Past Scholars - 1996

Ms. Shefali Abrol
Psychology
"Effects of Acute and Chronic Triazolam on Water Intakes"
Professor John Falk

Ms. Racheal Ellenda Ankrah
Political Science
"Juvenille Public Policy in Partnership with Entrepreneurial Training Programs"
Professor Michael Shafer

Mr. Christopher Michael Anzidei
Political Science
"The American Way? Affirmative Action in Higher Education"
Professor Stephen Salmore

Ms. Anna-Liisa L. Aunio
History
"The Vietnam Experience in the Television Media"
Professor Lloyd Gardner

Mr. Joseph M. Bay
Biological Sciences
"Sequence of the Canenor habditis vulgaris vab-8 homolog, with analysis"
Professor Jeffrey Way

Mr. Andrew James Bersch
Biological Sciences
"The Effect of Canopy Removal on the Genetic Diversity in a Threatened Wetland Species, Helonias bullata, and its Consequences for Ex Situ Conservation"
Professor Jean Marie Hartman

Mr. Peter A. Blomgren
Chemistry
"A Structural Analog to Thiazoline as a Potential Glycosidase Inhibitor"
Professor Spencer Knapp

Ms. Tara Boirard
Political Science
"The Haitian Revolution and How It Has Influenced American Foreign Policy Towards Haiti"
Professor Pedro Caban

Ms. Christina Jane Borbely
Psychology
"Predictors of Coping and Adjustment in Women Who Have Relinquished an Infant for Adoption"
Professor David Brodzinsky

Ms. Sarah Kimberly Bowen
Art History
"Leon Krier: Theories and Influence on Contemporary Classical Architecture"
Professor Todd Marder

Mr. Reuven Bromberg
Biological Sciences
"Agent Based Modelling of Signal Transduction"
Professor David Axelrod

Ms. Lynn Ann Butler
Biological Sciences
"Early Signals of Switch Recombination"
Professor Lori Covey

Ms. Virginia C. Chan
Chemistry
"Effects of Polar/Ionizable Residues on the Triple Helix"
Professor Barbara Brodsky

Ms. Anne A. Chen
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
"Isolation of AIDS Vaccine Candidates from Libraries of Recombinant Viruses"
Professor Gail Arnold

Mr. Hong-Ray Cho
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
"Development of SNV Derived Packaging Lines from Human Cells"
Professor Ralph Dornburg

Mr. Christopher J. Cornille
Psychology
"Prozac and Aggression: A Behavioral and Neurochemical Study Using Mice"
Professor George Wagner

Mr. John David Cox
Chemistry
"Sterilization of Tyrosine-Derived Polycarbonates By Gamma-Irradiation and Ethylene Oxide: A Comparison With Poly (L-lactic acid)"
Professor Joachim Kohn

Mr. Andrew D'Auria
History
"The Development of Medical Licensing in New York State, 1665-1907"
Professor Gerald Grob

Mr. Roy Davidovitch
Biological Sciences
"Characterization of a New Subunit of Replication Protein A (RPA) In Yeast"
Professor Steven Brill

Mr. Nieves E. Decena
Psychology
"At Risk Youth within the Educational System"
Professor Maurice Elias

Mr. Tony del Rio
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
"Elastin Gene Mutations in Supravalvular Aortic Stenosis"
Professor Charles Boyd

Mr. Manpreet Singh Dhanjal
History
"Reinventing Sikhism -- The Road to the Khalsa"
Professor Michael Adas

Mr. Charles C. Ding
Psychology
"Parahippocampal Involvement in Associative Learning"
Professor Tim Otto

Mr. Gregory Eric Dvorak
East Asian Languages
"Otokorashisa: Constructing Masculinity in Contemporary Japan"

Ms. Gabrielle R. Entel
Women's Studies
"The Effects of Adolescent Literature on Body Image and Self-Esteem in Young Teenaged Women"
Professor Kate Ellis

Mr. Azaaz Farooki
Biological Sciences
"The Phylogeny of Eutreptia As Inferred From Its 18s rDNA"
Professor Richard Triemer

Ms. Elizabeth D. Federico
Art History
"Dr. Watteau: A History of French Medicine as Reflected in the Works of the Artist"
Professor Martin Eidelberg

Ms. Jennifer A. Flynn
Political Science
"Early Warning for Communal Crises"
Professor Roy Licklider

Ms. Sarah Foster
Writing and Photography
"Greetings from Asbury Park"
Professor Michael Rockland

Ms. Christine Marie Gaertner
Exercise Science & Sport Studies
"Influence of Menstural Hormones on the Response to Cold"
Professor Karen Mittleman

Ms. Katalin Galasi
History
"The Ambiguity of Jewish Social Integration and its Consequences During the Holocaust"

