Winners of the 2014 GradExpo
President’s Research Impact Award:
Spencer Meyer and advisers Rob Liliholm and Chris Cronan, The Maine Futures Community Mapper: A Planning Tool for Communities, Businesses and the Environment
Provost’s Innovative/Creative Teaching Award:
1st, Rebecca White, Writing New Histories: Facilitating Original Undergraduate Research on Women in Maine History
2nd, John Bell, The Media Ecology Project
3rd, Matthew McEntee, I Will Help Anyone Make or Fix Nearly Anything For Free
Graduate Dean’s Undergraduate Mentoring Award:
1st, Brittany Cline, Amphibians in Complex Landscapes: Quantifying Habitat Permeability and Connectivity for Juvenile Movements
2nd, Agnes Taylor, Serpentine Dissolution: An Analog to Mantle-Ocean Interaction on Europa
3rd, Kara Lorion, Predicting High Quality Sites for Black Ash (Fraxinus nigra) Across Maine and Northern New York: An Approach to Prioritize Preparedness and Management of Emerald Ash Borer
UMaine Alumni Association Alum Award:
Lauren Thornbrough, Strengthening Maine’s Winter Maintenance Practices: Identification of Relational Ties Through Social Network Analysis
Graduate Dean’s Video Contest:
Hari Prasath Palani
Graduate Dean’s Photo Contest – Research Category:
1st, Amy Pierce
2nd, Timothy Godaire
3rd, Robin Arnold
Dean’s Photo Contest – Graduate Student Life:
1st, Eva Manandhar
2nd, Brett Lerner
3rd, Corey Cole
Foster Center for Student Innovation Commercialization Award:
Spencer Meyer, The Maine Futures Community Mapper: A Planning Tool for Communities, Businesses and the Environment
PechaKucha Competition:
1st, Theodore Wilhite, The Security Nexus and Institutional Development: A Case Study in Chile
2nd, Amy Pierce, Bridedoir: Between the Tulle Self-Objectification in the Wedding Boudoir Photography Trend
3rd, John Bell, The Media Ecology Project
Intermedia Competition:
1st, Julie Riley, Show Me a Sign
2nd, Amy Pierce, Bridedoir: Between the Tulle Self-Objectification in the Wedding Boudoir Photography Trend
3rd, Jessica LeClair, The Story of HER
Arts & Humanities Poster Competition:
1st, Hari Prasath Palani, Towards a Better Understanding of Non-Visual Spatial Representation
2nd, John Bell, The Media Ecology Project
3rd, Bethany Engstrom, Studies in Creative Collaborative Models and Paradigms
Arts & Humanities Oral Competition:
1st, Rebecca White, Writing New Histories: Facilitating Original Undergraduate Research on Women in Maine History
2nd, Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed, Richard Brautigan: Beat-Postmodern Echo of the Diverse Chaosmos
3rd, Ian Jesse, “Big Opportunities in Squirrels”: Taxidermy, Sportsmanship, and the Middle-Class Man
Physical Sciences & Technology Poster Competition:
1st, David Pearson, The Corona Borealis Supercluster: II. Mass Estimation & Simulation
2nd, Supamon Singkankachen, Exploiting Chemical Reactions for Detection of Mercury
3rd, Merida Batiste, The Corona Borealis Supercluster: Observational Analysis of the Inter-Cluster Dynamics
Physical Sciences & Technology Oral Competition:
1st, Mojtaba Razfar, Wireless Network Security: Physical Layer Approach
2nd, Panduka Piyaratne, Extraction and Purification of Trans-Resveratrol From Conifer Bark
3rd, Silas Owusu-Nkwantabisah, Fabricating a Membrane-Based Sensor for Monitoring oceanic Iron levels
Natural Sciences Poster Competition:
1st, Luke Groff, Hibernating Ecology of Lithobates sylvaticus in Maine’s montaine landscape
2nd, Donna Kalteyer, Visual Tephra Layers in the Rice Ice Core
3rd, Julia McGuire, Lessons from Maine Dairy Networks: Results from a Trial Survey
Natural Sciences Oral Competition:
1st, Brianna Hughes, Shelf-Life Evaluation of High Pressure Processed Abalone Meat
2nd, Anna Breard, Efficacity of Peroxyacetic Acid, Lactic Acid, Chlorine Dioxide and Chlorine Washes in RemovingToxoplasma gondii from the Surface of Blueberries
3rd, Maureen Correll, Predicting Tidal Marsh Communities Via Remote Sensing: A Potential Tool for Adaptive Coastal Conservation
Social Sciences Poster Competition:
1st, Theodora Ruhs, Local Television News and Objectivity: An Exploratory Textual Analysis
2nd, Tyler Quiring, Ambience and Identify: A Concept Clarification of Ambience Within Communication Research
3rd, Steven Hutchinson, The Time-Course of Stress and Its Effects on Rule-Based Category Learning
Social Sciences Oral Competition:
1st, Hollie Smith, Science & Policy: How Legislators View and use Science
2nd, Kourtney Collum, Exploring the Social and Political Dimensions of Farmers’ Adoption of Bee Conservation
3rd, Addie Pelletier, The Relationship Between Speaking Voice and Gender Identity Among Transgender and Transsexual Individuals