2017-18 Academic Year Fellowship Awards
The Center for Undergraduate Research is pleased to announce the recipients of the Research and Creative Activities Fellowships for 2017-2018 academic year. The fellowships were developed to enhance and increase undergraduate student involvement in faculty-supervised research, and are supported through the Office of the Vice President for Research. Each fellowship provides a $1000 award for the students to help cover costs of the project.
2017-18 Academic Year Research and Creative Activities Fellowship Award Recipients
(Student Name, Academic Program, Project Title, Faculty Mentor)
- Christopher Albert, Chemical Engineering, “Pulp Yield Improvement Via Meerwein-Ponndorf-Verley (MPV) Reduction,” advised by Thomas Schwartz
- Cole Butler, Civil Engineering, “Population models on continuous-valued heterogeneous landscapes,” advised by David Hiebeler
- Jessica Champagne, Psychology, “Maine Understanding Sensory Integration & amp; Cognition (MUSIC) Project: Can music learning improve cognition in older adults?” advised by Rebecca MacAulay
- Matthew Clark, Chemistry, “Examination of the Effects of Processing Parameters on Bioactive Compounds in Maine Seaweeds,” advised by Barbara Cole
- Daniel D’Alessio, Mathematics, “Lacunarity Within Mammograms,” advised by Andre Khalil
- Amy de Silva, Communication Sciences and Disorders, “Lend me your ear: Context effects on ambiguous idiom comprehension in aphasia,” advised by Christopher Grindrod
- Spencer DeBrock, Zoology, “The Effect of the Hemlock Woolly Adelgid on Black-legged Tick Abundance and Lyme Disease Infection Prevalence in Maine,” advised by Allison Gardner
- Cara Doiron, Finance, “Constructing Identity through the Lens of Fashion,” advised by Samantha Jones
- Cody Gigac, Chemical Engineering, “Synthesis of a Halo-tag Ligand; for targeted genetic studies of serotonin receptors,” advised by Michael Kienzler
- Mitchell Harling, Bioengineering, “The Metabolic Behavior of M1-Like Macrophages when Treated with Extracts from Anti-Inflammatory Foods,” advised by Karissa Tilbury
- Cory Johnson, Biology, “Effects of Dietary Fats on Brain-Adipose Communication,” advised by Kristy Townsend
- Angus Koller, Chemistry, “Polyphenol Oxidase and Total Phenolic Content in Honeycrisp Apples Afflicted with Soggy Breakdown,” advised by Barbara Cole
- Chloe Lilly, Biological Engineering, “Slippery paper diagnostic devices with agar based bacterial detection system,” advised by Caitlin Howell
- Calla Williams, Psychology, “Women In Leadership: How Leadership Framing and Social Identity Theory Influence Women’s Leadership Confidence,” advised by Shannon McCoy