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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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. [...]

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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 [...]

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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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Albanian to American in higher education
 
Enkelejda Demika NU ‘09 and Jim Stellar
 
I first met Enkelejda at a high school science fair and immediately noticed a combination of the classic education hunger of an immigrant to US with that kind of intelligence that is at once academic and instinctive (e.g. otherlobe).  We met repeatedly over the [...]

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Inspiration is key to students from underrepresented groups
 
Tamara Buchanan NU’07 and Jim Stellar
 
When I was Dean at Northeastern, Tamara worked a little in my research laboratory but came to me with a proposition.  She noted that one of the Universities goals was to encourage diversity and accomplishment, particularly in pursuit by undergraduates of premedical and [...]

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