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A CELEBRATION OF UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH
Welcome to the 11th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium at Rutgers. Over the past
decade, this Symposium has grown from just under 100 presenters to over 500. The students
presenting here today represent every school at Rutgers and over 70 departments, institutes
and centers, and are supported by over 300 faculty mentors. The Aresty Center was founded in
2005, through a gift from Jerome and Lorraine Aresty. This generous couple would be proud to
know that their name, Aresty, has become synonymous with dedicated faculty mentors,
cutting-edge research projects, and undergraduate scholarship.
This Symposium offers a unique vantage point of research at Rutgers. Our horizons are often
limited by the walls of our departments and schools but research does not conform to
such boundaries. Here at the Symposium you will find students who have spent the year
studying the impact of Hurricane Sandy from diverse perspectives—from civil engineering,
marine and coastal studies, and economics. You will find studies on New Jersey led by musical
librarians, historians, environmental scientists, and social workers. You will find robotics
research, led by computer scientists, mechanical engineers, and musicians. Only at this
Symposium can you experience, in a single location, the stunning breadth of research that
drives our university each day.
The students here today are our next generation of scholars. They are learning that solving the
most pressing challenges of our time often requires crossing disciplinary boundaries. For
research to make an impact, one must be able to share it broadly and discuss it with anyone.
Thank you to all in our community who support their efforts and for joining us today to be a
part of the Symposium. Thanks again to the Aresty family, and to the Office of Undergraduate
Academic Affairs, for all they have done to help undergraduate research flourish at Rutgers.
Chuck Keeton
Associate Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy
Faculty Director, Aresty Research Center for Undergraduates
Brian Ballentine, Ph.D.
Executive Director, Aresty Research Center for Undergraduates
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SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE | APRIL 24, 2015
AM POSTER SESSIONS
10:30am – 12:00pm
LUNCH
12:00pm
Rutgers Zone
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
12:15pm
Livingston Hall
PM POSTER SESSIONS
12:30 – 2:00pm
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ALL PRESENTATIONS | Alphabetical by last name
Sarah Abdel-Meguid | Advisor: Richard Ludescher
Phosphorescence of Benzaldehyde in Carbohydrate Matrices
Poster 289 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Food Science
Nicholas Abraham | Advisor: Andrew Urban
American Studies Culture and Media Project, “Rutgers Infrastructure Project”
Digital Poster 400 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Humanities | American Studies
William Ackerman | Advisor: Sanjib Bhuyan
The Economic Impact of Cooperatives in the Northeast United States
Poster 41 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Social Sciences | Agriculture, Food and Resource Economics
Dennison Adad | Advisor: Kang Li
Using Work-Flow Analyses to Optimize Care Management
Poster 312 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Industrial and Systems Engineering
Nicholas Addo | Advisor: Kristen Springer
The Effect of Perceived Masculinity Threats on Heart Rate: An Experimental Study
Poster 135 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Social Sciences | Sociology
Raul Aguilar | Advisor: Alexander Pichugin
European Languages at Rutgers: A Multimedia Web Project
Digital Poster 404 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Humanities | Germanic, Russian, & Eastern European Languages & Literatures
Saad Ahmad | Advisor: Patricia Buckendahl
Osteocalcin, Muscle Function and Glucose Metabolism
Poster 150 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Alcohol Studies
Daniyal Aikal | Advisor: Qian Cai
Mitochondria Quality Control through Parkin-mediated Mitophagy in Alzheimer’s Disease
Poster 200 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Cell Biology and Neuroscience
Henna Akbarzai | Advisor: Gene Hall
Comparison of DHA and EPA Molecular Species Content in Mother’s Breast Milk to Prenatal
DHA/EPA Supplements
Poster 238 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Samuel Akhnoukh | Advisor: Lawrence Williams
Protein Structure and Dynamics
Poster 239 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Janna Aladdin | Advisor: Eric Davis
Youth Attitudes Toward Identity, Democracy, and Sectarianism in the Middle East
Poster 99 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Political Science
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Javier Alfonso | Advisor: Kristen Springer
The Effect of Perceived Masculinity Threats on Heart Rate: An Experimental Study
Poster 135 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Social Sciences | Sociology
Mohammed Alhaj | Advisor: Kang Li
The Development of Particle-Reinforced Polymer Composites to Mimic Human Flexor
Tendons
Poster 177 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Biomedical Engineering
Zaan Ali | Advisor: Anjali Nerlekar
Bombay Beat Poetry
Poster 1 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Humanities | African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literatures
Katherine Amato | Advisor: Kristen Springer
The Effect of Masculinity Threats on Decision Making
Poster 138 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Social Sciences | Sociology
Chelsea Andino | Advisor: Ulla Berg
The Deportation Industry
Poster 24 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Humanities | Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies
Vandana Apte | Advisor: Kim McKim
Drosophila Stromalin Protein Plays a Role in Meiosis-specific Cohesion
Poster 300 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Genetics
Mariam Aqeel | Advisor: Bernadette Gailliard
Understanding the Millennial Mindset in the Workplace
Poster 54 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Communication
Nicholas Argentieri | Advisor: Taja-Nia Henderson
The Lost History of the Fourteenth Amendment's Disqualification Clause
Poster 27 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Humanities | Law - Center for Law and Justice - Newark
Anthony Arias-Amaya | Advisor: Kristen Syrett
How Bilingual and Monolingual Children Compute ‘Some’ Scalar Implicatures
Poster 91 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Social Sciences | Linguistics
Shreedevi Arunkumar | Advisor: Stephen Anderson
Epitope Mapping of Anti Transcription Factors Antibodies
Paper/Oral Presentation (May 1st) | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
Suwaiba Asghar | Advisor: Huaye Zhang
The Role of RhoA in APP Trafficking
Poster 348 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Neuroscience and Cell Biology-RWJMS
Kendra Avinger | Advisor: Siobain Duffy
What's It Going to Cost You? Life History Trade-Offs in ɸ6 Specialists
Poster 269 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources
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Jessica Azer | Advisor: Erin Vogel
The Effects of Seasonality on Orangutan Diet and Nutrition
Poster 42 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Social Sciences | Anthropology
Jennifer Bajorek | Advisor: Kathryn Uhrich
Biodegradable, Drug-Based Polymeric Scaffold for Enhanced Diabetic Bone Regeneration
Poster 250 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Matthew Bajorek | Advisor: Francisco Javier Diez-Garias
Vibrational Energy Harvesting by the Electroosmotic Effect
Poster 328 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Ainesh Bakshi | Advisor: Kostas Bekris
Human Robot Interaction: End Effector Safety and Machine Vision
Poster 260 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Computer Science
Dariya Bakshinskaya | Advisor: Alice Liu
Harnessing HSF1 for Neuroprotection
Poster 201 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Cell Biology and Neuroscience
Anushiya Balakrishnan | Advisor: Aaron Mazzeo
Tactile Sensor with an Ionized Solution Based Electrode
Poster 329 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Albert Bargoud | Advisor: Tracy Anthony
The Effect of GCN2 on Hepatic Lipid Metabolism and Antioxidant Gene Expression in Mice Fed
a Methionine Restricted Diet
Poster 356 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Nutritional Science
Christopher Bargoud | Advisor: William Craelius
Brain-Controlled Dexterous Upper Extremity Prosthesis
Poster 178 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Biomedical Engineering
Christopher Barry | Advisor: Mary Rigdon
The Basis of a Word Prime: Measuring the Competitiveness of Words
Poster 49 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Social Sciences | Cognitive Science
Rachel Battaglia | Advisor: Kim McKim
The Relationship Between Localization and Function of the Chromosomal Passenger Complex
in Drosophila Meiosis
Poster 301 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Genetics
Robert Battikha | Advisor: Jeffrey Zahn
Modeling Spinal Cord Injury In Vitro via Controlled Damage of Dorsal Root Ganglia Axons
Poster 179 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Biomedical Engineering
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Karen Ben-Elazar | Advisor: Michael Rogers
Effect of Dairy Proteins on Viscosity and Glycemic Index of Oat Based Formulas
Poster 290 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Food Science
Gabriela Bess | Advisor: Nuria Sagarra
Morphosyntactic Processing in L2 Speakers
Poster 33 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese
Franklin Bettencourt | Advisor: Rohit Ramachandran
Parallelization of Multi-Dimensional Population Balance Models
Poster 225 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
Jigar Bhalodia | Advisor: Ivan Rodero
Performance and Energy in Super Computers
Poster 276 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ashley Bispo | Advisor: Long-Jun Wu
Characteristics of NMDA-Induced Microglial Process Extension
Poster 202 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Cell Biology and Neuroscience
Joshua Blachorsky | Advisor: Gary Rendsburg
Roman Emperors and Early Rabbis
Paper/Oral Presentation (May 1st) | AM (10:30 - noon) | Humanities | Jewish Studies
David Blystone | Advisor: Jean-Marie Hartman
Influence of Riparian Forest Composition and Land Use on Watershed Performance and
Management Planning
Poster 89 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Landscape Architecture
Anthony Bonini | Advisor: Craig Feibel
Geoinformatics for Environment and Evolution in the Turkana Basin, Kenya
Poster 61 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Social Sciences | Earth and Planetary Sciences
Rushil Bose | Advisor: Kristen Springer
The Effect of Perceived Masculinity Threats on Heart Rate: An Experimental Study
Poster 135 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Social Sciences | Sociology
Jaclyn Bradli | Advisor: Charles Keeton
Analyzing Star Formation Properties in Dusty Early Universe Galaxies Using Gravitational
Lensing
Poster 366 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Physics and Astronomy
Kaitlyn Brennan | Advisor: John Aiello
Effects of Social Facilitation in the Workplace
Poster 110 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Social Sciences | Psychology
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Kiera Brennan | Advisor: Aparna Zama
Developmental Effects of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals on the Ovary
Poster 156 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Animal Science
Courtney Butler | Advisor: Kate Fiske Massey
Patterns of Stress Among Parents of Children with Autism
Poster 125 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Psychology - Clinical Psychology
Alexis Cabeza-Pimentel | Advisor: Kristen Springer
Baseline Task Effectivity According to Self-reported Stress Reports
Poster 141 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Social Sciences | Sociology
Marie Callahan | Advisor: Francis Barchi
Going Global: Topics in Global Health and Social Justice
Poster 130 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Social Sciences | Social Work
Jenifer Calle | Advisor: Ben Sifuentes-Jáuregui
Telenovelas & Melodrama in Latin America
Poster 5 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Humanities | American Studies and Comparative literature
Keith Campagno | Advisor: Bonnie Firestein
Characterization of Cypin Short Isoform
Poster 203 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Cell Biology and Neuroscience
Graciela Cando | Advisor: Marsha Rosenthal
Health Beliefs and Self-Management Behaviors in Low-Income Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
Patients
Poster 78 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Social Sciences | Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research
Paula Caputo | Advisor: Deborah Aks
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Web Design Using Eye-tracking Technology
Poster 50 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Social Sciences | Cognitive Science
Peter Carman | Advisor: Peter Kahn
Charge Burial of Amino Acids in Proteins