Ms. Allyson Leigh Goldstein
Psychology
"Promoting Social Competencies in Elementary School Children via Prosocial Television"
Professor Maurice Elias

Mr. Jeffrey P. Green
Biochemistry
"Hydration Effect On Conformational Changes Of Alcohol Dehydrogenase Upon Bonding The Reduced Form of Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide"
Professor Peter Kahn

Ms. Anna K. Greenwood
Psychology
"An Analysis of Animal Models of Anxiety"
Professor Charles Flaherty

Ms. Maria Ines Guerrero
Spanish
"Escucha lo que ellas dicen de la Guerra Civil..."
Professor Mary Gossy

Ms. Neeti Gupta
Biological Sciences
"The Role of Serotonin in Glutamate-Induced Neurotoxicity"
Professor Daniel Benjamin

Mr. Michael J. Hahn
History
"The Vietnam Analogy and Countering the Myths of American Society"
Professor Michael Adas

Ms. Molly Marie Hakes
Psychology
"An Evaluation of an HIV/AIDS Education"
Professor Maurice Elias

Ms. Margaret I. Hall
Anthropology
"The Pygmy Chimpanzee as a Possible Model for Early Hominid Organization and Ecology"
Professor Susan Chachel

Ms. Christine Elaine Hardy
Psychology
"The Effects of Feedback on Task Performance"
Professor John Aiello

Mr. Kevin J. Heller
Comparative Literature
"F. M. Dostoevsky and His Filmmakers"
Professor James Swenson

Mr. Charles James Hill
History
"Vaporworld: Historical Perspectives on Contemporary Anticipations of an American Informational Culture"
Professor Matt Matsuda

Ms. Rachel Marie Hoffmann
Sociology
"Gender Differences: Controlling Interactions in the College Classroom"
Professor Patricia Roos

Ms. Jennifer Layton Howard
History
"The Sunday Mail Controversy: A Case Study of Church and State Relationships Between 1810-1840"
Professor Philip Greven, Jr.

Ms. Rebecca Jackson
English
"The Use of Fashion in the Presentation of Gender / Sexuality and Linear Time in the Works of Djund Barnes and Virginia Woolf"
Professor Richard Wasson

Mr. Michael A. Jagen
Biological Sciences
"Mutational Analysis of Adenovirus E1A Protein: the Relationship Between p53 Induction and E1A-Induced Apoptosis in Infected Human Cells"
Professor Eileen White

Ms. Beena Harendra Jani
Biological Sciences
"Hypoxic Depression of Genioglossul Response to Negative Pressure Pulses in Awake Goats"
Professor Richard Parisi

Ms. Nicole Chevonne Jarrett
Public Health
"Health Beliefs of Elderly African American Women on Breast Cancer"
Professor Howard Leventhal

Ms. Elizabeth Jensen
Political Science
"Jumping The Bones: Issues of Ownership in International Archaeological Law"
Professor Michael Shafer

Ms. Ioanna D. Kalogiros
Psychology
"The Role of Interpersonal Relationships as a Mediator of Crowding Stress in University Residential Environments"
Professor John Aiello

Mr. Mark Karolak
Biological Sciences
"Effects Of Antidepressant Drugs On Extracellular Serotonin In Forebrain Regions Of The Rat"
Professor Sidney Auerbach

Mr. Robert Axel Kasuba
History
"American Attitudes of the Filipino People and Their Effect on Policy in the Philippines from 1898 to 1925"
Professor Michael Adas

Mr. Jay D. Kenkare
Biological Sciences
"The Phylogeny of Eutreptiella sp. As Inferred From Its SSU rDNA Sequence"
Professor Richard Triemer

Mr. Drazen Komarica
History
"The Role of the Judiciary in Croatia's Transition from Communism to Democracy"
Professor Matt Matsuda

Mr. Jed A. Latkin
History
"The Relationship Between Markets and Capitalism: Can Markets Exist Without Capitalism?"
Professor James Livingston

Mr. Gabriel M. Lazarus
Political Science
"The Czech Republic, Hungary, and the European Union: Past, Present, and Future"
Professor Jan Kubik

Ms. Staci Michelle Lieberman
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
"NMR Solution Structure Determination of the Murine Homeodomain MSX-1"
Professor Gaetano Montelione

Ms. Gina Lin
Biological Sciences
"Regulated Expression of the Adenovirus EIB 19-kDa oncoprotein in Mouse L-cells by a Tetracycline-Dependent Promoter System"
Professor Aaron Shatkin

Ms. Katalin Lovasz
Comparative Literature
"The Shadow of Reality: The Blending of Tradition and Modern Influences in the Works of Tanizaki and Kafka"
Professor Janet Walker

