IAS News

IAS faculty member Rob Turner helped run an hour-long discussion session at the 2021 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Colleges & Universities in January.  The session was titled Fostering Sustainability Out of a Pandemic: Pathways for Higher Education to Create a More Resilient Institution and Society. In November, he received ...

IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson’s seminar on climate grief and eco-anxiety was featured in a New York Times story on efforts to support people experiencing distress over the global climate crisis. The article, Got Climate Anxiety? These People Are Doing Something About It, noted that the number of Americans who are “very worried” about climate change has more than doubled over the past five years to its current rate of ...

IAS faculty member Karam Dana was a panelist on "Timely Lessons from 2020: The Course." The four panelists from all three UW campuses discussed their lectures in teaching the more than 900 students registered for the course in a live broadcast in which the discussion was around the significance of the course in reflecting on the year 2020. A recording of the segment ...

IAS faculty member Karam Dana served as a panelist on (“Had I But Known” Insights to Improve Teaching) as part of the UW Center for Teaching and Learning’s Teaching Remotely Pop-Up Series, which is designed to highlight best-practices and essential aspects of effective remote instruction along with ...

IAS faculty member Becca Price and her colleague Jaimy Joy have published an article in CourseSource that describes a lesson for teaching students how to design vaccines. They developed this timely lesson for students in a seminar course taught jointly by IAS and STEM that introduces exciting biological topics to students from multiple majors.