“Conversation with the Dean” lecture series featuring Professor Sera Young

Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences’s “Conversation with the Dean” is a faculty speaker series designed to deliver insights into the cutting-edge research and teaching from faculty experts around the College. The series is offered live to Weinberg College leadership society donors with a real-time Q&A. Learn more about the leadership giving society here. The series is available to all Weinberg College alumni in the days following the event.

Professor Sera Young and Dean Adrian Randolph discuss the challenges of household water insecurity around the globe, how we are starting to measure it, and why UNESCO is paying attention to the work at Northwestern.

Watch the conversation below:

Get to know Sera Young
Dr. Sera Young is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and Global Health. The focus of her work is on the reduction of maternal and child undernutrition in the first 1000 days, especially in low-resource settings. Most recently, she has led efforts to develop the Household Water InSecurity Experiences (HWISE) scale, a cross-culturally valid tool to measure household water insecurity. The HWISE Scale is currently being implemented globally, including by the Gallup World Poll, to benchmark water access and use. Learn more about Sera Young’s research.

Meet Dean Adrian Randolph
Adrian Randolph is dean of the Judd A. and Marjorie Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and Henry Wade Rogers Professor of the Humanities. Dean Randolph’s research focuses on the art and architecture of medieval Renaissance Italy. He joined Northwestern in 2015 from Dartmouth College. There, he served as the associate dean of the faculty for the Arts and Humanities, chair of the Department of Art History, and director of the college’s Leslie Center for the Humanities.