Mr. Noah Shaun Lowenstein
Philosophy
"An Eye for an I"
Professor Colin McGinn

Ms. Julia V. Loytsker
Psychology
"Internet Addiction and Its Personality Correlates"
Professor John Aiello

Mr. Christoffer J. Lydiker
Economics
"A Laboratory Analysis of the Closed End Mutual Fund Puzzle"
Professor Barry Sopher

Ms. Kathleen L. Madden
Psychology
"The Effects of Social Support on Levels of Perceived Stress in College First Year Students"
Professor John Gormly

Mr. John Stanley Manyo-Plange
Political Science
"Rehabilitating Youth-at-Risk: An Entrepreneural Model"
Professor Michael Shafer

Mr. Mark Adrian Mascarenhas
Biological Sciences
"The Inhibition of Cholesterol Epoxide Hydrolase by 5,6-imino-5-cholestan-3-ol"
Professor Carl Schaffner

Ms. Patricia Ann Mayville
Chemistry
"Crystallographic Studies of Collagen-Like Peptides"
Professor Helen Berman

Ms. Erlinda Alexandra Mazeika
Political Science
"The Media's Role in a Democracy: Was Democratic Discourse Fostered During the 1994 Senate Elections?"
Professor Gerald Pomper

Ms. Janice Marie Catherine Mehnert
Biological Sciences
"The Mapping of Regions of a Tyrosine Kinase Involved With Signal Transduction with Specific Interacting Proteins"
Professor Sidney Pestka

Mr. Kenneth B. Moss
History
"Ideologies of Unity and Ethnic Difference in American Jewish Relief Work: The Joint Distribution Committee, the Farbandn, and the Landsmanshaftn, 1919-1941"
Professor Omer Bartov

Mr. John S. Nargiso
Economics
"Has Microsoft Violated any Anti-Trust Laws?"
Professor Martin Perry

Mr. George F. Obiedzinski
Political Science
"The Changing Face of American Political Behavior: Is Realignment Possible in an Era of Candidate-Centered Politics?"
Professor Daniel Tichenor

Mr. Michael David O'Connor
Anthropology
"The Saint Joseph and Saint Mary Societies: Lay Conversion Practices on the Pine Ridge and Rosebud Reservations 1884-1920"
Professor William Powers

Ms. Dawn Marie Ortiz
Sociology
"Parenting Styles: Their Effects on Adolescent Substance Use and Adult Outcomes"
Professor Helene White

Ms. Payal Mahendra Patel
English
"The Dissemination of the Virus from Medical Literature through Popular Culture"
Professor Elaine Chang

Ms. Shital A. Patel
English
"Self-Reinvention and Rebirth: An Analysis of the Feminine Individuation Process of Bharti Mukherjee's Indian Immigrant Women"
Professor Steven Walker

Mr. Matthew John Pennachio
History
"A Charter Revised at Rutgers: The New Jersey Constitutional Convention of 1947"
Professor William O'Neill

Mr. Christopher David Pericone
Biological Sciences
"The Effects of Carbon Starvation on the Multiple-Antibiotic-Resistance (mar) Locus in Escherichia coli"
Professor Ann St. John

Mr. Yaakov Perry
Women's Studies
"(Con)figuring Identity, Home, Community, Subject Position and Culture: Queer Politics in the Post-Modern Era"
Professor Barbara Balliet

Mr. Kevin Andrew Pollock
History
"The Ladies' Lineup: A Chronology of Women's Baseball"
Professor James Reed

Mr. Munir Pujara
History
"Gangsters, Ethnicity, and the Law in American Cinema"
Professor T. J. Jackson Lears

Ms. Peggy Renner
Psychology
"Perceptual vs. Categorical Color Discrimination by 3-Month-Old Infants"
Professor Carolyn Rovee-Collier

Ms. Linda Ann Renzulli
Sociology
"Knowing What to Expect: The Psychological and Social Consequencces of Caring for a Mentally Ill Sibling"
Professor Alan Horwitz

Mr. Fariborz Rezai
Biological Sciences
"Effect of Amino Acid Degrading Enzymes, Tyrosinase and Tryptophanase, on the Growth of Rat Hepatoma Cells"
Professor Edward Yurkow

Mr. Mark S. Rifkin
English
"Allegories of Degeneration: Displacing Soverignty Through Sexual Taxonomy in Heart of Darkness"
Professor Elaine Chang

Mr. Kenneth Earl Rodgers, Jr.
English
"The Light of Dawn (a screenplay by Ken Rodgers)"
Professor John Belton

Mr. Ricardo M. Rodriguez
Psychology
"Repressive coping and emotions; the content and structure of anger narratives"
Professor Richard Contrada

