College of Engineering
“Engineering is one of the pillars on which the entire structure of Northeastern rests,” President Richard M. Freeland stated in the March 1998 Northeastern University Alumni Magazine. “There is no strong future for Northeastern without a strong College of Engineering.” Nearly two years into his job, Dean Allen Soyster oversees new, cutting-edge teaching facilities; top faculty; rich academic offerings; great research productivity; and more than a few stellar students.

Selected Student Achievements

• Electrical engineering majors Jeffry Ross and Fraya Kaufman brought national recognition to Northeastern. Ross won the Zerby-Koerner Outstanding Electrical Engineering Student Award, given by the international Eta Kappa Nu Association. Kaufman was named National Co-op Student of the Year in the engineering division of the Cooperative Education Association.

• Other student standouts include Monica Gupta, who received a scholarship from the Society of Women Engineers/GTE Foundation; Daniel Saulnier, 1998 National Environmental Engineering Essay Contest winner; and Justin Gardinier, who won a scholarship from the American Society of Civil Engineers.

• Northeastern’s student chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) transformed an asphalt parking lot into a yard with grass, flowers, and a gravel drive at a community house in Jamaica Plain. With the Wentworth Institute of Technology ASCE, it evaluated accessibility for the disabled on the Freedom Trail, providing a report on alternative access to the city of Boston.

• Thirteen engineering students won the 1998 Northeastern President’s Award for placing within the top ten in their respective classes.
Selected Faculty Highlights

• Assistant Professor Jeffrey Hopwood received a four-year Faculty Early Career Development grant from the National Science Foundation, and Assistant Professor Aleksander Stankovic earned similarly prestigious recognition as an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator. Both are faculty members within the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), which has total sponsored research ranked in the top 10 percent nationally.

• Back by a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation, a team led by Mishac Yegian, professor and chair of the Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) department, is working to develop materials and analytic tools that isolate buildings, bridges, and other structures from damaging energies during earthquakes.

• Achille Messac, an associate professor of mechanical, industrial, and manufacturing engineering (MIME), participated in the first German–American Frontiers of Engineering symposium in Dresden. The goal: stronger German and American cooperation in science and engineering.

• Jacqueline Isaacs, assistant MIME professor, received a four-year Faculty Early Career Development grant from the National Science Foundation.

• Carey Rappaport, associate ECE professor and associate director of the Center for Electromagnetic Research, represented the United States at the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency Advisory Group meeting in Vienna. The topic: low-cost means of detecting land mines.

• Yiannis Levendis, associate MIME professor, and graduate students Iraklis Pavlatos and Chris Larsen presented a paper at the first European Conference on Clean Cars in Athens. Levendis and student researchers also presented three papers at the Fifth International Congress on Toxic Combustion Byproducts.

• Ronald Willey, professor of chemical engineering (CE), participated in a fall sabbatical at the University of Nottingham in England, where he helped integrate computer control programs for student instruction.

• Professor Chung Chan (ECE) was elected a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Professor Ibrahim Zeid is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

• Two new assistant professors joined the engineering faculty in 1997. Akram Alshawabkeh (CEE), a specialist in soil mechanics and foundations, came to Northeastern from Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, New York. James Benneyan (MIME) has research interests in quality engineering and applied statistics.

College News
• Fabrizio Lombardi, previously professor of computer science at Texas A&M University, has been selected as the new ECE department chair. Lombardi succeeds Arvin Grabel, who last year served capably as acting chair after John Proakis stepped down.

• With the new Center for Advanced Microgravity Materials Processing up and running, Albert Sacco Jr., the George Snell Professor of Chemical Engineering, hosted a September 1998 conference on how industry will be able to conduct research and experiments aboard an international space station. Invitees included over fifty staff members from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the nation’s sixteen commercial space centers.

• Northeastern’s graduate engineering program rose six places in the U.S. News & World Report review of 219 universities and is now just fifteen schools away from the coveted top fifty.

Gaining on the Competition

College of Business Administration
The college celebrated its seventy-fifth anniversary in April, with financial guru Peter Lynch serving as keynote speaker at the festivities. The milestone coincided with surging admission applications and increasing average SAT and GMAT scores, as the college continues to tap into new student markets nationwide.

