Past Scholars - 2000

Ms. Reza Akhtar
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
"High Throughput Homology Modeling for Structural Genomics"
Professor Gaetano Montelione

Ms. Allison Altscher
Cell Biology and Neuroscience
"The Role of Olfactory Ensheathing Glial Cell Transplants on the Regeneration of Transected Rat Spinal Cord"
Professor Wise Young

Mr. Michael C. Anana
Biological Sciences
"Selective Activity of L-type Calcium Channels in NMDA-receptor-independent Long Term Potentiation"
Professor Mark Plummer

Ms. Salyin Ang
Chemistry
"Studies in Preparation for Determining the Rate of Formation and Breakdown of Aryl Cation Intermediate"
Professor Larry Romsted

Mr. Scott Asbury
Philosophy
"The Limits of Individual Freedom and the Incest Taboo"
Professor Howard McGary

Ms. Jiney Asthappan
Psychology
"Relationship of Psychological Measures of Affect to Salivary Measures of Cytokines"
Professor Alexander Kusnecov

Ms. Kathleen Nicole Astorita
History
"The Role of the Ford Foundation in Soviet-American Exchange Programs in the Cold War (1945-1968)"
Professor David Foglesong

Ms. Christina Baute
Visual Arts
"MyOp(t)ic: Vision as Art Object"
Professor Tony Masso

Ms. Manjiri Bhate
Biological Sciences
"The Effect of Amino Acid Substitutions on the Nucleation Step of Folding of Collagen Model Peptides"
Professor Barbara Brodsky

Mr. Janak Bhimani
English
"The Agency of Mutability in Ovid's Metamorphoses"
Professor Marc Manganaro

Ms. Nora A. Bogdon
Economics
"The Impact of Health Insurance on Health Care Utilization and Health Outcomes"
Professor Jeff Rubin

Mr. Steven R. Boikess
Psychology
"The Contribution of the Anterior and Posterior Lingulate to Cognitive, Emotional, and Locomotor Behavior"
Professor Thomas Walsh

Mr. Nevin Boparai
Biological Sciences
"Cytoskeletal Regulation of the L-type Calcium Channel"
Professor Andrew Thomas

Ms. Paula Brown
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
"Morphological and Genetic Analysis of Aging in C. Elegans"
Professor Monica Driscoll

Ms. Melanie A. Butler
Psychology
"Accuracy of Recall of Detail among Simulated Eyewitnesses in Relation to Status of Perpetrator, Gender of Victim, and Inventoried Psychological Needs of Witness"
Professor Nathaniel Pallone

Mr. Joseph Califf
Evolutionary Anthropology
"Contributions of Robust Australopithecines and Interspecies Competition to Plio-Pleistocene Heminid Ecology and Evolution"
Professor J.W. Harris

Mr. James M. Cartwright
History
"An Opera in Blood and Steel or, The Roots and Development of Blitzkrieg and Nazi Propaganda Newsreel"
Professor Omer Bartov

Ms. Keri Cassesa
Psychology
"Influences on the Interactions Among Bullies, Victims, and Peers in Elementary School"
Professor Maurice Elias

Ms. Veronica Cassone
Political Science
"Faith and American Politics: Benjamin Franklin, Alexis de Tocqueville, and the Unitarians Explore the Utilitarian Role of Religious Ambiguity in America"
Professor Daniel Tichenor

Ms. Nancy Cedeno-Morris
Sociology
"Parenting Attitudes, Parenting Style, and Intergenerational Relationships: Do Birth Order and Sibship Size Matter?"
Professor Megan Sweeney

Ms. Meena Charaipotra
Communication
"The Marketing and Consumption of Boy Bands in American Culture"
Professor Leah Stewart

Ms. Amiti K. Chauhan
Economics
"An Empirical Analysis of U.S. Dumping Decisions"
Professor Thomas Prusa

Mr. Stephen H. Chen
Psychology
"Reinforcing Effects of Cocaine in the Nucleus Accumbens"
Professor George Wagner

Ms Hanah Cho
Political Science
"The Idea of Public Journalism: In Theory and Practice"
Professor Jane Junn

Ms. Kara Cohen
Spanish and Anthropology
"Modernity of the Jungle: The Conflict between Nature and Technology in the Amazon"
Professor Jorge Marcone