Poster 163 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Biochemistry and Microbiology
Jeanette Caronia | Advisor: John KJ Li
Evaluation of Technology for Noninvasive Assessment of Atherosclerosis and Hypertension
Poster 180 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Biomedical Engineering
Monica Castle | Advisor: Sue Shapses
Effects of Vitamin D Supplementation on Cognitive Function in Postmenopausal Women
Poster 357 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Nutritional Science
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Nicole Chan | Advisor: Hana Shepherd
Improving School Climate: A Social Network Field Experiment Addressing Peer Conflict and
Harassment
Poster 136 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Sociology
Albert Chang | Advisor: Brandon Alderman
Contribution of Carbohydrate and Fat to Energy Metabolism During Low Intensity Physical
Activity
Poster 284 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Exercise Science and Sport Studies
Andy Chang | Advisor: Lee Cronk
Cheater Detection in Need-based Transfers
Paper/Oral Presentation (May 1st) | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Anthropology
Nydia Chang | Advisor: David Crockett
Axonal Pathology Following Traumatic Brain Injury in Mice
Poster 349 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Neuroscience and Cell Biology-RWJMS
Shannon Chang | Advisor: Charles Dismukes
Proving an Alternate Pathway in the Citric Acid Cycle
Poster 240 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Betsy Chao | Advisor: Jenny Mandelbaum
Doing Being Family: Communication Practices for Enacting Family Relationships
Poster 52 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Communication
Hamza Chaudhry | Advisor: George Wagner
Assessing the Behavioral and Neurochemical Differences in Nrf-2 KO Mice
Poster 392 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Psychology
Aneesha Cheedalla | Advisor: Smita Varia
Morphological Effects of Neuropeptide VGF on Hippocampal Neurons
Poster 350 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Neuroscience and Cell Biology-RWJMS
Megan Chen | Advisor: Nancy Woychik
Functional Analysis of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis VapC Toxins
Poster 174 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology-RWJ
Nancy Chen | Advisor: Stanley Weiss
Demographic Variability in Colonoscopy-Detected Risk Factors for Colorectal Cancer in a
Diverse Urban Population
Poster 339 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Medicine - Preventative Medicine and Community Health-NJMS
Xin Chen | Advisor: Ping Xie
Investigation of Subcellular Localization of TRAF3 in B Lymphocytes
Poster 204 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Cell Biology and Neuroscience
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Kuan Yu Cheong | Advisor: Rong Di
Shiga Toxin Cytotoxicity in Caenorhabditis elegans
Poster 378 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Plant Biology and Pathology
Eric Chi | Advisor: Chung Yang
Obesity Promotes Dietary Carcinogen-Induced Carcinogenesis in Small Intestine
Poster 233 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Chemical Biology
Linh Chieu | Advisor: Prabhas Moghe
Development of a Plaque-Targeted Nanoparticle for Diagnostic Imaging
Poster 226 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
Abhishek Chouthai | Advisor: Kiron Das
Curcumin Inhibits Colonic Phenotype After Repeated Exposure to Acid and Bile in the Barrett’s
Esophagus Carcinogenesis (BEC) Model
Poster 264 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Department of Gastroenterology
Nicholas Christy | Advisor: Ah-Ng Tony Kong
Elucidating Regulation of the Nrf2-ARE Signaling Pathway by 7,8-Dihydromethysticin in Vitro
Poster 359 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Pharmaceutics
Marcin Ciesla | Advisor: Lori White
Metabolic Effects of Low Dose BPA and BPS Exposure in Zebrafish During Embryonic
Development
Poster 164 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Biochemistry and Microbiology
Regan Clarke | Advisor: Noshir Langrana
A Co-Culture Model of Wound Healing
Poster 181 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Biomedical Engineering
Christian Coleman | Advisor: Diane Adams
Effects of Perturbations of Nodal Signaling in Lytechinus Pictus Larvae
Poster 315 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Marine and Coastal Sciences
Christa Amara Colinco | Advisor: John K-J Li
New Approach to Analysis of Arterial Stenosis and Hypertension
Poster 182 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Biomedical Engineering
Erin Conner | Advisor: James Walkup
Online Dating and the Stigma of Mental Illness
Poster 126 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Psychology - Clinical Psychology
Derek Connery | Advisor: Ingrid Erickson
The Future of Work in the Knowledge Economy
Poster 53 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Communication
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Alexus Cooper | Advisor: Brandon Alderman
Neurocognitive Impairment in Obesity
Poster 285 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Exercise Science and Sport Studies
Seth Cooper | Advisor: Ben Sifuentes-Jáuregui
Prison Narratives and Theory
Poster 6 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Humanities | American Studies and Comparative Literature
William Cornelius | Advisor: Peggy Policastro
The Phrase that Plays: The Most Effective Way to Entice College-age Students to Engage in
Nutrition Booth Activities
Poster 95 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Social Sciences | Nutritional Science
Erin Corrado | Advisor: Waheed Bajwa
Real-time Image Recognition in Drones for Detection of Structural Defects in Infrastructure
Poster 277 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Electrical and Computer Engineering
Olivia Cracchiolo | Advisor: Edward Castner
Synthesis, Characterization, and Classification of Ionic Liquid Drugs
Poster 241 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Chemistry and Chemical Biology
David Crandall | Advisor: David Wilder
Moral Decision Making
Poster 111 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Social Sciences | Psychology
Nicole Cullen | Advisor: Lena Struwe
The Effects of Urbanization on the Growth and Reproduction of the Common Yellow Wood
Sorrel (Oxalis stricta)
Poster 270 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources
Nicole Czajka | Advisor: Alexander Pichugin
European Languages at Rutgers: A Multimedia Web Project
Digital Poster 404 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Humanities | Germanic, Russian, and Eastern European Languages and
Literatures
Oluwatoyin Dada | Advisor: Patricia Buckendahl
Role of Osteocalcin in Spinal Cord Injury
Poster 151 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Alcohol Studies
Katelyn Dagnall | Advisor: Fuat Celik
Quantum Catalysis to Develop New Energy Technologies
Poster 234 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Chemical Engineering
Holly D'Agostino | Advisor: Liliana Sanchez
Use of Null Subjects Among Sequential Spanish-English Bilingual Children
Poster 31 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese
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Jeff Daley | Advisor: Barry Sopher
Groupthink in Decision Making
Poster 64 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Economics
Patrick Darcy | Advisor: Derek Sant'Angelo
Epigenetic Control of Cytokine Gene Transcription in T cells
Poster 309 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Graduate Programs in Molecular Biology
Caroline Davis | Advisor: George Carman
Purification and Characterization of the Human LPIN2-encoded Phosphatidate Phosphatase
Poster 291 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Food Science
Gailen Davis | Advisor: Daniel Van Abs
Water System Reliability - Providing Enough Water for New Jersey's Future
Poster 82 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Human Ecology
Julianne Davis | Advisor: Thomas Molnar
Optimization and Implementation of a Real-Time PCR Early Detection Method in Juvenile
Hazelnut Seedlings
Poster 379 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Plant Biology and Pathology
Reginald Davis | Advisor: Paul Mcclean
Patterns of Mentoring in a Social Science Department 2000-2014
Poster 137 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Sociology
Lidia De Los Santos | Advisor: William Vesterman
50 Years on the Banks—A Lover’s Quarrel
Poster 10 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Humanities | English
Joseph DeAngelis | Advisor: Pernille Hemmer
The Effect of Prior Knowledge on Verbal Task Performance
Poster 112 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Psychology
Jenna Deinzer | Advisor: Peggy Policastro
Addition of Sugar in Hot Beverages as a Potential Source of Weight Gain Among College-Aged
Students
Poster 96 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Social Sciences | Nutritional Science
Brooke Dekolf | Advisor: Martin Gliserman
FOOD in 100 Novels
Poster 12 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Humanities | English
Hannah Delos Reyes | Advisor: Nicole Fahrenfeld
Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Combined Sewage Overflows
Poster 256 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Civil and Environmental Engineering
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Nicole Demos | Advisor: Kim McKim
Mapping the Locations of Synthetic Lethal Mutants with Kinesin-6 Subito
Poster 302 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Genetics
Michael Denis | Advisor: Andrew Urban
Public Histories and the Social Structure of Detention
Poster 2 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Humanities | American Studies
Brianna Devitt | Advisor: Prabhas Moghe
Development of a Plaque-Targeted Nanoparticle for Diagnostic Imaging
Poster 226 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
Survandita Dhawan | Advisor: Bonnie Firestein
Effects of Endogenously Expressed BDNF on Dendritic Morphology
Paper/Oral Presentation (May 1st) | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Cell Biology and Neuroscience
Danielle DiFiore | Advisor: Kristen Springer
The Effect of Masculinity Threats on Decision Making
Poster 138 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Social Sciences | Sociology
Christian DiLiberto | Advisor: Diane Adams
Dopamine Signaling Affects on Wnt Pathway Cascade in Developing Post Oral Arm Lengths in
Lytechinus Variegatus Larvae
Poster 316 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Marine and Coastal Sciences
Erin Dippold | Advisor: Nina Shapley
Heavy Metal Ion Concentration in Sewage Water and its Removal Using Chitosan
Nanoparticles and Alginate Microbeads
Poster 227 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
Taralynn Dorsaint | Advisor: Viviane Deprez
Defining Definiteness: A Semantic and Pragmatic Analysis of Haitian Creole La Determiners
Poster 90 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Linguistics
Danielle Dossantos | Advisor: Richard Ludescher
Interaction of Cyanidin-3-O-Sambuboside with Charged Surfactants and Bovine Serum
Albumin
Poster 292 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Food Science
Stacey Dunckley | Advisor: Marsha Rosenthal
The Culture, Health Beliefs, and Behaviors of Breast Cancer Survivors
Poster 79 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Social Sciences | Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research
Kaitlyn Dunn | Advisor: Kristen Syrett
Children’s Interpretation of Comparatives
Poster 93 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Linguistics
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Marla Durand | Advisor: Viviane Deprez
Defining Definiteness: A Semantic and Pragmatic Analysis of Haitian Creole La Determiners
Poster 90 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Linguistics
Carly Earle | Advisor: Jeffrey Boyd
Investigating How srrAB Mediates Resistance to Protein Misfolding in S Aureus
Poster 165 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Biochemistry and Microbiology
Sundoes Elbery | Advisor: Marsha Rosenthal
Linkage Between Education Level and Medication Adherence in Diabetic Patients
Poster 80 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Social Sciences | Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research
Colleen Engler | Advisor: Jeffery Zahn
Development of Irrigating Micro Catheters for SCI Treatment
Poster 183 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Biomedical Engineering
Erhan Ercilasun | Advisor: Mark Pierce
Cost Effective Malaria Imaging and Diagnostic Device
Poster 190 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Biomedical Engineering
Akhmad Ernazarov | Advisor: Clark Chinn
Promoting Reasoning and Conceptual Change in the Sciences
Poster 67 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Educational Psychology-GSE
Alexa Essenfeld | Advisor: Peggy Policastro
The Alteration of Eating Habits Due to Exam Stress
Poster 97 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Nutritional Science
Matthew Fairchild | Advisor: Tobias Schulze-Cleven
The State of the AAUP: Contemporary Challenges and Attempts to Address Them
Poster 87 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Labor Studies and Employment Relations
Rumesah Farrukh | Advisor: Lee Jussim
Do Researchers' High Moral Purposes Undermine Scientific Integrity?
