Past Scholars - 2001

Ms. Kerri E. Allen
Spanish
"All the World's a Stage: Theatrical Translation from Theory to Production"
Professor Phyllis Zatlin

Mr. Jacob I. Anodide
English
"Ulysses' Un-Spoken Meta-Discourse"
Professor Marjorie Howes

Ms. Nicole Avena
Psychology
"Behavioral Effects of Risperidone on 6-OHDA Lesioned Neonatal Mice"
Professor George Wagner

Ms. Keren Bakal
Biological Sciences
"Effect of Female Sex Steroids on GABAergic Tone in the Dorsal Raphe Nucleus of Female Rats during the Estrus Cycle"
Professor Sidney Auerbach

Mr. Arka Banerjee
Biological Sciences
"Role of CCK in Stress Response of Group Housed Rats"
Professor Larissa Pohorecky

Mr. Patrick M. Braganca
Physics
"Electronic and Thermal Transport Properties of Magnetoresistive Manganites"
Professor Sang Cheong

Ms. Kristen Brynildsen
History
"Women in the Early Environmental Movement in New Jersey"
Professor Susan Schrepfer

Mr. Nicholas P. Butch
Physics
"Metallic Behavior in Two- Dimensional Electron Systems"
Professor Harue Kojima

Mr. Seth Cable
Linguistics
"The Effect of Noun Phrase Arguments and Other Material on the Eventuality Type of the Verb Phrases"
Professor Sihwar Zschild

Ms. Ashley Danielle Caudill
English
"The Mother of Death - A Novella"
Professor Abena Busia

Mr. Jeffrey Ceresnak
Biological Sciences
"The Effect of Genetic Polymorphisms on Enzyme Function"
Professor Paul Manowitz

Mr. Rittik Chakrabarti
Economics
"The Effect of Corruption on Foreign Direct Investment"
Professor Rosanne Altshuler

Ms. Hanna Chiang
English
"Literary Imagination and the Representation of Divinity in the Fiction of C.S. Lewis"
Professor Judith Lee

Mr. Gregory Chiarello
History
"Japan's Introspection: The Impact of Sigmund Freud on Japanese Literature and Society"
Professor Matt Matsuda

Ms. April Clisura
Sociology
"Perspectives on Feminism in the U.S.: The Voices of Rutgers University Students"
Professor Sarah Rosenfield

Mr. Ian Cohen
Psychology
"Social and Emotional Learning in the School"
Professor Maurice Elias

Mr. Marc Cohen
Biological Sciences
"Functional Regions of the Y4 Promoter of the Human B. Cell Line"
Professor Lori Covey

Mr. Ryan D. Cohen
Chemistry
"Excited States in Density Functional Theory"
Professor Karsten Krogh-Jespersen

Ms. Christina M. Craige
Latin
"Catullus in the Court of Henry VIII"
Professor Lowell Edmunds

Ms. Pratima Cranse
English
"The Deceptive Narrator in Nabokov's Fiction"
Professor William Vesterman

Ms. Marisa R. D'Alo
Psychology
"The Effects of Context on Two Year-Olds' Understanding of Television"
Professor Judith Hudson

Mr. Christopher R. DeHoust
Comparative Literature
"Biblical and Classical Influence in the Irish Epic"
Professor Steven Walker

Mr. Nirav K. Desai
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
"The Relationship between Ras and OPN in Apoptosis"
Professor David Denhardt

Mr. Rian Dickstein
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
"Effects of Sequence Context on the Lesion-Induced Destabilization of Oligomeric DNA"
Professor Kenneth Breslauer

Mr. Thomas A. Dineen, Jr.
Chemistry
"Synthesis of an Alpha-helix-initiating Hepta Peptide for Use in Conformational Studies of HIV Glyroprotein 41"
Professor John Taylor

Ms. Deepa Doshi
Cell Biology & Nueroscience
"Effect of Estrogen on NMDA Receptor Density, Cerebral O2 Consumption, and Blood Flow in Rats"
Professor Harvey Weiss

Ms. Justina Dudaronek
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
"Characterization of Cellular Aging Phenotypes in Wild-type and Long-lived Caenorhabditis Elegans"
Professor Monica Driscoll

