Past Scholars - 1997

Mr. Carlo Abad
Administration of Justice
"Constitutional Issues Arising From Cyberspace: Is the Government Constitutionally Permitted to Regulate the Internet Without Abridging Our First Amendment Rights?"
Professor Carol Fine

Mr. Nishant Agrawal
Biological Sciences
"Identification and Characterization of a Cellular Homologue of Bax, Bax II"
Professor Eileen White

Ms. Lina Aguirre
Spanish
"The Human Experience as a Text: The Discourse of Sexuality in Lucia Guerra's Literary Works"
Professor Carlos Narvaez

Mr. Kelso Anderson
History
"British and American Scientific and Technological Assumptions in Late Tokugawa to Early Taisho Japan"
Professor Michael Adas

Mr. Stefan Antonowicz
Anthropology
"What's Your Sign? An Exploration of the Paris Codex in Relation to a Mayan Zodiac"
Professors Jorge Marcone and Thomas Stephens

Mr. Greg Bedard
Economics
"How Do We Pay for Our Children's Education? An Empirical Analysis of the New Jersey Public School Finance System"
Professor Sewin Chan

Ms. Robin Bernstein
Anthropology
"Nasal Volume, Body Mass, and Behavioral Dimorphism in Hominoids and Hominids"
Professor Daniel Lieberman

Mr. Matthew Bingham
Communication
"Deconstruction of the Modern Family"
Professor Stanley Deetz

Mr. Jeffrey Bressler
Music
"Imitative Counterpoint from Compositional and Historical Points of View"
Professor Floyd Grave and Rolv Yttrehus

Ms. Kristin Marie Bricketto
Psychology
"Changing Young Children's Perceptions of Themselves and Their Appearance: A Pilot Study"
Professor Richard Rende

Mr. Joseph Brucchieri
History
"The Holocaust: Who Caused the Destruction?"
Professor Omer Bartov

Ms. Michele Burger
Native American Studies
"Ambivalent Beauty: The Relationships of Art, Gender, and Power Dynamics in Lakota Society and the Myth of The Double Woman"
Professor William Powers

Mr. Max Carratura
Finance and Economics
"Daily Equity Trading Gaps on the NYSE: Their Prediction, Value and Repercussions"
Professor Michael Fabrikant

Mr. Justin Caso
Accounting
"The Usefulness of the Financial Accounting Standards Board Statement 105, Disclosures of Information About Financial Instruments with Off-Balance-Sheet Risk and Financial Instruments with Concentrations of Credit Risk, to Investors"
Professor David Mest

Ms. Victoria Chernyak
Biological Sciences
"E1B 19K and Bcl-2 Protect from TNF-a-induced Apoptosis Upstream of FLICE at FADD"
Dr. Eileen White

Mr. Stephen Cohen
Biological Sciences
"A Genetic Analysis of Downstream Components of a TGF-ß Signaling Pathway in Caenorhabditis Elegans"
Professor Richard Padgett

Ms. Sarah Colarusso
Labor Studies
"The Constitutionality of Affirmative Action"
Professor Ryan Smith

Ms. Melanie Janis Cooper
History and American Studies
"Resolved That I Should Be A Man: A Comprehensive Study of Coeducation at Rutgers College"
Professor John Chambers and Professor Leslie Fishbein

Mr. Delano R. Copprue
English
"American Individualism: The Balance Between the Individual and the Community for Thoreau, Emerson, and Ellison"
Professor George Kearns

Ms. Maria Corado
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
"Molecular Characterization of the Promoter Elements of Cryptic, a Novel Murine EGF-Related Growth Factor"
Professor Michael Shen

Ms. Gina Costa
Psychology
"A Comparative Study of Social Relationships and Achievement Among Children of Different Ethnic Groups"
Professor Maurice Elias

Mr. Carlos Cunha
Biological Sciences
"The Enhancement and Maintainence of Autoshaping with Various Doses of Ethanol - A Test of the CAM Model"
Professor Arthur Tomie

Ms. Leah Dahan
English
"The Hand Held"
Professor Katherine Ellis

Ms. Angela D'Amato
Economics
"The Chinese Special Economic Zones"
Professor Robert Stuart

Mr. Adnan Danish
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
"Analysis of the Effects of Ligands on the Structure of the DNA Double Helix"
Professor Wilma Olson

