91ºÚÁÏ

Charlotte C. Billingsley ’24 Memorial Fellowship

Fellow: Sawyer Chapin '27 
Research Project: Development of backpack ratiometer and gathering of field data for oxygen and carbon dioxide levels
Faculty Mentor: Mark Battle

91ºÚÁÏ Research Award

Fellow: Kasie Lin Oma '26 
Research Project: Continuity and Contradiction: The Early People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) Hukou System from Republican-Era Roots to Constitutional Debate
Faculty Mentor: Jeffrey Selinger

Fellow: Jack Banks '27 
Research Project: The Political Payoff of Bipartisanship
Faculty Mentor: Daniel Stone

Fellow: Ayezah Dar '26 
Research Project: Political Agency of Muslim Women in the 21st century MENA: Exploring the tension between secular feminism and religious feminism
Faculty Mentor: Barbara Elias

Fellow: Magdalena Escudero-Kane
Research Project: Chosen Kin: How Relationships Sustained the 1980s Public Sanctuary Movement
Faculty Mentor: Keona Ervin

Fellow: Sofia Fogg '26 
Research Project: The Lost Art of Learning: A Case for Liberal Education in Our Modern Age
Faculty Mentor: Paul Franco

Fellow: Jacob Goodman '26 
Research Project: The Impact of DEI Trainings on Students' Understanding of Race and Diversity
Faculty Mentor: Ingrid Nelson

Fellow: Tavi Greenfield '27
Research Project: Compilation, Analysis, and Presentation of Data from Stasis
Faculty Mentor: Robert Sobak

Fellow: Evie Hamer '26
Research Project: Economic Research on the Relicensing of the Brunswick Dam
Faculty Mentor: Guillermo Herrera

Fellow: Solencia Hamilton '27 
Research Project: Tracking Antimicrobial Peptide Concentration Changes in Lobster Plasma During an Immune Challenge
Faculty Mentor: Elizabeth Stemmler

Fellow: Shahd Hekal '27
Research Project: Feature Analysis and Activation Function Study of Image Reconstruction Using Artificial Neural Networks
Faculty Mentor: Jeova Farias

Fellow: Cindy Hong '27 
Research Project: Exploring Maine’s Historical Records and Ranked Choice Voting
Faculty Mentor: Jack O'Brien

Fellow: Daniel Lee '27
Research Project: Reassessing Hegemonic Stability Theory: Voicing Multipolarity through Latin American Regional Cooperation
Faculty Mentor: Soohyun Cho

Fellow: Richard Lim '27
Research Project: Expressive Sign Language Processing For Music Interpretation
Faculty Mentor: Jeova Farias

Fellow: Luna Lu '27
Research Project: Directional Flow of Information During Memory Retrieval 
Faculty Mentor: Erika Nyhus

Fellow: Mark Mateo '26
Research Project: Religion and Politics in Plato's Laws
Faculty Mentor: Jean Yarbrough

Fellow: Caleb McDaniels
Research Project: Optical Sensor Validation in West Greenland 
Faculty Mentor: Collin Roesler

Fellow: Rohan Rosen '26 
Research Project: Hawai'i at the Pivot: Political, Economic, and Cultural Intersections in the Pacific
Faculty Mentor: Ãngel Cisneros

Fellow: Songa Rwamucyo '27 
Research Project: Investigating protein domain localization of She3 in Candida albicans
Faculty Mentor: Anne McBride

Fellow: Mukudzei Seremani '27 
Research Project: Investigating She3 Protein Localization and Function in Candida albicans
Faculty Mentor: Anne McBride

Fellow: Aidan Sheeran-Hahnel '26 
Research Project: Free Citizens and Free Men: Alexis de Tocqueville and The Synthesis of Legal and Moral Liberalism
Faculty Mentor: Jean Yarbrough

Fellow: Anne Vasquez '26
Research Project: The Endurance of Anti-Haitian Rhetoric: How Racial Politics Became Embedded in Dominican Identity
Faculty Mentor: Jamella Gow

Alan M. Christenfeld Summer Research Fellowship

Fellow: Maya Tang '27 
Research Project: Generative Artificial Intelligence in Legal Decision-Making: Understanding Client Perceptions 
Faculty Mentor: Tatyana Avilova

James Stacy Coles Summer Research Fellowship

Fellow: Silas Hultman '27
Research Project: Investigating the role of srGAP protein selective lipid binding in cell membrane deformation
Faculty Mentor: Michael Henderson

Fellow: Meadow Jennings '26
Research Project: Examining potential mRNA transport proteins to assess their roles in hyphal development in Candida albicans
Faculty Mentor: Anne McBride

Martha Reed Coles Summer Fellowship

Fellow: Daedalus Arnold '27
Research Project: You Shall Not Defile the Land: The History of Jewish Burial Practice and Conception of the Corpse
Faculty Mentor: Todd Berzon

Fellow: Louisa Hemr '27
Research Project: Nino Haratischwili: A Case Study of Women and Migration in Contemporary German Literature 
Faculty Mentor: Jill Smith

Fellow: Patrick Sullivan '26
Research Project: Proust and Woolf: Auerbach's Modernist Schema
Faculty Mentor: Marily Reizbaum

Henry L. and Grace Doherty Charitable Foundation Coastal Studies Research Fellowship

Fellow: Court Callis '27
Research Project: The Role of Neuromodulatory SLY Neuropeptides in Crustacean Cardiac Circuits
Faculty Mentor: Daniel Powell

