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George M., Massoud Y., and Saada J Barakat Award

Fellow: Liam Carvajal Janke '25

ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ Research Award

Fellow: Samara Braverman '24
Research Project: Latent Structures and Polling Results
Faculty Mentor: Jack O'Brien

Fellow: Gavin Kursman '24
Research Project: Implementation Mechanisms and State-Compliance of North American and European Transboundary Air Pollution Treaties
Faculty Mentor: Allen Springer

ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ Summer Language Study Award

Fellow: Ahmad Abdulwadood '24
Program: ISA Spanish Language and Culture Program
Faculty Mentor: Julia Venegas

Fellow: David Calzadillas '23
Program: Middlebury Language Schools
Faculty Mentor: Davida Gavioli

Fellow: Oceana Hangret '25
Program: Middlebury Language Schools French Immersion Program
Faculty Mentor: Meryem Belkaid

Fellow: Ruth Olujobi '25
Program: Goethe Institut, Hamburg, Germany
Faculty Mentor: Jill Smith

Fellow: Esteban Tarazona '25
Program: Institute D'Avignon
Faculty Mentor: Katherine Dauge-Roth

Fellow: Gianna Turk' 24
Program: Living Latin in Rome with the Paideia Institute
Faculty Mentor: Joshua Hartman

Fellow: Kenny Ventress '25
Program: Goethe Institut, Munich, Germany
Faculty Mentor: Birgit Tautz

Christenfeld Summer Research Fellowship

Fellow: Jesse Robertson '23
Research Project:LGBT Representation in Music
Faculty Mentor: Tracy McMullen

James Stacy Coles Summer Research Fellowship

Fellow: Devin Bellevue '24
Research Project: Characterizing the Motor Activity Patterns of the Thoracic Spinal Cord Neural Network
Faculty Mentor: Manuel Diaz-Rios

Fellow: Emelia Krakora '24
Research Project: The Role of Gap Junctions (Electrical Synapses) on Spinal Locomotor Activity
Faculty Mentor: Manuel Diaz-Rios

Martha Reed Coles Summer Fellowship

Fellow: Hannah Kim '24
Research Project: Monsters, Mothers, and Memories in Asian Diaspora Novels
Faculty Mentor: Hilary Thompson

Fellow: Stephanie McCurrach
Research Project: Twentieth-Century Paris: A New Literary Age
Faculty Mentor: Katherine Dauge-Roth

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

Fellow: Katrina Carrier '24
Research Project: Effects of Salinity Levels on the Lobster STG
Faculty Mentor: Patsy Dickinson

Fellow: Olivia Choi '24
Research Project: Antimicrobial Peptides in the Lobster Homarus americanus: Changes to Hemocyte Population Throughout the Lobster Molt Cycle
Faculty Mentor: Elizabeth Stemmler

Fellow: Jordy Dushime '23
Research Project: Semi-Quantitative Analysis of a Defensin-Type Antimicrobial Peptide in Hemolymph from the Lobster Homarus Americanus as a Function of Molt
Faculty Mentor: Elizabeth Stemmler

Fellow: Emily Herndon '23
Research Project: An Investigation of Neuropeptide Identity in Three Crab Species with Different Dietary Preferences
Faculty Mentor: Elizabeth Stemmler

Fellow: Isabella Kane '24
Research Project: Chances in Salinity Affecting the Cardiac Response of the American Lobster, Homarus americanus
Faculty Mentor: Patsy Dickinson

Fellow: Renske Kerkhofs '24
Research Project: The Effect of the Brunswick-Topsham Hydroelectric Dam on American Shad (Alosa sapidissima) in 2022
Faculty Mentor: David Carlon

Fellow: Jared Lynch
Research Project: Mitochondrial Influence of Thermal Tolerance in the European Green Crab (Carcinus maenas)
Faculty Mentor: David Carlon

Fellow: Katherine Padilla '23
Research Project: Effect of Water Current Speed and Direction on Gaits of the Sea Star, Asterias forbesi
Faculty Mentor: Amy Johnson

Fellow: Katherine Page '23
Research Project: Studying the Effects of Water Flow Velocity and Direction on Locomotion of the Sea Star Asterias forbesi (Forbes sea star)
Faculty Mentor: Amy Johnson

Fellow: JT Woolley '23
Research Project: Pharmacology of the Cardiac Ganglion in the American lobster, Homarus americanus
Faculty Mentor: Patsy Dickinson

Robert and Blythe Edwards Fund for the Arts

Fellow: Thais Carrillo '23
Research Project: Disability at ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ: The Past & Today
Faculty Mentor: Michael Kolster

Robert Freedman ’87, P’17 and Anne Cirillo P’17 Student Fellowship Program

Fellow: Ephraim Bomah '25
Research Project: The Effects of Dibutyl Phthalate (Plasticizer) on Motor-Related Activity
Faculty Mentor: Manuel Diaz-Rios

Freedman Summer Research Fellowship in Coastal/Environmental Studies

Fellow: Meghan Gonzalez '23
Research Project: Exploring the Effects of a Warming Ocean to Mid-Coast Maine Lobstermen ()
Faculty Mentor: Shreyas Sreenath

