond Snails, Helisoma trivolvis and Biomphalaria glabrata (Nancy Kleckner, Biology), Hughes Student-Faculty Research Grants.

2008

The following students received grants or fellowships to conduct research this year.

  • Megan Arnold ’09: Climate Change Studies in Svalbard, Norway, Michael Retelle, advisor, geology; Hughes Fellowship.
  • Nyan Lynn Aung ’09: Cluster Ion Spectrometry Data Analysis, George K. Parks, advisor, Space Science Lab, UC Berkeley; Hughes Fellowship.
  • Victor Babatunde ’11: Comparative Analysis of Translational Initiation and Regulation in Escherichia coli and in Borrellia burgdorferi, Paula Schlax, advisor, chemistry; INBRE Student-Faculty Research Grants in Biology and Biochemistry.
  • Clyde Bango ’11: Residency at the Spelman College Summer Art Colony, Portobelo, Panama; Phillips Fellowships for Cross-Cultural Exploration.
  • Amod Basnet ’11: Transverse Effects of Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers under Optical Feedback,  Hong Lin, advisor, physics; Hughes Student-Faculty Research Grant.
  • Jared Bok ’10: Singapore’s Ethnic Integration Policies, Susan Schomburg, advisor, religion; Tanaka Memorial Foundation Grant for Research Travel in Asia.
  • Chloe Bourne ’11: Chiral NMR Shift Reagents, Thomas Wensel, advisor, chemistry; Faculty Research Grant.
  • Thomas Broge  Dec ’08: Effect of Perinatal Hyperoxia on Carotid Body Development,Ryan Bavis, advisor, biology; Faculty Research Grant.
  • Sophia Budianto ’09: Music Notation and Glossary for the Textbook, Introduction to Opera, James Parakilas, advisor, music; Summer Research Apprenticeship.
  • Annie Carlton ’10: Effects of Arsenic on Placental Development in the Mouse, Rebecca Sommer, advisor, biology; Faculty Research Grant.
  • Leah Carr ’10: Neurogenetics of Executive Function in Alexithymia, Nancy Koven, advisor, psychology; Faculty Research Grant.
  • Gent Carrabregu ’09: The Problem of Civil Disobedience in a Contested Polity: The Case of the Radical Kosovar Movement, Vetevendosje, William Corlett, advisor, politics; Stangle Grant for Research in Economics and Law.
  • Besir Ceka ’08: The End of the World: From Apocalypse and Nuclear Armageddon to Posthumanity and Ecocide, Denis Sweet, advisor, German; Summer Research Apprenticeship.
  • Cora Chisholm ’10: Chiral NMR Shift Reagents, Thomas Wenzel, advisor, chemistry; Faculty Research Grant.
  • Stephanie Connors ’09: Testing the Effectiveness of Motivational Interviewing as a Primary Weight Reduction Strategy in an Obese PopulationSt. Mary’s Medical Center, Kathryn Graff Low, advisor, psychology; Hughes Fellowship.
  • Mayur Contractor ’10: Glutamate Receptors Involved in Feeding Behavior in Pond Snail, Nancy Kleckner, advisor, biology; Faculty Research Grant.
  • Abigail Counteman ’10: Effects of Arsenic on Placental Development in the Mouse,Rebecca Sommer, advisor, biology; Faculty Research Grant.
  • Sulochana Dissanayake ’09: Friends of Prisoners’ Children, Sri Lanka: A Study of Program Efficacy, Michael Murray, advisor, economics; Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Vitalie Djugostran ’11: Portfolio Diversification of Countries Poorly Endowed with Factors of Production, David Aschauer, advisor, economics; Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Maura Foley ’09: Timing and Shear Sense of the Moose River, Shear Zone, Presidential Range, NH, J. Dykstra Eusden, advisor, geology; Faculty Research Grant.
  • Miranda Gallo ’09: Characterization of Novel GluR5/6/7 IR Cell Group in Central Pattern Generator of the Buccal Ganglia in the Pond Snail, Helisoma trivolvis, Nancy Kleckner, advisor, biology, Bechman Scholars.
  • Hannah Giasson ’09: Testing the Effectiveness of Motivational Interviewing as a Primary Weight Reduction Strategy in an Obese Population, St. Mary’s Medical Center, Kathryn Graff Low, advisor, psychology; Hughes Fellowship.
  • Kerry Glavin ’08: Algorithm for Minimum Spanning Trees, Pallavi Jayawant, advisor, mathematics; Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Justin HoShue ’09: Transverse Effects of Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers under Optical Feedback, Hong Lin, advisor, physics; Hughes Student-Faculty Research Grant.
  • Stephanie Howson ’09: Zen Feminism: Revisioning Feminist Theory from a Buddhist Perspective, John Strong, advisor, religion; Hoffman Fellowship.
  • Mert Karakus ’11: Economic Incentive and Regulation: The Privatization of Turk Telecom, David Aschauer, advisor, economics; Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Alexandra Kelly ’09: From Quack to Hero: The Character of the Doctor in Nineteenth-Century Literature, Sylvia Federico, advisor, English; Hoffman Fellowship.
  • Madison Kilbride ’10: The Perceptual Status of Language: Visual or Auditory? Casey O’Callaghan, advisor, philosophy; Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Lina Kong ’10: Cross-cultural Study of Mauritian and Chinese Cultures through the Hakka People; Phillips Fellowships for Cross-Cultural Exploration.
  • Cem Kurtulus ’09: Making of the Image: Political Satire in Turkish Cinema, Steven Dillon, advisor, English; Hoffman Fellowship.
  • Cem Kurtulus ’09: The End of the World: From Apocalypse and Nuclear Armageddon to Posthumanity and Ecocide, Denis Sweet, advisor, German; Summer Research Apprenticeship.
  • Benjamin Levin ’09: Research Cruise, Barents Sea: Benthic Ecology Research, William Ambrose, advisor, biology; Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Jacob Lewis ’09: The Purpose of Pilgrimage: Finding Meaning on El Camino de Santiago; Phillips Fellowships for Cross-Cultural Exploration.
  • Mariana Lidofsky ’09: Pre-production for Filmmaking Thesis, Paul Kuritiz, advisor, theater; Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Joshua Linscott ’10: Comparative Analysis of Translational Initiation and Regulation inEscherichia coli and in Borrellia burgdorferi, Paula Schlax, advisor, chemistry: INBRE Student-Faculty Research Grants in Biology and Biochemistry.
  • Ariane Mandell ’09: Star-Crossed: The Origin, Evolution, and Influence of Qi Xi Folklore, Roberta Strippoli, advisor, Japanese; Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Jennifer Marino ’09: Harnessing Plasmon Resonances to Study Nanostructures, Matthew Côté, advisor, chemistry; Summer Research Apprenticeship.
  • Kristen Meyers ’09: Does Perinatal Hyperoxia Impair Adult Exercise Performance?Ryan Bavis, advisor, biology; INBRE Student Faculty Research Grants in Biology and Biochemistry.
  • Sabrina Miess ’09: Teens, Text, and Identity in Space-Time Networks of Literacy Activity, Anita Charles, advisor, education; Summer Research Apprenticeship.
  • David Miller ’08: Political Economy of Environmental Philanthropy: Understanding Funding Flows of NGOs, Sonja Pieck, advisor, environmental studies; Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Anita Mohandas ’09: An Examination of Public and Judicial Policy Facilitating or Impeding Womens’ Access to Justice, Rebecca Herzig, advisor, women and gender studies; Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Christopher Morrell ’09: Measuring and Incorporating Stakeholder Values into River Restoration Decisions, Lynne Lewis, advisor, economics; Faculty Research Grant and Hoffman Research Support.
  • Anne Mueller ’09: Experiencing Rwanda and Its Economic Recovery, Alexandre Dauge-Roth, advisor, French; Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Jeremy Muench ’10: An Investigation of How the Differences of a Specific Form of q-Binomial Coefficients Form a Unimodal Sequence of Integers, Pallavi Jayawant, advisor, mathematics; Rawlings Grant for Research in Mathematics.
  • Sophie Nelson ’09: Negotiating Truth and Self-Formation in Storytelling: A Creative Fiction Project, Robert Farnsworth, advisor, English; Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Cody Newman ’11: Thermal Upgrading of Needy Biomass to Fuels and Chemicals,Rachel Austin, advisor, chemistry; Faculty Research Grant.
  • Hwei Ling Ng ’09: Following the Ganges: A Collision of Flesh and Spirit in Water; Otis Fellowship for the Exploration of Individuals, Societies, and the Environment.
  • Ngoc Nguyen ’10: Vietnam’s Agricultural Exports Growth and Its Impact on Farmers’ Welfare in the Mekong Delta, Ngan Dinh, advisor, economics; Stangle Grant for Research in Economics and Law.
  • Thao Nguyen ’11: Chiral NMR Shift Reagents, Thomas Wenzel, advisor, chemistry; Faculty Research Grant.
  • Jamie Nickerson ’09: Mechanistic Bioinorganic Chemistry, Rachel Austin, advisor, chemistry; Hughes Student-Faculty Research Grant.
  • Stephen Nunes ’11: Measuring and Incorporating Stakeholder Values into River Restoration Decisions, Lynne Lewis, advisor, economics; Faculty Research Grant and Hoffman Research Support.
  • Lauren Okano ’11: Activation of Eucaryotic Gene Expression by Bacteria, Pamela Baker, advisor, biology; Faculty Research Grant.
  • Erica Ong ’11: Islamic Studies/Hinduism Studies Research and Research Data Processing, Susan Schomburg, advisor, religion; Faculty Research Grant and Hoffman Research Support.
  • Dana Oster ’09: The Past, Present, and Future of Seawall Beach, Phippsburg, ME, Michael Retelle, advisor, geology; Hughes Fellowship.
  • Corey Pattison ’09: The Dark Side of Globalization: The Qinghai-Lhasa Railroad and the Preservation of Tibetan Tradition; Phillips Fellowships for Cross-Cultural Exploration.
  • Sebastian Pedraza ’11: Activation of Eucaryotic Gene Expression by Bacteria, Pamela Baker, advisor, biology; Hughes Student-Faculty Research Grant.
  • Marilla Pender-Cudlip ’10: Investigation of Metalloenzyme Mechanisms, Rachel Austin, advisor, chemistry; Faculty Research Grant.
  • Nelish Pradhan ’10: Occurrence of Black-Legged Tick (Ixodes scapularis) and Tick Burdens of Small Mammals in Southwestern Maine, Ronald Barry, advisor, biology; Hughes Student-Faculty Research Grant.
  • Ngoc Pham ’10: Chiral NMR Shift Reagents, Thomas Wenzel, advisor, chemistry; Faculty Research Grant.
  • Eric Pier ’09: Department of Energy Wood Project, Rachel Austin, advisor, chemistry; Faculty Research Grant.
  • W. Gregory Prins ’09: Late Victorian Copyright Law: A Cross-Atlantic Adventure with Gilbert and Sullivan, Margaret Creighton, advisor, history; Ruggles Scholarship for Pre-Thesis Research.
  • Elizabeth Rogers ’09: Occurrence of Black-Legged Tick (Ixodes scapularis) and Tick Burdens of Small Mammals in Southwestern Maine, Ronald Barry, advisor, biology; Hughes Student-Faculty Research Grant.
  • Ryan Rollo ’09: Chiral NMR Shift Reagents, Thomas Wenzel, advisor, chemistry; Faculty Research Grant.
  • Kimberly Russell ’09: Mechanistic Bioinorganic Chemistry, Rachel Austin, advisor, chemistry; Hughes Student-Faculty Research Grant.
  • Ellen Sabina ’09: The Faroe Islands: The Relationship of People to the Sea; Otis Fellowship for the Exploration of Individuals, Societies, and the Environment.
  • Abigail Saucier ’11: Mechanistic Bioinorganic Chemistry, Rachel Austin, advisor, chemistry; Hughes Student-Faculty Research Grant.
  • Anna Skarstad ’11Farming in the Western Fjords of Norway: An Endangered Life?; Otis Fellowship for the Exploration of Individuals, Societies, and the Environment.
  • Lixin Tang ’10: The Changing Patterns of Chinese Urban Womens’ Work Lives, 1982-2000, Margaret Maurer-Fazio, advisor, economics; Summer Research Apprenticeship.
  • Emily Treat ’10: Teaching English in Malawi; Phillips Fellowships for Cross-Cultural Exploration.
  • Cameron Urban ’11: Preparing a Patent for an Early Stage Startup Company, Gene Clough, advisor, physics; Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Rebecca Wason ’09The Rise and Fall of Gosport: Social Transitions on the Isles of Shoals, NH, Margaret Creighton, advisor, history; Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Simon Willbanks ’09: Dyfold Shortneing of Lake Acadian Strain, Mt. Adams, NH, J. Dykstra Eusden, advisor, geology; Faculty Research Grant.
  • Julia Wilson ’10: An Experimental System for the Kinetic Analysis of Picornaviral 3C Protease Processing Activity Using Natural Substrates, T. Glen Lawson, advisor, chemistry; Summer Research Apprenticeship.
  • Irene Wood ’09: Social Predictors and Personal Motivations of Physicians Providing Care to Medically Indigent Patients, Heidi Chirayath, advisor, sociology; Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Kristen Young ’09: Time-dependent changes in Respiratory Control after Perinatel Hyperoxia, Ryan Bavis, advisor, biology; Faculty Research Grant.
  • Miljan Zecevic ’10: Economics Migrants in Dubai: Potential Citizens or Permanent Guest Workers? Eric Hooglund, advisor, politics; Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Alexia Zhang ’10: Growth and Long-term Abundance Patterns of the BloodwormGlycera dibranchiate, William Ambrose, advisor, biology; Hughes Student-Faculty Research Grant.