Ms. Catherine Edwardson
Psychology
"Reverse Stereotype Threat and Cross-Gender Competition"
Professor Laurie Rudman

Mr. Yaser S. El-Gazzar
Biological Sciences
"Effects of L1-fc, L1-TEV and Cyclosporine A on Cytokine and Neurotrophin MRNA Levels after Spinal Cord Injury"
Professor Wise Young

Mr. Walead Esmail
Psychology
"Mass Media and Attitudes toward Gender: The Media's Role in Contemporary Sexism"
Professor Laurie Rudman

Mr. Jason Fann
East Asian Studies
"The Victims of Moderization in the Era of Natsume Soseki: A Literary Study"
Professor Paul Schalow

Ms. Elizabeth Fearon
Psychology
"Crowd Contagion in Moods"
Professor Jeannette Haviland

Mr. Kevin Felix
English
"The Societal Puzzle: Making the Pieces Fit"
Professor Brad Evans

Mr. Michael Ferraro
English
"Sharp Knives and Fireworks: John Fante and the Italian-American Experience"
Professor Martin Gliserman

Ms. Kimberly Fife
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
"Characterization of Coralyne as a Perturbant of Signaling by Growth Factor-Receptor-Proteoglycan Complexes"
Professor Marilyn Sanders

Ms. Cathy Fonseca
Psychology
"Decision Making Under Risk: The Effect of Risk Preferences on Acceptance of the Influenza Vaccination"
Professor Gretchen Chapman

Mr. Timothy Foy
English
"James Joyce's Ulysses: The Meaning of a Modern Epic"
Professor Bruce Robbins

Mr. Michael J. Fuerstman
Chemistry
"Large-Amplitude Vibrations in Methyl-Cyclopentanomes: A Multiphoton Ionization Study"
Professor Lionel Goodman

Ms. Ayorkor Gaba
Psychology
"Pathways to Eating Disorders: The Role of Racial Differences in Body Image"
Professor Megan Sweeney

Mr. Stepen M. Gentilella
History
"Howard Zinn and the NewLeft:"PoisoningtheWellofAcademe?""
Professor Christopher Brown

Mr. Michael K. Gill
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
"Alanine Scanning of McM1: Mutations that affect transcriptional regulation with its cofactors"
Professor Andrew Vershon

Ms. Erin Gimbel
English
"The Ambiguity of Shakespeare's Comic Endings"
Professor Bridget Lyons

Ms. Miriam Grubin
Psychology
"Counting in Two Sets: The Role of Configuration in Infancy"
Professor Alan Leslie

Mr. Todd Haim
Biological Sciences
"The Mechanism Through which Ethanol Increases Myocardial Cyclic GMP"
Professor Harvey Weiss

Mr. Thomas Haimowitz
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
"Synthesis and Evaluation of New Glycosidase Inhibitors"
Professor Spencer Knapp

Ms. Melanie Halkias
History
"The Correlation between Vegetarianism and Pacifism during World War I"
Professor Mark Wasserman

Ms. Irene Hao
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
"Investigation into the Mechanisms of the Notch Signaling Pathway"
Professor Kenneth Irvine

Ms. Desira B. Holman
Communication
"Relationship Maintenance: The Impact of Race, Financial Security, and othere Social Phenomena on the Communication Behaviors amongst African-American Married Couples"
Professor Stephen Haas

Ms. Vanessa Armine Hortian
Psychology
"Sizism: The Socially Acceptable Prejudice Aassessing College Students' Self-Esteem and Attitudes toward Underweight and Overweight"
Professor John Worobey

Mr. Daniel Huberman
History
"The Media of Vietnam: 1965-1966"
Professor Lloyd Gardner

Ms. Maryah Husain
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
"The Effects of Chronic Social Stress on Cholecystokinin-B (CCK-B) Receptor Distribution"
Professor Larissa Pohorecky

Mr. Shaun Illingworth
History
"The Wartime Diaries of Captain Edward Piech, USAAF, 1942-1945"
Professor John Chambers

Ms. Amy Janes
Psychology
"Relationship between Pavlovian Conditioning and 5-HT2A and 2C Receptor Binding in Rats"
Professor Arthur Tomie

