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Projects are organized into the following categories: Behavioral Sciences (Psych, Sociology, Anthropology, Nonprofits), Education, History/ArtHistory/Music, Languages and Literatures, Law and Politics, Natural Sciences, and Technology. Please click on the number in order to view the project description. Go here to complete the first step in the application process.
Behavioral Sciences: Psychology, Sociology, Social Work, Anthropology, Nonprofits
2009RA1 The Effect of Scene Changes on Object Tracking
Professor Deborah Aks, Center for Cognitive Science
2009RA2 Psychotherapy for Child Anxiety and Depression?
Professor Brian Chu, Graduate School of Applied&Professional Psychology
2009RA3 Vulnerability to Depression in Children and Adolescents
Professor John Abela, Psychology
2009RA4 Twin Study of Linguistic and NonLinguistic Development
Professor Karin Stromswold, Psychology
2009RA5 Developing Safe and Civil Schools
Professor Maurice Elias, Psychology
2009RA6 The Traveling Self: Cognitive Development of the "Soul"
Professor Daniel Ogilvie, Psychology
2009RA7 Hippocampal Contributions to Memory
Professor Tim Otto, Psychology
2009RA8 Effects of Cholesterol-lowering Drugs in Juveniles & Adults in an
Avian Model of Learning and Memory
Professor Mimi Phan, Psychology
2009RA9 Tobacco Dependence and Withdrawal
Professor Danielle McCarthy, Psychology
2009RA10 Genetics of Stress and Addiction: Gene Expression Profiling
of Sign-Tracking Phenotypes
Professor Arthur Tomie, Psychology
2009RA11 Psychology of Decision Making
Professor Gretchen Chapman, Psychology
2009RA12 Project Resilience: A Study of Economically Disadvantaged Preschoolers
Professor Geraldine Oades-Sese, Applied/Professional Psychology
2009RA13 Stigma and Major Mental Illness
Professor James Walkup, Applied/Professional Psychology
2009RA14 Foster Care in 20th Century America
Professor Laura Curran, Social Work
2009RA15 Drugs and Alcohol in a Low Income Newark African American Community
Professor Liliane Windsor, Social Work
2009RA16 The Sociology of Intercollegiate Athletics
Professor D. Randall Smith, Sociology
2009RA17 Race Relations in an Ohio City
Professor Judith Friedman, Sociology
2009RA18 Memoirs of the Sex Trade/Race Matters/Tangled Tropes
Professor Leslie Fishbein American Studies
2009RA19 Video Games for Social Change
Professor Itzhak Yanovitzky, Communication
2009RA20 Cultural Transmission and Social Norms
Professor Lee Cronk, Anthropology
2009RA21 Organizing for Change: Collective Action among African Women
Professor Dorothy Hodgson, Anthropology
2009RA22 Asian Minorites in Popular Culture
Professor Louisa Schein, Anthropology
2009RA23 Creating Green Community Centers
Dr. Jean Stockdale, Nonprofit
2009RA24 The Human-Animal Bond: Developing a Community Outreach Program
Professor Julie Fagan, Animal Science
2009RA24a Family Relationships at the 'Ceremonial' Dinner Table
Professor Jenny Mandelbaum, Communication
Economics and Business
2009RA25 The Future of China: Social, Political, and Economic Development
Professor Michael Santoro, Accounting and Business Ethics
2009RA26 The Business of Doing Good: Social Entrepreneurship
Professor Matt Matsuda, CAC Dean
2009RA27 Small Business Finance: A National Survey
Professor Joseph Hughes, Economics
2009RA28 Assessing the Failure of Bank Supervision in the U.S.
