Agenda
Time |
Session |
Location |
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8:30am-9:00am |
Registration & Breakfast |
Abromson Center Lobby |
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9:00am-9:15am |
Welcome |
Abromson Center Hannaford Hall |
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9:15am -10:00am |
Open Plenary |
Abromson Center Hannaford Hall |
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10:00am-10:15am |
The 15 Minute Stretch |
Abromson Center Lobby & Mezzanine |
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10:15am-11:45am |
Poster Session 1 |
Abromson Center Lobby & Mezzanine |
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10:15am-11:45am |
Oral Session 1 |
Abromson Center Breakout Rooms |
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11:45am-12:00pm |
Food for Thought |
Abromson Center Lobby |
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12:00pm-12:45pm |
Fireside Chat |
Abromson Center Hannaford Hall |
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12:45pm-2:15pm |
Poster Session 2 |
Abromson Center Lobby & Mezzanine |
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12:45pm-2:15pm |
Oral Session 2 |
Abromson Center Breakout Rooms |
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2:15pm-3:45pm |
Poster Session 3 |
Abromson Center Lobby & Mezzanine |
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2:15pm-3:45pm |
Oral Session 3 |
Abromson Center Breakout Rooms |
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2:00pm-3:30pm |
GRO & OLLI Fellows Presentation |
Abromson Center Hannaford Hall |
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3:30pm-4:30pm |
GRO & OLLI Fellows Reception |
Abromson Center Rooms 109 + 110 |
Schedule
R. Bruce Thompson, PhD – Professor of Psychology & MeRTEC Director, USM
Matthew Goodman, Ed.D. – Vice President & Academic Dean, SMCC
R. Bruce Thompson, PhD – Professor of Psychology & MeRTEC Director, USM
Sara Flowers, PhD – PI of ATLas Scholars & MeRTEC Principal, UMA & USM
Stretch, Mingle and Move! Please use this brief intermission to transition from the open plenary to your chosen Oral and Poster Presentation sessions
| Name | Presentation Title |
|---|---|
| Addison Dietz Skylar Maloney Lily Orth | Identifying Opportunities for Circularity in Micro Roasters |
| Adriana Lamesta | Do We Need the Electoral College? |
| Anna Dougherty | Digital Logic Toolbox |
| Anthony Caputo | Active Observation in Modern Microscopy: Integrating Camera Lucida Drawing with Digital Imaging |
| Ashley Salguero-Gonzalez | A study on Immigration Laws, Regulations, and Policies in the United States and Maine |
| Camdyn Elizabeth Johnson | Rediscovering the Past in a Disappearing Environment: A Study of Prehistoric Human Diet and Oral Health in Tortuga (Haiti) |
| Caroline Thompson | Bridging the Educational Gap to Strengthen Democracy |
| Echo Balistreri John D’Appolonia Jessica Macdonald | Ash Trees Under Attack: Growth Response to Emerald Ash Borer |
| Eddie Profenno | Political Predicament: Do Americans Support Civil and Human Rights Movements? |
| Ian Mowatt Jessica McDonald Abby Parker | Literature Review and Analysis of the 6th Mass Extinction Theory |
| Kathryn Haughey | Mindfully Teaching Mindfulness |
| Landen Jorgensen Zane Townsend Patrick Mansir | Assessment of Salmonid Stocking Success in the Presumpscot River Off Rt. 35 in Windham |
| Liam Claussen Margarita Nadeau Elizabeth St. Arnaud | A Survey of the University of Southern Maine’s Select Community Green Space Utilization and Site Plan Proposal |
| Lily Newton | From Plantation Corridor to Petrochemical Corridor: Policy, Power, and Environmental Injustice in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley |
| Marshall Payne | Comparing Ocean Currents with Primary Productivity |
| Matan Schoenfeld | Portland Public Schools’ Board Meeting Attendance and Awareness |
| Micah Baird | The Truth-Telling and Community Strengthening Work of the Community Education Specialists of WabanakiREACH |
| Michaela LaCrosse Caragh Beasley | Comparing Alosa pseudoharengus Age and Growth in Maine Lakes |