Fellow: Zach Leibowitz '24
Research Project: Bimetallic Catalysis Project
Faculty Mentor: Brandon Tate 

Goldsmith Adams Language Study Award

Fellow: Aidan Ward '24
Program: Princeton in Beijing Online Summer 2022
Faculty Mentor: Jing Xie

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

Fellow: Seneca Ellis '22
Research Project: The Sex-Specific Effects of Acute Ketamine Treatment on Parvalbumin and BDNF Proteins and Anxiety and Depression Following Early-Life Adversity
Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Honeycutt

Fellow: Robin Jones '22
Research Project: Of Peculiar Character: The Genius Loci of Greenwich Village
Faculty Mentor: Jill Pearlman

Fellow: Lauren Katz '22
Research Project: Memory, Identity, and Belonging in Contemporary German Jewish Narratives of Migration
Faculty Mentor: Jill Smith

Fellow: Livia Kunins-Berkowitz '22
Research Project: Greening the Market: Sustaining the Environment and the Marketplace Economy from 1960-Present
Faculty Mentor: David Hecht

Fellow: Cameron MacKenzie '22
Research Project: Timing and Extent of Glaciation in the Northeast Brooks Range, Alaska
Faculty Mentor: Emily Peterman

Fellow: Katherine McKee '22
Research Project: Yeasted Words: St.Catherine of Bologna's Spiritual Breadmaking
Faculty Mentor: Arielle Saiber

Fellow: Kellie Navarro '23
Research Project: Corals in a World Dominated by Climate Change: An Exploratory Study on Differential Gene Expression in Response to Thermal Stress in Astrangia
Faculty Mentor: David Carlon

Fellow: Emma Noel '23
Research Project: Characterizing the Effect of Early Life Adversity on Sex-Specific Behavior and DNA Methylation Patterns over Development
Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Honeycutt

Fellow: Andria Polo Brizuela '22
Research Project: Constructing Realities Through the Composition of Space
Faculty Mentor: Michael Kolster

Fellow: Lily Poppen '22
Research Project: A Trek to the Swiss Alpine Club Association and The Mountaineers in Seattle: Archival Work for an Honours Thesis
Faculty Mentor: Jens Klenner

Fellow: Lily Tedford '22
Research Project: Short Stories from the Port City
Faculty Mentor: Zahir Janmohamed

Fellow: Matthew Thomas '22
Research Project: An Ecosystem-Based Management Approach to Evaluate the Effects of River Herring Habit Restoration and Dam Removal on Groundfish Stocks in the Gulf of Maine
Faculty Mentor: Anne Hayden

Fellow: Holden Turner '21
Research Project: Presenting Thermochronology Results at the AGU Conference in New Orleans
Faculty Mentor: Jaclyn Baughman

Fellow: Miranda Viederman '22
Research Project: The Frenzie of the Womb: Pathologizing the Female Body in Renaissance English Drama
Faculty Mentor: Aaron Kitch

Fellow: Micah Wilson '22
Research Project: Building Home in Diaspora: The Jewish Left and the Housing Cooperative Movement of the Bronx, 1927-1956
Faculty Mentor: David Hecht

Peter J. Grua and Mary G. O’Connell Summer Research Award

Fellow: Mason Daugherty '25
Research Project: Smart Digitization of Cultural Heritage Collections
Faculty Mentor: Fernando Nascimento

Fellow: Charles Galicich '24
Research Project: Raising Voices: Diverse Narratives for Inclusiveness in Technological Design
Faculty Mentor: Fernando Nascimento

Fellow: Chengkai Gu '24
Research Project: Project on Deconstruction
Faculty Mentor: Paul Franco

Hughes Family Summer Research Fellowship

Fellow: Shane Araujo '23
Research Project: Grappling with Ecological Crisis, Grief, and Hope Through Amateur Mycology
Faculty Mentor: Shreyas Sreenath

Fellow: Hayden Redelman '24
Research Project: Building the Good Life
Faculty Mentor: Jill Pearlman

Fellow: Gracie Scheve '25
Research Project: Zooplankton Community Composition Across an Ion Gradient
Faculty Mentor: Mary Rogalski

Kaufman Family Fellowship

Fellow: Ziyou Hu '25
Research Project: Examining How Fan Productions Queer Dramas Set in Qin Dynasty
Faculty Mentor: Angel Matos

Kibbe Science Fellowship

Fellow: Charlie McLarnon '24
Research Project: Quantifying the Effect of a Constrained Olefin Dimerization Catalyst
Faculty Mentor: Richard Broene

Fellow: Claire Nguyen '25
Research Project: Transgenic Analysis of Putative Enhancers in Drosophilia Melanogaster
Faculty Mentor: Michael Palopoli

Fellow: Emma Noel '23
Research Project: Characterizing the Effect of Early Life Adversity on Sex-specific Behavior and DNA Methylation Patterns over Development
Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Honeycutt

Fellow: Alaijah Richie Rubianes '24
Research Project: Testing mRNA Transport in the Common Fungal Pathogen Candida albicans
Faculty Mentor: Anne McBride

