A Black Woman runs in Haifa
 
Moyagaye Bedward QC ’10 and James Stellar
 
Moya is an honors student and track athlete at Queens College who has several majors and a few minors in the social sciences.  She is looking to go to graduate school and more importantly she is looking at how to define herself in terms [...]

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Note: This is the first post with someone from Queens College and I hope a nice new dimension of this blog as Northeastern and Queens experiences merge. - Jim

The Development of a Passion for Learning
 
Voula Galanopoulos QC ’10 and Jim Stellar
 
Considering how involved I have become at Queens College it is has hard to imagine that [...]

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Unexpected career change and what it might mean for reform in higher education.
 
Mercedes Carota NU’10 and Jim Stellar
 
Mercedes Carota is a Business Student at Northeastern.  She should have graduated, but stayed on to complete premedical requirements after a career change in her junior year.  Mercedes was also a member of a team of students that [...]

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Co-op vs. Permanent Employment
 
 Natania Crane NU ’08 and Jim Stellar
Natania graduated a year ago with a BA in Psychology and worked in a Behavioral Neuroscience laboratory down the hall from ours at Northeastern University.  We kept in touch after she graduated and moved to an fMRI lab in California, and after I moved to me [...]

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Mentor-Mentee: Self Discovery, Emotional Connections, Learning and Memory.
 
Shiela Kern ’09 and Jim Stellar
 
Shiela and I have known each other for a few years.  We started talking seriously this last year or so about how she could have experiences (working in hospitals or in labs) that would help clarify her career choices.  Out of that [...]

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Study abroad is in many ways the most academic of experiential programs and therefore has the greatest acceptance in colleges and universities.  What is interesting then is how it is sometimes combined with co-op abroad to really intensify the abroad experience.  This piece below by Jim and a student illustrates that.
-Jim and Shwen
 
Combining Study Abroad [...]

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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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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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Some time ago, Northeastern Professors Rick Porter and Jim Stellar, job shadowed a student, Amanda Marsden, on e-mail and later those three wrote a paper (posted below on 2/17/09) that points to the value of reflection in experiential learning, a frequent theme in experiential learning and in the various other postings in this blog.  That initial [...]

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Jim asked Ashley Pira, a freshman behavioral neuroscience major at Northeastern who has managed to get into a laboratory, to write a piece on how students and professors connect and to do it from a student view. You will find that below and I (Jim) think it reveals an important element [...]

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