WIL around the world on a smile - communicating, learning, growing
Michelle Hansford and Jim Stellar
Michelle is the Director at the World Association of Cooperative Education (WACE) and someone with whom I have worked in the past as part of a team to put on workshops in the field of co-op and experiential education.  But she [...]

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Salience, reward, and the brain
 
Kelly Dumais NU’10 and Jim Stellar
 
Kelly worked in my behavioral neuroscience laboratory in my last year at Northeastern and then she did a coop experience at McLean Hospital with my former graduate student Heather Brenhouse (see the next blog) in a neuroscience research drug addiction research laboratory. Like most students, [...]

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From both sides, now
 
Heather Brenhouse and Jim Stellar
 
Heather was a graduate student of mine when I was Professor of Psychology and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences (something that required her to be patient with my absences from the lab).  She had a great group of undergraduates work with her in the lab [...]

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View from a special experiential scholarship program
Valerie De Jianne NU ’05 and Jim Stellar
Valerie was in the first group of students at Northeastern University when I was Dean to win a 21st Century Scholarship.  She and her peers were selected from the best students in the Freshman class and were given a alumni donor-based tuition [...]

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