News from the School of IAS
Art & Politics of Walking class partners with City of Kenmore to create Geocaching project
Jason Frederick Lambacher’s BCORE class — The Art & Politics of Walking — partnered with the City of Kenmore throughout the fall of 2024 to create an Adventure Lab for their new park (Tl -awh-ah-dees), which is near the junction of Swamp Creek and the Sammamish River. An Adventure Lab is a particular kind of...
December 6, 2024
Shannon Cram receives Honorable Mention for Gregory Bateson Book Prize
IAS faculty member, Shannon Cram, received an Honorable Mention for the Gregory Bateson Book Prize. Awarded by the Society for Cultural Anthropology (SCA), the Bateson Prize “looks to single out work that is theoretically rich, ethnographically grounded, and in the spirit of the tradition for which the SCA has been known: interdisciplinary, experimental, and innovative.”...
November 26, 2024
Jennifer Atkinson Speaks with NPR About Climate Education
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson was featured on NPR’s Weekend Edition where she spoke about the difficult climate emotions many college students experience. The story, Universities are teaching students to combat climate anxiety with action, highlighted institutions including Cornell University and the University of Washington, Bothell where educators are sensitive to student anxiety over climate...
November 15, 2024
Shannon Cram publishes in Visual Anthropology Review
“Placemaking in the Nuclear Sensorium” consider’s Irene Lusztig’s 2023 film, “Richland,” a place-based documentary about a nuclear company town in southeastern Washington State. Built by the US government as part of the Manhattan Project, Richland fueled thousands of weapons in the nation’s nuclear arsenal, including the bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. IAS faculty member Shannon...
November 15, 2024
Folio Philosophy Club at Pike Place Market hosted by Jason Frederick Lambacher
Starting in August 2024, Jason has hosted a philosophy book club event at Folio, a non-profit literary & cultural center located in the Pike Place Market in Seattle. The group meets monthly to discuss philosophers examined in Eric Weiner’s The Socrates Express. The club combines primary source readings (selected by Jason) with the “life lessons”...
November 5, 2024
Jennifer Atkinson Presents Climate Research at the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Jennifer Atkinson was a plenary speaker at the 2024 conference of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, where she presented her work Heeding the Impact of Climate Change on Youth Mental Health. Climate change and the uncertainty of meaningful mitigation are now undeniable. However, the field of child and adolescent psychiatry has been...
November 4, 2024
Becca Price publishes “Annotations of LSE Research: Students identify how to support their transfer from community college”
IAS faculty member Becca Price and her colleagues Joel Abrahm (Cal State Fullerton), MacKenzie Gray (Portland State), and Erin Shortlidge (Portland State), published a set of annotations that introduce scholars to methods used to research strategies for supporting transfer students perusing degrees in the sciences. The original paper by Gray et al. identifies concrete ways...
November 4, 2024
Jaki Yi publishes on intersectional Asian American college student activism
Dr. Jaki Yi and her co-author Dr. Nathan Todd published “A Grounded Theory of Intersectional Asian American College Student Activism” in the Asian American Journal of Psychology. In their study, participants’ stories offered insights into the triumphs and challenges of Asian American college students’ engagement in activism for racial justice, gender equality, and sexual minority...
October 21, 2024
IAS Student Alexandra Luna Presents at Washington Public Health Association
Alexandra Luna, a student from Dr. Jennifer Atkinson’s climate anxiety course, presented on mental health and climate change at the 2024 Washington State Public Health Association conference. She was invited to join the panel as part of Atkinson’s research cohort “Integrating end-user needs in the measurement of young adult climate distress,” which is funded by...
October 15, 2024
Jennifer Atkinson Receives Population Health Initiative Grant
The University of Washington Population Health Initiative awarded 13 Tier 1 pilot grants to teams of interdisciplinary researchers representing 11 UW schools and colleges. Among those receiving the award was Jennifer Atkinson’s team, led by principal investigator Dr. Jessica Acolin of UW’s Department of Psychiatry. The team includes four researchers from Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences...
October 3, 2024