Undergraduate research can happen to anyone
 
Maryam Waheed QC’11 and Jim Stellar
 
There is probably no student at Queens whose undergraduate research topic is closer to the area of neuroscience that I studied (dopamine brain basis of cocaine addiction) for more than 30 years than Maryam.  Maybe this is why we became friends as I did not [...]

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Minority recruiting is experiential education for both
 
Govinda Davis NU’07 and Jim Stellar
 
Govinda was a student at Northeastern University who, at the end of my time there as Dean, was the head of a student organization of some years duration called LEAD (Linking Education and Diversity).  Over the years LEAD worked closely with the Admissions Office [...]

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Art on the Brain
 
Katie Ferrari QC’11 and Jim Stellar
 
Katie is a senior with a deep interest in the arts and who has been giving me some advice as Provost on how students see Queens College. I also tend to like the art she produces. I talked back to her about some of my ideas about [...]

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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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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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Internships in Law – EQ meets IQ processing
 
Hillary W. Steinbrook and Jim Stellar
 
Hillary and I met at Northeastern when she was a Harvard Law Student doing an internship in the legal office.  She graduated and now works at Wellesley College.  We wrote a blog post together in July of 2009 on the book “Blink” by [...]

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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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