http://www.otherlobe.com A Blog About Experiential Education, Social Media, and the Brain... Wed, 28 Jul 2010 05:15:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.otherlobe.com/2010/07/global-institute-on-experiential-education-%e2%80%93-an-intense-week/ 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 ... http://www.otherlobe.com/2010/07/undergraduate-research-a-lab-as-a-family-enhances-the-experience/ I just have to refer you to this conversation at the University of Venus blog about experiential education.  The whole blog itself is terrific and is listed on our blog role. http://www.otherlobe.com/2010/06/great-conversation-at-university-of-venus-blog/ A poem is a dance with the other lobe Bronwyn Lommel and Jim Stellar Bronwyn and I knew each other some time ago as lab student and professor in molecular-behavioral neuroscience at Northeastern. We both had an interest in larger questions and recently began to talk about how my emerging blog and ... http://www.otherlobe.com/2010/06/a-poem-is-a-dance-with-the-other-lobe/   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 ... http://www.otherlobe.com/2010/06/an-ethnic-salad-and-a-mathematical-identity/ Does Leadership come from ­Experiential Learning?                                                      Allyson Savin NU’07 and Jim Stellar   Allyson was one of the most impressive of the student leaders with whom I had the privilege of working when I was Dean at Northeastern University.  A graduate of the Business College, she is now working in the very ... http://www.otherlobe.com/2010/05/does-leadership-come-from-%c2%adexperiential-learning/ 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 ... http://www.otherlobe.com/2010/04/from-working-class-to-classy-work-and-beyond/ WIL around the world on a smile - communicating, learning, growing Michelle Hansford and Jim Stellar Michelle is the Director at the World Association of Cooperative Education (WACE) and someone with whom I have worked in the past as part of a team to put on workshops in the field of co-op ... http://www.otherlobe.com/2010/03/wil-around-the-world-on-a-smile-communicating-learning-growing/ 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 ... http://www.otherlobe.com/2010/03/salience-reward-and-the-brain/ 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 ... http://www.otherlobe.com/2010/03/from-both-sides-now/