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PERFORMANCES:

Fay Gerbes, Soprano, Music Literature and Performance /Theatre '02
Selections from her Senior Recital

Jungmee Kim, Piano, Music Literature and Performance '04
Selections from her Middler Recital

Brendan O'Connor, Bass, Music Literature and Performance '04
Selections from his Middler Recital

PRESENTATIONS:

Project Participants
Project Title
Project Description

Matthew Arruda, Psychology, Student
Dr. Judith Hall, Psychology, Faculty
Confederate Mood, Compliance, and Emotional Contagion
This study examined whether a confederate's mood was "caught" by participants, so as to produce emotional contagion.

Melissa Cote, Psychology, Student
Allison Baker, Psychology, Student
Jeremy Mulligan, Psychology, Student
Fei Xu, Psychology, Faculty
Using Featural Information for Object Individuation at 14 Months
We investigated the kinds of information infants use to individuate objects using a manual search task.

Liz Barraff, Psychology, Student
John Coley, Psychology, Faculty
Expert and Novice Inductive Reasoning in Fast and Slow Conditions
This study shows that despite the fact that music experts and novices categorize different composers the same way, experts differ significantly from novices when forced to reason about these categories in inductive reasoning tasks.

Liz Baraff, Psychology, Student
Professor Joshua Jacobson, Music, Faculty
Revisiting Jewish Musicality in America: A Follow-up Study
This research is based on a study completed by Keith Sward almost 70 years ago. In his study, Sward discovered that there was a staggeringly high number of Jewish performers in U.S. top orchestras. Our study seeks to examine today's statistics and proposes some possible social reasons for the dramatic decreases.

Renee Bielawski, Graphic Design, Student
Mira Cantor, Visual Arts, Faculty
Design of Brochure for Mira Cantor's Exhibition "Skin"
Renee produced and designed a brochure for Professor Cantor's exhibition of new paintings.

Katherine Blaszczyk, Psychology, Student
John Coley, Psychology, Faculty
Rural and Urban Child Reasoning about Nature
This study looks at how rural and urban children reason about various items found in nature

Perrin Cohen, NUCASE, Faculty
Melissa McDaniels, Co-op, Faculty
Martin Block, Psychology, Faculty
Kelley Bethoney, Psychology, Student
Learning to Notice and Discuss Ethical Concerns on the Co-op Job
Integration of practice and study provides a natural way for students to identify, investigate, and respond to ethical concerns and issues that are of professional interest. We describe a one-credit course that allows students to use their current co-op placements to reflect upon and investigate ethical concerns within their workplace.

H. William Detrich, Biology, Faculty
Masters Program in Bioinformatics
The new Northeastern University and Boston University cooperative bioinformatics program draws on the academic strengths and industrial contacts of both universities. "By transforming the raw data of the human genome into useful information, [bioinformatists] will enable some of the most impressive advances in drug discovery in the near future."

Mike Friedman, Music Industry, Student
Laura Woollett, English, Student
John LaLonde, Alum
Chris Brice, Alum
Skope Magazine
Founded by Mike Friedman, Skope Magazine is a publication devoted to bringing innovative and established artists who perform outside the mainstream music culture, to the public through Skope publication, web site, and concert series.

Richard Gramzow, Psychology, Faculty
Anthony Romanelli, Psychology, Student
Kitty Leung, Psychology, Student
Implicit Self-Esteem and Social Desirability Bias
Examines links between an automatic, or implicit, measure of self-esteem and the tendency to display self-deceptive enhancement and self-deceptive denial.

Richard Gramzow, Psychology, Faculty
Elana Chudin, Psychology, Student
Victor Lo, Psychology, Student
Exaggerating One's GPA and SAT Scores
Actual and self-reported GPA and SAT scores were compared. The tendency to exaggerate one's GPA scores was related to high self-esteem and achievement motivation.

Judith Hall, Psychology, Faculty
Bhushan Babajiyavar, Psychology, Student
Cross Cultural Gender Differences in Emotion and Personality
An examination of gender differences in the Albanian and American cultures on a number of emotion and personality variables.

Judith Hall, Psychology, Faculty
Dana R. Carney, Psychology, Graduate Student
Rajina Filip, Psychology, Student
Characteristics of People Who Are Accepting of Stereotypes
Research was undertaken to examine the attitudinal, behavioral, and personality correlates of believing that stereotypes are useful in daily life.