Mr. Shabbar Danish
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
"Biophysical Studies of CspA, the Major Cold Shock Protein Of E. coli"
Professor Gaetano Montelione

Mr. John Davies
English
"Violent Imposition: An Analysis of the Ways in Which Second-order Interpretation Distorts the Meaning of a Text"
Professor William Dowling

Ms. Miranda Dector
Spanish
"Alleviating the Cross-Cultural Barriers in Nutritional Counseling of Hispanic Communities in the United States"
Professor Thomas Stephens

Mr. George Dias
Physics
"Types of Disciplinary Styles Used by Parents of Autistic and Non-Autistic Children"
Professor Jan Handleman

Mr. Marco DiMarcello
History
"A Revolutionary Friendship: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson"
Professor Philip Greven, Jr.

Ms. Jocelyn Easley
Psychology
"Over the Counter Medication Use Among Elderly African Americans"
Professor Howard Leventhal

Ms. Sarah Edelman
Middle Eastern Studies
"The Evolution of Children's Editions of the Arabian Nights in the West"
Professor Paul Sprachman

Mr. Marc Edery
History
"Bernard J. Flannigan's World War II Experiences Serving in the 290th Station Hospital and the 148th General Hospital: An Oral History"
Professor William O'Neill

Ms. Salimah El-Amin
Anthropology
"How We Buried Our Past: A Comparative Study of the Mortuary Practices of African-americans in the United States"
Professor Carmel Schrire

Mr. David Fish
Physics
"Modelling Signal Generation in CVD Diamond Detectors"
Professor John Conway

Ms. Vanessa Garcia
History
"Women in Nicaragua: An Unfinished Revolution"
Professor Michael Shafer

Ms. Inessa Gelman
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
"Analysis of Lysosomal Enzyme Regulation at Transciptional Level"
Professor Peter Lobel

Ms. Ursula Gorham
Political Science
"The Inevitable Dissolution of Czechoslovakia: A Historical Analysis of the Relationship Between Czechs and Slovaks since the Hapsburg Empire"
Professor Jan Kubik

Mr. Brian Gottlieb
History
"The Decline of Morality in Republican Rome: An Analysis of M. Porcius Cato Uticensis"
Professor John Lenaghan

Mr. Bryan Grossman
Psychology
"An Investigation of Long-Term Potentiation in the Parahippocampal Cortices Induced by Theta-Patterned Stimulation of Hippocampal CA1 Cells"
Professor Tim Otto

Ms. Gina Hertel
Psychology
"Children's Attitudes Toward Cartoon vs. Non-Cartoon Ad-Depicted Cigarette Spokespersons: Is To Know Joe to Love Him?"
Professor Arlene Walker-Andrews

Ms. Sandra Holyoak
History
"Commodore Robert F. Stockton and His Role in the Mexican-American War"
Professor John Chambers

Mr. Syed Hussain
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
"Characterization of Structural Changes in Mutationally Altered Membrane Light-Harvesting Protein that Modify Functionally Essential Pigment-Protein and Protein-Protein Interactions"
Professor Robert Niederman

Mr. Simon Hyoun
English
"Daisy's Castle and Other Stories"
Professor Miguel Algarin and Professor Wesley Brown

Ms. Nageatte Ibrahim
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
"Using Sequential Administration of Camptothecin and Etoposide to Overcome Resistance: Cell Culture and Clinical Studies"
Professor Eric Rubin

Ms. Laura Jacobus
Psychology
"The Impact of Social Competence Training on Peer Ratings of Aggression"
Professor Maurice Elias

Ms. Becky Jennings
Economics
"An Examination of Spending Disparities in New Jersey's School Districts"
Professor Rosanne Altshuler

Mr. Christopher Johnson
Africana Studies
"Hot Chocolate City: Go-Go Culture in Black D.C."
Professor Edward Ramsamy

Ms. Angelique Kaounis
Spanish
"English-Only Laws and Our First Amendment Right to Freedom of Speech"
Professor Thomas Stephens

Mr. Gerald Karetnick
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
"Characterization and Analysis of fbcQ Deficient Mutants in Rhodobacter Sphaeroides"
Professor Robert Niederman

Mr. Terence Keegan
English
"Thomas Pynchon's Musical References"
Professor William Vesterman

