2008 UMDRF Award Recipients Announced

July 17, 2008

On behalf of the awards selection committee (Thane Fremouw, Dianne Hoff, Mario Teisl, Senthil Vel, Dan Sandweiss, and Scott Delcourt), the Graduate School is pleased to announce the very first recipients of the University of Maine Doctoral Research Fellowships. The six fellows were selected out of an extremely competitive pool of 32 nominees. The awards committee found all the individuals who applied to be outstanding graduate students - certainly among the best and brightest at the University of Maine. Congratulations to all!

James Campbell                 Spatial Information Science and Engineering
Heather Deese-Riordan      Marine Science
Christie Mahaffey               Interdisciplinary/Ocean Engineering
Jeffrey Marsh                     Earth Sciences
David Turpie                      History
Sara Walton                       Chemical Engineering