Past Scholars - 2003

Mr. Ben Akushie
Information Technology
"The Psychology of Technological Determinism"
Professor Ross Todd

Mr. Aun Hasan Ali
Religion
"Proto-Shiism: Origin of the Allegiance"
Professor James Pavlin

Ms. Talia Andrei
Art History
"The Tale of Genji: A Retrospective Look Into the Pictorial Development of a Cultural Icon"
Professor Angela Howard

Ms. Gaithri Balasingam
Genetics and Microbiology
"Interaction Between Cypin and Snapin: Biochemistry and Function"
Professor Bonnie Firestein

Ms. Molly Balikov
English
"The Author and the Artist: Exploring Visual Elements In Ondaatje's Writing"
Professor John McClure

Mr. Marvin Bayro
Chemistry
"AutoProc: Automated Processing of NMR data through a generalized model of NMR experiments in a relational database approach"
Professor Gaetano Montelione

Ms. Jessica Belser
Genetics and Microbiology
"Analysis of cis- and trans- acting factors regulating I2 transcription in human B cells"
Professor Lori Covey

Ms. Sasha Berger
Psychology
"Gardner Goes to School: Integrating Multiple Intelligences and Social and Emotional Learning in High School Arts Classrooms"
Professor Maurice Elias

Ms. Joanna Bienko
Psychology
"Dating, Marriage and Careers: The Attitudes and Behavior of Rutgers Undergraduates"
Professor Maurice Elias

Ms. Valerie Carabetta
Genetics and Microbiology
"Supressor Analysis of the Sgsl-Slx interaction in Saccharomyces cerevisiae"
Professor Steven Brill

Ms. Katie Cassano
Psychology
"Infants' Emotional Reaction to Viewing Their Parents Happy or Sad"
Professor Arlene Walker-Andrews

Mr. Elgin Chan
Economics
"Obesity and Health: An Economic Perspective"
Professor Jeff Rubin

Mr. Michael Chen
Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
"Inter and intramolecular associations in activated OmpR/PhoB homologues from Thermotoga maritima"
Professor Ann Stock

Ms. Jennifer Cheng
Genetics and Microbiology
"Investigating the Activin and Dpp Signal Transduction Pathways in Drosphila"
Professor Richard Padgett

Ms. Lena Chin
Genetics and Microbiology
"Characterization of Novel Small Mutants in Caenorhabditis elegans"
Professor Richard Padgett

Mr. James D'Ambola
Cell Biology and Neuroscience
"BDNF stimulates DNA synthesis in vitro in cortical precursors during developmental neurogenesis"
Professor Emanuel DiCicco-Bloom

Mr. Matthew Dasti
History
"A Vindication of Belief: John Henry Newman, "Liberalism," And the Question of First Principles"
Professor Matt Matsuda

Mr. Matthew Davenport
History
"Playing the Prophet? Re-Imagining Thomas Scott and his Polemic Against the Spanish Match"
Professor Alastair Bellany

Mr. Dustin Elias
History/Political Science
"The Definition of Courage: An Analysis of the Civil War and World War II Medal of Honor Recipients"
Professor John Chambers

Ms. Tammy Elmansoury
History
"The Triumph of Tradition: Rashid Rida and the Making of Modern Egypt"
Professor Dina LeGall

Mr. Shamai Elstein
History
"The Anti-Globalization Movement and the Media"
Professor Belinda Davis

Ms. Katherine Ermolaev
Music and English
"D.S. Bortnyanksy (1751-1825) in Hindsight: Perspectives on a Russian Composer's Life and Legacy"
Professor Andrew Kirkman

Mr. Aminadav Foger
Jewish Studies/Philosophy
"The Evolution of Rabbinic Law: Exegesis or Tradition"
Professor Leonard Levin

Ms. Lauren Fresco
Art History and Communication
"New Concepts in Museum Architecture Effect the Presentation, Interpretation, and Viewing of Art"
Professor Meredith Bzdak

Mr. Robert Friedman
Physics
"Searching for the Optical Counterpart to a Newly-Discovered Radio and X-ray Pulsar"
Professor John Hughes

Mr. Daniel Fuerstman
History
"Divided We Stand: Eugene McCarthy's 1968 Presidential Campaign"
Professor William O'Neill

Mr. Mitul Gandhi
Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
"Application of Cobalt (III) Protected Amino Acids to the Synthesis and Purification of Peptides"
Professor John Taylor

Ms. Claudia Garriga Lopez
Women's and Gender Studies
"Intersections of Gender and Sexuality in the Politics of Racial Profiling"
Professor Elizabeth Grosz and Professor Barbara Balliet

Ms. Maria Glykis
English
""That Undending Business - Woman" in Nikos Kazantzakis' Zorba the Greek"
Professor Martin Gliserman

Ms. Kelly Govain
Anthropology
"Archaeology in Every Classroom: An Interdisciplinary Teaching Strategy"
Professor Carolyn Dillian