Poster 120 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Psychology
Luis Fernandez | Advisor: Matt Matsuda
Social Innovation
Poster 16 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Humanities | History
Kristen Ferris | Advisor: D.Randall Smith
Cultural Representations of Gender in Literary Education
Poster 139 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Social Sciences | Sociology
Brittany Finn | Advisor: James Walkup
Social Influences on Salary Acceptance
Poster 127 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Social Sciences | Psychology - Clinical Psychology
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Nicolas Firbas | Advisor: Karl Kjer
Insect Molecular Phylogenetics
Poster 271 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources
Elizabeth Fischetti | Advisor: Eric Davis
Youth Attitudes Toward Identity, Democracy, and Sectarianism in the Middle East
Poster 99 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Political Science
Conor Fitzgerald | Advisor: John Wiedenmann
Overfishing or Under-spawning? Exploring the Causes of Declines in Marine Fish Populations
Poster 272 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources
Matthew Flanagan | Advisor: Patricia Buckendahl
Creatine Stimulation of Metabolic Activity in Osteoblastic Cells
Poster 152 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Alcohol Studies
Emma Fleisher | Advisor: Joseph Freeman
Optimization of Braided Ligament Scaffold Mechanics
Digital Poster 408 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Biomedical Engineering
Wendy Flores | Advisor: Troy Roepke
The Effect of Developmental Exposures to Environmental Estrogens on Arcuate Gene
Expression
Poster 157 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Animal Science
Cortney Flynn | Advisor: Peggy Policastro
Addition of Sugar in Hot Beverages as a Potential Source of Weight Gain Among College-Aged
Students
Poster 96 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Social Sciences | Nutritional Science
Ayodeji Folarin | Advisor: Joseph Freeman
The Creation of Self-Binding Nanoparticles for Tissue Repair
Poster 184 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Biomedical Engineering
Charles Foster | Advisor: Marianthi Ierapetritou
Experimental Analysis and Discrete Element Modeling for Understanding Solids Mixing
Poster 235 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Chemical Engineering
Lauren Foy | Advisor: Jeffra Schaefer
PCR Primer Development for the Detection of Methylmercury hgcA Gene in the Environment
Poster 280 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Environmental Science
Brian Francisco | Advisor: Stephen Schnetzer
A Search for a Vector-Like Quark Decaying to b-Quark and Higgs Boson
Poster 367 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Physics and Astronomy
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Laura Friedman | Advisor: David Redlawsk
Survey Research at the Eagleton Center for Public Interest Polling
Poster 100 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Political Science
Christopher Froberg | Advisor: David Smith
How Social Class Conditions the Undergraduate Experience at Rutgers
Poster 140 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Sociology
Katherine Fullerton | Advisor: Lily Young
Determination of the Presence of the Anaerobic Benzoyl-CoA Degradation Pathway in Animal
Samples
Poster 281 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Environmental Science
Tim Ganapolsky | Advisor: Lawrence Williams
Evaluation of Anti-proliferative Activity of Novel Xenicane Compounds
Poster 242 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Sakshi Gandhi | Advisor: Jeff Boyd
Copper Metabolism in Staphylococcus Aureus
Poster 166 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Biochemistry and Microbiology
Rebecca Gardella | Advisor: Kay Bidle
Phenotypic Diversity in Marine Viruses: Few Against the Many
Poster 317 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Marine and Coastal Sciences
Ashley Garner | Advisor: Andrea Hetling
We Do This For a Living: Economic Abuse and Safety Strategies in the Lives of Latina
Domestic Workers
Poster 129 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Social Sciences | Public Policy
Ling Ge | Advisor: Jie Gong
Post-Sandy Damage Assessment and Analysis Project
Poster 257 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Civil and Environmental Engineering
Robel Geda | Advisor: Girsh Blumberg
Fourier Transform and Simultaneous Fits
Poster 368 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Physics and Astronomy
Mark Gergues | Advisor: George Wagner
Assessing the Behavioral and Neurochemical Differences in Nrf-2 KO Mice
Poster 392 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Psychology
Elena Ghanaim | Advisor: Karen Schindler
A Chemical Genetic Approach to Study the Function of AURKB in Oocyte Meiosis
Digital Poster 411 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Genetics
17
Helaina Ghanem | Advisor: Aparna Zama
Epigenetics Involved in Endocrine Disrupting Chemical Exposures
Poster 158 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Animal Science
Rudra Ghosh | Advisor: Michael Santoro
The Ethics of Chinese Censorship
Poster 94 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Management and Global Business
Robert Giannetti | Advisor: Stan Weiss
Colorectal Cancer Manuscript
Poster 340 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Medicine - Preventative Medicine and Community Health-NJMS
Antoinette Gingerelli | Advisor: Cynthia Daniels
Informed or Misinformed Consent? Abortion Policies and their Integrity in the United States
Poster 101 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Political Science
Anna Goldin | Advisor: Kristen Syrett
How Bilingual and Monolingual Children Compute ‘Some’ Scalar Implicatures
Poster 91 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Social Sciences | Linguistics
Alexander Gorshkov | Advisor: Timothy Maguire
The Design and Implementation of a Rapid Blood Fractionation and Detection System for
Integration with an Automated Venipuncture
Poster 185 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Biomedical Engineering
Manasa Gowda | Advisor: David Wilder
Personality Predictors of Moral Judgments
Poster 113 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Social Sciences | Psychology
Henry Grabbe | Advisor: John Weingart
Center on the American Governor
Poster 102 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Social Sciences | Political Science
Michael Gregory | Advisor: Alice Liu
Investigating the Synergistic Effects of Drugs on Heat Shock Factor 1 Activity
Poster 215 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Cell Biology and Neuroscience
Melanie Groves | Advisor: Mark Pierce
Cost Effective Malaria Imaging and Diagnostic Device
Poster 190 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Biomedical Engineering
Andrea Guerra | Advisor: Robert Sherrell
What Can Corals Teach Us About Past Climate in the Gulf of Panama?
Poster 318 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Marine and Coastal Sciences
Sai Guntaka | Advisor: Deborah Aks
Multiple Object Tracking During Disruptions
Poster 48 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Cognitive Science
18
Saloni Gupta | Advisor: Anjali Nerlekar
Bombay Beat Poetry
Poster 1 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Humanities | African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literatures
Kelsey Haddorff | Advisor: Nicola Behrmann
Emmy Hennings 1914-1918
Poster 14 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Humanities | Germanic, Russian and East European Languages and Literatures
Shannon Haines | Advisor: Stan Weiss
Geospatial Analysis of Asthma Prevalence Data among School Aged Children in New Jersey
Poster 341 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Medicine - Preventative Medicine and Community Health-NJMS
Edmund Han | Advisor: Ashutosh Goel
Understanding the Influence of Iron on Crystallization Kinetics of Sodium- and Alumina-rich
Radioactive Waste Glasses
Poster 322 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Material Science and Engineering
Yeseo Han | Advisor: Juan Dong
Investigating Candidate Genes Involved in Asymmetric Development of Plant Stem Cells
Poster 399 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Waksman Institute of Microbiology
Aedan Hanna | Advisor: Patricia Buckendahl
A Chemical Means to Combat Bone Density Loss in Microgravity
Poster 153 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Alcohol Studies
Nicholas Hansen | Advisor: Ruth Mandel
Hillary Rodham Clinton: Dare to Compete
Poster 58 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Eagleton Institute of Politics
Wenqi Hao | Advisor: Kang Li
3D Tissue Printer
Poster 310 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Industrial and Systems Engineering
Muhammad Haq | Advisor: Wilma Olson
Lowest Energy Conformations of Lac Repressor and DNA Complexes through Optimization
Poster 243 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Matthew Harper | Advisor: Larry Zamick
An Analysis of the B(M1) Operator over Various Interactions
Paper/Oral Presentation (May 1st) | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Physics and Astronomy
Helen He | Advisor: Jie Gong
Post-Sandy Damage Assessment and Analysis Project
Poster 257 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Civil and Environmental Engineering
19
Leanne Heidenberg | Advisor: Cheryl McLean
Developing Approaches to Multimodal and Digital Instruction in High School English
Classrooms
Poster 28 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Humanities | Learning and Teaching - GSE
Frances Hennessy | Advisor: Mark West
Tracking Activity of Fast-Spiking Interneurons Using Immunofluorescence
Poster 398 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Psychology Department
Maria Hernandez | Advisor: Diana Sanchez
Black Women at Double Jeopardy: How Does the Environmental Context Influence the Hiring
Process?
Poster 114 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Social Sciences | Psychology
Christopher Herrera | Advisor: Mark West
Cocaine Induced Changes in the Nucleus Accumbens of Sign vs. Goal Tracking Rats
Poster 383 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Psychology
Caitlin Higgins | Advisor: Bernadette Gailliard
Understanding the Millennial Mindset in the Workplace
Poster 54 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Communication
Kurtis Himmler | Advisor: Daniel Cariveau
Can Size-Matching Between Bees and Flowers Predict Visitation?