| Olivia Davis | How Can We Make the United States Representative Democracy Actually Representative? |
| Olivia Stewart James Tuthill Sydney LeCours | Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Wildlife-Vehicle Collisions and Mitigation Alignment Along the Route 302 Corridor with Comparison to Route 107 in Southern Maine |
| Paige Long | Money and Power: How Big Money Shapes Democracy in the United States |
| Rohen Brown | In What Ways Does Syncretism Reflect Cultural Resistance from Colonial Rule? |
| Sasha Garland-Dore Georgia Wood Kathryn Morin Che Che Stoddard | Potential Freshwater Quality Impacts of Lithium Mining in Maine |
| Shaelin Wood Izzy Probert Emma Cash-Hulbert Saige MacLeod | How does Tribal Sovereignty interact with Environmental Justice in the U.S.? |
| Sonya Theriault | Community Paramedicine in Rural Health Systems: Intervention Design, Outcomes, and Adoption Pathways |
| Tabitha Kipp | Method development and evaluation for early detection of Litylenchus crenatae ssp. mccannii in Fagus grandifolia leaf buds |
| Tim Shannon | Assessing the use of Respiratory Quotient as an Indicator of Vitellogenesis in the Flesh Fly Sarcophaga bullata |
| Name | Presentation Title | Room |
|---|---|---|
| Aberdeen Brickett | Valencian Voices: Matilde Salvador i Segarra’s Cinc Cançons de Bres | Abromson Center Hannaford Hall 1st floor |
| Alexandria Johnson | Debuccalization and Deletion: /s/ in Spanish | Abromson Center Hannaford Hall 1st floor |
| Lizzy Fogg | The Inherent Subversive Nature of Theatre: A Call to Action | Abromson Center Hannaford Hall 1st floor |
| Eli Wolf | Early Medieval Persuasion: Rhetoric in Cnut’s 1018 Law Code | Abromson Center Room 109, 1st floor |
| Nina El-Badry | Relational Mindfulness and Leadership Effectiveness: The Role of Embodied Presence | Abromson Center Room 109, 1st floor |
| Regan Thibodeau | Women’s Way of Leading – Deaf Led and Community Rooted | Abromson Center Room 109, 1st floor |
| José Torres | New examples of translating solitons fully nonlinear extrinsic geometric flows and their consequences | Abromson Center Room 110, 1st floor |
| Peter Fitton | Measurement of pion transparency in electron-nucleus scattering | Abromson Center Room 110, 1st floor |
| Samantha Lebsack | Fabrication and Testing of a Benchtop Supersonic Wind Tunnel | Abromson Center Room 110, 1st floor |
| Summer Carey | Wireless Communications for Ocean Drifter Buoys | Abromson Center Room 110, 1st floor |
| Isaac Budner | Chelation of Ti, Sc, Fe, Ge, and Nb using variations on Mandelic acid | Abromson Center Room 213, 2nd floor |
| Synthia Ladner | Electrospun Nanofiber Scaffolds for Bone Tissue Regeneration | Abromson Center Room 213, 2nd floor |
| Wiley Kemp | Organic Synthesis of Trehalose analog for Cell Preservation | Abromson Center Room 213, 2nd floor |
| Bella Ciampi | The Haunting of Candace Compson: Threats of The Feminine in Southern Gothic | Abromson Center Room 214, 2nd floor |
| Harleigh Rose Boyce | Time, Flux, and Freewill: Henri Bergson’s Influence on Literature | Abromson Center Room 214, 2nd floor |
| Paul W Connell | Once A Bitch Always A Bitch: Jason Compson Can’t Cope | Abromson Center Room 214, 2nd floor |
| Vanessa St. Pierre | Afrofuturism, Architecture and Identity | Abromson Center Room 214, 2nd floor |
| Cornelia Cone | Calibrating Conflict: Adaptive Leadership Communication in South Africa’s Democratic Transition (1990–1994) | Abromson Center Room 215, 2nd floor |
| Erika Kinlaw | The Role of Emotional Intelligence, Transformational & Transactional Leadership Traits in United States Veterans Leadership: A Phenomenological Study | Abromson Center Room 215, 2nd floor |
| Tomas Šiugžda | Designing Effective Management Offices: A Cross-Organizational Study of Structure, Culture, and Strategy Execution | Abromson Center Room 215, 2nd floor |
| Tracey Melody | The Influence of Mother-Leaders on Women’s Pursuit of Leadership | Abromson Center Room 215, 2nd floor |
| Joshua Macri | Inequality and Housing | Abromson Center Room 216, 2nd floor |
