What is the Angular Gyrus?
Paulina Kulesza QC ’11 and Jim Stellar
Paulina is a Communication Disorders Student who participates in a small ongoing seminar with me and some folks that tries to look at what are some of the brain structures that might underlie learning from experience.  We see this effort as being like the new [...]

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Pygmalion on Co-op
 
Jessica Olson NU’12 and Jim Stellar
 
I met Jessica as a freshman while I was giving a guest lecture in a Psychology 1 class at Northeastern University.  She was pointed out to me by the instructor as someone special and interested in undergraduate research.  Jess started working almost immediately as an undergraduate student in [...]

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Learning while tutoring in writing
 
Chloe’ Skye Weiser, QC ’13 and Jim Stellar
 
Chloe’ is a double major in English and Environmental Studies, a Macaulay Honors College student, and a frequent partner in conversation about undergraduate education at Queens College.  She has a broad range of experiences and is pursuing undergraduate research, but what really grabbed [...]

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Mistaken for a Native … abroad
 
Emily Monaco QC ’12 and Jim Stellar    
 
Emily is a major in History with an interest in the ancient world and a Macaulay Honors student at Queens College who just returned from a study abroad trip to Italy.  What makes this trip different is that at some point it became [...]

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Full Time in a company – undergraduate research amplified
 
Ashley Pira NU’12 and Jim Stellar
 
Ashley and I wrote a post some time ago about breaking into undergraduate research in a neuroscience lab at Northeastern.  It drew a lot of attention at the time and we followed that with another post after she had really established herself [...]

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Crazy for Internships and for Academic Excellence
 
Joanna Lund-Pops QC’12 and Jim Stellar
 
Joanna is an undeclared upper sophomore intending to double major in Political Science and Anthropology, a transfer student from U. Maryland, and a holder of a 4.0 GPA.  However, what is perhaps most remarkable about her is the number and types of experiences she [...]

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Homeschooled for the big school
 
Alex Hilbert QC’12 and Jim Stellar
 
Early on in my first year (last year) at Queens College, I met an honors student who was also an accounting major.  We worked together with another student and a professor in the Provost’s Office doing some analysis of publicly available data to help Departments [...]

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Facial emotion and the brain – insights from the clinic to Ex. Ed.
 
Vanessa Castro UMD ‘11 and Jim Stellar
 
Vanessa was a student at Northeastern and an advisee of mine outside my field (I was on her undergraduate thesis committee).  We wrote a blog post together out of that thesis, and now we are back with [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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