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, [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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