2012 UMaine Student Symposium (UMSS) Award Recipients
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Exhibits
- 1st Place: Patrick Dean & Nicklaus DeBlois, A Study of Photogrammetry and the Virgin Islands National Park Hassle Island Sugar Plantation Ruins, advised by Karen Horton
- Honorable Mention: Philip Kolmar & Will Hofacker, Under Your Skin with Microsoft Kinect, advised by Mike Scott
Oral Presentations
1st Place:
- Haley Richardson, Classroom Realities: Traditionally and Alternatively Certified Secondary Science Teachers’ Preparedness to Teach Students with Disabilities, advised by John Maddaus
2nd Place:
- Breanna Bennett, The Haptotactic Motility of Angiogenic Endothelial Cells, advised by Sharon Ashworth, Alireza Sarvestani
- Charles Bergeron, Imagining a Better World: A Study of Imagined Intergroup Contact, advised by Jordan Labouff
- Hanna Bonaiuto,A Study of Dairy Bedding on Prototheca Survival, advised by Anne Lichtenwalner
- Thomas Leeuw, In situ Measurements of Phytoplankton Fluorescence Using Low Cost Electronics, advised by Emmanuel Boss
Honorable Mentions:
- Geoffry Davis, Whole-Mount Fluorescent in situHybridization as a Genetic Tool in the Chloroplast Hosting Mollusc Elysia chlorotica, advised by Mary Rumpho, Karen Pelletreau
- Heather White, Hybrid Healing: The Process of Integrating Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) into Biomedicine, advised by Ann Acheson
Posters:
1st Place: Shannon Brown, Salinity Tolerance of the OysterMudworm Polydora websteri, advised by Paul Rawson
2nd Place
- Justin Bollinger, Colleen Buckless, Gabriel Vachon, Paige Miles, Jordan Gagne, A Study of Changes in Gene Expression During Limb Regeneration, advised by Keith Hutchison
- Brittany Wolfe, Line-specific Susceptibility to Rosoevarius Oyster Disease (ROD), advised by Paul Rawson
Honorable Mentions:
- James Fecteau, Pyrolysis Oil Stability: A Study of Polymerization Chemistry in Wood-Based Bio-Oil, advised by Brian Frederick
- Rafael Garcia, Identification of Fungal Contamination in Maple Syrup, advised by Seanna Annis, Beth Calder, Kathryn Hopkins
- Joshua Komusin, Event Viewer: iPad Visualization and Exploration of Events, advised by Mike Scott, Kate Beard-Tisdale, Larry Latour
- Peter Strand & Patrick Ryan, Investigation of the Ross Sea Ice Sheet History Preserved in the Antarctic Dry Valleys, advised by Brenda Hall, Alice Kelley