Professor Eugene White, Economics
2009RA29 The Political Economy of Saving Mothers and Babies: Fallout of the
Sheppard-Towner Act
Professor Carolyn Moehling, Economics
2009RA30 Global Transportation and Logistics Labor Markets
Professor David Bensman, Labor Studies
Education
2009RA5 Developing Safe and Civil Schools
Professor Maurice Elias, Psychology
2009RA12 Project Resilience: A Study of Economically Disadvantaged Preschoolers
Professor Geraldine Oades-Sese, Applied/Professional Psychology
2009RA31 The Impact of State-run Pre-K Programs
Professor Stephanie Curenton, Bloustein School
2009RA32 Storytelling, Literacy, and School Readiness
Professor Stephanie Curenton, Bloustein School
2009RA33 How We Overcome Adversity: Development of a Cultural Resilience Measure
Professor Caroline Clauss-Ehlers, Educational Psychology
2009RA34 Learning to Reason in Middle-School Science Classrooms
Professor Clark Chinn, Educational Psychology
2009RA35 Making Morality Work: On-Line Introduction to Ethics
Professor Holly Smith, Philosophy
2009RA108 Creating Technology for Long-Term Learning: The Effect of Distributed
Testing on Retention and Memory
Professor Arnold Glass, Psychology
2009RA109 OSER: Designing mLearning (mobileLearning) Tools for Science
Classrooms and Museums
Professor Timothy Zimmerman, Education; Marine and Coastal Studies
History and Art History
2009RA36 Soldiers' Responses to the Experience of Combat in the Failed
Countersurgency in S. Vietnam, 1965-1972
Professor Michael Adas, History
2009RA37 Street Life in Renaissance Rome
Professor Rudolph Bell, History
2009RA38 The Pacific Century?: How the Pacific Region Has Shaped
Contemporary History
Professor Matt Matsuda, History
2009RA39 Blacks and Whites: Race and Early Photographic Humor
Professor Tanya Sheehan, Art History
2009RA40 Architecture of American Colleges and Universities
Professor Carla Yanni, Art History
2009RA41 Curating a Museum Exhibition: Man of Sorrows in Venetian Art
Professor Catherine Puglisi, Art History
2009RA42 History of Rutgers University
Professor Paul Clemens, History
2009RA43 The History of Spin
Professor David Greenberg, History and Journalism/Media Studies
2009RA43a Compositional Process of First String Quartet by Elliott Carter
Professor Nancy Rao, Music
2009RA43b Oral History Project
Professor Sandra Holyoak, History/Oral History Archives
Language, Literatures, Film
2009RA44 Learning Chinese Through the Dialects, Verse, and the Writing System
Professor Richard V. Simmons, Asian Languages and Cultures
2009RA45 Traditional East Asia as a Distinct Cultural Sphere
Professor Paul Schalow, Asian Languages and Cultures
2009RA46 Distribution of Grammatical Subjects in Spanish Discourse
Professor Jose Camacho, Spanish and Portuguese, Linguistics
2009RA47 Puns and Tongue Twisters: Probing Knowledge of Similarity
Professor Shigeto Kawahara, Linguistics
2009RA48 Intonation of French wh in situ
Professor Viviane Deprez, linguistics
2009RA49 French Authors at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition
Professor marija dalbello, Library and Information science
2009RA50 Writing in Pictures: The Idea-Driven Visual Essay
Professor Richard E. Miller, English
2009RA51 Literary Time in 20th Century Fiction
Professor William Vesterman, English
2009RA52 Silent Film Restoration: Native Americans in Film
Professor Brad Evans, English
2009RA53 German-Jewish Writers of the 20th Century
Professor Michael Levine, Germanic, Russian & E. European Lang & Lit
2009RA54 Analytic Crossings: the 100th Anniversary of Freud's Visit to the US
Professor Michael Levine, Germanic, Russian & E. European Lang & Lit
2009RA55 Introduction to German Studies: The Creation of a New Course
Professor Michael Levine, Germanic, Russian & E. European Lang & Lit
2009RA56 The Kafka Society of America: The Making of a Scholarly Journal
Professor Michael Levine, Germanic, Russian & E. European Lang & Lit
2009RA56a Bilingualism in the Spanish-Speaking World
Professor Liliana Sanchez, Spanish
Law and Politics
2009RA57 Asian American Race Formation in Law and Literature
Professor Allan Isaac, American Studies
2009RA58 State Regulatory Processes
Professor Stuart Shapiro, Bloustein School
2009RA59 Public Policy and International Poverty: Social Investments in Urban Poor
Communities in Maputo, Mozambique
Professor Gabriella Carolini, Bloustein School
2009RA60 Region and State Welfare Policy and Disconnected Single Mothers
Professor Andrea Hetling, Bloustein School
2009RA61 Youth Attitudes Towards Political Identity, Extremism and Democracy in
Ethnically Divided Muslim Societies
Professor Eric Davis, Political Science
2009RA62 The Obama Project
Professor Cynthia Daniels, Political Science
2009RA63 Whistle Blowing
Professor Milton Heumann, Political Science
2009RA64 Liberty, Toleration, and Law: The Political Thought of William Penn
Professor Andrew Murphy, Political Science
2009RA65 Why Prejudice Persists
Professor Stephen Bronner, Political Science
2009RA66 The McGreeveys, New Jersey Politics, and the Anatomy of a Media Scandal
Professor Carlos Decena, Women's and Gender Studies
2009RA67 White Spots: South African Capital, Race and Nationality in Tanzania
Professor Richard Schroeder, geography
2009RA68 Trials and Traumas of the 20th and 21st Centuries: Crimes Against
Humanity and Legal Responses
