Past Scholars - 2005

Mr. Nicolas Alexandro
History
"Panama and Iraq: Removing Dictators in the Post Cold War World"
Professor Michael Adas

Ms. Elizabeth Almeida
Psychology
"An Examination of Media Influences on Women's Body Image, Self Confidence, and Eating Behaviors"
Professor John Worobey

Ms. Katharine Anderson
Communication
"An Analysis of the Reputation of the World's Largest Discount Retailer"
Professor Maureen Taylor

Mr. David Aslan
Journalism
"Beyond Inspiration: Campus Conflict over Israel and Palestine"
Professor Steven Miller

Mr. Samuel Bassous
Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
"Study of the Effects of Oxidative Damage Repair on Aging and Muscle Healthspan"
Professor Monica Driscoll

Ms. Sarah Beetham
Art History
"The Art of James Edward Kelly: Issues in Public Sculpture in Post-Civil War America"
Professor Sarah McHam

Ms. Sara Bender
Biological Sciences
"Examining Cell Mortality in Phytoplankton: A Closer Lookat Autocatalyzed Cell Death in the Diatom, Thalassiosira pseudonana"
Professor Kay Bidle

Mr. DeTravius Bethea
Africana Studies
"A Change is Gonna Come: Symbolic Images of Race and Masculinity in Popular Music"
Professor Regina Jennings

Mr. Nikhil Bhowmick
Political Science
"Democratization of Senegal and Cote d'Ivoire: The Post-independence Repercussions in the Decade of the Nineties"
Professor Barbara Lewis

Ms. Christine Bobotas
History
"Challenging the Men in Menopause: The Medicalization of Menopause in 20th Century American History"
Professor Julie Livingston

Ms. Rosangela Briscese
English
"A Vocation: Flannery O'Connor and Her Writing"
Professor William Vesterman

Ms. Wendy Brynildsen
Sociology
"Adjustment to Widowhood: Analysis of the Role of Social Support on Mental Health Among the Elderly Widowed Population"
Professor Ellen Idler

Mr. Steven Cavanaugh
Physics
"A Measurement of Electron and Hole Trapping in Polycrystalline and Single Crystal CVD Diamond"
Professor Steve Schnetzer

Mr. Daniel Cheifer
Religion
"The Disappearance of Buddhism from India"
Professor E. F. Bryant

Ms. Jennifer Chen
Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
"The Determination of Factors Required for Mcm1-Mediated Transcriptional Regulation"
Professor Andrew Vershon

Mr. Brian Clopp
English
""Amazing Grace" - A Screenplay Based on the True Life of John Newton"
Professor Martin Gliserman

Mr. Greg Close
History
"Implications of Shared Global Superiority: An Historical Analysis of the Cold War"
Professor Michael Adas

Mr. Gary Cocco
History
"The American Military Revolution and the 1991 Persian Gulf War"
Professor Michael Adas

Ms. Julie Cohen
Biological Sciences
"Effect of Topical Applications of Caffeine on the p53 Mutation Profile in UVB-induced Patches of Epidermal Cells that React with an Antibody to Mutant p53 Protein in SKH-1 Mice"
Professor Allan Conney

Mr. Gregory Couillou
History
"Marxist-Lenninist Philosophy, the Soviet Union, and Environmental Policy: A Study in Contradictions"
Professor Norman Markowitz

Ms. Stephanie Cummings
Psychology
"Can Six-Month Old Infants Perceive Causality?"
Professor Alan Leslie

Mr. Afshin Darian
History
"English Place-Names with the Name Element Burh: 1086-1334"
Professor James Masschaele

Ms. Subah Dayal
History
"Hitting the Saffron Ceiling: Travails of Activist Women within Hindu Nationalism"
Professor Sumit Guha

Ms. Amy DeLuca
Psychology
"Examining Social and Emotional Learning Through the Photographic Lens"
Professor Maurice Elias

Ms. Sara Detrick
English
"Arie Gluck"
Professor William Vesterman

Ms. Andrea DiDonato
Psychology
"Do Prematurely Born Twins Catch Up?"
Professor Karin Stromswold

Ms. Marina Elbert
Comparative Literature
"A Journey Through the Afterlife: Was Dante Truly There?"
Professor Richard Serrano

Mr. David Fash
Chemistry
"N-acetyl-D-glucosamine-thiazolines for Induction of Catalytic Antibodies"
Professor Spencer Knapp

