News from the School of IAS
Shannon Cram presents at Whitman College
IAS faculty member Shannon Cram gave a public talk at Whitman College about contamination and cleanup at the nearby Hanford Nuclear Site. She also visited two classes–Introduction to Environmental Studies and Environmental Health–where she talked with students about the everyday life of waste and toxicity. A story about Cram’s talk appeared in the Whitman Wire.
November 17, 2025
IAS Affiliate Faculty Jill Freidberg releases new book of oral histories
IAS Affiliate Faculty Jill Freidberg has a new book of oral histories entitled Limitless, Stories from the Neighborhood that Shaped Seattle. The culmination of a multi-year oral history project, in Seattle’s historically redlined Central District neighborhood, Limitless features stories of innovation, interdependence, self-determination, creativity, and resistance alongside artworks by seven Central District artists. Published by...
November 17, 2025
Professor Martha Groom featured in article on the success of UW Conservation Scholars Program
The UW College of the Environment recently published a new article detailing the impact of the Doris Duke Conservation Scholars Program (DDCSP) at the University of Washington. Central to the program’s long-standing success is the dedicated leadership of IAS Professor Martha Groom, an expert in conservation science and environmental education. As the DDCSP program director,...
November 17, 2025
Becca Price delivers keynote address
Dr. Becca Price presented a keynote address, entitled “Applying asset-based approaches to science teaching and faculty collegiality” at the annual meeting of the Washington College Chemistry Teachers Association. “This was a wonderful opportunity to talk to folks who teach intro chem,” said Price, “a series of courses in which students learn foundational science skills in...
October 24, 2025
Amaranth Borsuk contributes to an artistic game of Telephone
Amaranth Borsuk recently published a piece in to Telephone, an artists' game in which contributors are sent an anonymous work of art.
October 13, 2025
Naomi Bragin has received two regional artist awards for Grief Rituals project
Naomi Bragin has received two regional artist awards for Grief Rituals, a new project which will bring a series of arts practice workshops and community ceremonies to the Chinatown International District in 2026. Grief Rituals addresses the theme of migration through collective experiences of grieving and healing. The project has won support from King County’s...
September 29, 2025
Dr. Price presents a seminar in the Department of Genome Sciences
Dr. Becca Price presented a talk titled “Scientific teaching: impacts on service, professional development, and faculty affairs” to the Department of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington Seattle. Invited by the Community Organizers of Genome Sciences, Dr. Price spoke about connections among curriculum development, faculty affairs, and research on teaching and learning. She connected...
September 29, 2025
Kari Lerum leads workshops on Sexuality, Politics & Faith at Holden Village
For a week in late August, IAS faculty member Kari Lerum served as a discussion facilitator at Holden Village, a spiritual retreat center in the North Cascades. Organized under the theme of “Sexuality, Politics, and Faith,” Lerum’s workshops explored how faith communities in the U.S. intersect with policies around gender, sex education, family & reproductive...
September 29, 2025
Jennifer Atkinson Gives Climate Keynote Talk at Ewha Women’s University and the University of Exeter
Jennifer Atkinson gave a keynote address on climate storytelling at the 2025 Ewha-Exeter Symposium on “Hope amid Crisis: Recognition, Resilience, and Renewal.” The 2025 conference was co-hosted by the English departments of Ewha Women’s University (South Korea) and the University of Exeter (UK), and featured presentations exploring how hope—often situated within crisis—emerges in literary and...
September 29, 2025
Tang presents at the 2025 Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Conference
Dr. Min Tang presents her most recent research on information infrastructures at the 2025 annual conference of Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) in Seattle. The presentation, titled “Rethink the Digital Cold War: The political economy and geopolitics of information infrastructures”, revisits the “digital Cold War” framework by examining three case studies on the...
September 29, 2025