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14 ADU VOICE · SPRING 2022

A talk with

Dr. Sreethi

Dr. Sreethi Nair is the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS)

at Abu Dhabi University. In this interview, she shares stories from her
daring childhood and her curious every-days, and talks about how she
discovered her love for psychology and pets.

INTERVIEWED BY VIOLET SARAH PRINCE (1080030),

AND HEBA M. ZAHER NABA (1084687)

Is curiosity important to you? What do you Curious people are usually smart, and are
find special about curious people? interested in knowing the possibilities that
Human beings are alive because they are curi- the future holds. For example, if Edison had
ous. We do everything we do, including being not burned his laboratory multiple times, we
adventurous, agile and funny, because we are wouldn’t have benefited from his many inven-
curious. Curiosity is fundamental to a person’s tions including the light bulb.
development, without which one cannot use

their thinking process optimally. However, it You have been at ADU for a while now. Tell
has both positive and negative sides. People us about your career journey.
can use their curiosity constructively by cre- I started my career in India, where I was very
ating new things, improving the environment happy to work. However, I had to join my
around them, and rediscovering oneself, or husband in the UAE when he was diagnosed
they can use it for petty things such as snoop- with leukemia and needed my support for his
ing and gossiping. lengthy treatment.