Fellow: Mia Cawley '27
Research Project: Does the Concentration of the Antimicrobial Peptide (AMP) Hoa-D1 Increase in Response to an Immune System Challenge to the Lobster, Homarus americanus?
Faculty Mentor: Elizabeth Stemmler

Fellow: Andrea Cordova Cisneros '26
Research Project: Bioactivity of Hoa-D1: Testing the Antimicrobial Activity of Native and Synthetic Forms of a Putative Antimicrobial Peptide from the Lobster, Homarus americanus
Faculty Mentor: Elizabeth Stemmler

Fellow: Mia Daoust '26
Research Project: Impacts of the Invasive Littorina littorea on Mobile Organisms and Food Web Ecology in The Gulf of Maine Rocky Intertidal
Faculty Mentor: Christopher Wells

Fellow: Chloe Garcia '26
Research Project: Effects of Temperature Variation on the Cardiac Ganglion of the Homomarus americanus Lobster with application of myosupressin
Faculty Mentor: Daniel Powell

Fellow: Nate Kodama '27
Research Project: Antimicrobial peptides in Homarus americanus: Determining the cell localization of three putative crustin family AMPs with mass spectrometry, informed by transcriptomics and genomics
Faculty Mentor: Elizabeth Stemmler

Fellow: Tanya Martinez '27
Research Project: Survival in the Intertidal: Thermal Tolerance of an Undescribed Sea Anemone
Faculty Mentor: Christopher Wells

Fellow: Tali Serlin '26
Research Project: Examining the Impact of Littorina littorea on Microalgal Productivity
Faculty Mentor: Christopher Wells

Fellow: Melissa Shunk '27
Research Project: Investigating the impact of Littorina littorea on algal communities across a latitudinal gradient
Faculty Mentor: Christopher Wells

Robert and Blythe Edwards Fund for the Arts

Fellow: Daniel Hennelly '26
Research Project: All Aboard: The People and Places of Rail Travel
Faculty Mentor: Mike Kolster

Fellow: Aurélie Nishimwe '26
Research Project: Documenting African Spiritualities through Ethnographic Filmmaking
Faculty Mentor: Tricia Welsch

Freedman Summer Research Fellowship in Coastal/Environmental Studies

Fellow: Tori Bacall '26
Research Project: Monitoring Long-Term Vegetation Change on Monhegan Island
Faculty Mentor: Barry Logan

Fellow: Maya Kachra '27
Research Project: Investigating the Impacts of Land-use History on Monhegan Island's Biodiversity
Faculty Mentor: Barry Logan

Robert Freedman ’87, P’17 and Anne Cirillo P’17 Student Fellowship Program

Fellow: Esther Ajibola '27
Research Project: Investigating the influence of Toll-7 on the development of the cricket nervous system
Faculty Mentor: Hadley Horch

Fellow: Emma Cheung '26
Research Project: Investigating the Effects of a Charged Residue on Alamethicin's Pore Formation Ability
Faculty Mentor: Michael Henderson

Sarah A. Gessner ’96 Memorial Fellowship

Fellow: Lilly Curtis '26
Research Project: Echoes of the Subaltern Voice: Unraveling the Survival Story of My Ancestors
Faculty Mentor: Brock Clarke

Hughes Family Summer Research Fellowship

Fellow: Carolina Bragg '26
Research Project: The influence of parasitism and salinity stress on Daphnia population growth and feeding rates
Faculty Mentor: Mary Rogalski

Fellow: Josefina Cachuela '27
Research Project: Researching the Effect of Changing Precipitation and Snowpack/River Ice Patterns on Streamflow in Maine
Faculty Mentor: Jabari Jones

Fellow: Chioma Ralph-Mbah '27
Research Project: The Effects of Salinity and Acclimation on the Performance and Tolerance of Different Daphnia Species
Faculty Mentor: Mary Rogalski

Matthew R. '72, P'02 & Marcia A. P'02 Kaufman Family Fellowship

Fellow: Camila Eljuri '27
Research Project: Machiavelli’s ‘Virtù’ and Mazzini’s ‘Unità e Repubblica’: Individualism and the Collective Will in Statecraft
Faculty Mentor: Alejandro Cuadrado

Fellow: Mary Rainey '27
Research Project: The Impact of Psychological Stress and Burnout on ACL Injury Recovery Rates in College Athletes
Faculty Mentor: Vianney Gomezgil Yaspik

Kibbe Science Fellowship

Fellow: Miles Bartlett '26
Research Project: Reaction Rates of Hydrogen Isotopes in H2 Activation Reactions
Faculty Mentor: Brandon Tate

Fellow: Alex Bloom '26
Research Project: Investigating the Role of Ketamine in Reversing Prenatal Stress-Induced Behavioral and Epigenetic Changes in PV Neurons
Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Honeycutt

Fellow: Liz Bouchard '26
Research Project: Investigating Polycomb Response Element in Drosophila Eye Development
Faculty Mentor: Jack Bateman

Fellow: Alice Fang '27
Research Project: Effect of Surfactant Additives on Mefenamic Acid/Nicotinamide Cocrystals
Faculty Mentor: Amnon Ortoll-Bloch

Fellow: Matthew Stein '27
Research Project: Using Isotopes to Sequence Emplacement and Deformation of Yosemite Granodiorites
Faculty Mentor: Claire Harrigan

