Winners of the 2015 GradExpo
President’s Research Impact Award:
Courtney Pacholski and advisers Jim Artesani , The Effects of Check-In/Check-Out on the Behaviors of Elementary and Middle School Students
More information about Courtney Pacholski’s research can be found here.
Provost’s Innovative/Creative Teaching Award:
Courtney Pacholski, The Effects of Check-In/Check-Out on the Behaviors of Elementary and Middle School Students
Graduate Dean’s Undergraduate Mentoring Award:
1st, Alex Hopke, Dynamic Host-Pathogen Interactions Result in Fungal Epitope Unmasking: Insights into a High Stakes Game of Hide and Seek
2nd, Erin Carter, The Effects of NAD+ on a Secondary Dystroglycanopathy in Zebrafish
3rd, Praveen Gunturi, IR-UWB Transmitters for Internet of Things and Other Applications
UMaine Alumni Association Alum Award:
Samantha Powers, The Intersection of Genetic and Environmental Interactions in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
GSBSE Award in Biomedical Science and Engineering:
1st, Sree Deepthi Muthukrishnan, Dynamic Host-Pathogen Interactions Result in Fungal Epitope Unmasking: Insights into a High Stakes Game of Hide and Seek
2nd, Alex Hopke, Dynamic Host-Pathogen Interactions Result in Fungal Epitope Unmasking: Insights into a High Stakes Game of Hide and Seek
3rd, Erin Carter, The Effects of NAD+ on a Secondary Dystroglycanopathy in Zebrafish
Student Life Award:
Karim Assous, Clarifying anxiety’s role in heterosocial competence
Climate Change Innovation Award:
Binod Neupane, Environmental Life Cycle Assessment of Drop-in Biofuel Production in Maine
Graduate Dean’s Photo Contest – Research Category:
1st, Megan Leach
2nd, Loyann Worster
Graduate Dean’s Photo Contest – Student Life Category:
1st, Shirly Stephen
PechaKucha Competition:
1st, Sky Heller, Currents Past and Future: Archaeology, Fish, and the Gulf of Maine
2nd, Maureen Correll, A Summer in Kaktovik: lessons learned by a natural scientist in pursuit of stakeholder feedback in a rapidly-changing coastal arctic
3rd, Rachel Nelson, Acceptable Ways to Cry in Public
Intermedia Competition:
1st, Stanley M. Levitsky, POSSIBILITIES
2nd, Tara Law, Transparency
3rd, Ozgur Akgun, Interstice
Social Sciences & Humanities Poster Competition:
1st, Rachel Goetze, The Role of Perceived Control in Binge Eating Severity
2nd, Hannah Lawrence, Children residing with an SUD parent: Predictors of youth externalizing symptoms
3rd, Stephanie Coffey, Economic and Social Implications of Community Solar Adoption Models in Massachusetts
3rd, Courtney Pacholski, The Effects of Check-In/Check-Out on the Behaviors of Elementary and Middle School Students
Humanities Oral Competition:
1st, Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed, Fluid Identities: Brautigan’s In Watermelon Sugar and Gogol’s Sorochinskaya Fair
2nd, Yarissa Ortiz-Vidal, Why aren’t more Americans bilingual?
3rd, Justus Hillebrand, Making it Work Before the Movement: African American Resistance and Community in 1940s and 1950s Portland, Maine
3rd, Alexander Champoux, Laclau and Lyons: Metaphor and Metonym in Native Rhetorical Sovereignty
Physical Sciences & Technology Poster Competition:
1st, Robert T. Fryer, Platinum-Silicon thin films for electronic applications beyond 1000 °C
2nd, Andy Young, Analysis of the HIAD System
3rd, Mahdi Mohammadi, Magnetic Artificial Urinary Sphincter
Physical Sciences & Technology Oral Competition:
1st, Matt Hall, Hybrid Modeling for Floating Offshore Wind Turbines
2nd, Panduka Piyaratne, Extraction and purification of trans-resveratrol from conifer bark
3rd, Akbar Mahdavi-Shakib, Mechanistic Studies of Tungsten Oxide Bronzes as Hydrodeoxygenation Catalysts
Natural Sciences Poster Competition:
1st, Emily Spaulding, An in vivo Analysis of Axonal Translation in Two Mouse Models of Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease Type 2D
2nd, Brett Gerard, Stream Dynamics in a Coupled Human-Climate-Postglacial Watershed
2nd, Betsy Irish, Marine-Derived Nutrient Cycling in the St. Croix River, Maine
3rd, Kevin Sullivan, Arterial stiffness is a mechanism relating lipoprotein levels to executive functioning and working memory
Natural Sciences Oral Competition:
1st, Maureen Correll, Specialist Avifaunal Collapse in Northeastern Tidal Marshes
2nd, Jennifer Lund, Prey Utilization and Nest Structure of Cerceris fumipennis
3rd, Erin Carter, The Effects of NAD+ on a Secondary Dystroglycanopathy in Zebrafish
Social Sciences Oral Competition:
1st, Christopher Bennet, Improving Spatial Aging through the Use of Compensatory Augmentations
2nd, Kourtney Collum, Exploring the Relationship between Agricultural Policy, the Agricultural Economy, and Farmers’ Participation in Conservation Agriculture
3rd, Hengshan Li, The effect of vertical dimension on wayfinding in multi-level indoor environments