Ms. Lindsay Grabau
English
""The Virtuous Mind:" Comus as a Masque of Education"
Professor Ann Baynes Cairo

Ms. Rebecca Greenbaum
Psychology
"Generalization of Social and Emotional Skills in Children with Behavioral Disorders"
Professor Maurice Elias

Mr. Jonathan Gurstelle
History
"The Jewish Soldier in American Memory"
Professor John Chambers

Ms. Rachel Gutin
Anthropology
"Values and Images in Israeli Children's Literature"
Professor Laura Ahearn

Ms. Rebecca Horwitz
Political Science
"Sources of Racial Discrimination in the Classification and Labeling of Children With Learning Disabilities"
Professor Daniel Tichenor

Mr. Scott Indrisek
English
"DEAD CAN DANCE' (a novel)"
Professor Matthew Buckley

Ms. Meghana Karnik
Cell Biology and Neuroscience
"Molecular Determinants of Differences in Learning"
Professor Louis Matzel

Mr. Erik Kennedy
English
"Cal at McLean: A Case Study of Robert Lowell's Surprising Evolution in Life Studies, Seen Through Draft Typescripts"
Professor Robert Kusch

Mr. Michael Kim
Genetics and Microbiology
"Endogenous, Exogenous, and Age-related Effects on Somatic Variation"
Professor Terry McGuire

Mr. Jonathan Kobrinski
History/Political Science
"Nation-Building and Nation-Breaking: The United States, The Soviet Union and Afganistan in the Last Decade of the Cold War"
Professor David Fogelsong

Mr. David Koenigsberg
Economics
"The Price of Saving Money: An Economic Assessment of Managed Care"
Professor Jeff Rubin

Mr. Alexander Kushnier
Psychology
"An examination of the role of exogenous events in a multiple object tracking task"
Professor Zenon Pylyshyn

Ms. Abbie Kwitel
Psychology
"Perceived Risk and Influenza Vaccination"
Professor Neil Weinstein

Mr. James Lallo
Physics
"Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Studies of Ultrathin Epitaxial Metal Films on Cu(100)"
Professor Robert Bartynski

Ms. Rebecca Lamberth
Psychology
"The Social Context of Infant Imitation: A Developmental Study"
Professor Carolyn Rovee-Collier

Ms. Kristin Lamm
Anthropology
"Artificiallly Deformed Crania: Perspectives on Growth"
Professor Susan Anton

Ms. Rose Lee
Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
"Function of human U1 snRNP in splicing and the role of HIV Nef"
Professor Samuel Gunderson

Ms. Kali Lerner
Psychology
"Can 12-month-olds count objects? A looking time study of unexpected changes in number vs. volume"
Professor Alan Leslie

Mr. Greg Lindeman
East Asian Languages and Literatures
"Transmissions in Time and Place: Faith Belief and Devotion in Two Schools of Buddhism"
Professor Kurt Spellmeyer

Mr. Jason Locasale
Chemistry
"Conformational flexibility of the GACGTC sequence and its role in sequence dependent DNA recognition"
Professor Helen Berman

Mr. Andrew Luciano
Cell Biology and Neuroscience
"The Genetic Effects of the Estrous Cycle On Spinal Cord Injury"
Professor Wise Young

Ms. Lindsay McDonald
Psychology
"Religion, Physical Health and Mental Well Being"
Professor Richard Contrada

Ms. Tejal Mehta
Cell Biology and Neuroscience
"The Mouse LI Cellular Adhesion Molecule For the Promotion of Nerve Regeneration"
Professor Martin Grumet

Mr. Justin Miller
Psychology
"Cuing by Inflection in Language Processing"
Professor Arnold Glass

Mr. Justin Misurell
Psychology
"The Impact of a Social-Emotional Learning Program on Conflict Resolution Strategies, Attitudes, and Behaviors Towards Violence and Aggression Among Urban Youth"
Professor Maurice Elias

Ms. Alaina Morgan
Religion
"The Many Faces of the Goddess Missing a Black Face: Psychological, Sociological and Political Reflections on the Absence of African-American Women in Contemporary Wicca"
Dr. James Jones

Ms. Niseema Pachikara
Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
"Characterization of Via Binding Sites Downstream of the Immunoglobulin M Secretort Poly (A) Site"
Professor Catherine Phillips

Ms. Milauni Parikh
English
"A Linguistic Study of the Masculine and Feminine in John Milton's Paradise Lost"
Professor Ann Baynes Cairo

Mr. Dhaval Patel
Genetics and Microbiology
"Testing Hypothesis on the Role of Autophagy in Necrotic-like Death in Caenorhabditis elegans"
Professor Monica Driscoll

Mr. Robert Peck
History
"The Heritage of Noble Deeds: Theodore Roosevelt, the Poltical Historian"
Professor Steven Lawson

Mr. Michael Poreda
History
"Murder, Myth, and Morality: The Social Meaning of the Snyder-Gray Case, 1927"
Professor Paul Clemens