Kufe Family Research Fellowship

Fellow: Kira Ackerman '26
Research Project: Present Day Impacts of Climate Change on Sediment Mobility in Maine Rivers
Faculty Mentor: Jabari Jones

Fellow: Ievgen Borovenskyi '27
Research Project: Systematically Modeling the Synthesis of 2H-Azirines through Quantum Computational Chemistry Using Density Functional Theory 
Faculty Mentor: Thais Scott

Fellow: Fiona Gallagher '26
Research Project: Photocatalytic Degradation of Phthalates Using BiOCl
Faculty Mentor: Elizabeth Stemmler

Fellow: Dylan Herring '27
Research Project: Developing a nanotube pulling assay for the investigation of F-BAR protein membrane self-assembly
Faculty Mentor: Michael Henderson

Fellow: Olivia Ho '28
Research Project: Employing Density Matrix Renormalization Group to Understand the Activation of Allenes via Photo-Redox Metal Catalysts 
Faculty Mentor: Thais Scott

Fellow: Will Logue '26
Research Project: Effect of Toll-7 and Toll-8 knockdown on anatomical plasticity in the Mediterranean field cricket, Gryllus bimaculatus 
Faculty Mentor: Hadley Horch

Fellow: Federica Lombardi '27
Research Project: The Effect of Curcumin on Locomotor Neuronal Networks after Exposure to Di-n-butyl Phthalate (DBP) 
Faculty Mentor: Manuel Diaz-Rios

Fellow: Ella Perry '26
Research Project: Identification of proteins associated with the Slit-Robo GTPase Activating Protein family to examine the mechanisms of filopodial formation
Faculty Mentor: Michael Henderson

Fellow: Young Seo '26
Research Project: Dopamine modulates hyperpolarization-activated inward current in spinal motoneurons
Faculty Mentor: Manuel Diaz-Rios

Fellow: Shashu Srivatsan '27
Research Project: The Neuroprotective Effects of Curcumin Against Dibutyl Phthalate(DBP)-Induced Neurotoxicity in Neonatal Mouse Spinal Cord Models
Faculty Mentor: Manuel Diaz-Rios

Edward E. Langbein Sr. Summer Fellowship

Fellow: Aale Agans '25
Research Project: Building (Cellular) Barriers: Identifying cellularization dynamics involving somatic X chromosome eliminations in Bradysia coprophila development
Faculty Mentor: Jack Bateman

Lifson Family Summer Research Fellowship

Fellow: Ethan Lam '27
Research Project: What motivates spontaneous aid in cooperative tasks?
Faculty Mentor: Abhilasha Kumar

Maine Space Grant Consortium Undergraduate Research Experience

Fellow: Divya Bhargava '26
Research Project: Investigating the role of glycan biosynthesis on Helicobacter pylori adhesion to host cells
Faculty Mentor: Danielle Dube

Fellow: JB Bradley '28
Research Project: Quantification of Spz-Toll candidates in control and deafferented tissue
Faculty Mentor: Hadley Horch

Fellow: Natalie Emmerson '27
Research Project: Holding Space for International Diplomacy
Faculty Mentor: David Hecht

Fellow: Kaya Patel '26
Research Project: Examining the role of perineuronal nets and GluN2A regulation on ketamine's mechanism of action in rats
Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Honeycutt

Fellow: Piper Wilson '26
Research Project: Investigating the role of Ips1 on location of critical mRNAs in Candida albicans
Faculty Mentor: Anne McBride

Craig A. McEwen Student Research Fellowship in the Social Sciences

Fellow: Gabi Sennett '26
Research Project: Anti-Judaism in Classical Antiquity
Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Kosak

Fellow: Ymir St. George '26
Research Project: "Establishing Heaven on Earth": Imperial Japanese Buddhism and the Pacific War
Faculty Mentor: Vyjayanthi Selinger

Micoleau Family Fellowship in the Creative and Performing Arts

Fellow: Charlotte Iannone '26
Research Project: The Sea of Faith
Faculty Mentor: Brock Clarke

Fellow: Ben Sachs '26
Research Project: Embodied Narratives: Acting as a Tool for Scientific and Literary Engagement
Faculty Mentor: Davis Robinson

Ellen M. P'78 and Herbert M. Patterson '42, P'78 Research Fellowship

Fellow: Rin Pastor '27
Research Project: Reflections: Kinship, Politics, and Tragedy in Sophocles' Antigone
Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Kosak

Patterson/Baird Family Research Fellowship

Fellow: Michaela Brough '27
Research Project: Anthropological Study of Magic and Witchcraft in the Roman World
Faculty Mentor: Barbara Boyd

Rusack Coastal Studies Fellowship

Fellow: Justine Endo-Ferguson '26
Research Project: Ocean acidification and oyster reef restoration in the New Meadows river
Faculty Mentor: Michèle LaVigne

Fellow: Bekah Jaksa '27
Research Project: Oysters and Ocean Acidification: Identifying Optimal Conditions for Reef Restoration
Faculty Mentor: Michèle LaVigne

Fellow: Taylor Wilkinson '27
Research Project: Assessing Suitability for Oyster Reef Establishment in a Maine Basin
Faculty Mentor: Michèle LaVigne

William B. Sorabella '97 Global Health Fellowship

Fellow: Maren Cooper '27
Research Project: Photocrosslinking sugars to trap and identify host cell proteins that bind H. pylori glycans
Faculty Mentor: Danielle Dube

Fellow: Lia Scharnau '26
Research Project: Colocalization of potential RNA-transport proteins in Candida albicans
Faculty Mentor: Anne McBride