Professor Michael Levine, Germanic, Russian & E. European Lang & Lit
2009RA69 Allies and Enemies: Political Islam, US Policy, and the Media
Professor Deepa Kumar, Journalism
2009RA69a Drugs and Crime
Professor Helene White, Alcohol Studies
Natural Sciences
2009RA70 The Upper Arm and Locomotion: Inferences based on 3D Scanning and
Comparative Morphology
Professor Robert Scott, Anthropology
2009RA71 Paleoecology and Ecomophology: Inferences based on 3D Scanning and Comparative Morphology
Professor Robert Scott, Anthropology
2009RA72 Fauna and Paleoecology of Old Word Fossil Ape Sites
Professor Robert Scott, Anthropology
2009RA73 Bioremediation Through Bacteria: Environmental Microbiology
Professor Max Haggblom, Biochemistry and Microbiology
2009RA74 Medical Image Analysis for Detection of Prostate Cancer
Professor Anant Madabhushi, Biomedical Engineering
2009RA75 Mimicing Bone Tissue Mechanics
Professor Noshir Langrana, Biomedical Engineering
2009RA76 Genetic Engineering Biofuel Plants
Professor Rong Di, Biotech Center
2009RA77 Chemical Biology and Control Mechanisms of Epigenetics
Professor Eric Lam, Biotechnology Center for Agriculture & Environment
2009RA78 Bioengineering Materials for Peripheral Nerve Regeneration
Professor David Shreiber, Biomedical Engineering
2009RA79 Biomechanics of White Matter
Professor David Shreiber, Biomedical Engineering
2009RA80 Recovery after Spinal Cord Injury/Generating Functional Neurons in Culture
Professor Martin Grumet, Cell Biol & Neuroscience
2009RA81 Signal Transduction in T lymphocyte Development
Professor Guy Werlen, Cell Biol & Neuroscience
2009RA82 Spine Development in Hippocampal Neurons
Professor Gabriella D'Arcangelo, Cell Biol & Neuroscience
2009RA83 Dendrite Patterning in Neurons
Professor Bonnie Firestein, Cell Biol & Neuroscience
2009RA84 Role of Osteocalcin in Stress Response and Addiction
Professor Patricia Buckendahl, Center of Alcohol Studies
2009RA85 Biomimetic Enzyme Inhibitors
Professor Spencer Knapp, Chemistry & Chem Biology
2009RA86 Small-Molecule Inhibitors of Bacterial RNA Polymerase
Professor Richard Ebright, Chemistry and Chemical Biology
2009RA87 Organic Synthesis of Biologically Active Compounds
Professor Daniel Seidel, Chemistry and Chemical Biology
2009RA88 Efficacy of Hyperthermia and eIF5A Loss
Professor Kuang-Yu Chen, Chemistry and Chemical Biology
2009RA89 Mosquito Control?: Physiological Defenses Against
Toxic Compounds in Insects
Professor Lena Brattsten, Entomology
2009RA90 Consumer Acceptance of Nanotechnology Foods
Professor William Hallman, Food Policy Institute
2009RA91 Truth in (Food) Advertising?: Communicating Science About Food Products
Professor William Hallman, Food Policy Institute
2009RA92 Optical Probes of Food Quality and Stability
Professor Richard Ludescher, Food Science
2009RA93 The Effects of Copper on Alzheimer's beta-amyloid Toxicity
Professor Mary Konsolaki, Genetics
2009RA94 Novel Plastics and Composites Processing and Characterization
Professor Jennifer Lynch, Materials Science and Engineering
2009RA95 Software Development for Engineering Properties
Professor Jennifer Lynch, Materials Science and Engineering
2009RA96 Nanofluidics for Advanced Separations
Professor Shaurya Prakash, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
2009RA97 Laser-Tissue Interactions
Professor Zhixiong Guo, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
2009RA98 Cancer models in Transgenic Zebrafish
Professor Hatem Sabaawy, Medicine
2009RA99 Identifying Secondary Genetic Changes in Leukemia
Professor Hatem Sabaawy, Medicine
2009RA100 Molecular Evolution of the Actin Binding Protein, Tropomyosin
Professor Sarah Hitchcock-DeGregori, Cell Biol & Neuroscience
2009RA101 Personal Genomics: Finding Genetic Changes that Cause Disease
Professor Todd Michael, Waksman Institute
2009RA102 Coupling Light into Nanostructures and Imaging the Optical Field
Professor Wei Jiang, Electrical and Computer Engineering
2009RA103 Nuclear and Particle Physics
Professor Aram Mekjian, Physics
2009RA104 Supersolid Fourth Sound and High Frequency Superfluidity
Professor Harry Kojima, Physics
2009RA105 Does shell-hash covering sandy sediments on the continental shelf
provide a refuge from predators for newly, settled juvenile surfclams
(Spisula solidissima)?
Professor Patricia Ramey, Oceanography
2009RA106 Exploration Efficiency of the Invasive Green Crab in the Absence and
Presence of Competitors
Professor Patricia Ramey, Oceanography
2009RA107 Increased FGF-2 Secretion & Ability to Support Neurite Outgrowth by
Astrocytes Cultured on Polyamide Nanofibrillar Matrices
Professor Sally Meiners, Pharmacology
2009RA23 Creating Green Community Centers (Engineering students welcome!)
Dr. Jean Stockdale, Nonprofit
Technology
2009RA108 Creating Technology for Long-Term Learning: The Effect of Distributed
Testing on Retention and Memory
Professor Arnold Glass, Psychology
2009RA109 OSER: Designing mLearning (mobileLearning) Tools for Science
Classrooms and Museums
Professor Timothy Zimmerman, Education; Marine and Coastal Studies
2009RA110 Search Engine Technologies: A YouTube Video Case Study
Professor Vladimir Pavlovic, Computer Science
2009RA111 Implicit User Profiling: Testing a Pressure Sensitive Computer Mouse
Professor Jacek Gwizdka, Library and Information science
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