Mr. Joe Federici
History
"The Motivations Behind and the History of the Rutgers Lightweight Crew Team"
Professor William Gillette

Ms. Meghan Ference
Anthropology
"Transgenic Crops and the Global Food Supply"
Professor Angelique Haugerud

Ms. Jennifer Gittleman
Psychology
"Effects of Social Interaction Opportunity on Ethanol Intake in Rats"
Professor Art Tomie

Mr. Lawrence Goldman
Chemistry
"Mimics of Tuberculosis Cell Wall Components"
Professor Spencer Knapp

Ms. Carey Golub
Political Science
"Prospects for Democracy: How Non-governmental Organizations are Shaping HIV/AIDS Policy in South Africa"
Professor Daniel Tichenor

Ms. Ravit Greenberg
Women's and Gender Studies
"Midwives: Gendered Feminist Empowerment Tools for Religious Women"
Professor Jennifer Morgan

Mr. William Grieco
English
""A Screaming Across the Sky.": Understanding Pynchon"
Professor William Vesterman

Ms. Rachel Hercky
History
"The Sound of Silence: The Holocaust in 1950s American Discourse"
Professor TJ Jackson Lears

Ms. Marie Hess
Psychology
"Effect of Exercise on Tumor Development in APC-min/+ Mice Fed a High-fat Diet"
Professor George Wagner

Mr. Richard Huhn
Chemistry
"Practical Synthesis and Crystal Structure of GlcNAc-thiazoline"
Professor Spencer Knapp

Ms. Sindhuja Kadambi
Genetics and Microbiology
"Analyses of the Foxe3 Gene as the Potential Modifier of Vacuolated Lens"
Professor James Millonig

Ms. Maya Kappil
Cell Biology and Neuroscience
"Growth-promoting Effect of Tissue Inhibitor of Metalloproteinases-1 on Various Breast Cancer Cell Lines"
Professor David Denhardt

Ms. Kathleen Kennedy
Psychology
"Social Support Opinion Survey (SSOS) Validation Study"
Professor Lee Jussim

Ms. Jamie Kingeter
Psychology
"The Best, the Worst, and Mortality Salience: Self-Discrepancy's Relation to Death Anxiety"
Professor Daniel Ogilvie

Mr. Matt Kirschner
Psychology
"Come Hell or Salvation: Effects of Mortality Salience on Religious Attitudes"
Professor Laurie Rudman

Ms. Laura Kressel
Psychology
"Defaults in Living Wills"
Professor Gretchen Chapman

Mr. Michael Lacanilao
Philosophy
"Fairness, Justice, and Grace in Christianity"
Professor Dean Zimmerman

Mr. Marc Lapointe
History
"Politicizing Crime and Criminalizing Politics: Liberalism, Social Control and Power in Argentina (1880-1919)"
Professor Gail Triner

Ms. Kate Lichota
History
"Times to Try a Woman's Soul: Northern Women in Civil War America"
Professor Suzanne Lebsock

Ms. Jaclyn LoPiccolo
Genetics and Microbiology
"Participation of Fanconi Anemia Proteins in Homologous Recombinated Repair"
Professor Mark Brenneman

Mr. Jason Luciano
Cell Biology and Neuroscience
"Differences in Regulation of the Heat Shock Transcriptional Response in 3T3 and the Ras Transformed R-3T3 Cells"
Professor Alice Liu

Ms. Emily Luke
English
"Poetry as a Language For The Excavation of Love"
Professor Richard Dienst

Ms. Bethany Lussier
Cell Biology and Neuroscience
"Firing Patterns of Basal Forebrain Neurons During Cocaine Self-Administration"
Professor Mark West

Ms. Dina Mann
Middle Eastern Studies
"The Akedah: Sacrificing the Individual as seen in Ephraim Kishon's "Sallah Shabati" and Joseph Cedar's "Time of Favor""
Professor Paul Sprachman

Mr. Christopher Maroldo
Economics
"Common Information in Technical Indicators: Implications for Stock Returns"
Professor Bruce Mizrach

Mr. Jonathan Masur
Psychology
"Deleterious Effects of Chronic Alcohol Intake in Rodents"
Professor George Wagner

Mr. Jason Mathew
Psychology
"Is Neurogenesis Linked to Depression?"
Professor Tracey Shors