Selected Student Achievements
• In September, accounting major Robert James, accounting and marketing major Brandi Long, and accounting and finance major Kelly Neill were among the first twelve Northeastern students to win Presidential Scholarships, given annually by the University to those who, by the end of their sophomore year, show promise in their professional studies, the arts and sciences, and co-op.

• MBA students Amitabh Amitabh, Brian Fahey, Jean King, and Richard Outcault—supported by faculty coach Ravi Ramamurti—prevailed over teams from thirty other business schools to claim first prize at the 1998 Concordia University MBA International Case Competition in Montreal. They went on to take first place at the Dalhousie International Competition, sponsored by Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia.

• Senior Peter Philbrick received one of Northeastern’s 1998 Cooperative Education Awards. Philbrick has worked at Arthur Andersen, IBM, and Shaw’s Supermarkets.

Selected Faculty Highlights
• Last fall, the college welcomed two new tenure-track faculty members: Jeffrey Hess, assistant professor of marketing, and Mario Maletta, associate professor in accounting.

• Don Rich, assistant professor of finance, won the 1997 Institute for Quantitative Investment Research first prize for the presentation “Disaster Insurance: Risk-Containment Strategies for Investors with Multivariate Utility.”
• Finance professor Harlan Platt authored the book Principles of Corporate Renewal, and general management professor Heidi Vernon wrote the sixth edition of Business and Society: A Managerial Approach.

• Edward Wertheim, associate professor of human resources management, received an Excellence in Teaching Award at the 1998 June commencement ceremonies.

• Cited for revamping the college’s structure and enhancing its programs, Dean Ira Weiss was reappointed to a three-year term.

College News
• Breakfast meetings maintained a strong link between the college and the business community. Among the featured speakers: Thomas Stemberg, chair and chief executive officer of Staples; Scott McNealy, president and chair of Sun Microsystems; Richard Notebaert, chair and chief executive officer of Ameritech; John Zeglis, president and head of operations at AT&T; and Robert Lutz, vice chairman of Chrysler Corporation.

• Success magazine, updating its survey of the best business schools for entrepreneurs in an August 1998 story, ranked Northeastern’s MBA program in thirtieth place, calling it one of the ten “hot up-and-comers.”

• The college’s part-time MBA program tied for twenty-first place in a survey conducted by U.S. News & World Report.

Keeping Pace In a Technological Age

College of Computer Science
With a booming job market awaiting computer science graduates and computer literacy growing ever more essential for all students, the college faces challenges and opportunities. Over the coming decade, undergraduate enrollments are slated to grow by 45 percent. Meanwhile, Dean Larry Finkelstein is working to develop a new information sciences program combining tech- nological knowledge with a strong understanding of such disciplines as health, business, or criminal justice.

Selected Student Achievements
• In the fall, middler Peter Sirota became one of the first twelve students to win a Northeastern Presidential Scholarship.

• Undergraduates John Cataldo, Daniel Rinehart, and Fabio Rojas placed fifth out of seventeen teams in the preliminary round of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest for the Northeast Region.

• In June, Michael Raynus received the Alcott Award, given each year to a Northeastern senior demonstrating exceptional achievement in cooperative education and extraordinary intellectual accomplishments.

Selected Faculty Highlights
• In September, Assistant Professor Ibrahim Matta received the National Science Founda- tion (NSF) Career Award in support of his research on advanced wide-area communi- cation networks.

• Other faculty garnering NSF funding: Professor Gene Cooperman (“Connections Among Applied Computational Group Theory, Matrix Representations, and Parallel Computation”) and Professor Mitchell Wand (“Analysis-Based Program Transformation”). In addition, the NSF awarded Professor Agnes Chan a Professional Opportunity for Women in Research and Education grant in support of her project titled “Ultrafast Pseudorandom Sequence Generation.”

• A two-year, $500,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health is supporting the development of the Early Vocalization Analyzer© (EVA), a project run by Professor Harriet Fell (computer science), Associate Professor Linda Ferrier (speech-language pathology and audiology), and the Lexington-based Speech Technology and Applied Research. EVA analyzes recorded samples of infant vocalizations, helping evaluate whether infants are at risk for communication or other developmental problems.