2007

The following students received grants or fellowships to conduct research this year.

  • Ilana Ader-Bell ’09 and Anne Sheldon ’09: Empowering Girls through English Education in Senegal; Phillips Student Fellowship.
  • Megan Arnold ’09: High Arctic Climate Change: Analysis of Lake Sediment Stratigraphy, Michael Retelle, geology, advisor; Bates Student Research Fund and Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Dylan Atchley ’08 and Jennifer Foster ’09: Interaction between Respiratory Gas Concentrations and Development in Birds, Ryan Bavis, biology, advisor; Hughes Student-Faculty Research Grant.
  • Nyan Lynn Aung ’09: Micro-Fluidic Two-Phase Flow in Fuel Cells, Jay Benziger, Princeton University, advisor; Hughes Fellowship.
  • Hanna Balshakova ’10: Balkan Ways to Independence, Dennis Browne, Russian, advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Nicholas Bauer ’08: Kinetic Binding Profile of Ribosomal Protein S1 to repoS and DsrA RNA, Paula Schlax, chemistry, advisor; Faculty Research Grant.
  • Anthony Begon ’08 and Rose Van Horn ’08: Addressing the Cycle of Poverty through Education in Cambodia; Phillips Student Fellowship.
  • Daphne Braden ’09 and John Reuter D’07: Streamwater Chemistry in Relation to Watershed Characteristics at Acadia National Park, Holly Ewing, environmental studies, advisor; Hughes Student-Faculty Research Grant.
  • Aleksandra Brakalova ’07: Putative Disruptive Effect of MK-801 on Morphine Memory Consolidation in a CPP Paradigm, John Kelsey, psychology, advisor; Bates Student Research Fund.
  • Jonathan Brennan ’08 and William Locke ’08: Ecological Consequences of Baitworm(Clycera dibranchiata) Harvesting on Intertidal Flats in Maine: Effects on Growth and Survival of Clams (Mya arenaria), Carbon Remineralization, and Sediment Parameters, William Ambrose, biology, advisor; Hughes Student-Faculty Research Grant.
  • Thomas Broge ’08: Interaction between Respiratory Gas Concentrations and Development in Birds, Ryan Bavis, biology, advisor; Faculty Research Grant.
  • Besir Ceka ’08: The End of the World: From Apocalypse and Nuclear Armageddon to Posthumanity and Ecocide, Denis Sweet, German, advisor; Bates Student Research Fund and Student Research Apprenticeship
  • Alexandra Conroy ’08: Internship at Maine District Court, Sawyer Sylvester, sociology, advisor; Richey Community Engagement Fellowship
  • Kara Constantine ’08 and Benjamin Smeltzer ’10: Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy, Matthew Côté, chemistry, advisor; Hughes Student-Faculty Research Grant.
  • Avalon Dibner ’08: Protein Interactions Involving Ribosomal Protein S1, Paula Schlax, chemistry, advisor; Faculty Research Grant.
  • Kim Anh Dinh ’10: The Impact of Globalization on a Traditional Craft Village, James Hughes, economics, advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Sulochana Dissanayake ’09: Williamstown Theater Festival Apprenticeship Program, Paul Kuritz, theater, advisor:  Hoffman Fellowship and Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Jessa Doleac ’07: Long Term Changes in Infaunal Structure at a Protected Intertidal Mudflat, Wiscasset, ME, William Ambrose, biology, advisor; Bates Student Research Fund.
  • Casey Doyle ’07: Spatial Perception, Casey O’Callaghan, philosophy, advisor; Student Research Apprenticeship.
  • Kyle Dunmire ’08: Interactions between Respiratory Gas Concentrations and Development in Birds, Ryan Bavis, biology, advisor; Faculty Research Grant.
  • Lisa Fischer ’09: Analysis of First-Time Homebuyer Survey Data and Downtown Lewiston Neighborhood Study, Emily Kane, sociology, advisor; Richey Community Engagement Fellowship.
  • Kaitlin Galloway ’10: El Caminode Santiago:  A Pilgrimage of Land and Spirit; Otis Student Fellowship.
  • Ryan Griffin ’07: Priming’s Effect on ADHD Patients’ Scores on Conners’ Continuous Performance Scale (CPT), Nancy Koven, psychology, advisor; Bates Student Research Fund.
  • Alessandra Guimaraes ’08: Function and Stylistic Changes of Châteaux over Time; Rebecca Corrie, art and visual culture, advisor; Ruggles Scholar Grant.
  • Alessandra Guimaraes ’08: Insecticide Resistance in Mosquito Vectors, Chelsea Smartt, University of Florida, advisor; Hughes Student Fellowship.
  • Kaitlin Hagan ’08 and Katelyn Provencher ’08: Carboxymethylated Cyclodextrins and their Lanthanide Complexes as Chiral NMR Solvating Agents, Thomas Wenzel, chemistry, advisor; Hughes Student-Faculty Research Grant.
  • Kate Harmsworth-Morrissey ’08: Gitagata Oral History and Reconciliation Project, Alexandre Dauge-Roth, French, advisor; Hoffman Research Support.
  • Bridget Harr ’07: Intersectionality and Beliefs about Gender and Sexuality, Emily Kane, sociology, advisor; Student Research Apprenticeship.
  • Gregory Henkes ’08: Tapping the Trees of the Sea:  Tracing Environmental Variation of the Past 130 Years in the Barents Sea Using Biological Evidence from the Circumpolar Greenland Cockle, Serripes groenlandicus, William Ambrose and Beverly Johnson, biology, advisors; Hoffman Fellowship and Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Erik Hood ’08: Meta-Analysis in the Field of Eyewitness Identification Research, Amy Douglass, psychology, advisor; Student Research Apprenticeship.
  • Marissa Johnson ’08: Musical Performance: Field Research in Spain, James Parakilas, music, advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Lawrence Graham Jones ’09: The Experience of Darshan by Hindu and Buddhist Pilgrims, John Strong, religion, advisor; Tanaka Memorial Foundation Grant.
  • Kristofer Jönsson ’08: The Way Life Should Be? – Negotiating Maine as “Vacationland,” Heather Lindkvist, anthropology, advisor; Hamill Family Fund and Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Sartaj Khan Mojlish ’10: Structural Adjustment Policies:  Privatization of Jute Mills in Bangladesh, Áslaug Ásgeirsdottir, politics, advisor; Stangle Grant for Research for Economics and Law.
  • Martha Klemm ’08: Video Intervention/Prevention Assessment, Jennifer Patashnick, Children’s Hospital, Boston, advisor; Hughes Fellowship.
  • Abhiskek Kumar ’09: Investigating Delhi’s Displaced:  On the Trail of the Exodus, James Hughes, economics, advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Elizabeth Lakin ’08 and Madeline Weber ’08: Synthesis of Spiroketal Enol Ether Analogs, Jennifer Koviach, chemistry, advisor; Hughes Student-Faculty Research Grant.
  • Marta Latinakova ’08: Unleashing My Musical Spirit to Discover the Unknown, Gina Fatone, music, advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Allison Leong ’08: Water Fluoridation as a Medical Technology, Rebecca Herzig, women and gender studies, advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Shawna-Kaye Lester ’08: Movement of Jah People: Dance in Uganda; Phillips Student Fellowship.
  • Alexander Martin ’08 and Benjamin Reilly ’08: In the Footsteps of Natives and Northmen:  The Northern Forest by Canoe; Otis Student Fellowship.
  • Razin Mustafiz ’09: Internship at the Grameen Bank:  Investigating the Gender-Specific Effects of Microcredit on Intra-Household Bargaining, Francisco Duina, sociology, advisor; Stangle Grant for Research for Economics and Law.
  • Nels Nelson ’07: Digital Imaging for Publication, Trian Nguyen, art and visual culture; Hoffman Research Support.
  • Alvin Nguyen ’09: Empowering Orphans:  Teaching in Cusco, Peru, Helen Regan, education, advisor; Hoffman Fellowship.
  • Alicia Oas ’09: Costume Design and Construction for Shakespeare South Africa, B. Christine McDowell, theater, advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant and Student Research Apprenticeship.
  • Svitlana Orekhova ’09: Fluid Identity:  Generation, Citizenship, and Self in South Tyrol, Craig Decker, German, advisor; Hoffman Fellowship.
  • Arta Osmanaj ’09: Unemployment Issues in Kosovo, James Richter, politics, advisor; Stangle Grant for Research for Economics and Law.
  • Tucker Pawlick ’09: Toward a Culture of Sustainability; Otis Student Fellowship.
  • Marilla Pender-Cudlip ’10: Investigation of Reaction Mechanisms of Metalloenzymes Important in the Global Cycling of Alkanes, Rachel Austin, chemistry, advisor; Faculty Research Grant.
  • William Prins Jr. ’09: Gilbert and Sullivan Research Project, Dennis Grafflin, history, advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Suresh Rana ’08: Exploring Bangladeshi Communities to Understand Cross-Cultural Perspectives and Religious Interpretations of Cancer and Cancer Treatment; Phillips Student Fellowship.
  • Benjamin Reed ’08: Mathematical Models of Prions, Meredith Greer, mathematics, advisor; Rawlings Grant for Math.
  • Zachary Risler ’08: A Global Perspective of HIV/AIDs: Cultural Immersion and Volunteering in South Africa; Phillips Student Fellowship.
  • Meagan Ryan ’07: Full-Length Sequence of the Glutamate Receptor Hel-GluR1 fromHelisoma trivolvis, Nancy Kleckner, biology, advisor; Hughes Student Research.
  • Rose Schwab ’09: The Spiritual Power of Sustenance-Based Land Use; Otis Student Fellowship.
  • Michelle Sisco ’08: People and Performance on the Streets of Chennai National Folklore Support Center, Heather Lindkvist, anthropology, advisor; Hamill Family Fund and Hoffman Research Support.
  • Gregory Sousa ’08: Mechanisms of Biological Timing in the Green Crab Carcinus maenas, Andrew Christie, advisor, Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory; INBRE Student Fellowship.
  • Jonathan Stange ’08: Explanatory Style and Recent Graduates’ Perception of Future Option, Michael Sargent, psychology, advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant and Ruggles Scholar Grant.
  • Jennifer Stasio ’07: Perceptions of Involuntary Psychiatric Treatment from the Perspectives of Mental Health Care Professionals, Amy B. Douglass, psychology, advisor; Bates Student Research Fund.
  • Paul Suitter ’09: The Institutional Development of Congress, John Baughman, politics, advisor; Summer Research Apprenticeship.
  • Maren Vouga ’09: Bauernhőfe und Gesundheit:  A Study of Animal-Assisted Therapy and Horticultural Therapy in the Farm Setting; Phillips Student Fellowship.
  • Kristen Young ’09: The Physiological Responses of Decapod Crustaceans to Thermal Change: The Comparative Physiology of Acid-Based Balance in Lobsters and Crabs, Mary Kate Worden, advisor, Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory; INBRE Student Fellowship.
  • Miljan Zečević ’10: 2007 Munich Summer Fellows Program, Craig Decker, German, advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant.

2006

The following students received grants or fellowships to conduct research this year.

