/umss Just another University of Maine Sites site Thu, 30 Jun 2022 15:36:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 /umss/2021/05/24/umss21-student-profile-zachary-maynor/ Mon, 24 May 2021 13:48:25 +0000 /umss/?p=42750 Zachary Maynor’s 91¸£Àû Student Symposium project focuses on ways to mitigate the effects of water evaporation on wild blueberry crops in Maine. With the help of graduate student Rafa Tasnim, a Ph.D. candidate studying ecology and environmental sciences, he was able to conduct a study that mixed Biochar and compost at different rates and compositions […]]]> /umss/2021/05/13/umss21-student-profile-anna-soule/ Thu, 13 May 2021 13:13:20 +0000 /umss/?p=42745 Anna Soule presented two separate projects at the 91¸£Àû Student Symposium 2021. The project “Whites Only,â€� advised by Owen Smith, won the arts category award for graduate students. The winning project is a “collaborative video performance/installation that touches on white privilege and assimilation to white culture and systemic racism in America.” Along with collaborators Derek […]]]> /umss/2021/05/13/umss21-student-profile-jacob-mealey/ Thu, 13 May 2021 13:07:34 +0000 /umss/?p=42740 Jacob Mealey’s 91¸£Àû Student Symposium project focuses on COVID-19 contact tracing. He has designed a system that utilizes Android cellphones and a Bluetooth Beacon. The phone uses an app that constantly scans the unique ID of each beacon, and looks for the closest one. When the app detects a new beacon, it updates a server […]]]> /umss/2021/05/13/umss21-student-profile-cassidy-mccusker/ Thu, 13 May 2021 12:59:43 +0000 /umss/?p=42736 Cassidy McCusker’s 91¸£Àû Student Symposium 2021 project focuses on the role that diagnosis, hospitalization, and perceiver mental health experience have on the subjective hireability of a job applicant. She is examining how medication use, previous hospitalizations, mental health disorder diagnosis, and gender could change a candidate’s perceived hireability for a job. From this research, she […]]]>