News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
Becca Price publishes “An Active Learning Workshop to Teach Active Learning Strategies”
IAS faculty member Becca Price and colleagues, including Dr. Salwa Al-Noori in the UW Bothell School of STEM, published a paper describing a workshop that she and her colleagues give to support postdoctoral scholars in the Science Teaching Experience Program: Working in Science Education to teach them how to ...
November 24, 2021
Kristin Gustafson presents Backward Course Design
IAS faculty member Kristin Gustafson focused on Backward Design with two audiences recently. Backward Course Design begins with where you want students to end the class. It is a process that helps you identify how to get there. Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe, who wrote Understanding by Design and are credited for developing Backward Design, describe teachers as “designers.”
November 24, 2021
Alice Pedersen presents at the Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education and National Women’s Studies Association Annual Conferences
IAS faculty member Alice Pedersen presented at two conferences this fall. In early November, she presented on the intersection of contemplative pedagogies with Zoom teaching at the Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education annual conference with ...
November 24, 2021
Amaranth Borsuk featured in Bienal Internacional Poesia Oeiras
IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk was featured this month in the first International Poetry Biennial in Oeiras Portugal, a celebration of poetry under the theme of Power and Democracy. The biennial was held at the Templo da Poesia in the Poets' Park, a public oasis with ...
November 24, 2021
Karam Dana on “Palestine: Resurgent and Emergent Solidarities”
IAS faculty member Karam Dana participated in the American Anthropological Association’s (AAA) annual meeting as a panelist on a virtual roundtable titled “Palestine: Resurgent and Emergent Solidarities.” Dana discussed how Palestinians have long sympathized with other colonized ...
November 23, 2021
Ching-In Chen joins editorial board of Hyphen Magazine
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen has joined the editorial board of Hyphen Magazine as a Visual Arts editor on the Arts and Culture team. Hyphen is a news and culture magazine, media outlet, and community partner that illuminates Asian America through ...
November 23, 2021
Minda Martin screens Ramps to Nowhere and engages in community discussion
IAS faculty member Minda Martin screened her essay film Ramps to Nowhere on November 15, 2021 to more than 350 attendees hosted by Front and Centered, King County Equity Now, Disability Rights Washington, Seattle Neighborhood Greenways, 350 Seattle, Social Justice Film Institute, and Meaningful Movies. ...
November 22, 2021
Melanie Malone: community research on the Lower Duwamish Superfund
IAS faculty member Melanie Malone and colleagues from UW Seattle led a project to facilitate community research on the Lower Duwamish Superfund. The project, "Co-creating an Adaptive Community-Science Network: Supporting Tribal and Grassroots Action through the Puget Creek Watershed Assessment," ...
November 19, 2021
Jennifer Atkinson’s podcast featured in Arts & Climate Change
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson's podcast was featured in Arts & Climate Change, an organization that supports "deeply-engaged, throughout-provoking and artistically-savvy responses to climate change." In 2020, Atkinson launched a podcast called Facing It to share research on the emotional and psychological toll of climate change. Yet the series also ...
November 18, 2021
Dan Berger: “SNCC’s Unruly Internationalism”
Writing in Boston Review, IAS faculty member Dan Berger published an article on the global imagination of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. The legendary civil rights organization formed in 1960 and recently had a 60th anniversary conference. Yet while many remember the organization's role in confronting Jim Crow ...
November 17, 2021