Mr. Michael Apfelbaum '99 was conducting paleoclimate studies in the Canadian Arctic (Professor Michael Retelle, Geology; NSF Grant, Bates Student Research Fund Grant).

Mr. Chelan Babineau-Z. '99 was studying the significance of biogenically laminated sediments in the Canadian Arctic (Professor Michael Retelle, Geology; Hughes Student-Faculty Research Grant).

Mr. Kapil Bahl '99 was helping to design environmentally friendly catalytic systems (Professor Rachel Austin, Chemistry; Hughes Student-Faculty Research Grant).

Ms. Katrina Beach '00 was studying algebraic topology and fixed point theory (Professor Peter Wong, Mathematics; Hoffman-Mellon Grant).

Mr. Peter Beeson '99 was analyzing the water quality of the upper aquifer in the urban center of the Zimapán Valley, Mexico (Professor Lois Ongley, Geology; NSF/REU Grant).

Mr. Anatoliy Bizhko '99 was studying the legal and economic consequences of enlarging the European Union to include former Eastern Bloc countries (Professor James Hughes, Economics; Stangle Grant).

Mr. Andrew Brownlee '99 was exploring the optimal conditions for four-wave mixing in a photorefractive crystal (Professor Hong Lin, Physics; NSF Grant, Research Corporation Grant).

Ms. Michelle Campbell '99 was participating in an archaeological excavation of the eighteenth-century stockaded fort, Fort Shirley, in Dresden Mills, Maine (Professor James Leamon, History; Lincoln County Historical Association Grant).

Mr. Christopher Colapietro '99 was characterizing novel heterogeneous catalysts developed in Professor Austin's lab to determine why they work at an atomic level (Professor Rachel Austin, Chemistry; Pfizer Pharmaceutical Fellowship).

Ms. Amanda Colby '00 was examining the use of lanthanide-cyclodextrin complexes as chiral NMR shift reagents (Professor Thomas Wenzel, Chemistry; NSF Grant).

Mr. John Connolly '00 was working at Harvard Medical School's Channing Laboratory on an immunological study of the bacteria Bacteroides fragilis and its role in causing abdominal abscesses (Hoffman-Mellon Grant).

Mr. John Cullinan '99 was conducting pre-thesis research on Hamiltonian mechanics and Lagrangian mechanics (Professor John Rhodes, Mathematics; Rawlings Grant).

Ms. Caroline Damon '01 was studying mating and paternity among blue monkeys in Kenya (Hoffman-Mellon Grant).

Mr. Michael Danahy '00 was assisting with the development of labs for two new introductory chemistry courses that approach concepts in chemistry from an environmental studies perspective (Professors Rachel Austin and Thomas Wenzel, Chemistry; Otis Curriculum Development Grant).

Mr. Daryn Daniluk '99 was helping to develop environmentally friendly catalytic systems (Professor Rachel Austin, Chemistry; Hughes Student-Faculty Research Grant).

Mr. Randy DePaolo '99 was conducting dendritic cell research at Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City (Scher Fellowship, Hoffman-Mellon Grant).

Ms. Laura DiLorenzo '00 was studying lanthanide-encapsulating ligands for use in chiral NMR shift reagents (Professor Thomas Wenzel, Chemistry; NSF Grant).

Mr. Matthew Dow '99 was working on the preparation of plasmid DNA constructs required for the establishment of a mammalian in vivo expression system (Professor T. Glen Lawson, Chemistry; NSF Grant).

Ms. Angel Drobnica '00, on behalf of the Maine Peoples Alliance, was studying the effects of industrial use of toxic material on humans and the environment (Hoffman-Mellon Grant, Community Work-Study Grant).

Mr. Jay Edmonds '99 was working on the preparation and purification of mutated versions of the encephalomyocarditis virus 3C protease for use in the kinetic analysis of the interaction of the 3C protease with ubiquitin-protein ligase enzymes (Professor T. Glen Lawson, Chemistry; NSF Grant).

Mr. Edward James Felton '99 was conducting laser studies of collision-induced absorption in atomic gases (Professor John Smedley, Physics; Hughes Student-Faculty Research Grant).

Mr. Michael Fink '99 was working on the design, construction, and testing of a laser/scanning tunneling microscope for ultrahigh density information storage technology (Professor Matthew Côté, Chemistry; Hoffman-Mellon Grant, Federal Experts in Science and Engineering Program).

