2011 Summer Faculty Research Awards Announced

Michael Eckardt, UMaine vice president for research, has announced the recipients of the 2011 Summer Faculty Research Awards.  Recipients are selected based on recommendations by the Faculty Research Funds Committee.  The Faculty Research Funds Program is part of a broader investment strategy designed to assist faculty and encourage research and other creative achievements.

Stephen Coghlan, Wildlife Ecology – Impacts of Spawning Sea Lamprey on Foraging Behaviors and Growth Potential of Stream Fishes: A Bioenergetics Modeling Approach to Quantify Benefits from Dam Removal.

Elizabeth McKillen, History – Making the World safe for Workers? U.S. Labor and Wilsonian Internationalism, 1912 – 1920.

Stephen Miller, History – “The Queen’s Generals: Roberts, Wolseley, and the British Empire”

V. Constanza Ocampo-Raeder, Anthropology – The Waterless Realms of the Human Seascape: Identity and Gender in the Communal Management of Ocean Resources in Fishing Villages of the Northern Coast of Peru.

Eric Pandiscio, Education – Using Real World Contexts to Understand Fundamental Ideas from Middle and Secondary Mathematics.

Jasmine Saros, Biology/Climate Change – Developing an Arctic Ecology Research Program.

Gregory Zaro, Anthropology – The Collapse of an Ancient Maya City in Northwestern Belize: La Milpa during the Terminal Classic Period, A.D. 800-1000.