FARMINGTON — The University of Maine at Farmington Undergraduate Research Council has recently named 14 students as fall 2009 Michael D. Wilson Scholars and Fellows. The program recognizes some of the highest academic scholarship at UMF. It awards funds that underwrite research project expenses and helps promote purposeful scholarship, leadership and student/faculty collaboration.

Local fellows include Joshua Case, New
Vineyard and D. Jamez Terry, Farmington.

Local scholars include Daniel Allen,
West Gardiner; Jamie Beaulieu, Farmington; and Casey Paige, Auburn.

Student applicants are nominated by a UMF faculty sponsor and, after a
competitive selection process, are chosen by the UMF Undergraduate
Research Council.

Case, a senior with an individualized double major in music/mathematics and mathematics, is researching ways to apply mathematical principles to the understanding of music.

Terry, a senior majoring in history with minors in English and religion, is finalizing his primary source research on the cultural constructions of Charles Guiteau, assassin of President Garfield, at the Library of Congress and the Chicago Historical Society.

Allen, a senior majoring in mathematics, is computing the Bieri-Neumann-Strebel invariant of Lamplighter groups – a mathematical structure that models computer algorithms.

Beaulieu, a senior majoring in geology, is investigating the effect of the retreat of the Laurentide ice sheet on local topography to better understand the unpredictable nature of the disintegration of this continental glacier. 

A senior majoring in international studies, Paige’s research analyzes Charles De Gaulle through French memoirs of the Algerian War.