Ms. Ashley Keene
Political Science
"Analysis of the Political Discourse of the 1996 Presidential Election through Studies at Research Center Web Sites on the New Media Source-the Internet"
Professor Janice Ballou

Ms. Laura Lynn Konrad
English
"The Concepts of Providence and Free Will on Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales""
Professor Andrew Welsh

Ms. Tara Kraenzlin
History
"Reed Smoot, Al Smith, and the Separation of Church and State: A Study in the Americanization of the Mormon and Roman Catholic Churches"
Professor James Reed

Mr. Vladlen Kurnov
Chemistry
"Cloning And Expression of Saccheromyces cervsiae Cytochrome c with Side Chains Suitable for Electron Transfer Studies at Solid Electrode Surfaces"
Professor Stephan Isied

Ms. Kyung Kwon
Spanish
"Koreans in Brazil: A Cultural Study of Life Between Two Cultures"
Professor Thomas Stephens

Ms. Lindsey Lair
Biological Sciences
"TGF-alpha Acts as a Neurotrophic Factor for Specific CNS Populations in vivo"
Dr. Pat Levitt

Ms. Susan Lape
Communication
"The Impact of Parental Meditation on Children's Television Viewing"
Professor Robert Kubey

Ms. Jill Lebowitz
Psychology
"The Stability of Children's Social Status Over a Year Long Time Period"
Professor Maurice Elias

Mr. Gilead Light
History
"Vladimir Jabotinsky and the Legacy of Right Wing Zionism"
Professor Michael Curtis

Ms. Joanna Lindenbaum
Art History
"Images of the Femme Fatale in Vienna 1900: Feminine Evil in the Art of Klimt, Schiele, and Kokoschka"
Professor Joan Marter

Ms. Crista Livecchi
Anthropology
"An Analysis of the Copper Trade at Oudepost, South Africa"
Professor Carmel Schrire

Ms. Ellen Lubman
Biological Sciences
"The Role of the Raphe Nucleus in Cardiorespiratory Regulation in the Neonatal Rat: the Maturation of the Spinal Projections and Importance of Co-localization of Neurotransmitters (Serotonin, Substance P, and Thyrotropin Releasing Hormone)."
Dr. Sandra England

Ms. My Ngoc Emily Ly
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
"The Study of a Novel Glucocorticoid-induced Transcript"
Professor Paul Mandwitz

Mr. Michael Maraventano
Biological Sciences
"Renal Ischemia/reperfusion Damage in Transgenic Mice Overexpressing Superoxide Dismutase and Glutathione Peroxidase"
Professor Masayori Inouye

Mr. Noel Martins
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
"The Role of Medial Prefrontal Cortex in Post-traumatic Stress Disorder"
Professor George Wagner

Ms. Pauline McGann
Biological Sciences
"A New Prognostic Indicator for Breast Cancer: Elevated Levels of Mannose 6-phosphate Glycoprotein in Breast Carcinoma"
Dr. Karel Raska

Ms. Iris Milstein
Psychology
"College Students' Reactions to the Development of New Drugs for Treating HIV and AIDS"
Professor Neil Weinstein

Mr. Gunjan Modha
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
"Purification and Crystallization Studies of Eukaryotic Transcription Factor TFIIF Of RNA Polymerase II"
Professor Edward Arnold

Mr. David Muccino
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
"Predicting Secondary Structure of Proteins Using Genetic Algorithms"
Professor William Sofer

Mr. David Myers
Chemistry
"Design and Synthesis of Glycosidase Inhibitors"
Professor Spencer Knapp

Ms. Barbara O'Donnell
Psychology
"The Effects of Feedback Source and Sequence on Task Performance"
Professor John Aiello

Mr. Vladislav Onik
Physics
"Quantum Mechanics as a Probe of Short Distances in String Theory"
Professor Stephen Shenker

Mr. David Pai
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
"Optimization of an Assay to Detect Reverse Transcriptase Mediated Repair of Double Strand DNA Breaks in Yeast"
Professor Abram Gabriel

Mr. Brian Palladino
History
"A Cold Mirror: the Cold War and Film in the United States, 1947-1964"
Professor Lloyd Gardner

Mr. Scott Jason Pashman
Political Science
"Citizenship, Responsibility, and the Politics of Welfare"
Professor Gordon Schochet

