{"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 U海角社区 Student Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Congratulations to the following Mitchell Center affiliated students and advisors for their awards at the 2026 U海角社区 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 海角社区<\/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 U海角社区 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}]}}