Dorien Baudewyns receives the 2025 Kent and Billie Anger Graduate Student Research Fund Award
The Psychology Department is pleased to announce that Dorien Baudewyns is the 2025 Kent
and Billie Anger Graduate Student Research Fund award recipient. This fund was established
with a gift in 2023 from Kent and Billie Anger. Kent earned his doctorate in experimental
psychology in 1974 from the University of Maine.
Dorien Baudewyns is a master’s student in Psychological Sciences at the University of Maine, Orono. She was born in Brussels and grew up in Bruges, Belgium, until she moved to Bangor, Maine in 2016 where she pursued undergraduate and graduate studies in psychology. During her studies, she developed an interest in researching rural and indigenous mental health. Her current research project focuses on adverse childhood experiences (ACE’s) among Indigenous Peoples in Maine.
Dorien’s master’s thesis research will be supported by the Kent and Billie Anger Graduate Student Research Fund. Her research aims to support and help understand multicultural perspectives. The funding will enable Dorien to retrieve and analyze data to determine disparities between non-tribal and tribal populations. With this information she will try to address the gaps in surveys and current literature that address childhood experiences within an Indigenous framework.