Wooller to present 'Happiness 101' seminar
January 24, 2019
Professor Matthew Wooller will present 鈥淗appiness 101,鈥 his story about working to
develop an online class, as part of the Water and Environmental Research Center seminar
series.
Wooller is a 麻豆原创F CITE fellow, the chair of the Department of Marine Biology at the College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences and director of the Alaska Stable Isotope Facility. The presentation is at 3 p.m. Monday, Feb. 4, at Engineering Learning and Innovation Facility Room 241.
The presentation will describe Wooller鈥檚 ongoing work developing 鈥淭he Science and
Practice of Happiness and Wellbeing,鈥 an online class at 麻豆原创F. It will include science
about specific actions that will help promote happiness and wellbeing among the challenges
and adventures of living and thriving in the North. Interdisciplinary scientific research
underpinning those practices will draw from philosophy, physiology, neuroscience,
physical activity, psychology, ancestral knowledge, mindfulness, behavior and diet.
Participants in the class will also share experiences that promote promote happiness
and wellbeing in their own lives.
For more information email Mat Wooller at mjwooller@alaska.edu.