AY 2008-2009 and Summer 2009 Bowdoin Fellows
Institutional Fellowships
Student Faculty Research Grant Fellowships
Departmental Fellowships for Research
Funded Internship Programs
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Student Faculty Research Grant Fellowships
Departmental Fellowships for Research
Funded Internship Programs
| James Stacy Coles Undergraduate Research Fellowship | ||
| Fellow | Research Project | Faculty Mentor |
| Kanokwan Champasa '11 | Metabolic profiling of Helicobacter pylori glycosylation | Danielle Dube |
| Martha Reed Coles Undergraduate Research Fellowship | ||
| Fellow | Research Project | Faculty Mentor |
| Henry Berghoff '11 | Environmental Ethics and Our Obligation to Future Generations | Larry Simon |
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| Freedman Summer Research Fellowship in Coastal/Environmental Studies | ||
| Fellow | Research Project | Faculty Mentor |
| Andrew Bell '11 | Submerged Aquatic Vegetation and Anadromous Fish in Merrymeeting Bay | John Lichter |
| Peter J. Grua and Mary G. O'Connell Faculty/Student Research Award |
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| Fellow | Research Project | Faculty Mentor |
| Caitlin Clerkin '11 |
Tel Kedesh: A Regional Study of a Liminal Time and Space | Ryan Riciarddi |
| Colin Matthews '10 | China's Lost Generation: Representations of the Male Body in Contemporary Chinese Art of the 1990s | De-nin Lee |
| Kibbe Science Fellowship | ||
| Fellow | Research Project | Faculty Mentor |
| Whitney Grass '10 | Exploring Nutrient Dynamics in the Androscoggin Lake Watershed: Bioavailable Phosphorus in Agricultural Runoff | Peter Lea |
| Megan McCullough '10 | Cystein Point Mutations in Wall-Associated Kinase (WAK) Epidermal Growth Factor Activity and Cell Wall Kinase Activity | Bruce Kohorn |
| Edward E. Langbein Sr. Summer Research Award | ||
| Fellow | Research Project | Faculty Mentor |
| Samuel Waterbury '11 | Composition and Adaptation: Making "Charlotte" into a Musical | Vineet Shende |
| Maine Space Grant Consortium Fellowship | ||
| Fellow | Research Project | Faculty Mentor |
| John Burlinson '10 | Swarm Artificial Intelligence: A Systematic Study of the Effects of Swarm Characteristics on Behavior | Stephen Majercik |
| Jason Immerman '10 | A Novel Approach to Constructing Black Hole Puncture Initial Data | Thomas Baumgarte |
| Matthew Kwan '10 | Ultrasonic Imaging of CaWO4 for Dark Matter Detection Schemes | Madeleine Msall |
| Andrew Lawrence '10 | Robotic Behaviors on a Novel Platform | Eric Chown |
| John Morrison '11 | Dynamic balance and kicking with a humanoid robot | Eric Chown |
| Dorthy Pei '11 | The Evolutionary History of the human follicle mite, Demodex folliculorum, through Genetic Analysis of Samples from Local and International Hosts | Michael Palopoli |
| Rusack Coastal Studies Fellowship | ||
| Fellow | Research Project | Faculty Mentor |
| Caitlin Beach '10 | "Toilers of the Sea" - Depicting Maine Coastal Industry in Early Twentieth Century American Art | Linda Docherty |
| Alexandria Brasili '10 | Temperature and growth in the green sea urchin Stronglocentrotus droebachiensis | Amy Johnson |
| Shem Dixon '11 | Effects of mistletoe infection on shading and photosynthesis in white spruce | Barry Logan |
| Samuel Hankinson '10 | The influence of oceanographic and hydrological factors on blooms of the harmful phytoplankton Alexadnrium fundyense in Harpswell Sound | Ed Laine |
| Laura Newcomb '11 | Investigating the Nature of a Temperate Coral Symbiosis | Daniel Thornhill |
| Elissa Rodman '10 | Deconstructing the Perceived Realities of Maine's Identity: a study in Painting and Photography | James Mullen |
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| Nellie C. Watterson Fellowship |