Surdna Foundation Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program

Fellow: Lily Echeverria '26
Research Project: Washington Irving's New York: A Study of Literature and Place
Faculty Mentor: Tess Chakkalakal

Fellow: Everett Gordon '26
Research Project: Cultivating Sovereignty: Indigenous Agriculture and Food Security in Hawaiʻi
Faculty Mentor: Willi Lempert

Fellow: Suhas Gudaru '26
Research Project: Physiological Analysis of Gryllus bimaculatus Ascending Neurons Following dsRNA-Mediated Disruption of Spz-Toll Signaling
Faculty Mentor: Hadley Horch

Fellow: Anna Guethoff '26
Research Project: The Masculine Ideal in Kyivan Rus’ (c. 880–1240 CE)
Faculty Mentor: Page Herrlinger

Fellow: Nikki Harris '26
Research Project: Essays On Morality
Faculty Mentor: Jordan Kisner

Fellow: Victoria Jang '26
Research Project: Investigating the Crystallization of Metal-Organic Frameworks Grown from Various Metal Precursors
Faculty Mentor: Amnon Ortoll-Bloch

Fellow: Juju Lee '26
Research Project: Merocyanine Photoacids: Utilization in Efficient Carbon Capture
Faculty Mentor: Kana Takematsu

Fellow: Alena Lemeshova '26
Research Project: Effects of a single ketamine dose on the potentiated startle response in the Wistar-Kyoto rat model of affective dysfunction
Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Honeycutt

Fellow: Tyler Lenk '26
Research Project: Machine Learning for Causal Inference: Applying Novel Techniques to Past Studies
Faculty Mentor: Mahdi Kahou

Fellow: Ava Liversidge '26
Research Project: Epistemologies of Silence: Cage, Heidegger, and the New Attention Economy
Faculty Mentor: Frank Mauceri

Fellow: Alex Miller '26
Research Project: Investigation the Interaction Between Two mRNA Binding Proteins in C. albicans 
Faculty Mentor: Anne McBride

Fellow: Lierin Peterson '26
Research Project: Statistical investigations of legislative voting blocs and the effects of outside funding
Faculty Mentor: Jack O'Brien

Fellow: Shumaim Rashid '26
Research Project: Ni Main Jana Jogi De Naal (I'm Going to Go with the Ascetic): Where Will Qawwals Go Beyond Shrines?
Faculty Mentor: Shreyas Sreenath

Fellow: Alec Rothkowitz '26
Research Project: Computing Approximate Nash Equilibria in Games
Faculty Mentor: Mohammad Irfan

Fellow: Evelyn Safar '26
Research Project: Reclaiming Magic: Gender, Agency, and Countercultural Identity in Contemporary Wicca
Faculty Mentor: Elizabeth Pritchard

Fellow: Logan Smith '26
Research Project: Queerness in Post-Soviet Russian Pop Culture
Faculty Mentor: Reed Johnson

Fellow: Michael Sweeney '26
Research Project: Characterization of Spz-Toll-8 Signaling in Crickets (Gryllus bimaculatus) Through In Situ Hybridization
Faculty Mentor: Hadley Horch

Fellow: Sam Turrigiano '26
Research Project: Mourning and Memory in Ancient Rome
Faculty Mentor: Barbara Weiden Boyd

Nellie C. Watterson Summer Fellowship in the Creative and Performing Arts

Fellow: Reynaldo Fuentez '26
Research Project: Mixing and Mastering Internship with Expanding Sky Studios
Faculty Mentor: Frank Mauceri

Fellow: Grace Raymond '26
Research Project: Obscuring Home: A Collection of Short Stories & Essays
Faculty Mentor: Brock Clarke

IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) Summer Fellowship

Fellow: Adele Brown '27
Research Project: The Role of Ih Channels in Dopamine-Modulated Rhythmic Motor Activity
Faculty Mentor: Manuel Diaz-Rios

Fellow: Chinwe Bruns '26
Research Project: Investigating the Role of srGAPs in Cytoskeletal Regulation and Cell Migration
Faculty Mentor: Michael Henderson

Fellow: Elizabeth Chmielewski '26
Research Project: Are protein interactions in the Candida albicans RNA transport system mediated by RNA? 
Faculty Mentor: Anne McBride

Fellow: Lindsay Golan '27
Research Project: Examining the Genetic and Behavioral Differences Between Male and Female Rats in Response to Ketamine Treatment
Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Honeycutt

Fellow: Saifka Julien '28
Research Project: Screen of Novel Metabolic Glycan Inhibitors to inhibit Glycan Biosynthesis
Faculty Mentor: Danielle Dube

Fellow: Hailey Ryan '26
Research Project: INBRE State-Selected Fellow
Faculty Mentor: Manuel Diaz-Rios

Fellow: Elise Siciliano '27
Research Project: Effects of Temperature on the Isolated Cardiac Ganglion from the American Lobster (Homarus americanus)
Faculty Mentor: Daniel Powell

Fellow: Bythe Thompson '26
Research Project: Does the Deletion of IPS1 Impact Hyphal Tip Localization of ASH1 mRNA in Candida albicans?
Faculty Mentor: Anne McBride

Fellow: Anushka Elavia '27
Research Project: Investigating Explore-Exploit Decisions Using EEG and Computational Models
Faculty Mentor: Erika Nyhus