Mr. Michael Quick II
Marketing
"Brand Symbolism: The Use of Archetypes in Modern Marketing"
Professor Elizabeth Hirschman

Mr. Ranjith Ramasamy
Cell Biology and Neuroscience
"Dyspnea and Depression in Patients with Congestive Heart Failure"
Dr. Christine Skotzko

Mr. Nadeem Riaz
Biological Sciences
"Automated Analysis of Peck Patterns in Multidimensional Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy"
Professor Gaetano Montelione

Mr. Benjamin Schachtman
English
"Determinism, Absurdity and Death: Dark Comedy in 20th Century American Literature"
Professor Maurice Charney

Ms. Sharone Schwartz
History
"The Liberated and Virtuous: Locke and Rousseau's Influence on the American and French Revolutions"
Professor James Livingston

Ms. Megan Schwenke
English
"Why I Am Not a Painter': Community and Collaboration in Frank O'Hara's New York"
Professor Michael Warner

Ms. Shunlui Shen
Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
"The Characterization of Signal Transduction Pathway(s) Stimulated by Tissue Inhibitor of Metalloproteinase-1 (TIMP-1) in Human Breast Cancer Cells"
Professor David Denhardt

Mr. Joseph Shih
Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
"Incorporation of Carotenoids into Light-Harvesting 1 Complex for Studies of Carotenoid Deactivation Mechanisms"
Professor Robert Niederman

Mr. Walter Sisto
Religion
"Perfect Continence: An Apostolic Rule"
Professor James Johnson

Mr. Jonathan Stieglitz
Evolutionary Anthropology
"Romantic Love Among the Dassantech? An Investigation of the Emotional Underpinnings of Attraction and Attatchment in an Agro-Pastoralist Tribe in Kenya"
Professor Helen Fisher

Ms. Medha Tare
Cognitive Science of Language
"Parents' Assessment of Language: An Examination of the PAL"
Professor Karin Stromswold

Ms. Elizabeth Thompson
History
"Killing Jezebel: The Trials and Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots"
Professor Alastair Bellany

Mr. Ankur Tiwari
Cell Biology and Neuroscience
"The effects of Ginsenoside on Spinal Cord Injury"
Professor Wise Young

Ms. Leora Trub
Psychology and Jewish Studies
"The Counselor Within: Exploring the Role of Counseling in the Rabbinical Identity"
Professor Maurice Elias

Ms. Jillian Uveges
Psychology
"Effects of Ethanol Sipper and Social Opportunity on Ethanol Drinking in Rats"
Professor Arthur Tomie

Mr. Gaurav Vazirani
Eastern Literature and Philosophy
"Advaita Vedanta and Its Narrative Exposition"
Professor Steven Walker

Ms. Melanie Vishnu
Genetics and Microbiology
"Suppressors of Translation Elongation Factor 1Ba Deficiency in the Yeast Saccharomyces Cerevisiae"
Professor Terri Goss Kinzy

Ms. Veena Viswanatha
Women's and Gender Studies
"(Re)thinking (Re)production: Feminism, Marx, Spinoza"
Professor Elizabeth Grosz

Ms. Christa Vogelius
English
"The Sun and Art in Emily Dickinson's Poetry"
Professor Louise Barnett

Ms. Casmera Wick
Psychology
"Common Critical Life Events and Backgrounds of Selected Elite Athletes"
Professor George Atwood

Mr. Sean Wilson
History
"Politics, Protest, and Progress in a Nuclear New Jersey: A Comprehensive Study of Anti Nuke sentiment in the Garden State"
Professor Dee Garrison

Mr. Karlvin Wong
Psychology
"Pavlovian Autoshaping of Ethanol Drinking in Rats: Effects of Trial Spacing and Ethanol Concentration"
Professor Arthur Tomie

Ms. Zeba Wunderlich
Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
"HOMA; Homology Modeling Automatically, and ZebaView: Two bioinformatics applications for structural genomics"
Dr. Gaetano Montelione

Ms. Sivan Yosef
Political Science
"Indiana Jones Meets Sitnikove: Western Art Collectors in the World of Dissident Soviet Art"
Professor Jan Kubik

Ms. Christine Zakrzewski
Psychology
"Stuck in a Moment: Acute and enduring consequences of traumatic brain injury"
Professor Leonard Hamilton

Mr. Brad Zerlanko
Genetics and Microbiology
"The Role of Osteopontin in Kidney Stone Disease"
Professor Amrik Sahota

January Graduates

Ms. Vijayalaxmi Agnihotri
Pyschology
"The Effect of Maternal Expressiveness on Infants"
Professor Arlene Walker-Andrews

Ms. Ashley Black
Psychology
"Effects of Age on Multiple Object Tracking"
Professor Zenon Pylyshyn

Mr. Zachariah Hennessey
Psychology
"Prepulse Inhibition of Startle Response in Eph A5 Mice"
Professor George Wagner

Mr. Mark Rashap
Spanish
"Las Estrategias Narrativas en la Obra de Piglia"
Professor Carlos Narvaez

 
   
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