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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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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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