Welcome to the Center for Undergraduate Research!
Undergraduate research and creative activity at the University of Maine allows motivated and interested students to become critically engaged in a culture of independent learning and to participate in the creation of new knowledge. Through student-faculty collaborations and mentoring partnerships, students develop the tools and resources needed to achieve an authentic understanding of the research/creative activity endeavor, the pinnacle of an educational experience. This experience serves to foster lifelong pursuit and creation of new knowledge.
Undergraduate research, broadly defined and understood, incorporates current students into the fabric of the University and attracts prospective students who want to be active participants in their education. Undergraduate research/creative activity also provides an opportunity for faculty to expand their own research programs and enhance mentoring skills through training new members of their disciplines.
3rd Annual Undergraduate Research & Academic Showcase, April 11, 2012 – over 100 posters, presentations and exhibits!! Congratulations to all of the students who presented this year!
2012 CUGR Award winners:
Exhibits
1st Place Patrick Dean & Nicklaus DeBlois, A Study of Photogrammetry and the Virgin Islands National Park Hassle Island Sugar Plantation Ruins (Mentor: Karen Horton)
Honorable Mention Philip Kolmar & Will Hofacker, Under Your Skin with Microsoft Kinect (Mentor: Mike Scott)
Oral Presentations
1st Place Haley Richardson, Classroom Realities: Traditionally and Alternatively Certified Secondary Science Teachers’ Preparedness to Teach Students with Disabilities (Mentor: John Maddaus)
2nd Place
Breanna Bennett, The Haptotactic Motility of Angiogenic Endothelial Cells (Mentors: Sharon Ashworth, Alireza Sarvestani)
Charles Bergeron, Imagining a Better World: A Study of Imagined Intergroup Contact (Mentor: Jordan Labouff)
Hanna Bonaiuto, A Study of Dairy Bedding on Prototheca Survival (Mentor: Anne Lichtenwalner)
Thomas Leeuw, In situ Measurements of Phytoplankton Fluorescence Using Low Cost Electronics (Emmanuel Boss)
Honorable Mention
Geoffry Davis, Whole-Mount Fluorescent in situHybridization as a Genetic Tool in the Chloroplast Hosting Mollusc Elysia chlorotica (Mentors: Mary Rumpho, Karen Pelletreau)
Heather White, Hybrid Healing: The Process of Integrating Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) into Biomedicine (Mentor: Ann Acheson)
Posters
1st Place Shannon Brown, Salinity Tolerance of the Oyster Mudworm Polydora websteri (Mentor: Paul Rawson)
2nd Place
Justin Bollinger, Colleen Buckless, Gabriel Vachon, Paige Miles, Jordan Gagne, A Study of Changes in Gene Expression During Limb Regeneration (Mentor: Keith Hutchison)
Brittany Wolfe, Line-specific Susceptibility to Rosoevarius Oyster Disease (ROD) (Mentor: Paul Rawson)
Honorable Mention
James Fecteau, Pyrolysis Oil Stability: A Study of Polymerization Chemistry in Wood-Based Bio-Oil (Mentor: Brian Frederick)
Rafael Garcia, Identification of Fungal Contamination in Maple Syrup (Mentors: Seanna Annis, Beth Calder, Kathryn Hopkins)
Joshua Komusin, Event Viewer: iPad Visualization and Exploration of Events (Mentors: Mike Scott, Kate Beard-Tisdale, Larry Latour)
Peter Strand & Patrick Ryan, Investigation of the Ross Sea Ice Sheet History Preserved in the Antarctic Dry Valleys (Mentors: Brenda Hall, Alice Kelley)
The Center for Undergraduate Research is a member of the national Council on Undergraduate Research.
