| James Stacy Coles Undergraduate Research Fellowship | ||
| Fellow | Research Project | Faculty Mentor |
| Michelle Lawson '12 | Singing-dependent gene expression in the zebra finch brain |
Osceola Whitney |
| Martha Reed Coles Undergraduate Research Fellowship | ||
| Fellow | Research Project | Faculty Mentor |
| Sean McElroy '12 | The Men Who Left Earth: Religoin, Ritual, and Sacrifice in Early American Space Flight | David Hecht |
| Freedman Summer Research Fellowship in Coastal/Environmental Studies | ||
| Fellow | Research Project | Faculty Mentor |
| Allison Dupont '12 | Impacts of Land Management Practices on Soil Nitrogen | Phil Camill/Dharni Vasudevan |
| Peter J. Grua and Mary G. O'Connell Faculty/Student Research Award | ||
| Fellow | Research Project | Faculty Mentor |
| Uchechi Esonu '13 | The Roots of the Yugoslav Crisis | Ray Miller |
| Ruiqi Tang '13 | Understanding Performance | Roger Bechtel |
| Hughes Family Summer Research Fellowship | ||
| Fellow | Research Project | Faculty Mentor |
| Keith Heyde '11 | Modeling Population Dynamics in LInked Carbon Sequestration and Hydrogen Production Systems | Mary Lou Zeeman/Dharni Vasudevan/Phil Camill |
| Kibbe Science Fellowship | ||
| Fellow | Research Project | Faculty Mentor |
| Kaitlin Clifford '12 | The Synthesis of a Sterically Hindered Metallocene Catalyst | Richard Broene |
| Brittany Strohm '12 | Retrograde Memory for a Spatial Task in Rats with Full Hippocampal Lesions | Seth Ramus |
| Maine Space Grant Consortium Fellowship | ||
| Fellow | Research Project | Faculty Mentor |
| Benjamin Berg '12 | Regulation of a Truncated Goldfish Vasotocin Receptor After Exposure to Pre-Ovulatory Females | Rick Thompson |
| John Coster '12 | Building a Socially-Aware Operating System Kernel | Daniela Oliveira |
| William Dawson V '13 | Intelligent Robotic Behaviors | Eric Chown |
| Kassey Matoin '13 | Evolutionary Origin of Human Follicle Mites | Michael Palopoli |
| Benjamine Mende '13 | Search Algorithms for OPtimal Extraction of Elastic Constants Through Comparison of Experimental and Simulated images | Laura Toma/Madeleine Msall |
| Rachel Schwemberger '12 | The rapid effects of water-soluble β-estradiol on retinal responses to light stimuli in male Carassius auratus |
Patsy Dickinson and Richmond Thompson |
| Victor Wong '13 | Using Collaboration Between and Operating System and a Virtual Machine to Prevent Privacy Invasive Malware Attacks | Daniela Oliveira |
| Ellen M. and Herbert M. Patterson Research Fellowship | ||
| Fellow | Research Project | Faculty Mentor |
| Katherine Kinkel '13 | Sexuality and Narrative Structure in the Novels of William Faulkner | Aaron Kitch |
| Rusack Coastal Studies Fellowship | ||
| Fellow | Research Project | Faculty Mentor |
| Elisabeth Carter '13 | Analyzing the role of NGOs in Creating Fisheries Policies that Protect the Socio-Economic Interests of Coastal Communities While Stabilizaing Fish Populations | Anne Hayden/DeWitt John |
| La'Shaye Ervin '12 | Proliferation of Eastern Dwar Mistltetoe (Arceuthobium pulissum) Infection in Red Spruce (Picea rubens) and White Spruce (Picea glauca) | Barry Logan |
| Rachel McDonald '12 | Light and Water as Both Subject and Medium in Portraying Maine's Coast | Meggan Gould |
| Colin Ogilvie '12 | Magnitude of penetration by Arceuthobium pusillum in Picea glauco andPicea rubens | Barry Logan |
