Unfaced Youth: Art, Mind, Brain by Erin Conner UA’24, Antonella Mason, Jim Stellar This blog began when EC worked on an independent study under JS and AM that was centered on a neuroscience paper about how the brain reacts … Continued
Birth of an Internet Salesman: The Role of Anxiety and Social Media in Experience by Andrew Keating UA’22 and Jim Stellar Let us start with three questions from the student experience: How can social media be re-evaluated through the lens … Continued
Senior Honors Undergraduate Research Interrupted by Covid: Lessons learned. Anna Port UA ’20 and Jim Stellar AP had a senior honors thesis project running in a Psychology Professor’s lab at UAlbany on adolescent alcohol exposure and maternal behavior in rats. … Continued
Brain Networks Blog 3: What they can teach us about experiential education by Brandon Ascencio UA ‘23, Brandy Eggan, and Jim Stellar As mentioned in a previous blog, the default mode network (DMN) is a network of interacting brain regions, … Continued
Brain Networks: Blog 2: Skill-Learning Networks by Brandon Ascencio UA ‘23, Brandy Eggan, and Jim Stellar In a prior blog on the default mode network, we talked about how this network comes online when you do not have a task … Continued
Brain Networks: Blog 1 – The Default Mode Network By Brandon Ascencio UA ‘23, Brandy Eggan, and Jim Stellar When someone says the word “daydreaming”, what do you think? If you take a moment to pause and look away from … Continued
Reflection and the Brain: A potential Connection between Limbic and Cortical processing circuitry By Kathleen Larsen UA ’21 and Jim Stellar In our last blog, we discussed a conventional model developed by Kolb of the way reflection on experience could … Continued
Reflection and the Brain by Kathleen Larsen UA ’21 and Jim Stellar It is taken for granted that reflection facilitates the integration of affect and cognition that we believe work together in experiential education to build student maturity in a … Continued
How does experience produce professional growth? Jerlisa Fontaine ’18 and Jim Stellar Jerlisa was a human biology major and was the president of the student government, the Student Association (SA), at the University at Albany for a year in her … Continued
A view on student diversity and STEM education from someone raised in Jamaica by Symone Reid UA’15, 18’ and Jim Stellar SR came to America when she was 12 years old, settling with her family in the New York area. … Continued