Past Scholars - 1999

Ms. Ruchika Agrawal
Computer Science
"An Exploration into the Natural Language Capabilities of a Computational System"
Professor Suzanne Stevenson

Ms. Mona Akhtar
Political Science
Professor Wilson Carey McWilliams

Ms. Danielle Alfonzo
Communication
"A Comparative Analysis of Monolingual and Bilingual Communication in Legal Proceedings"
Professor Jenny Mandelbaum

Mr. Alan Anschel
Biological Sciences
"The Role of Nip3 in Apoptosis"
Professor Eileen White

Mr. Kyle Arnold
Psychology
"Nietzsche's Madness: A Psychobiographical Study"
Professor George Atwood

Mr. Rehan Aziz
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
"Pilot Studies on the "Orphan" Genes Found in Human Pathogenic Bacterial Species"
Professor Stephen Anderson

Mr. Chirag Badami
Biological Sciences
"Effect of Down-Regulation of NMDA Receptors on Cerebral O2 Consumption and Blood Flow in Rat"
Professor Harvey Weiss

Mr. John Beetham
History
"Monastic Reform in the Tenth Through Twelfth Centuries"
Professor Nancy Sevcenko

Ms. Zeevyah Benoff
History
"Creationism in Relationship to the First Amendment"
Professor Seth Scheiner

Mr. Brett Biller
Psychology
"A Modified Approach in Aiding Children Involved With Separation and Divorce"
Professor Maurice Elias

Ms. Emily Binder
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
"Isolation and Characterization of TPB-Like Genes"
Professor Cory Abate Shen

Ms. Melissa Birnbaum
History
"Elizabeth Gurly Flynn's Campaign in 1942"
Professor Norman Markowitz

Mr. Kevin Bitterman
Biological Sciences
"The Genetics of Olfaction in Drosophilia melanogaster Larvae"
Professor Terry McGuire

Ms. Rachel Bluebond-Langner
Classics
"The Image of Romulus in the Post Augustan Age"
Professor John Bodel

Ms. Cassie Breckenridge
English
"The Woman with a Thousand Faces: Madonna and the Re-definition of Celebrity"
Professor Samira Kawash

Mr. Olanrewaju Buluro
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
"Expression, Purification, and Crystallization of Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) RNA Polymerase"
Professor Edward Arnold

Ms. Rosario Cabanilla
History
"We are Little More than Slaves: Black Domestic Workers in New York"
Professor Deborah White

Ms. Celene Carillo
English
"Echoes in History: A Study of Mass and Void in the works of Sylvia Plath"
Professor Alicia Ostriker

Ms. Lesha Chaifetz
History
"The Impact of the Lemon Test on the Separation of Church and State"
Professor Seth Scheiner

Mr. Ajay Chandramouly
Biological Sciences
"Spinal Cord Apoptosis and Regeneration"
Professor Wise Young

Ms. Sona Charaipotra
American Studies
"Indian American Identity Formation: The Role of Sexuality, Marriage and Dating in the American Setting"
Professor Michael Rockland

Ms. Myung Cho
Biological Sciences
"Transcription Factors Involved in the Transactivation of the OFQ Gene"
Professor Larissa Pohorecky

Mr. Eliot Choi
Computer Science
"Software Tools To Convert Visual Web Pages for Audio Presentation"
Professor Tomasz Imielinski

Ms. Lisa Ciraco
Sociology
"Juvenile Gangs: The Reasons for Male and Female Involvement"
Professor Stephen Hansell

Mr. Christopher Cram
English
"The Co-Option of the Independent Film"
Professor John Belton

Mr. David Damrau
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
"Excitotoxic Cell Death in C. Elegans"
Professor Monica Driscoll

Ms. Tracey Dennis
Biological Sciences
"Evaluation of the Functional Relevance of the Topoisomerase I-Nucleoloin Interaction Using a Biochemical Approach"
Dr. Eric Rubin

Mr. Aaditya Desai
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
"Analysis of TyI Reverse Transcriptase Mutants and Their Suppressors"
Professor Abram Gabriel

Ms. Jennifer DiCorcia
Psychology
"Moral Development and "Theory of Mind" in Children"
Professor Alan Leslie

Mr. Alexander D'Jamoos
Political Science
"Economic and Political Reform in Venezuela"
Professor Robert Kaufman

Ms. Danielle Dominic
Biological Sciences
"Evolutionary Studies of the Meiotic Recombination Gene mei-218"
Professor Kim McKim

Ms. Sharon Eliran
Finance
"An Empirical Investigation of the January Effect: Testing the Information Hypothesis"
Professor Oded Palmon

Ms. Shira Epstein
History
"The Relationship and Work of Jewish Feminism and the Havurah Movement in America"
Professor Dee Garrison