| Jules Cooper | Perception versus Reality: Exploring the Relationship between Income Inequality and Crime Rates in the US | Abromson Center Room 216, 2nd floor |
| Justin Gibbons | What makes some flat tax systems better than others in terms of tax revenue generation? A comparative case study analysis of Belize, Bolivia, Nauru, and Timor-Leste | Abromson Center Room 216, 2nd floor |
| Nathan Jones | Speculation, Monetary Policy, and Financial System: A Comparison of the 1929 and 2008 Financial Crises | Abromson Center Room 216, 2nd floor |
Pick up your boxed lunch in the lobby and join us in Hannaford Hall for the Fireside Chat
Jacqueline Edmondson, PhD – President, USM
Patrick Arnold – Office of Commercialization, USM
Christopher Cary – Office of Commercialization, USM
| Name | Presentation Title |
|---|---|
| Aidan O’Connor | Cas12a: an alternative RNA guided endonuclease for precise genome editing |
| Alexis Heald | Rewilding the Maize Rhizosphere: Restoring Beneficial Microbiome Interactions Lost Through Domestication and Breeding |
| Brent Rosato | Migratory Birds as Potential Transporters of Non-Native Ticks and Novel Vector-borne Pathogens in Maine: A Pilot Study |
| Chelsea Umuganwa | The Genetic Basis of Natural short sleep: Mechanisms of DEC2 and ADRB1 Mutations in Sleep Homeostasis |
| Daylin Soule | Go Baby Go: Designing an Adaptive Mobility Car |
| Elise Schultz | Housing Affordability for Recent College Graduates in Maine |
| Elizabeth Cote | The Female ACL Epidemic: Understanding Why Female Athletes Are More Prone to ACL Injuries in Sports –and How Leadership Can Help |
| Florence Mayanga | Engineering Multi-Gene Pathways in Yeast Using Synthetic Biology Tools |
| Jack Harrison Aidan O’Connor Delainey Black Emily Page | Mechanisms Regulating Stem Cell Division in Planarians |
| Jeydon Husson | Rural Access to Health Education |
| Joshua Enman | The Future of Exercise Mimetics and Their Implications for Longevity and Health Outcomes |
| Julie Bakis | How Gene Transcription Controls Pigment Color in Arthrospria platensis (Spirulina) |
| Kaitlin Bouchard | The Mental Game: Understanding Mental Health Challenges Among NCAA DIII Student-Athletes |
| Kelli Park | The Shared Wellspring of Stewardship: Voices from the North |
| Kinsey Stevens | How Select Genes Influence a Hallmark Phenotype of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome |
| Lisa Luken | Cross-Cultural Leadership Development Process: The Layers, the Icing, the Cake |
| Lukas Turner Alexis Randall | Gender and Cultural Norms’ Effects on Using Low Impact Exercise as a Stress Reduction Strategy |
| Mario Pulido-Ladero | The Importance of Cultural Investment in City Development |
| Molly Sabia | Generational Interpretations of Feminism: A Qualitative Study of Women’s Perspectives |
| Paul Thiemens | Charm as Everyday Charisma |
| Nicole McDonough | Does exposure to microplastics alter the foraging ability of the hermit crab Coenobita clypeatus? |
| Samuel Redd | Ctenophore and Cnidarian nervous systems. Of the same make but different models |
| Sloan Scotvold | Genetic and Selective Factors Influencing Behavioral Differences Among Dog Breeds |
| Tatiana Muteba | How SCN9A mutations alter Nav1.7 function and reshape pain sensitivity |
| Vlade Sherrill | Generation of Electrospun Nanofibers for Heart Tissue Regeneration |
| Name | Presentation Title | Room |
|---|---|---|
| Caroline Rose | The Impact of Student Engagement on Learning Outcomes | Abromson Center Room 213, 2nd floor |
| Céline Elizabeth Guedj | Beyond Co-Occurring: What Personal Narratives Reveal About the Triple Burden of Intimate Partner Violence, Substance Use, and Homelessness | Abromson Center Room 213, 2nd floor |
| Emily Ireland | Lactational Mastitis Diagnosis and Care-Seeking Behaviors Among Postpartum Persons in Maine | Abromson Center Room 213, 2nd floor |
| Katherine Sherman | “Calling Out” in a Therapeutic Classroom, Vocalization Types and Interactions | Abromson Center Room 213, 2nd floor |
