Splash Biography
JORGEN HARRIS, Junior Economics Major, Interested in Ants
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Major: Economcis College/Employer: University of Chicago Year of Graduation: 2010 |
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Brief Biographical Sketch:
Jorgen Harris is a junior at the University of Chicago studying Economics. He is very interested in understanding how government policies affect poverty in rich countries and in poor countries, and how the goal of reducing poverty can be met along with the goal of preserving the environment. He also thinks ants are really interesting, both because their social organization works really well without any of them being smart and because they have really cool alien like bodies. There are more things Jorgen Harris could tell you about himself, but he thinks this bio is long enough already. Past Classes(Clicking a class title will bring you to the course's section of the corresponding course catalog)C274: Urban Land Ownership and its Effect on Poverty in Splash! 2008 (Oct. 04, 2008)
Land in cities is valuable because it is close to other people, not because it has intrinsic value from soil quality or beauty, and therefore gains value as the city itself gets richer and as it gets more central to the city. We will talk about the ways in which a piece of land's value depends on the city around it, the way in which land value changes as the city changes, and what that means for a city's inhabitants, both land owners and non land owners.
S275: Social Insects: Everything You Never Wanted to Know in Splash! 2008 (Oct. 04, 2008)
As a long time lover of ants (and bees, wasps and termites), I have a lot of information about them and theories about what they can tell us about ourselves and about societies. I want to share this information with you. This class will be a very free roaming discussion about ants, in which we, much like ants, will follow whichever scent trail leads us to the highest quality and most plentiful food (In our case food means student enjoyment; I nourish no man).
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