Alex Morgan is selected as the College of Arts & Sciences and the Honors College Outstanding Graduating Senior
The Psychology Department is pleased to announce that Alex Morgan has been selected as the College of Arts and Sciences and the Honors College Outstanding Graduating Senior.
Originally from Perry, Maine, Alex joined Dr. LaBouff’s research lab in her first semester at UMaine and has excelled in research across her four years in both his lab and Dr. Blossom’s. Alex conducted research investigating the role of Christian Nationalism on racial prejudice for her honors thesis. That work was supported by the College of Arts and Sciences and the Center for Undergraduate Research, won the Social Sciences and Humanities category at the UMaine Student Symposium, and was presented at international-level conferences in Atlanta, GA and Groningen, The Netherlands. After completing her honors thesis, she developed a second program of research, supported by the McGillicuddy Humanities Center, investigating the experiences of belonging among second generation Iranian immigrants. Her writing has been published in UMaine’s literary magazine The Open Field and The Bangor Daily News, and she has been recognized with the Levinson Award for philosophical writing and was a finalist for the John M. Rezendes Annual Ethics Essay Competition in the Honors College.
Beyond thriving in research, Alex has been very active on and outside of campus – She has been a leader in the Sophomore Eagles and All Maine Women. She served as a co-instructor for multiple Honors courses and is the College of Arts & Sciences Undergraduate Representative for the Student Symposium Committee. She has even taken on mentoring herself – supervising two 9th graders from Dexter High School in their work for the Maine Science Fair. She has hundreds of hours of community service from the Special Olympics to knitting for her community’s giving tree and hospital donation box. Alex is a model Black Bear, and the Psychology Department is very proud of her successes!