Fellow: Mia Schiff '25
Research Project: Enhancer Verification in Populations of D. melanogaster
Faculty Mentor: Michael Palopoli

Fellow: Ean Small '23
Research Project: Three-Dimensional Computational Rendering of Feature Space Describing Phonotactic Behavior of Cricket Species, Gryllus bimaculatus, Through DeepLabCut Machine Learning Software
Faculty Mentor: Hadley Horch

Fellow: Laura Yang '23
Research Project: Role of ELMO5 in Arabidopsis thaliana Cell Adhesion
Faculty Mentor: Bruce Kohorn 

Kufe Family Research Fellowship

Fellow: Lyle Altschul '23
Research Project: Predicting Phytoplankton Poplations via Inorganic Nutrient Concentrations in Harpswell Sound
Faculty Mentor: Collin Roesler

Fellow: Brooke Asherman '23
Research Project: Exploring the Role of Toll Receptors in the Cricket (Gryllus bimaculatus) Auditory System in Response to Injury and Demonstrated Neuroplasticity
Faculty Mentor: Hadley Horch

Fellow: Joanne Du '24
Research Project: Effect of Non-Coding Sequences on RNA-Binding Protein Levels and Hyphal Formatin in Candida albicans
Faculty Mentor: Anne McBride

Fellow: Deva Holliman '23
Research Project: Exploring the Effects of Ocean Warming on the Temperate Coral Astrangia poculata
Faculty Mentor: Barry Logan

Fellow: Amina Hussein '24
Research Project: Investigating Whether Ips1 is Essential for mRNA Transport in Candida albicans
Faculty Mentor: Anne McBride

Fellow: Sarah Lührmann '23
Research Project: The Role of Toll Receptors in the Compensatory Plasticity Mechanism of Gryllus bimaculatus
Faculty Mentor: Hadley Horch

Fellow: Mariah McKenzie '23
Research Project: Charge Delocalization in Heterocyclic Amine and its Impact on Sorption Mechanisms
Faculty Mentor: Dharni Vasudevan

Fellow: Eliana Roberts '23
Research Project: Synthesis of Bimetallic Catalyst for Hydrogen Activation
Faculty Mentor: Brandon Tate

Fellow: Ibrahim Saleh '23
Research Project: Synthesizing & Characterizing Photoacid 2-hydroxy-8-napthalamiline
Faculty Mentor: Kana Takematsu

Edward E. Langbein Sr. Summer Fellowship

Fellow: Andria Polo Brizuela '22
Research Project: Redefining Home Through Architecture, Movement and Placement
Faculty Mentor: Michael Kolster

Lifson Family Summer Research Fellowship

Fellow: Thomas Mazzuchi '23
Research Project: Pop-out Effects in Auditory Search
Faculty Mentor: Jonathan Schacherer

Maine Space Grant Consortium Undergraduate Research Experience

Fellow: Tabarak Al Musawi '23
Research Project: Characterizing Toll Receptors in the Cricket, Gryllus bimaculatus
Faculty Mentor: Hadley Horch

Fellow: Natasha Haft '24
Research Project: Phytoplankton Community Structure: Multispectral Chlorophyll Fluorescence
Faculty Mentor: Collin Roesler

Fellow: Luv Kataria '24
Research Project: The Effects of the Plasticizer Dibutyl Phthalate (DBP) on Spinal Locomotor Activity
Faculty Mentor: Manuel Diaz-Rios

Fellow: Conor Padmanabhan '25
Research Project: Do the Extreme Tides in Harpswell Sound Lead to the Establishment of Unique Upstream and Downstream Phytoplankton Communities?
Faculty Mentor: Collin Roesler

Fellow: Khushali Patel '23
Research Project: The Effect of Early Life Adversity on Early Basolateral Amygdala Projections Activating Cells in the Prefrontal Cortex
Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Honeycutt 

Fellow: Isabella Quintana '23
Research Project: Examining the Effects of Disrupting Helicobacter pylori's Glycosylation Pathway
Faculty Mentor: Danielle Dube

Maine Space Grant Consortium - Institutional Collaboration Pilot Program Research Experience

Fellow: Ian Stebbins '25
Research Project: Insightful Understanding of Deep Neural Networks and Their Applications in Real-World Challenges
Faculty Mentor: Salimeh Yasaei Sekeh

Craig A. McEwen Student Research Fellowship in the Social Sciences

Fellow: Maia Hirsch '22.5
Research Project: Substance Use Disorder and Rural Healthcare
Faculty Mentor: Nancy Riley

Fellow: Kenya Mathieu '23
Research Project: Exploring Black Maternal Mortality in the United States
Faculty Mentor: Nancy Riley

Micoleau Family Fellowship in the Creative and Performing Arts

Fellow: Julia Jennings '23
Research Project: Goodbye Rhoda: Staging Queer Temporality Through the Road Trip Narrative
Faculty Mentor: Lindsay Livingston

Fellow: Lou Sydel '22.5
Research Project: On The Other Hand: Performance as Embodied Gesture
Faculty Mentor: Davis Robinson