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| Fellow | Research Project | Faculty Mentor |
| Tiffany Malthos '11 |
Artistic/Education Internship at the Chicago Children's Theater |
Roger Bechtel |
| Peter McLaughlin '10 | Musical Performance through Improvisation | Frank Cauceri |
| Student Faculty Research Grant Fellowships | ||
| Fellow | Research Project | Faculty Mentor |
| Zoe Anaman '10 | The Role of WAKs in Cell Expansion | Bruce Kohorn |
| James Anderson '10 | Quantifying Soil Carbon Sequestration Under Increased Atmospheric CO2 | John Lichter |
| Rebecca Austin '10 | Soil Chemistry under Elevated Levels of CO2 | John Lichter |
| Jonathan Coravos '11 | WAK and MAPK dependent gene activation in Arabidopsis thaliana | Bruce Kohorn |
| Oronde Cruger '11 | Sex and Sterroids: The Influence of Steroids on Sexual Behavior in Male Goldfish | Richmond Thompson |
| Sasha David '10 | NSF Department of Energy - Pass thru Penn State, #421114 | Mark Battle |
| Allison Dupont '12 | Landscape-level controls on terrestrial, aquatic, and wetland responses to climate change in the southern Canadian Arctic | Phil Camill |
| Jeremy Fishman '09 | Laura Toma | |
| Ka Ho '11 | Molecular Analysis of Pyrolysis Oil from Woody Biomass | Beth Stemmler |
| Holly Jacobson '11 | NSF grant Landscape-level controls on terrestrial, aquatic, and wetland responses to climate change in the southern Canadian Arctic | Phil Camill |
| Tenzing Lama '10 | Investigation of Dorsal-Ventral Identity of Zebrafish Teeth after Retinoic Acid Treatment | Bill Jackman |
| Matthew Leopold '11 | NSF grant Landscape-level controls on terrestrial, aquatic, and wetland responses to climate change in the southern Canadian Arctic | Phil Camill |
| Morgan MacLeod '09 | Numerical Simulations of Neutron Stars, Black holes, and Gravitational Radiation | Thomas Baumgarte |
| Lauren Marshall '10 | Zeste function and homologous chromosome pairing in Drosophila melanogaster | Jack Bateman |
| Duncan Masland '11 | Ta Herrera | |
| Chris O'Donnell '10 | NSF Scalable algorithms for realistic terrain processing in GIS | Laura Toma |
| David Plotkin '11 | NSF Collaborative Research: Firn Structure, #421050 | Mark Battle |
| Pawat Seritrakul '11 | Functional analysis of retinoic acid in zebrafish tooth homeotic transformation | Bill Jackman |
| Adam Tracy '10 | Enhancer preference at the yellow locus of Drosophila | Jack Bateman |
| Bob Wei '10 | NSF Scalable algorithms for realistic terrain processing in GIS | Laura Toma |
| Alison Weisburger '10 | Inglefield Land Archaeology Project | Genny Lemoine |
| Norris Wong '10 | Soil carbon chemistry and dynamics under elevated CO2 at the Duke Forest, FACE Experiment | John Lichter |
| American Society of Microbiology | ||
| Fellow | Research Project | Faculty Mentor |
| Chaiyaboot Ariyachet '10 | Posttranslational modification of a novel arginine/glycine rich protein in Candida albicans | Anne McBride |
| James Stacy Coles Summer Research Fellowships in Chemistry and Biochemistry | ||
| Fellow | Research Project | Faculty Mentor |
| Eric Ardolino '10 | Oxidation of atmospherically relevant organic molecules | Stemmler/Voss |
| Alex Carpenter '10 | Cobalt complexes for catalysis | Krumper/Broene |
| Pornchai Kaewsapsak'12 | Preparation and Photophysical and Photochemical Properties of New Compounds of Ruthenium (II) with Bis-triazine Ligands | Jeff Nagle |
| Maria Nicolais '10 | Optical trapping and nonlinear spectroscopy | Laura Voss |
| Alex Peacock-Villada '11 | The Electronic Spectroscopy of Long, Synthetic Polyenes | Ron Christensen |
| Gibbons Summer Research Internships | ||
| Fellow | Research Project | Faculty Mentor |
| Kauri Ballard '10 | Mrs. Roosevelt's Chronicles | Janet Martin |