Ms. Lori Errico
English
"Gender Theory, French Feminism, and the Novels of Jeanette Winterson"
Professor Bruce Robbins

Mr. Michael Falk
Psychology
"When do Stereotypes Bias Person Perception"
Professor Lee Jussim

Mr. Daniel Farabaugh
History
"Reaction within England to the Beheading of King Charles I"
Professor Alastair Bellany

Ms. Irene Fayvelevich
Finance
"Managerial Stock Options: An Incentive for Hard Work or Taking More Risk"
Professor Ben Sopranzetti

Ms. Brett Feiner
Psychology
"A Comparative Analysis of Three Measures of Self-Discrepancy"
Professor Daniel Ogilvie

Ms. Suzanne Filippi
Political Science
"The Political Manipulation of Minority Constituencies in US Presidential Campaigns"
Professor Kerry Haynie

Mr. Matthew Fleming
Administration of Justice
"An Examination of Kurdish Genocide in Iraq"
Professor Lennox Hinds

Ms. Tara Gankiewicz
Political Science
"The Policy Role of the American First Lady from Eleanor Roosevelt to Hillary Rodham Clinton"
Professor Montague Kern

Ms. Becky Genberg
Psychology
"The Effects of Stress and Self-Esteem on the Sexual Behaviors of College Students"
Professor Maurice Elias

Ms. Allison Gertel
Public Health
"Managed Care: The Charity Care Patient's Perspective"
Professor Michele Ochsner

Ms. Nicole Girrbach
Psychology
"A Comparative Study on the Effects of a Social Problem Solving and Decision Making Program on Skill Retention"
Professor Maurice Elias

Mr. Jeffrey Giuliani
Biological Sciences
"The Effects on Neurotrophin Expression as Seen in the Spinal Cord Injury Model in Rats"
Professor Wise Young

Ms. Melissa Goebel
Biochemistry
"The Effect of Stress on Serum Uric Acid Levels"
Professor Paul Manowitz

Mr. Bradley Goldman
Political Science
"Entrepreneurial Empowerment: An Experiment in Criminal Rehabilitation"
Professor Michael Shafer

Mr. Jeffrey Gonzalez
Psychology
"Gender Differences in the Meaning of Health"
Professor Howard Leventhal

Ms. Jan Grayson
Psychology
"Strengthening Children's Social and Emotional Health: Implementation of "Talk With TJ""
Professor Maurice Elias

Ms. Helen Gu
Biochemistry
"Analysis of Mouse Capping Enzyme Mutants"
Professor Aaron Shatkin

Ms. Jennifer Hall
History
"Twentieth Century Protest movements: Film and Culture"
Professor James Livingston

Mr. Michael Huang
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
"Application of Bioinformatics in the Structural Analysis of DNA-Binding Proteins"
Professor Helen Berman

Mr. Marcin Imielinski
Biological Sciences
"Glutamate Synthetase Treatment of Spinal Cord Injury"
Professor Wise Young

Ms. Jessica Jameson
Sociology
"Appearances Affect Job Opportunities- East vs. West"
Professor Megan Sweeney

Ms. Bonnie Jones
English
"David Lynch: Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Film"
Professor Martin Gliserman

Mr. Mehul Kamdar
Biomathematics
"Computer-Assisted Assessment of CT/MRI images Using 3-Dimensional Spatial and Spectral Attributes"
Professor David Foran

Mr. David Kanarek
History
"Defining and Refining the Goal of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission"
Professor James Livingston

Mr. Thomas Kimbrell
Economics
"The Elasticity of Demand for Higher Education in New Jersey"
Professor Henry Raimando

Ms. Emily Kirschner
Psychology
"Assessment of Neurotoxic Effects of Amphetamine-like compounds"
Professor George Wagner

Ms. Leanne Krueger
Sociology
"Effects of Urban Poverty on Latina Adolescent Girls"
Professor Cathy Greenblat

Ms. Catherine Laiosa
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
"Characteristics of Essential Components of Transcriptionally Repressed Chromatin"
Professor Marc Gartenberg

Mr. Mauricio Lavie
Psychology
"Characterization of Presynaptic Ca2+ Currents Underlying Neurotransmitter Release in the Vestibular Hair Cells of Hermissenda"
Professor Louis Matzel

Mr. Ely Levin
History
"Subversiveness in 20th Century American Music"
Professor James Livingston

Ms. Alia Malik
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
"The Role of HMGI-C in fat Deposition"
Professor Kiran Chada

Mr. Nitin Mathur
Psychology
"Object Identification by Feature Conjunction in Infants"
Professor Alan Leslie

Ms. Colleen McClain
Psychology
"Perceptions, Behaviors, and Beliefs About Cancer Among an Elderly Population"
Professor Howard Leventhal

