News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
From Washington to Iceland: Exploring Geology and Sustainability
What can the landscapes of Washington and Iceland teach us about sustainability? This summer, 19 University of Washington students, including 10 from UW Bothell’s School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, explored this question through “Water, Fire, and Ice: How Geology Shapes Sustainability in Washington and Iceland,” a study abroad experience led by IAS faculty, Avery...
October 16, 2026
Min Tang presents at the 2026 Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Conference
IAS faculty Dr. Min Tang presented at the 2026 annual conference of Society for Social Studies of Science (4S). In her presentation titled “Who controls the AI unicorns? Unravel the capital supply chain in the emerging AI industry”, Dr. Tang shared her research on the issues of financialization and geopolitics in the emerging artificial intelligence...
October 9, 2026
Shannon Cram Awarded Writing Residency at Yaddo
IAS faculty member Shannon Cram was awarded a prestigious writing residency at Yaddo. Based in Saratoga Springs, New York, Yaddo brings writers and artists together from around the world to spend concentrated time on creative projects. Cram spent two and a half weeks there in August, learning from fellow residents and working on her new...
October 9, 2026
Masahiro Sugano and Anida Yoeu Ali awarded Interlude Artist Residency
This summer, IAS faculty Masahiro Sugano and Anida Yoeu Ali were recipients of a month-long residency at Interlude Artist Residency in Hudson, N.Y., a highly competitive program uniquely designed to support artist couples and their families. During the residency, Sugano worked on a new series of surrealist paintings, while Ali developed the early conceptual framework...
August 19, 2026
Melanie Malone’s EPA project featured in NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice letter to OMB
The NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Center included Melanie Malone’s climate change and flooding grant on the Duwamish River in their comment to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The grant, research, and its benefits to the community surrounding the Duwamish River were highlighted as examples of the importance of protecting peer reviewed scientific...
August 10, 2026
Teaching students to think and work like scientists
IAS Professor Becca Price published an article, “Using the Paleobiology Database to Teach Scientific Practices: an Approach Aligned to Relational Culture Theory,” in the journal Integrative Organismal Biology. The article documents her philosophy teaching BES 301: Science Methods and Practice, in which students learn how science works by conducting their own research. In just ten...
August 7, 2026
Julie Shayne publishes review essay in Feminist Pedagogy
Dr. Julie Shayne wrote a review of two new novels about reproductive autonomy denied: “Enormous Wings” by Laurie Frankel and “Where the Girls Were” by Kate Schatz. Schatz’s “Where the Girls Were” is set in 1968 San Francisco, California in a home for unmarried pregnant girls. Frankel’s “Enormous Wings” is set nearly sixty years later...
July 17, 2026
When environmental research is lost: Dr. Melanie Malone featured in The New York Times
The New York Times interviewed Dr. Melanie Malone, an environmental science professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences at UW Bothell, as part of their “Lost Science” series. Her research team was mapping dangerous soil and water pollutants along the Duwamish River when the EPA canceled her $1.2 million grant. Read The New...
June 5, 2026
IAS Professor Jin-Kyu Jung teams with former faculty and MFA alum to write an essay on “Surfacing Urban Ghosts.”
Dr. Jin-Kyu Jung, former IAS Professor Dr. Ted Hiebert, and Master of Fine Arts alum, Noor Alnaaz Islam, ’25, have published an essay in Performance Research titled, “Surfacing Urban Ghosts: Buried cities and electromagnetic imaginations.” The Haunted Seattle project examines alternative maps and perceptions of Seattle’s underground cityscape and the hidden histories that shape it....
May 29, 2026
Shannon Cram presents at the Rachel Carson Forum
IAS faculty member Dr. Shannon Cram presented at the annual Rachel Carson Forum at Evergreen State College. Hosted by the Masters of Environmental Studies Association (MESA), this year’s forum considered the theme, “Ecology and Intersectionality in Theory and Practice.” Dr. Cram shared research about nuclear waste remediation and genetic previvorship, with a particular focus on...
May 6, 2026