| Joanna Caldwell '10 | Develop a database of Inuit artists | Genny Lemoine |
| Sabrina Cote '10 | Digitize photographs in the Pejepscot Historical Society collection | Sarah McMahon |
| Elise Krob '10 | Will work with RoboCup team to develop a new vision system with the robots | Eric Chown |
| Devon Layne '09 | Virtual World of Chersonesos | Carey Phillips |
| Danielle Marias '10 | Three-dimensional model of witches' broom architecture to assess light capture and photosynthesis in mistletoe-infected white spruce | Barry Logan |
| Octavian Neamtu '12 | Swarm Models and Apply Them to Musical Parameters | Steve Majercik and Frank Mauceri |
| Danielle Willey '12 | Develop Virtual Sedimentary Geology Field Trips | Peter Lea |
| Howard Hughes Medical Institute Summer Fellowship | ||
| Fellow | Research Project | Faculty Mentor |
| Kelsey Cole '11 | Evolutionary comparison of Demodex folliculorum in North Americans of European descent and Native Nepalese | Mike Palopoli |
| Lucas Delahanty '10 | Enhancing Bioremediation Capacity via Trehalose | Mary Lou Zeeman |
| Kyle Dempsey '11 | Enviornmental Context Affects Resting and Active Hypothalamus-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis Function and Recovery Rates from Stress | Mike Palopoli |
| Onyinyechi Esonu '12 | An investigation of neuropeptide modulation of the stomatogastric nervous system | Stemmler/Dickinson |
| Linna Gao '12 | The Role of the Ganglionic Sheath in Determining the Modulatory Effects of Nitric Oxide Gas (NO) on Rhythmnic Motor Patterns in the American lobster, Homarus americanus | Patsy Dickinson |
| Khristianna Jones '10 | Temporal and Directional Dynamics of Association Cortex-Parahippocampal Interactions in a Delayed Nonmatched to Sample Memory Task in Rats | Seth Ramus |
| Max Nowicki '11 | Synthesis of unnatural azidosugars to hijack Helicobacter pylori's pseudaminic acid biosynthetic pathway | Danielle Dube |
| Nehal Patel '10 | Determination of visual sensitivity threshold in male goldfish (Carassius auratus) and the effects of steroids on threshold level | Richmond Thompson |
| Sara Powers '11 | Effects of Estradiol on the Visual System of Goldfish | Richmond Thompson and Pasty Dickinson |
| Eugene Sun '10 | The Role of WAKs in Cell Expansion and Pectin Binding | Bruce Kohorn |
| Andre Walcott '12 | Testing Episodic-like Memory in Rats by Acquiring a Taste Aversion | Seth Ramus |
| Conor Walsh '11 | Fitness Effects of Removing Highly Conserved Non-coding Elements Near the teashirt gene in the Fruit Fly Drosophila melanogaster | Mike Palopoli |
| Alexander Williams '12 | Testosterone's Effects on the Goldfish (Carassius auratus) Visual System | Richmond Thompson |
| Idea Network of Biomedical Research Excellence Summer Fellowship | ||
| Fellow | Research Project | Faculty Mentor |
| Matthew Bowers '10 | The Relative Permeability of the Stomatogastic Sheath to RPCH and its Role Controlling Neuromodulation | Patsy Dickinson |
| Hannah Peckler '11 | The role of VAMP in dendritic expansion within the cricket auditory system | Hadley Horch |
| Alexandra Pfister '10 | Effects of denervation on the auditory system of the adult cricket | Hadley Horch |
| Alicia Satterly '10 | Genetic Variation and Neuronal Morphology in C. elegans | Mike Palopoli |
| Caitlin Stauder '10 | Fgf10a in Zebrafish Development | Bill Jackman |
| Kent Island Summer Fellowship | ||
| Fellow | Research Project | Faculty Mentor |
| Katherine Blizzard '11 | Bowdoin Scientific Station | Damon Gannon |
| Evan Fricke '11 | Bowdoin Scientific Station | Damon Gannon |
| Evan Graff '11 | Bowdoin Scientific Station | Damon Gannon |
| Colin Matthews '10 | Bowdoin Scientific Station | Damon Gannon |
