{"id":36642,"date":"2026-05-08T09:29:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T13:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/?p=36642"},"modified":"2026-05-08T09:29:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T13:29:34","slug":"award-winners-from-the-2026-umaine-student-symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/2026\/05\/08\/award-winners-from-the-2026-umaine-student-symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"Award winners from the 2026 91¸£Àû Student Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Congratulations to the following Mitchell Center affiliated students and advisors for their awards at the 2026 91¸£Àû Student Symposium for Research and Creative Activity, which drew over 2,400 attendees. The symposium awards students who displayed outstanding research, presentation and creative ability. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Graduate Student Awards<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Interdisciplinary Research<\/strong>: Zainab Jafri, for the project titled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/uncovering-opportunities-for-industrial-circular-economy-exchanges-in-maine\/\">Reimagining the Waste Disposal Landscape \u2013 Industrial Symbiosis in Maine<\/a>.\u201d Jafri was advised by Reed Miller.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Social Sciences and Humanities<\/strong>: Catherine Segada, Chyanne Yoder, William Breneman and Gianna DeJoy, for their project titled \u201cReuseME: Investigating Waste Reduction and Cost Benefits in Coastal Communities Through a Pilot Reusable Food Packaging Program.\u201d They were advised by <a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/people\/cindy-isenhour\/\">Cynthia Isenhour<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Additional Awards<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dean of the Graduate School Faculty Mentor Award<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/people\/christine-beitl\/\">Christine Beitl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to the following Mitchell Center affiliated students and advisors for their awards at the 2026 91¸£Àû Student Symposium for Research and Creative Activity, which drew over 2,400 attendees. The symposium awards students who displayed outstanding research, presentation and creative ability. Graduate Student Awards Interdisciplinary Research: Zainab Jafri, for the project titled \u201cReimagining the Waste [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":957,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","spc_primary_category":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":3,"label":"News"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"mitchellcenter","author_link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/author\/mitchellcenter\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":3,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":613,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":613,"category_description":"","cat_name":"News","category_nicename":"news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/957"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36645,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36642\/revisions\/36645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}