We will be joined by Professor Alec Solemslie on 4/13. Alec Solemslie a PhD candidate in the School of Environment and Forestry Sciences. His research focuses on Environmental Policy and Sustainable Systems and Management. He has previously taught ESRM 200 and has great insight to graduate programs and Geographic Information Systems. 

Professor Feintzeig is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Washington. After receiving his BA in Physics and Philosophy at Dartmouth, he completed his PhD in the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of California, Irvine. His research focuses on the conceptual and mathematical foundations of physics, and the broader impacts of philosophy of physics on general issues in philosophy of science including interpreting physical theories, scientific representation, and scientific explanation. His primary focus is on the foundations of our best quantum theories and the classical theories that we “quantize” to arrive at them. He also has interests in philosophy of probability, epistemology, metaphilosophy, and the history of science."

Lauren Graham originally hails from southern California (San Diego!). She earned her B.A. in Psychology at Yale University, where she completed a behavioral neuroscience track, and subsequently moved to the Pacific Northwest to continue studies in biopsychology here at UW. Lauren has been a part of the UW community for 18 years. In her graduate work with Jeansok Kim, she investigated the neural basis of stress and decision-making in rats. In 2012, she graduated, started a family, and began postdoctoral research at the Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences, where she studied individual differences in decision-making in far more complicated brains – UW undergraduates.

Before she began teaching full-time at UW, she taught psychology and neuroscience courses at North Seattle College, Seattle Pacific University, Seattle University, and through a program called Freedom Education Project Puget Sound, to incarcerated women in Gig Harbor, Washington. She is now a faculty member in the Psych department and teaches a variety of undergraduate courses, including biopsychology, drugs and behavior, and stress and coping. Her academic interests center around equitable teaching -- she is particularly interested in accessible course design and alternative grading practices.

Outside of academics, Lauren enjoys hiking, knitting, LEGO, board games, food, and being in the water. She has biked to Portland twice, run a few half marathons, and summited Mt. Rainier.