News from the School of IAS

Category: Research and Creative Practice

Becca Price: Pandemic-Related Instructor Talk

IAS faculty member Becca Price spent fall and winter of 2019/20 supporting a team of postdoctoral scholars as they developed biology seminar courses to teach at UW Bothell and at UW Seattle for spring of 2020. These beginning instructors had to quickly change their approach to teaching in the face of the emotional crises of that spring and the sudden shift to remote teaching. Price and the instructors published a paper ...

May 5, 2021

Jin-Kyu Jung on living in smart cities

IAS faculty member Jin-Kyu Jung gave a presentation on “Smart Engagement with Citizens Unbound” at the “Join Venture and Joining Governance” session in “The 1st Sejong Smart City Forum” held in Sejong, South Korea. Jung discussed the need to engage closely with the citizens in embracing the diverse perspectives and opportunities of living in the smart cities and ...

April 28, 2021

Alka Kurian moderates Q&A for Writing with Fire

IAS faculty member Alka Kurian co-moderated the question and answer session for the film Writing with Fire screened at the 2021 Seattle International Film Festival. The award-winning film is about "the fearless journalists behind Khabar Lahariya, India’s only newspaper run by Dalit (“untouchable”) women, as they fight for truth and justice in the face of hostile patriarchy and ...

April 27, 2021

Anida Yoeu Ali exhibits in Fragilità with support of The Embassy of Italy in Kuala Lumpur

IAS faculty member Anida Yoeu Ali was selected as one of four Southeast Asian artists to exhibit alongside Italian artists in an immersive online group exhibition titled "Fragilità." “Fragilità” is curated by Alberto Salvadori, director of Fondazione ICA Milano, Luigi Fassi, director of MAN in Nuoro, and Lim Wei Ling, director of the Wei Ling Gallery in Kuala Lumpur, and it is organized with the support of the Italian Embassy in Malaysia. “Fragilità” began on Instagram channel @particle____ from March 3-10, 2021 with platform access and public program found on the Fragilità website.

April 26, 2021

Ching-In Chen publishes in The Rupture

IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen’s hybrid pieces “Gatha for Forest Walk / When No Father Arrives,” “Desert / Nine Days,” and “Park” were published in The Rupture, a bimonthly publication of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction.

April 23, 2021

Anida Yoeu Ali exhibits at MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum in Chiang Mai

IAS faculty member Anida Yoeu Ali exhibited prints from The Buddhist Bug series at MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum in Chiang Mai, Thailand from Nov 14, 2020 - March 30, 2021. The photographs were part of a final touring exhibition titled “A Beast, A God and A Line” originally curated by Hong Kong based curator Cosmin Costinas.

April 23, 2021

IAS faculty receive grant and organize UW Bothell Labor Colloquia Series

IAS faculty members Ching-In Chen, Dan Berger, S. Charusheela, Joseph Ferrare, and Kari Lerum received a grant from the UW Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies. The grants committee noted that “the progress in growing Labor Studies made at UW Bothell was extraordinary in the 2019-2020 academic year, reaching new faculty and audiences both on and off-campus, and we applaud your work!

April 23, 2021

Jennifer Atkinson: The Search for Environmental Hope

IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson’s podcast Facing It was featured in the Washington Post Magazine’s cover story for their Earth Day edition. The article, titled “The Search for Environmental Hope,” included an interview with Atkinson and several naturalists, scientists and climate activists about how they engage with the question of hope. ...

April 23, 2021

Science Teaching Experience Program (STEP) graduate reflects on lessons learned

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 ...

April 20, 2021