Education That Works: The Neuroscience of Building a More Effective Higher Education

As a professor of behavioral neuroscience for thirty years first at Harvard University and then at Northeastern University Dr. James Stellar studied the basic neurobiology of reward/motivational processes, working with a remarkable group of students including many undergraduate research assistants. In 1998 he became the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Northeastern serving for ten years during the period of the institutions rapid rise in quality and ranking. Six years ago, Dr. Stellar joined the public university world first as Provost at Queens College CUNY and then in February of 2015 as Provost at the University at Albany SUNY. He continues to co-direct the WACE Planning Institute on ExEd, which has helped 80 universities develop such programs, and he has consulted on national ExEd programs in Thailand and Namibia. He lives in Albany, New York.