URF Projects

2012 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships

• Tiny Trash Initiative

• Thermo Elastic Effect in Polymers

• Stress Analysis and Material Properties Determined with Various Techniques

• Calorimeter Construction and Testing

• Selection to Change the Wings in Drosophila

• Genetic Regulation of Diverse Responses to Steroid Hormones

• Growth Response of Procholorococus to Different Nitrogen Sources

• Through a Glass Darkly: Attempts to Develop a Technique for Observing  Diving Behavior of the Common Loon, Gavia immer

• Design and Construction of a Wind Tunnel for the Purpose of Testing Wind Turbine Performance

• Using Genetic Algorithms for Motif Inference to Search for Candidate Functional Elements in SCN2A

• Searching for Candidate Functional Elements in Noncoding DNA Regions Around CFTR Using GAMI and MEME

• Virtual Tours: User-friendly Crowd-sourcing Application Development and Effectiveness of Generating Interest in Prospective Students

• B-Type Asteroid Classification Clarification

• Systemic Analysis of the Chemical and Physical Properties of Salts of the Hydroxylated Boranes

• Estimating the Generation of Disposable Propane Tanks in Maine

• An Evolutionary Computation Approach to DNA Motif Inference with Highly Conserved Core Regions

• Conservation Methodologies for Important Elements of Plant Biodiversity in Witt Swamp

Recently Completed Undergraduate Research Fellowships

• Fabrication and Testing of A Walking Beam Gamma type Stirling Engine

• Wind Tunnel Design, Construction and Modeling on Various Types of Wind Turbines

• Comparative Toxicity of Short-Term and Chronic Exposure to Lunar Dust and Its Component Particles in Human Skin Fibroplast Cells

• Soil Trace Element Concentrations on a Historic Maine Island: A Pilot Study

• State of the Aquifers in Maine: An Evaluation with Cross Comparisons to Calculate Our Probable Future Scenarios

• Photometric Light Curve Measurements for Determination of the Rotation Period of Jovian Trojan Asteroid 4709 Ennomos

• Genomic Analysis and Annotation of Bacteriophages Isolated from Rachel Carson Salt Pond and Allagash Ice Caves in Maine

• It's Not Junk: Finding Candidate Functional Elements in Non-coding DNA

• Investigating the Viability of Solar Power at a Site in Raymond, Maine

• The Formulation of a Set of Standardized Body Landmarks to Aid in the Measurement of Three-Spine Sticklebacks

• Investigating the Viability of Solar Power at a Site in Raymond, Maine

• Changes in Gene Expression in the Prothoracic Gland of Manduca sexta

• Using Genetic Algorithms for the Inference of Motifs Conserved in an Unknown Subset of DNA Input Sequences