Faculty Mentor: Brett BuSha Student: George Banis While conscious, there is a stochastic feature of cardiorespiratory control that is responsible for natural variability, which can be expressed as a distribution of breath-to-breath (BBI) or heartbeat-to-heartbeat intervals (RRI). The integrative nature of the brain imparts memory into this system, where any present BBI or RRI is… Continue Reading
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Fabrication of polymer and cellular composite constructs for tissue engineering applications
Faculty Mentor: Christopher Anderson Students: James Ferrie & Pamela Hitscherich Tissue engineering is a promising aspect of regenerative medicine that is aimed at constructing functional tissues and organs. This requires the integration of living cells, biodegradable materials, and biologically active molecules to promote cell and tissue growth. Currently, challenges remain for more complex tissues/organs that… Continue Reading
Developing Successful Paired Placements among Preservice Teachers
Faculty Mentors: Louise Ammentorp & Lauren Madden Students: Jacqueline DeNarie & Tara-Lyn Farrell In the education department at The College of New Jersey, students are partnered for their practicum placements during their sophomore and junior years. Our MUSE study sought to determine the various approaches used by faculty to create partnerships and examine their level of… Continue Reading
Applying Conversation Analysis to interviews with Japanese politicians about the Trans-Pacific Partnership
Faculty Mentor: Holly Didi-Ogren Student: Russell Wolf In our MUSE project we employed methods from Conversation Analysis (CA) in an analysis of verbal interactions in a 1.5-hour long panel discussion about Japan’s participation in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The TPP has been extremely controversial in Japan, and we selected the NHK panel discussion partly because… Continue Reading
The Virtual Freedom Trail Project: Re-visioning Gender in African Liberation in Tanzania
Faculty Mentor: Marla Jaksch Students: Alyssa Fountain & Shannon Grooms Throughout the Summer of 2012, Women’s and Gender studies majors Alyssa Fountain and Shannon Grooms assisted Dr. Marla Jaksch on a transcontinental research project known as The Virtual Freedom Trail Project: Re-visioning Gender in African Liberation in Tanzania. The students used resources available to them… Continue Reading
The 2012 TCNJ Delegation to Nicaragua: Assessing International Service Learning
Faculty Mentor: Diane Bates Students: Brad Heisler & Nicole Thompson Throughout the summer Dr. Diane Bates lead Brad Heisler and Nicole Thompson during research of the Nicaraguan people, culture, history and the U.S’s involvement there. Nicaragua lies between the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. With a population of 5,727,707 people it is the second… Continue Reading
Ethnic Self-Stereotyping and Stereotype Awareness
Faculty Mentor: Julie Hughes Student: Iris Chiu U.S. society becomes more ethnically diverse every year, making individual experiences of interracial anxiety increasingly common. This summer Dr. Hughes and her student collaborator, Iris Chiu, have researched interracial anxiety and its antecedents. These antecedents of anxiety include: internal and external motivations to respond without prejudice (IMS and… Continue Reading
Career Barriers and Supports for Individuals with Physical Disabilities Empirical
Faculty Mentor: Jason Dahling Student: Rachel Tenenbaum In this study, we examined the relationship between disability onset, disability severity, and participants’ levels of vocational confidence. In particular, we looked at their degree of confidence in completing activities that were Realistic (such as making repairs), Investigative (such as solving math problems), Artistic (such as writing a… Continue Reading
On the Use of Different Kinds of Political Message Frames to Appeal to Different Kinds of Voters
Faculty Mentor: Jarret Crawford Student: Sean Modri Our objective was to explore the content of people’s stereotypes of liberals and conservatives. Existing research on such political stereotype content lacked a theoretical focus. We therefore examined political stereotype content from the perspective of two recently developed theories of stereotype content: dehumanization theory (DT) and the stereotype… Continue Reading
Borderline Citizens: The US, Puerto Rico, and the Politics of Colonial Law and Migration, 1998-1948
Faculty Mentor: Robert McGreevey Student: Eulogio Kyle Romero During the summer of 2012, I worked under the direction of Dr. Robert McGreevey of the History department. Our MUSE project focused around revising Dr. McGreevey’s book manuscript entitled, Borderline Citizens: The United States, Puerto Rico, and the Politics of Colonial Law and Migration, 1898-1948. Dr. McGreevey’s… Continue Reading