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

Fellow: Emily Coffin '22
Research Project: Diakritikos
Faculty Mentor: Robert Sobak

Patterson/Baird Family Research Fellowship

Fellow: Min Guo '24
Research Project: Equality and Self-Ownership
Faculty Mentor: Scott Sehon

Roberts Research Award

Fellow: Katherine Draeger '24
Research Project: Bike Infrastructure and Gentrification
Faculty Mentor: Eileen Sylvan Johnson

Fellow: Song Eraou '23
Research Project: Studying the Role of Media in Creating the Black Flag Movement in Malaysia
Faculty Mentor: Rachel Sturman

Fellow: Eduardo Mendoza '24
Research Project: Use of the Long Take as Film Language
Faculty Mentor: Allison Cooper

Rusack Coastal Studies Fellowship

Fellow: Kianne Benjamin '24
Research Project: Investigating How Eelgrass (Zostera marina) Beds Influence Microplastic Concentrations in Farmed Oysters (Crassostrea virginica)
Faculty Mentor: Katie DuBois

Fellow: Everett Horch '24
Research Project: The Impacts of Climate Change Induced Ocean Acidification and Warming on the Growth of Seagrass, Blue Mussels, and Oysters
Faculty Mentor: Katie DuBois

Fellow: Fiona Ralph '23
Research Project: Investigation of Oyster Farming Practices in a Changing Gulf of Maine
Faculty Mentor: Katie DuBois

Fellow: Nicholas Yoong '24
Research Project: Zostera Marina Epiphyte Community Geographic and Temporal Sampling
Faculty Mentor: Katie DuBois

Surdna Foundation Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program

Fellow: Philip Bonanno '23
Research Project: Reimagining the Southern Gothic: A Crip Analysis of McCullers, O'Connor, and Faulkner
Faculty Mentor: Meredith McCarroll

Fellow: Salina Chin '23
Research Project: Mapping LGBTQ+ Portland
Faculty Mentor: Theo Greene

Fellow: Lucas DiCerbo '23
Research Project: Using Substrate Decoys to Characterize Glycoprotein Synthetic Pathways in H. pylori
Faculty Mentor: Danielle Dube

Fellow: Kevin Fleshman '23
Research Project: Photocatalytic Degradation of Sunscreen Active Ingredients using TiO2 and BiOCl
Faculty Mentor: Elizabeth Stemmler

Fellow: Ivana Gutierrez '23
Research Project: Cuidado Colectivo: Acts of Care Among Bolivian Migrant Women in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Faculty Mentor: Krista Van Vleet

Fellow: Colleen McAloon '23
Research Project: Phenylisocyanide Ligand Synthesis and Coordination to Cobalt as a Catalyst for the Dimerization of Linear Alpha Olefins
Faculty Mentor: Richard Broene

Fellow: Finian McGannon '23
Research Project: The Latent Structure of Voting Patterns
Faculty Mentor: Jack O'Brien

Fellow: Sarah Munoru '23
Research Project: Lookin at the Other Side of the Racial Spectrum: Perceptions and Portrayals of Race in Antiquity
Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Kosak

Fellow: Robert Murray '23
Research Project: What Makes the Perfect Song?
Faculty Mentor: Tracy McMullen

Fellow: Charles O'Brien '23
Research Project: Harpswell Sound Phytoplankton Communities
Faculty Mentor: Collin Roesler

Fellow: Edmundo Ortiz Alvarez '23
Research Project: Indeterminacy of Translation
Faculty Mentor: Scott Sehon

Fellow: Josh-Pablo Patel '23
Research Project: The Geographies of Trauma in Asian American Autofiction and Memoir
Faculty Mentor: Belinda Kong

Fellow: Henry Spritz '23
Research Project: Escapism and the Digital Generation
Faculty Mentor: Michael Kolster

Fellow: Evren Uras '23
Research Project: Analyzing Control Delivery Mechanisms of Digital Technologies Integral to 'Web 3.0'
Faculty Mentor: Eric Chown

Fellow: Reed Warburton '23
Research Project: Conspecific and Heterospecific Social Information Use in Bumblebees, Bombus impatiens
Faculty Mentor: Patricia Jones

Fellow: Margaret Weinstock '23
Research Project: Cell Adhesion Mutants in Arabidopsis Thaliana
Faculty Mentor: Bruce Kohorn

Fellow: Kirstin Yip '23
Research Project: Queer Rebellion and Repression Online in Singapore
Faculty Mentor: Rachel Sturman 

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

Fellow: Sophie Lipset '24
Research Project: Exploration of How Actions Inform Identity
Faculty Mentor: Mary Hart

Fellow: Ella Schmidt '23
Research Project: Divinity School: A Novel
Faculty Mentor: Anthony Walton

Student Faculty Research Grant

Fellow: Yasemin Altug '25
Research Project: Effects of Change in Saline Concentrations on the Lobster Stomatogastric Nervous System
Faculty Mentor: Patsy Dickinson

