August 2020

Priya Frank has been appointed as  Director of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion at Seattle Art Museum (SAM). This new roles grows out of Frank’s ongoing work at SAM to integrate racial equity into the museum’s strategic priorities. ...

Last month, IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk's volume The Book (MIT Press, 2018) was published in Spanish. El Libro Expandido, translated by Lucila Cordone, was Issued by Ediciones Ampersand of Buenos Aires, which specializes in books on books and visual culture. Part of the series Comunicación & Lenguajes, it joins volumes on transmedia reading and hybrid web discourse...

Four University of Washington Bothell students received the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship to support their study abroad. Awards ranging from $3,000 to $5,000 went to each student.  Two of the students are IAS majors: Mari McMenamin (Media & Communication Studies) will study in Spain and France, and Julie Pham (Mathematical Thinking & Visualization) will study in South Africa. The other ...

IAS faculty member Melanie Malone and research colleagues from universities across the U.S. were awarded a National Science Foundation Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) grant. The project, entitled "RESTING SAFE: Collaborative Informal STEM Learning Between Researchers and Homeless Communities", is centered on mitigating homeless ...

IAS faculty member Dan Berger was interviewed on KUOW's The Record (scroll down on the page to hear just Berger's segment) about decarceration in the time of COVID. Berger discussed the threat that prisons and jails, which account for more than three-quarters of outbreak clusters, pose in a pandemic. He also highlighted similar issues in ...