Ms. Bena Mehta
Biological Sciences
"Functional Yeast-based Assay for Directly Identifying Loss of Function"
Professor Stuart Lutzker

Ms. Melissa Mendelsohn
Political Science
"Making Indigency the New Suspect Class"
Professor Susan Lawrence

Mr. Anthony Merlino
Political Science
"Constituency Patterns Among Same-State, Same-Party Senators"
Professor Ross Baker

Mr. Samer Mikhail
Biological Sciences
"Study on the Mouse Esophagogastroduodenal Anastomis Model For Esophegal Adenocarcinoma"
Professor Chung Yang

Ms. Michele Milow
Sociology
"Dating Violence: An Assessment of Attitudes and Beliefs as Related to Behavior"
Professor Alan Horwitz

Ms. Christina Moon
Anthropology
"A Taphonomic Re-Assessment of an Alleged Spotted Hyaena Bone Accumulation from East Turkana, Kenya"
Professor Robert Blumenschine

Mr. Sean Murphy
History
"The Tragedy of the Russian Intelligentsia"
Professor Lloyd Gardner

Mr. Anoop Nambiar
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
"The Characterization of Mutant Genes Obtained From the Genetic Modifier Screen for New Components in the dpp Pathway"
Professor Richard Padgett

Ms. Shubha Narayan
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
"Genetic Supressors of mec-4(d) InducedNecrotic Cell Death"
Professor Monica Driscoll

Ms. Laura Ngwenya
Neuropsychological Philosophy
"A look at the Mind Body Problem Through Cortical Connections of the Visual System"
Professor Sidney Auerbach

Ms. Carol Obando
Psychology
"Personality Traits of Alcoholics and Antisocial Personality Disorder"
Professor Elizabeth Epstein

Ms. Renata Ostrowicki
Biological Sciences
"The Design and Construction of a Vaccine Against the Herpes Simplex Virus"
Professor Gail Ferstandig Arnold

Ms. Polly Pao
Economics
"An Analysis of Excutive Wage Compensation in the United States"
Professor Mark Killingworth

Mr. Amish Patel
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
"Site Directed Mutagenesis in the Linker Region of the Yeast ol2 homeodomain"
Professor Andrew Vershon

Ms. Amita Patel
Sociology
"Masculinities and the AIDS Epidemic"
Professor Judith Gerson

Mr. Nayan Patel
Biological Sciences
"The Effect of Antisense Knockdown of Cerebellar 5-HT1A Receptors on Ethanol Consumption"
Professor Larissa Pohorecky

Mr. Panchshil Patel
Biological Sciences
"The Role of the Serotonin 1a Receptors in the Development of Ethanol Tolerance in RN46A Cells"
Professor Daniel Benjamin

Mr. Adam Peitz
Physics
"A Search for Particles Beyond the Standard Model"
Professor John Conway

Ms. Danielle Perret
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
"Consequences of Genomic Instability on Ty1-mediated Transposition and Double-Stranded Break Repair"
Professor Abram Gabriel

Mr. Damian Petino
Psychology
"Rhinal Cortical and Hippocampal Contributions to Olfactory Memory"
Professor Tim Otto

Ms. Kiran Prasad
Biological Sciences
"Crystalization of a Che Protein in the Signal Transduction Cascade Chemotaxis"
Professor Ann Stock

Mr. Kenneth Quail
Art History
"The Depiction of Masculinity in American Art: 1800 to 1990"
Professor Matthew Baigell

Ms. Christine Reidy
Sociology
"The Culture and Identity of Jewish Women"
Professor Ben Zablocki

Ms. Arsenia Reilly
History
"Militant Women Labor Activists During Martial Law in the Philippines"
Professor Norman Markowitz

Mr. Laurence Ring
Biological Sciences
"HIV Service Provisions in New Jersey's Licensed Mental Health Facilities"
Professor James Walkup

Ms. Tanya Romasz
Psychology
"Promoting Generalization of Skills Learned by Children in a Social Problem Solving Lab"
Professor Maurice Elias

Ms. Olga Christina Romero
French
"Samuel Beckett, Catholicism, Negation of Classical Theatre and Orientalism"
Professor Mary Shaw

Mr. Jared Rosenbaum
History
"Perceptions of Technological Progress in Near Eastern Mythology"
Professor Jack Cargill

Mr. Frank Ruchala
Urban Studies
"The Effects of "New Urbanism" on Campus Design and Planning"
Professor Anton Nelessen

Mr. Mohammed Saadeh
History
"White Fear, Black Frustration: The New York Riot of 1900"
Professor Gregory Mixon

Ms. Yissell Santana
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
"Construction of Luciferase Gene Expression Vector"
Dr. Michael Leibowitz

Mr. Joseph Schmidt
History
"Black Consciousness in South Africa and Black Power in the United States"
Professor Norman Markowitz