Student Faculty Research Grant

Fellow: Ava Biasotti '26
Research Project: NuSTAR Data of the IceCube-221223A Data
Faculty Mentor: Fe McBride

Fellow: Kendall Brainin '27
Research Project: Molecular mechanisms in petrels affected by oxidative stress
Faculty Mentor: Patty Jones

Fellow: Kyra Brown '28
Research Project: Individual differences in memory search
Faculty Mentor: Abhilasha Kumar

Fellow: Eli Bundy '27
Research Project: Burrow Scale Monitoring systems 
Faculty Mentor: Patty Jones

Fellow: Juan Diego DelPrado '26
Research Project: Simulate the collapse of a Thorne-Zytkow object
Faculty Mentor: Thomas Baumgarte

Fellow: Grace Elliot '27
Research Project: Explore the effects of a so-called seed function on critical phenomena in the collapse of gravitational waves
Faculty Mentor: Thomas Baumgarte

Fellow: Emily Ferguson '27
Research Project: Examining the Role of Toll-7 and Toll-6.1 Proteins on the Development of the Peripheral Nervous System in Mediterranean Crickets (Gryllus bimaculatus)
Faculty Mentor: Hadley Horch

Fellow: Isabella Fernandez '27
Research Project: Developing enantioselective catalysts for the trifluoromethylation of aldehydes, ketones, and a,b-unsaturated carbonyls
Faculty Mentor: Ben Gorske

Fellow: Andrew Fieffe '27
Research Project: Developing enantioselective catalysts for the trifluoromethylation of aldehydes, ketones, and a,b-unsaturated carbonyls
Faculty Mentor: Ben Gorske

Fellow: William Fowler '27
Research Project: Use bhjet to describe the peculiar spectrum of the source PKS 2005-489
Faculty Mentor: Fe McBride

Fellow: Sam Koegler '26
Research Project: Developing enantioselective catalysts for the trifluoromethylation of aldehydes, ketones, and a,b-unsaturated carbonyls
Faculty Mentor: Ben Gorske

Fellow: Adam O'Connor '26
Research Project: Broadening the Use of Fluorescent Sugar Probes to Bacterial Track Monosaccharide Uptake
Faculty Mentor: Danielle Dube

Fellow: Esther Pak '26
Research Project: Investing the triplet state of bromonaphthols using transient absorption spectroscopy
Faculty Mentor: Kana Takematsu

Fellow: Vanessa Partida-Saucedo '28
Research Project: Role of Toll 6-2 in the Development of the Peripheral Nervous System of the Cricket, Gryllus bimaculatus
Faculty Mentor: Hadley Horch

Fellow: Henry Penfold '26
Research Project: Effects of adult investment on chick growth rate by measuring chicks 
Faculty Mentor: Patty Jones

Fellow: Indy Pisitkasem '27
Research Project: Synthesis and characterization of the Schiff base naphthol derivatives
Faculty Mentor: Kana Takematsu

Fellow: Katie Stomma '26
Research Project: Synthesis and characterization of the Schiff base naphthol derivatives
Faculty Mentor: Kana Takematsu

Fellow: Sinan Tuncer '27
Research Project: Developing enantioselective catalysts for the trifluoromethylation of aldehydes, ketones, and a,b-unsaturated carbonyls
Faculty Mentor: Ben Gorske

Fellow: Emmy Wheatley '26
Research Project: Developing enantioselective catalysts for the trifluoromethylation of aldehydes, ketones, and a,b-unsaturated carbonyls
Faculty Mentor: Ben Gorske

Fellow: Saron Workineh '28
Research Project: Analyze archival and new data of blazars to investigate long-term flux changes in the ultra-relativistic outflows near supermassive black holes
Faculty Mentor: Fe McBride

Fellow: Jack Tran '26
Research Project: Optimizing chemical probes for the study of bacterial glycans
Faculty Mentor: Danielle Dube

Anthropology Research Collaboration Award

Fellow: Moana Gregori '26
Faculty Mentor: Shreyas Sreenath

Fellow: Angelic Nunez '27 
Research Project: Young Adults Perception of Family Dynamics in Single Parent Households
Faculty Mentor: Krista Van Vleet

Fellow: Marcos Villarreal '28
Research Project: How Catalonia Speaks
Faculty Mentor: Willi Lempert

91ºÚÁÏ Public Service Fellowship

Fellow: Omar Frostman '27

Fellow: Zara Lall '27

Fellow: Amaya Nicklas '27

Fellow: Mardy Novak '27

Fellow: Miles Palmer '27 

Fellow: Bobin Park '28

Fellow: Rebecca Schill '27

Burns Fellowship

Fellow: Anna Chen '26
Research Project: Thermo-nuclear Reaction Triggered by Transiting Primordial Black Hole Through White Dwarf
Faculty Mentor: Thomas Baumgarte

Fellow: Elliott Ewell '27
Research Project: Simulating Black Hole Accretion Rate vs. Velocity in Stiff Fluids 
Faculty Mentor: Thomas Baumgarte

Fellow: Peter Harris '27
Research Project: Simulating Black Hole Accretion Rate vs. Velocity in Stiff Fluids 
Faculty Mentor: Thomas Baumgarte

Fellow: Alex Ordentlich '26
Research Project: Experimental Analysis of Fire Turbulence and Ember Lofting
Faculty Mentor: Alec Peterson

Fellow: Zach Ozols '28
Research Project: Modeling Firebrand Transport for More Accurate Spot Fire Prediction
Faculty Mentor: Alec Peterson