| Mary Miller '09 | Bowdoin Scientific Station | Damon Gannon |
| Carina Sandoval '10 | Bowdoin Scientific Station | Damon Gannon |
| Marie Sears '09 | Bowdoin Scientific Station | Damon Gannon |
| Kevin Smith '11 | Bowdoin Scientific Station | Damon Gannon |
| Littlefield Summer Fellowship | ||
| Fellow | Research Project | Faculty Mentor |
| Teresa Arey '11 | Influence of Structure on Soil Sorption | Dharni Vasudevan |
| Katharina Bilotti '10 | The Photochemistry and Optical Spectroscopy of Long Polyenes | Ron Christensen |
| Bo Wang '11 | Determining the substrate flexibility of Helicobacter pylori's carbohydrate biosynthetic machinery | Danielle Dube |
| McKee Photography Grant | ||
| Fellow | Research Project | Faculty Mentor |
| Rachel Goldman '10 | Meggan Gould | |
| John Lehman '10 | Meggan Gould | |
| Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship | ||
| Fellow | Research Project | Faculty Mentor |
| Isa Abney '11 | American Radical Movements of the 1960s and 1970s | Tess Chakkalakal, Elizabeth Muther, and Professor Phyllis Jackson from Pomona College |
| George Aumoithe Jr. '11 | An analysis of LGBTQ social spaces within the context of urban build form | Jill Pearlman |
| Sean Campos '11 | Chicano Literature, Culture, and the Image of the Cockroach | David Collings |
| Jasmine Graham '10 | Educating Migrant Children in Beijing | Nancy Riley |
| Fatoumatta Kunjo '10 | Jaliya: Contemporary Mande Griot Traditions | David Gordon |
| Ahmad Muhammad '10 | Finding Creativity in Jazz Composition | Frank Mauceri |
| Rebecca Schouvieller '10 | German Language Immersion Program | Mark Laurer (Mount Holyoke) |
| Hannah Stokes '11 | Quantum consciousness in New Age spiritual communities | Krista Van Vleet and Hilary Thompson |
| Sharon Ulery '11 | Improving Efficiency and Security in a Circular-Secure Encryption Scheme | Adriana Palacio and Jennifer Taback |
| Claudia Williams '11 | The Role of race in the Foster Care System | Nancy Riley |
| Merck/AAAS Grant | ||
| Fellow | Research Project | Faculty Mentor |
| Andrew Calkins '11 | Effects of temperature on the modulation of the Homarus americanus heart by the neuropeptide, GYSDRNYLRFamide | Patsy Dickinson |
| Andrew Cardamone '11 | Source-Sink Dynamics of phosphorus and industrial metals in sediments of the Androscoggin River | Dharni Vasudevan |
| Kentiobong Essien '11 | Source-Sink Dynamics of phosphorus and industrial metals in sediments of the Androscoggin River | Pete Woodruffn |
| Michael Farthing '10 | Exploring structural factors responsible for neuropeptide activity in decapod crustaceans | Beth Stemmler |
| Paller Research Fellowship | ||
| Fellow | Research Project | Faculty Mentor |
| Amelia Lanier'10 | Function of the truncated vasotocin receptor in goldfish | Richmond Thompson |
| Dana Riker'10 | The Role of Synaptobrevin (VAMP) in Compensatory Auditory Regeneration in Crickets, Gryllus bimaculatus | Hadley Horch |
| Physics and Astronomy Departmental Fellowship | ||
| Fellow | Research Project | Faculty Mentor |
| Michael Mitchell '11 | Integration of Electrical Components and Electric Power Generation | Dale Syphers |
| Community Action Fellowship |
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| Fellow | Partner | |
| Julia Bender '13 |
Cornerstone | |
| Nora Krulwich '11 |
Tedford Shelter | |
| Rachel Turkel '11 | Midcoast Health | |
| Rachel McDonald '12 |
Five River Arts Alliance | |
| Kristin Rogers '12 | Preble Street Resource Center | |
| Sophie Springer '11 | Mitchell Institute | |
| Colleen Sweeney '11 | Volunteer Lawyers Project | |
| Alisha Turak '12 | Maine Center for Economic Policy | |
| Davis Project, 100 Projects for Peace | ||
| Fellow | Partner | |
| Angel Cheng '12 | Moso China, Female Sex Education Program | |