Mr. Jignesh Patel
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
"The Clinical and Biological Progression of Prostate Cancer"
Dr. Steven Ward

Mr. Milan Patel
Biological Sciences
"The Effect of Increased Transcription upon Transcription - Coupled Repair in rad26 Mutants"
Professor Kevin Sweder

Ms. Trisha Prossick
Biological Sciences
"Locating a Susceptibility Gene for Febrile Seizures on Chromosome 19"
Professor William Johnson

Mr. Dan Richelson
English
"The Juxtaposition of Shakespearean Comedy and Tragedy in Relation to the Self"
Professor Miguel Algarin

Mr. Mark Rizzi
Biological Sciences
"Regulation of the Expression of the Starvation Lipoprotein (Slp) in Escherichia coli by the marA, soxS, and rob Genetic Loci"
Professor Ann St. John

Mr. Michael Schneider
Computer Science
"A Framework for Application Environmental Awareness"
Professor B. R. Badrinath

Mr. Stu Schneider
Urban Studies and Economics
"The Competitive Strategies of Worker Cooperatives"
Professor Kelly Robinson

Ms. Lisa Seufert
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
"Expression and Purification of 15N-Enriched Alzheimer's Amyloid ?-Protein Precursor Kunitz Inhibitor Domain"
Professor Gaetano Montelione

Ms. Rita Sharma
Biological Sciences
"Expression and Characterization of a Human Alpha Interferon Receptor"
Dr. Jerome Langer

Mr. Peter Shaughnessy
Theater Arts
"The One Person: An Original Theatrical Production - A Study of Solo Theatre"
Professor Eileen Blumenthal

Ms. Pradnya Shetgiri
Biological Sciences
"Cloning and Characterization of lon-1, a Candidate Gene for a Negative Regulator in the TGFB Pathway in the Nematode, C. Elegans"
Professor Richard Padgett

Ms. Shruti Sheth
Economics
"Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Exercise in the Elderly"
Professor Louise Russell

Ms. Anna Skiandos
Biological Sciences
"Delta-Opioid Receptors in Mediation of Rank Associated Behaviors in Rats"
Professor Larissa Pohorecky

Mr. Matthew Steiner
Psychology
"Psychosocial and Biological Predictors of Outcome Following Open Heart Surgery"
Professor Richard Contrada

Mr. Michael Sumner
Psychology
"Accuracy and Accountability in Stereotyping and Discrimination"
Professor David Wilder

Mr. Kevin Switaj
History
"The Hydrogen Bomb Decision, 1949-50, and Presidential Power"
Professor John Chambers

Mr. William Tolley
History
"Marabouts, Mountaineers, and Mahdis: A Comparison of the Influence of Sufism on Nineteenth Centure Anti-colonial Resistance"
Professor Michael Adas

Ms. Judy Tsai
Chemistry
"Qualitative and Semi-quantitative Determination of Volatile Organic Selenium Compounds from the Maillard Reaction in a Selenomethionine-glucose Model System"
Professor Robert Rosen

Mr. Michael Vargas
History
"The Cold War and the Olympics"
Professor James Reed

Mr. Matthew Wayman
History
"Getting Away with Murder: A Study of the Involvement of the Cinque Ports in Acts of Piracy"
Professor James Masschaele

Ms. Jennifer Wilk
Sociology
"Raising Children in Alternative Family Forms: Differences in the Nuclear Family and Lesbian Mothers"
Professor Patricia Roos

Mr. Arvin Yang
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
"Genetically Reduced Levels of Arylsulfatase a as a Hypersusceptibility Factor for Lead-induced Neurotoxicity"
Professor Ronald Poretz

Ms. Nataly Zatuchny
Anthropology
"The Darkness Before the Dawn: A Study of Hopi Prophecies"
Professor William Powers

January Graduates

Mr. Douglas Kruckner
Chemistry
"Explorative Synthesis Aimed at the Development of New Polymers for Medical Applications"
Professor Joachim Kohn

Mr. Dan Sadowsky
Anthropology
"An Analysis of Jaw Function during Mastication in Sus scrofa and Didelphis virginianus"
Professor Daniel Lieberman

Mr. Keith Timko
History
"Development of Pedagogy and Child-Rearing in Children's Homes in Russia from 1927-1933"
Professor Ziva Galili