• The college’s faculty were well represented at the University’s first-ever technical expo, held in May in collaboration with the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative. Among the presenters were professors Karl Lieberherr and Harriet Fell, Associate Professor Kenneth Baclawski, Assistant Professor Ibrahim Matta, and graduate students Liang Guo and Tyler Chambers.

• Professor Mitchell Wand is co-editor of Handbook of Character Recognition and Document Image Analysis, published in fall 1997. Professor Gene Cooperman is co-editor of Workshop on High-Performance Computing and Gigabit Local Area Networks.

College News
• The exceptional employment picture for computer science graduates made the front page of the June 25, 1998, New York Times. The article, which quoted Carol Lyons, Northeastern’s dean of career services, discussed the signing bonuses, relocation offers, stock options, and high starting salaries being offered.

• To enhance academic–industrial research collaboration, Professor Betty Salzberg is organizing an NSF-funded workshop that will allow industry practitioners and academic researchers to discuss issues in database implementation.

• Stints at Microsoft Corporation are among the most sought-after co-op opportunities. Six students worked at Microsoft in the summer of 1997. Microsoft became categorized as a regular co-op employer during the past year.


Thriving In the Age of Practice

College of Arts and Sciences
The end of the year saw the appointment of a new dean for the college. After a nationwide search that produced eighty-five candidates, Northeastern chose one of its own: Psychology department chair James Stellar. With Robert Lowndes now on sabbatical after eleven years as dean, Stellar inherits a college that has truly come of age. Freshman admission applications have risen 120 percent over the last six years, and the average SAT score is up more than 170 points, to over 1100. During the past year, the college received more than $11.4 million in external research funding—providing a strong base on which to build.

Selected Student Achievements
• In the fall, psychology major Jennifer Bergh, mathematics major Alexander Vasserman, and American Sign Language–English interpreting/ elementary education double major Michelle Gabor were among the first twelve Presidential Scholarship winners.

• Clara Holt and Kelly O’Donaughy were named Matthews Scholars, giving them financial support during their senior-year co-op quarter to pursue full-time research and scholarly endeavors related to their honors theses.

• Six Northeastern students—Kathleen Brandt, Andrew Hulme, Michelle Pallow, Emin Rasulov, Heather St. Germaine, and Andrea Thompkins—and Christopher Bosso, chair of the Political Science department, attended the Eighth Cairo International Model Arab League conference, one of only two U.S. delegations.

Selected Faculty Highlights
• Arts and Sciences welcomed eight new tenured and tenure-track faculty members: Professor Donald Heiman, physics, and assistant professors Thomas Starr and Peter Wiederspahn, art and architecture; Kevin Howley, communication studies; Elizabeth Britt, English; Harry Kuoshu, modern languages and cinema studies; Jeffrey Burds, history; and Donald O’Malley, biology.

• In the spring, physics professor Srinivas Sridhar was selected the 1998 College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor, for his efforts to devise new instructional approaches.

• Guy Rotella, professor of English, was named Northeastern’s thirty-fourth annual Robert D. Klein Lecturer. In his address, Rotella explored the relationships between poetry and work.

• Anthropology professor Alan Klein is serving as president of the North American Society for Sport Sociology for 1998–1999.

• The University named biology professor Carol Warner a Matthews Distinguished University Professor. She will organize a symposium examining the scientific, moral, and ethical issues involved in cloning and reproduction.

• The Barnett Institute, which celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary in 1997–1998, was the focus of a special issue of American Laboratories, an international scientific journal.

• In June, Robert Case, associate professor of mathematics, received the prestigious Distinguished Teaching in Mathematics Award from the Mathematics Association of America.

• The Physics department’s Stephen Reucroft, Matthews Distinguished University Professor, was one of several U.S. scientists invited to Washington, D.C., for the signing of a historic international agreement on particle physics.

• In recognition of his contributions to the understanding of low-dimensional critical phenomena and quantum chaos, Matthews Distinguished University Professor Jorge Jose, of the Physics department, has been elected a fellow of the American Physical Society.

• In recognition of pioneering work in hetero-geneous catalysis with controlled atmosphere electron microscopy, the Catalysis Society of Metropolitan New York granted its 1998 Award for Excellence in Catalysis to chemistry professor Terry Baker.

• Northeastern honored twenty-eight of the college’s faculty members for creating a major work during 1997–1998.