Poster 273 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources
Anna Maria Hinman | Advisor: Kim McKim
The N-Terminus Domain Regulates Subito Activity
Poster 303 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Genetics
Alexander Hobbs | Advisor: Doyle Knight
Supersonic Traversing Pitot Tube Experiment
Poster 330 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Tyler Hoffman | Advisor: Joachim Kohn
Bioactive Scaffolds: A Polymer and Decellularized Tissue Composite
Poster 244 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Daniel Hollerbach | Advisor: Abigail Porter
Genetic Characterization of bamA’s Involvement in the Anaerobic Pathway for the
Degradation of Natural Aromatics
Poster 282 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Environmental Science
Jonathan Holzsager | Advisor: Aaron Mazzeo
Applying Pneumatic Actuators to Harvest Wind Power
Poster 331 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
20
Julia Hong | Advisor: Spencer Knapp
Isocoumarin Reactions for the Asymmetric Synthesis of Antimalarials
Poster 245 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Alice Huang | Advisor: Ronald Gilman
The Proton Radius Puzzle
Poster 369 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Physics and Astronomy
Constance Huang | Advisor: Kay Bidle
Examination of Changing Optical Characteristics to Track Viral Infection of E. huxleyi
Poster 319 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Marine and Coastal Sciences
Omar Ibrahim | Advisor: Viviane Deprez
Negative Concord in English French and Haitian Creole
Poster 92 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Social Sciences | Linguistics
Ali Haider Ismail | Advisor: Eugene White
Bank Supervision and Financial Stability
Poster 63 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Economics
Nima Jamalkhani | Advisor: Kristen Springer
The Effect of Perceived Masculinity Threats on Heart Rate: An Experimental Study
Poster 135 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Social Sciences | Sociology
Aurora James-Palmer | Advisor: Brandon Alderman
Behavioral and Neural Correlates of Cognitive Control in Long-Term Yoga Practitioners
Poster 286 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Exercise Science and Sport Studies
Melissa Jannuzzi | Advisor: David Greenberg
The Republic of Spin: Architects and Critics of the Modern Presidency
Poster 20 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Humanities | History and Journalism
Aaron Jaslove | Advisor: Elizabeth Matto
Citizen Now: Understanding the Millennial Generation's Political Participation
Poster 103 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Political Science
Maheen Javaid | Advisor: Hatem Sabaawy
Generation and Injection of Flourescent Lentiviral Particles into Zebrafish Cancer Model
Poster 198 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Cancer Institute of New Jersey
Sayeli Jayade | Advisor: Kathryn Uhrich
Biodegradable, Drug-Based Polymeric Scaffold for Enhanced Diabetic Bone Regeneration
Poster 250 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Tiana Jayanathan | Advisor: Kim Thamatrakoln
Developing Methods for the Quantification of a Single-stranded DNA Virus Infecting a Marine
Diatom
Poster 320 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Marine and Coastal Sciences
21
Wesley Jen | Advisor: Manish Chhowalla
Moly-Tungsten Disulfide: A Hybrid Material with Enhanced Optoelectronic Properties
Poster 323 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Material Science and Engineering
Samantha Jeng | Advisor: Edward Castner
Synthesis of Two Analogous Amphiphilic Imidazolium Ionic Liquids
Poster 246 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Quanzhou Jiang | Advisor: Chien-Chung Huang
Negative Influence of Migrant Status on Children’s Educational Outcome
Poster 131 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Social Work
Kelly Jin | Advisor: Kayo Denda
Mapping Douglass Campus 1930s-1960s with Women's Narratives
Digital Poster 406 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Humanities | Women and Gender Studies
Caitlin Jones | Advisor: Paul Breslin
Human Lingual Fungiform Papillae and Taste
Poster 355 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Nutrition Sciences
Jennilyn Juan | Advisor: Alexander Kusnecov
The Relationship Between G308A TNF-alpha Polymorphism and Prepulse Inhibition Following
a Cognitive Gating Task
Poster 384 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Psychology
Bhavana Kadiyala | Advisor: Kristen Springer
Baseline Task Effectivity According to Self-reported Stress Reports
Poster 141 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Social Sciences | Sociology
Alan Kahn | Advisor: Eva Halkiadakis
A Search for Supersymmetry at the Large Hadron Collider
Poster 370 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Physics and Astronomy
Zoryana Kahuy | Advisor: Lee Jussim
Motivated Reasoning: Effects of Bias on Reasoning and Decision Making
Poster 115 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Social Sciences | Psychology
Nirali Kalaria | Advisor: Spencer Knapp
Synthesis of New Antimalarials
Poster 247 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Manraj Kalkat | Advisor: Mark West
Tracking Fast Spiking Interneurons Activity in the Striatum of Awake Behaving Rat
Poster 385 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Psychology
Karanvir Kals | Advisor: Hilton Kaplan
Analyzing the Effect of Implantable Micro-Electrode Probes on Gliosis in the Rat Brain
Poster 186 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Biomedical Engineering
22
Safa Kamal | Advisor: Viviane Deprez
Negative Concord in English French and Haitian Creole
Poster 92 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Social Sciences | Linguistics
Esther Kang | Advisor: Thomas Prusa
Lazy Portfolios
Poster 65 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Social Sciences | Economics
Bharath Kannan | Advisor: Seongshik Oh
Transferring MBE-Grown Topological Insulators to Arbitrary Substrates
Poster 371 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Physics and Astronomy
Anna Kapengut | Advisor: Eugene White
Bank Supervision and Financial Stability
Poster 63 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Economics
Vyshnavi Karra | Advisor: Meenakshi Dutt
Computational Investigations of the Self-Assembly of PEG-Functionalized Viral Capsids
Poster 228 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
Adam Kasarda | Advisor: Thomas Figueira
The Role of the Perioikoi in Spartan Society
Paper/Oral Presentation (May 1st) | AM (10:30 - noon) | Humanities | Classics and Ancient History
Ajay Kashi | Advisor: Charles Dismukes
Nanoscale Synthesis of Nickel Phosphides as Novel HER Electrocatalysts
Paper/Oral Presentation (May 1st) | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Damla Kaya | Advisor: Kathryn Uhrich
In vitro Salicylic-acid Release from Poly (Anhydride-ester) Using a Novel Modeling System
Poster 248 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Megan Kelly | Advisor: Jason Grabosky
Testing to Establish the Phylogenetic Relationships Among Acer saccharum and its Close
Relatives
Poster 274 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources
Rachana Kelshikar | Advisor: Cynthia Daniels
Informed or Misinformed Consent? Abortion Policies and their Integrity in the United States
Poster 101 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Political Science
Saad Khan | Advisor: Aaron Mazzeo
Energy Harvesting with Inflatable Structures
Poster 332 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Zachariah Khan | Advisor: Beth Angell
Involuntary Outpatient Commitment
Poster 132 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Social Work
23
Christine Kim | Advisor: Matthew Buckley
The History of Melodrama
Poster 11 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Humanities | English
Sung Woo Kim | Advisor: Jingang Yi
Automated Traffic Manipulation Using Robotic Devices
Poster 333 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Nicholas Kiriakatos | Advisor: David Smith
Differences Among Media Portrayal and Medical Definitions of Obsessive-Compulsive
Disorder from 1980-2014
Poster 142 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Sociology
Sandra Kirollos | Advisor: Marc Steinberg
Negative Affect and Task Persistence In Cigarette Availability
Poster 382 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Psychiatry-RWJ
Michael Klaser | Advisor: Vadim Levin
Lithospheric Inventory: An Exploration of Quebec, Canada with P-to-S Receiver Functions
Poster 265 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Earth and Planetary Sciences
Craig Knox | Advisor: Martin Gliserman
FOOD in 100 Novels
Poster 12 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Humanities | English
Robert Kolchmeyer | Advisor: Kostas Bekris
Human-Robot Interaction: Rigorous But Efficient Near-Optimal Planning
Poster 261 | PM (12:30-2:00) | STEM | Computer Science
LakshmiSanghavi Kolisetty | Advisor: Eileen Kowler
Anticipatory Smooth Eye Movements Evoked by Motor Intentions
Poster 386 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Psychology
Daniel Kondracki | Advisor: Manish Chhowalla
Study of Chalcogen Vacancies in Two Dimensional Transition Metal Dichalcogenides
Poster 324 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Material Science and Engineering
Wilai Kosol | Advisor: Francois Berthiaume
The Effect of a Simulated Diabetic Wound Environment on Keratinocyte Migration
Poster 187 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Biomedical Engineering
Selom Kotey | Advisor: Trefor Williams
Using Probabilistic Topic Modeling to Analyze Railroad Accidents
Poster 258 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Civil and Environmental Engineering
Aditya Kulkarni | Advisor: Timothy Otto
Pre-Training Infusion of Muscimol into Dorsal Hippocampus Inhibits Object Place Learning
Poster 394 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Psychology
24
Christopher Kumar | Advisor: Yair Rosenthal
Reconstructing Central Indonesia's 2000 Year Old Forest Fire History
Poster 308 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Geology
Ambika Kumaran | Advisor: Andrew Gow
Phenotypic Differentiation of Macrophages by P2Y12 Antagonist: New Tricks For Old Drugs
Poster 363 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Pharmacology and Toxicology
Jacob Kupferberg | Advisor: Kenneth Paradiso
Improving the Ability to Visualize and Record Electrical Activity in the Calyx of Held
Presynaptic Terminal in Older Mice
Poster 205 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Cell Biology and Neuroscience
Aidan Kusnecov | Advisor: George Wagner
Assessing the Behavioral and Neurochemical Differences in Nrf-2 KO Mice
Poster 392 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Psychology
Melinh Lai | Advisor: Karin Stromswold
To Kick or Be Kicked: Using Acoustics as Unconscious Cues to the Passive
Poster 116 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Psychology
Wai Lam | Advisor: William Hallman
Investigation on Risk Factors Associated with Meat and Seafood Purchased from Internet
Vendors
Poster 83 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Human Ecology
Connor LaMontagne | Advisor: Paul Meers
Delivery of Genetic Molecules to Biofilms via Outer-Membrane Vesicles
Poster 380 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Plant Biology and Pathology
Rachel Landingin | Advisor: Allan Isaac
Importing Emotional Labor: Call Centers, Caregivers and Educators
Poster 4 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Humanities | American Studies
Holly Lathbury | Advisor: Nicola Behrmann
Emmy Hennings 1914-1918
Poster 14 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Humanities | Germanic, Russian and East European Languages and Literatures
Michael Lazaropoulos | Advisor: Ronald Hart
Cell Cycle Control in Patient-derived Ataxia Telangiectasia Neural Stem Cells
Poster 206 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Cell Biology and Neuroscience
An Le | Advisor: Richard Ludescher
Naturally Occurring Flavonols as Luminescent Probes of Water Activity in Foods
Poster 293 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Food Science
25
Kathryn Lebidine | Advisor: Kristen Springer
Stress Response to Masculinity Threat
Poster 143 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Sociology
Paul Lee | Advisor: Jeffrey Zahn
Microfluidic Device For Characterization Of Synaptogenesis
Poster 188 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Biomedical Engineering
Sonia Lee | Advisor: Derek Shendell
Investigating Distracted Driving Among Undergraduate Students in New Jersey
Poster 71 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Environmental & Occupat Health SHP-RWJ
Timothy Lee | Advisor: Lawrence Williams
Design, Synthesis and Evaluation of Molecules That Inhibit NS1-dsRNA Binding
Poster 249 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Andrew Leung | Advisor: Eric Gawiser
Using Bayesian Statistics to Identify Galaxies Targeted in Astronomical Surveys
Poster 372 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Physics and Astronomy
Shifan Li | Advisor: Patricia Buckendahl
Osteocalcin Alleviates Alcohol- Induced Inflammation in the Liver
Poster 154 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Alcohol Studies
Miriam Lisci | Advisor: Mary Konsolaki
Analysis of DDT toxicity and its effects on Alzheimer’s β-amyloid Overexpression in Drosophila
Poster 304 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Genetics
Rachel Lisner | Advisor: Lee Jussim
Do Researchers' High Moral Purposes Undermine Scientific Integrity?
Poster 120 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Psychology
Madison Little | Advisor: Ashley Fox
Did PEPFAR Impact the ABCs of HIV Prevention?
Paper/Oral Presentation (May 1st) | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Health Evidence and Policy, Icahn School of
Medicine at Mount Sinai
Madison Little | Advisor: Francis Barchi
Collection and Use of Human Biological Specimens in Research: Is There Adequate
Governance in Africa?
Poster 133 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Social Work
Alexus Lizardi | Advisor: Richard Schroeder
Tasteless Soup: How a Cultural Delicacy has Depleted Multiple Shark Species
Poster 74 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Social Sciences | Geography
26
Tiffany Lo | Advisor: Judith Hudson
Comprehension of Time Concepts and Temporal Language
Poster 117 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Psychology
Kaiser Loell | Advisor: Vikas Nanda
An Analog System for Simulating Protein Interactions Using 3D Printed Models
Poster 197 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Biotechnology and Medicine CAMB-RWJ
Shmuel Lotsvin | Advisor: Richard Martin
Large Videowall for Telepresence
Poster 262 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Computer Science
Nicholas Lozano | Advisor: Nicholas Bello
Fighting Fat: Do Obesity Treatments Really Work?