Fellow: Geoffrey Atulo '24
Research Project: Investigation of the Catalytic Competency of Imidazolium N-oxides at the N-termini of Peptoid Turn Catalysts for Trifluoromethylation of Carbonyls
Faculty Mentor: Benjamin Gorske

Fellow: Isaac Bediako '24
Research Project: Bridging Photoacids to Photobases using Schiff-Base Design
Faculty Mentor: Kana Takematsu

Fellow: Jordyn Birmingham '24
Research Project: Behavioral Effects of Movement in Hearing-Impared Adult Crickets, Gryllus bimaculatus
Faculty Mentor: Hadley Horch

Fellow: Cedric Blaise '22
Research Project: Search Algorithms for Equilibria Computation in Influence Games
Faculty Mentor: Mohammad Irfan

Fellow: Sydney Bonauto '23
Research Project: Ultrasonic Vocalization Playback as an Affective Assay at Both Neural and Behavioral Levels: Implications for Understanding Adversity-Induced Emotional Dysfunction.
Faculty Mentor: Patsy Dickinson

Fellow: Jack Callahan '23
Research Project: Moving Multiple Charges with Light in Derivatized Napthalene Photoacids
Faculty Mentor: Kana Takematsu

Fellow: Hanna Cha '25
Research Project: Investigation of the Catalytic Competency of C-terminal and N-terminal Extensions of Peptoid Turn Catalysts for Trifluoromethylation of Carbonyls
Faculty Mentor: Benjamin Gorske

Fellow: Daniel Chi '24
Research Project: Investigation of the Role of Steric Interactions at the C-termini of Peptoid Turn Catalysts for Trifluoromethylation of Carbonyls
Faculty Mentor: Benjamin Gorske

Fellow: Sarah Clarke '23
Research Project: Developing a Modeling Orientation to Science: Teaching and Learning Variability and Change in Ecosystems
Faculty Mentor: Alison Miller

Fellow: Jordyn Cowger '24
Research Project: Using dsRNA Injections to Investigate the Role of Toll-Signaling in the Development of the Nervous System of the Cricket Embryo
Faculty Mentor: Hadley Horch

Fellow: Eva Dowd '22
Research Project: Investigation of the Roles of Hydrogen Bonding and Steric Interactions at the C-termini of Peptoid Turn Catalysts for Trifluoromethylation of Carbonyls
Faculty Mentor: Benjamin Gorske

Fellow: Zachary Flood '23
Research Project: LEAPS-MPS: The Representation Theory of Combinatorial Categories
Faculty Mentor: Eric Ramos

Fellow: Kenneth Garcia '23
Research Project: Rhythmic Behaviors: Neuromodulatory Capacities in the Cardiac Ganglia of Crustaceans
Faculty Mentor: Patsy Dickinson

Fellow: Ari Geisler '23
Research Project: Continuum Approximation of Dispersive Shock Waves
Faculty Mentor: Christopher Chong

Fellow: Ana Gunther '23
Research Project: Sampling Soils from Baffin Island for the Analysis of Soil Carbon Storage and Peat Initiation
Faculty Mentor: Phil Camill

Fellow:  Adelaide Hocking '24
Research Project: Comparative Functional Genomics INBRE in Maine
Faculty Mentor: Patsy Dickinson

Fellow: Rania Janmohamed '25
Research Project: The Effects of Changes in Salinity on the Cardiac System of the American Lobster
Faculty Mentor: Patsy Dickinson

Fellow:  Emily Jones '24
Research Project: Comparative Functional Genomics INBRE in Maine
Faculty Mentor: Patsy Dickinson

Fellow: Kori Kelley '24 
Research Project: Comparative Functional Genomics INBRE in Maine
Faculty Mentor: Patsy Dickinson

Fellow: Sean Li '23
Research Project: Properties of Certain Gauge Conditions for Black Holes that Carry Charge 
Faculty Mentor: Thomas Baumgarte

Fellow: Bjorn Ludwig '23
Research Project: Modeling of Nonlinear Acoustic Flier
Faculty Mentor: Christopher Chong

Fellow:  Rowland Luo '23
Research Project: Comparative Functional Genomics INBRE in Maine
Faculty Mentor: Patsy Dickinson

Fellow: Megan Lymburner '24
Research Project: Comparative Functional Genomics INBRE in Maine
Faculty Mentor: Patsy Dickinson

Fellow:  Elise Martin '23
Research Project: Neuropeptide Sensitivity of the Cardiac Ganglion of Pugettia Producta: Evolutionary Implications for Central Pattern Generator Neuromodulation
Faculty Mentor: Patsy Dickinson

Fellow: Miranda Maung '25
Research Project: Is the Cardiac Muscle a Location at which Myosuppressin Modulates the Heartbeat of the American Lobster?
Faculty Mentor: Patsy Dickinson

Fellow: Sammi McLemore '25
Research Project: Comparative Functional Genomics INBRE in Maine
Faculty Mentor: Patsy Dickinson

Fellow: Rachel Nealon '23
Research Project: Computational Investigations of Theta Oscillations in Episodic Memory Post-Retrieval using Granger Analysis
Faculty Mentor: Kana Takematsu