• Political science professor David Rochefort was one of three winners of Northeastern’s 1998 Excellence in Teaching Award.
College News

• After twenty-six years at Northeastern—four as chair of the History department—Professor William Fowler resigned in fall 1997 to become director of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Assistant Professor Gerald Herman is serving as acting chair.

• In conjunction with Northeastern’s year-long centennial celebration, the college sponsored a series of campus addresses by Nobel Laureates, including former president of Costa Rica Oscar Arias and South African writer Nadine Gordimer.


A Major Push in the Health Professions

By year’s end, the proposed merger of Bouvé College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences with the College of Nursing had been approved, pending the appointment of a dean. Trustee and 1957 pharmacy graduate George Behrakis pledged $6 million toward the construction of a new health sciences building and designated another $1.3 million in previously donated funds toward a trustee professorship in pharmaceutical sciences. Achievements throughout the year signalled Northeastern’s growing potential in the health professions.

Bouvé College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

Selected Student Achievements
• In the fall, Northeastern awarded Presidential Scholarships to middlers Pulin Patel, pharmacy major, and Holly Oullette, physical therapy major.

• PharmD 1998 graduates Sophie Lanjuin and Donald Rogers brought special recognition to the college. Lanjuin garnered three honors, including the Eli Lilly Achievement Award. Rogers won the Surgeon General’s Award, the Wall Street Journal Achievement Award, and scholarships from Osco Drug and the Northeastern Pharmacy Alumni Association.

• The Student Academy of the Association of Physician Assistants awarded a certificate of recognition (one of only three nationally) to the 1998 physician assistant class for their contributions to hospice care. Stacy Dinwiddie, ’98, served as the Academy’s president.

• Cardiopulmonary sciences (CS) major Richard Regnante won the University’s Alumni Asso- ciate Professional Promise Award for helping to develop a clinic through Goddard Medical Associates for a pacemaker implantation/ cardioverter-defibrillator and compiling a manual on pacemaker programming.

• Medical laboratory science (MLS) doctoral student Charlene Repique received an Excellence in Teaching Award, and MLS graduate students Ram Rammohan, Neha Reshamwala, and Edward Sklu were invited to join the Phi Kappa Phi honor society.

Selected Faculty Highlights
• Bouvé welcomed a new assistant professor: Christine Wilson, in the Physical Therapy (PT) department.

• Kevin Kearns, chair of the Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology department, received a three-year appointment as an editor of the International Journal of Aphasiology, and the department’s external funding increased substantially, thanks to National Institutes of Health research grants given to Matthews Distinguished University Professor Mary Florentine and post- doctoral research associate Andrew Oxenham.

• Lorraine Snell Visiting Professor Mary Lou Turgeon was invited to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as part of an international team assessing the need for a medical laboratory science education program for women.

• Britta Karlsson, associate MLS professor, received the 1998 Sysmex Toa Award from the International Association of Medical Laboratory Technologists.

• Maura Iversen, assistant PT professor, received the New Investigator Award from the National Arthritis Foundation.

• Two patents and two patents pending have resulted from research conducted by a team led by Richard Deth, professor of pharmaceutical science, into the use of D4 dopamine receptors.

• The Association of Schools of Allied Health Professions named Judith Barr, associate pharmacy administration and MLS professor, its Member of the Year.
• A Fulbright Fellowship supported Professor James Scorzelli’s work in Thailand developing academic programs in rehabilitation counseling.

• Thomas Barnes, associate CS professor, received the Jimmy A. Young Medal, the highest honor awarded by the American Association for Respiratory Care.

• Kristin Oberg, assistant professor of clinical pharmacy, received a 1998 Northeastern Excellence in Teaching Award.
College News

• After twenty-six years at Northeastern, including six as Bouvé’s dean, James Gozzo stepped down to become president of Albany College of Pharmacy in New York. Associate dean and associate CS professor Patrick Plunkett is serving as interim dean.

• A new clinic at the Marino Recreation Center offers rehabilitation and physician services. Operated by New England Baptist Hospital, the facility will provide clinical, co-op, and research opportunities for faculty and students.

• To meet increasing public demand for information, the pharmacy program initiated an elective course in alternative medicine. Other recent Bouvé initiatives: a proposed Master of Science in Physician Assistant Studies, the proposed development of a course on the physics of exercise physiology, and further implementation of interactive computer-assisted learning in undergraduate MLS courses.

