Congratulations to our eight SURF 2009 recipients:

Ashleigh Poole - Psychology/Biology

Project Title: Effects of Arsenite on Axonal Transport of Exocytotoxic Vesicles in PC12 Cells

Jefferson Gaynor - Biology

Project Title: GCharacterization and Analysis of an Extremophile Community by Polymerase Chain Reaction Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis (PCR-DGGE)

Ian Hebert - Physics

Project Title: Development of Photometric Data Reduction Software: Studying Diameters and Albedo’s of Primitive Asteroid Families

Meredith Morgan - History and Political Science

Project Title: Mayan Identities: Genocide in the 21st Century: American Foreign Policy in Darfur

Nikkilee Carlton - Geo/Anthropology

Project Title: Maine’s Historical Grange and How It Might Inform Modern Farm Communities

Eda Gjika - Chemistry

Project Title: Spirometallabifluorenes: Novel Luminescent Compounds for Commercial Applications

Brandon Foster - Psychology

Project Title: The Effects of Socioeconomic Status (SES) On Children’s Mental State Reasoning: An Investigation into How Children from High and Low Socioeconomic Families Use Metacognitive Language in Dyadic Problem-Solving

John Wise, Jr. - Biology

Project Title: Toxicology of Lunar Dust in Human Lung Cells

Contact: For more information or questions about the program contact
Renee Gravelle, rgravelle@usm.maine.edu, 228-8040