Fellow: Sophie Nigrovic '24
Research Project: Comparative Functional Genomics INBRE in Maine
Faculty Mentor: Patsy Dickinson

Fellow: Emmanuel Okyere '25
Research Project: Quasi-Continuum Modeling of Discrete Conservation Laws
Faculty Mentor: Christopher Chong

Fellow: Yanevith Peña
Research Project: Identification of Neural and Epigenetic Biomarkers for Affective Dysfunction Following Early Adversity
Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Honeycutt

Fellow: Matthew Perez '23
Research Project: Investigating the Role of Theta Oscillations in Episodic Memory During a Post-Retrieval Monitoring using Granger Causality Analysis
Faculty Mentor: Erika Nyhus

Fellow: Alexander Richardson '25
Research Project: RUI: Influence Games: A Game-Theoretic Approach to Strategic Behavior in Networks
Faculty Mentor: Mohammad Irfan

Fellow: Jacqueline Seddon '23
Research Project: Evolutionary Diversity of Neuromudulatory Peptides in Crabs
Faculty Mentor: Patsy Dickinson

Fellow: Hattie Slayton '23
Research Project: Comparative Functional Genomics INBRE in Maine
Faculty Mentor: Patsy Dickinson

Fellow: Bryant Ung '24
Research Project: Comparative Functional Genomics INBRE in Maine
Faculty Mentor: Patsy Dickinson

Fellow: Xenobia Weber '24
Research Project: Investigation of the Effects of Toll-Signaling and Genetic Knockdown of Toll-2 Receptors on Structural Plasticity in the Mediterranean Field Cricket
Faculty Mentor:  Patsy Dickinson

Student Faculty Grant Research Assistantship

Fellow: Patrick Bloniasz '22
Research Project: Identifying the Role of Theta Oscillations in the Transient Network Dynamics Involved in Episodic Memory
Faculty Mentor: Erika Nyhus

Fellow: Rachel Lin '25
Research Project: Identifying the Role of Theta Oscillations in the Transient Network Dynamics Involved in Episodic Memory
Faculty Mentor: Erika Nyhus

 

Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation Award

Fellow: Katharine Barrett '23

ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ Fellowships in the Life Sciences

Fellow: Ahmed Albayaty '25
Research Project: Confirming the Effect of Enhancer Variation on Genetic Diversity Through Transgenic Reporter Constructs of Drosophilia Melanogaster
Faculty Mentor: Michael Palopoli

Fellow: Nia Ashby '25
Research Project: Temperature Effects on Gait of the Sea Star Asterias rubens
Faculty Mentor: Amy Johnson

Fellow: Nuanxi Feng '24
Research Project: Studying the Effect of Early Life Adversity on Anxiety-Related Behaviors of Rats Using Software DeepLabCut
Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Honeycutt

Fellow: Chongye Han '25
Research Project: Inspecting the Role of Regulatory Variation in Genetic Variation Validating of Enhancer Candidates with Molecular Technology
Faculty Mentor: Michael Palopoli

Fellow: Drew Humphreys '21
Research Project: From Crawl to Bounce: Characterizing Gait Transitions in the Sea Star Asterias forbesi
Faculty Mentor: Amy Johnson

Fellow: Aeri Ko '25
Research Project: The Influence of Calcium-Activated Potassium Currents on Spinal Locomotor Activity  
Faculty Mentor: Manuel Diaz-Rios

Fellow: Connor Latona '24
Research Project: The Role of Gap Junctions in Spinal Locomotor Activity of Neonatal Mice
Faculty Mentor: Manuel Diaz-Rios

Fellow: Sam McClelland '24
Research Project: Characterizing the Motor Activity Patterns of the Thoracic Spinal Cord Neural Network
Faculty Mentor: Manuel Diaz-Rios

Fellow: Isabella Turk '24
Research Project: Exploration of the Serine Protease and its Potential Role in the Compensatory Plasticity of Crickets (Gryllus bimaculatus)
Faculty Mentor: Hadley Horch

Fellow: Karin Van Hassel '24
Research Project: Interactions Between Nitric Oxide and Stretch Feedback Systems in the Heart of the American Lobster, Homarus americanus
Faculty Mentor: Patsy Dickinson

ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ Public Service Fellowship

Fellow: Luke Bartol '23

Fellow: Julianna Brown '24

Fellow: Auggie Burke '23

Fellow: Rory Devlin '23

Fellow: Justis Dixon '23

Fellow: Ella Dudley '23

Fellow: Abby Gordy '23

Fellow: Luna Jiang-Qin '25

Fellow: Lucas Johnson '22

Fellow: Jonas Kristensson '22

Fellow: Boaz Malakoff '24

Fellow: Liam McNett '23

Fellow: Paulina Morales '24

Fellow: Margot Ngo '23

Fellow: Patrick Rochford '23

Fellow: Alondra Romero '24

Fellow: Hunter Steele '23

Fellow: Leila Trummel '23

Fellow: Carl Williams '23

Burns Fellowship

Fellow: Casey Goldberg '24
Research Project: Carbon Fluctuations in the Harvard Forest: Examining Changes in the Terrestrial Biosphere
Faculty Mentor: Mark Battle