• During the year, Bouvé helped organize conferences on the future of laboratory medicine in an era of managed care, the ability of nonnative listeners to understand speech, and the training of mental health professionals. The college also hosted the American Speech and Hearing Association and an international symposium on targeting cardiovascular systems.

College of Nursing

Selected Student Achievements
• Graduate student Maryanne Kirkbridge was awarded a $5,000 1997 Nursing Economics Foundation scholarship.

• In March, undergraduate Peter Storer represented Massachusetts at an international oncology conference in Rio de Janeiro, the sixth consecutive year a Northeastern student was so honored by the Helene Field Foundation.

• Galina Chervony received the Presidential Award for ranking among the top ten students in the class of 1998.

Selected Faculty Highlights
• The college welcomed new assistant professor Margaret Christensen and new associate professor Lynn Babington.

• Associate Professor Margery Chisholm received an Excellence in Education Award from the American Psychiatric Nurses Association. She also received the Emerging Leadership Award from the Washington, D.C.–based Institute for Behavior Health Care.

• Jewish Memorial Hospital and Rehabilitation Center honored Dean Eileen Zungolo with a humanitarian award for her leadership in community-based health education. She was also named Nurse Educator of the Year by Teachers College at Columbia University. This fall, she will be inducted into the American Academy of Nursing and will receive the Nurse Educator Award from the Massachusetts Nurses Association.

• Associate Professor Elizabeth Howard and Assistant Professor Kathleen Miller received a research grant from the Massachusetts Association of Colleges of Nursing to explore how diagnostic reasoning and critical-thinking skills develop in graduate nursing students. Howard also received a research grant from the Charles H. Farnsworth Trust to implement a community-based exercise program for the elderly in East Boston.

• Faculty members Jane Aroian, Olivia Breton, Margaret Mahoney, and Kathleen Miller presented the findings of their studies at the Sigma Theta Tan Tenth International Research Congress, held in the Netherlands.

• Associate Professor Michelle Beauchesne was elected president of the American Association on Mental Retardation.

• Contemporary Psychiatric–Mental Health Nursing: The Brain–Behavior Connection, written by Assistant Professor Carol Glod, was published
in the spring by F. A. Davis Company.

• Assistant Professor Rosanna DeMarco is serving as a member of the legislative cabinet of the Massachusetts Nurses Association and has been appointed chair of the research group of the Ad Hoc Committee to Defend Health Care.

• Elmer Freeman, executive director of the Center for Community Health Education Research and Service (CCHERS), spoke about the value of
community-based health education before President Clinton’s advisory board at a hearing in July.

• Patricia Hollen and Peggy Matteson, both associate professors, were awarded tenure.

College News
• College of Nursing graduate programs were ranked fifty-third in U.S. News & World Report. The college was one of only two without doctoral studies to rank this high. The pediatric nurse practitioner program was rated twenty-second among nearly 250 programs nationwide.

• In June, Dean Zungolo received a Fulbright Scholar Award. She is spending four months in Thailand at Khoen Kaen University, where she is helping to develop a quality assurance in nursing education program, conducting research, and lecturing on women’s health issues. Carole Shea, associate dean for academic affairs, is acting dean during Zungolo’s absence.

• As the year ended, the college and CCHERS prepared to make Northeastern the permanent home of the Health Careers Academy, a Horace Mann charter school and part of the Boston public school system. Some 174 high school students are attending the academy this fall, taking courses ranging from English, to the sciences, to social studies, and participating in internships, youth-development programs, and after-school programs.

• The Marion Frager Nursing Learning Laboratory, dedicated in September 1998, was made possible by a generous donation from the Frager family. The lab features new computer-assisted instruction and state-of-the-art clinical equipment for honing nursing skills.

• Backed by a Department of Education grant, Associate Professor Barbara Kelley and Assistant Professor Margaret Mahoney travelled to Europe to work with faculty and students on a cultural exchange program. During 1998–1999, the college will host students from Portugal and send students to Finland.