Ms. Leslie Cristina Rogall
Education
"Arts and Public Education: An Examination"
Professor Susan Forman

Ms. Ari B. Rosenberg
English
"The Effects of God in the Bible on the Exploitation of our Environment"
Professor John McClure

Mr. Dominic Ruocco
Biological Sciences
"Site Directed Mutagenesis of the Aequorea victoria Green-Fluorescent Protein to Generate Biophysically Interesting Mutants"
Professor William Ward

Ms. Sara Emily Schneider
Management Science & Information Systems
"Changing Desktop Landscapes: Individual Adjustment to a New Information System"
Professor Rowald Rice

Ms. Ana I. Schwartz
Psychology
"Preschool storytime: an analysis of what the preschool child derives from the experience of being read to; with a comparison between hispanic monolinguals, bilinguals, and English monolinguals"
Professor Maurice Elias

Mr. Lee Andrew Selznick
Biological Sciences
"Gender and Parkinson's Disease"
Professor George Wagner

Mr. Dhwani Bipin Shah
Human Experience and the Psyche
"UFO groups and the sacred: myth in post-modernity"
Professor Steven Walker

Ms. Heema Bhupendra Shah
French
"Competing for Cultural Identity: What it Means Today to be French in France"
Professor Renee Larrier

Mr. Taha Rahman Shaikh
Biological Sciences
"Characterization of the Leukocyte Common Antigen in Atopic Asthmatics"
Professor Edward Yurkow

Mr. Numaan Sheikh
Biological Sciences
"Expression of the Nucleocapsid Protein and Formation of the N:P Complex of VSV"
Professor John Lenard

Mr. David Sidote
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
"Isolation and Characterization of Factors That Interact With the Drosophila Clock Protein Period"
Professor Isaac Edery

Ms. Karyn Christine Smarz
Psychology
"Gender and Anger: Implications of Socially Constructed Gender Roles on the Experience and Expression of Anger"
Professor Richard Contrada

Ms. Amy Gayle Stelzner
German
"Renaissance Of The Baroque: A Comparative Literary Analysis Of The Post World War II Novels Of Gunter Grass And Camilo Jose Cela"
Professor Frederick Lubich

Mr. David Joseph Stricker
Computer Science
"Computational Approaches to Scientific Reasoning"

Mr. David Michael Stringer
Political Science
"The Highest Form of Citizenship? Probing the Jury/Juror Relationship"
Professor Wilson Carey McWilliams

Mr. Mohammed A. Talukder
Biochemistry
"Programming the Substrate Specificity of E3 Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases"
Professor Jon Huibregtse

Ms. Anna Maria Tejada
Psychology
"Suggestibility of Child Witnesses"
Professor Maurice Elias

Mr. Alan Peter Tenney
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
"The Purification of the Saccharomyces-Cerevisiae HO Endonuclease"
Professor David Norris

Mr. Brian Neal Tobin
History
"The Evolution Of Congressional Lobbying Regulation"
Professor James Livingston

Mr. Minh Chau Tran
Biological Sciences
"Retrograde labelling of crayfish uropod motor neurons"
Professor Charles Page

Mr. Adam J. Van Hyfte
Economics
"Rational Expectations, Chaos, and Uncertainty"
Professor Hiroki Tsurumi

Ms. Jaime A. Wild
Journalism
"The Absence of Nutrient Integration Therapies for Children with HIV: The Role of the Medical Community, the Media, and their Money."
Professor Steven Miller

Ms. Juliana Megan Woda
Biochemistry
"Structural Analysis of a ternary complex of CAP protein, DNA and the C-terminal domain of the alpha subunit of RNA polymerase and the role of hydration in protein-DNA interactions"
Professor Helen Berman

Mr. Jared Wolkowitz
History
"RFK: Crusade For Change"
Professor James Reed

Mr. Blaise Paul Wozniak
Philosophy
"Hearing Hope in a Horn Call: The Search for Cognitively Complex Emotions in Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony"
Professor Peter Kivy

Ms. Jing-Jing Yang
Psychology
"Thieves of Time: A Psychoanalysis of Sylvia Plath"
Professor George Atwood

January Graduates

Mr. Michael Masiuk
Psychology
"Crowding Stress"
Professor John Aiello

Mr. Jonathan Matkowsky
Philosophy
"A Comparative Study Of Divine Providence: Maimonides And Crescas"
Professor Seymour Feldman

Ms. Sharon Sokol
Biological Sciences
"Isolation And Characterization Of A Caenorhabditis elegans Homologue Of The Saccharomyces cereviside Gene STE20"
Professor Jeffrey Way

Ms. Lynda Tsai
Political Science
"Socialization Of The Female Model-Minority: Chinese-American Women In The Government Sector"
Professor Richard Wilson