Fellow: Angela McKenzie '23
Research Project: Photolithography Development and IDT Design
Faculty Mentor: Madeleine Msall

Cooke Environmental Research Fellowship

Fellow: Katie Kurtz '24
Faculty Mentor: Eileen Johnson

Denning Summer Fellowship

Fellow: Aura Carlson '22

Fellow: Grace Cross '23

Fellow: Amy Hussey '23

Fellow: Samira Iqbal '23

Fellow: Jack Olcott '22

Fellow: Edwardo Perez '23

Fellow: Lily Poppen '22

Fellow: Miki Rierson '23

Fellow: Henry Somerby '23

E.O. LaCasce, Jr. Fund Fellowship

Fellow: Enrico Degrande '23

Environmental Justice Fellowship

Fellow: Jill Cloonan '24
Faculty Mentor: Eileen Johnson

Fellow: Hayden Keene '22
Faculty Mentor: Eileen Johnson

Freedman Computer Science Fellowship

Fellow: Anna Leitner '23
Research Project: Privacy, Smart Energy Meter Data, and NILM Data Disaggregation
Faculty Mentor: Sean Barker

Gerald J. Weinberger Fellowship in Computer Science

Fellow: Andy Stoneman '23

Gibbons Summer Research Program

Fellow: Zeb Becker '24
Research Project: Computational Analysis for the Liberal Arts: Developing a Tool for Students to Gather Large Datasets from Social Networks and Online Archives
Faculty Mentor: Fernando Nascimento

Fellow: Zoe Becker '24
Research Project: Impact of COVID Restrictions, Death Counts, and Vaccination Rates on Maine Business Closures
Faculty Mentor: Erik Nelson

Fellow: Harry Cooper '22
Research Project: Quantifying Carbon Sequestration on ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ-Owned Properties using GIS and Long-Term Datasets
Faculty Mentor: Phil Camill

Fellow: Saul Cuevas-Landeros '23
Research Project: Metaphors and Technology
Faculty Mentor: Eric Chown

Fellow: Brian Liu '25
Research Project: Building an Application for Algorithmic Composition
Faculty Mentor: Frank Mauceri

Fellow: Juntao Lu '23
Research Project: Random Braiding in Graph Configuration Spaces
Faculty Mentor: Eric Ramos

Fellow: Aggie Macy '24
Research Project: Place Names and Memory in Greenland
Faculty Mentor: Susan Kaplan

Fellow: Lucy O'Sullian '23
Research Project: Using the Software DeepLabCut to Understand the Effects of Ketamine on Anxiety in Rats after Maternal Separation
Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Honeycutt

Fellow: Claire Roberts '24
Research Project: Diakritikos
Faculty Mentor: Robert Sobak

Global Citizens Grant

Fellow: Sophia Karris '22

Fellow: Khalil Kilani '25

Fellow: Alexandria Pizzino '23

Fellow: Jay Sayler '23

Fellow: Jack Selig '23

Alfred E. Golz Fellowship

Fellow: Yaseen Ahmed '23

Fellow: Sophia Blaha '24

Fellow: Tom Brockett '24

Fellow: Emma Hargreaves '23

Fellow: Anibal Husted '22

Kappa Psi Upsilon Maine Based Fellowship

Fellow: Violet Apodaca '25
Faculty Mentor: Eileen Johnson

Fellow: Emma Barker '25
Faculty Mentor: Eileen Johnson

Fellow: Theo Curran '23
Faculty Mentor: Eileen Johnson

Fellow: Angus Dillon '22
Faculty Mentor: Eileen Johnson

Fellow: Sophia Hirst '24
Faculty Mentor: Eileen Johnson

Fellow: Leif Maynard '23
Faculty Mentor: Eileen Johnson

Fellow: Jane Olsen '24
Faculty Mentor: Eileen Johnson 

Littlefield Summer Research Fellowship

Fellow: Maryam Akramova '24
Research Project: 
Faculty Mentor: Brandon Tate

Fellow: Thomas Lang '23
Research Project: 
Faculty Mentor: Elizabeth Stemmler

Fellow: Phuong Luong '22
Research Project: 
Faculty Mentor: Danielle Dube

Fellow: Melissa Su '24
Research Project:  
Faculty Mentor: Brandon Tate

Logan Environmental Fellowship

Fellow: Audrey Pyper '23
Faculty Mentor: Eileen Johnson

Maine Community Fellowship

Fellow: Tess Davis '24

Fellow: Elijah Dumdie '25

Fellow: Jess Giorgio '23

Fellow: Fatima Kunjo '25

Fellow: Liliana Lines '24

Fellow: Kyle Moeller '24

Fellow: Uma Mohamed '25

Fellow: Annika Moore '23

Fellow: Sophia Pantzer '24

Fellow: Kavi Sarna '25

Fellow: Bella Tucci '23

Dana Walker Mayo Summer Research Fellowship

Fellow: Mario Mero '25
Faculty Mentor: Sean Lutz

Fellow: Safa Salman '23
Faculty Mentor: Elizabeth Stemmler

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program

Fellow: Ahmad Abdulwadood '24

Fellow: Kami Atcitty '24

Fellow: Jeremiah Brown '23

Fellow: KaDerrius Campbell '23

Fellow: Marcus Gadsden '24

Fellow: Karla Lainez '24

Fellow: Shandiin Largo '23

Fellow: Sarah Munoru '23

Fellow: Dylan Richmond '24

Fellow: Colby Santana '23

Fellow: Liat Tesfazgi '24

Munno Neuroscience Prize Fund

Fellow: Grant Griesman '24
Research Project: Interacting Feedback Pathways in the Cardiac Neuromuscular System of the American Lobster, Homarus americanus
Faculty Mentor: Patsy Dickinson