| Global Citizens Grant | ||
| Fellow | Partner | Location |
| Dhaujee Kelly '11 | The Parijat Academy in Guwahati | India |
| Lakhina Ky '11 | Neary Khmer in Siem Reap | Cambodia |
| Rosie Laflam '11 | Horizon House in La Esperanza | Peru |
| Sam Modest '09 | Rainbow Academy in Darjeeling | India |
| Anirudh Sreekrishnan '12 | Heart for Humanity, an NGO | Accra, Ghana |
| Robert S. Goodfriend Summer Internship Fund | ||
| Fellow | Partner | |
| Christopher Li '11 | Northampton Arts Council, Young@Heart Chorus | |
| Kara Maloney '10 | Fox News, Marketing | |
| Richard B.'62 and Sabra Ladd Government Internship | ||
| Fellow | Partner | |
| Grant Easterbrook '11 | Council on Competitiveness, Presidential Intern | |
| Jordan Termine '10 | U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission | |
| Thomas A. McKinley '06 Grant | ||
| Fellow | Partner | Location |
| Mika Matsuuchi '11 | Expanding Opportunities/Josoph Waweru Home School | Kenya |
| Rosalind Worcester '11 | Omprakash Foundation, Children's Home, Prisoner's Assistance | Nepal |
| Nikuradse-Matthews Summer Fellowship | ||
| Fellow | Partner | |
| Elliot Munn '11 | Seeds of Peace, Peer-Support program | |
| Preston Public Interest Career Fund | ||
| Fellow | Partner | |
| Guoyou Chen '11 | Care Alliance, Health Literacy Program | |
| Grace Hyndmann '11 | SOTENI,Villages of Hope, HIV-AIDS Awareness | |
| Kristopher Klein '12 | Youth Vision Uganda | |
| Nikolai Kubota-Armin '11 | West Bank Community Development/Minneapolis | |
| Sadie Nott | Hester Street Collaborative, Architecture | |
| Natalia Richey '11 | Expand Peru and Amazon Promise | |
| Esther Sosa '11 | Mercy Hospital, Portland ME, Hispanic Outreach | |
| Emily Tong '11 | FairMail, Digital Photography in India | |
| Rachel Turkel '11 | Little Field Home, Malawi, Health Education | |
| Helen Wen '10 | Joslin Diabetes Center, Fundraising | |
| Psi Upsilon/Logan Environmental Fellowship | ||
| Fellow | Partner | |
| Jonas Crimm '10 | The Nature Conservancy | |
| Cory Elowe '11 | Maine Audobon | |
| David Funk '10 | Town of Brunswick | |
| Thai Ha-Ngoc '10 | Town of Topsham | |
| Wesley Hartwell '11 | Lower Kennebec Valley Land Trust | |
| Kathryn Shaw '11 | Maine League of Conservation Voters | |
| Drew Trafton '10 | Maine Island Trail Association | |
| Freedman Summer Research Fellowship in Computer Science | ||
| Fellow | Research Project | Faculty Mentor |
| Mark McGranaghan '09 | Constructing an edge quadtree in the plane: a new approach | Stephen Majercik and Laura Toma |
Award Recipients
Summer Research
Langbein fellow, Aleph Cervo '14, composes a piano quintet. Click here for a video.
Curiosity Peaked: Grua/O'Connell fellow, Danica Loucks '13, hikes the Appalachian trail.
Student poet, Katie Kinkel '13, explores many poetic voices thanks to the Surdna Foundation.
Coastal Studies Summer Fellows present summer reserach projects.
Psi Upsilon fellow, Rachel Courtault '13, seals career goals during internship with Maine Conservation Voters.
Surdna Foundation fellow, Jae Bradley '13, contributes research to boost global food production.
Funded by the Gibbons Summer Research Internship, Rachel Pollinger '15 fuses mathematics and storytelling.
Langbein fellow, Tariq Haq '12, creates 'Elemental' beauty at local school.
Surdna foundation fellow, Kristen Stogsdill '13, teams up with a Bowdoin alumna to research public health and young mothers.
Martha Reed Coles fellow, Max Brandstadt '13, explores Buddhism's subversive edge.
There's a Bowdoin App for that: Rob Visentin '14 uses funds from the Gibbons Summer Research Internship to create build new campus guide.
Jessica Laplante '12 helps heal migrant farm workers with help from the Preston Public Interest Career Fund.