Mr. Sunit Jariwala
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
"Structure-Function Analysis of Mothers Against Dpp"
Professor Richard Padgett

Ms. Amy (Sun Young) Joh
Psychology
"The Minimum Duration of Reactivating a Forgotten Memory at 3 Months of Age"
Professor Carolyn Rovee-Collier

Ms. Erika L. Johnson
Urban Studies
"Community Schools and Their Ability to Sustain Healthy Communities"
Professor Anton Nelessen

Mr. Stefan Kachala
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
"Relocation of the Plastid rpoA Gene to the Nucleus"
Professor Pal Maliga

Ms. Hana Kang
Communication
"The Necessity of Protection Law in Film Market in East Asia under the Pressure of Free Trade"
Professor Silvio Waisbord

Mr. Thomas J. Kearney
History
"The Pilgrim Foundation: Development of Society and Law in Plymouth 1698-1805"
Professor Paul Clemens

Ms. Elizabeth Kiszonas
History
"Gustav Stickley and Family: In the Craftsman Farms Utopia"
Professor William O'Neill

Ms. Kelly Koscuiszko
History
"Jackie Robinson & the Civil Rights Movement"
Professor Steven Lawson

Mr. Erik Krogh-Jespersen
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
"Does the N-Terminus of the Alzheimer's Amyloid B Peptide Form a PolarZipper"-likeStructureintheAmyloidFibril?""
Professor Stephen Anderson

Mr. Mark Lacis
Political Science
"The Influenece of Bob Marley and the Rastafari on the Polticial Culture of Jamaica"
Professor Gordon Schochet

Ms. Hwa Young Lee
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
"Tyrosine Phosphorylation of Cytoskeletal Proteins that Regulate the Organization of the Actin Filaments"
Dr. Beatrice Haimovich

Ms. Joanne Lee
Public Health
"The Connection Between Emotionally Abused and Runaway Children and Adolescents"
Professor Dona Schneider

Mr. Rex Lee
Political Science
"Class Action for the New Millenium"
Professor Stephen Bronner

Mr. Samuel S. Lee
Political Science
"U.S. Foreign Policy in North Korea: The East Asian Dilemma"
Professor Roy Licklider

Ms. Vanessa Lee
Public Health
"Characteristics Associated with Disenrollment From New Jersey Kidcare: Who Drops Out?"
Professor Jane Miller

Ms. Gwendolyn D. Long
History
"The American Woman and the Revolution: A Time of Political Transition"
Professor Juliana Barr

Ms. Jennifer Reamy Luftkin
American Studies
"Yoknapatawpha County at the Dawn of the 21st Century: Faulkner's Insight into the Human Drama"
Professor Michael Rockland

Ms. Traci MacNealy
Urban Studies
"The Complete Guide to Community Development Corporations"
Professor Frank Popper

Mr. Richard Martielli
Psychology
"Identity Issues in the Life of Jerzy Kosinski"
Professor George Atwood

Ms. Martha McCoal
Psychology
"The Role of Dopamine on the Anticipation of Reward"
Professor Charles Flaherty

Ms. Ami Modi
Biological Sciences
"Molecular and Genetic Dissection of Degenerin Ion Channel Function in C, elegans"
Professor Monica Driscoll

Mr. Daniel Morris
Political Science
"WithArdourandAlacrity":EmbracingtheConfrontationofKantandBenjaminToday""
Professor Drucilla Cornell

Mr. Guillermo Munoz-Elias
Biological Sciences
"Harnessing the Potential of Stromal Cells: In Vitro Differentiation of Bone Marrow Stromal Cells into Neurons"
Professor Ira Black

Mr. Jason Osher
Psychology
"Behavioral Variation as a Predictor of the Onset of Experimental Autoimmune Encephapmyelitis"
Professor Alexander Kusnecov

Mr. Michael Pante
Anthropology
"Statistical Analysis of Cut Marks and Tooth Marks on the Remains of White-tailed Deer from the Late Archaic Lamoka Lake Site in New York"
Professor Craig Feibel

Ms. Minal K. Patel
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
"The Effects of Small Peptides on the Interaction between Tat and TAR invivo"
Professor Tariq Rana

