Lindsay Jones '06
Lindsay Jones selected for Steamboat Fellowship
Lindsay Jones with Kate McLaughlin, Assistant Co-op Coordinator for the College of Arts and Sciences and Maureen Kelleher, Honors Program Director at the annual dinner honoring Steamboat Scholar recipients in New York City.
The Steamboat Foundation, founded in 2003 by Andrew Walter and Peer Pedersen Jr., managing partners of Blue Orchid Capital, LLC, has awarded its first Northeastern University fellowship to honors student Lindsay Jones, '06.
The Steamboat Foundation's vision is to offer unique work experience to exceptional students who might not otherwise have access to influential leaders in their field of interest. The Steamboat Scholar designation recognizes the recipient's extraordinary talent and accomplishments.
Lindsay is from Yorktown, Virginia. She is a Carl S. Ell Scholar and honors student majoring in physics with a GPA of 3.7. She is president of the Northeastern chapter of the Society of Physics Students, and a member of Engineers Without Borders and the Huskiers and Outings Club. She has also served as an orientation leader.
While at Northeastern, she has tutored math and physics through the Snell Library Peer Tutoring Center, has held a student undergraduate laboratory internship at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory in Palo Alto, California, and has had a research experience at Old Dominion University in the Atomic Physics Research Group.
Lindsay completed her fellowship at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston and chose to stay on for a full six month co-op, where she had the opportunity to witness the institute's 'vision in practice' to reduce the burden of cancer on society, "The opportunity I've had through the Steamboat Foundation fellowship has been amazing. I am working with Laurence E. Court, a physicist in the radiation oncology physics department, on developing an algorithm for automatic registration of the prostate for use in Adaptive Radiation Therapy. There were, previous to the Steamboat Foundation, no routes into working in radiation oncology for undergraduate students, so I'm extremely thankful for the chance to learn about this field and hopefully add to the general body of research. I am applying for medical physics PhD programs and I know this research experience is invaluable."
