Sven Arvidson, PhD

Part of a large family, I was born and raised on the Maryland side of Washington D.C. As an undergrad, I couldn’t quite find adequate intellectual space within my biology major, even though I loved my years of biology, chemistry and physics. I changed to something called “Human Development,” an interdisciplinary degree stressing psychology, philosophy, anthropology, and the rest of the liberal arts and sciences. Now that I am a professor directing a program like the one that liberated that 20-year-old, I am awed by how the universe works (and how little we know about how it works).