Inez Hedges, Cinema Studies, Faculty
Liz Ficken, Graphic Design, Student
Boston Modernism Web Site
This is an ongoing project in the junior/senior capstone course in Cinema Studies

Luke MacDonald, Physics, Student
Nathan Israeloff, Physics, Faculty
What is the "Temperature" of a Nonequilibrium,

Stacey Jakubowski, Study Abroad Program, Staff
Study Abroad
Collection of artifacts from students' study abroad and internship abroad experiences: narratives, photos and souvenir, as well as some student art.

Nat Johnson, Music, Staff
Virginia Eskin, Music, Faculty
Melissa Misicka, Music, Student
Music Matters
Reborn from the former Northeastern and WGBH sponsored radio program "A Note to You," Music Matters is a website dedicated to educating listening audiences on a variety of music-related topics. Presented in streaming Real Audio format, programs of roughly 7-10 minutes contain musical examples and explanatory narration in categories such as Latin Pop and Italian Opera. Each audio program is accompanied by informative text and images, as well as links to sites where an interested participant can delve further into the subject matter.

Priscilla Kelso, International Co-op, Staff
Sandra Costa, International Co-op, Staff
Lisa Broderick, International Co-op, Staff
Susan Donio, International Co-op, Staff
Elizabeth Cameron, International Co-op, Staff
International Co-op: Work Abroad Opportunities
To promote practice-oriented education overseas, International Co-op offers employment opportunities in 3 regions of the world -- Europe, Asia Pacific, and Latin America. Students from many academic disciplines are encouraged to explore co-op in the global workplace.

Carissa Kemp, Psychology, Student
Tara Kane, Psychology, Student
John Coley, Psychology, Faculty
Olga Stepanova, Psychology, Graduate Student
Experience and Reasoning about Alcoholic Drinks in Undergraduates
Past research shows that experts use categories differently than novices in reasoning. We are interested in whether experienced drinkers reason differently about alcoholic beverages than those who are not experienced.

Sharon J. Kim, English/Communications, Student
Richard Katula, Communications, Faculty
3rd Edition of "A Synoptic History of Classical Rhetoric"
Project will detail research assistance for book revision on classical rhetoric

Robert Grier, Director, Operations, Curry Student Center
afterHours

Mikhail Malioutov, Mathematics, Faculty
Tanya Kerdeinikova, Mathematics, Student
Rostislov Protassov, Statistics, Student
Bayesian Approach to Parameter Estimation of Protein Motion
Statistical analysis of experiential data provided by Harvard Medical School on Protein Dynamics over Membranes of Red Blood Cells.

Maleshwane Mauco, Psychology, Student
John Coley, Psychology, Faculty
Analogical Reasoning and Story-telling in Batswana Children
This study hypothesized that despite contrary research about children's analogical reasoning skills, children who grow up in a story-telling culture are better at analogical reasoning tasks than those who are not from a similar culture. The study looked at Batswana rural and urban children to prove the hypothesis.

Heather Berg, Psychology, Student
Michele Mondini, Psychology, Graduate Student
Joanne L. Miller, Psychology, Faculty
Word Segmentation in American English
This project investigates the processes listeners use to segment the continuously varying speech signal into discrete words when listening to spoken language.

Thalia Mouskounti, Psychology, Student
Allison Baker, Psychology, Graduate Student
John Coley, Psychology, Faculty
Taxonomic and Ecologically-based Reasoning Strategies Among Experts and Novices
This study examines the differences between experts and novices' reasoning strategies in answering inductive reasoning questions.

Christopher King, Mathematics, Faculty
Michael Nathanson, Mathematics, Student
Information Capacity of Quantum Systems
We present examples of quantum systems whose capacity for information storage is unexpectedly large, and we present exact calculations of the capacity.

Joni Osterhaudt, Geology, Staff
Peter Rosen, Geology, Faculty
Field Studies in Geology
Descriptions and photos of various field experiences in Geology and Environmental Geology, which are an integral part of these majors at NU.

Peter Rosen, Marine Studies, Faculty
SEA Semester
An informational video about the Woods Hole program, providing students with tall ship sailing and oceanographic research experience. A representative from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute will be present.

Mike Peabody, Psychology, Student
Randy Colvin, Psychology, Faculty
The Role of Adult Attachment Style on Social Behavior
Investigated the relationship between adult attachment style and self-rated personality and independently-rated social behavior in opposite-sex interactions

Maria Perona, Behavioral Neuroscience, Student
Richard Melloni, Psychology, Faculty
Adolescent Cocaine, Seratonin, and Aggression in Hamsters
Examined the effects of adolescent cocaine exposure on the anatomy and function of the hypothalamic neural systems controlling aggression.