| Cameron Buswell Eric Loomis Devesh Kesharwani | A Histological Dye as a Potential Strategy to Boost Fat Metabolism | Abromson Center Room 214, 2nd floor |
| Emily Rosenbaum | Monitoring Zooplankton Communities to Inform Offshore Wind Energy Development in the Gulf of Maine | Abromson Center Room 214, 2nd floor |
| Marta Norton | Intergenerational effects of paternal thyroid hormones on female fertility | Abromson Center Room 214, 2nd floor |
| Shakhnoza Mirzoyeva | Synthesis and evaluation of 2′-Deoxymugineic acid for lead remediation | Abromson Center Room 214, 2nd floor |
| Abigail Woolls | ADHD Stimulant Use: Effects on Satisfaction Measures, Goal Achievement, and Emotional Regulation | Abromson Center Room 215, 2nd floor |
| Camdyn Elizabeth Johnson | Rediscovering the Past in a Disappearing Environment: A Study of Prehistoric Human Diet and Oral Health in Tortuga (Haiti) | Abromson Center Room 215, 2nd floor |
| Marin McPhee | Coping with minority stress: Longitudinal impacts of LGBTQ+ individuals’ self-compassionate writings | Abromson Center Room 215, 2nd floor |
| Stephanie Watson | Reframing Neurodivergence: A Content Analysis of Positive Psychology Themes in Online Narratives | Abromson Center Room 215, 2nd floor |
| James Phy | Use of AI in personalized study material, and potential benefits on knowledge retention and learning | Abromson Center Room 216, 2nd floor |
| Lauren Springfield | Why expanding voting access matters for our democracy | Abromson Center Room 216, 2nd floor |
| Mariam Jabbar | Understanding political sociology for a pluralistic society | Abromson Center Room 216, 2nd floor |
| Rowan Albee | Standardizing education to strengthen democracy | Abromson Center Room 216, 2nd floor |
| Bella Ciampi | Collecting Collaboration: Cross Listed Courses, Interdisciplinary Experiences, and Club Activism of USM’s Women and Gender Studies Program | Abromson Center Room 218, 2nd floor |
| Magnolia Vinci | Collecting Experience: Voices of Faculty, Staff, and Students of USM’s Women and Gender Studies Program | Abromson Center Room 218, 2nd floor |
| MJ Friedman | Collecting Defiance: Timeline, The Council, and Resisting Erasure of USM’s Women and Gender Studies Program | Abromson Center Room 218, 2nd floor |
| MJ Huot | Collecting Presence: Events, Speakers, and Community Connection of USM’s Women and Gender Studies Program | Abromson Center Room 218, 2nd floor |
| Name | Presentation Title |
|---|---|
| Abigail Pitcairn Clayton Durepos | Multimodal Emotion Classification in Artwork: A Comparative Study Across Modalities |
| Anna Garrett | Seroprevalence of West Nile Virus in Adults Residing in Southern Maine, USA |
| Brian Balch Landon Weaver | Cognitive Radio Reception through Wireless Headphones |
| Caleb Gardner | Nitinol for Enhanced Compliant Mechanisms |
| Camdyn Johnson | Unsupervised Learning for Image Segmentation of Xylems in Plant Stem Cross-Section Images |
| Cody Chretien Genevieve Michaud-Naranja Emilie Hubbard Mary Kate Heffernan | Expression of the Br Protein at the Start of Metamorphosis in Manduca sexta |
| Emilie Hubbard Mary Kate Heffernan Cody Chretien Genevieve Michaud-Naranja | Expression of the Br Transcription Factor mRNA in Crochet Epidermis of Manduca |
| Emma Dennison | The Presence of Antibiotic-producing Bacteria in Soil Samples throughout Southern Maine |
| Ethan Cavanagh | Design and Implementation of an Automated Thermal Conditioning System for Squash Ball Performance Optimization |
| Genevieve Michaud-Naranja Emilie Hubbard Mary Kate Heffernan Cody Chretien | Expression of the Br Transcription Factor mRNA in the Prothoracic Gland in Manduca sexta |
| Joshua McCauley | Miniature Pinball Machine |
| Kaleb Pool | Underwater Glider |
| Kristen Rock | Design and Manufacture of a Compact Giraffe Unicycle |
| Krystal Sawyer | Design of Antimicrobial Surfaces for Spacecraft Exploration |
| Kurtis Voter | Analyzing and Design of Roll Center of a Car (2021 Acura TLX) with Independent Suspensions |
| Logan Butler Wade Jarvis Michael Davis | Vibrating Power Generator |
| Madison Harvey | Influence of Hunger State on Social Interactions in Red Swap Crayfish (Procambarus clarkii) |