Poster 159 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Animal Science
Kevin Lu | Advisor: Barry Sopher
Groupthink in Decision Making
Poster 64 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Economics
Alex Lurski | Advisor: Kang Li
Active Elbow Simulator
Poster 311 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Industrial and Systems Engineering
Brittany MacTaggart | Advisor: Sarah Hitchcock-DeGregori
Characterization of Point Mutations in Conserved Surface Residues of Tropomyosin in
Schizosaccharomyces Pombe
Poster 358 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Pathology and Laboratory Medicine-RWJMS
Vingie Magdael | Advisor: Young-Mee Yu Cho
Transnational Flows of Global Culture and Linguistic Innovations in K-Pop
Digital Poster 401 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Humanities | Asian Languages and Cultures
Joan Adrienne Malasig | Advisor: Dake Zhang
The Effects of Auditory Working Memory Remediation on Mathematics Problem Solving for
Students with Visual Impairments
Poster 68 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Educational Psychology-GSE
Indira Malladi | Advisor: Long-Jun Wu
Effect and Implications of HV1 Proton Channel on Development of Neuropathic Pain Following
Peripheral Nerve Injury
Poster 207 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Cell Biology and Neuroscience
Esha Manzoor | Advisor: Johanna Schoen
History of Medical Ethics
Poster 17 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Humanities | History
27
Holly Marino | Advisor: Taja-Nia Henderson
The Lost History of the Fourteenth Amendment's Disqualification Clause
Poster 27 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Humanities | Law - Center for Law and Justice - Newark
Nicholas Martin | Advisor: Howard Leventhal
Acting Without Remembering to Act? How Elderly Asthmatics Adhere to their Inhaled
Corticosteroid Medication
Poster 81 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Social Sciences | Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research
Veronica Mason | Advisor: Robert Scott
Relevance of Energetic Expenditure in Primate Cranial Airway Formation
Poster 43 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Anthropology
Jacob Massa | Advisor: Fuat Celik
Light Alkane Dehydrogenation over Pt and PtSn Alloys
Paper/Oral Presentation (May 1st) | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Chemical Engineering
Sanjana Matta | Advisor: Long-Jun Wu
Effect of Peripheral Nerve Injury-Induced Neuropathic Pain on Glial Cell Proliferation in
CXC3R1 GFP/+ Mice
Poster 208 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Cell Biology and Neuroscience
Morgan Mattioli | Advisor: Olaf Jensen
Abiotic Triggers of Anadromous Fish Migrations and Intra-river Fish Movements
Poster 321 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Marine and Coastal Sciences
Valerie Mayzelshteyn | Advisor: Jeffrey Shandler
Remembrance in the Age of New Media: Probing a Digital Video Archive of Holocaust
Narratives
Poster 23 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Humanities | Jewish Studies
Candice Mazon | Advisor: David Margolis
Pupil Dilation and the Locus Coeruleus-Norepinephrine System in Mouse Cortex During
Surprise
Poster 209 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Cell Biology and Neuroscience
Caitlin McCarthy | Advisor: Robert Scott
Comparison of Rib Fractures From a High Explosive to a Low Explosive
Digital Poster 407 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Social Sciences | Anthropology
Olivia McDonald | Advisor: Abena Busia
Meditations on The Artist And His Audiences: Chinua Achebe, A Tribute
Poster 34 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Humanities | Women and Gender Studies
Erin McFadden | Advisor: Ann Jurecic
Infinite Jest as an Exercise in Endurance Through Connection
Digital Poster 402 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Humanities | English
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Jacquelyn McFarland | Advisor: Patrick Carr
Railroaded: An Examination of the Lives of the Innocent After Prison
Poster 144 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Social Sciences | Sociology
Jennifer McHale | Advisor: Martin Yarmush
The Chemical Alteration of Ultrasound Mediums for the Optimization of a Venipuncture Robot
Poster 189 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Biomedical Engineering
Jamie McLean | Advisor: Brandon Alderman
Neurocognitive Impairment in Obesity
Poster 285 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Exercise Science and Sport Studies
Ashni Mehta | Advisor: Bahman Kalantari
Music and Mathematics Using Polynomiography
Digital Poster 409 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Computer Science
Diego Melendez | Advisor: Andrea Baldi
Walking Through La Virtù
Poster 21 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Humanities | Italian
Esti Mellul | Advisor: Jenny Mandelbaum
Doing Being Family: Communication Practices for Enacting Family Relationships
Poster 52 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Communication
Steven Mercadante | Advisor: Andrew Murphy
William Penn (1644-1718): A New Biography
Poster 104 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Political Science
Fayrouz Merhom | Advisor: Ah-Ng Tony Kong
Cancer Prevention Studies in Dietary Phytochemicals
Poster 360 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Pharmaceutics
Kaylan Michas | Advisor: James Walkup
Intersections of Gay Liberation and Psychotherapy in the 1950s-1980s
Poster 128 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Psychology - Clinical Psychology
Alyssa Miele | Advisor: Kathryn Uhrich
Biodegradable, Drug-Based Polymeric Scaffold for Enhanced Diabetic Bone Regeneration
Poster 250 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Mark Mikhail | Advisor: Arnold Glass
Single Study Trial Increases Subsequent Long-term Semantic Recognition of a Familiar Fact
Statement
Poster 118 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Social Sciences | Psychology
Michelle Mikhno | Advisor: Amrik Sahota
Cystinuria as a Risk Factor for Bladder Cancer
Poster 305 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Genetics
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Marco Mingozzi | Advisor: Mark Pierce
Cost Effective Malaria Imaging and Diagnostic Device
Poster 190 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Biomedical Engineering
Sara Miovic | Advisor: Andres Zervigon
Germany and Photography
Poster 7 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Humanities | Art History
Javad Mirza | Advisor: Kathryn Uhrich
Biodegradable, Drug-Based Polymeric Scaffold for Enhanced Diabetic Bone Regeneration
Poster 250 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Sejal Mistry | Advisor: Elizabeth Torres
Understanding the Perception of Biological Motions
Poster 387 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Psychology
Nicole Mlynaryk | Advisor: Zhiping Pang
The Role of Chromosome 21 miRNAs in MeCP2 Expression and Synaptic Function in Down
Syndrome
Poster 210 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Cell Biology and Neuroscience
Kinnari Modi | Advisor: Stephen Anderson
Possible Phosphorylation Sites Linked to Recent Mutations in the Human Transcription Factor
FOXP2
Paper/Oral Presentation (May 1st) | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
Ryan Modi | Advisor: Sanjib Bhuyan
The Economic Impact of Cooperatives in the Northeast United States
Poster 41 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Social Sciences | Agriculture, Food and Resource Economics
Tayyaba Mohammad | Advisor: Long-Jun Wu
Demyelinating Axons in the Corpus Callosum Leads to Significant Behavioral Changes
Poster 211 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Cell Biology and Neuroscience
Priya Mohan | Advisor: John Li
Model-Based System for Noninvasive Hypertension Diagnosis
Poster 191 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Biomedical Engineering
Emily Moore | Advisor: Alice Liu
Identification of Small Molecules to Enhance and Support the Activation of HSF1
Poster 212 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Cell Biology and Neuroscience
Margaret Morales | Advisor: Natalya Voloshchuk
Engineering of Plasmid for Expression of Cellulose CelB2 as Fusion Protein 6His/MBP/CelB2 in
E coli
Poster 167 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Biochemistry and Microbiology
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Margaret Morris | Advisor: Eva Halkiadakis
Search for RPV Boosted Stops at 13 TeV LHC
Poster 373 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Physics and Astronomy
Aleta Murphy | Advisor: David Margolis
Pupil Dynamics in Fragile X Mice: Changes During Learning and Extinction
Poster 213 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Cell Biology and Neuroscience
Meera Murti | Advisor: Vladimir Pavlovic
Smart Office Workspace: An Integrative Multisensory System for Proactive Injury Prevention
Digital Poster 410 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Computer Science
Andrew Nagy | Advisor: Dunne Fong
Developing Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells from the A2780 Human Ovarian Carcinoma Cell
Line
Poster 214 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Cell Biology and Neuroscience
Yulliya Nemtsova | Advisor: Peter Lobel
Determining Cytotoxicity of K16ApoE via Real-Time Permeability Assay
Poster 343 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
Lavina Ng | Advisor: Alissa Lange
Effects of STEM Professional Development on Preschool Teacher Math-Instruction Language
Poster 59 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Social Sciences | Early Education Research NIEER
Tracy Ng | Advisor: D.Randall Smith and Steven Brechin
Ability Threat and Academic Major Choice
Poster 145 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Social Sciences | Sociology
Mary-Quynh-Anh Nguyen | Advisor: Mark West
Using a Rat Model of Binge Eating to Examine Changes in Affective State and Cue Salience
Poster 388 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Psychology
Tara Nietzold | Advisor: Mona Zebarjadi
Thin-Film Transport Characterization
Poster 335 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Angela Nocerino | Advisor: Abena Busia
Circumstantial Embodiments
Poster 35 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Humanities | Women and Gender Studies
Daphney Noel | Advisor: Patricia Buckendahl
Use of MC3T3-E1 Cells to Produce Native Mouse Osteocalcin
Poster 155 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Alcohol Studies
Michael Noji | Advisor: Sara Campbell
Exercise Impacts Gut Microbial Ecology
Poster 288 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Exercise Science and Sports Studies
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Alexandra Nyman | Advisor: Kristen Syrett
Children’s Interpretation of Comparatives
Poster 93 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Linguistics
Alexandra Nyman | Advisor: Bruce Tesar
The Learnability of Insertion and Deletion
Paper/Oral Presentation (May 1st) | AM (10:30 - noon) | Social Sciences | Linguistics
Veronica O'Brien | Advisor: Lee Jussim
Motivated Reasoning: Effects of Bias on Reasoning and Decision Making
Poster 115 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Social Sciences | Psychology
Ugochi Oguh | Advisor: Dorothy Hodgson
A Mind Body Experience: Post Stroke Survivors' Experiences of Iyengar Yoga
Poster 44 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Anthropology
Nanaama O'Hene | Advisor: Kimberlee Thamatrakoln
The Formation of Antisense and Inverted Repeat Vectors for use in TpDSP1 Gene Silencing in
Diatoms
Poster 314 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Marine and Coastal Science
Priscilla Oliveira | Advisor: Laura Schneider
Tropical Rainforests in Colombia: A Literature Review of Deforestation and Sustainable Land
Use Practices in the Region
Poster 76 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Geography
Victoria Oriole | Advisor: Kyle Murphy
The Effect of CD44 Expression on Drug-Resistance and Cell Migration in the Zebrafish
Xenotransplant Model
Poster 168 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Biochemistry and Microbiology
Steven Osovsky | Advisor: Brandon Alderman
Dose-Response Effects of Resistance Exercise on Core Executive Functions
Poster 287 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Exercise Science and Sport Studies
Lazaro Pacheco | Advisor: Jennifer Lynch
Characterization of Graphene-Reinforced Polymer Matrix Composites
Poster 325 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Material Science and Engineering
Daniel Paik | Advisor: Kim McKim
Mapping the Locations of Synthetic Lethal Mutants with Kinesin-6 Subito
Poster 302 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Genetics
Taylor Palm | Advisor: Peggy Policastro
The Phrase that Plays: The Most Effective Way to Entice College-age Students to Engage in
Nutrition Booth Activities
Poster 95 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Social Sciences | Nutritional Science
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Miloni Parekh | Advisor: Alice Liu
