IAS News

IAS faculty member Becca Price runs the Science Teaching Experience Program (STEP) in which Ph.D. scientists and students pursuing Ph.Ds learn how to teach with methods that are proven to be effective and equitable. The Association for Women in Science just ran a feature about the program, written by STEP graduate Katie Mitzelfelt. Dr. Mitzelfelt concludes ...

IAS staff members Eva Navarijo, Nhi Tran, Sakara Buyagawan, Jung Lee, and Jessica Trenkamp ran a session at the UW/Community College Advising Conference on “Mask and You Shall Receive: Student Support During the Pandemic.” The session focused on ...

IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen spoke about the intersection of their activism, literary and academic engagement, and community building at the “Creative Politics, Political Poetics: An Ecology of Change” roundtable. Chen joined ...

The short film “Delirium” created by IAS faculty member Masahiro Sugano’s 2020 “Competitive Filmmaking” Class wins two more prizes. The film, created by eight UW Bothell students entirely during remote learning, was awarded with both an “Honorary Mention” for the Collaboration category and named the winner of the “Best of Northwest” category. 

Dr. Brinda Sarathy, professor of environmental analysis at Pitzer College in Claremont, California, will succeed Dr. Bruce Burgett as dean of the School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences at the University of Washington Bothell.

The University selected Sarathy in a national search that began last year. She will begin her job as dean and professor on July 1. Burgett, the inaugural dean of IAS, is returning to the faculty after 14 years of administrative service.