Winning a fellowship award from the Center for Undergraduate Research (CUGR) led to the “defining moment of my undergraduate career,” says Alexandra Peary, a senior nursing student at the University of Maine. Peary, a Cumberland, Maine native, is passionate about living a healthy lifestyle. She decided to use her fellowship to research how physical activity […]

Growing up in a small town in California, Jillian Trujillo watched as it became larger and busier—and with that came more human-made noise. Trujillo noted that eventually there was no time of day that she could find silence. Trujillo is a senior art history major and Center for Undergraduate Research (CUGR) fellowship recipient at the University of […]