Investigating the Synergistic Effects of Drugs on Heat Shock Factor 1 Activity
Poster 215 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Cell Biology and Neuroscience
Cameron Parsey | Advisor: George Wagner
Assessing the Behavioral and Neurochemical Differences in Nrf-2 KO Mice
Poster 392 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Psychology
Chhayang Patel | Advisor: Frank Felder
Electronic Markets
Poster 70 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Social Sciences | Energy Economic and Environmental Policy
Jaykumar Patel | Advisor: Samuel Gunderson
Demonstrating the Effects of Anti-Sox9 U1 Adaptors by Silencing of Sox9 at the Protein Level
in the Lung Cancer Cell Lines
Poster 344 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
Kunal Patel | Advisor: Melike Baykal-Gursoy
The Impact of Roadway Incidents on Traffic Flow
Poster 313 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Industrial and Systems Engineering
Meera Patel | Advisor: Maria Corradini
Fast Green as an Intrinsic Luminescent Sensor in Edible Products
Poster 294 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Food Science
Megha Patel | Advisor: John McGann
Effects of GABA Inhibition on Odor Intensity Perception
Poster 396 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Psychology
Misaal Patel | Advisor: Li Cai
Transcriptome Analysis of Cell Lineage Development from Embryonic Stem Cells to Tissue
Stem Cells
Poster 192 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Biomedical Engineering
Nikunj Patel | Advisor: Kim McKim
Mapping the 2-1655 Meiotic Mutation and its Effects on Sister Chromatid Cohesion
Poster 306 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Genetics
Rahul Patel | Advisor: Federico Sesti
Genetic Intervention on Rho Signaling Ameliorates the Toxic Effects of Aβ42 in Caenorhabditis
elegans Neurons
Paper/Oral Presentation (May 1st) | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Neuroscience and Cell Biology-RWJMS
Riddhi Patel | Advisor: Lee Jussim
Mortality Salience and Worldview Defense: One’s Own Ideology or the Societal Status Quo
Poster 119 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Psychology
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Roohi Patel | Advisor: Peter Lobel
The Mannose 6-Phosphorylation of Lysosomal Proteins
Poster 345 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
Sejal Patel | Advisor: Mladen-Roko Rasin
The Effect of Nt-3 on Neocortical Neuronal Differentiation
Poster 351 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Neuroscience and Cell Biology-RWJMS
Analee Pattwell | Advisor: Kelly Dittmar
Gender & Failure: A Media Study about the 2014 Massachusetts Gubernatorial Race
Poster 56 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Eagleton Institute of Politics
Timothy Pearson | Advisor: Mitsunori Denda
Flying Insects and Flapping Robots
Poster 334 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Kimberly Pelosi | Advisor: Mary Nucci
Learning in Giant Screen (IMAX) Films: The Roles of Supplemental Information and
Representation in Science Films
Poster 84 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Human Ecology
Jesse Peralta | Advisor: Stavroula Sofou
Intracellular Trafficking of Chemotherapeutics Mediated by Liposomes with Variable Degrees
of Content Release
Poster 193 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Biomedical Engineering
Bianka Marte Perez | Advisor: Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel
Overseas Archipelagoes
Poster 26 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Humanities | Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies
Alexander Perotti | Advisor: Mona Zebarjadi
Thin-Film Transport Characterization
Poster 335 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Dat Pham | Advisor: Lei Yu
The Effect of Alcohol on miR-9 Expression
Poster 307 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Genetics
Anthony Porturas | Advisor: Steven Kemper
Musical Robotics: Developing of Multimodal Electromechanical Musical Instruments
Poster 29 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Humanities | Music
Vaughn Powell | Advisor: Elizabeth Torres
Assessment of the Autism Diagnostic Observational Scale Project
Poster 389 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Psychology
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Christopher Power | Advisor: Alla Rosenfeld
Russian Artists in 20th Century France
Poster 8 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Humanities | Art History
Frangy Pozo | Advisor: Ulla Berg
Immigrant Activism and New Jersey In-State Tuition
Poster 25 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Humanities | Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies
Manali Pradhan | Advisor: Liliana Sanchez
Use of Null Subjects Among Sequential Spanish-English Bilingual Children
Poster 31 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese
Denise Preddie | Advisor: Meenakshi Dutt
Designing Hybrid Bio-nanostructured Soft Materials via Self-Assembly
Poster 229 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
Daria Pugliano | Advisor: Lee Jussim
Do Researchers' High Moral Purposes Undermine Scientific Integrity?
Poster 120 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Psychology
Sri Puli | Advisor: Ronald Hart
Modeling Ataxia Telangiectasia with Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
Poster 216 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Cell Biology and Neuroscience
Matthew Purri | Advisor: Jerry Shan
Scalable Fabrication of Carbon-Nanotube Membranes as Protective Membranes
Poster 336 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Bharani Pusukur | Advisor: Gail Ferstandig Arnold
Building the Interdisciplinary Quantitative Biologist's Tool-Kit
Poster 175 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Biology and Mathematical and Physical Science - BioMaPS
James Pyle | Advisor: David Foglesong
A Crisis in Relations: Domestic Politics and the Russian-American Alliance, May 1945 - March
1946
Poster 18 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Humanities | History
Edward Quiceno | Advisor: Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel
Overseas Archipelagoes
Poster 26 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Humanities | Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies
Wanda Quintanilla | Advisor: Liliana Sanchez
Use of Null Subjects Among Sequential Spanish-English Bilingual Children
Poster 31 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese
Daniel Quintin | Advisor: Mark West
Accumbens Mechanisms of Cue Reactivity in a Rodent Model of Binge Eating
Poster 390 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Psychology
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Vincent Quinton | Advisor: Asa Rennermalm
Examining the Spatial Relationships of Greenland's Melting Ice Sheet
Poster 77 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Social Sciences | Geography
Rahul Raghuraman | Advisor: Ping Xie
Study of the Roles of TRAF3 in Signaling by Toll-like Receptor 4 in Macrophages
Poster 217 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Cell Biology and Neuroscience
Saif Rahman | Advisor: Richard Contrada
Changes in Sympathovagal Modulation of Cardiac Rhythm During and After Mental Stress
Poster 391 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Psychology
Krystina Rambaran | Advisor: Mona Lena Krook
Gender Quotas and Women’s Political Representation
Poster 105 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Political Science
Rangasri Ramji | Advisor: Matt Matsuda
Social Innovation
Poster 16 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Humanities | History
Kirsten Rauffer | Advisor: Steven Kemper
Musical Robotics: Developing of Multimodal Electromechanical Musical Instruments
Poster 29 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Humanities | Music
Christine Ray | Advisor: Charles Keeton
Cosmic Telescopes
Poster 374 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Physics and Astronomy
Daniel Regan | Advisor: Michael Iba
Determine the Relative Contribution of Oxidative Stress to the Neurotoxic Effects of
Anesthetics to Immature Rodents
Poster 364 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Pharmacology and Toxicology
Elizabeth Reich | Advisor: Paul McLean
How Knowledge Is Contributed: A Minority Perspective
Poster 146 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Social Sciences | Sociology
Nicole Reiff | Advisor: Karl Kjer
Phylogenies of Aquatic Insects to Give Insight on Environmental Cues and Evolutionary
Relatedness
Poster 275 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources
Ian Reucroft | Advisor: David Shreiber
Characterization of Highly Aligned Self-Assembled Fibrillar Collagen Scaffolds
Poster 194 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Biomedical Engineering
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Dean Rexines | Advisor: Ivan Rodero
Exploring Energy Efficiency For Data-Enabled Computing Systems
Poster 278 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Electrical and Computer Engineering
Nicole Reynoso | Advisor: David Crockett
Histone Deacetylases May Play an Important Role in the Gliotic and Inflammatory Response
Following Traumatic Brain Injury
Poster 352 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Neuroscience and Cell Biology-RWJMS
Matthew Richtmyer | Advisor: Kenneth Miller
Paleoceanographic Changes of the Continental Shelf south of Cape Cod, MA Over the Past
10,000 Years
Poster 266 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Earth and Planetary Sciences
Briana Riley | Advisor: Kathleen John-Alder
The Industrial History of Newark and its Lasting Impact Upon the Urban Landscape
Poster 88 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Social Sciences | Landscape Architecture
Dina Rizk | Advisor: Jose Camacho
How Language Affects Decision-Making
Poster 32 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese
Alejandro Rodriguez Varona | Advisor: Jefferson Decker
Inequality in U.S. Politics and Culture
Poster 3 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Humanities | American Studies
Sarah Mae Rogado | Advisor: Kathryn Uhrich
Generation of Monodispersed Salicylic Acid-Containing Microspheres with Controlled Salicylic
Acid Release Profiles
Poster 251 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Andrew Rohrman | Advisor: Ben Lintner
Investigating CMIP5 Climate Models for Trends and Bias in Surface Specific Humidity
Projection
Poster 283 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Environmental Science
Laura Romano | Advisor: Lori White
Effects of Bisphenol A (BPA) and Bisphenol S (BPS) on Energy Metabolism in Zebrafish (Danio
rerio) Embryos
Poster 169 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Biochemistry and Microbiology
Nicoletta Romano | Advisor: Rhiannon Welch
The Second Generations’ Italian Citizenship Struggle in the Restructuration of a Contemporary
Italian Identity
Paper/Oral Presentation (May 1st) | AM (10:30 - noon) | Humanities | Italian
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Katerina Rondel | Advisor: Hatem Sabaawy
Development of a Conditional Transgenic Zebrafish Model to Study Lymphocyte
Development
Poster 199 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Cancer Institute of New Jersey
Mariusz Roszkowski | Advisor: Andrea Gallavotti
Identification of the Adherent Gene and its Role in the rel2 Maize Developmental Pathway
Poster 381 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Plant Biology and Pathology
Matthew Rudnick | Advisor: Tamar Barkay
Interactions of Microorganisms with Mercury in Microbial Mats from Yellowstone National
Park
Poster 170 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Biochemistry and Microbiology
Giannina Ruiz | Advisor: Kelly Dittmar
Women & Executive Office: Running and Winning in 2014, 2017
Poster 57 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Social Sciences | Eagleton Institute of Politics
Matthew Rutala | Advisor: Troy Shinbrot
Size Segregation in Asteroid Regolith
Poster 375 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Physics and Astronomy
Siwon Ryoo | Advisor: Richard Ludescher
Potential Applications of Betanin as Sensor for Food Quality
Poster 295 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Food Science
Syed Saad | Advisor: George Wagner
Assessing the Behavioral and Neurochemical Differences in Nrf-2 KO Mice
Poster 392 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Psychology
Anurita Sadhu | Advisor: Max Haggblom
The Effect of Temperature on Bacterial Ecology in Temperate Pinelands Soils
Poster 171 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Biochemistry and Microbiology
Yvanna Saint-Fort | Advisor: Kira Sanbonmatsu
African-American Women as an Underrepresented Minority in U.S. Congress
Poster 106 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Social Sciences | Political Science
Aya Sakar | Advisor: Kayo Denda
Perspectives on Diversity and Multiculturalism on Douglass Campus from the 1930s to the
1980s
Poster 36 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Humanities | Women and Gender Studies
Alexander Salibi | Advisor: Clark Chinn
Promoting Reasoning and Conceptual Change in the Sciences