| Nellie C. Watterson Fellowship in the Creative and Performing Arts | ||
| Fellow | Research Project | Faculty Mentor |
| Elida Heuck '13 | Writing the Novel | Bill Watterson |
| Beckman Scholarship | ||
| Fellow | Research Project |
Faculty Mentor |
| Molly Kwiatkowski '11 | Do the PS neurons use two different neurotransmitters in different locations to coordinate motor patterns? | Patsy Dickinson |
| Scott Longwell '12 | Profiling the Subcellular Localization of Helicobacter pylori's Glycoproteins | Danielle Dube |
| Alexander Williams '12 | Neuromodulation and Feedback Mechanisms within the Custacean Cardiac Ganglion: A Computational Model | Patsy Dickinson |
| James Stacy Coles Summer Research Fellowship in Chemistry and Biochemistry | ||
| Fellow | Research Project | Faculty Mentor |
| Juan Del Toro '13 | The Chemical Analysis of Hemolymph from the lobster Homarus Americanus as a fucntion of Molt Cycle Stage | Beth Stemmler |
| Hassan Rone '13 | The Separation, Analysis, and Purification of Schrock Polyenes | Beth Stemmler |
| Samuel Steward '12 | Purification and Optical Spectroscopy of Polyene Antibiotics | Ron Christensen |
| Freedman Summer Research Fellowship in Computer Science | ||
| Fellow | Research Project | Faculty Mentor |
| Octavian Neamtu '12 | Research on Cognitive Robotics | Eric Chown |
| Gibbons Summer Research Internship | ||
| Fellow | Research Project | Faculty Mentor |
| Stephanie Bond '13 | User Interactions in Online Science Forums: A Visual Representation | Jennifer Snow |
| John Bruno '13 | 2020 Carbon Challenge Website | Phil Camill, Eileen Johnson, and Keisha Payton |
| David Dietz '14 | Virtual Field Trips and EOS Quantitative Reasoning Program Development | Jennifer Snow |
| Brian Jacobel '14 | Bezoar: Automated Virtual Machine-Based Full System Recovery from Control-Flow Hijacking Attacks |
Jennifer Snow |
| Atilano Rodriguez '12 | Promoting Diversity in the Sciences: The Potential for Online Social Networking in Virtual Organizations | Jennifer Snow |
| Molly Taft '11 | Jennifer Snow | |
| Leah Wang '12 | Mapping Trails, Public Preserves, and Recreational Opportunities Near Bowdoin College |
Jennifer Snow |
| Madison Whitley '13 | Blogs of Proud Army Moms | Jennifer Snow |
| Joshua Zalinger '13 | Intelligent Head Tracking for the Aldebaran Nao |
Eric Chown |
| Howard Hughes Medical Institute Postback Summer Fellowship | ||
| Fellow | Research Project | Faculty Mentor |
| Michaela Calnan '11 | Compensatory response of cricket auditory neurons to injury: What role is played by activity in sensory neurons? | Patsy Dickinson |
| Andrew Cardamone '11 | Phosphate Source-Sink Dynamics in Androscoggin River Sediments | Dharni Vasudevan |
| Benjamin Cedars '11 | Verification and Quantification of Expression of the Truncated Vasotocin Receptor in Goldfish (Carrassius auratus) | Richmond Thompson |
| Kanokwa Champasa '11 | Discovering Helicobacter pylori's glycoproteins using metabolic oligosaccharide engineering | Danielle Dube |
| Pawat Seritrakul '11 | Retinoic acid promotes zebrafish tooth dvelopment by altering neural crest cell identity | William Jackman |
| Ivan Zhang '11 | Synthesis and Characterization of Closthioamide Derivatives | Benjamin Gorske |
| IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) Summer Fellowship | ||
| Fellow | Research Project | Faculty Mentor |
