rone of two Northeastern students
to represent the University at the
Integrated Learning in Sweden this
June. The symposium, sponsored by
the World Association for Cooperative
Education (WACE), provided an oppor-
tunity for an international group of
researchers and practitioners to explore
issues and exchange experiences on
cooperative education.
the greatest thing for me was having a
chance to reflect on my Northeastern
experience. To say, `I started at this point
and I improved in these ways, not just
as a student but as a person.'"
dozens of applicants and eight finalists
who were interviewed individually. Her
co-op and academic work more than
qualified her as an ideal example of the
value of cooperative education.
Biologic Knowledge Lab, where she
developed software to help biologists
search large technical databases.
By her junior year she had co authored
three peer-reviewed presentations,
including a poster at the Institute
of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
(IEEE) Computational Systems
Bioinformatics Conference.
working as a software developer in its
fixed income technologies group. "I
wanted to have varied experiences so
that I could make a better career decision
when I graduated," she explains.
Bunche scholar. The co-op symposium
was her first opportunity to travel
abroad. "It was amazing," she says.
"We were in a non-tourist area, so we
had a perfect opportunity to experience
how people live."
representatives with about a thousand
members in more than forty countries.
Grimes met students from Canada,
and Germany. "It was interesting to see
how co-op is done in different places,"
she says. "In Sweden, schools are much
more involved in structuring the co-op
assignment and students usually stay
with one employer."
conferences typically showcase formal
research presentations on cooperative
education, while the symposia allow
time for interactive sessions and deeper
exploration and debate on current issues.
The 2004 Symposium was hosted by the
University of Trollhättan/Uddevalla on
the West Coast of Sweden. The 2005
World Conference will be held on the
Northeastern campus.
for me was having a chance
is continuing to study practical ways to render and apply his
solutions.
Hospital Radiology Oncology Department. She has made a
model of lung tumor movement. As patients breathe, their
lungs expand and contract. If they have a tumor on their
lungs, the tumor moves with the lung. Thus, it becomes
difficult to aim a laser at the tumor. Wu has been able to
model this movement using piecewise linear approximations.
She is then able to predict future movement given the
sequences of past movement for the same patient. She has
given a presentation of this work in a medical conference.
In addition, she has published another paper on piecewise
linear approximations where she used a similar technique
to predict financial trends. This paper was published in
the proceedings of the ACM Special Interest Group on
Management of Data, in Paris in June 2004.
Languages via Partial Evaluation" in the International Conference
on Functional Programming, one of the elite conferences in
the field of programming languages. An important trend in
modern programming languages is the ability of application
programmers to extend the language when needed for new
areas of application. However, this makes it difficult to design
debugging tools, since the tools cannot predict what exten-
sions programmers might add. Herman's and Meunier's paper
demonstrates a technique for transforming such extensions so
that debugging tools for the original language will remain use-
ful and continue to give useful feedback to the programmer.
graduation ceremony on April 28, 2004.
Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award: Marc Dougherty
Distinguished Undergraduate Citizenship Award: Rachel Mark
Outstanding Graduate Research Award: Huanmei Wu, Sergei Kojarski
Distinguished Graduate Citizenship Award: Fabio Rojas