Ms. Karen Fletcher '99 was studying the postpartum practice of zuò yuè zi among women in Taiwan (Professor Charles V. Carnegie, Anthropology; Hughes Individual Student Research Grant).

Ms. Jordana Gerson '99 was studying the practices of Jewish Buddhists in California (Professor John Strong, Religion; Hoffman-Mellon Grant).

Ms. Alison Glusman '99 was studying the relationships among smoking behavior, cigarette prices, and health costs (Professor James Hughes, Economics; Summer Research Apprenticeship).

Ms. Melissa Grable '99 was studying spatial patterns and benthic remineralization of ice-algal communities in the Chukchi Sea in the Arctic Ocean (Professor William Ambrose, Biology; Hughes Student-Faculty Research Grant).

Ms. Karen Grady '98 was assisting on the final production of an illustrated history of the piano (Professor James Parakilas, Music; Summer Research Apprenticeship).

Mr. Jonathan Hagelstein '99 was analyzing trends in the gender-wage gap in China using data contained in the China Labor Statistical Yearbook (Professor Margaret Maurer-Fazio, Economics; Hoffman-Mellon Grant).

Ms. Priscilla Henry '99 was exploring the optimal conditions for four-wave mixing in a photorefractive crystal (Professor Hong Lin, Physics; NSF Grant, Research Corporation Grant).

Ms. Candace Hersey '99 was examining the effects of estrogen on E. coli in urinary tract infections (Professor Lee Abrahamsen, Biology; Merck Fellowship).

Mr. Jonathan Horowitz '00 was examining the effects that the language of law has on nationa building in South Africa (Professor Patrick Rivers, Political Science; Stangle Grant).

Ms. Alina Ifteni '01 was studying the Gaussian curvature on hyperbolic surfaces (Professor Peter Wong, Mathematics; Hoffman-Mellon Grant).

Ms. Beth Kalinowski '99 was studying the role of women, immigrants, and freed blacks in the Battle of Gettysburg (Professor Margaret Creighton, History; Summer Research Apprenticeship, Bates Student Research Fund).

Mr. Sagun K.C. '00 was conducting genetics research at the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine (Hughes Dental Scholars Program).

Ms. Kathryn Kiss '99 was working on a study at the University of Vermont examining adolescent development and academic success (Hoffman-Mellon Grant).

Ms. Megan Kohring '99 was comparing Gaussian and non-Gaussian cosmological models (Professor Emory Bunn, Physics; Hughes Student-Faculty Research Grant).

Mr. Timothy Leach '99 was conducting geologic mapping of islands in Muscongus Bay, Maine (Professor J. Dykstra Eusden, Jr., Geology; Hughes Individual Student Research Grant).

Mr. William Linkroum '99 was studying the long-term effects of neonatal isolation on the developing rat (Professor Cheryl McCormick, Psychology/Neuroscience; Hughes Student-Faculty Research Grant).

Mr. Kyle MacLaury '99 was studying the long-term effects of neonatal isolation on the developing rat (Professor Cheryl McCormick, Psychology/Neuroscience; Hughes Student-Faculty Research Grant).

Ms. Nunia Mafi '99 was conducting an internship for DARE (Direct Action for Rights and Equality), a social service organization dedicated to economic and political justice for low-income families in Providence, Rhode Island (Hoffman-Mellon Grant, Community Work-Study Grant, Crafts Grant).

Mr. Joel Mahoney '99 was apprenticing to sculptor Ubbo Enninga in Stuttgart, Germany (Hoffman-Mellon Grant).

Mr. Ali Malik '01 was studying convolutional coding and its uses in data processing at the University of Engineering and Technology in Lahore, Pakistan (Hughes Individual Student Research Grant).

Mr. Matthew McGuire '01 was participating in an archaeological excavation of the eighteenth-century stockaded fort, Fort Shirley, in Dresden Mills, Maine (Professor James Leamon, History; Lincoln County Historical Association Grant).

Ms. Sara Milstein '00 was designing and undertaking TIPTOE, a poetry outreach program for children and elders in Lewiston and Auburn (Mr. Robert Farnsworth, English; Hoffman-Mellon Grant, Mulford Service-Learning Grant, Bates Student Research Grant).

