Student Activities

Amanda Gavin, a candidate for the Doctor of Philosophy in Ecology and Environmental Sciences, will be defending her thesis titled, “Integrating contemporary and paleolimnological research with Indigenous and community perspectives to understand sentinel responses of Maine and sub-Arctic lakes to global environmental change”. Please contact amanda.gavin@maine.edu for a Zoom link.

Erfan Najaf, a candidate for the Doctor of Philosophy in Civil Engineering, will be defending his dissertation titled, “Advancing Sustainable and Durable Concrete Infrastructure Through Mixture Optimization, Thermal-Cracking Mitigation, and Multiscale Reinforcement.”

Shawn David, a candidate for the Doctor of Philosophy in Biomedical Science and Engineering, will be defending his dissertation titled, “MHC Class II Repression in Clonal Hematopoiesis and Its Implications for CD4+ T Cell Surveillance.”

Griffin Dill, a candidate for the Doctor of Philosophy in Ecology and Environmental Sciences, will be defending his dissertation titled, “An Integrated, Multi-Scale Examination of Tick-Borne Disease Risk in Maine.” For zoom link and password, please contact the student at: griffin.dill@maine.edu

Bobby Thapa, a candidate for the Doctor of Philosophy in Forest Resources, will be defending his dissertation titled, “Valuation of Cultural Ecosystem Services.”

Izge Bayyurt, a candidate for the Master of Science in Teaching, will be defending his thesis titled, “SurfaceExplorer: Investigating Surfaces in Virtual Reality.” For zoom link and password, please contact the student at: izge.bayyurt@maine.edu

Brianna Gurdon, a candidate for the Doctor of Philosophy in Biomedical Sciences, will defend her dissertation entitled, “Leveraging Multimodal Approaches to Investigate Genetic and Cellular Sources of Phenotypic Variation in the Brain”. Contact brianna.gurdon@maine.edu for a zoom link.

Madison Mueth, a candidate for the Doctor of Philosophy in Biomedical Science and Engineering, will be defending her dissertation titled, “Investigating Regulatory RNA-Protein Interactions in Nociception: Establishing CELF Control as a Critical Homeostatic Translational Regulator in Sensory Neurons.”