Paller Neuroscience Academic Year Research Fellowship

Fellow: Sydney Bonauto '23
Research Project: Ultrasonic Vocalization Playback as an Affective Assay at Both Neural and Behavioral Levels: Implications for Understanding Adversity-Induced Emotional Dysfunction
Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Honeycutt

Fellow: Jacqueline Seddon '23
Research Project: Evolutionary Diversity of Neuromodulatory Peptides in Crabs
Faculty Mentor: Patsy Dickinson

Paller Neuroscience Summer Research Fellowship

Fellow: Isabel Petropoulos '23
Research Project: Determining the Peripheral Site at which Myosuppressin Modulates Cardiac Contractions in the American Lobster, Homarus americanus
Faculty Mentor: Patsy Dickinson

Fellow: Eliza Rhee '23
Research Project: Identification of A1R-mGluR1 Heteromeric Complexes in the Lumbar Central Pattern Generator (CPG) Motoneurons of the Mammalian Spinal Cord
Faculty Mentor: Manuel Diaz-Rios

Fellow: Jada Scotland '23
Research Project: Role of Toll Signaling on the Maintenance and Plasticity of the Cricket Auditory System
Faculty Mentor: Hadley Horch

Poppy Environmental Studies Fellowship

Fellow: Jane Hirschman '24
Faculty Mentor: Eileen Johnson

Riley Research Award

Fellow: Grace Carrier '23
Research Project: Research on Resident Owned Communitis
Faculty Mentor: Theo Greene

Fellow: Lailoo Perriello '22
Research Project: The Unheard Voices of Chinese Adoptees
Faculty Mentor: Nancy Riley

Jacob Jasper Stahl Summer Fellowship for the Study of Mediterranean Antiquity

Fellow: Gianna Turk '24
Program: Living Latin in Rome with the Paideia Institute
Faculty Mentor: Joshua Hartman

Fellow: Emily Coffin '22
Program: Astypalaia Bioarchaeology Field School
Faculty Mentor: Rob Sobak

Fellow: Francesca Kusserow '24
Program: Living Greek in Greece, Paideia Institute
Faculty Mentor: Rob Sobak

Allen Wells Travel and Research Award

Fellow: Ayana Opong-Nyantekyi '23
Research Project: An Exploration of Afro-Colombian Culture, Communities, and Identities
Faculty Mentor: Margaret Boyle

Class of 2022

Ellie Maus
Andrew Merrell
Jack Recchiuti

Class of 2023

Arav Agarwal
Paloma Aguirre
Alexandra Arndt
Almira Arnold
Julia Arsenault
Thea Aslanian
Sophie Bell
Halina Bennet
Abby Bennitt
Ezra Berman
Clementine Blaschke
Matthew Braver
Gretchen Clauss
Isaac Cooper
Catherine Crouch
Gabriel Cuilan
Tim Galamaga
Maria Garcia
Tyriq Garland
Susu Gharib
Logan Gillis
Nicolas Guzman
Faith Jennings
Dae Kim
Hao Ly
Izzy Miller
Nhi Nguyen
Lemona Niu
Blythe Peterson
Lily Randall
Valerik Roumi
Jada Scotland
Jacob Sher
Christoph Tatgenhorst
Karis Treadwell
Hayden Weatherall
Ely Wilson
Paris Wilson
Cheng Xing
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Class of 2024

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Alan Casey
Kevin Clark
Nate Clark
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Brady Douglas
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Zachary Ennis
Shoshi Gordon
Kate Ishida
Lauren Keohan
Rachel Klein
Maya Lamm
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Jesse Lycan
David Ma
Aiden MacNeil
Amory Malin
Adele Metres
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Ian Morrison
Thomas Nettesheim
Michael Nichols
Fay O'Donnell
Athis Osathapan
Cari Pascal
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Aidan Reid
Edie Salzig
Ally Savagian
Emi Schneider
Ellie Schofield
Emily Simons
Robyn Spencer
Reid Staples
Josie Tidmore
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Cambron Wade
Jordin Young
Terry Zhang

Class of 2025

Alexandra Camargo
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Tej Dhingra
David Garcia
Callie Godfrey
Daniel Kotorri
Abhi Nagireddygari
Elisa Rafat
Gabe Sarno
Julia Smart
Owen Smiley
Gavin Sychterz
Simon Thomas
Andy Ton
Anya Workman
Claire Wyman