Winners of the 2013 GradExpo
President’s Research Impact Award:
Alison Mitchell, student, and Jennifer Middleton, teacher, What happens next? Examining child protection outcomes for a cohort of opioid-exposed infants
Dean’s Undergraduate Mentoring Award (two recipients):
Katharine Ruskin, Testing for Stability in the Sharp-tailed Sparrow Hybrid Zone: 130 Years of Plumage Comparisons;and Alper Kiziltas, Natural Fiber Blend – Nylon 6 Composite
Graduate Dean’s Photo Contest – Research Category:
1st, Mariusz Potocki
2nd, Bridie McGreavy
Tied for 3rd, Luke Groff and Bjorn Grigholm
Dean’s Photo Contest – Graduate Student Life:
1st, José Carrasco
2nd, Amy Pierce
Tied for 3rd, Jocelyn Runnebaum and Jincy Joseph
Foster Center for Student Innovation Commercialization Award, Intermedia:
Heather Perry
Foster Center for Student Innovation Commercialization Award, Science & Technology:
Hari Prasanth Palani
PechaKucha Competition:
1st, Amy Pierce, 12 Steps to Planning the Perfect Wedding
2nd, Hollie Smith, Intersections of Higher Education, State Policy, & Economic Development: Understanding the Connections in Maine Communities
3rd, Jessica LeClair, Be Prepared
Intermedia Competition:
1st, Heather Perry, Queen for a Day
2nd, Benjamin Burpee, Spaz.lab
3rd, Tara Law, Enchanted
Humanities/Social Sciences Poster Competition:
1st, Stacy Doore, Movement Matters: Using state longitudinal mobility data to improve school policy, intervention and academic outcomes
2nd, Bridie McGreavy, Resilience in Collaboration
3rd, Chris Bennett, Non-Visual Graphical Accessibility
Humanities/Social Sciences Oral Competition:
1st, Karen Hutchins, Improving Links between Knowledge and Action by Identifying Factors that Influence the Structure of Municipality-University Partnerships
2nd, Rebecca White, The Ragged Edge of Motherhood: Mothers’ Allowances in Policy and Practice, 1924-1960
3rd, Ian Jesse, Bad Men and Horrible Bosses: Masculinity and the Folksongs of Larry Gorman
Physical Sciences & Technology Poster Competition:
1st, Abolfazl Razi, Delay Optimal Packetization Policy for Wireless Sensor Networks
2nd, Hannah Breton, Mechanically Fastened Fiber-Reinforced Polymer (FRP) Flexural Retrofit Systems for Reinforced Concrete Flat-Slab Bridges
3rd, Samuel Roy, The influence of tectonic strain on landscape evolution
Physical Sciences & Technology Oral Competition:
1st, Silas Owusu-Nkwantabisah, Novel approach to controlling layer- by-layer polyelectrolyte multilayer (PEM) formation & application as sensor
2nd, Bess Koffman, Centennial-scale shifts in the position of the Southern Hemisphere westerly wind belt over the past millennium
3rd, Delia Massey, Use of Diffusive Gradients in Thin Films (DGT) as an Assessment Tool for Bioavailability of Mercury Species in Sediment
Natural Sciences Poster Competition:
1st, Richard Luc, The Role of Caveolin in the Toll-Like Receptor Signaling Pathway
2nd, Brianna Hughes, Effect of Rigor Status during High Pressure Processing on Abalone Texture and Color
3rd, Luke Groff, Hibernation ecology of Lithobates sylvaticus in Maine’s mountain landscape
Natural Sciences Oral Competition:
1st, Nadir Yildrim, Nanofibrillated Cellulose (NFC) Insulating Foams
2nd, Katharine Ruskin, Testing for Stability in the Sharp-tailed Sparrow Hybrid Zone: 130 Years of Plumage Comparisons
3rd, Anna Breard, Comparison of the Effect of Peroxyacetic Acid and Lactic Acid Washes on the Removal of Toxoplasma gondii Oocysts from the Surface of Blueberries
People’s Choice Award – Overall Winner:
Roghaiyeh Ebrahimi Kalan, Surface Modification of Mesoporous Silica in Supercritical CO2