Riding high on horse-human communication
 
Susan Salk and Jim Stellar
 
Susan is a professional writer and we became friends at our previous jobs.  Recently, we began talking about the blog and how interesting it is that animals and humans seem to be able to communicate well. People think you are talking about dogs when you say that, [...]

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Math, Molecules, and Woman
 
Rimma Pivovarov NU ’10 and Jim Stellar
 
I first met Rimma when she was a prospective student interested in mathematics and I was Dean of the College at Northeastern University.  Now she is about to graduate and has developed a second interest in biology.  She is seeking admission to graduate school in a [...]

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A brief note about a timely article
by Jim Stellar
I just had to break the co-author format and write this note calling your attention to the 10/4/09 New York Times Sunday Magazine article about the anxious mind that largely features the work of Professor Jerry Kagan from Harvard.  Here is the link. I urge you to [...]

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Here is another post that comes out of Jim’s conversations with Northeastern students.  It is touching on social media, something Shwen writes about in his blog, Med 2.0.
 
-Jim and Shwen
 

 
 
Social Media, Warmth, and “Other Lobe: activity
 
Jim Stellar and Ashley Stempel‘10
 
When we are not talking about how cooperative education experiences in industry have affected the [...]

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As we continue with this blog, we find ourselves drawn to other topics outside experiential education, but ones that seem to utilize the same principles as we have been writing about.  Here is one on leadership that developed between Jim and a colleague at work at Northeastern.
 
-Shwen and Jim
 
 
For several years, I (Jim) have been [...]

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In this blog, we have thought of the “other lobe of the brain” as the limbic system, the emotional system that made logical decisions about meaning and value to accompany the facts-and-theories type of logic that some have called academic intelligence.  But here we wonder if that concept of the “other lobe” should be broadened [...]

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This post is the third in a series co-authored by Jim and students.  We wanted to give a flavor of what it is like to think with students as well as just have them take and give feedback on programs.  Not only do we feel it is necessary in a Web 2.0 world of social [...]

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Octavia’s journey began when she was a freshman. After hearing a fellow Northeastern University Student speak about her experience studying abroad in Ghana, there was no doubt in Octavia’s mind that she had to travel abroad as well. As she described:
“The moment she finished her presentation I knew that I had to see the deep indigo coastline, smell the hustle of a day’s work that began at 5 a.m. with the mango-colored sun, hear the earth’s heart beat as it danced from the Njombe [a district of Tanzania].”
For Erin, a student at the University of Colorado at Boulder, her journey to the NASA Johnson Space Center began with an e-mail from an advisor about a fellowship program at NASA.

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This is a moment on of intersection. Perhaps it always is. But the moment about which we write here comes from the confluence of developments in modern neuroscience in revealing the inner workings of the brain and the implications of how we think people may learn in an experiential way, in addition to classic “ivory-tower” [...]

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