Liberal Arts Student Fellowships Announced
UMaine College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean Jeffrey Hecker has announced the names of recipients of the college’s Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Fellowships for 2012–13. The fellowships were developed to enhance and increase undergraduate student involvement in faculty supervised research and creative activity. Each fellowship provides a $1,400 award for the student and up to $1,100 in additional funding, if needed, to cover costs associated with the project. This year’s fellowships were supported with funds from the Intensive English Institute. Fellowship recipients are:
Meagan Bossie (psychology), The Enhancing and Impairing Effects of Stress on Cognition; Shawn Ell, adviser
Christopher Bryant (new media), 3rD Person Perception; Mike Scott, adviser
Hawk Cambron (psychology), Protecting Against Chemo Fog; Thane Fremouw, adviser
Joseph Dumont (chemistry), Extraction and Isolation of Shikimic Acid from Maine Conifers; Barbara Cole, adviser
Marcus Dunham (psychology), Are Teacher Judgments Consistent with Behavioral Data from Preschool’s Free Play Data?; Peter LaFreniere, adviser
Mary Hunt (sociology), Alcohol Abuse and Young Women; Steve Barkan, adviser
Shannon Jacobson (sociology), Roller Derby: Challenging Gender or Reinforcing Norms?; Amy Blackstone, adviser
Stuart Lathrop, (mathematics), Contributions to the Foundation of the Theory of Transcendental Numbers; Andrew Knightly, adviser
Annie Ledoux, (psychology), Correlates between Perceived Romantic Partner Communication and Social Adjustment of College Students; Doug Nangle, adviser
Paige Martin, (psychology), The Effect of Cataract Surgery on Depression and Vision-Related Quality of Life in an Elderly Population; Lira Yoon, adviser
Rex McKeon, (political sciences), Reset of U.S. Russian Relations: Prospects Based on a Study of all U.S. Presidential State of the Union Addresses References; James Warhola, adviser
Andrew Robbins, (new media), Boulder Beacon; Jon Ippolito, adviser
Duane Shimmel, (new media), 10 Years of MLTI: What Have We Learned?; Owen Smith, adviser
Valerie Smith, (chemistry), Detection of Aqueous Mg(II) Using IR Spectroscopy; Carl Tripp, adviser
Andrew Tomer, (psychology), Media, Education, and Intergroup Interaction Impact on Attitudes and Beliefs toward Native Americans; Jordan LaBouff, adviser
Elizabeth Tull, (psychology), Income Inequality and Health: the Relationship between Relative Inequality, Income, Weight, and Eating Behavior; Shannon McCoy, adviser
Christopher Young, (Psychology), Relation between Behavioral Inhibition and Stress Cortisol Response; Lira Yoon, adviser
Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756