Student-Athlete Summer Researchers

Student-Athlete Summer Research Grants, Fellowships, and Internships

From the list compiled by the Dean of Students office of all students funded by Bates to do summer research and/or conducting research with a Bates faculty member, those who are student-athletes.

Joseph Ajamu ’14 - Track: Synthesis of Spiroketal Enol Ether Natural Products (Jennifer Koviach-Côté, Chemistry), Early Career Student Research Opportunities

Brigit Anderson ’12 - Rowing: Exhumation and Paleotopography of the Presidential Range, NH, from Apatite Fission Track Ages, (J. Dykstra Eusden, Geology), Mount David Research Fellowship

Ashley Brooks ’14 - Squash: Field and Laboratory Research in Climate Reconstruction Using Sclerochronology (William Ambrose, Biology), Early Career Student Research Opportunities

Allison DiSalvo ’12 - Rowing: Effects of Developmental Hyperoxia on Spiracle Opening in Drosophila (Ryan Bavis, Biology), A. V. Davis Student Fellowship in Biology

James Epstein ’13 – Cross Country/Track: Environmental Intern, Sabbathday Lake Association, New Gloucester, ME, Otis Environmental Internship

Sarah Fallon ’12 - Swimming: Postnatal Growth and Critical Periods of the Developing Carotid Body (Ryan Bavis, Biology), INBRE Student-Faculty Grant in Biology and Biochemistry

Alicia Fannon ’13 – Cross Country/Track: The 1901 World’s Fair, Buffalo, NY (Margaret Creighton, History), Student Research Apprenticeship

Samuel Gretz ’12 - Track: Synthetic Studies of Koshikalide (Jennifer Koviach-Côté, Chemistry), O’Leary Fellowship in Chemistry or Biochemistry

Romina Istratii ’12 - Track: Toward a Less Food Insecure World: Developing a Life-Cycle Accounting-Based Model for the Better Comparison of Different Agricultural Practices (Alejandro Dellachiesa, Economics), Stangle Fellowship for Research in Economics and Law

Douglas Kempner ’12 – Cross Country/Track: How Ballot Initiatives Relate to People’s Understanding of Voting (Maine People’s Alliance), Harward Center for Community Partnerships Community-Based Research Fellowship

Kathilee Kenlock ’14 - Track: The Physics of Matter in the Vapor Phase Cooled to Nanokelvin Temperatures (Nathan Lundblad, Physics), Early Career Student Research Opportunities

Mollie Kervick ’13 - Softball: The Creative Writing Component of a Summer Camp for Local Youth (Camp Smiles, Lewiston Department of Recreation), Harward Center for Community Partnerships Community-Based Research Fellowship

Umar Ali Khan ’13 - Squash: Impact of Madrases on the Economic Growth of Pakistan (Francesco Duina, Sociology), Bates Summer Research Fellowship

Kara Leasure ’12 - Swimming: The Role of Glutamate in the Modulation of the Standard Pattern of Feeding in the Pond Snail, Helisoma trivolis (Nancy Kleckner, Biology), INBRE Student-Faculty Grant in Biology and Biochemistry

Sophie Leonard ’12 – Nordic Skiing: Mathematical Modeling of Gloeotrichia echinulata (Meredith Greer, Mathematics), Mellon Innovation Grant

Mary Lewis ’13 – Field Hockey/Softball: Translational Regulation in Diverse Prokaryotes (Paula Schlax, Chemistry), INBRE faculty grant

Kelley Madden ’12 – Cross Country/Track: Translational Regulation in Diverse Prokaryotes (Paula Schlax, Chemistry) INBRE faculty grant

Peter Miller ’12 - Rowing: Beach Monitoring, Phippsburg, ME (Michael Retelle, Geology), Small Point Operating Company faculty grant

Cody Newman ’11 - Lacrosse: Hydrodeoxygenation of Fast Pyrolysis Oil over Ruthenium Catalysts (Rachel Narehood Austin, Chemistry), Beckman Scholarship for Research in Science

Cheri-Ann Parris ’13 - Squash: Arsenic Exposure in Mice (Rebecca Sommer, Biology), A. V. Davis Fellowship in Biology

Kevin Regan ’13 - Football: Atomic Force Microscope-Based Manipulation of Plasmonic Nanoparticles (Matthew Côté, Chemistry), Hoffman Fellowship

Haley Sive ’12 - Rowing: Digital Bedrock Mapping of Small Point, ME (J. Dykstra Eusden, Geology), U.S. Geological Survey EdMap Grant

Elisabeth Sonshine ’12 - Rowing: Late Holocene Fluctuations in Eelgrass Abundance in Penobscot Bay, Gulf of Maine (Beverly Johnson, Geology), National Science Foundation faculty grant

Ross Terada ’14 - Rowing: Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser (VCSEL) Research (Hong Lin, Physics), Early Career Student Research Opportunities

Charles Thaxton ’12 - Rowing: David Foster Wallace: Infinite Jest (Sanford Freedman, English), Bates Summer Research Fellowship

Kristina Tobin ’12 – Soccer/Track: Postnatal Growth and Critical Periods of the Developing Carotid Body (Ryan Bavis, Biology), INBRE Student-Faculty Grant in Biology and Biochemistry