What does a recent graduate, working in business, interested in neuroscience, know about decision-making Sanjana Koushik ’22 NU and Jim Stellar SK and JS met through a mutual friend with whom JS worked long ago at Northeastern. As you can … Continued
Contextual learning is highly limbic. It is why “presence” is so important By Christina Testa and James Stellar Context is everything when considering a career or a job. Of course the theme (e.g. public health worker) is what one drives … Continued
From the Classroom to the Field: What Grad School Taught Me About Being a Better Socio-Therapist Emma Langsford UA’23, C’25 and Jim Stellar We’ve followed EL’s journey in a series of blogs, starting from her transition from UAlbany to Columbia … Continued
Finding your way to a career and maybe graduate school during a gap year or two By Joyce Lee UA’24 and Jim Stellar I met Joyce very early in her college years and we formed a mentor-mentee connection that took … Continued
I found my gap year job in Syracuse with a professor at Syracuse doing Alzheimer’s research By Kriti Kalary UA’25 and Jim Stellar As KK says, I looked everywhere for a job to do in the gap year between my … Continued
Pursuing biotechnology, starting as a freshman By Stephanie Oshiotse UA’28 and Jim Stellar I am thinking about ultimately graduating with my masters in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology. I just couldn’t choose between Biology and Chemistry so I chose the next … Continued
The social brain and how it works to make first impression connections By Kaeci Charles UA’26 and Jim Stellar We previously wrote a blog about first impressions using the metaphor of thin slicing by Malcom Gladwell. Now we want to … Continued
How a professor and a student came to write a blog By Jennifer Agbanyo UA’27 and Jim Stellar JA was a student in an introductory psychology class that JS taught in the spring of 2024. She sat on the right-hand … Continued
Decision making with imperfect information – cognitive-emotional integration Katrina Wang UA 27 and Jim Stellar Katrnia and I met when she took my introductory psychology course in the spring of 2024. I found her interest in psychology to itself be … Continued
How do you maintain productive energy after you graduate? By Mudra Patel UA’25 and Jim Stellar Mudra and I met in Psychopharmacology in the Fall of 2024. She had some dual credits and finished her college years in December of … Continued