IAS News

Students in BISMCS 343D Community Radio Journalism were excited to facilitate two workshops on public affairs programming in November 2018.  The first workshop was held at SPACE 101.1 FM KMPG-LP at Magnuson Park, on Saturday Nov 17^th from 9am-12pm, where participants learned how to record and edit a Vox Pop.  The second workshop was held at 96.9 FM KODX-LP in the University District, on Thursday Nov 29^th from 6-9pm, where they ...

IAS student Brannan Widdis (Media & Communication Studies) had his feature aired on KBCS 91.3 FM as part of the daily Morning Blend program. The news feature was developed in Toft’s Community Radio Journalism course (BISMCS 343), and explored  a new Low Power FM station called KBFG-LP - “a little station with a big heart” that covers Ballard, Freemont and Greenwood. You can hear ...

IAS faculty member Amoshaun Toft presented two papers at the National Communication Association in Salt Lake City, one of which – “Talking across movements on Democracy Now!” – received the Top Paper award in the Communication as Social Construction division.  Building on earlier exploratory research on the Civil Rights movement as narrative bridge, the paper argues ...

IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk reviews Nguyen's first book of poems, Ghost Of, in Lana Turner 11. Combining lyric reflections and visual poetry in invented forms, Nguyen's book explores the after-effects of her brother's suicide, which was preceded by his careful excision of himself from family photos in her parents' home. The gaps left behind become frames or nets in which Nguyen's language is caught as she tries to reconstruct her missing sibling. Borsuk writes:

IAS faculty member Melanie Malone published an article on how to track herbicides in Science of The Total Environment.  The article considers the relation between no-till agriculture and herbicide use.  It deploys multiple methods – spatial analysis of remote sensing satellite imagery of vegetation health along streams; use of a drone fitted with an agricultural camera to detect vegetation health; and soil, sediment, and water sampling for the most commonly used herbicides in the study area – to show where stream vegetation health continues to ...