  • Christopher Abbott ’07: The Institutional Development of Congress, John Baughman, political science, advisor; Summer Research Apprenticeship.
  • Oleg Alekseev ’07: The Effect of NASP Deprivation on the Gene Expression Profile of the Cell, Paula Schlax, chemistry, advisor; Hughes Student Fellowship.
  • Gabriela Anhalzer ’07 and Valerie LaRiviere ’07: The Incan Royal Highway:  A Path from the Past to the Future; Otis Fellowship.
  • David Asanuma ’09: Interactive BLAST Tutorial:  Helping Undergraduates Understand the Complexities of Gene Sequencing in Introductory Biology and Biochemistry Courses, Nancy Kleckner, biology, and Andrew White, Information and Library Services, advisors; Collaborative Technology Development Grant.
  • Ainur Begim ’07: Religion and Cultural Identity Formation in Kyrgyzstan, Mishael Caspi, religion, advisor; Hoffman Fellowship.
  • Emily Biliouris ’07: Internship at Harvard Health and Psychophysiology Laboratory,  Cambridge, MA, John Kelsey, psychology, advisor; Bates College; Carrigan Denny Brown, Health and Psycholophysiology Lab, Harvard University, advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Jacob Bluestone ’07: A Land of Opportunity:  The Middle, North to South, Otis Fellowship.
  • Aleksandra Brakalova ’07: Glutamatergic Transmission and Schizophrenia, John Kelsey, psychology, advisor; Hughes Student-Faculty Research Grant.
  • Sophia Brown ’07: University of Munich Summer JYA Exploration Program, Craig Decker, German, advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Alexander Bushe ’07: Digitization, Cataloguing, and Storage of a Cross-section of Original Ethnomusicological Fieldwork Videotapes, Gina Fatone, music, and Andrew White, Information and Library Services, advisors; Collaborative Technology Development Grant.
  • Jared Cassin ’08: The Biogeography of Homarus americanus: Physiological and Biochemical Factors that Determine Thermal Tolerance, Research Internship at Mt. David Island Biological Laboratory, Mary Kate Worden, MDIBL mentor; INBRE Grant.
  • Besir Ceka ’08: Internship with United States Agency for International Development in Macedonia, Nate Bowditch, Municipal Management Advisor, United States Agency for International Development, advisor; Stangle Grant for Research for Economics and Law.
  • Ryan Creighton ’07: Internship with Senator Patrick Leahy’s Judiciary Committee Office, Jennifer Kononan, executive assistant to Patrick Leahy, advisor; Hoffman Research Support.
  • Leanne A. Cunningham ’08: Racial Conflict, State Intervention, and National Identity Related to Afro-Brazilians; Phillips Student Fellowship.
  • Akiko Doi ’07: Enzymology of Protein Degradation, T. Glen Lawson, chemistry, advisor; Bates Student Research Fund.
  • Nathan Dorpalen ’06: A Narrative Analysis of Organic and Local Agriculture in Maine, Peter Rogers, environmental studies, advisor; Ruggles Scholar Grant.
  • Natasha D’Souza ’08: Two Brushes, One Image:  Painting the Indian Diaspora; Phillips Student Fellowship.
  • Kyle Dunmire ’08: Mechanisms Underlying Hyperoxia-induced Developmental Plasticity, Ryan Bavis, biology, advisor; Faculty Grant.
  • Jessica Dumas ’06 and Michael Wilson ’07: A Community History Exhibition, David Scobey, Harward Center for Community Partnerships, advisor; Faculty Grant.
  • Nihal Eisa ’07: Effects of an Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor (AhR) Agonist on the Beat Rate of Embryonic Chicken Cardiomyocytes in Primary Culture, Rebecca Sommer, biology, advisor; Faculty Grant.
  • Lucas Feinberg ’07: Frequency, Intensity, and Ecological Consequences of Blood Worm (Glycera dibranchiate) Harvesting on Intertidal Flats in Maine, William Ambrose, biology, advisor; Hughes Student-Faculty Research Grant.
  • Josepha Gonzalez ’07: The Advent of Puerto Rican Women in Politics; Ada Lopez, President, National Conference of Puerto Rican Women, Chicago Chapter, advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Arda Gucler ’07: The Anzac Soldiers:  Faces of War; Phillips Student Fellowship.
  • Arda Gucler ’07: Community-Based Economics, William Corlett, political science, advisor; Summer Research Apprenticeship.
  • Nakeisha Gumbs ’07: Black, White, and Color:  Art in Aruba; Phillips Student Fellowship.
  • Rufat Hasanov ’09: Black Factory, William Pope.L, theater, advisor; Summer Research Apprenticeship.
  • Aislinn Houghman ’07: How the Civil War Changed Public Health in New York City, Margaret Creighton, history, advisor; Ruggles Scholar Grant.
  • Mireille Ikirezi ’07: Water, Gender, and Environment:  The Rwandan Case, Elizabeth Eames, anthropology, advisor; Stangle Grant for Research for Economics and Law and Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Maria Jenness ’07: The Interaction between Normal Faults and Eruptive Fissures on the Reykjanes Peninsula, Southwest Iceland, John Creasy, geology, advisor; Hughes Student Fellowship.
  • Christina Jones ’07: Internship at Local Child Advocacy Agencies, Emily Kane, education, advisor; Richey Community Engagement Fellowship.
  • Lauren Kawana ’06: Mapping Routes and Digging for Roots:  South Asian American Women Writers, Lavina Shankar, English, advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Rachel Kellar ’06: Internship at Local Child Advocacy Agencies, Emily Kane, education, advisor; Richey Community Engagement Fellowship.
  • David Kelly ’08: Defining Freewill in Kant, Nietzsche, and Sartre, David Cumminskey, philosophy, advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Marta Latinakova ’08: A Series of Interactive, Media Rich Grammatical and Cultural Exercises Based on a Corpus of Russian Commercial Ads, Dennis Browne, Russian; and  Andrew White, Information and Library Services, advisors; Collaborative Technology Development Grant.
  • Valerie LaRiviere ’07 and Gabriela Anhalzer ’07: The Incan Royal Highway:  A Path from the Past to the Future; Otis Fellowship.
  • Allison Leong ’08: Asians in America:  the Development of Asian Towns in the United States, Atsuko Hirai, history, advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Ann Lovely ’07: Crown Ethers as Chiral NMR Shift Reagents, Thomas Wenzel, chemistry, advisor; Hughes Student-Faculty Research Grant.
  • Hannah Lund ’06: Interactions between Sleep, Stress, and Exogenous Hormones in College-aged Females, J. Roxanne Prichard, psychology, advisor; Hughes Student Travel Grant.
  • Neil Marya ’07: Localization of Excitatory Glutamate Receptors from the Pond Snail,Helisoma, Nancy Kleckner, biology, advisor; INBRE.
  • Peter L. Meisel ’07: Beta1-Adrenergic Receptor and Beta2-Adrenergic Receptor mRNA Levels in Primary Cultures of Embryonic Chick Cardiocytes, Rebecca Sommer, biology, Faculty Grant.
  • Jane Mellors ’07: Acculturative Strategies and the Outcomes of Self-esteem and Well-being of Hispanic Immigrants to Boston, Krista Scottham, psychology, advisor; Bates Student Research Fund.
  • Brooke Miller ’07: Mechanisms Underlying Hyperoxia-induced Developmental Plasticity, Ryan Bavis, biology, advisor; Faculty Grant.
  • Gabriela Muñoz ’07: Marine Mammal Behavior and Cognition Internship, Todd Kahan, psychology, advisor; Hughes Student Fellowship.
  • Razin Mustafiz ’09: From Bangladesh to Lewiston: The Role of Microfinance in Poverty Alleviation, Olya Gayazova, political science, advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Courtney O’Farrell ’07: Crown Ethers as Chiral NMR Shift Reagents, Thomas Wenzel, chemistry, advisor; Faculty Grant.
  • Khoa Pham ’07: Revisiting the Ho Chi Minh Trail; Otis Fellowship.
  • Lauren Philbrook ’07: Alteration of Coronary Artery Number and Size in Mice Exposed to Prenatal Arsenic, Rebecca Sommer, biology, advisor; Faculty Grant.
  • Lauren Pluchino ’08: Exploring the Realm of Goodall:  Social Change through Grassroots Engagement; Phillips Student Fellowship.
  • Lauren Pluchino ’08: Internship with Judge John Beliveau of the Maine District Court, Lewiston, Sawyer Sylvester, sociology, advisor; Richey Community Engagement Fellowship.
  • Rachael Pool ’07: Effects of Family Planning in Tamil Nadu, David Cummiskey, philosophy, advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Katelyn Provencher ’08: Crown Ethers as Chiral NMR Shift Reagents, Thomas Wenzel, chemistry, advisor; Faculty Grant.
  • Eliza Reed ’08: Weaving the Millworkers’ World:  Historical Research and Museum Exhibition Design, David Scobey, Harward Center for Community Partnerships, advisor; Summer Research Apprenticeship.
  • Leah Roberts ’08: Healthy Lifestyle Barriers and Supports in Underserved Populations, Kathryn Low, psychology, advisor; Hughes Student Fellowship.
  • Winthrop Rodgers ’09: Digital Image Project, Trian Nguyen, Art and Visual Culture, advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Elizabeth Scannell ’07: Characterization and Localization of Excitatory Glutamate Receptors from the Pond Snails, Helisoma trivolvis and Biomphalaria glabrata, Nancy Kleckner, biology, advisor; INBRE Grant.
  • Ashley Neil Serrao ’08 and Natasha D’Souza ’08: Two Brushes, One Image:  Painting the Indian Diaspora; Phillips Student Fellowship.
  • Joseph Shulan ’07: Functional Cardiac Assessment of Mice Exposed to Prenatal Arsenic, Rebecca Sommer, biology, advisor; Faculty Grant.
  • Michael Simel ’08: Applied Math Research at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, David Haines, mathematics, advisor; Rawling Grant for Mathematics.
  • Gregory Sousa ’08: Internship at the Mt. David Island MDI Biological Laboratory, Andrew Christie and Petra Lenz, MDIBL mentors; INBRE Grant.
  • Ann Speers ’07: Frequency, Intensity, and Ecological Consequence of Bloodworm(Glycera dibranchiate) Harvesting on Intertidal Flats in Maine, William Ambrose, biology, advisor; Hughes Student-Faculty Research Grant.
  • Lois St. Brice ’07: The Evolution of Environmental Management in South Africa; Phillips Student Fellowship.
  • Nathaniel Stambaugh ’06: Imaging Center Assistant, Matthew Côté, chemistry, advisor; Faculty Grant.
  • Christopher Theile ’07: Synthesis of Spiroketal Enol Ether Analogs, Jennifer Koviach, chemistry, advisor; Hughes Student-Faculty Research Grant.
  • Benjamin Umiker ’07: Study of Tryponasoma brucei Surface Proteins, Joseph Pelliccia, biology, advisor; Hughes Student Fellowship.
  • Sidney Walker ’07: Identity and the Hawaiian Sovereignty Movement, James Richter, political science, advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Leyi Wang ’07: Nanostructure Fabrication and Characterization, Matthew Côté, chemistry, advisor; Hughes Student-Faculty Research Grant.
  • Yuwen Wang ’07: Internship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Michael Wisnewski, Assistant Director of Career Services, advisor; Ladd Internships and Scher Fellowship.
  • Joseph Warren ’07: Estimate of Growth and Density of Glycera dibranchiate on Intertidal Mudflats in Maine, William Ambrose, biology, advisor; Hughes Student Fellowship.
  • Carine Warsawski ’07: Changes in Collective Memory at a Zionist Function, Loring Danforth, anthropology, advisor; Hoffman Fellowship.
  • Madeline Weber ’08: Crown Ethers as Chiral NMR Shift Reagents, Thomas Wenzel, chemistry, advisor; Faculty Grant.
  • Anne Whiting ’06: The Effects of Sleep, Stress, and Exogenous Hormones on the Cortisol Awakening Response in College-aged Females, J. Roxanne Prichard, psychology, advisor; Hughes Student Travel Grant.
  • Elizabeth Wilcox ’09: Interactive Media Objects That Explain Basic Linear Algebra Concepts, Pallavi Jayawant, mathematics and Andrew White, Information and Library Services, advisors; Collaborative Technology Development Grant.
  • Jordan Williams ’07: Sampling Marginalization, Sue Houchins, African American studies, advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Michael Wilson ’07 and Jessica Dumas ’06: A Community History Exhibition, David Scobey, Harward Center for Community Partnerships, advisor; Faculty Grant.
  • Andrew Wyman ’09: University of Munich Summer JYA Exploration Program, Craig Decker, German, advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant.

