The Other Lobe of The Brain

A Blog About Experiential Education, Social Media, and the Brain…

Refining a long term passion in the academy
 
Michaela Tralli QC’12 and Jim Stellar
 
Michaela took a course I co-taught last spring.  We began to talk about how one finds one’s field and her field looks like it will be direct patient care in clinical psychology.  Often in this blog we write about how one discovers one’s [...]

Sensemaking – something one learns from experience
Luisa Melo NU’00 and Jim Stellar
Luisa was an undergraduate who worked on a senior honors project with me in behavioral neuroscience.  After graduation she worked in academic biochemistry research for years, pursued a Master’s in International Relations at the Fletcher School and has wound up in the Bentley University [...]