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Honors College Fellowships

An Honors College Student Fellowship is a $1,500 grant given to a Commonwealth Honors student for pre-approved scholarly engagement that is overseen and guided by a mentor. Each fellowship must have a reading component, a writing component, and a speaking component. The student is expected to invest about 100 hours of focused effort. A single fellowship can be spread across twelve consecutive months, but cannot exceed.

Please note: Students can only receive one (1) Honors College Student Fellowship.

The $1,500 grant is applied to a student's financial account. Typically, half of the award ($750) is disbursed at the start of the fellowship, with the second ($750) disbursed when the student satisfactorily completes the Final Presentation (15 minutes).

How to apply:

Faculty mentor and student have already found each other: fill out the Faculty Mentor and Student Fellowship Application together
Faculty mentor has a project but needs help finding a qualified student: fill out the Faculty Fellowship Idea Application. Honors students will be notified about the opportunity.
Student wants a Fellowship, but needs help finding a faculty mentor: fill out the Student without a Faculty Mentor Fellowship Idea Application and the Fellowship team will help to identify a faculty mentor with an appropriate project

Submit applications and any questions to Julian_Zabalbeascoa@uml.edu

Note: Presentations will be held on the first Wednesday of every month from 6:00PM-7:30PM. 4 presenters (max) at each Fellowship Group Presentation. A Zoom link will be given to you once your presentation date is confirmed. Use the Fellowship Presentation sign-up link below when ready to present.

Faculty Mentor & Student Fellowship Application

Fellowship Presentation Sign-up Link

Faculty Research Fellowship Opportunities

*If interested, please contact the faculty member directly.

Faculty Mentor	Contact Information	Faculty Department	Fellowship Description (Click for more information)
Hsi-Wu Wong	Hsiwu_Wong@uml.edu	Chemical Engineering	Waste Plastics Recycling
Zhenglun (Alan) Wei	ZhenglunAlan_Wei@uml.edu	Biomedical Engineering	Develop an ML-based estimation of TCPC hemodynamics using computational results as training data
Murat Inalpolat	Murat_Inalpolat@uml.edu	Mechanical Engineering	P1) Vibration and acoustics transmission from 3D-printed micro-lattice structures P2) Design and controls of an automotive drivetrain test rig. P3) Controls and dynamic modeling of electric motors for electric vehicles
Christopher Carlsmith	Christopher_Carlsmith@uml.edu	History	Editorial Intern for History of Education Quarterly
Christopher Carlsmith	Christopher_Carlsmith@uml.edu	History	Honors Student Archives Assistant for Hellenic-American Archives Project
Ann Kronrod	Ann_Kronrod@uml.edu	Marketing, Entrepreneurship and Innovation	Applying Language and Text Analysis to Learn about Consumers
Shanna Thompson	Shanna_Thompson@uml.edu	Center for Program Evaluation	Center for Program Evaluation Honors Fellowship
Larissa Gaias and Hilary Lustick	Larissa_Gaias@uml.edu Hilary Lustick@uml.edu	Psychology & Education	Uplifting the Voices of Restorative Coordinators
Seung Woo Son	Seungwoo_Son@uml.edy	Electrical and Computer Engineering	A Study on Durability, Performance, and Efficiency of Time-Series Database
Yan Luo	Yan_Luo@uml.edu	Electrical and Computer Engineering	Cloud-based Timeseries Database, Visualization and Analytics
Noah Van Dam	Noah_VanDam@uml.edu	Mechanical Engineering	Computer Simulations of Multiphase and Reacting Flows
Jana Sladkova	Jana_Sladkova@uml.edu	Psychology	Exploring the needs of the Lowell Public Schools Abisi Adult Education Center: A Participatory Action Research Project
Robai Werunga	Robai_Werunga@uml.edu	Education	The effects of Touch Math intervention on the number recognition skills and 1-2 digit addition/subtraction skills of students with significant cognitive disabilities
Shanna Rae Thompson	Shanna_Thompson@uml.edu	Center for Program Evaluation	Center for Program Evaluation Honors Fellowship
Rahim Jindani	rahim_jindani@uml.edu	Plastics Engineering	Development of sustainable chemistries, for functionalization on advanced food packaging materials to improve longer shelf life, and support for nutritional variety to marginalized, and local communities.
Lei Chen	Lei_Chen@uml.edu	Mechanical Engineering	Compact Microdrive and 3D-Printed Skull Cap System for Brain-machine Interface
Juan Artes Vivancos	Juan_ArtesVivancos@uml.edu	Chemistry	Single-Molecule Electrical Biodetection Of Biomarkers: Towards Rapid, Low- Cost, Ultra-Sensitive Quantum Nano Biosensors For Health Screening
John McKenna	John_McKenna@uml.edu	Education	Special Education Services for Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disabilities: Investigations of Inclusive Practice and Parent/Guardian Perceptions.
Jasmina Burek	Jasmina_Burek@uml.edu	Mechanical Engineering	Reinventing Social Infrastructure: From Abandoned Schools-to-Community Centers in Puerto Rico
Alan Wei	ZhenglunAlan_Wei@uml.edu	Biomedical Engineering	Machine learning has been progressively making its way to impact clinical decisions, especially in cardiovascular cardiology (so-called preventive cardiology). While most current endeavors focus on epidemiological and genetic predictors, it is marginally to apply machine learning to investigate cardiovascular fluid mechanics' contributions to cardiovascular diseases. Therefore, this project aims to explore the feasibility of using machine learning to predict complications and adverse events in patients with single ventricle (SV) malformations, one of the most severe and complex heart defects at birth. We will leverage the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia-Georgia Tech (CHOP-GT) SV database, one of the largest academic SV databases in the United States (n = ~600).
Alan Wei	ZhenglunAlan_Wei@uml.edu	Biomedical Engineering	The mock circulatory loop has been widely used to assess cardiovascular hemodynamics, optimize medical devices, and assist pre-clinical testing of innovative therapy. One key step in building a cardiovascular loop is the measurement of pulsatile flow/pressure waveforms, which changes with time. This project aims to design a customized system to measure the time-varying flow/pressures in a mock cardiovascular loop. This project is feasible for undergraduate students, as a similar project has been done by an undergraduate (see reference 1)
David Claudio	David_Claudio@uml.edu	Mechanical Engineering	A community-based participatory approach to support the Schools-to-Community Centers movement in PR: Opportunities and Challenges
Ramaswamy Nagarajan	Ramaswamy_Nagarajan@uml.edu	Plastics Engineering	focuses on the development of sustainable dyes with near-infrared reflective (NIR) properties for army uniforms. The undergraduate students will work closely with PhD students on day-to-day basis. The RA’s will be thoroughly trained on various characterization instruments that are used regularly for carrying out the research.
Ramaswamy Nagarajan	ramaswamy_nagarajan@uml.edu	plastics Engineering	focuses on the development of Photovoltaic (PV) Energy Harvesting Textiles. The undergraduate students will work closely with PhD students on day-to-day basis. The RA’s will be thoroughly trained on various instruments that are used regularly for carrying out the research.