Ms. Mirit Cohen
Anthropology
"The Contextual Use of Facial Expressions of Emotion in Chimpanzees and Human Children"
Professor Ryne Palombit

Mr. Andrew Connolly
Psychology
"Why Children Say *goed: A Study of Over-regulation and Linguistic Tradeoffs in Child Speech"
Professor Karin Stromswold

Mr. Amar R. Contractor
Political Science
"A Survey of Student Rights - Case Law and Suspicionless Drug-Testing"
Professor Susan Lawrence

Ms. Erin Jule Corrigan
Anthropology
"Un Cafe S'il vous plait; An Anthropological Experience of a Marseillais Cafe"
Professor Michael Moffatt

Mr. Corey Couto
Economics
"The Effects of Managed Care Insurance on Women's Demand for Annual Mammograms"
Professor Jeff Rubin

Ms. Laura J. Cramer
Psychology
"Memory of a Medical Experience: Comparisons of Parent and Child Reports"
Professor Judith Hudson

Mr. Domenick Gardella Crovelli
Physics
"Polarization Measurements in the yd->pn Reaction at Intermediate Energy"
Professor Charles Glashausser

Mr. Adam Cunha
Physics
"Radiative Decay Widths of Heavy Kaon Resonances"
Professor Sunil Somalwar

Ms. Sandra K. Cvitan
History
"The European Union and Croatia: From Irresolution and Hostility to Mutual Engagement"
Professor Jan Kubik

Ms. Carrie E. Davenport
Political Science
"Rape as a Weapon of War"
Professor Joanna Regulska

Mr. Kristoffer DeLara
Biochemistry
"Functional Analysis of CspF and CspH of Escherichia coli"
Professor Masayori Inouye

Ms. Monica Sudhir Deshmukh
Biological Sciences
"The Role of Neural Glial Cellular Adhesion Molecules on Neurite Outgrowth In-vitro"
Professor Wise Young

Ms. Harvinder K. Dhillon
Psychology
"The Twelve Month Old Infant's Use of Object Individuation and Object Identification in Feature Conjunction Tasks"
Professor Alan Leslie

Ms. Siobain Duffy
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
"Holographic Imaging of Edible Thin Gelatin Films"
Professor Richard Ludescher

Mr. Brian Edgar
English
"Poetic Voice in Pope's "Imitations""
Professor Lowell Edmunds

Mr. Phillip A. Erwin
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
"The Role of Lipid Mediators in the Sacccharomyces Stress Response"
Professor Charles Martin

Ms. Naomi Faszczyk
English
"Between Borges and Borges: Uncertainty, Deception, and Duality in the Writings of Jorge Luis Borges"
Professor Martin Gliserman

Mr. Jonathan Feenstra
Chemistry
"An ab Initio Explanation of the Gauche Effect in 1,2-Difluoroethane"
Professor Lionel Goodman

Mr. Stephen Fernandez
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
"The Discovery of Autoncrine Factors that Influence Neurites in Neuroblastoma Cells"
Dr. Leonard Sigal

Mr. Eugene Festa
Psychology
"Ethanol Drinking and Autoshaping"
Professor Arthur Tomie

Mr. Andrew H. Fixmer
History
"Benjamin Franklin and Native Americans"
Professor Thomas Slaughter

Mr. Robert R. Fogg
Physics and Chemistry
"Analyzing a New Structure Via Helium Atom Techniques"
Professor B.J. Hinch

Ms. Adriana Garriga Lopez
Anthropology
"Dark Body/Sick Body: Racialized Imaginaries of Infectious Disease and Cultural Contagion in the African Diaspora"
Professor Neni Panourgia

Ms. Mary Georgy
Psychology
"The Effects of Green and Black Tea on Arachidonic Acid Metabolism in Human Colon"
Professor Chung Yang

Ms. Jenny Gerzoff
Psychology
"The Effects of Feedback Sign and Velocity on Performance, Motivation, and Mood"
Professor John Aiello

Mr. Avrum Gillespie
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
"The Human Capping Enzyme and Its Interaction with RNA"
Professor Edward Arnold

Ms. Anjali Gokhale
Biological Sciences
"An Assay for Urinary Sufatides"
Professor Paul Manowitz

