Learn Addition by Subtraction (virtual)
Virtual Event with Captions, Free, and Open to All
Parent Program Overview
Have you ever wondered how to encourage your student to do more by doing less?
Join Lifetime Learning, in partnership with UVA’s Division of Student Affairs, for the inaugural Parent & Family Read Along and virtual book discussion with Leidy Klotz, UVA professor with Engineering, Architecture, and Business appointments. We will discuss his thought-provoking book Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less. Blending behavioral science and design, Klotz's book offers a scientific appreciation of why we underuse subtraction—and how to access its untapped potential.
Purchase the book at UVA Bookstore: Subtract: The Untapped Science Of Less by Leidy Klotz
Questions for the Speaker: After you have read the book, you may have questions for the speaker. You may submit those questions in advance, and they will address as many as time allows during the presentation. Submit Your Questions Here
Speaker Biographies
Leidy Klotz, Professor, Architecture, School of Architecture; and Professor, Engineering Systems and Environment, School of Engineering & Applied Science, University of Virginia
Leidy Klotz is Professor of Architecture and Engineering Systems and Environment at the University of Virginia. His research is filling in underexplored overlaps between engineering and behavioral science, in pursuit of more sustainable systems. He has published over 80 peer-reviewed articles in venues that include top academic journals in built environment engineering, engineering education, and design, as well as both Science and Nature. In 2021, he authored Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less (New York, NY: Flatiron Books).
Nationally recognized as one of 40-under-40 professors who inspire, Klotz has received multiple institution-level teaching awards for his classes and close work with undergraduates, eleven of whom have earned Graduate Research Fellowships from the National Science Foundation. He was an early adopter of massive open online courses. One is currently offered through Coursera and has reached tens of thousands of learners around the world. Another, on Sustainable Energy Innovation, led to real projects on at least three continents. Klotz also advises influential decision-makers that straddle academia and practice, working with the Departments of Energy and Homeland Security, the National Institutes of Health, the World Bank, Resources for the Future, Evidn., and ideas42, among others.
Klotz has built a research-to-practice community around his scholarship. To support this interdisciplinary work, Klotz has been awarded over $10,000,000 in competitive research funding, including a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation, as well as one of the very first awards through the NSF’s INSPIRE program. At the University of Virginia, he co-founded and co-directs the Convergent Behavioral Science Initiative, which brings together scholars from the Schools of Engineering, Architecture, Policy, Education, and Business, as well as the College of Arts and Sciences in order to engage and support dozens of faculty and students doing applied, interdisciplinary research. At the international scale, Klotz co-chaired an expert panel for the journal Nature Sustainability. In this role, he brought together scholars, funders, and practitioners in order to continue advancing behavioral science for design. He has advised 25 Ph.D. students, and his former advisees now hold influential positions in industry and academia, including at Virginia Tech; Purdue University; Colorado State University; The University of San Diego; The University of North Carolina at Charlotte; and The University of Florida.
Klotz advocates for and practices diversity and inclusion. More than three-quarters of his advisees are from groups underrepresented in their respective fields, and his research has uncovered new pathways for underrepresented groups into engineering.
Klotz is a regular columnist for the Behavioral Scientist and has written for venues such as The Washington Post, Fast Company, LitHub, The Daily Climate, Inside Higher Ed, and ASEE Prism. His first scholarly book was, Sustainability Through Soccer: An Unexpected Approach to Saving Our World. (Before his academic career, Klotz was a professional soccer player.)
Tabitha Enoch, Associate Dean, Division of Student Affairs, University of Virginia (moderator)
Tabitha Enoch grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, and moved to Charlottesville, Virginia, in 1999 to assume the Assistant Dean in Residence Life role at the University of Virginia. In 2002, her area of responsibility shifted from Residence Life to Orientation and New Student Programs (ONSP), where her team works to build an inclusive and welcoming experience for new undergraduates. The orientation program provides incoming students with services that enable them to transition smoothly into their new roles at the University. Other ONSP annual programs include Summer Orientation, Wahoo Welcome, Opening Convocation and Honor Induction, Grounds for Discussion (a peer-theater production), Transfer Student Programming, and Family Weekend.
In 2019, Tabitha Enoch began serving as an Associate Dean of Students in the Office of the Dean of Students. In addition to Orientation & New Student Programs, she helped to shape the diversity and inclusion efforts of the Student Affairs Division and supports UVA’s first-generation and low-income students and undergraduate student veterans. Tabitha Enoch has been donned The University Hype Girl and Final Exercises DJ. Her Twitter handle is @UVADJTAB.
UVA Today article: ‘Inside UVA’: Unofficial ‘Hype Girl’ Explains How She Brings the Energy
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This UVA Lifetime Learning program is presented in partnership with UVA Student Affairs.