A Leader in Practice-Based Legal Education

School of Law
As 1997–1998 came to a close, the law school’s recent achievements and growing stature received due recognition when David Hall—dean for the past five years—was tapped to serve as the University’s provost. In recommending Hall for the top academic post, President Freeland cited his intellectual stature, academic experience, and capacity for leadership. Hall began his new job on July 1.

Selected Student Achievements
• Rachael Splaine was named National Outstanding Law Student of the Year by Who’s Who in American Law Students. She is the first student of color and one of only two women this year to receive the award.

• A recipient of a prestigious Skadden Fellowship for 1998–1999, Emma Leheny, L ’97, provides legal training and community education to welfare recipients through the Western Center on Law and Poverty in Los Angeles, California. Other students on fellowships include Robert Lominack, Karin Raye, Christina Rosado, Susana SaCouto, and Elizabeth Tobin Tyler, class of 1998; and David Rothstein, class of 1997.

• First-year law student Sandy DeRobertis was one of twenty people nationwide selected by the U.S. Secretary of Labor to receive a Presidential Exemplary Youth Program award in October 1997. His project: a college-preparatory and mentoring program for youths in Rochester, New York.

Selected Faculty Highlights
• In the fall, the law school welcomed two new assistant professors, Pamela Bridgewater and Jorge Esquirol.

• The school named Brook Baker, Clare Dalton, David Phillips, and Jane Scarborough distinguished professors.

• Professor Wendy Parmet was the victorious co-counsel in a path-breaking AIDS discrimination case, Bragdon v. Abbott, before the U.S. Supreme Court.

• Professor Clare Dalton was selected Woman of the Year for 1997 by the Women’s Bar Association of Massachusetts. She was also recognized in the National Law Journal for her work as executive director of the Domestic Violence Institute.

• Matthews Distinguished Professor of Law Michael Meltsner co-wrote the book Reflections on Clinical Legal Education.

• Considerable notice—including a mention in The Washington Post—was given to law professor Lucy Williams’s report on the campaign to enact the federal welfare reforms of 1996.

• Justice Roderick Ireland, the newest member of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and a long-time adjunct faculty member at the law school, received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree at the May commencement.

Law School News
• Daniel Givelber, dean of the law school from 1984 to 1993, is serving as interim dean for the 1998–1999 academic year, while a search is conducted for David Hall’s permanent successor.

• “The Legal Profession: Challenges of the Twenty-First Century”—a new course devised by former dean Hall and John Hamilton, managing partner at the law firm of Hale and Dorr—was featured prominently in the March 2, 1998, U.S. News & World Report.

• Though applications for law school admission have declined nationwide, Northeastern’s newly aggressive efforts to court applicants are paying off, even receiving notice in the New York Times. Initially hoping to fill 185 seats for the fall quarter, the school ended up enrolling 230 students.

• In May, the Honorable Dana Fabe, a 1976 Northeastern graduate, returned to her alma mater to receive an honorary doctoral degree. An associate justice on the Alaska Supreme Court, Fabe is the first woman ever to serve on the court.


LOCAL, REGIONAL, AND
NATIONAL LEADERSHIP

College of Criminal Justice
Offering one of the largest and most highly regarded programs of its kind in the nation, the college was influential locally and nationally as it continued to raise admission standards and expand faculty ranks to boost academic quality. Achievements during the year point toward a promising future.

Selected Student Achievements
• In the fall, middlers Bethany Phipps and Aaron Walters, a history/criminal justice double major, were awarded Presidential Scholarships.

• Senior Jennifer Ackerman completed an internship at the FBI’s Serial Killer and Child Abduction Unit in Quantico, Virginia.

• Brian Lagess, a member of the class of 1998, received a Cooperative Education Award. He held co-op positions at the Berkshire County District Attorney’s Office, the Massachusetts Board of Registration and Medicine, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.

Selected Faculty Highlights
• Among the college’s new faculty members are Associate Professor Michael Buerger and Donald Cochran, the former Massachusetts probation commissioner who in January began a one-year appointment as a visiting professor and research fellow at Northeastern’s Center for Criminal Justice Policy Research.

• In November, Jack McDevitt, director of the Center for Criminal Justice Policy Research, and sociology professor Jack Levin were among the guests invited to the White House for a conference on hate crimes. Supported by a U.S. Department of Justice grant, the center is assisting the FBI in improving hate-crime reporting across the country.