Ms. Payal Patel
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
"Development of Novel Anti-Cancer Agents"
Professor Jeff Laskin

Mr. Christian Pena
Puerto Rican and Caribbean Studies
"The Dark Fear of the Latino Caribbean"
Professor Ana Ramos-Zayas

Mr. Mark C. Pflomm
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
"Crystal Structure of the HIV-1 Polypurine Tract Complexed with an N-terminal Fragment from Moloney Muvine Leukemia Virus Reverse Transcriptase: Structural Implications for Polypurine Tract Resistance to Cleavage and Degradation by RNaseH"
Professor Millie Georgiadis

Mr. Andrew Piccirillo
Marketing and Psychology
"Metaphors and the Person Next Door"
Professor Elizabeth Hirschman

Mr. Patrick Poon
Psychology
"The Role of the Hippocampus in Non-Spatial Contextual Learning"
Professor Tim Otto

Mr. Jonathan Post
Labor Studies
"The Individual in Society: The Transformation of Public Virtue from Politic to Economic, and its Effects on Modern American Labor"
Professor Wells Keddie

Ms. Elizabeth Radziszewski
Journalism
"Fractures Underground, Continued Above: Independent Media in Poland"
Professor Christopher L. Vaughan

Ms. Elena Reitman
Biological Sciences
"Extracellular Catalytic Subunit Activity of the EAMP Dependent Protein Kinase in Sepsis"
Professor Kew-Vhoon Chin

Ms. Kathleen Mary Riley
Spanish
"The Birthing of a Culture: The Theme of Transculturation in the Poetry of Luis Pales Matos and Nicolas Guillen"
Professor Camilla Stevens

Ms Amy Risden
Psychology
"Linguistic and Cognitive Factors in the Development of the Child's TheoryofMind""
Professor Alan Leslie

Mr. Charles Lee Robinson
Political Science
"Economic Globalization and its Implications for Labor Rights: A Race to the Bottom or a Walk towards the Future?"
Professor R. Daniel Kelemen

Mr. Carlos J. Ron
Latin American Studies
"Glo-Bolivarization?: Chavez & Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela Faces Globalization"
Professor Geisa Rocha

Mr. Thomas Rudczynski
History
"The Lifestyle of Surprise: A Critical Examination of the Culture of Punk Rock"
Professor James Livingston

Ms. Megan Ruedy
Art History
"A Comparison of the Treatment of Light in 19th Century American Landscapes"
Professor Matthew Baigell

Mr. David Scheigold
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
"Targeting Human Interferon Gamma By Fusion to a Monoclonal Antibody Against A Human Tumor Antigen"
Professor Sidney Pestka

Mr. Brian Schnitzer
Psychology
"Repeated Reading of Text: Searching For Patterns"
Professor E. Kowler

Ms. Jessica Schwartz
American Studies
"Western Dreaming: Corporate American and Eastern Impressions of the Rural American West"
Professor Frank Popper

Ms. Alexandra Sedehi
History
"Conceptions of Irish-American manhood and Heroism, 1847-1960"
Professor T. J. Jackson Lears

Ms. Kelly Serouya
Psychology
"Anorexia Nervosa in Children: A Growing Problem"
Professor Maurice Elias

Ms. Niti Sharma
Biochemistry
"Intracellular Localization of Chlorine 6 Triacetoxymethyl Ester (CAME), A Novel Photosensitizer for Photodynamic Therapy (PDT)"
Professor Ronald Poretz

Ms. Mary Simonson
Music and Women's and Gender Studies
"Delicate Divergences: Music in the Lives of the Victorian of New York City"
Professor Nancy Hewitt and Professor Rao

Ms. Abigail L. Skillman
Women's Studies
"An Analysis of Citations as a Source of Unintentional Discrimination in Academia"
Professor Arlene Walker-Andrews

Mr. Jonathan Slapin
Political Science
"Domestic Politics and WTO Trade Decisions"
Professor R. Daniel Kelemen

Ms. Amanda N. Slatin
Political Science
"Representatives and Constituency Control: A Theoretical Study on the Concept of Representation and Public Policy"
Professor Paul Babbitt