2005

The following students received grants or fellowships to conduct research this year.

  • Oscar Alcántar ’06:  México “At Risk”:  The Challenges of Meeting Nutritional Needs when Pregnant, Debra Martin, Hampshire College, advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Anthony Arger ’06:  The Spanish Transition from Dictatorship to Democracy:  An Insiders Perspective, Francisca López, Spanish, advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant, Bates Student Research Fund Grant.
  • John Atchley ’06:  Samuel Beckett:  Constructing a Theoretical Framework, Sanford Freedman, English, advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Ainur Begim ’07:  The Study of the Panathenaic Festival in Athens, Greece; Phillips Student Fellowship.
  • Erin Beirne ’06:  Investigation of Organic Carbon Cycling and Sequestration over the Last 5,000 Years at Sprague Marsh, Phippsburg, Maine, Beverly Johnson, geology, advisor; Hughes Student-Faculty Grant.
  • Lindsy Blazej ’06:  Searching for Sustainability:  An Exploration of European Ecovillages; Otis Student Fellowship.
  • Sherika Blevins ’06:  Neuroanatomical Visualization Web Development, J. Roxanne Prichard, psychology, advisor: Collaborative Technology Development Project Grant.
  • Jacob Bluestone ’07:  The Honesty of Broken Language; Phillips Student Fellowship.
  • Monique Brown ’07:  Calix[4]Resorcarenes as Chiral NMR Shift Reagents, Thomas Wenzel and Catherine Dignam, chemistry, advisors; Dreyfus Fellow Award.
  • Monique Brown ’07:  Chirality Textbook Project, Thomas Wenzel, chemistry, advisor; Hughes Faculty Development Grant.
  • Jason Buxbaum ’08:  Beyond the Nation State:  Historical Institutionalism and Integration in Mercosur and Nafta, Francesco Duina, sociology, advisor; Summer Research Apprenticeship.
  • Carolina Caceres Salvoni ’06:  Interregionalism Phenomenon:  The Effect of Bilateral/Biregional Agreements on the Democratization Process in Paraguay, Matthew Nelson, political science, advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • John Matthew Chudomel ’06:  Utilization of Chiral Calix[4]Resorcarenes as NMR Shift Reagents, Thomas Wenzel, chemistry, advisor; National Science Foundation Grant.
  • Melissa Coito ’07: Control and Modulation of Rhythmic Motor Patterns, Patsy Dickenson, biology, Bowdoin College, advisor, INBRE Grant.
  • Lillian Conover ’07:  Calix[4]Resorcarenes as Chiral NMR Shift Reagents, Thomas Wenzel and Catherine Dignam, chemistry, advisors; Hughes Student-Faculty Grant.
  • Allison Coville ’06:  Diagnosis and Treatment of Bipolar in Adolescents, Kathryn G. Low, psychology, advisor; Ruggles Scholar.
  • Sorina Crişan ’07:  Trees:  Links to History, Charles Nero, rhetoric, advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Shelly Davgun ’06:  Molecular Characterization of Glutamate Receptors in Pond Snails, Nancy Kleckner, biology, advisor; INBRE Grant.
  • Akiko Doi ’07:  Express, Purify, and Evaluate the RNA Binding Behavior of the EMCV 3CD Diprotein Precursor, T. Glen Lawson, chemistry, advisor; National Science Foundation Grant.
  • Emmanuel Drabo ’08:  Science Curriculum Web Page Project, David LeGloahec, Lewiston Middle School, advisor; Hughes Science Education Fellowship.
  • Neha Duggar ’06:  Financial Physics, Eric Wollman, physics, advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Jessica Edgerly ’06:  The Trophic Role of the Invasive Green Crab Carcinus maenas in the Wells Estuary, William Ambrose, biology, advisor; Hughes Summer Fellowship.
  • Erin Faulder ’08:  Bates Oral History Web Site, Kat Stefko, Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library, advisor; Collaborative Technology Development Project Grant.
  • Cynthia Freeman ’06:  Cultural Politics, Native American Philosophy, Africana Thought and Practice, John McClendon, African American Studies and American Cultural Studies, advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Katherine Gatti ’06:  Evaluation of Child Protective Proceedings at the Lewiston District Court, Sawyer Sylvester, sociology, advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Adam Gemus ’06:  The History of the Maeda Clan’s Patronage of the Arts, Atsuko Hirai, history, advisor; Hoffman Summer Fellowship.
  • Kristin Gerhold ’05:  The Actions of Glutamate in Helisoma trivolvis, Nancy Kleckner, biology, advisor; INBRE Grant.
  • Kay Gonsalves ’07:  Synthesizing a Naturally Occurring Spiroketal Enol Ether, Jennifer Koviach, chemistry, advisor; Hughes Student-Faculty Grant.
  • Justin Graves ’06:  Effects of an Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor (AhR) Agonist on the Beat Rate of Embryonic Chick Cardiomyocyte Primary Culture, Rebecca Sommer, biology, advisor; INBRE Grant.
  • Morey Hallet ’06:  Analysis of Stable Isotopic to Determine Changes in Salt Marsh Structure, Beverly Johnson, geology, advisor; Faculty Grant.
  • Megan Hamilton ’06:  The Works of Alice Munro, Robert Farnsworth, English, advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Keith Hengen ’06:  Cell-phone Induced Perceptual Impairments during Simulated Driving, Todd Kahan, psychology, advisor; Ruggles Scholars Program.
  • Htay Hlaing ’06:  Multi-mode Vertical-cavity Surface-emitting Lasers with Optical Feedback, Hong Lin, physics, advisor; Hughes Student-Faculty Grant.
  • Yang Jerng Hwa ’05:  Technical and Design Support for Web Development, Greg Struve, informational services and technology, advisor; Collaborative Technology Development Project Grant.
  • Yi-Xing Hwa ’06:  Art Portfolio Web Development, Pamela Johnson, art, advisor; Collaborative Technology Development Project Grant.
  • Daniel Johnson ’06:  Beta-adrenergic Gene Expression in AhRNull and Wildtype Mice, Rebecca Sommer, biology, advisor; INBRE Grant.
  • Marshall Karpel ’08:  Cloning of the Chicken Beta1-adrenergic Receptor Gene, Rebecca Sommer, biology, advisor; INBRE Grant.
  • Angela Knox ’05:  The Actions of Glutamate in Helisoma trivolvis, Nancy Kleckner, biology, advisor; INBRE Grant.
  • Shawna-Kaye Lester ’08:  Utilization of Carboxymethylated Cyclodextrins as Chiral NMR Shift Reagents, Thomas Wenzel, chemistry, advisor; Dreyfus Fellow Award.
  • Matthew Lipstein’06:  Experience-dependent Development of Behavioral and Molecular Responses to Light in Rat, J. Roxanne Prichard, neuroscience, advisor; Hughes Student-Faculty Grant.
  • Ann Lovely ’07:  Utilization of Chiral Calyx[4]Resorcarenes as NMR Shift Reagents, Thomas Wenzel, chemistry, advisor; National Science Foundation Grant.
  • James Maldonis ’06:  RUI:  Translated Regulation of RpoS mRNA, Paula Schlax, chemistry, advisor; National Science Foundation Grant.
  • Sarah Mazur ’06:  Shetland Islands Climate and Settlement Project, Michael Retelle, geology, advisor; Hoffman Summer Fellowship.
  • Sarah Mengel ’06:  Inter-religious Dialogue as an Approach to Social Change:  An Exploration of Mixed Greek Orthodox and Muslim Communities, Robert Allison, religion, advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant, Bates Student Research Fund Grant.
  • Noah Miller ’06:  Mineralogical Study of the Sebago Granite, John Creasy, geology, advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Helen Minsky ’06:  Self-ordering Templates for Fabricating Metal Oxide Nanostructure Arrays, Matthew J. Côté, chemistry, advisor; Hughes Student-Faculty Grant.
  • Nicole Moraco ’06:  Functional and Morphological Assessment of the Heart in Mice Exposed to Arsenic Early in Development, Rebecca Sommer, biology, advisor; INBRE Grant.
  • J. Brooks Motley ’06:  Quantifying Late Holocene Climate Change in the Arctic, Michael Retelle, geology, advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant, Hughes Summer Fellowship.
  • John Mulligan ’06: 2005 Public Summer Theater, Denis Sweet, German, advisor, Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Tanya Nauvel ’06:  Mathematical Modeling in Neuroscience:  Studying Music Perception and Production, Scott Makeig, Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience, advisor; Hughes Summer Fellowship.
  • Chi Nguyen ’05:  Math Education for Underprivileged Children in Huancayo, Peru, David Haines, mathematics and Aldo Tineo, PeruForYou, advisors; Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Trang Nguyen ’07:  Forest Land Allocation and Poverty Alleviation, Hoang Van Thang, Vietnam National University, advisor; Stangle Grant for Research in Economics or Law.
  • Tyler Paul ’06:  Exploring Identity and Economic Development in Central Asia; Phillips Student Fellowship.
  • John Phelan ’06:  Civil Society’s Role in the Intersection of Race, Education, and Human Rights in the Czech Republic, James Richter, political science, advisor; Stangle Grant for Research in Economics or Law.
  • Daniel Pitts ’06:  Synthesis of 2-deoxyglycosides to a Novel Disaccharide, Jennifer Koviach, chemistry, advisor; Research Corporation.
  • Suresh Rana ’07:  Does Radiotherapy Make the Patient Radioactive?  Mark Semon, physics advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Zackery Ray ’07:  Environmental Economics Web, Lynne Lewis, economics, advisor; Collaborative Technology Development Project Grant.
  • Catherine Reedy ’06:  Experience-dependent Development of Behavioral and Molecular Responses to Light in Rat, J. Roxanne Prichard, neuroscience, advisor; Hughes Student-Faculty Grant.
  • Kate Russell ’06:  Activity-dependent Plasticity and Perinatal Development of Respiratory Control, Ryan Bavis, biology, advisor; Hughes Student-Faculty Grant.
  • Ryo Sakai ’06:  Comparative Functional Analysis of Enterobacteria RpoS mRNA Sequences, Paula Schlax, chemistry, advisor; INBRE Grant.
  • Elizabeth Scannell ’07:  Molecular Characterization of Glutamate Receptors in Pond Snails, Nancy Kleckner, biology, advisor; INBRE Grant.
  • Amanda Seadler ’05:  Interactive Latin Quiz Web Development, Margaret Imber, classical and medieval studies, advisor; Collaborative Technology Development Project Grant.
  • Rachel Silver ’05:  The Role of Schooling Plays as a Mediating Space of U.S. National Identity Week, Patricia Buck, education, advisor; Summer Research Apprenticeship.
  • Julia Simons ’06:  Activity-dependent Plasticity and Perinatal Development of Respiratory Control, Ryan Bavis, biology, advisor; Hughes Student-Faculty Grant.
  • Gregory Sousa ’06:  Self-ordering Templates for Fabricating Metal Oxide Nanostructure Arrays, Matthew J. Côté, chemistry, advisor; Hughes Student-Faculty Grant.
  • Andrew Currier Stokes ’06:  Moonshine in Rural Guatemala:  The Perfect Household Cooking Fuel for the Rural Poor?  Elibabeth Eames, anthropology, advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Andrew Stowe ’06:  Correlating Sharp-tailed Sparrow Display Repertoires with Vocalization Types at Atkins Bay and Morse River Marsh, Phippsburg, Maine, Ryan Bavis, biology, advisor; Bates Summer Research Fellowship.
  • Stoyan Stoyanov ’06:  Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction in Bulgaria, Melinda Harder, mathematics, advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant, Christian A. Johnson Summer Research Grant for Students Movements for Change.
  • Vanni Thach ’06:  Cambodia’s Genocide:  Finding Myself in the Killing Fields; Phillips Student Fellowship.
  • David Thomazy ’07:  Multi-mode Vertical-cavity Surface-emitting Lasers with Optical Feedback, Hong Lin, physics, advisor; Hughes Student-Faculty Grant.
  • Chelsea Tryder ’06:  Accessing the Arts:  Hogar Nuestra Señora de la Paz; Phillips Student Fellowship.
  • J. Gabriel Tungol ’06:  Adolescence:  A Sensitive Period for the Effects of Stress on Brain Development, Cheryl McCormick, neuroscience, advisor; Hughes Summer Fellowship.
  • Katharina Unger ’06:  Kinetically Evaluate the Relative Importance of a Mapped Protein DestructionSignal and the N-teminal Amino Acid in the Recognition of the HAV 3C Protease by the Ubiquitin-protein Ligase E3alpha, T. Glen Lawson, chemistry, advisor; National Science Foundation Grant.
  • Alison Vander Zanden ’06:  Genetic Studies of Human Hair Growth:  A Review of the Literature, Rebecca Herzig, women and gender studies, advisor; Summer Research Apprenticeship.
  • Leyi Wang ’07:  RUI:  Translational Regulation of RpoS mRNA, Paula Schlax, chemistry, advisor; National Science Foundation Grant.
  • Ashley Wentworth ’06:  Comparative Analysis of D.O. and M.D. Humanitarian Behavior and Attitudes toward Medically Indigent Patients, Heidi Chirayath, sociology, advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant, Bates Student Research Fund Grant
  • Ashley Wentworth ’06:  Morphological Assessment of the Heart in Mice Exposed to Arsenic Early in Development, Rebecca Sommer, biology, advisor; INBRE Grant.
  • Kimberly Whipkey ’06:  Gender-based Affirmative Action:  Predictors of Public Opinion in the United States, Emily Kane, sociology, advisor; Summer Research Apprenticeship.
  • Eric Williams ’06:  Martin Scorsese and Italian Cinema, Steven Dillon, English, advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Michael Williams ’06:  Museum Web Exhibits, Mark Bessire, Museum of Art director, advisor; Collaborative Technology Development Project Grant.
  • Challen Willemsen ’07:  Quechua Ethnobotany in the Peruvian Andes; Otis Student Fellowship.
  • Andrea Wolf ’06:  Aymara Culture:  Textiles and the Environment; Otis Student Fellowship.
  • Jin Zhang ’06:  Kinetically Evaulate How HAV 3C Protease N-terminal Amino Acid Identity Modulates E3alpha-catalyzed Ubiquitination Rates, T. Glen Lawson, chemistry, advisor; National Science Foundation Grant.

