Winners Named For 2008 UMaine Graduate Research Expo
Contact: Tom Weber (207) 581-3777
ORONO — The University of Maine’s Graduate Student Government and Graduate School recently announced the award recipients for oral, poster and multimedia presentations at the 2008 Graduate Research Exposition.
The annual expo, which was held April 15 and 16 at UMaine’s Buchanan Alumni House, is designed to showcase and reward academic excellence and creative achievement by featuring demonstrations of works in progress among graduate students. Many of the winning posters from this year’s expo will be on display at the reception following the graduate hooding ceremony on May 9.
The 2008 expo winners are as follows:
ORAL PRESENTATIONS
Social Sciences and Humanities
1st — Michael Fixaris, Psychology
2nd — Julie-Ann Scott, Interdisciplinary in Communications/Higher Education
3rd — Laurie Pinkert, English
Biological Sciences
1st — Kristin Wilson, Ecology and Environmental Sciences
2nd — Sean Blomquist, Wildlife Ecology
3rd — Jennifer Meyers, Marine Sciences
Engineering/Physical Sciences
1st — Travis Gould, Physics
2nd — Maria Vasardani, Spatial Information Science and Engineering
3rd — Benjamin Gross, Quaternary and Climate Studies
MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATIONS
1st — Alexander Gross, Intermedial Arts
2nd (tie) — Abigail Stiers, Intermedial Arts; Jennifer Smith-Mayo, Liberal Studies
POSTER PRESENTATIONS
Social Sciences and Humanities
1st — Jennifer Pattershall, Psychology
2nd (tie) — Anna Cassel, Clinical Psychology; Sarah Larochelle, Resource Economics and Policy
3rd — Lauren Holleb, Clinical Psychology
Chemical, Physical and Mathematical Sciences
1st — Randall Perry, Earth Sciences
2nd (tie) — Daniel Breton, Physics; Mudalige Gunewardene, Physics
3rd — Lei Li, Physics
Biological Sciences
1st — Matthew Sullivan, Microbiology
2nd — Nathan Briggs, Forest Resources
3rd — Jeremy Charette, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Engineering
1st — Ali Shareef, Computer Engineering
2nd — David Almeida, Spatial Information Science and Engineering
3rd — Francois Neville, Spatial Information Science and Engineering
BEST COMMERCIALIZATION POTENTIAL
1st — Anthony Dumais, Civil Engineering
2nd (tie) — Gilliad Munden, Business Administration; Anthony Viselli, Civil Engineering