Mr. Kevin McQueeney
Political Science
"VAWA: The Obstacles Faced By The Violence Against Women ACT"
Professor Susan Carroll Ms. Ruth Anne Koenick

Ms. Virginia Mensah
Genetics and Microbiology
"A Mutant of Sinolbis Virus May Encode an Altered RNA-Dependent RNA Polymerase with an Increased Mutation Rate"
Professor Victor Stollar

Ms. Courtney Michelson
History
"Propaganda Behind Propaganda Posters"
Professor Temma Kaplan

Mr. Nicholas Molnar
History
"How Not to Build a Tank: The United States Army and the Development of the Sherman Tank during World War II"
Professor John Chambers

Ms. Amelia Murchio
Philosophy
"The Foundations of Pyrrhonian Skepticism: Isostheneia, Epoche, and Ataraxia in Sextus Empiricus"
Professor Kirk Sanders

Ms. Mariya Narizhnaya
Political Science
"Protests in Italy: Politics of Cultural Loss"
Professor Jan Kubik

Mr. Thaddeus Nelson
Religion
"The Impact of Zoroastrianism on the Postexilic Development of Judaism"
Professor Alberto Green

Ms. Erika Nothstein
Genetics and Microbiology
"The Role of Lin-12 in GLR-1 Glutamate Receptor Localization"
Professor Christopher Rongo

Ms. Jessica Orlando
Criminal Justice
"The Effects of Education and Work Programs on Juvenile Offenders"
Professor Albert Roberts

Mr. Brijesh Patel
Information Technology and Informatics
"Ethics of Offshoring: An Econosocial Prospect"
Professor Ross Todd

Mr. Victor Peng
Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
"Organization of Pancreatic Islets Is Specified by Differential Adhesion"
Professor Ramsey Foty

Mr. Alex Pergament
Genetics and Microbiology
"Quantitative Effects of aß-Peptides on Olfaction in Drosophila as a Model for Alzheimer's Disease Progression"
Professor Mary Konsolaki

Ms. Phillippa Purdy
Anthropology and Comparative Literature
"Connecting Two Worlds: Bollywood and Films of the Indian Diaspora"
Professors Laura Ahearn and Steven Walker

Ms. Brigitte Radigan
Political Science
"From The Government to the Common Man: Political Posters Under Stalin and Hitler"
Professor Jan Kubik

Ms. Bethany Redding
Genetics and Microbiology
"The Role of the Kinesin-like Motor Protein Subito in Mitosis"
Professor Kim McKim

Mr. Jonathan Rein
Psychology
"Using Cumulative Curves to Understand Individual Development: Belief-Desire Reasoning"
Professor Alan Leslie

Mr. Johan Reyes
Physics
"Nuclear Resonance Profiling in Oxide Systems"
Professor Torgny Gustafsson

Ms. Catharine Rha
Psychology
"The Relationship Between Fusiform Gyrus Volume and Social Skill Phenotypes in Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders"
Professor Marsha Bates

Mr. Luis Rodriguez
English
"The Biography of Carla Rose Hunter"
Professor Judith Lee

Mr. Matthew Rolnick
Genetics and Microbiology
"Preterrential Binding of the PAZ Domains of Dicer and Argonaute in Arabidopsis"
Professor Xuemei Chen

Ms. Lauren Roselli
Psychology
"Neurobehavioral Development of Engrailed2 Mutant Mice"
Professor George Wagner

Ms. Rachel Rosenberg
Psychology
"The Effect of Female Rats in the Housing and Testing Situation on Alcohol Consumption in Male Rats"
Professor Art Tomie

Ms. Jessica Rosevear
English
"Three Stories about Alice"
Professor Judith Lee

Ms. Ronah Sadan
English and French
"Transformations of Thought in the Writings of Pascal, Shaftesbury and Diderot"
Professors William Dowling and Francois Cornilliat

Ms. Jessica Santollo
Psychology
"Why is the Hippocampus Necessary in Forming Trace Memories?"
Professor Tracey Shors

Mr. Joshua Scharff
Political Science and Middle Eastern Studies
"Assassination and Foreign Policy in the Middle East: A Comparative Study of Anwar Sadat and Yitzhak Rabin"
Professors Jack Levy and Paul Sprachman

Ms. Rachel Schecter
Cell Biology and Neuroscience
"Regulation of Vesicle Fusion: A Reverse-Genetics Approach"
Professor Chavela Carr