Poster 67 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Educational Psychology-GSE
38
Laura Sammon | Advisor: Jill VanTongeren
The Roots of Supervolcanoes
Poster 267 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Earth and Planetary Sciences
Alexander Sandberg | Advisor: Yuri Gershtein
Improving Data Acquisition Techniques at the Large Hadron Collider's CMS Detector
Poster 376 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Physics and Astronomy
Mihaela Sanderson | Advisor: Andrea Baldi
Walking Through Italian Literature and Film
Poster 22 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Humanities | Italian
Alexa Mae Sangalang | Advisor: Kang Li
Using Work-Flow Analyses to Optimize Care Management
Poster 312 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Industrial and Systems Engineering
Danica Sapit | Advisor: Vladimir Pavlovic
Smart Office Workspace: An Integrative Multisensory System for Proactive Injury Prevention
Digital Poster 410 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Computer Science
Breahnna Saunders | Advisor: William Hallman
Type 2 Diabetes Prevalence and Sugar Availability in the Home Food Supply of the Homebound Elderly
Poster 85 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Social Sciences | Human Ecology
Jeremy Savarin | Advisor: David Margolis
Analysis of Neural Dynamics Underlying Learning and Memory Formation
Poster 218 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Cell Biology and Neuroscience
Brian Schendt | Advisor: Nina Shapley
Investigation and Modeling of Hard/Soft Bimodal Suspensions
Poster 230 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
Justin Schulberg | Advisor: Andrew Murphy
The William Penn Project
Poster 107 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Political Science
Sarah Sebban | Advisor: Beth Angell
Involuntary Outpatient Commitment
Poster 132 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Social Work
Catherine Seeds | Advisor: Carey Williams
The Effects of Continuous vs Rotational Grazing Systems on Horse Condition and Plant
Performance
Poster 160 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Animal Science
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Rebecca Segal | Advisor: Mark West
Drug Relapse Associated with Cue-responsivity as a Function of Neuronal Activity During
Cocaine Self-Administration
Poster 393 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Psychology
Hadear Seliman | Advisor: Alice Liu
Investigating the Synergistic Effects of Drugs on Heat Shock Factor 1 Activity
Poster 215 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Cell Biology and Neuroscience
Anush Shah | Advisor: Richard Ludescher
Using Alpha-Tocopherol as a Probe for Viscosity in Edible Oils
Poster 296 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Food Science
Kesha Shah | Advisor: Johanna Schoen
History of Medical Ethics
Poster 17 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Humanities | History
Pavan Shah | Advisor: Timothy Otto
Pre-Training Infusion of Muscimol into Dorsal Hippocampus Inhibits Object Place Learning
Poster 394 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Psychology
Rajvi Shah | Advisor: Ping Xie
Overexpression of Rhbdf1 Fusion Protein in Human B Cell Line
Poster 219 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Cell Biology and Neuroscience
Hira Shaikh | Advisor: Kira Sanbonmatsu
Susana Martinez and Republican Party Diversity
Poster 108 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Political Science
Nikhil Shenoy | Advisor: Shantenu Jha
RADICAL-Pilot: A Pilot-Job System for High Performance, Scientific Computing
Poster 279 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Electrical and Computer Engineering
Jessica Sher | Advisor: Alice Liu
Effects of HSP90 Inhibitors in the Regulation and Function of HSF1
Poster 220 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Cell Biology and Neuroscience
Xiangyu Shi | Advisor: Kyle Murphy
The Effect of Chemotherapeutics, Cisplatin and Carboplatin, on Zebrafish Development
Poster 172 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Biochemistry and Microbiology
Kafu Kristian Shoda | Advisor: John Aiello
The Impact of Supervisor Gender and Nonverbal Style on Employees' Perceptions During
Simulated Task Feedback
Poster 121 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Psychology
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Dennis Sholler | Advisor: Mark West
Exploring Body Part Sensitivity of D1- and D2 Receptor Expressing Medium Spiny Neurons in
the Mouse Dorsolateral Striatum
Paper/Oral Presentation (May 1st) | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Psychology
Ronen Shor | Advisor: Long-Jun Wu
The Role of Microglial Proton Channel Hv1 In Neuronal Cell Death After Status Epilepticus
Poster 221 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Cell Biology and Neuroscience
Trey Shore | Advisor: Jonathan Sauceda
Rockin' Roots, Global Reach: Telling the Story of Jersey's Popular Music
Poster 30 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Humanities | Music
Mir Siddiqi | Advisor: David Vicario
Developmental Trajectory Following Experience-Based Hemispheric Lateralization Of Vocal
Processing
Poster 395 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Psychology
Mariah Siddiqui | Advisor: Murat Guvendiren
3-D Printing and Stem Cells
Poster 176 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | BioMaterials
Caresse Simmonds | Advisor: Joseph Freeman
Scaffold Building for Interface Tissue Engineering
Poster 195 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Biomedical Engineering
Laura Simon-Pearson | Advisor: Nuria Sagarra
Morphosyntactic Processing in L2 Speakers
Poster 33 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese
Dhara Singh | Advisor: Mary Rigdon
The Basis of a Word Prime: Measuring the Competitiveness of Words
Poster 49 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Social Sciences | Cognitive Science
Brandon Smith | Advisor: Nicholas Bello
Raspberry Ketone Effects on Feeding and Neural Activation
Poster 161 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Animal Science
Kathy Smith | Advisor: Paul McLean
Resisting Progressive Change: How Particular Social Forces Contribute to Individual Resistance
to Progressive Social Change
Poster 147 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Social Sciences | Sociology
Natesh Sood | Advisor: Thomas Prusa
Lazy Portfolios
Poster 65 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Social Sciences | Economics
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Stephanie Souza | Advisor: Ulla Berg
The Deportation Industry
Poster 24 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Humanities | Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies
Christina Spoleti | Advisor: Susan Cachel
Moderators of Patient Comfort During Prehospital Basic Life Support (BLS)
Poster 45 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Social Sciences | Anthropology
Subha Srikanth | Advisor: Tim Maguire
Developing Improved Vein Imaging Devices for Difficult Venous Access
Poster 196 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Biomedical Engineering
Anshuman Srivastava | Advisor: Samuel Gunderson
Efficacy of U1 Adaptor in Knock Down of Activated KRAS in K8484 Mouse Pancreatic Cancer
Cells
Poster 346 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
Nour Srouji | Advisor: Masanori Hara
Dynamic Light Scattering Experiments on Ionic Polymers
Poster 231 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
Gabrilla Stern | Advisor: Hao Wang
Cool Pavements Effect on Urban Heat Islands
Poster 259 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Civil and Environmental Engineering
Ian Stewart | Advisor: Girsh Blumberg
Experimental Investigation Utilizing Laser Spectroscopy on a Strongly Correlated Iron
Oxypnictide Superconducting Material
Poster 377 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Physics and Astronomy
Jennifer Stice | Advisor: Paul Clemens
The History of Rutgers University
Poster 19 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Humanities | History
Sean Summers | Advisor: Lori Covey
Defining the Role of Polypyrimidine Tract-Binding Protein (PTB) in the Activation Responses
of Leukemic Transformed Human T Cells
Paper/Oral Presentation (May 1st) | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Cell Biology and Neuroscience
Aravind Sundararajan | Advisor: Kathryn Uhrich
Biodegradable, Drug-Based Polymeric Scaffold for Enhanced Diabetic Bone Regeneration
Poster 250 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Kandarp Suthar | Advisor: Mladen-Roko Rasin
Eukaryotic Elongation Factor 2 Kinase Dictates Proper Neocortical Differentiation and
Function
Poster 353 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Neuroscience and Cell Biology-RWJMS
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Ryan Szeto | Advisor: Jennifer Lynch
The Development and Design of a New Graphene/PPS Composite
Poster 326 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Material Science and Engineering
Kinan Tadmori | Advisor: Charles Dismukes
Assessing the Photosynthetic Productivity of gap2 Overexpression in Cyanobacterium
Synechococcus sp Strain PCC 7002
Poster 252 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Homare Takase | Advisor: Deborah Aks
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Web Design Using Eye-tracking Technology
Poster 50 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Social Sciences | Cognitive Science
Joachim Talloen | Advisor: Gretchen Chapman
Partitioning Decisions: The Reboot
Paper/Oral Presentation (May 1st) | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Psychology
Sophia Tan | Advisor: Dr. Ah-Ng Kong
Triterpenoids Carnosol and Ursolic Acid Reactivate the Nrf2-ARE Signaling Pathway through
Epigenetic Modification
Poster 361 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Pharmaceutics
Yubei Tang | Advisor: Pernille Hemmer
A Method for Integrating Mobile Phone Alarms into Medication Routines Based on the
Common-Sense Model
Poster 122 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Social Sciences | Psychology
Jesse Tannehill | Advisor: Peggy Policastro
The Alteration of Eating Habits Due to Exam Stress
Poster 97 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Nutritional Science
Sabrina Taranto | Advisor: Tobias Schulze-Cleven
The State of the AAUP: Contemporary Challenges and Attempts to Address Them
Poster 87 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Labor Studies and Employment Relations
Anita Thomas | Advisor: Stanley Weiss
Human Biomarkers as Health Outcomes Predictors in Prospective Cohort Studies
Poster 342 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Medicine - Preventative Medicine and Community Health-NJMS
Taylor Tillery | Advisor: Troy Roepke
Effect of Developmental Exposures to Environmental Estrogens on Arcuate Gene Expression
Poster 162 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Animal Science
Anvita Tiwari | Advisor: Melike Baykal-Gursoy
The Impact of Roadway Incidents on Traffic Flow
Poster 313 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Industrial and Systems Engineering
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Jay Tobia | Advisor: Howon Lee
Development of a Multi-Material 3D Printer Using a Digital Display and a Droplet-Based
Material Feed System
Poster 337 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Victoria Tobio | Advisor: Mona Krook
Gender Quotas and Women’s Political Representation
Poster 109 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Political Science
Matthew Tocco | Advisor: Thomas Figueira
The Klēros and Spartan Womanhood
Poster 9 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Humanities | Classics and Ancient History
Alexander Toke | Advisor: Cara Cuite
Best Practices in Coastal Storm Risk Communication
Poster 86 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Social Sciences | Human Ecology
Rebecca Tonnessen | Advisor: Peggy Policastro
The Assessment of Cell Phone Usage during Mealtime in University Dining Facilities
Poster 98 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Social Sciences | Nutritional Science
Fatima Toor | Advisor: Keith Cooper
Toxicological Effects of Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA) on Development of Zebrafish (Danio
rerio)
Poster 173 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Biochemistry and Microbiology
Sharon Toth | Advisor: Craig Feibel
Hasanlu Skeletal Remains Analysis: Reconstruction of Activity Patterns using Muscles of
Occupational Stress
Poster 62 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Social Sciences | Earth and Planetary Sciences
Meera Trivedi | Advisor: Bonnie Firestein
Understanding the Role of Cypin in Protein Degradation
Poster 222 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Cell Biology and Neuroscience
Solangel Troncoso | Advisor: Diana Sanchez
Perceptions of Gender Differences and Attitudes toward Gender Inequality
Poster 123 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Social Sciences | Psychology
Rosemary Tucker | Advisor: Daniel Cariveau
Can Size-matching Between Bees and Flowers Predict Visitation?
