Anindita Das is a lecturer in First Year Seminar at Appalachian State University. She received her Ph.D. in Oceanography and her Masters in Environmental Studies from Louisiana State University. She has won several awards for her research at various international and national conferences as well as for being an outstanding graduate student among her peers at both the Masters and Ph.D. level.
She is someone who places tremendous importance on the health and sustainability of the environment, believing that it is both our social responsibility and in our interest to take care of the environment if we want the environment to take care of us. She also believes that human beings are not the sole owners of the earth and have to think of our fellow creatures when we make decisions affecting the environment. Her other interests are walking, hiking, cooking, reading, music, and animal rights.
She uses different types of teaching techniques (lecture, reading, individual assignments, and group assignments in the form of case studies and term papers) to give freshmen and sophomore students an idea of what they can expect in the other classes they plan to take throughout their time in college.