| Mary Kate Heffernan Cody Chretien Genevieve Michaud-Naranja Emilie Hubbard | Designing PCR Primers to Analyze Br mRNA and Protein Expression in Manduca Sexta |
| Michaella Tillo Lio Cook Sam Cousins | Deleting NUCL-1: Its Protein, Its RG Repeat Domain, and Their Effects on Dauer |
| Nathaniel Lavarnway | AutoFab: Streamlining the Path from STL to Print |
| Noah Manning | RFID/NFC Lab Access Tracking System |
| Patrick Mustapha | Coaster Car Steering System |
| Stella Maris Drew Sfirri Benjamin Hall | Laser Micromachined Auxetic Nitinol Geometries for Active Composite Systems |
| Summer Carey | Wireless Communications for Ocean Drifter Buoys |
| Wylie Fiutak | Portable Soil Deflection Sensing and Logging System |
| Name | Presentation Title | Room |
|---|---|---|
| Abby Parker | The Physiological Effects of Reynoutria japonica Houtt. (Japanese Knotweed) Root Material in Zophobas morio (Superworms) | Abromson Center Room 213, 2nd floor |
| Ian Mowatt | Climate Refugees and Shifting Boundaries: Reconsidering Avian Conservation Categories in the Anthropocene | Abromson Center Room 213, 2nd floor |
| Isabella Probert Brian Determan | Integrating eDNA and Hydroacoustic Data to Assess Temporal and Spatial Variability of Alosa Species in the Kennebec River | Abromson Center Room 213, 2nd floor |
| Lily Newton | From Plantation Corridor to Petrochemical Corridor: Policy, Power, and Environmental Injustice in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley | Abromson Center Room 213, 2nd floor |
| Micah Baird | Using Archival Data to Track Glacial Recession in Western Greenland | Abromson Center Room 214, 2nd floor |
| Naomie Bisimwa Allyson Schimelman Heather Fairfield Campbell Michaela Reagan | Identifying New Targets in Multiple Myeloma driven by released factors from Bone Marrow Adipocytes | Abromson Center Room 214, 2nd floor |
| Nathan Hart | Western Blotting For Extracellular Vesicles | Abromson Center Room 214, 2nd floor |
| Sarah McGhee | Enhancing QGreenland with Socio-Economic Data & to Support Risk Investigations | Abromson Center Room 214, 2nd floor |
| Alexandra Downing Barbara Toomey | Evidence for Interaction Between CTHRC1 and the Extracellular Domain of TIMD4 | Abromson Center Room 215, 2nd floor |
| Ali Mouhsen | Retinoid Regulated Gene Expression in the Heart | Abromson Center Room 215, 2nd floor |
| Ashton Dodge | Endothelial protection through the activation of PKM2 | Abromson Center Room 215, 2nd floor |
| Audrey Crews | Chemoenzymatic synthesis of UDP-glucose for trehalose analogue production | Abromson Center Room 215, 2nd floor |
| Alexandra Albano-Fontaine | Seeking Authentic Media in a Digital Landscape | Abromson Center Room 216, 2nd floor |
| Daylin Soule Theo Colvin | Go Baby Go: Designing an Adaptive Mobility Car | Abromson Center Room 216, 2nd floor |
| MJ Friedman | Mechanisms of Prejudice: A Critique of the CIIM | Abromson Center Room 216, 2nd floor |
| Name | Presentation Title | Room |
|---|---|---|
| GRO FELLOWS | ||
| Abigail Bokaer | On Vanishing Archives: The Culture of North African Sephardim | Abromson Center Hannaford Hall |
| Emily Ireland | Lactational Mastitis Diagnosis and Care-Seeking Behaviors Among Postpartum Persons in Maine | |
| Japhat Els | Direct Democracy: How Maine’s Municipalities Plan for and Provide Accessible Public Meetings | |
| Milena Germon | Exploring the experiences of providers working with LGBTQ+ immigrant communities in Maine | |
| Peter Hofmann | Compassion in a Warrior Culture:Emotionally Supportive Leadership Among U.S. Military Veterans | |
| OLLI FELLOWS | ||
| Bram Stone | Leading to Transgress: Queering College Student Leadership Identity Development | |
| Caleb Randall | The Use of African American Spirituals as a Way to Combat Isolationism in Aging Rural Communities | |
| Heidi Durgin | Designed for Another Era: Reimagining High School Completion for Today’s Working Adults | |
| Jocelyn Giammarino | Skate to Relate: A Qualitative Study of a Therapeutic Skateboarding Program for At-Risk Youth | |
| T Love Smith | Trancestors |