09 Apr
Posted by Jim as Academic, Global perspective, alumni views, experiential education
If a Rose is a Rose*…, when is a Reflection a Reflection?
Sarah Platt and Jim Stellar
Sarah was an undergraduate at Northeastern ¨University when I was Dean. We always had these great conversations. Then a few years intervened but now we are back even though she is in Poland where she just finished her PhD degree [...]
10 Mar
Posted by Jim as Academic, Global perspective, alumni views, experiential education
Of Organizations and People
Ute Wenkemann NU’11 and Jim Stellar
Ute and I wrote a blog post in Feb-10 about what it was like to be a student from Germany studying abroad in the USA and doing co-op there. Previously, I had written a blog post with another student who studied abroad in Paris and stayed to [...]
Heart/Mind, Art
Antonella Mason QC’ 11 and Jim Stellar
AM was a student with whom JS interacted after meeting at a student art show. While AM was in Italy she sent the following statement in an e-mail.
I was born a painter. All alone, I went through the psychological questions that every true artist feels in her/his heart, [...]
05 Nov
Posted by Jim as alumni views, experiential education
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 [...]
23 Oct
Posted by Jim as Industry related, alumni views, experiential education
The Undergraduate Experiential Education of an MBA
Corinne Freeman D’Ambrosio NU 02 and Jim Stellar
Corinne was a major in Anthropology with an Education minor who went into business after graduation and just received her MBA degree (congratulations!). She also was head of the College of Arts and Sciences Student Advisory Council when I was Dean of [...]
14 Aug
Posted by Jim as Academic, Student Views, alumni views, experiential education
Undergraduate research can happen to anyone
Maryam Waheed QC’11 and Jim Stellar
There is probably no student at Queens whose undergraduate research topic is closer to the area of neuroscience that I studied (dopamine brain basis of cocaine addiction) for more than 30 years than Maryam. Maybe this is why we became friends as I did not [...]
02 Aug
Posted by Jim as alumni views, experiential education
Minority recruiting is experiential education for both
Govinda Davis NU’07 and Jim Stellar
Govinda was a student at Northeastern University who, at the end of my time there as Dean, was the head of a student organization of some years duration called LEAD (Linking Education and Diversity). Over the years LEAD worked closely with the Admissions Office [...]
A poem is a dance with the other lobe
Bronwyn Lommel and Jim Stellar
Bronwyn and I knew each other some time ago as lab student and professor in molecular-behavioral neuroscience at Northeastern. We both had an interest in larger questions and recently began to talk about how my emerging blog and her writing might be connected. [...]
10 May
Posted by Jim as Academic, alumni views, experiential education, leadership
Does Leadership come from Experiential Learning?
Allyson Savin NU’07 and Jim Stellar
Allyson was one of the most impressive of the student leaders with whom I had the privilege of working when I was Dean at Northeastern University. A graduate of the Business College, she is now working in the very timely field of bank regulating [...]
14 Mar
Posted by Jim as Academic, Uncategorized, alumni views, experiential education
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 [...]