2004

  • Marselle Alexander-Ozinskas ’05: Mechanisms of Hydrocarbon Degradation by Marine Bacteria/Synthesis and Characterization of a New Class of Heterogeneous Catalysts with Demonstrated Effectiveness in Speeding up the Rate at which Pesticides Are Decomposed, Rachel Austin, chemistry, advisor; Hughes Student Faculty Grant.
  • Christina Alioto ’05: Internship at the Institute for Global Ethics, Graham Phaup, executive director of the Institute for Global Ethics, advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Julie V. Amaya-Roman ’05: Similarities and Differences between Landfill Leachate and Municipal Wastewater:  Steptic Systems and Monitoring Protocol, Peter Garrett, vice president, Emery and Garrett Groundwater, Inc., advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant, Bates Student Research Fund.
  • Christinia Austin ’05: Translational Regulation, Paula Schlax, chemistry, advisor; National Science Foundation.
  • Muznabanu Bachani ’05: The Use and Effects of Anticonvulsant Drugs in Cerebral Malaria, Gilbert Kokward, Wellcome Trust Research Laboratories, advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant, Bates Student Research Fund.
  • Kelly Baehre ’05: Molecular Biology of Sensory Reception and Predator Evasion in Crustacean Zooplankton, David Towle, Mt. David Island Biological Laboratory, advisor; BRIN Fellowship.
  • Erin Bednarek ’05: Type II Diabetes in Samoa, Loring Danforth, anthropology, advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Erin Bertrand ’05: Ratio of Thiols Exuded by Emiliania huxleyi in Chemostate Experiments Varying Nitrogen Conditions and Copper Stress, Beth Ahner, assistant professor of biological and environmental engineering, Cornell University, advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Leah Boyer ’05: Molecular Evolution of Eukaryotic:  A Protistan Emphasis, Mitchell Sogin, Bay Paul Center in Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution, advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Christina Chamberlain ’05: Rosie Reconsidered, Leslie Hill, political science, advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Jessica Ciak ’05: Cellulose Carbarnate Derivatives in Chiral Recognition in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies, Thomas Wenzel, chemistry, advisor; Bates Student Research Fund.
  • Erika Cyr ’05:  Phenotypic Characterization of ALMS1 Gene Trap Mice:  A Potential Disease Model for Obesity and Type II Diabetes, Patsy Nishina, Jackson Laboratory,  advisor; BRIN Fellowship.
  • Rodrigo Dias ’05: Acculturation Strategies and Psychological Adaptation in Japanese Brazilian Return Migrants, Georgia Nigro, psychology, advisor; Ruggles Scholarship Program.
  • Aurora Dibner ’05: Neutrophil Recruitment in IL-17RKO Mice, Sarah Gaffen, University of Buffalo School of Dental Medicine, advisor; Hughes Student Fellowship.
  • Aarjan Dixit ’06: Traversing the Ganges; Matthew Nelson, political science, advisor:Phillips Student Fellowship, Bates Student Research Fund.
  • Neha Duggar ’06: Producing a Self-contrained Module Developing the Theoretical Properties of Bessel Functions and Performing an Experiment that Displays Them in Actual Data, Mark Semon and John Smedley, physics, advisors; Hughes Curriculum Development Grant.
  • Patricia Dunbar ’05: The Role of Iron in the Virulence of the Pathogenic Bordeteilae,Terry  Connell, Center for Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology, the State University of New York, advisor; Hughes Summer Fellowship.
  • Samuel Falls ’06: Theravada Buddhist Pilgrimage to Wat Suan Mokkhabalarama,Thailand, Phillips Student Fellowship.
  • Cynthia Freeman, ’06: Black Seminoles:  Survival in Black and Red, Phillips Student Fellowship.
  • Daniel Frost ’05: Paleoclimate Reconstruction Using Physical Sedimentology and Stable Isotope Geochemistry on Laminated Sediments, Basin Pond, Fayette, Maine, Michael Retelle, geology, advisor; Bates Student Research Fund, Hoffman Research Fellowship.
  • Oliver Gjoneski ’05: Relative Difference Sets in Finite Groups, Kenneth Smith, mathematics, Central Michigan University, advisor; Hughes Student Fellowship, Bates Student Research Fund.
  • Colin Hollister ’06: The Appalachian Trail and a Sense of Self, Otis Fellowship.
  • Yang Jerng Hwa ’05: Curriculum Development of New Short Term Unit:  Wake Up!, Denis Sweet, German, advisor; Summer Research Apprenticeship.
  • John Karass ’05: Following the Footsteps of Epicurus in Greece, Phillips Student Fellowship.
  • Peter Keays ’06: The Appalachian Trail and a Sense of Self, Otis Fellowship.
  • Nikolay Kostov ’07: Laser and Scanned Probe Microscope-based Study of Tungsten Oxide Nanodat Arrays, Matthew Côté, physics, advisor; Hughes Student-Faculty Grant.
  • Jeffrey Kowaleski ’05: Translational Regulation, Paul Schlax, chemistry, advisor; National Science Foundation.
  • Matthew Lawler ’05: Evaluation of the Binding of the Encephalomyocarditis Virus 3C and 3CD Proteins to Viral RNA:  A Preliminary Investigation of the Viral RNA Replication Mechanism, T. Glen Lawson, chemistry, advisor; Hughes Student-Faculty Grant.
  • Mary Locker ’05: The Black Factory, William Pope.L, theater, advisor; Summer Research Apprenticeship.
  • James Maldonis ’06: Capillary Electrophoresis, Tom Wenzel, chemistry, advisor; Hughes Curriculum Development Grant.
  • Meredith Maller ’05: The Political Implications of Fair Trade Jasmine Rice in theUnited States, Kaia Peterson, Educational Network for Global and Grassroots Exchange, advisor; Stangle Grant for Economics and Law.
  • Graham Marsh ’05: Experimental Study of Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers Operating with Multi-transverse Modes, Hong Lin, physics, advisor; Summer Research Apprenticeship, Hughes Student-Faculty Grant.
  • Nicholas Martin ’05: Mining in Mongolia:  How do the Herders Fit in? Otis Fellowship.
  • Sarah Mazur ’06: The Evolution of Celtic Music and Culture in the Canadian Maritime Provinces and Southern Appalachia, Phillips Student Fellowship.
  • Kelton McMahan ’05: The Impact of a Changing Food Supply to the Arctic Benthos: Digestibility of Ice Algae and Phytoplankton by Benthic Organisms, William Ambrose, biology, Hughes Student-Faculty Grant.
  • Leslie Milk ’05: Math Short Term Unit:  Applied Mathematics/Roller Coasters, Meredith Greer and Shepley Ross, mathematics, advisors; Hughes Curriculum Development Grant.
  • Timothy Miller ’04: The International Monetary System Under Pressure, 1964-1972, Michael Oliver, economics, advisor; Summer Research Apprenticeship, Hoffman Research Support Grant, Bates Student Research Fund.
  • Kathryn Moore ’07: The Evolution of Celtic Music and Culture in the CanadianMaritime Provinces and Southern Appalachia, Phillips Student Fellowship.
  • Prem Neupane ’05: Why Do Sudras Have Lower Levels of Educational Attainment than Upper Caste? Paul Boyce, London School of Economics, advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Gaylord Noblitt ’07: Mechanisms of Hydrocarbon Degradation by Marine Bacteria/Synthesis and Characterization of a New Class of Heterogeneous Catalysts with Demonstrated Effectiveness in Speeding up the Rate at which Pesticides Are Decomposed, Rachel Austin, chemistry, advisor; Hughes Student-Faculty Grant.
  • Meredith Nutting ’04: Senior Studio Thesis: Series of Paintings, Pamela Johnson and Robert Feintuch, art, advisors; Bates Student Research Fund.
  • Helen O’Donnell ’04: Suite of Intaglio Prints, Pamela Johnson, art, advisor; Summer Research Apprenticeship, Bates Student Research Fund.
  • Debbie Opar ’05: Pre-thesis Research on the Somali Second Generation, Nancy Doherty, Somali Youth Program, Jamaica Plain, Boston, advisor: Ruggles Scholarship Program.
  • Khoabane Phoofolo ’06: Lesotho’s White Gold, Otis Fellowship.
  • Dora Plummer ’05: Early Literacy Initiatives:  Exploring Even Start in Lewiston, Jill Moreau, Lewiston Even Start Program, advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Karina Reynolds ’05: The Effects of Manipulation of the Reward Value of Cocaine on the Magnitude of the Taste “Aversion” Produced by Pairing Saccharine with Cocaine, John Kelsey, neuroscience, advisor; Hughes Student-Faculty Grant.
  • Matthew Rosler ’05: Imperial Rome:  An Introduction, Margaret Imber, classical and medieval studies; advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Juyoung Shim ’05: Preparation of Mouse Cell Lines that Inducibly Express the Encephalomyocarditis Virus 3CD Diprotein and 3D Polymerase and Determination whether These Proteins Are Trafficked, Like the 3C Protease, into the Cell Nucleus, T. Glen Lawson, chemistry, advisor; National Science Foundation.
  • Rachel Silver ’05: Exploring Purposes of Schooling:  Harambee Education in Kenya, Phillips Student Fellowship.
  • Nate Stambaugh ’06: Math Short Term Unit:  Applied Matthematics/Roller Coasters, Meredith Greer and Shepley Ross, mathematics, advisors; Hughes Curriculum Development Grant.
  • Andrew Stowe ’06: Trends in the Abundance and Distribution of the Bird Species of the Bates-Morse Mountain Conservation Area, Ryan Bavis, biology, advisor; Hoffman Research Fellowship.
  • Stoyan Stoyanov ’06: Assessing Free Trade and Economic Integration on the Balkans:  A Case Study of Bulgaria and Bosnia and Herzegovina, Maria Dinkova-Petkova, Plovdiv Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Plovidv, Bulgaria, advisor; Stangle Grant for Economics and Law.
  • Eben Sypitkowski ’05: Preliminary Investigation of Sediment Disturbance from Bloodworm Digging, William Ambrose, biology, advisor; Hughes Student Fellowship.
  • Shannon Tully ’06: The Effects of a Cognitive Behavioral Intervention to Prevent Depressive Disorders in Adolescents with Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Eva Szigethy, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Children’s Hospital Boston, advisor;  Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Aubrey Van Kirk ’07: Mechanisms of Hydrocarbon Degradation by Marine Bacteria/Synthesis and Characterization of a New Class of Heterogeneous Catalysts with Demonstrated Effectiveness in Speeding Up the Rate at Which Pesticides are Decomposed, Rachel Austin, chemistry, advisor; CEBIC Grant.
  • Jenna Vendill ’06: Art and Expression in Filipino Communities, Kerry Maloney, Bates College chaplain, advisor; Bates Student Research Fund.
  • Alexander Verhave ’05: Collections Management and Collections Access, Mark Bessire, director, museum of art, advisor; Student Research Apprenticeship.
  • Bryon Viechnicki ’05: Experimental Study of Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers Operating with Multi-transverse Modes, Hong Lin, physics, Hughes Student-Faculty Grant.
  • Caitlin Vincent ’05: Internship at the Karen Beasley Sea Turtle Rescue andRehabilitation Center, Jean Beasley, advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Carlos Willemsen ’07: Distribution of Guatemalan Orchid Species, William Ambrose, biology, advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant, Bates Student Research Fund.
  • Brian Wilmot ’05: How Individuals, Governments and NGOs Balance Environmental Preservation against Economic Growth in Russia, Otis Fellowship.
  • Darcy York ’05: A Visual History of Bates College, Steve Hochstadt, history, advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Jin Zhang ’06: Determining whether the Polyubiquitination of the Picornavirus 3C Proteases Occurs via a Processive Mchanism, T. Glen Lawson, chemistry, National Science Foundation.
  • Catherine Zimmerman ’07: Lewiston High School Science Fair Co-CoordinatorSue Martin, Center for Service-Learning, advisor; Hughes Science Education Fellowship.
  • Olivia Zurek ’05: An Animal Model of a Potential Link between Schizophrenia and Drug Abuse, John Kelsey, neuroscience, advisor; Hughes Student Fellowship.