Ms. Nicole L. Smith
Political Science
"No Justice No Peace: A Comparative Study of Black Protest Politics in the U.S. and South Africa"
Professor Barbara Calloway

Mr. Graham Smyth
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
"Microtubule Stability in Developmental Neurotoxicity"
Professor Kenneth Reuhl

Ms. Denise Soto
Poltical Science
"The Importance of the Hispanic Vote in the 2000 Presidential Elections"
Professor Beth Leech

Ms. Christina Steel
History
"The Teaching of Native American History in New Jersey Public Education; its evaluation and consequences"
Professor Norman Markowitz

Mr. Gregory Stricker
Biological Sciences
"Effects of Vitamin Supplementation during Prolonged Transportation of Weanlings/Development of Tests for Postprandial Hyperinsulinemia in Foals"
Professor Sarah Ralston

Ms. Allison Tait
Anthropology
"Representations of Masculinity at the American Museum of Natural History"
Professor Cathrine Paige West

Mr. Andrew M. Telschow
History
"The Debate Over Conversion to Screw Propeller Steamships in the U.S. Navy in the Antebellum Era"
Professor John Chambers

Mr. Louay Toni
Biological Sciences
"Three-Dimensional Cfharacterization of Medical Images for Clinical Assessment and Outcome Studies"
Professor David Foran

Ms. Shanna Lynn VanDerBeck
History
"And Jill Came Tumbling After": A Comparison of the Experiences of Rutgers College Women Following the Integration of Rutgers College in 1972 to the Experiences of Today's Rutgers College Women"
Professor William O'Neill

Ms. Maggie Wachtl
Genetics
"Introgression Mapping with Drosophila pseudoobscura and Drosophila persimilis"
Professor Jody Hey

Ms. Paige Washington
English
"Photography in Literature: An Analysis of the Fusion of Visual and Written Forms of Representation"
Professor Bruce Robbins

Ms. Deborah Weintraub
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
"Structural Characterizations of Response Regulators that Function as Transcription Factors"
Professor Ann Stock

Mr. Matthew Wetstein
Physics
"Statistical Mechanics of Financial Economics"
Professor Andrei Ruckenstein

Mr. Jeremy Wimpfheimer
History/Political Science
"The Most Benevolent Alliance; Understanding America's Foreign Policy to Israel"
Professor Eric Davis

Ms, Elissa Winkelstein
Psychology
"The Effect of Traditional Jewish Lifestyles on Female Adolescents and Disordered Eating Behaviors"
Professor Maurice Elias

Ms. Margaret Wu
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
"Characterization of Aminopeptidase, a Protein Involved in the Dorsal-Ventral Signal of Drosophila Melanogaster"
Professor Ruth Steward

Ms. Amy C. Yang
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
"The Role of PER Phosphorylation in Circadian Rhythms of Drosphila Melanogaster"
Professor Isaac Edery

January Graduates

Ms. Eliza Bentley
History and Spanish
"Mujeres y Maquilas: Subdesarrollo por desarrollo (Women and Maguilas: Underdevelopment as a result of development)"
Professor Mark Wasserman

Mr. Sekhou Cummings
Africana Studies
"Investigation into Discrimination: Light Skin vs. Dark Skin"
Professor Gayle T. Tate

Mr. Avram S. Fechter
Political Science
"Lincoln: The Master Politician"
Professor Daniel Tichenor

Mr. Alvin J. Figer
MSIS
"Process ReEngineering as a Tool to Sustain a Competitive Advantage in Today's Business Environment"
Professor John Pellegrini

Ms. Joanna Malukiewicz
Anthropology
"Positional Behavior in Mantled Howler Monkeys of Usla de Ometepe, Nicaragua"
Professor Susan Cachel

Ms. Stephanie Pell
Women's and Gender Studies
"Critical Analysis of New Brunswick's Change A Life Program"
Professor Jasbir Pinar

Mr. Shankar K. Prasad
Political Science
"The Haunting Lament of the Holocust: Hitler the Conductor or Hitler the Composer"
Professor Daniel Tichenor

Ms. Fania M. Tsakalakos
Psychology
"Development of Conditioned Tast Aversion using Immunologic and Non-Immunologic Unconditioned Stimuli"
Professor Alexander Kusnecov

 
   
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