Computer Science Summer Fellowship

Fellow: Joram Kim '27
Research Project: Implicit Neural Representations with Periodic Activation Functions
Faculty Mentor: Jeova Farias 

Fellow: Henry Smith '27
Research Project: Applying Perameterized Complexity to Database Resilence
Faculty Mentor: Cibele Freire

Cooke Environmental Research

Fellow: Hannah Crowley '27
Research Project: Developing Catalysts for Renewable Fuel Synthesis
Faculty Mentor: Brandon Tate

Fellow: Asher Savel '26
Research Project: Effects of food production and distribution sovereignty laws on Maine farms and fisheries
Faculty Mentor: Shana Starobin

Theodore Samuel Danzig '22 Memorial Fellowship

Fellow: Sam Borne '26
Research Project: The Euro, Eurocrisis and the Future of European IntegrationDeveloping Catalysts for Renewable Fuel Synthesis
Faculty Mentor: Laura Henry

Denning Fellowship

Fellow: Larah Gutierrez-Camano '26

Fellow: Delaney Jones '26

Fellow: Paulina Lee '26

Fellow: Rachea McDonald '26

Fellow: Eli Mears '26

Fellow: Sophia Poeschla '26

Fellow: Libby Riggs '26

Fellow: Ellen Salovaara '26

Fellow: Chloë Sheahan '26

Fellow: Anna Tran '26

Fellow: Daniela Zarraga '26

Fellow: Eden Zumbrun '26

Logan Environmental Studies

Fellow: Isa Fernandez '27

Poppy Environmental Studies

Fellow: Charlotte Tagupa '26

Gibbons Summer Research Program

Fellow: Tatiana Allen '27
Research Project: A New Boom and One Hundred Years of Solitude
Faculty Mentor: Nadia Celis

Fellow: Theo Barton '26
Research Project: Applying Generative AI to Humanities Corpora 
Faculty Mentor: Fernando Nascimento

Fellow: Julia Dickinson '26
Research Project: The Design, Implementation, and Impact of Boston’s Big Dig: An Analysis of Political Dynamics and Urban Transformation
Faculty Mentor: Janet Martin

Fellow: Chase Lenk '26
Research Project: Building an Econometric Model of the Development Probability of San Francisco Bay Area Housing Element Sites
Faculty Mentor: Erik Nelson

Fellow: Raghad Mohamed '27
Research Project: Tackling Brain Waste in Maine’s Immigrants Communities: Modelling Factors Influencing Access to Credential Transfers
Faculty Mentor: Martin Abel

Fellow: Jintae Park '27
Research Project: NeuroPlay
Faculty Mentor: Badie Khaleghian

Fellow: Riley Simon '26
Research Project: Using Large Participatory Science Datasets to Study Recent Range Expansions in the Lesser Black-Backed Gull
Faculty Mentor: Liam Taylor

Fellow: Sam Stevenson '26
Research Project: Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum: Develoing an Interactive Display for the Museum's Lobby
Faculty Mentor: Genevieve LeMoine

Fellow: Adam Zaatar '27
Research Project: Developing a Financial Literacy Course
Faculty Mentor: Erik Nelson

Global Citizens

Fellow: Nassiratou Ali Djibo '28

Fellow: Michael Mychaliska '27

Fellow: Mukudzei Seremani '28

Fellow: Hannah Smart '27

Fellow: Lívia Maria Souza da Silva '28

Alfred E. Golz Fellowship

Fellow: Karime Borrego '27
Research Project: Early to mid-20th-century Eurocentrism in Mexican Education
Faculty Mentor: Javier Cikota 

Fellow: Ben Conover '26
Faculty Mentor: Salar Mohandesi

Fellow: Will Riley '27
Research Project: Wildfires and Droughts in Montana
Faculty Mentor: Strother Roberts

Fellow: Volodymyr Zadorojny '27
Faculty Mentor: Page Herrlinger

Kappa Psi Upsilon Maine Based

Fellow: Ginger Arnold '27

Fellow: Emi Blakely '27

Fellow: Emma Butterfield '26

Fellow: Lex Davis '26

Fellow: Henry Doerr '26

Fellow: Ethan Hatcher '27

Fellow: Hazel Johnson '27

Fellow: Shea McGrath '27

Fellow: Raam Melvani '27

Fellow: Iris Reyes '26

91ºÚÁÏ Scientific Station Fellowship on Kent Island

Fellow: Catherine Benavides '27
Faculty Mentor: Patty Jones

Fellow: Kendall Brainin '27
Faculty Mentor: Patty Jones

Fellow: Eli Bundy '27
Faculty Mentor: Patty Jones

Fellow: Cameron Edgar '26
Faculty Mentor: Patty Jones

Fellow: Kayla Kulzy '26
Faculty Mentor: Patty Jones

Fellow: Kanene Nwokeji '26
Faculty Mentor: Patty Jones

Fellow: Henry Penfold '26
Faculty Mentor: Patty Jones

Fellow: Ada Potter '26
Faculty Mentor: Patty Jones

Fellow: Mina Shenoy '27
Faculty Mentor: Patty Jones

LaCasce Fellowship

Fellow: Mirra Payson '27
Research Project: Recommissioning the Harvard Forest Oxygen and CO2 Analyzer
Faculty Mentor: Mark Battle

Fellow: Eva Sola-Sole '27
Research Project: Rethinking the Role of Sulfur in Our Global Oxygen Budget
Faculty Mentor: Mark Battle

