Growing professionalism through experience on the job By Jessica Levine UA’17 ’19 and Jim Stellar One of the things that happens when you graduate is that you get a full-time (real) job that could, in theory, be your last job. … Continued
What happens next after a freshman summer experience? A change of major. By Netanya Weiss UA’26 and Jim Stellar Netanya was accepted into the School of Social Welfare in her sophomore year transfer this fall from being a Psychology major. … Continued
A serious internship at the Wadsworth Newborn Screening Program By Christina Testa and Jim Stellar This is the 4th blog in a series, following our last blog, that traces her education and its experiential components from undergraduate time at UAlbany … Continued
Headed into the profession Emma Langsford UA’23, C’25 and Jim Stellar In previous blogs we discussed what it was like for EL to go from a good public university (University at Albany, SUNY) to an Ivy League graduate school (Teachers … Continued
Reflection on going to a public university, growing-up issues, and moving past graduation By Chloe Woodward UA’24 and Jim Stellar Chloe was a student in my senior seminar, How the Brain Decides. It was there that we decided to write … Continued
Engagement in the undergraduate teaching and learning By Izzy D’Ambro UA’24 and Jim Stellar After we had two classes together as student and professor in the psychology department, we feel that we know each other pretty well, or at least … Continued
Brain Reward, Societal Trauma, and Resilience By Ana Duarte, Jim Stellar and Arezoo Hajighorbani In 2021 a paper was published that points out the long-known clinical comorbidity between trauma and substance use. The paper particularly focused on the reward systems … Continued
Growing Up Hearing Impaired – How Has That Changed My World and My Brain? By Dani Mills UA’24 and Jim Stellar While growing up hearing impaired, I (DM) had many people ask me if I can still hear normally. I … Continued
Broken heart syndrome – an example of cognitive-emotional integration and vagus nerve function Catherine Lienemann ‘UA 26 and James Stellar I’ve (CL) occasionally felt pain in my chest, an aching, stinging feeling that eventually fades. Usually it comes when I’m … Continued
A Gut Decision by Helena Horvat UA’23 and Jim Stellar An earlier blog post of ours focused on the decision of whether or not to go to graduate school, and if so, what program? My (HH) decision narrowed down to … Continued