Mr. Justin Schleifer
Psychology
"What's Black is White: Counterstereotype Deviance-Reduction and Avoidance Tactics"
Professor Laurie Rudman

Mr. Mark Segaloff
History/Dean's Office
"Silent Soldiers and Post War Families: The Blossoming of Heroes from a World War II Elite Unit"
Professor Reese Jenkins

Ms. Pavithra Shivakumar
Biological Sciences
"Systematic Survey of Characteristic NOE Contact Motifs for Automated Analysis of 3D Structures of Proteins Using NMR"
Professor Gaetano Montelione

Ms. Sveta Shterenberg
Psychology
"Current ADHD/ADD Diagnostic Procedures"
Professor Deirdre Kramer

Ms. Jennifer Sidoti
Psychology
"Theory of Mind Level as a Risk Factor for Social-Emotional Learning"
Professor Maurice Elias

Ms. Elexis Silverman
Journalism
"Caught Up"
Professor Michael Shafer

Mr. Calvin Simonson
Economics
"An Investigation of Economic Growth: A County Level Perspective"
Professor Joseph Seneca

Ms. Noelle Stanley
Physics
"Will CDF See the MSSM Higgs Boson? A Study of Sensitivity for Various Masses and Tanbeta"
Professor Amitabh Lath

Ms. Allison Stewart
Genetics and Microbiology
"Molecular Analysis of Fertilization in C. elegans"
Professor Andrew Singson

Ms. Hannah Stinson
Art History
"The Public Sculptures of George Segal: An Inquiry into Meaning and Methods"
Mr. Jeffrey Wechsler Professor Jane Sharp

Mr. Jason Sullivan
Political Science
"Does Law Matter? Uncovering Underlying Legal Principles that Guide U.S. Supreme Court Decisions in Right to Privacy Cases"
Professor Lisa Miller

Mr. Bobby Tajudeen
Genetics and Microbiology
"Loss of Heterozygosity in TK1 Mice"
Professor Changshun Shao

Mr. Matthew Tannenbaum
History
"Sex in Our Cities: The Rise and Fall of 20th Century America's Most Notorious Red Light Districts"
Professor Alison Isenberg

Ms. Floren Taylor
History
"The Suspect Touch: Problems with Sacral Kingship and the Royal Touch in Post-Reformation England"
Professor Alastair Bellany

Ms. Sara Tilitz
History
"From Conflict to Symbiosis: Preservationists and Urban Renewal in the Efforts towards the Rebirth of American Cities"
Professor Alison Isenberg

Ms. Tatyana Travkin
Cell Biology and Neuroscience
"Effects of BDNF and IGF-1 on Activation of AKT through the Serotonin 1A Receptor in Hippocampal Neurons"
Professor Dan Cowen

Ms. Bhavita Trivedi
Sociology and History
"Serving Ethnicities: The Symbolic Roles of Indian Ethnic Consumption"
Professors Judith Gerson and Virginia Yans

Ms. Minna Urrey
Political Science and Women's and Gender Studies
"The White Glove Pulpit: A Theoretical Analysis of Gender, Power, and the First Ladyship in Contemporary America"
Professors Daniel Tichenor and Barbara Balliet

Ms. Cydney Van Dyke
Psychology
"How Forgiveness, Purpose, and Religiosity Influence the Development of Emotional Intelligence and Self-Concept in Urban Fifth Grade Students"
Professor Maurice Elias

Ms. Jaclyn Vargas
Psychology
"Heinz Kohut: A Psychobiographical Study"
Professor George Atwood

Mr. Edward Vincent
Political Science
"The Cyprus Issue: The Influence of Third-Party Insitutions and Nations Upon Negotiations Process"
Professor Jeffrey Ritter

Ms. Amy Weiss
Jewish Studies and Sociology
"Orthodox Olim: An Analysis of American Jews Who Make Aliyah"
Professor Chaim Waxman

Ms. Laura Weitzman
Political Science
"Ancient Greece, Disney, and Cyberspace: Using Public Space to Build Community"
Professor Dennis Bathory

Ms. Nava Yasgur
History
"Moderate or Menace? The Portrayal of Martin Luther King, Jr. in Television News Programs, 1955-1968"
Professor Steven Lawson

Ms. Crystal Zelman
Psychology
"The Nature and Dynamics of Social Networks: A Study of Young Adults and Adolescents in Narcotics Anonymous"
Professor Barbara McCrady

 
   
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