| Stephen Bayer '12 | Interchromosomal Gene Regulation in Drosophila melanogaster | Jack Bateman |
| Patrick Breen '13 | Inactivating ZF-Foxq1b with molecular scissors | Antonio Planchart |
| Calli Coffee '12 | The Effects of Retinoic Acid on Two Pathways Involved in Zebrafish Tooth Development | William Jackman |
| Sienna Kurland '12 | How does the release of myosuppressin and histamien from PS neurons modulat ethe STG and CoGs of the stomatogastric system | Patsy Dickinson |
| Hana Littleford '12 | Characterizing the genomic regulation of dlx2b during zebrafish tooth development | William Jackman |
| John Mortelliti '13 | Effects of deleting Conserved Non-coding Elements (CNEs) on teashirt (tsh) gene expression inDrosophila melanogaster | Michael Palopoli |
| Christina Pindar '12 | The function of dlx2b during zebrafish tooth development | William Jackman |
| Brett Stein '12 | William Jackman | |
| Katherine Tian '13 | Jack Bateman | |
| IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) Postbaccalaureate Fellowship | ||
| Fellow | Research Project | Faculty Mentor |
| Florence Sun '11 | Combining Recombinase-Mediated Cassette Exchance (RMCE) with P-element Tranposon System to Specifically Target the Integration of Marker Genese onto Balancer Chromosomes | Jack Bateman |
| Teerawat Wiwatpanit '11 | Neuropeptides from the C-type allatostatin family have differential effects on the cardiac neuromuscular system of Homarus americanus | Patsy Dickinson |
| Kent Island Summer Fellowship | ||
| Fellow | Research Project | Faculty Mentor |
| Ouda Baxter '11 | Damon Gannon | |
| Annabel Boeke '12 | Tisis en la Ciudad: Examining the Medical Discourse on TB in Turn-of-the-Century Buenos Aires | Damon Gannon |
| Clair Ellwanger '12 | Damon Gannon | |
| Aviva Fiske '12 | The Effects of Researcher Handling on the Growth and Development of Stress Responses inLeach's Storm Petrel Chicks | Damon Gannon |
| Benjamin Livingston '13 | Damon Gannon | |
| Rebecca Perez '12 | Damon Gannon | |
| Kevin Wu '14 | The Littorina littorea are common in the lower intertidal due to size dependent food preference and are capable of surviving in artificially transported populations closer to shore | Damon Gannon |
| Latin American Studies Research Grant | ||
| Fellow | Research Project | Faculty Mentor |
| Annabel Boeke '12 | Tisis en la Ciudad: Examining the Medical Discourse on TB in Turn-of-the-Century Buenos Aires | Allen Wells |
| Elijah Garrard '12 | Body Politics in Contemporary Argentine Cinema | Enrique Yepes |
| Laura Till '12 | Mapuche Poetry and Protest in Southern Chile | Enrique Yepes |
| Littlefield Summer Fellowship | ||
| Fellow | Research Project | Faculty Mentor |
| Zhenghao Cul '12 | Synthesis of a 4-Phenyl-Phosphorin Ligand for Cobalt Catalysis | Rick Broene |
| Katherine Rawden '12 | Synthesizing a Cobalt Catalyst to Dimerize Linear alpha-Olefins Using Isocynaides as ligands to Encourage Yields of Linear Product | Rick Broene |
| Clare Boothe Luce Research Fellowship | ||
| Fellow | Research Project | Faculty Mentor |
| Teresa Arey '11 | The Effect of the Cation-pi Interaction on the Sorption of Cationic Amines to Montmorillonite | Dharni Vasudevan |
| Phoebe Aron ' 13 | Dharni Vasudevan | |
| Emma Chiappetta '11 | SL (2,R) an the Hyperbolic Triad | William Barker and Thomas Pietraho |