Life Sciences Summer Research Fellowship

Fellow: Sid Bell '28
Research Project: Characterizing Toll 7 in neuroplasticity of the Mediterranean Field Cricket, Gryllus bimaculatus
Faculty Mentor: Hadley Horch

Fellow: Mauricio Cuba Almeida '27
Research Project: Analyzing Negative Phonotaxis in Gryllus bimaculatus Following Toll-7 Knockdown
Faculty Mentor: Hadley Horch

Fellow: Chrissy Francis '26
Research Project: Investigating Theta Oscillations and Episodic Memory Retrieval
Faculty Mentor: Erika Nyhus

Fellow: Dax Garza '27
Research Project: Characterizing Toll 6-2 Receptor expression in developing Gryllus bimaculatus embryos
Faculty Mentor: Hadley Horch

Fellow: Haney Haidari '27
Research Project: Examining the role of Perineuronal Nets and GluN2A regulation on ketamine's mechanism of action in rats
Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Honeycutt

Fellow: Aiman Limbada '28
Research Project: Exploring the effects of ketamine treatment on parvalbumin neuron oxidation in a Wistar Kyoto rat model
Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Honeycutt

Fellow: Ava Moore '27
Research Project: Investigating the Connection Between Daphnia Gut Morphology, Parasitism, and Salinity
Faculty Mentor: Mary Rogalski

Fellow: Lars Sorom '26
Research Project: Recovery of Monhegan Island flora after fifty years of deer grazing and its application to the broader Northeast
Faculty Mentor: Barry Logan

Fellow: Cherish Zhao '28
Research Project: Effects of a single ketamine dose on the potentiated startle response in the Wistar-Kyoto rat model of affective dysfunction
Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Honeycutt

William D. Littlefield Fund Fellowship

Fellow: Ellie Harmon '27
Research Project: Hard Soft Acid Base Mismatch 
Faculty Mentor: Brandon Tate

Fellow: Bella Mele '27
Research Project: Impact of Metal Salt Counter-Ion on Metal–Organic Framework Crystallization
Faculty Mentor: Amnon Ortoll-Bloch

Fellow: Jeremy Ryu '27
Research Project: Elucidating the Mechanism of Allene Activation via Photo-Redox Catalysts with Multi Configuration Methods
Faculty Mentor: Thais Scott

Fellow: Siddhu Srivatsan '27
Research Project: Enhancing Synthesis and Pharmaceutical Efficacy of Mefenamic Acid Cocrystals
Faculty Mentor: Amnon Ortoll-Bloch

Fellow: Eric Wang '26
Research Project: The Effects of Ionic Liquids as Additives on the Synthesis of Metal-Organic Frameworks
Faculty Mentor: Amnon Ortoll-Bloch

Maine Community Fellowship

Fellow: Sumaya Abdulle '28

Fellow: Asha Adiga-Biro '28

Fellow: Grace Chang '27

Fellow: Lucia Galdamez '28

Fellow: Stella Johnson '27

Fellow: Amelia Kane '27

Fellow: Troy Keller '26

Fellow: Maya Khalil '28

Fellow: Edwin Kim '27

Fellow: Liam Rodríguez '28

Fellow: Grace Tetreault '28

Fellow: Sage Tonomura-MacDonald '27

Fellow: Ariann Zou '28

Dana Walker Mayo Fund Fellowship

Fellow: Shawna Lin '28
Research Project: Photoredox Activation of Allenes Examined with Extended Active Space Methods Using Density Matrix Renormalization Group
Faculty Mentor: Thais Scott

Fellow: Eric Pieper '27
Research Project: Investigated the Lipid-Binding Affinities of srGAP1 Proteins
Faculty Mentor: Michael Henderson

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship

Fellow: Eri Bolton '27
Research Project: Connecting ancient and modern Eastern prejudice
Faculty Mentor: Michael Nerdahl

Fellow: Gary Hernandez '26
Research Project: Recontextualizing Margery Kempe’s mystical experiences, through psychoanalysis, as a form of political dissent
Faculty Mentor: Emma Maggie Solberg

Fellow: Elias McEaneney '26
Research Project: Metamorphosis and sociology of informal care work and community-aid systems along the U.S.-Mexico border 
Faculty Mentor: Javier Cikota

Fellow: Fernanda Rodas '26
Research Project: Metamorphosis and sociology of informal care work and community-aid systems along the U.S.-Mexico border 
Faculty Mentor: Adanna Kai Jones

Fellow: Amy Willis '26
Research Project: Metamorphosis and sociology of informal care work and community-aid systems along the U.S.-Mexico border 
Faculty Mentor: Keona Evrin

Paller Neuroscience 2025-2026 Academic Year Fellowship

Fellow: Alena Lemeshova '26
Research Project: Effects of a single ketamine dose on the potentiated startle response in the Wistar-Kyoto rat model of affective dysfunction
Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Honeycutt

Fellow: Hailey Ryan '26
Research Project: Molecular effects of plasticizer exposure on the mammalian spinal locomotor network
Faculty Mentor: Manuel Diaz-Rios

Fellow: Anika Sen '26
Research Project: Comparing the responses to SLY peptides in the crab, C. borealis and lobster, H. americanus
Faculty Mentor: Daniel Powell

Matilda and John Riley Research Award

Fellow: Alex Kruse '26
Research Project: An Unspoken Bond: Investigating the Existence of Deaf Culture from an Anthropological Standpoint
Faculty Mentor: Krista Van Vleet

