URC Awardees

2010 URC Awardees

Chu, Tin-Chun
Biological Sciences
Identification of Cyanobacteria Related to Harmful Algal Blooms in New Jersey’s Freshwater Ecosystems

Klaus, Angela V.
Biological Sciences
Investigation of Factors Affecting Sperm Maturation and Motility in Fruit Flies

Orenstein, Penina
Computing and Decision Sciences
Data Mining in the Healthcare Industry: A Case Study Approach

Gokcekus, Omer
Diplomacy & International Relations
Impediments to Trade Across the Cyprus Green Line: The Role of Classic Barriers and Trust

Goldfrank, Benjamin
Diplomacy & International Relations
Community Councils in Venezuela: Participatory Democracy or New Clientelism?

M’Cormack-Hale, Fredline
Diplomacy & International Relations
Women, Politics and Policy Making in Post-War Sierra Leone

Wang, Zheng
Diplomacy & International Relations
Introducing the Field of Conflict Resolution into China

Tienken, Christopher & Eunyoung Kim (Collaboration)
Educational Leadership, Management, and Policy
Factors that Inhibit or Facilitate Postsecondary Attendance of Students in Salem City, NJ

Gevirtz, Karen
English
Mr. Newton Writes a Novel: Science and the Invention of Literary Omniscience, 1650-1750

Stark, Judith C.
Philosophy
Environmental Education and Sustainability Studies: Philosophy, Public Policy, and Curriculum Development       

2009 URC Awardees

Rong Chen
College of Education and Human Services
Education, Leadership Management & Policy
A Multilevel Analysis of State Financial Policy Influences on College Degree Attainment

Rebecca D. Cox
College of Education and Human Services
Education, Leadership Management & Policy
College Transition Project

Alexander Y. Fadeev
College of Arts and Sciences
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Preparation and Stabilization of Drug Polymorphs by Encapsulation in Nanosilicas

Yinan He
Whitehead School of Diplomacy & International Relations
Diplomacy and International Relations
Selective Othering: Chinese National Identity Formation and Attitudes to Japan

Nathan W. Kahl
College of Arts and Sciences
Mathematics and Computer Science
An Analysis of the Weight Measurements of the Guantanamo Detainees

Dena Levine
College of Arts and Sciences
Art, Music and Design
Elucidating Musical Scholarship Through Recorded Material

Marianne E. Lloyd
College of Arts and Sciences
Psychology
Memory Development in Childhood

Jesse Russell
Whitehead School of Diplomacy & International Relations
Diplomacy and International Relations
Waxing and Waning Factors in Exchange Rate Regime Choice

John T. Saccoman
College of Arts and Sciences
Mathematics and Computer Science
Making Connections in Chemical Graph Theory

Mehmet A. Sahiner
College of Arts and Sciences
Physics
High Efficiency Solar Cells for Future Energy Solutions: Synthesis and Electrical Characterization

Yui Suzuki
Whitehead School of Diplomacy & International Relations
Diplomacy and International Relations
Sovereign Risk and Procyclical Fiscal Policy in Emerging Market Economies

Heping Zhou
College of Arts and Sciences
Biological Sciences
Postnatal Development of Lipopolysaccharide-Induced Inflammatory Response

2008 URC Awardees

Margarita M. Balmaceda
John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy & International Relations
Diplomacy & International Relations
Understanding the Comparative Management of Energy Dependency in the Former USSR: the Case of Belarus

Carolyn S. Bentivegna
College of Arts & Sciences
Biology
Developing Hemoglobin Protein in Chironomid as a Biomarker of Environmental Quality

Tracey L. Billado
College of Arts & Sciences
History
The Politics of "Evil Customs" in Western France, 950-1150

Allan D. Blake
College of Arts & Sciences
Biology
Somatostatin Control of Immune Cell Function

Costel Constantin
College of Arts & Sciences
Physics
Zinc Oxide and Scandium Nitride Semiconductors: Possible Dilute Magnetic Semiconductors

Howard Eissenstat
College of Arts & Sciences
History
Adnan Menderes and the Shape of Republican Turkey

Robert A. Mayhew
College of Arts & Sciences
Philosophy
The Aristotelian PROBLEMATA

Elizabeth Ann McCrea
Stillman School of Business
Management
Employee Perceptions of Strategy: Implications for Corporate Entrepreneurship

Mark Molesky
College of Arts & Sciences
History
Book Project: This Gulf of Fire: The Great Lisbon Earthquake and the Forging of the Modern World

Mary F. Mueller
College of Education & Human Services
Educational Studies
Teacher Interventions in Promoting Mathematical Reasoning and Understanding

Wyatt Rorer Murphy, Jr.
College of Arts & Sciences
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Preparation and Structures of Chromium (III)-Nucleic Acid Complexes

Mehmet Alper Sahiner
College of Arts & Sciences
Physics
Pulsed Laser Deposition and Structural and Electrical Characterization of Colossal Magnetoresistive Materials

Lewis Z. Schlosser
College of Education & Human Services
Professional Psychology & Family Therapy
One Nation Under Whose   G-d?: Understanding Christian Privilege in the United States

Yufeng Wei
College of Arts & Sciences
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Recognition and Regulation of Membrane Proteins by Phospholipids

Abe Zakhem
College of Arts & Sciences
Philosophy
Ethical Decision Making in Business: A Discourse Theoretical Approach