02 Jul
Posted by Jim as Academic, Student Views, experiential education
Undergraduate research: A lab as a family enhances the experience
Lauren Donohoe QC’11, Ana Sofia Lucero QC’12, Sarina Katanov QC’10, Jennifer Weintraub QC’11, Rosemarie Ott QC’11, Anthony del Rio QC’11, Paulina Kulesza QC’12, Stacey Rimikis QC’12 and Jim Stellar
This is a most unusual post in that I am writing with a group, not an individual (first [...]
An Ethnic Salad and a Mathematical Identity
Dina Margelovich QC’11 and Jim Stellar
Dina is a Math major at Queens College and has a wide variety of interests in application. This has led us to conversations about how one chooses such an interest as well as how internships, and real world experiences in general can be brought [...]
14 Mar
Posted by Jim as Academic, Student Views, Uncategorized, experiential education
Salience, reward, and the brain
Kelly Dumais NU’10 and Jim Stellar
Kelly worked in my behavioral neuroscience laboratory in my last year at Northeastern and then she did a coop experience at McLean Hospital with my former graduate student Heather Brenhouse (see the next blog) in a neuroscience research drug addiction research laboratory. Like most students, [...]
04 Mar
Posted by Jim as Academic, Student Views, alumni views, experiential education, social media
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 [...]
Exploring Two Worlds
Ute Wenkemann NU’11 and Jim Stellar
What happens when a student from Germany comes to an American university that features a cooperative education program? Both are cultural adjustments, first from the home country and then from the home university. Ute did just that. We met over an administrative matter when she was a freshman [...]
23 Jan
Posted by Jim as Academic, Student Views, brain, experiential education
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 [...]
16 Jan
Posted by Jim as Academic, Student Views, experiential education
Undergraduate research - introduction achieved. Now what?
Ashley Pira NU’12 and Jim Stellar
As a Freshman, Ashley wrote a post on March 25th that attracted a good deal of comment back to me about how students approach professors and the trepidation they feel while at the same time making the point that students have a lot to [...]
09 Jan
Posted by Jim as Industry related, Student Views, alumni views, experiential education
Building a Confidence Growth Curve through Work Experiences
Alisa Duhaney NU ’08 and Jim Stellar
Sometimes the work experience begins before College. In the case of Alisa, we have that example and can see how that work experience is built upon by a Cooperative Education work experience and finally experience on a regular job. The field is [...]
03 Jan
Posted by Jim as Academic, Blog, Student Views, experiential education
International Cooperative Education - A job that Exceeds Expectations
I got this e-mail below in the fall from Ruth Wyshogrod (NU ’10) and with some deletions of names and a little light editing on which we have agreed, I thought it had to be posted on the blog as it represents the kind of serious position [...]
07 Nov
Posted by Jim as Industry related, Student Views, Uncategorized, experiential education
Two adjustments at once
Nawal Ali NU‘11 and Jim Stellar
In the continuing effort to capture what happens in the real-world of cooperative education experience, I got an e-mail over the summer from one of my mentees at Northeastern who had just started her 6 month cooperative education experience. We decided to present it here, because it [...]