Sean Notes | Faculty Friday: Anu Taranath

Anu Taranath

Really fascinating Faculty Friday post today by Quinn Russel Brown on a class being taught by Anu Taranath, a senior lecturer in Comparative History of Ideas and English about how to talk about power and privilege on campuses. Getting comfortable about talking about uncomfortable things is a key element of the course and Taranath has multiple ways in which she facilitates the conversation.

Environmental Economics Professors at UW

Robert Halvorsen

Robert Halvorsen is a professor of economics at the University of Washington, Seattle. His area of focus area is environmental econ, resource economics and applied microeconomics.  He has written numerous publications on environmental economics. His most recent publication “explorations in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics: Essays in honor or Gardner M. Brown was written with co-authors Gardner Mallard Brown, and David F. Layton.

Interested in taking a course from Professor Halvorsen? He teaches Econ 436, Econ 535, Econ 435, and Econ 454.

Help shape a food studies minor at UW

A committee of faculty from the College of Built Environments, the College of the Environment, and the College of Arts and Sciences are in the process of developing a proposal for a new Interdisciplinary Food Studies Minor, and they need your help.

UW students can help make sure the new minor is interesting, useful and relevant to students by answering a quick 10-question survey, which will help assess student demand.