• This winter, Dean James Alan Fox served as a visiting fellow at the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics. In March, Fox was appointed to a national advisory committee on school violence, organized by Attorney General Janet Reno. This summer, he was one of thirteen experts invited to the White House to discuss how to reduce youth violence.

• Professor Nicole Rafter, author of the recently published and highly regarded Creating Born Criminals, was elected chair of the Crime, Law, and Deviance Section of the American Sociological Association. This fall, Rafter joined the faculty of Northeastern’s Law, Policy, and Society program.

College News
• The college followed up last fall’s successful Criminal Justice Expo and Conference in Boston by hosting a second expo at the Los Angeles Convention Center in May. Highly regarded nationwide, the expo and conference return to Boston in November 1998.

• Associate Professor Wallace Sherwood was named associate dean for academic affairs for the college.

• In June 1999, Dean Fox plans to return to the faculty to pursue new research interests. Dean since 1991, he first joined the college in 1977.


New Leadership in Adult and Continuing Education

University College
As 1997–1998 came to a close, the college could anticipate new leadership under the direction of Leon Zaborowski, its new dean. Zaborowski, who will also serve as a vice provost, has extensive experience in adult and continuing education, and is attuned to the latest developments in instructional technology and delivery systems.

Selected Student Achievements
• Matthew G. Baker received the Harold D. Hodgkinson Achievement Award, given each year to seniors recognized for distinguished scholastic achievement, outstanding moral character, volunteer service, and co-op achievements.

• Seniors Roberta May Coombs, Rachel Dorothy Tarnt, Dana Jean Thorat, and Karen Marie Tivnan received Dean’s Citation Awards from the college at the June commencement ceremony.

• Students Geneva Davis, Edward Marootian Jr., and Kathleen Wyant presented their work titled “The Nontraditional Student and University College Retention” at the twenty-third annual New England Undergraduate Research Conference in Sociology.

• Jennifer Rotman received the Outstanding Student Achievement Award given annually by the Massachusetts Health Information Manage-ment to a student who demonstrates professionalism and excellence in academics.

Selected Faculty Highlights
• Neil Duane, technical communications consultant for University College, was a primary presenter at Northeastern’s technical expo in May. He demonstrated a computer program that provides the blind and visually impaired with navigable electronic publications that can be read on personal computers equipped with screen readers and voice synthesizers.

• Thomas MacDonough, who teaches history, has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to China.

• In May, the college recognized three outstanding instructors. The Teaching Excellence Award in Business Administration went to John Haley, who has taught management information systems at University College for seventeen years. Kevin Mulvey, a sociology instructor, received the Garth Pitman Award for Teaching Excellence in Liberal Arts. The Teaching Excellence Award in the Health Professions and Sciences was given to Arthur Shaw, who teaches both mathematics and health management.

• Joan Wattman, who teaches American Sign Language–English interpreting, is serving as national chair of the Special Interest Group of Freelance Interpreters. She also has been named to the statewide Advisory Council for the Massachusetts Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.

College News
• With the appointment of Dean Zaborowski, University College colleagues and friends have had the opportunity to thank Arlene Greenstein for a job well done. Greenstein served ably as
the college’s interim dean since July 1997 and is returning to her previous position as associate dean and director of special programs.

• The college has developed new, credit-bearing Advanced Webmaster and Computer Network Specialist certificates as well as a noncredit Chartered Financial Analyst program. The college also completely revised the curriculum for the bachelor’s degree in criminal justice.

• In a pilot distance-learning project begun this fall, the college is offering technical writing and Internet technology certificate programs as well as a noncredit Webmaster program, the first totally on-line programs offered at the University.

• New partnerships with other colleges and
universities are enabling students to enroll in University College courses without coming to a Northeastern campus. The college’s para- legal studies certificate may now be obtained at Clark University in Worcester, and associate degree recipients at Massasoit Community College may take University College courses at that campus.

• University College and Bouvé College of Phar-macy and Health Sciences instituted a Master of Science program in applied educational psychology at a Northeastern branch campus in Tel Aviv.

• Recapturing leadership in an increasingly competitive market will require the college to be innovative and adaptable. Therefore, the Faculty Senate voted to adopt a new course-approval process enabling University College to move more quickly in establishing new programs that meet emerging demands.