Poster 273 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources
Sarthi Tuli | Advisor: Ronald Quincy
Analyzing the Impact of Hurricane Sandy
Poster 134 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Social Work
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Gayathri Tummala | Advisor: John McGann
Effects of GABA Inhibition on Odor Intensity Perception
Poster 396 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Psychology
Kevin Tunney | Advisor: Melchi Michel
Visual Working Memory and Eccentricity
Poster 397 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Psychology
Mary Tursi | Advisor: Peggy Policastro
The Assessment of Cell Phone Usage during Mealtime in University Dining Facilities
Poster 98 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Social Sciences | Nutritional Science
Camille Ungco | Advisor: Allan Isaac
Importing Emotional Labor: Call Centers, Caregivers and Educators
Poster 4 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Humanities | American Studies
Lauren Upadhyay | Advisor: Jean-Marie Hartman
Influence of Riparian Forest Composition and Land Use on Watershed Performance and
Management Planning
Poster 89 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Landscape Architecture
Jayanth Vatson | Advisor: Patricia Buckendahl
Comparison of Hindlimb Unloading Response between Wild Type and Osteocalcin Knockout
Mice
Paper/Oral Presentation (May 1st) | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Alcohol Studies
Prama Verma | Advisor: Ruth Mandel
Hillary Rodham Clinton: Dare to Compete
Poster 58 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Eagleton Institute of Politics
Joseph Vero | Advisor: Alex Neimark
Adhesion and Translocation of Nanoparticles through Lipid Membranes
Poster 236 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Chemical Engineering
Michelle Villavicencio | Advisor: Jose Camacho
How Language Affects Decision-Making
Poster 32 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese
Stephanie Vinnikov | Advisor: Samuel Gunderson
Quality of Gradient Westerns, Silencing Capabilities of HTT & Fluorescent U1 Adaptors,
Metabolic Breakdown of U1 Adaptor
Poster 347 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
Amanda Vo | Advisor: Patricia Buckendahl
Osteocalcin and Effects of Inflammation on Mouse Dorsal Root Ganglionic Cells
Paper/Oral Presentation (May 1st) | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Alcohol Studies
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Nicole Volk | Advisor: Mladen-Roko Rasin
Neocortical Neurogenesis is Mediated by RNA Binding Proteins Cugbp1 and HuD
Poster 354 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Neuroscience and Cell Biology-RWJMS
Maxine Wagenhoffer | Advisor: David Greenberg
The Republic of Spin: Architects and Critics of the Modern Presidency
Poster 20 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Humanities | History and Journalism
Emily Wahler | Advisor: Robert Scott
Bioavailability of Curcumin inTurmeric Jamu
Poster 46 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Anthropology
Curtis Wang | Advisor: Alice Liu
Regulation and Function of HSF1 in hLec
Poster 223 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Cell Biology and Neuroscience
Jason Wang | Advisor: Sungchul Ji
Patterns in Breast Cancer Responsiveness to Pharmaceutical Therapy based on Gaussian and
Planckian Representations of Gene Expression Levels
Poster 365 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Pharmacology and Toxicology
Mandy Wang | Advisor: Kristen Syrett
Children’s Interpretation of Comparatives
Poster 93 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Linguistics
Ian Wardell | Advisor: Stephen Reinert
Digital Dracula
Digital Poster 405 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Humanities | History
Evan Warsak | Advisor: John Weingart
Center on the American Governor
Poster 102 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Social Sciences | Political Science
Sarah Waxman | Advisor: Richard Ludescher
Food Colors as Intrinsic Luminescent Sensors in Edible Products
Poster 297 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Food Science
Lan Wei | Advisor: John Aiello
Go for the Goal Feedback Study
Poster 124 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Psychology
Erin Weinman | Advisor: Paul Clemens
The History of Rutgers University
Poster 19 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Humanities | History
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Haixiao Weng | Advisor: Eugene White
Bank Supervision and Financial Stability
Poster 63 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Economics
Alexandra Wepner | Advisor: Melissa Aronczyk
Consumer Knowledge on Public Relations Material in News
Paper/Oral Presentation (May 1st) | AM (10:30 - noon) | Humanities | Journalism and Media Studies
Patrice Williams | Advisor: Dorothy Hodgson
Race, Class and Access to Acupuncture in New Jersey
Poster 47 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Social Sciences | Anthropology
Terence Williams | Advisor: Thomas Prusa
Lazy Portfolios
Poster 65 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Social Sciences | Economics
Stephanie Wo | Advisor: Nicholas Rennie
The Dichotomy of Contemporary Western Beauty Advertising: Exploring Harmful Effects on
Consumers
Poster 13 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Humanities | Germanic, Russian and East European Languages and Literatures
Fiona Wong | Advisor: Nicola Behrmann
Emmy Hennings 1914-1918
Poster 14 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Humanities | Germanic, Russian and East European Languages and Literatures
Griffin Wood | Advisor: Milagros Nores
International Meta Analysis in Early Childhood Education
Poster 60 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Early Education Research NIEER
Jamie Wooding | Advisor: Jennifer Lynch
Creep Prediction in Graphene-Reinforced Polymer Composites
Poster 327 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Material Science and Engineering
Amy Wu | Advisor: Joachim Kohn
Identifying an Optimal Surface for in Vitro Culture of Chondrocytes
Poster 253 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Jayant Wunnava | Advisor: Fuat Celik
Quantum Catalysis: Comparing Adsorption of Gaseous Species on Metal Alloys
Poster 237 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Chemical Engineering
Julia Xia | Advisor: Zhiping Pang
GLP-1 Regulation of Feeding Behavior through Centers of Reward
Poster 224 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Cell Biology and Neuroscience
Mingxi Xue | Advisor: Gal Hochman
The Price of Coal
Poster 40 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Agriculture, Food and Resource Economics
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Kuldeep Yadav | Advisor: Gretchen Chapman
Influence of a Pro-social Message on the Vaccination Behavior of Parents
Paper/Oral Presentation (May 1st) | AM (10:30 - noon) | Social Sciences | Psychology
Anna Yang | Advisor: Joachim Kohn
Innovative Drug Delivery System for Critical Peripheral Nerve Gap Injuries
Poster 254 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Chemistry and Chemical Biology
William Yang | Advisor: Zheng Zhang
A Compiler and Framework for Exascale Computing
Poster 263 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Computer Science
Yasonia Yankannah | Advisor: Joseph Freeman
Optimization of Braided Ligament Scaffold Mechanics
Digital Poster 408 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Biomedical Engineering
Krishna Yellayi | Advisor: Keivan Esfarjani
Theoretical Study of Light Absorptivity using the Effective Medium Theory
Poster 338 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Victoria Yeung | Advisor: Maria Corradini
Potential Photoinactivation of Foodborne Pathogens Using GRAS Photosensitizers
Poster 298 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Food Science
Chun Yeung Yim | Advisor: Mark Pierce
Cost Effective Malaria Imaging and Diagnostic Device
Poster 190 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Biomedical Engineering
Marc Yorker | Advisor: George Carman
The Role of Phosphatidic Acid in Lipid Metabolism
Poster 299 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Food Science
Brenda Yuan | Advisor: Arash Hatefi
Engineering a Non-Viral Vector for Safe and Effective Gene Transfection
Poster 362 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | STEM | Pharmaceutics
Melody Yuan | Advisor: Derek Shendell
Determining Awareness of and Interests in Public Health: Survey of Undergraduate Students
without Declared Majors
Poster 72 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Environmental & Occupat Health SHP-RWJ
Eleonora Zaitseva | Advisor: Galina Bolden
Co-remembering Activities in Russian Conversation
Poster 55 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Communication
Debra Zauderer | Advisor: Dake Zhang
An Examination of Teachers’ Intentions to Pursue Careers in Special Education
Poster 69 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Social Sciences | Educational Psychology-GSE
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Haoyue Zhou | Advisor: Gene Hall
Compare Quality and Trace Origins of Fish Oil and Krill Oil Dietary Supplements
Poster 255 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Kenneth Zong | Advisor: John Landers
Strain Engineering of Nanoparticles in a Polymer Matrix
Poster 232 | AM (10:30 - noon) | STEM | Chemical and Biochemical Engnieering
Xuan Zuo | Advisor: Barry Sopher
Context Effect on Purchase Decision
Poster 66 | AM (10:30 - noon) | Social Sciences | Economics
Zoe Zylowski | Advisor: Brittany Battle
Examining the Collateral Consequences of Child Support Policy
Poster 148 | PM (12:30 - 2:00) | Social Sciences | Sociology
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ARESTY RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM | MAY 1, 2015
AM PANEL PRESENTATIONS
10:30am – 12:00pm
Room 201A | Humanities Panel 1
Room 202A | STEM Panel 2
Room 202C | Social Science Panel 3
Room 201B | STEM Panel 4
LUNCH
PM PANEL PRESENTATIONS
12:30 – 2pm
Room 202A | Social Science Panel 5
Room 202C | STEM Panel 6
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PANEL PRESENTATIONS | 10:30am – 12pm
Humanities Panel 1
Room 201A | 10:30am-1200pm
Joshua Blachorsky | Advisor: Gary Rendsburg | Jewish Studies
Roman Emperors and Early Rabbis
Adam Kasarda | Advisor: Thomas Figueira | Classics and Ancient History
The Role of the Perioikoi in Spartan Society
Alexandra Wepner | Advisor: Melissa Aronczyk | Journalism and Media Studies
Consumer Knowledge on Public Relations Material in News
STEM Panel 2
Room 202A | 10:30am-1200pm
Survandita Dhawan | Advisor: Bonnie Firestein | Cell Biology and Neuroscience
Effects of Endogenously Expressed BDNF on Dendritic Morphology
Sean Summers | Advisor: Lori Covey | Cell Biology and Neuroscience
Defining the Role of Polypyrimidine Tract-Binding Protein (PTB) in the Activation Responses
of Leukemic Transformed Human T Cells
Jayanth Vatson | Advisor: Patricia Buckendahl | Alcohol Studies
Comparison of Hindlimb Unloading Response between Wild Type and Osteocalcin Knockout
Mice
Amanda Vo | Advisor: Patricia Buckendahl | Alcohol Studies
Osteocalcin and Effects of Inflammation on Mouse Dorsal Root Ganglionic Cells
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PANEL PRESENTATIONS | 10:30am – 12pm
Social Science Panel 3
Room 202C | 10:30am-1200pm
Alexandra Nyman | Advisor: Bruce Tesar | Linguistics
The Learnability of Insertion and Deletion
Nicoletta Romano | Advisor: Rhiannon Welch | Italian
The Second Generations’ Italian Citizenship Struggle in the Restructuration of a Contemporary
Italian Identity
Kuldeep Yadav | Advisor: Gretchen Chapman | Psychology
Influence of a Pro-social Message on the Vaccination Behavior of Parents
STEM Panel 4
Room 201B | 10:30am-1200pm
Matthew Harper | Advisor: Larry Zamick | Physics and Astronomy
An Analysis of the B(M1) Operator over Various Interactions
Ajay Kashi | Advisor: Charles Dismukes | Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Nanoscale Synthesis of Nickel Phosphides as Novel HER Electrocatalysts
Jacob Massa | Advisor: Fuat Celik | Chemical Engineering
Light Alkane Dehydrogenation over Pt and PtSn Alloys
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PANEL PRESENTATIONS | 12:30 – 2pm
Social Science Panel 5
Room 202A | 12:30 - 2:00pm
Andy Chang | Advisor: Lee Cronk | Anthropology
Cheater Detection in Need-based Transfers
Madison Little | Advisor: Ashley Fox | Health Evidence and Policy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Did PEPFAR Impact the ABCs of HIV Prevention?
Joachim Talloen | Advisor: Gretchen Chapman | Psychology
Partitioning Decisions: The Reboot
STEM Panel 6
Room 202C | 12:30 - 2:00pm
Shreedevi Arunkumar | Advisor: Stephen Anderson | Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
Epitope Mapping of Anti Transcription Factors Antibodies
Kinnari Modi | Advisor: Stephen Anderson | Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
Possible Phosphorylation Sites Linked to Recent Mutations in the Human Transcription Factor
FOXP2
Rahul Patel | Advisor: Federico Sesti | Neuroscience and Cell Biology-RWJMS
Genetic Intervention on Rho Signaling Ameliorates the Toxic Effects of Aβ42 in Caenorhabditis
elegans Neurons
Dennis Sholler | Advisor: Mark West | Psychology
Exploring Body Part Sensitivity of D1- and D2 Receptor Expressing Medium Spiny Neurons in
the Mouse Dorsolateral Striatum
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