After a long 13 hour drive from South Carolina, I arrived in Boston, MA Sunday afternoon for the summer. Excited about the DREU, I settled in just fine at an apartment a few miles from campus. On Monday I finally met my mentor, Dr. Andrea Parker along with her research team which consist of 2 doctoral students (Herman and Farnaz) and a post-doc (Mercedes). We all went out for lunch and chatted about a wide variety of things, from school to our interest outside of research. I was delighted to hear some of their interest, and also discuss mine.
Following lunch, Dr. Parker and I had our first meeting, where we discussed goals and expectations for the summer. Our research will be in the field of human-computer interaction, where we will investigate how social networking applications can empower minority youth in low-income homes to address health issues in their community. The main project deals with social computing in teen advocacy. The side projects consist of improving the parent-child relationship through physical activity, and also a systematic review.
For the remainder of the week I read journal articles about previous research in our field of study and started on the systematic review project. I also enjoyed a tour of Northeastern's campus given by Herman. The campus is beautiful and appears to be diverse. On Friday I attended by first talk on the subject of data analyst of hospitalizations. I'm excited for what this summer has to offer!
Following lunch, Dr. Parker and I had our first meeting, where we discussed goals and expectations for the summer. Our research will be in the field of human-computer interaction, where we will investigate how social networking applications can empower minority youth in low-income homes to address health issues in their community. The main project deals with social computing in teen advocacy. The side projects consist of improving the parent-child relationship through physical activity, and also a systematic review.
For the remainder of the week I read journal articles about previous research in our field of study and started on the systematic review project. I also enjoyed a tour of Northeastern's campus given by Herman. The campus is beautiful and appears to be diverse. On Friday I attended by first talk on the subject of data analyst of hospitalizations. I'm excited for what this summer has to offer!