John Portz, Interim Director of University Honors Program
Junior/Senior Honors Projects in the College of Arts and Sciences

Rick Wiltshire, Psychology, Student
Daniel Quinn, Psychology, Faculty
Allison Baker, Psychology, Student
Determining Student Preference for Hybrid Course Format Against Traditional Lecture Course
This is an educational technology project comparing a traditional lecture format course with a hybrid course format

David Rochefort, Political Science, Faculty
Students from "Student Leadership Seminar"
Student Leadership Seminar
This will be a poster presentation highlighting the work of students in the Winter 2002 "Student Leadership Seminar"

Cecily Schuler, Behavioral Neuroscience, Student
John Coley, Psychology, Faculty
Cognitive Flexibility Generalization & Idiosyncratic Behavior in Children with Autism
Comparing ability of autistic children to categorize and generalize information in reference to their idiosyncratic behavior

Susan Setta, CEA/Philosophy and Religion, Faculty
Faculty Undergraduate Research Initiative
This presentation will describe the Faculty Undergraduate Research Initiative's activities for Winter through Spring, 2002

Kristen Simonelli, Center of Community Service, Staff
CEA Academic Service-Learning Project and the SHARE Program
Presentation describing the Center for Community Service, the Service-Learning Program, and Students Helping Adults with Reading and English (SHARE)

Kristen Simonelli, Center of Community Service, Staff,
Whitnee Hawthorne, Stride Rite Scholar, Student
Kathryn Sanderson, Stride Rite Scholar, Student
Evan McIntire, Stride Rite Scholar, Student
Abigail August, Stride Rite Scholar, Student
Stride Rite Community Scholars Program
In this cooperative venture between NU and community organizations, students have the opportunity to apply their skills and interests to the needs of the organization.

Wendy Smith, Biology, Faculty
Susan Powers-Lee, Biology, Faculty
Students from "Biology Capstone Class"
Experiential Capstone in Biology
Examples are provided of presentations (made as part of the capstone course, BIO 1494) which explore scientific questions related to the students' co-ops or other experiential activities.

Wendy Smith, Biology, Faculty
Renee Paquette, Biology, Student
Jason Morais, Biochemistry, Student
Mary Beth Oliveira, Biology, Student
Metamorphic Changes in Proteins Associated with the Insect Molting Glands
Student research on cellular changes in the insect molting glands helps us to better understand how metamorphosis is regulated, which may lead to safer means of insect control.

Pamela Goodale, Co-op, Faculty
Jaqui Sweeney, Co-op, Faculty
Richard Katula, Communication Studies, Faculty
Senior Portfolios
The senior portfolios are the culmination of students' academic and co-op work experiences. Students produce a professional portfolio suitable for use in employment interviews or graduate schools

Emily Kales, Psychology, Faculty
Students from PSY 1365, "Clinical Case Study"
Clinical Psychology: From Theory to Practice
Students from Psychology 1375 Clinical Case Study Development will be presenting examples of clinical populations they have worked with as well as clinical experiences they have had. This exhibition will show how students utilized the training they received in their classes in "real world" work situations. Our exhibit will demonstrate the interaction between academic study and human service experiences.

Lihua Wang, NU Women's Studies, Staff
Sara Sheridan-McAndrew, NU Feminist Student Organization
Service-Learning Module, Northeastern University Feminist Study Activities
The internship experience in Women's Studies emphasizes learning about women's issues, such as women in leadership roles, reproduction, violence in the families, and many others, all by community service and advocacy.

Peter Wiederspahn, Architecture, Faculty
Housing Proposals for Geneva Avenue, Dorchester, MA
This studio focuses on the design of housing and its integration into Boston's neighborhoods, main streets, and the metro-area transportation and economic infrastructure

William Wray, Co-op/Political Science, Faculty
Various Students from Washington DC Internship Program
Washington DC Internship Program
Coordinator and students will be available to discuss work experiences in the Washington DC Internship Program, as well as present materials relating to the program.

Louise McBryde, Interdisciplinary Studies, Faculty
Chris Teague, English, Student
The Politics of Short Film Exhibition and Distribution
Faculty/undergraduate research exploring the extent to which short films are not promoted (or why only certain short films are promoted) beyond their initial festivalization.

Opportunities in Cooperative Education
Co-op Coordinators from different disciplines will be on hand to discuss the options available to and experiences of students in co-op.