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North Trenton
Diane Bates was recently promoted to Associate Professor of Sociology. She has worked since 1996 on documenting social and environmental change in Ecuador's Southern Amazonian region. Since returning to New Jersey in 2003, she has begun to research environmental issues in the greater Trenton area, including how the Delaware River floods in the previous three years have affected riverside communities and how regional planning laws affect the state's affordable housing and public education. In 2005, she began to investigate the King-Jefferson annex site. In Summer 2006, Johanna Soto and Tamaria Green conducted preliminary investigations of this site, which were continued in Fall 2006 by a team of six students. In summer 2007, student researchers Tamaria Green and Regine Saintilien will help conduct final analysis of data collected from and about this site.
Tamaria Green, junior Sociology major, is excited about working with Dr. Bates again on the environmental and social issues of the nearby North Trenton. She has training in both qualitative and quantitative research from classes taken at TCNJ and a previous summer research experience. She currently works as a research assistant for the Equal Opportunity Program in conjunction with The Office of Institutuional Research and Assessment analyzing the affects of the program’s Promise Award. She is certified by the National Cancer Institute for Human Participation Protection. She was recently named a Minority Academic Careers Fellow and won a Phi Kappa Phi research award to complete her senior thesis. She is resident of the city of Trenton and is eager to graduate in 2008. After graduation, Tamaria plans on attending a doctoral program for sociological research.
Regine Saintilien is Junior at the College of New Jersey. She is currently double majoring in Sociology and Communication Studies, in the Corporate and Organization Track. Regine is the Vice President and a founding member of the Haitian Student Association at the College of New Jersey. She also is a member of the New Jersey Association of Haitian Students, a non profit organization dedicated to community services and awareness about the Haitian. Regine is also Vice President of the Abrianeme Chapter of Mu Sigma Upsilon Sorority Inc., the first Multicultural Sorority in the nation.
