New Fadum Farm

New Fadum Farm

Diaries During Lockdown

“Diaries during Lockdown” is a network of professionally trained mathematical modelers who are using the tools of system dynamics and systems thinking to explain many of the complex choices facing individuals, organizations, and governments as we collectively grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic. We have chosen to translate mathematically-based insights into verbally-based system stories so that we can make these insights available to as wide an audience as possible.

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Friends of New Fadum Farm

All of us found ourselves doing things differently in 2020 when COVID 19 hit. This section includes reports from some of our friends at New Fadum Farm.

Grandparents and Grandkids Lessons

Who are we?

In 1978, Deborah and David Andersen, newly arrived to Albany, NY bought a few acres around a 19th century farmhouse in the hamlet of Unionville in the town of New Scotland New York.  Today, those few acre have expanded to a small, 40 acre, sheep farm that supports Deborah’s interest in the fiber arts.  We raised our three daughters in this place and since 2012 we have been living in three generations at this place with one of our daughters, her husband and two (soon to be three) children.  We are two retired University Professors who enjoy living in the country.

David Andersen

Farmer / Professor

David F. Andersen is Distinguished Service Professor of Public Administration and Information Science at the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, University at Albany--SUNY. He is a founding fellow at the Center for Technology in Government, an information systems R&D center for the state of New York. Professor Andersen holds an AB in Mathematics and Social Sciences from Dartmouth College. He holds a PhD in Management from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Deborah Andersen

Farmer / Professor

Deborah L. Andersen is professor emeritus of information studies and informatics at University at Albany, State University of New York. She received her PhD from the University at Albany in 1996 and has taught statistics, research design, and information science courses at UAlbany at both master's and PhD levels since then.

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