Social Neuroeconomics – Over bidding         
 
Raphael Spiro QC 12 and Jim Stellar
 
Raph has been reading a bit of the literature on neuroecomomics, something we have written about before in this blog.  We’d like to propose that the same brain areas that are involved in making decisions about purchases made with money are also be involved [...]

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Bird Brains: A model for Expanding the Human Mind in College?
 
Shoshana Korman QC’12 and Jim Stellar
 
Shoshana works in the laboratory of Dr. Carolyn Pytte who comes out of the bird song neuroscience tradition.  Shoshana and I agreed to write this blog with two intertwined themes: Neuroscience of brain plasticity and her own experiences being an [...]

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Preparing for Co-op Abroad – The Ultimate Internship
 
Lily Chryssis and Jim Stellar
 
Lily is a graduate of Northeastern University in 2004 as a major in Political Science & International Affairs who took advantage of the co-op program.  Later she got a Master’s degree in Middle Eastern Studies at the American University of Beirut.  She returned to [...]

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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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Global Institute on Experiential Education – an intense week
 
Jim Stellar
 
I rarely write by myself in this blog, but this last week I had a great intense experiential experience. From Monday evening to Friday afternoon last week I was a 5 day / 4 night WACE Global Institute on Experiential Education on Martha’s Vineyard.  We had 32 [...]

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From working class to classy work and beyond
 
Juliana Schatz NU ‘08 and Jim Stellar
 
Juliana and I have been talking for some time about doing a blog post together.  She sent me the following e-mail which is really an essay in itself.  I thought that this essay was something that should be seen in its entirety [...]

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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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From both sides, now
 
Heather Brenhouse and Jim Stellar
 
Heather was a graduate student of mine when I was Professor of Psychology and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences (something that required her to be patient with my absences from the lab).  She had a great group of undergraduates work with her in the lab [...]

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Jim Stellar is tweeting
 
I decided to try the experiment about which Ashley Stempel and I wrote about in a post in late December.  Follow me on Twitter at ProvostStellar. The idea is to talk about Experiential Education and particularly about ideas for implementing it at a great public university, CUNY Queens College (where else?).
 
After a [...]

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Re-entry from Abroad Programs – Culture Shock and What it Means
 
Ruth Wyshogrod (NU ’10) and Jim Stellar
 
On January 3, I posted an e-mail that Ruth wrote from Israel about her coop abroad program experience and how deep it impacted her.  Well now she is back and the culture shock she is [...]

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