Mr. Evan Goldfine
History
"Call Me Racist, I Don't Care: The Controversy Over School Desegregation in Bergen County, New Jersey"
Professor Steven Lawson

Mr. Donglai Gong
Physics
"Electron-phonon Interaction in Thin Film of Hf at Ultra-low Temperatures"
Professor Michael Gershenson

Ms. Leah Gopenko
Psychology
"The Effect of Family Participation on the Child's Achievement in the SPS Lab"
Professor Maurice Elias

Mr. Brian R. Grossman
Communication
"Understanding Communicative "Passing" Strategies of Gay and Lesbian Individuals in Healthcare Interactions"
Professor Stephen Haas

Mr. Domenic Guerrini
Political Science
"The Burdens of Office: A Study of John F. Kennedy's Prosecution of the Cold War"
Professor Ross Baker

Ms. Dawne M. Harris
Psychology
"Racial Differences in Knowledge, Attitudes, and Compliance with Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening"
Professor Jane Miller

Mr. Daniel M. Harrison
Biological Sciences
"Genetic and Analysis of Mutant Genes Obtained from a Genetic Modifier Screen for Novel Components of a TGF-beta-like Pathway in Drosphila"
Professor Richard Padgett

Mr. Jonathan Henkel
Psychology
"Contrast, Context, and Expectations: An Animal Model of Disappointment"
Professor Charles Flaherty

Ms. Tamiko Hennings
History
"Ambiguous Legacy: The Japanese American Internment and Its Cross-Generational Effects"
Professor Lloyd Gardner

Mr. Christopher E. Hillary
History
"The Bretton Woods System, Formation and Action"
Professor Lloyd Gardner

Ms. Alicia Holub
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
"Characterization of Bcl-10"
Professor Eileen White

Mr. Peter I. Honig
English
"Illusion and the Perception of Reality in Nabokov's "Lolita""
Professor Maurice Charney

Mr. Haig Hovsepian
Psychology
"Enhancement of Olfactory Receptor Neuron Neurogenesis Following Subcutaneous Injection of Growth Factors"
Professor Tim Otto

Mr. Jason Hunter
Political Science
"Rush to Deploy: A Commentary on the Current Proposed National Missile Defense System"
Professor Roy Licklider

Ms. Reem Ibn`Oaf Hussein
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
"U1A Autoregulation and Dimerization: A Fine-Scale Mutagenic Analysis of the U1A Inhibitory Domain"
Professor Samuel Gunderson

Ms. Cara Jackson
Psychology
"Examination of Social Factors' Influence on Academic Performance"
Professor Maurice Elias

Ms. Rachael Kaplan
Psychology
"An Investigation of Sexual Assault Education/Prevention Programs and their Effectiveness: Assessing Objectives, Audiences, and Methods"
Professor Maurice Elias

Mr. Jonathan Kaplowitz
Economics
"An Uninsured Nation: The Relationship Between Health Insurance and Health"
Professor Jeff Rubin

Mr. Joseph Samuel Khalil
History/Political Science
"The Democratic New Deal Coalition and the Push for Civil Rights: Southern Reaction in the Late Forties and Fifties"
Professor David Oshinsky

Ms. Jennifer Kucera
History and Art History
"The Philistines from Immigration to Deportation, with Special Focus on Excavations at Ekron"
Professor Jack Cargill

Mr. Joshua Lane
History
"Pooling Sovereignty: the Treasury Department and the United States Commitment to the Bretton Woods Institutions"
Professor T. J. Jackson Lears

Mr. Matthew R. Lee
Psychology
"Activation and Application of Negative Black Stereotypes"
Professor Laurie Rudman

Ms. Rachel G. Leventhal
Economics
"The Effect of Foreign Commerical Policies on U.S. Exports of Cultural Goods"
Professor Simon Everett

Mr. Daniel R. Levy
Political Science
"School Desegregation Policy: Voluntary Desegregation Plans versus Mandatory Reassignment"
Professor Emily Renaud

Mr. Noam Levy
History
"Working Class Youth Culture and Popular Music in New Jersey"
Professor Virginia Yans

Mr. Stephen D. Lobaugh
History/Political Science
"Some of the People, Some of the Time...; The Kennedy Administration and the Vietnam Press Corps"
Professor Lloyd Gardner