2002

  • Jennifer Ambrose ’04: First-Wave Indian American Immigrants in California: Oral Narratives;Lavina Shankar, English, advisor; Summer Research Apprenticeship Grant.
  • Edwin Amonoo ’04: Monetary Integration in West Africa: The European Union as a Template; Michael Oliver, economics, advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Stella Aniagyei ’03: Carboxymethyl Cyclodextrins as Chiral NMR Shift Reagents; Thomas Wenzel, chemistry, advisor; NSF Faculty Grant.
  • Naira Arellano ’05: Health Care Access for Latino Children in the Boston Area; Cheryl McCormick, psychology, advisor; Bates Student Research Fund, Crafts Award.
  • Abdulgafoor Bachani ’03: Characterization of Inhibitory Glutamate Receptors in a Neural Network Controlling Feeding Behavior in the Pond Snail, Helisoma trivolvis; Nancy Kleckner, biology, advisor; Hughes Summer Fellowship.
  • Smadar Bakovic ’03: Cultural Confrontations with Israeli-Arabs: The Other Side through  a Camera’s Lens; Mishael Caspi, religion, advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Daniel Barksy ’03: Downtown Revitalization: What Works/What Doesn’t; James Hughes, Economics, and Linda Hertell, Richardson Hollow Associates, advisors; CAPHE Community Research Fellowship.
  • Daniel Barsky ’03: Economic Status of China’s Ethnic Minorities; James Hughes, economics, advisor; Freeman Foundation Grant for Asian Studies.
  • Eric Batscha ’05: Buddhist Relics on the Silk Road; Trian Nguyen, art, advisor; Phillips Supplemental Grant.
  • Emma Beaudry ’03: Final Phase of Geological Mapping: Presidential Range, New Hampshire; J. Dykstra Eusden, geology, advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant, USGS Faculty Grant.
  • Brigid Beech ’05: Munich Summer Fellows Program, Munich, Germany; Craig Decker, German, advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Diana Birney ’03: Dilemmas Facing Protestant Women in the U.S. Church Today; Robert Allison and Marcus Bruce, religion, advisors; Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Swita Charanasomboon ’04: The Differences between the Conceptualization and Treatment of Psychological Disorders in Children in Vietnam and the United States; Kathryn Graff Low, psychology, and Le Minh Ha, Hanoi Ministry of Education and Training, advisors; Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Elizabeth Cohen ’03: The Affect of Local Environmental Conditions on Coastal Processes;Michael Retelle, geology, advisor; Hughes Summer Fellowship.
  • Caitlin Cook ’03: Legacies of Inhumanity: Oral Histories of Jewish Refugees in Mexico City;Steve Hochstadt, history, advisor; Phillips Student Fellowship.
  • Lisa D’Alessio ’03: The Burning Man Festival: Radical Self-Expression and Self-Reliance in the Creation of Temporary Community; Charles V. Carnegie, anthropology, advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Amanda Devine ’03: Recolonization of Disturbed Areas in a New England Salt Marsh; Curtis Bohlen, environmental studies, advisor; Hughes Summer Fellowship.
  • Ngan Dinh ’02: Regional Labor Market Segmentation in China; Margaret Maurer-Fazio, economics, advisor; Freeman Foundation Grant for Asian Studies.
  • Hilary Domush ’03: Investigating a New Method of Forming Bonds to Carbohydrates Found in Antibiotics; Jennifer Koviach, chemistry, advisor; Pfizer Fellowship.
  • Britt Eilhardt ’05: The Letters of Catherine Dickens; Lillian Nayder, English advisor; Summer Research Apprenticeship Grant.
  • Stephen Feiss ’03: A Math Tutoring Program at Edward Little High School, Auburn; Tina Vanasse, Edward Little High School, advisor; Hughes Science Education Fellowship.
  • Sarita Fellows ’03: The Traditional Clothing  of Nigeria; Ellen Seeling, theater, advisor; Phillips Student Fellowship.
  • Daniel Frost ’05: Paleoclimate Reconstruction in the Canadian Arctic; Michael Retelle, geology, advisor; NSF Faculty Grant.
  • Hannah Gaines ’03: Global Climate Change: Past and Future; Camille Parrish, environmental studies, Julian Sachs, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, advisors; Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Hannah Gaines ’03: Patch Retention as a Tool for Maintaining Biodiveristy in a Northeastern Industrial Forest; Curtis Bohlen, environmental studies, and John Hagan and Andrew Whitman, Manomet Center for Conservation Services, advisors; Hughes Summer Fellowship.
  • Julia Getzel ’02: Retrospective Exhibition,William Pope.L: eRacism; William Pope.L, theater, advisor; Summer Research Apprenticeship Grant.
  • Justin Gorham ’03: The Photocatalytic Properties of Novel Silver and Gold-doped Zeolites in Decomposing Pesticides and Models of Chemical Warfare Agents; Rachel Austin, chemistry, advisor; Hughes Summer Fellowship.
  • Cynthia Gorman ’03: Women and Asylum Law; Mark Kessler, political science, advisor; Stangle Grant for Research in Economics and Law.
  • Marceline Grossman ’03: Assimilation of Somali Refugees to America; Elizabeth Eames, anthropology, advisor; Johnson Summer Research Grant.
  • Rafael Guthartz ’03: First-Wave Indian American Emmigrants in California: Oral Narratives;Lavina Shankar, English, advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Amelia Haas ’03: Paleoclimate Reconstruction in the Canadian Arctic; Michael Retelle, geology, advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant, NSF Faculty Grant.
  • M. Mashfiqil Haque ’05: Higher Education Opportunities in Maine: Where Are the Gaps?James Reese, Associate Dean of Students, and Rebecca Conrad, LA Excels, advisors; CAPHE Community Research Fellowship.
  • Geoffrey Hart ’02: Analysis of mRNA Expression Induced by Oral Infection in Two Strains of Mice, One Susceptible to Periodontal Bone Loss, and One Resistant to It; Pamela Baker, biology, advisor; NIH Faculty Grant.
  • Kristelle Hicks ’04: Derivatized Carbohydrates as Chiral NMR Shift Reagents; Thomas Wenzel, chemistry, advisor; NSF Faculty Grant
  • Adam Hume ’03: Effects of Dioxin on Cardiac Adrenergic Signaling; Rebecca Sommer, biology, advisor; Hughes Summer Fellowship.
  • Elizabeth Jackson ’04: The History of Media in South India; Steven Kemper, anthropology, and Stephen Hughes, University of London, advisors; Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Collin Keyser ’05: Buddhist Relics on the Silk Road; Trian Nguyen, art, advisor; Phillips Supplemental Grant.
  • Peter Kozak ’03: Modeling of Credit Risk: A Structural Approach; Rudiger Kiesel, London School of Economics, advisor; Hughes Summer Fellowship, Rawlings Fund for Research in Mathematics.
  • Takai Kubota ’03: Self-Evaluation and Social Perception of Biracial Youth in Japan; Georgia Nigro, psychology, advisor; Phillips Student Fellowship.
  • Rebecca Larkin ’03: Final Phase of Geological Mapping: Presidential Range, New Hampshire; J. Dykstra Eusden, geology, advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant, USGS Faculty Grant.
  • Janice Lewis ’03: Investigating Ecological Change in the Nearshore Kotzebue Sound Ecosystem;William Ambrose, biology; Hughes Summer Fellowship, NSF Faculty Grant.
  • Elizabeth Lewis ’04: Understanding the Function of Rapid 3C Protease Degradation EMC Virus-infected Cells; T. Glen Lawson, chemistry, advisor; Dreyfus Award.
  • Sorubh Mahadoo ’03: Implementation of a Combined Coding / Cryptographic Technique in Internet Browsers for Secure and Reliable Communications over Intranet Platforms; Hong Lin, Physics, and K.M.S. Soyaudah, University of Mauritius, advisors; Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Joanna Mak ’04: Study of Chinese Labor Markets; Margaret Maurer-Fazio, economics, advsior; Hoffman Research Support Grant, Freeman Foundation Grant for Asian Studies.
  • Mei Yee Mak ’04: Study of Chinese Labor Markets; Margaret Maurer-Fazio, economics, advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant, Freeman Grant for Asian Studies.
  • Brent Mann ’04: Investigating a New Method of Forming Bonds to Carbohydrates Found in Antibiotics; Jennifer Koviach, chemistry, advisor; Hughes Summer Fellwoship.
  • Martins Masulis ’03: International Assistance to Russian Campaigns against Domestic Violence and Illegal Trafficking of Women; James Richter, political science, advisor; Summer Research Apprenticeship Grant.
  • Julia McQuade ’04: The Relationship between Source Monitoring and Suggestibility in Children’s Memory; Georgia Nigro, psychology, advisor; Whitehouse Professorship Fund.
  • Kate Meltzer ’02: Investigating Ecological Change in the Nearshore Kotzebue Sound Ecosystem;William Ambrose, biology; NSF Faculty Grant.
  • Saul Miller ’04: Prenatal Endocrine Disruptors and the Development of Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Function in Rats; Cheryl McCormick, psychology, advisor; Hughes Summer Fellowship.
  • Richard Morrill ’03: Local “Knowledgescapes” in the Northwest Territories; Otis Fellowship.
  • Prem Neupane ’05: An Empirical Study of U.S. Foreign Aid Allocation during and after;the Cold War; Amyaz Moledina, economics, advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Benjamin Newcomer ’03: Community Trails Organizations: What Are the Best Models? Camille Parrish, environmental studies, and Michael Lecompte, LA Trails, advisors; CAPHE Community Research Fellowship.
  • Dominick Pangallo ’03: Electioneering versus Governing: The Impact of Campaign Techniques on Governance; John Baughman, political science, advisor; Ruggles Scholars Program.
  • Katherine Percarpio ’03: Characterization of Inhibitory Glutamate Receptors in a Neural Network Controlling Feeding Behavior in the Pond Snail,Helisoma trivolvis; Nancy Kleckner, biology, advisor; Hughes Summer Fellowship.
  • Lydia Petell ’03: Tree Hopper Behavior in Monteverde, Costa Rica; Sharon Kinsman, biology, and K. Greg Murray, Hope College, advisors; Hughes Summer Fellowship.
  • Julia Plumb ’05: Study of the Bombarde and Breton Folk Culture in Brittany, France; Adam Leff, French, advisor; Phillips Student Fellowship.
  • Andrew Rahedi ’03: Electro-optic and Thermo-optic Effects in Liquid Crystals; Hong Lin, physics, advisor; Hughes Summer Fellowship.
  • Regina Readling ’04: Chiral Calix[4]resorcarenes as Chiral NMR Shift Reagents; Thomas Wenzel, chemistry, advisor; NSF Faculty Grant.
  • Ericka Ricaldez ’03: Elucidating Ubiquitin-conjugating Pathways That Destroy the Hepatitis A Virus 3D RNA Polymerase; T. Glen Lawson, chemistry, advisor; NSF Faculty Grant.
  • Matthew Rosler ’05: Sacred Architecture: Looking at Temples with Power Point; Lisa Maurizio, classics and classical and medieval studies, advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • Rajarshi Saha ’03: Modeling Accretion Disc Dynamics from Observed X-Ray and Gamma Ray Emission from Black Hole-Binary Star Systems; Victoria Kaspi and Maxim Lyntikov, McGill University, advisors; Hughes Summer Fellowship.
  • Ayana Sawai ’04: Biomedical Research at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; Hoffman Research Support Grant, Scher Fellowship.
  • Katharine Shaw ’03: Exceptions to Solidarity: Non-striking Miners in 1926; Elizabeth Tobin, history, advisor; Ruggles Scholars Program.
  • Prerana Shrestha ’03: Characterization of 90KDa Ribosomal SG Protein Kinase 1 Activation;John Blenis, Harvard Medical School, advisor; Hughes Summer Fellowship.
  • Rachel Starr ’05: Archival Research Project: British Economic History, 1960-Present; Michael Oliver, economics, advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • K-Fai Steele ’04: Hell’s Fire: The History and Practice of an Idea; Denis Sweet, German, advisor; Summer Research Apprenticeship Grant, Bates Student Research Fund.
  • Kathryn Stevens ’04: The Relationship between Source Monitoring and Suggestibility in Children’s Memory; Georgia Nigro, psychology, advisor; Whitehouse Professorship Fund.
  • Daniel Taylor ’03: Voices of the Displaced; Margaret Maurer-Fazio, economics, advisor; Johnson Summer Research Grant.
  • Noah Tuthill ’03: Cod Fishing in the Grand Bank and a Sense of Place; Michael Retelle, geology, advisor; Otis Fellowship.
  • Valerie Wicks ’04: Archaeology in Pre-Incan Civilization; Steven Kemper, anthropology, advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant.
  • James Wilcox ’03: Separation of Optical Isomers Using Calixarenes and Calixresorcarene Lanthanide Compounds; Thomas Wenzel, chemistry, advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant, NSF Faculty Grant.
  • Elizabeth Wilson ’03: Seneca’sHercules Furens: A Grammatical Guide with Vocabulary  and Commentary; Lisa Maurizio, classics and classical and medieval studies, advisor; Hoffman Research Fellowship.
  • David Worhunsky ’03: rpoS mRNA Interactions: Effects of Environment Stress and Temperature on rpoS Expression; Paula Schlax, chemistry, advisor; Hoffman Research Support Grant, Cotrell Faculty Research Grant.
  • Irene Yartey ’05: The Genetics of Susceptibility to Periodontal Bone Loss in a Mouse Model;Pamela Baker, biology, advisor; NIH Faculty Grant.