Mr. Robert Schwalje
Political Science
"Information Warfare"
Professor Andrew Farkas

Ms. Stacy Scudder
Anthropology
"Application of Landsat TM Data to Achaeological Research"
Professor J.W. Harris

Mr. Amit Shah
Biological Sciences
"The Transmembrane Domain in Vesicular Stomatitis Virus (VSV) Fusion - Determination or Residual and Positional Specvicty of Glycine"
Professor John Lenard

Ms. Nehal Shah
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
"Genetic Analysis of a new Drosophila TgF-B like ligand"
Professor Richard Padgett

Mr. Samir Shah
Biological Sciences
"The Effects of Mu-Opioid Receptors on Neuronal Development"
Professor John Pintar

Mr. Asim Shaikh
Political Science
"Film and the Politics of Vision"
Professor Wilson Carey McWilliams

Mr. Ryan Shaner
Psychology
"Social Class, School Funding, and Class Achievement"
Professor Lee Jussim

Ms. Julietta Shoaf
Psychology
"Monitoring, Feedback Source, and Feedback Sign Effects on Task Performance"
Professor John Aiello

Mr. Scott Shone
Biological Sciences
"Analysis of the Transcriptional Regulation of CD154 in Activated T Cells"
Professor Lori Covey

Ms. Nicole Sirotin
Biological Sciences
"Knockout of the C. elegans Ortholog to Drosophila rdgB"
Professor Dewey Royal

Mr. Kiran Somashekara
Political Science
"Examining the Aftermath of Genocide in Bosnia and Rwanda Within the Framework of Historical Genocide"
Professor Roy Licklider

Ms. Silke Sookraj
Political Science
"Social and Political Ramifications of the 1953 British and U.S. Intervention in British Guiana"
Professor Robert Kaufman

Ms. Lea Starita
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
"Suppressors of the Requirement for the Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factor EF-B"
Professor Terri Kinzy

Mr. Andrew Steiner
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
"Site-directed Analysis of the Interactions Between Mcm1 and Alpha2"
Professor Andrew Vershon

Ms. Kelly Sulik
Psychology
"Sex Differences in Impression Management: A Content Analysis of Student Resumes"
Professor Laurie Rudman

Ms. Alexa Tapanes
Psychology
"Promoting Emotional Development in "High-Risk" Children"
Professor Maurice Elias

Ms. Ojas Tasker
History
"German Resistance Groups and Their Interactions with Each Other and the Government in Nazi Germany (1933-1945)"
Professor Jan Kubik

Ms. Kristin Taylor
Sociology
"Hazing: Why it Happens"
Professor Ben Zablocki

Ms. Julie Thomas
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
"Characterization of a Novel Protein That Interacts With Dorsal"
Professor Ruth Steward

Ms. Joanna Tibbels
Administration of Justice
"Human Rights Violations in the United States"
Professor Carol Fine

Mr. Kristopher Tracy
History
"Sumner Welles and the Russians"
Professor Lloyd Gardner

Ms. Raquel Vallejo
Spanish
"The Portrayal of Indiginous Women in Contemporary Spanish American Novels"
Professor Carlos Narvaez

Mr. Joseph Varga
History
"The New Brunswick Hungarian Community From 1956-1957"
Professor Virginia Yans

Mr. Scott Walsman
Biological Sciences
"The Effect of Chemokine Levels on HIV-1 Disease Progression in Pediatric Patients"
Professor Joseph Fitzgibbon

Ms. Amy Warschawski
Sociology
"Multi-Cultural Perspectives of Women and Their Bodies"
Professor Sarah Rosenfield

Ms. Karen Weiss
Political Science
"Procedural Justice and the Victim of Domestic Violence"
Professor Michael Paris

Ms. Leorah Weiss
Psychology
"Acquisition of Hebrew as a Second Language"
Professor Karin Stromswold

Ms. Cheryl Wu
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
"Barrier Energy Analysis of Torsional Rotation in Ethane-Like Molecules"
Professor Lionel Goodman

Mr. Ari Yares
Psychology
"Jewish Identity in College Students"
Professor Maurice Elias

Ms. Diana Yi
Art History
"Song Dynasty China and Medieval Japan"
Professor Angela Howard

Ms. Sally Yoblick
Psychology
"The Incentive Disengagement Cycle"
Professor Charles Flaherty

January Graduates

Mr. Richard Linderman
Criminal Justice
"Clerical Viewpoints fo Life and Death"
Professor Michael Welch

Ms. Theresa Plechton
Middle Eastern Studies
"The Application of Gandhian Philosophy to the Peace Process in the Middle East"
Professor Eric Davis

Mr. Arjun Viswanathan
Biological Sciences
"Compliance with Cholesterol Screening Guidelines and Treatment in Hospitalized Patients"
Professor David Kountz

 
   
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