Ms. Melissa Lopes
Biological Sciences
"Targeting Human Interferon Gamma by Fusion to a Monoclonal Antibody Against a Human Tumor Antigen"
Professor Sidney Pestka

Ms. Anne Marie Luck
Political Science
"Racial Reconciliation in Christian Community: A Critical Analysis"
Professor Mary Hawkesworth

Ms. Caroline Luther
History
"The Effects of Cold War Politics on American Science Policy"
Professor Lloyd Gardner

Mr. Ram Mani
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
"Structural Genomics of Conserved Gene Families"
Professor Gaetano Montelione

Mr. Joseph T. Marchand
Economics
"Empirical Evidence of Factor Price Convergence and Its Significance"
Professor Simon Everett

Mr. Marvin Marks
History
"The W.P.A. and Its Effect on Artists and Writers of/in New Jersey"
Professor William O'Neill

Mr. Tim Maset
History
"False Assumptions: Japan, The United States, and the Coming of Pearl Harbor"
Professor Lloyd Gardner

Ms. Regina Masiello
English
"John Donne's Elegiac Language of Anxiety: Religious Conflict and Seventeenth Century Conceptions of the Body"
Professor Jacqueline Miller

Mr. Adam Maskevich
Religion
"Rulers of Heaven, Conquerers of Earth: Religion, Politics, and Propaganda in the Rise of Sargon of Akkad"
Professor Alberto Green

Ms. Courtney Dawn Mazza
Psychology
"C.A.S.E. Studies"
Professor Maurice Elias

Ms. Carmen Medina
Marketing
"How Does it Feel? Reading the Emotions Displayed by Characters in Ads"
Professor Michael Mulvey

Mr. Arion Melidonis
Anthropology
"Identity and the Subjective Self"
Professor Neni Panourgia

Mr. Stephen Merritt
Anthropology
"A Quantitative Analysis of Cut Marks Experimentally Produced by Large Bifacial Tools and Small Flakes"
Professor J.W. Harris

Ms. Carolyn Mickel
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
"Transcriptional Repression of Middle Meiotic Genes"
Professor Andrew Vershon

Ms. Marina Mikhaylova
Political Science
"Political Visions in Post-Communist Russia: Film and Literature"
Professor Jan Kubik

Mr. Stewart Miller
Political Science
"The Escalation of Commercial Rivalries: A Theoretical & Empirical Study"
Professor Jack Levy

Ms. Vanessa Mitry
English
"Translation Theory and the Dissonance Between Languages"
Professor Virginia Jackson

Mr. James Alfred Molnar
American Studies
"Global Merchant Shipping in the Post-WWII Era: The Collapse of the American Merchant Marine"
Professor Angus Gillespie

Ms. Rebecca Nappa
Psychology
"The Influence of Complexity on the Appearance of Subject/Auxiliary Inversion in English-speaking Children"
Professor Karin Stromswold

Ms. Laura Niedermayer
Psychology
"Action, Inaction, and Perceived Decision-Making"
Professor Gretchen Chapman

Ms. Rosalia Niforatos
Administration of Justice
"Racial Profiling: An Analysis of the Fourth Amendment and Racist Policing"
Professor Linda Smink

Mr. David Palmer
History
"The Meaning of a Sniff: The American Politics of the Dr. Peter Bourne Drug Scandal"
Professor T. J. Jackson Lears

Ms. Erika S. Palumbo
Psychology
"Mother-Infant Interactive Style: Effects of Context"
Professor Arlene Walker-Andrews

Ms. Maria V. Pantano
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
"Drug Resistance and Gene Transfer in cAMP-dependent Protein Kinase Mutants"
Professor K. Son

Mr. Robert Pellecchia
Cinema Studies
"Man's Work in the Post-Modern Age: A Film"
Professor John Belton

Ms. Sara Pentlicky
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
"Retargeting U1 snRNP to Inhibit the Expression of a Single Human Gene"
Professor Samuel Gunderson

Ms. Dalia Perelmuter
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
"Translocations are Dominant Meiotic Crossover Suppressors due to a Defect Early in the Recombination Pathway"
Professor Kim McKim

Mr. Jordan Pine
Journalism
"An Exploration of American Romani Evangelicalism"
Professor Mirga Andrzez

Ms. Karen Emily Price
Chemistry
"Synthesis of Siastatin B"
Professor Spencer Knapp