2001

  • Jeffrey H. Apigian ’04: Researching Macaque Monkeys in Sri Lanka; Steven Kemper, anthropology, advisor; Hoffman-Mellon Grant.
  • Abdulgafoor Bachani ’03: A Vaccination for Bilharzia; Kenneth Kangethi, National Museum of Kenya, advisor; Hoffman-Mellon Grant.
  • Smadar Bakovic ’02: Arab Isreal: The Other Side through a Camera’s Lens; Phillips Student Fellowship.
  • James Bamber ’02: Nietzsche, Heidigger, and the Intersection of Philosophy & Religion; David Kolb, philosophy, advisor; Hoffman-Mellon Grant.
  • David Bear ’03: Use of HPA Function by Androgens in Rats; Cheryl McCormick, neuroscience, advisor; Hoffman-Mellon Grant, Hughes Student/Faculty Research Grant.
  • Renee Blacken ’04: Tidal Landscapes and the Ecology of Salt Marsh Pannes; Curtis Bohlen, environmental studies, advisor; Hughes Student/Faculty Research Grant.
  • Zeina Boumechal ’03: First-wave Indian – American Immigrants in Agricultural California: Oral Narratives; Lavina Shankar, English, advisor; Summer Research Apprenticeship Grant.
  • Van Brantner ’02: Economic Reform and Gender Wage Differential Among Chinese Migrants; Urban Workers; Margaret Maurer-Fazio, economics, advisor; Hoffman-Mellon Grant.
  • Brandon Breen ’03: Tidal Landscapes and the Ecology of Salt Marsh Pannes; Curtis Bohlen, environmental studies, advisor; Hughes Student/Faculty Research Grant.
  • William Brucher ’02: Assessing Community Cultural and Historical Resources; Chris Beam, Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections, advisor; CAPHE Community Research Fellowship.
  • John Bunce ’02: The Influence of Prey Schooling on Predator Social Feeding Behavior; Shyril O’Steen, biology, advisor; Hughes Individual Student Research Grant.
  • Polly Carter ’02: Study of Late Holocene Climate Using Laminated Sediment from Lakes & Isolated Inlets in Central Canadian Arctic Archipelago; Michael Retelle, geology, advisor; Hoffman-Mellon Grant, National Science Foundation Grant.
  • Devon Cartwright-Smith ’03: Creative Housing Strategies for Lewiston/Auburn; David Kolb, philosophy, advisor; CAPHE Community Research Fellowship.
  • Alison Deysher ’02: Intervention & Prevention Assessment and Children’s Health Issues; Georgia Nigro, psychology, advisor; Hoffman-Mellon Grant, Mulford Service Grant.
  • Ngan Dinh ’02: Income Inequality Among Chinese Urban & Migrant Workers; Margaret Maurer-Fazio, economics, advisor; Ruggles Scholarship.
  • Ben Dufresne ’02: Greenways in Lewiston/Auburn; Judith Marden, Shortridge; Morse Mountain Facilities, advisor; CAPHE Community Research Fellowship.
  • Stephanie Eby ’02: Evolutionary Consequences of Environmental Change for Trinidadian Guppies; Shyril O’Steen, biology, advisor; Hughes Student/Faculty Research Grant.
  • Shaheen Emambux ’04: Actuarial Study of the Solvency of Pension Funds in Mauritius;Magdalena Mosbo, mathematics, advisor; Hoffman-Mellon Grant.
  • Megan Gadsby ’03: Organic Farming in Ireland; Philip J. Otis Fellowship.
  • Adrianne Gustafson ’02: A Technology Based Mathematics Curriculum; Bonnie Shulman, mathematics, advisor; Hughes Science Education Grant.
  • Apostolia Hantzara ’01: Models of Successful Community Arts Centers; Gerda Neu-Sokol, German, advisor; CAPHE Community Research Fellowship.
  • Ryan Harris ’02: The Role of the Amygdala and Hippocampus in Mediating Context Specific Sensitization and Tolerance to Nicotine; John Kelsey, neuroscience, advisor; Hughes Student/Faculty Research Grant.
  • Geoffrey Hart ’02: Anti-tumor Activity of Selected Antibiotics in Breast and Prostate Cancer Progression; David Solit, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, advisor; Hoffman-Mellon Grant, Scher Fellowship.
  • Meredith Hermann ’02: Representations of Belfast through the Literary Works of Robert Mcliam Wilson & Ciaran Carson; Robert Farnsworth, English, advisor; Hoffman-Mellon Grant.
  • Whitman Holt ’02: Intensive Reading in Critical Legal Theory; David Cummiskey, philosphy, advisor; Ruggles Scholarship.
  • Josie Idoko ’03: Tutor in Physical Science, Wight Foundation Scholars Training and Enrichment Program; Edward Johnson, Wight Foundation, Inc., advisor; Hoffman-Mellon Grant.
  • Kelly Jackson ’02: Paper Presentation: “Rebellion and Reconciliation: Virginia Woolf, Leslie Stephen, and Biographical Writing”; Lavina Shankar, English, advisor; Hoffman-Mellon Grant.
  • Adbelfetah Jibril ’02: A Physics and Math Tutoring Project in Jamaica; Phillips Student Fellowship.
  • Pramod Khadka ’02: Building Models on Development through Aggressive Economic Policies;Michael Oliver, economics, advisor; Hoffman-Mellon Grant, Rawlings Grant for Research in Mathematics.
  • Peter Kozak ’02: A Study of the Properties of Modular Forms; John Rhodes, mathematics, advisor; Hoffman-Mellon Grant, Rawlings Grant for Research in Mathematics.
  • Elizabeth Kreischer ’03: Can Humans and Fire Coexist?; Philip J. Otis Fellowship.
  • Natalie MacDonald ’02: End of Life Care: Using Epidemiology to Improve Quality of Patient Care; Ellen Schneiter, Maine Medical Assessment Foundation, advisor; Hoffman-Mellon Grant.
  • Rachel Mansfield ’02: Censorship, Propaganda, Perception, and the Mass Audience – a Study of American Cinema; Stephanie Kelley-Romano, theater and rhetoric, advisor; Hoffman-Mellon Grant.
  • Sameer Maskey ’02: Hidden Markov Models w/ Extracted Mel Cepstral Feature Vectors in Automatic Speaker Dependent Isolated Speech Recognition for Nepali Language; Alan Black, Carnegie Mellon University, advisor; Hoffman-Mellon Grant, Rawlings Grant for Research in Mathematics.
  • Meredith McLean ’01: Greek Temples and Sacred Space; Lisa Maurizio, classical and classical medieval studies, advisor; Hoffman-Mellon Grant.
  • Kelly McNamara ’02: Fluctuating Asymmetry: An Early Warning System for Detecting Pollutants in Aquatic Habitats?; Shelley Ball, biology, advisor; Hughes Student/Faculty Research Grant, Summer Research Apprenticeship.
  • Elizabeth Miller ’02: Geologic Field-work in the Wolf Creek Meteorite Crater, Western Australia;Beverly Johnson, geology, advisor; Hoffman-Mellon Grant, Hughes Student/Faculty Research Grant.
  • J. Jesse Minor ’02: Cultural Adaptation to Land-Use Changes in Mongolia; Philip J. Otis Fellowship.
  • Brian O’Doherty ’02: Developing an Intracity High School Debate League in Washington, D.C.;Phillips Student Fellowship.
  • Nga Phan ’03: Institutional Obstacles to Foreign Investment in Vietnam; James Hughes, economics, advisor; Hoffman-Mellon Grant.
  • Andrew Rahedi ’03: Indian State and Federal Law and Environmental & Ecomic Policy in Indian Nations; Margaret Imber, classics and classical medieval studies, advisor; Hoffman-Mellon Grant.
  • Andrew Rahedi ’03: Developing Ecosystem Level Research at a Long-Term Forest Dynamics Research Site; Peter Palmiotto, environmental studies, advisor; Hughes Student/Faculty Research Grant, Summer Research Apprenticeship.
  • Robert Ruttman ’02: A Study of the Long-term Effects of a Single European Currency; Michael Oliver, economics, advisor; Stangle Grant for Research in Economics and Law.
  • Casey Saenger ’02: Study of Late Holocene Climate Using Laminated Sediment from Lakes and Isolated Inlets in Central Canadian Arctic Archipelago; Michael Retelle, geology, advisor; Hoffman-Mellon Grant, National Science Foundation Grant.
  • Rajarshi Saha ’03: Mathematical Modeling of Stellar Pulsation; Sandip K. Chakrabarti, Center for Space Physics, Calcutta, advisor; Hughes Individual Student Research Grant.
  • Shaghayegh Sepehri ’02: Comparative Study of Traditional Medicine Among Different Andean Cultures; Phillips Student Fellowship, Hoffman-Mellon Grant.
  • Prerana Shrestha 03: Role of Ras Oncogene in VEGF/R Upregulation; Dr. Paolo Mignatti, Surgical Research and Cell Biology, NYU, advisor; Hoffman-Mellon Grant.
  • George Stiff ’02: Rheology of Lava Flows Based on MGS data of Arsia Mons, Tharsis Region of Mars; Jeffrey B. Plescia, United States Geological Survey, advisor; Hughes Individual Student Research Grant.
  • Volkan Stodolsky ’02: Oral History in Sarajevo; Phillips Student Fellowship.
  • Jennifer Strahle ’02:: Use of HPA Function by Androgens in Rats; Cheryl McCormick, neuroscience, advisor; Hoffman-Mellon Grant, Hughes Student/Faculty Research Grant.
  • Jeremy Streifer ’03: STM Study of Tungsten Oxide Nanocrystals; Matthew J. Cote, chemistry, advisor; Hughes Student/Faculty Research Grant.
  • Jason Surdukowski ’02: Law and Genocide in Rwanda; Phillips Student Fellowship.
  • Scott Turner ’02: Genetic Analysis of an Obligately Parthenogeneic Mayfly, Centroptilium triangulifer; Shelley Ball, biology, advisor; Hughes Individual Student Research Grant.
  • Christopher Westcott ’03: “Taming” the South African Wildlife Sector: International Conservation and the Kruger Nation Park Region of Southern Africa; Peter Rogers, environmental studies, advisor; Philip J. Otis Fellowship, Summer Research Apprenticeship.
  • Andrew Wilkie ’02: Megafauna Extinction, Ecosystem Disruption, and Climate Change in Australia: Assessing the Human Factor; Beverly Johnson, geology, advisor; Hoffman-Mellon Grant, Hughes Student/Faculty Research Grant.
  • Jill Williams ’03: Energy Audit of Bates Campus; Camille Parrish, environmental studies, advisor; Hoffman-Mellon Grant.

