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Volunteering in a nursing or hospice home to see if that feels right By Salina Sahawneh UA’26 and Jim Stellar SS is headed toward medical school. So, when I asked her what she wanted to do this summer of her … Continued

IQ + EQ in developing an application to medical school Maeve Donnelly UA26 and James Stellar MD and I (JS) want to use her career in college as a “laboratory” to discuss this idea. I just published a book called … Continued

Working toward an Internship By Stephanie Oshiotse UA’28 and Jim Stellar In our first meeting of the new fall 2025 semester, we decided to look for internships that are meant for next summer. We did some research on the companies … Continued

How cognitive planning plays a role in our concept of the Common Center of cognitive-emotional integration By Keira Autera UA’27 and Jim Stellar We wrote about this idea that KA developed in the first blog about a common center for … Continued

New in neurobiology (brain implantable microscopes) from a company perspective By Adora Idemudia UA’28 Jim Stellar In this blog, we (really AI) interviewed Dr. Rebecca Fallon of Inscopix. She is a Sales Development Manager there with a PhD degree in … Continued

Can AI be your therapist? By Lauren Bosch UA’24 and Jim Stellar This is our second blog. The first one was about how a single experience (e.g. taste aversion learning or PTSD) can change a person. While those examples are … Continued

“Seeing the Unseen: The Mentor’s Role in Helping Students Recognize Their Own Potential” By Chhiring Sherpa UA’23 and Jim Stellar This is the second blog in a pair and linked to the first one. This is the first time since this … Continued

“Becoming the Person I once Needed: A First-Gen Story of Healing and Hope” For reference, this is one of my college scholarship essays about my upbringing. The story of my journey as a first-generation female immigrant, born and raised in … Continued

How do you control being nudged in decision engineering?  Sanjana Koushik ’22 NU and Jim Stellar In a society that often recognizes and rewards speed and multitasking, the art of slowing down is becoming increasingly rare, but simultaneously vital. As … Continued

After the experience of EMT and Organic Chemistry By Ally Siffringer UA’28 and Jim Stellar The title says it all. This blog is about combining the two pieces of a successful undergraduate career.  The first is (obviously) clinical experience. Some … Continued