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BIDDEFORD, Maine

2012 Undergraduate Arts and Sciences Symposium winners announced

Winners of the University of New England 2012 Undergraduate Arts and Sciences Research and Scholarship Symposium have been announced. The symposium was held Friday, May 4, 2011 at the Biddeford Campus.

This annual symposium allows students to present their research, classroom projects, art work, or other work done at UNE in either an oral presentation, poster presentation, or artistic display format.

2012 Arts and Sciences Symposium

 

Presentations 

Forty-four oral presentations were made this year ranging from the "Desertion in the Seventeenth Maine Regiment during the Civil War" to "Recurrence of Punishment-as-Spectacle: Foucault and the UC Davis Pepper-Spraying," from "Targeting Novel FAAH Inhibitors for the Treatment of Chronic Pain" to "Steller Sea Lions, Will We Ever Know?"  

There were also 70 poster sessions and art work displays ranging from "Effects of Music Styles on Task Performance and Frustration Levels" to "Food Preference and Foraging Behavior of Grey Squirrels."  View a schedule of all the presentations.

Honors Presentations  

Oral presentations included  honors thesis presentations by: Tyler Brown (Aquaculture - Marine Science), "The Breeding and Microhabitat of Sandlance (Ammodytes americanus)"; Joseph Gousse (Political Science), "Institutionalized Racism and the Politics of Justice: Disproportional Incarceration of Native Americans in the State of Maine"; Vernon Chan (Chemistry & Physics), "Computational Investigation and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Analysis of 6_-Naltrexol Derivatives"; Margaret Hutton (Marine Science), "Substrate Analysis, Juvenile Lake Sturgeon, and the Taxonomic Identification of Macroinvertebrates in the Detroit River - East of Fighting Island"; Briana Chu (Education), "The Value of Cursive Writing: Teachers' Thoughts on its Current Usefulness"; Ryan Knotek (Marine Science), "Investigating Potential Reproductive Anomalies in the Spiny Dogfish (Squalus acanthias) along the United States East Coast"; Karson Couture (Marine Science), "Age and Size at Sexual Maturity of the Barndoor Skate, Dipturus laevis, based on Morphological Analyses"; Brittany Morley (Psychology), "The 'Go Grrrls' Program: A Look at Findings from a Local Female Empowerment Group"; Daniel Crear (Marine Science), "Age Distribution of Six Shark Species within the Mississippi Sound Nursery Ground"; Casey Toombs (Marine Science), "Differential Stress Tolerance of the Color Morphs in the Green Crab (Carcinus maenas)."

Award Winners 

Each award winner will receive a certificate and monetary award from the Office of the Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences.

Oral Presentation for Original Research  

First Prize: Caitlin Tetreau - Pecan Pies and Passion: 1940s Sexuality through the WWII Letters of Ruth Banfield Lowderback  

Runners-up (tie): Brittany Morley - The Importance of Best Practices in Mentoring Relationships  
Matthew Anderson - The Supreme Court's Resolution on Citizens United: Corporate Power and the Politics of Representation 

Oral Presentation of Literature Review of a Topic  

First Prize: Kelsey Thompson - Steller Sea Lions, Will We Ever Know?  

Artistic Exhibit  

First Prize: Michael D'Apice - Stakeholders of the Saco River  
Runners-up: Kevin Connell & Stephen Barton - 3D Printing and Design 

Poster Presentation  

First Prize (tie): Julia Rich & Hadleigh Smith - The Effects of Text Distracters on Comprehension in Skilled- and Less-skilled Readers  
Michael Huber - The Effect of Solute Polarity on Solubility in Polyethylene Glycol with Varying Concentrations of Supercritical Carbon

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The University of New England is Maine’s largest independent university, with two beautiful coastal campuses in Maine, a one-of-a-kind study abroad campus in Tangier, Morocco, and an array of flexible, accredited online degrees. In an uncommonly welcoming and supportive community, we offer hands-on learning, empowering students to make a positive impact in a world full of challenges. The state’s top provider of health professionals, we are home to Maine’s only medical college, Maine’s only dental college, a variety of other interprofessionally aligned health care degree programs, as well as nationally recognized programs for marine science degrees, natural and social sciences degrees, arts and humanities degrees, and business degrees.