| Emma Cutler '13 | Climate Modeling: Interactions Between Volcanism, Weathering, Ice Albedo, Energy Balance, and Temperature | Mary Lou Zeeman |
| Nicole Erkis '12 | Training Neural Networks to Control Adversarial Swarms | Stephen Majercik |
| Elizabeth Mamantov '13 | Development of an Efficient Dual-Language System | Eric Chown |
| Danielle McAvoy '13 | Building a System of Spatial and Episodic Memory for Robots | Eric Chown |
| Helen White '13 | Numerical Models of Black Hole Neutron Star Binaries in General Relativity | Thomas Baumgarte |
| McKee Photography Grant | ||
| Fellow | Research Project | Faculty Mentor |
| Albert Gutierrez '13 | Meggan Gould | |
| Zoe Lescaze '12 | Archaeological Illustration a the DGB-1 and DGB-2 Sites, Northern Cameroon | Meggan Gould |
| Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship | ||
| Fellow | Research Project | Faculty Mentor |
| Shazeda Ahmed '12 | ||
| Daniel Chin '12 | Danielle Dube | |
| Uchechi Esonu '13 | Ethnic Conflict of Cooperation: Managing Diversity in Eastern Europe and Central Asia | Laura Henry |
| Terranicia Holmes '13 | Understanding the Impact of Teenage Pregnancy Prevention Policy | Wendy Christensen |
| Kristopher Klein '12 | ||
| Hannah Lorastein '13 | Outlawed Voices: Criminal Critiques of United States Law | Brian Purnell |
| RaiNesha Miller '13 | More Than a Conqueror: African American Women Navigate Single-Motherhood | Judith Casselberry |
| Nadja Shaw '12 | ||
| Sarah Siwak '13 | The Digital Self: Identity and the Internet | Krista Van Vleet |
| Teona Williams '12 | ||
| Merck/American Association of the Advancement of Science Grant | ||
| Fellow | Research Project | Faculty Mentor |
| Amie Corso '12 | Metal Contaminant Source-Sink Dynamics in Androscoggin River Sediments | Dharni Vasudevan |
| Linna Gao '12 | Mechanisms for producing different chewing patters in the crab: SIFamide as a potential neurotransmitter of the modulatory commissural neuron 5 (MCNS) | Patsy Dickinson |
| Jessica Kohn '13 | Controlling Feedback in the Central Patter Generator System of the Lobster Heart | Patsy Dickinson |
| Martin Wikoff '12 | Potential drought record in the chemistry of intertidal sediments of the upper Kennebec estuary, mid-coast Maine | John Lichter |
| Nyhus Travel Grant | ||
| Fellow | Research Project | Faculty Mentor |
| Annabel Boeke '12 | Tisis en la Ciudad: Examining the Medical Discourse on TB in Turn-of-the-Century Buenos Aires |
Allen Wells |
| Nicholas Pisegna '11 | Nyhus Travel Grant Final Report | Allen Wells |
| Leah Weiss '11 | An Einheitsgemeinde in Divided Berlin: Jewish Identity from 1945-1953 | Page Herrlinger |
| Teona Williams '12 | Matt Klingle | |
| Paller Research Fellowship | ||
| Fellow | Research Project | Faculty Mentor |
| Celeste Swain '12 | Estrogen receptors and the rapid influence of estradiol in visually guided sexual behavior in male goldfish (Carassias auratus) | Richmond Thompson |
| Physics Department Fellowship | ||
| Fellow | Research Project | Faculty Mentor |
| Noah Kent '12 | Investigating the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect's Energy Gap | Dale Syphers |
| Community Action Fellowship | ||
| Fellow | Partner | |
| Emma James '13 | Brunswick Housing Authority | |
| Jennifer Wenz '12 | Community Financial Literacy | |
| Lindsey Horowitz '12 | Five Rivers Arts Alliance | |
| Megumi Ishizuka '12 | Independence Association | |
| Amar Patel '13 | Maine Center for Economic Policy | |
