February 2019

M.A. in Policy Studies (MAPS) student Kyra Laughlin traveled to Washington D.C. last month for the 2019 National Association of Student Personnel Administrators Strategies for Sexual Assault Prevention and Response conference. While there, Laughlin held a round table discussion titled "Strategies for Engaging Student Survivors in Campus Efforts to Address Sexual Violence" to an audience of ...

IAS faculty member, and Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies (GWSS) coordinator, Julie Shayne, was asked to organize a panel discussion about the lecturer track/tenure track hierarchy at this year's Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) conference in Denver, Colorado. Her session was called “Upsetting the Tenure/Non-Tenure Track Hierarchy: An Interactive Conversation” and it was based on a blog post she wrote for ...

IAS faculty member Sara Maxwell is quoted in a Washington Post article on using advances in data analysis to inform regulation of the fishing industry in the interests of protecting endangered species. Addressing the current state of regulatory practice, Maxwell says: "The whole structure is antiquated. It assumes a level of stability that is definitely not happening ... The climate is changing. Fisheries are not prepared." Read the full article:

IAS faculty members Christian Anderson, Amaranth Borsuk, and Lauren Lichty were official notified by the UW Provost’s Office of their promotion from Assistant to Associate Professor (with tenure).

From Dec 7 - Dec 31, 2018, IAS faculty member Masahiro Sugano traveled to Tehran, Iran on invitation of the Rah Artist Residency program. During his residency he presented a collection of his film works in a retrospective screening at Jaleh Gallery in Tehran and gave an artist talk at the University of Tehran. The 3-week residency also ...