Mr. Bradford Morse '99 was developing a basin-wide groundwater model to ascertain the transport of arsenic in the lower aquifer of the Zimapán Valley, Mexico (Professor Lois Ongley, Geology; NSF/REU Grant).

Ms. Katharine Osborne '99 was mapping Cerro Grande, an igneous-layered complex with hydrothermal alteration in the Zimapán Valley, Mexico (Professor Lois Ongley, Geology; NSF/REU Grant).

Mr. Whitney Patridge '99 was undertaking paleoclimate studies in the Canadian Arctic (Professor Michael Retelle, Geology; NSF Grant).

Ms. Sarah Picard '99 was surveying the oak beech forests of southern and central Maine for the Nature Conservancy (Hughes Individual Student Research Grant).

Ms. Kanoelani Pilobello '01 was helping to develop a functional model of sulfite reductase (Professor Rachel Austin, Chemistry; Merck Fellowship).

Mr. Scott Pollard '99 was working on the design, construction, and testing of a laser/scanning tunneling microscope for ultrahigh density information storage technology (Professor Matthew Côté, Chemistry; Federal Experts in Science and Engineering Program, Research Corporation Grant).

Ms. Elizabeth Sandman '99 was assisting in the phenotyping of unknown genes in E. coli at Harvard Medical School (Hughes Individual Student Research Grant).

Mr. Rushil Shakya '01 was researching World Wide Web links and constructing web files for a Spanish-language WWW site (Ms. Claudia Guzmán, Spanish; CBB/Mellon Language Grant).

Mr. Caleb Shor '00 was developing a method of transforming a large number of computer programs into functionally equivalent but more efficient programs through data structure elimination (Professor Patricia Johann, Mathematics; Hughes Student-Faculty Research Grant).

Ms. Rachel Simons '99 was studying the rights of gay men and lesbians in South Africa (Professor Patrick Rivers, Political Science; Hoffman-Mellon Grant).

Ms. Rebecca Skolnik '99 was conducting developmental studies of children's testimony (Professor Georgia Nigro, Psychology; Summer Research Apprenticeship).

Mr. P. Christopher Staecker '00 was studying algebraic topology and fixed point theory (Professor Peter Wong, Mathematics; Hoffman-Mellon Grant).

Mr. Theodor Stefanov '99 was examining the British approach to the European Union (Professor James Hughes, Economics; Hoffman-Mellon Grant).

Ms. Amy Sullivan '99 was modifying a magneto optical atom trap, developed to study collisions between atoms (Professor George Ruff, Physics; Hughes Student-Faculty Research Grant).

Ms. Jessica Taisey '99 was developing a model for a science summer camp for girls at Bates (Professors Georgia Nigro, Psychology, and William Ambrose, Biology; Hughes Outreach Grant).

Mr. Peter Tilney '99 was studying spatial patterns and benthic remineralization of ice-algal communities in the Chukchi Sea in the Arctic Ocean (Professor William Ambrose, Biology; Hughes Student-Faculty Research Grant).

Ms. Melissa Vining '99 was working on the development of biodegradable, carbohydrate-based plastics substitutes at the Agrotechnological Research Institute in Wagenin, Netherlands (Hughes International Chemistry Research Program).

Ms. Lee Wacker '99 was examining chiral calixarenes as NMR shift reagents (Professor Thomas Wenzel, chemistry, NSF Grant).

Mr. Andrew Wagner '99 was examining the protective effects of prior controllable stress on subsequent drug addiction in rats (Professor John Kelsey, Psychology/Neuroscience; Hughes Student-Faculty Research Grant).

Mr. Cody Weber '00 was examining regional and city identities in the countries of the former Yugoslavia (Professor Dennis Browne, Russian; Summer Research Apprenticeship).

Mr. Christopher Williams '99 was working on the design, construction, and testing of a laser/scanning tunneling microscope for ultrahigh density information storage technology (Professor Matthew Côté, Chemistry; Federal Experts in Science and Engineering Program).

Mr. Travis Woodward '99 was studying the ecology of a rare bulrush, Scirpus longii, in the Saco River floodplain, southern Maine (Professor Curtis Bohlen, Environmental Studies; Hughes Student-Faculty Research Grant).

Ms. Han Mi Yang '00 was helping to develop a functional model of sulfite reductase (Professor Rachel Austin, Chemistry; Merck Fellowship).

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