1999

  • Lucas Adams ’00 helped develop a zebrafish assay for screening environmental contaminants for estrogenic properties (Hughes Student-Faculty Research Grant, R. Sommer, biology).
  • Krista Anderson ’01 studied the origins of magnetic suites associated with plumes and continental rifts, at the Mineral Physics Institute at State University of New York at Stony Brook (Hoffman-Mellon Grant, D. Lindley, research advisor).
  • Jessica Baker ’00 studied environmental and climatic reconstruction from a unique laminated lake basin in Fayette, west central Maine (Hughes Individual Student Research Grant, M. Retelle, geology).
  • Karen Bilodeau ’00 conducted a qualitative analysis of parenting styles in the development of gender and family roles (Summer Research Apprenticeship, E. Kane, sociology).
  • Anatoliy Bizhko ’99 examined the impact of foreign aid on non-governmental organizations’ policy-making in Russia and Ukraine (Summer Research Apprenticeship, J. Richter, political science)
  • Frederick Brown ’00 conducted geologic mapping of the Presidential Range in New Hampshire (USGS grant, J. Eusden, geology).
  • Paul Calner ’00 helped develop a zebrafish assay for screening environmental contaminants for estrogenic properties (Hughes Student-Faculty Research Grant, R. Sommer, biology).
  • Joella Canales ’00 studied how race, economics, and social stereotypes impact the care of HIV-positive women, at the Bay Area Perinatal AIDS Center in San Francisco, CA (Hoffman-Mellon Grant, R. Herzig, women’s studies).
  • Sarah Cannon ’00 conducted geologic mapping of the Presidential Range in New Hampshire (USGS grant, J. Eusden, geology).
  • Zoia Cisneros ’01 studied and performed traditional dance with a professional dance company in Gambia, West Africa (Phillips Fellowship).
  • Abigail Cohan ’00 conducted geologic mapping of the Presidential Range in New Hampshire (Summer Research Apprenticeship, J. Eusden, geology).
  • Amanda Colby ’00 studied osmotic regulation of rpoS nRNA structure and translational initiation (Merck Fellowship, P. Schlax, chemistry).
  • John Connolly ’00 studied the possible correlation between pollutant levels and expression of genes responsible for biosurfacant production in the microbial community of the Chesapeake Bay, at the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute’s Center for Marine Biotechnology (Hoffman-Mellon grant, W. Jones, research advisor).
  • Michael Danahy ’00 undertook mechanistic studies of two biologically inspired inorganic catalysts (Hughes Student-Faculty research Grant, R. Austin, chemistry).
  • Carly Dell’Ova ’00 studied neural control of behavior in the pond snail, Helisoma trivolvus(Hughes Student-Faculty Research Grant, N. Kleckner, biology and neuroscience).
  • Laura DiLorenzo ’00 examined the modification of chiral NMR resolving agents with lanthanide-encapsulating ligands (NSF grant, T. Wenzel, chemistry).
  • Chelsea Dodgen ’00, working with the El Paso County (CO) Health Department, studied AIDS and HIV in the Latino community of southern Colorado by reconstructing patients’ social, sexual, and drug networks (Hoffman-Mellon Grant, J. Potterat, research advisor).
  • Juan Echazarreta ’00 collected and recorded the life stores of Latina/o egg farm workers in Turner, Maine (Summer Research Apprenticeship, C. Taylor, English).
  • Andrew Gardner ’00 traveled through the Midwest and the western United States to meet with leading environmentalist fiction writers, nonfiction writers, grass-roots activists, artists, and singer-songwriters (Otis Fellowship).
  • Elizabeth Grubin ’01 assisted in the filming of a documentary on western doctors and nurses establishing vaccination centers in eastern Nepal (Phillips Fellowship).
  • Kate Hagstrom ’01 undertook mechanistic studies of two biologically inspired inorganic catalysts (Hughes Student-Faculty Research Grant, R. Austin, chemistry).
  • Katherine Heggeman ’00 examined the causes of groundwater arsenic contamination in the mining district of Zimapan, Mexico (NSF-REU grant, L. Ongley, geology).
  • Sean Hurley ’01, working at the Massachusetts Department of Revenue, studied the relationship of the Massachusetts tax system and the commonwealth’s declining manufacturing base (Hoffman-Mellon Grant, R. Madden, research advisor).
  • Jacob Kasper ’00 studied the population dynamics of a variety of whelks in relation to wave exposure and predation on the coast of Maine (Hoffman-Mellon Grant, W. Ambrose, biology).
  • Else Kyyro ’01 examined division and cohesiveness in Chinese society as observed through recent developments in China’s non-state sector (Hoffman-Mellon grant, M. Maurer-Fazio, economics).
  • Jessica Lane ’99 examined multiple interpretations of cultural events in twentieth-century Asian American dance-drama (Hoffman-Mellon Grant, L. Shankar, English).
  • Kathryn Lang ’00 examined sex hormones and the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) function in rats (Hughes Student-Faculty Research Grant, C. McCormick, psychology and neuroscience).
  • Anne Lockard ’01 conducted a literature survey of diaries, letters and memoirs of female concentration camp prisoners, as part of a study of gender and Holocaust voices (Summer Research Apprenticeship, E. Tobin, history).
  • Lucy Lu ’01 conducted research on prostate cancer vaccines at Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City (Hoffman-Mellon grant, S. Slovin, research advisor).
  • Christopher Lyon ’01 began initial tracking of the environmental consequences of a major salt marsh restoration project at the Sprague River Marsh, Phippsburg, Maine (Hughes Student-Faculty Research Grant, C. Bohlen, environmental studies).
  • M. Sameer Raj Maskey ’02 studied computer speech synthesis by examining rule-based letter-to-phoneme conversion, at Auburn University’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering (Hoffman-Mellon Grant, Rawlings Grant, Sigety Grant; R. Hubscher, research advisor).
  • Meta Mason ’01 conducted studies of lanthanide luminescence detection of nalidixic acid derivatives (Hoffman-Mellon Grant, T. Wenzel, chemistry).
  • Rachel Matthews ’01 studied the function of polyamines in growth, sporulation, and starvation responses at the University of Arizona Cancer Center (Hughes Individual Student Research Grant, G. Gerner, research advisor).
  • Ethan Miller ’00 conducted an ethnobotanical study of the cultural significance of plant life to the Leni Lanape, the Amish, and the Pennsylvania Germans of the Delaware River watershed (Otis Fellowship).
  • Nicholas Miller ’00 examined sex hormones and the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) function in rats (Hughes Student-Faculty Research Grant, C. McCormick, psychology and neuroscience).
  • Michael Mroz ’00 studied osmotic regulation of rpoS nRNA structure and translational initiation (Hughes Student-Faculty Research Grant, P. Schlax, chemistry).
  • Christian Nauvel ’01 went to Cornwall, United Kingdom, to investigate the track of the last total solar eclipse of the millennium using radio signals across Europe (Special President’s Grant, E. Wollman, physics).
  • Mindy Newman ’01 developed a web site for teaching Latin (CBB/Mellon Teaching and Technology Grant, M. Imber, classics and classical and medieval studies).
  • David Omom ’01 examined empirical linkages between political realm behavior and financial markets, working at the South African Stock Exchange in Johannesburg, South Africa (Phillips Fellowship).
  • Anders Pearson ’00 developed and studied artificial life simulations of simple plant ecosystems, using mathematical and computer modeling (Hoffman-Mellon Grant, Rawlings Grant; P. Johann, mathematics).
  • Amanda Petteruti ’00 studied economic bias in the juvenile justice system, at the Center for Juvenile and Criminal Justice of the Justice Policy Institute (Hoffman-Mellon Grant, J. Ziedenberg, research advisor).
  • Kevin Purviance ’00 studied the punitive gene cluster that encodes for proteins associated with the oral bacteria Actinbacillus actinomycetemcomitan at the SUNY/University at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine (Hughes Dental Scholars Program, F. Scannapieco, research advisor).
  • Stephen Rees ’01 conducted oral history interviews with Vietnam veterans as part of the Maine Vietnam Veterans Oral History project (Hoffman-Mellon Grant, C. Beam, history).
  • Sarah Roberts ’00 conducted paleoclimate studies by examining annually laminated sediments from glacial lakes on Devon Island, Nunavut, Canada (Hoffman-Mellon Grant, NSF Grant; M. Retelle, geology).
  • Nicole Ryan ’01 studied calixarenes and resocarenes as chiral NMR shift reagents (Merck Fellowship, T. Wenzel, chemistry).
  • Matthew Schlobohm ’00 conducted research on toxins issues in Maine and on grass-roots community organizing under the direction of the Maine Peoples Alliance (Hoffman-Mellon Grant, S. Taylor, research advisor).
  • Nadezhda Serebryakova ’00 examined the causes of the financial crisis in Russia and its impact on the Russian economy (Stangle Grant, D. Aschauer, economics).
  • Benjamin Shaw ’00, through internships at the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, ME, the U.S. Department of Commerce in Washington, D.C., and the Office of the Governor in Augusta, ME, studied the potential for biotechology development in Maine, and co-authored a bill to provide support for biotechnology with some of the state’s tobacco settlement funds (the bill passed the Maine legislature in May 2000) (Hoffman-Mellon Grant).
  • John Springer ’00 conducted oral history interviews with Vietnam veterans as part of the Maine Vietnam Veterans Oral History project (Hoffman-Mellon Grant, C. Beam, history).
  • Sarah Teillon ’00 examined sex hormones and the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) function in rats (Hughes Student-Faculty Research Grant, C. McCormick, psychology and neuroscience).
  • Sarah Terwilliger ’00 began initial tracking of the environmental consequences of a major salt marsh restoration project at the Sprague River Marsh, Phippsburg, Maine (Hughes Student-Faculty Research Grant, C. Bohlen, environmental studies).
  • Adam Thompson ’00 assisted with the research and selection of texts for the second volume ofLift Every Voice: African American Oratory, 1900-1954 (to be published by the University of Alabama Press) (Hoffman-Mellon Grant, C. Nero, rhetoric and African American studies).
  • Jolene Thurston ’00 studied lanthanide-crown ether complexes as chiral NMR resolving agents (NSF grant, T. Wenzel, chemistry).
  • Milko Todorov ’01 studied the relation of treasury bonds, interest rate determination, and loan/investment policies in Bulgaria (Hoffman-Mellon Grant, T. Tenev, research advisor).
  • Benjamin Trafton ’00 conducted paleoclimate studies by examining annually laminated sediments from glacial lakes on Devon Island, Nunavut, Canada (Hoffman-Mellon Grant, NSF Grant; M. Retelle, geology).
  • Cody Weber ’00 undertook a service-learning internship and conducted research on AIDS education and HIV/AIDS support infrastructure in Russia (Phillips Fellowship).
  • Andrew Wheeler ’01 conducted a population study of Iris versicolor (Hughes Individual Student Research Grant, R. Thomas, biology).
  • Bradley Wilson ’01 examined shade-grown coffee production, deforestation, and the effects of Hurricane Mitch in the Province of Matagalpa, Nicaragua (Otis Fellowship).
  • Jennifer Winslow ’00 studied string quartets and other works of the Spanish composer, Juan Cristomo Arriaga (Hoffman-Mellon Grant, J. Parakilas, music).
  • Ewan Wolff ’01, working at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, examined ancient forest succession through pollen analysis in the Two Creeks Formation (Hughes Individual Student research Grant, L. Maher, research advisor).
  • Trevor Woodard ’01 assessed Philodendron selloum and Solanum esculentum (var. Supersonic) as potential phytomediators of cobalt (Merck Fellowship, R. Thomas, biology).
  • Christine Han Mi Yang ’00 studied the role of telomere shortening in the development of myelodysplasia in multiple myeloma patients at Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City (Hoffman-Mellon Grant, Scher Fellowship; M. Moore, research advisor).