| Manuela Ekowo '13 | Mitchell Institute | |
| Kayte Holtz '13 | Preble Street | |
| Jordan Payne '12 | Volunteer Lawyer Project | |
| Davis Projects for Peace | ||
| Fellow | Partner | |
| Mariya Ilyas '13 | Abbottabad, Pakistan - Journalism Program | |
| Global Citizens Grant | ||
| Fellow | Partner | |
| Abishag Suresh '12 | Campas de Nicaragua - Nicaragua | |
| Benjamin Richmond '13 | Teach Huarez Peru - Peru | |
| Elena Crosley '13 | Building New Hope - Nicaragua | |
| Macy Galvan '13 | AIM Abroad - India | |
| Nina Scheepers '14 | Triad Trust - South Africa | |
| Robert S. Goodfriend Summer Internship Fund | ||
| Fellow | Partner | |
| Branden Asemah '12 | Russia Today TV Network, New Delhi, India - News Intern in research and production | |
| Jordan Villars '12 | Clean Markets, Philadelphia, PA - Green-business Development Intern | |
| Antonio Watson '12 | Renegade 83 Entertainment, Glendale, CA - Television Development Intern | |
| Richard B.'62 and Sabra Ladd Government Internship | ||
| Fellow | Partner | |
| Brian Sung '12 | U.S. District Court, Newark, NJ - Summer Intern | |
| Thomas A. Mckinley '06 Grant | ||
| Fellow | Partner | |
| Hanna Flaten '13 | HALO Foundation, Denver, CO - Curriculum Development Intern for health education at summer camp | |
| Shanthi Purushotham '12 | MoSoNex, Singapore - Development and Applications Team Intern | |
| Nikuradse-Matthews Summer Fellowship | ||
| Fellow | Partner | |
| Emily Barr '12 | Ubuntu Education Fund, New York, NY - Communications Intern | |
| Preston Public Interest Career Fund | |
| Fellow | Partner |
| Anna Ackerman '12 | Center for Prevention of Hate, Portland, ME - Staff/Director Internship |
| Christine Buckland '12 |
Breakthough Cambridge, Milton, MA - Summer Teaching Internship |
| Molly Fargeorge '14 | Partners in Development, Guatemala - Tutoring program teaching Computer Skills and English |
| Katherine Foley '13 | Empowered Women International - Chevy Chase, MD - Multicultural Arts Program Associate |
| Ariye Krassner '14 | Preble Street Resource Center, Portland, ME - Staff Intern |
| Tristan McCormick '13 | Masifundise Development Trust, Cape Town, S. Africa - Community involvement with national fisheries |
| Rachel Sege '13 | West End House Boys & Girls Club, Brookline, MA - Staff Intern for Program Development |
| Lydia Singerman '14 | Masakhane Center, Newark, NJ - Sex Educator Intern |
| Erica Swan '13 | ArtVan, Brunswick, ME - Staff Intern |
| Laura Till '12 | Compas de Nicaragua, Managua, Nicaragua - Project Intern for Nutrition, Staff Intern |
| Filiberto Vargas, Jr. '14 | Kids Unlimited of Oregon - Transition Specialist Intern at summer camp |
| Eliza Warren-Shriner '13 | Pure Water for the World, Haiti - Staff Intern |
| Christiana Whitcomb '14 | Simply Smiles, South Dakota - Project Intern and Manager of Volunteers |
| Psi Upsilon/Logan Environmental Fellows | |
| Fellow | Partner |
| Tyler Patton '12 | Brunswick-Topsham Land trust |
| Curtis Morrill '11 |
Conservation Law Foundation |
| Sheela Turbek '13 | Cultivating Community |
| Dan Peckham '12 | Kennebec Estuary Land Trust |
| Woody Mawhinny '12 | Maine League of Conservation Voters |
| Alex Casbara '12 | The Nature Conservancy |
| Michael Lechance '13 | Town of Brunswick |
| Charles Cubeta '13 | Town of Topsham |
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.