Ms. Kusum A. Punjabi
Biological Sciences
"Cyclic GMP Effects on Cyclic AMP Phosphodiesterases Mediate Negative Metabolic and Functional Effects in Cardiac Myocytes"
Professor Harvey Weiss

Ms. Dragana Rogulja
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
"Intra- and Inter-Subunit Interaction During Prokaryotic RNAP Assembly"
Professor Konstantin Severian

Ms. Lori Rosario
Puerto Rican and Caribbean Studies
"Learning in Two Languages: Bilingual Education Past, Present, and Uncertain Future"
Professor Carmen Whalen

Mr. Jonathan Daniel Rosen
Political Science
"Out of Place: The Rise of the Postmodern Citizen and the Death of Spatial Governance"
Professor Michael Shafer

Ms. Christine Ryan
History
"Two Haitian Anarchists Who Would Not Die"
Professor Norman Markowitz

Mr. Debjeet Sarkar
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
"Defining the 14-3-3 Protein Binding Site of S. pombe Chk1"
Dr. Nancy Walworth

Mr. Jonathan Schleifer
Visual Arts
"mythologically male: painting myscalinity"
Professor Allen Frame

Ms. Inna Sheyn
Economics
"The Effect of Financial Structure on Economic Growth: A Multicountry Econometric Study"
Professor Walter Paczkowski

Ms. Eugenia Shukhina
Psychology
"Role of cGMP and cAMP in Memory Processing of Fear Conditioning"
Professor Tim Otto

Mr. Scott Siegel
Psychology
"The Role of Emotion in Multiple Sclerosis-like Disease"
Professor Alexander Kusnecov

Ms. Rachel Siegel
Biological Sciences
"Structural Studies of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis DNA Polymesase"
Professor Edward Arnold

Ms. Beth A. Silver
Psychology
"A Perceived Risk Account of the Link Between Optimism and Health Behavior"
Professor Gretchen Chapman

Ms. Christina Skowronski
Physics
"Quantum Defect in Hooke's Atom"
Professor Mohan Kalelkar

Mr. Steven J. Syrek
English
"Myth, Reality, and Somewhere In Between: A Postcolonial REading of the New Australian Cinema"
Professor John Belton

Ms. Janet Szeto
Visual Arts
"A Thesis on Presence and Absence: A Translation in Paint"
Professor Ken Landauer

Mr. Gregory M. Tuculescu
English
"Pale Fire: Consciousness and the Laws of Its Reality"
Professor William Vesterman

Ms. Dawn Tuminaro
Psychology
"Alexithymia and Self-Assessed Psychological Needs in Relation to "Anti-Social" vs. "Adventurous" Risk-Taking Behavior: A Comparative Psycholmetric Study"
Professor Nathaniel Pallone

Mr. Timothy Uthaichai
Economics
"Economics of Complementary and Alternative Medicine"
Professor Jeff Rubin

Ms. Jessica Michelle Valentin
Political Science
"What's that got to do with me?: Explaining Minority Political Participation and the Media's Portrayal of the Minority Voter"
Professor Kerry Haynie

Ms. Aurora Vaz Vieira
Psychology
"Piggybacking the Puppet on the Train: Associated Memories From Across Experimental Paradigms in 6-month-old Infants"
Professor Carolyn Rovee-Collier

Mr. Bruno Walczak
English and Linguistics
"+- Poetry, A Feature Presentation: The Search for Sound Density in Poetry"
Professor Alan Prince

Ms. Yomance Warrick
Biological Sciences
"Luciferase Assays for A and B Clones"
Professor Suzie Chen

Ms. Izabella Waszkielewicz
Communication
"The Enactment and Management of Conflict in Casual and Professional Settings: Two Case Studies"
Professor Jenny Mandelbaum

Ms. Cindy Wei
Biological Sciences
"Cytochrome P4501A1 Gene Polymorphism and Induction"
Professor Michael Iba

Mr. Michael R. Wildermuth
History
"So You're From New Jersey, Which Exit?: New Jersey and the Early Federal Highway System"
Professor William O'Neill

Ms. Pauline Wu
Exercise Science & Sport Studies
"An Investigation of Rutgers University - New Brunswick's Compliance to Disability Laws in Services for Students with Mobility Impairments"
Professor Neil Dougherty