Jasper Jacob Stahl Fellowship for the Study of Mediterranean Antiquity

Fellow: Eri Bolton '27
Research Project: "The Homeric Hymn to Apollo", through the Living Greek in Greece program 
Faculty Mentor: Robert Sobak

Fellow: Alimah Jalloh '28

Allen Wells Travel & Research Award

Fellow: Noemi Guzman '26
Research Project: The Sound of Home: Mariachi as a Bridge Between Mexico and Its Diaspora in Los Angeles
Faculty Mentor: Nadia Celis

Fellow: Iran Pacheco Martinez '26
Research Project: The Criminalization of Race and Poverty
Faculty Mentor: Irina Popescu

Fellow: Siara Soule '26
Research Project: Water, Knowledge, and Cultural Transmission in Marginalized Communities
Faculty Mentor: Carolyn Wolfenzon

Class of 2025

Rain Jocas

Class of 2026

Eva Ahn

Abigail Ainley

Chase Anderson

Elena Ardell

Clementine Bannon

Joanna Bateman

Caroline Berney

Lily Bernhard

Kyra Bishop

Mila Bonometti

Courtney Burnett

Carolyn Casey

Claire Chen

Runqin Chen

Aniqa Chowdhury

Stephanie Christianson

Yahairy Colin

Avery Cutler

Angel Del Valle Cardenas

Kane Demers

Ava Desouza

Michael Dinges

Nayeli  Duran

Ethan Ecsedy

Athalia Esty

Ellie Fabbro

Ella Ferrucci

Starlette Franklin

Ruby Fyffe

Katharine Gage

Kira Gilbert

Hannah  Gold

Kiana Gonzalez

Jonathan Gordon

Cordelia Heyman

Maggie Higgins

Dana Hillebrecht

Miya Imaeda

Sergianni Jennings

Marley Kamin

Mira Karande

Owen Kirkpatrick

Louisa Linkas

Zellie Lipman

Grace Lott

Connor LuValle

Sophie Maguire

Abigail Matusovich

Luca McKerley Coronado

Ravi Mehta

Florence Millet

Tess Mooney

Evan Morales

Filipe Nascimento

Gabriel O'Brien

Caleb Packard

Maxwell Payne

Luciana Perdomo

Kaitlyn Phillips

Liliana Restrepo

Thomas Reynolds

Camille Lauren Russler

Shivani Schmulen

Anika Sen

Ceren Sengun

Matteo Silva

Joseph Solimine

Sky Staes

Ivy Stevens

Rachel Storey

Patrick Sullivan

Paul Surkov

Andrew Szwez

Frances Trafton

Andrew Tran

Isabelle Tsuchitori

Iunisi Tuitupou

Pranav Vadlamudi

Theodore  Veru

Darcy Weber

Benjamin Weintraub

Ai Woods

Mina Zanganeh

Dana Zhao

Austin Zheng

Class of 2027

Henry Abbott

Isaac Abbott

Feysal Abdirahaman

Alex Alessi

Rima Alsafarjlani

Henry Anderson

Ava Arepally

Gifty  Banahene

Jack Barbro

Justas Bardauskas

Nate Berg

Lydia Branson

Benjamin Carroll

Shelby Carson

Jackson Codd

Greta Colloton

Ty Connolly

Blake Covert

Claire Crawford

Nyla Danzy

Richard Davis

Logan Driever

Alma Dudas

Pinyi Feng

Isabelle Fitzgibbon

Penelope Fong-Picariello

Georgiana  Ford

Dante Funez

Joseph Gaetano

Sage Garver

Joseph  Gonzalez

Raphael Grand Pierre

Iris Guo

Ian Harris

Mathew Hernandez

Will Hofmann

Bettina Holden

Dudley Holdridge

Cindy Hong

Daniel  Isaacs

Keito Ishibashi

Saruul-Erdene Jagdagdorj

Fiona Jenkins

Anya Juneja

Abderrahim Kandoussi

William Killoran

Maddy Kosmoski

Cadence  Lee

Cheo Lie-Worthington

Jose Guilherme Luz Silva

Dorian Maillot

Matthew  Marchese

Anika Nagpal

Abhayadana Nguyen

Gigi Nguyen

Caroline Nicho

Emmanuella Norelus

Emmanuel Nwodo

Ellie O'Dwyer

Melanie Ovalle

Lorca Peña Nissenblatt

Felipe Perez

Ilana Posner

Zoe Pringle

Maiara Rebord√£o

Amaya Reddy

Andrew Robinson

Songa Isaac Rwamucyo

Sam Sacerdote

Laila Samuel

Carolyne Sauda

Daniel Simmons

Laura  Souza

Harper Stevenson

Zoe Sun

Brigit Len Tabuena

Eshika  Tangri

Calvin Thompson

Maya Tokioka

Kathryn Tran

Gislaine Umuhoza

Christopher Van Houten

Luke Vazdauskas

Alexandra Wert

Amy  Wills

Sophia Young

Fotis Zafiriou

Yuan Zhang

Joseph Zheng

Class of 2028

Aoi Araki

Ava Bridges

Will  Childs

Karim ElSedfy

Jorge Fuentes

Alberto  Garcia Vazquez

Aubrey Gifford

Leah Kiros

Ana Lopes

Hawon Oh

Ephraim Tutu

Doreen Wanjiru

Zhiyan Xu