News from the School of IAS

Jennifer Atkinson Shares Climate Anxiety Strategies with ALA, EarthLab, and In the Meanwhile

IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson partnered with the American Library Association, UW EarthLab, and the podcast “In the Meanwhile” to share strategies for supporting young people facing climate despair. Atkinson joined a panel on eco-anxiety hosted by the American Library Association (ALA). Alongside authors Kelsey LaPort, Noel Reich, and Heather White, she discussed eco-anxiety, burnout,...

October 16, 2026

From Washington to Iceland: Exploring Geology and Sustainability

What can the landscapes of Washington and Iceland teach us about sustainability? This summer, 19 University of Washington students, including 10 from UW Bothell’s School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, explored this question through “Water, Fire, and Ice: How Geology Shapes Sustainability in Washington and Iceland,” a study abroad experience led by IAS faculty, Avery...

October 16, 2026

Min Tang presents at the 2026 Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Conference

IAS faculty Dr. Min Tang presented at the 2026 annual conference of Society for Social Studies of Science (4S). In her presentation titled “Who controls the AI unicorns? Unravel the capital supply chain in the emerging AI industry”, Dr. Tang shared her research on the issues of financialization and geopolitics in the emerging artificial intelligence...

October 9, 2026

Shannon Cram Awarded Writing Residency at Yaddo

IAS faculty member Shannon Cram was awarded a prestigious writing residency at Yaddo. Based in Saratoga Springs, New York, Yaddo brings writers and artists together from around the world to spend concentrated time on creative projects. Cram spent two and a half weeks there in August, learning from fellow residents and working on her new...

October 9, 2026

Karam Dana’s “To Stand With Palestine” wins 2026 Evelyn Shakir Nonfiction Academic Award

IAS faculty member Karam Dana’s book, “To Stand With Palestine: Transnational Resistance and Political Evolution in the United States,” has been named the winner of the 2026 the Arab American National Museum’s Evelyn Shakir Nonfiction Academic Book Award. Professor Dana will formally receive the award in Michigan this October. The book examines the changing discourse...

September 18, 2026

Masahiro Sugano and Anida Yoeu Ali awarded Interlude Artist Residency

This summer, IAS faculty Masahiro Sugano and Anida Yoeu Ali were recipients of a month-long residency at Interlude Artist Residency in Hudson, N.Y., a highly competitive program uniquely designed to support artist couples and their families. During the residency, Sugano worked on a new series of surrealist paintings, while Ali developed the early conceptual framework...

August 19, 2026

Teaching students to think and work like scientists

IAS Professor Becca Price published an article, “Using the Paleobiology Database to Teach Scientific Practices: an Approach Aligned to Relational Culture Theory,” in the journal Integrative Organismal Biology. The article documents her philosophy teaching BES 301: Science Methods and Practice, in which students learn how science works by conducting their own research. In just ten...

August 7, 2026

Julie Shayne publishes review essay in Feminist Pedagogy

Dr. Julie Shayne wrote a review of two new novels about reproductive autonomy denied: “Enormous Wings” by Laurie Frankel and “Where the Girls Were” by Kate Schatz. Schatz’s “Where the Girls Were” is set in 1968 San Francisco, California in a home for unmarried pregnant girls. Frankel’s “Enormous Wings” is set nearly sixty years later...

July 17, 2026

Shannon Cram publishes in Bellingham Review

IAS professor Shannon Cram published a flash essay in the spring issue of Bellingham Review. Tuesday Morning recounts a brief, bright memory of Cram’s mother in one long sentence. Editor-in-Chief, Jane Wong, writes that the piece “stays in the belly of a moment of laughter despite loss and fear vibrating through: ‘this memory will rush...

July 13, 2026