News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
Julie Shayne joins roundtable on feminist writing and publishing
The president of the Southeast Women’s Studies Association (SEWSA) invited IAS faculty member, and Gender, Women, & Sexuality Studies coordinator, Julie Shayne to speak on a roundtable called “Emerging Scholars: A Writing and Publishing Roundtable Organizers.” The invitation followed Shayne’s presentation at the Gender Studies in Georgia conference last fall where she ...
March 15, 2021
Melanie Malone participates in “NightSchool: Women in Science”
IAS faculty member Melanie Malone was invited to participate in the "NightSchool: Women in Science" panel on March 4th, hosted by the California Academy of Sciences. The panel is held annually on International Women's Day, and features insightful conversations about what it’s like and what it means to be a woman in science in 2021. Melanie discussed ...
March 10, 2021
David Goldstein organizes international seminar on community engagement
IAS faculty member David Goldstein, along with Natalia Dyba, UW Bothell Director of Global Initiatives, and Kara Adams, Director of Community Engagement, planned and participated in an online, international Seminar on Community Engagement in which UW Bothell and California Polytechnic University, Pomona, joined host Ehime University in Matsuyama, Japan, to discuss the ethics of university partnerships with community members.
March 4, 2021
Jennifer Atkinson presents at Washington Climate Assembly
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson presented her work on climate anxiety at the Washington Climate Assembly. Washington state residents are taking climate matters into their own hands as 90 members of the public join the country's first climate assembly to develop a comprehensive community-based climate plan. Representing every congressional district in the state ...
March 4, 2021
Karam Dana on “Learning Matters: A Bridge to Practice” podcast
IAS faculty member Karam Dana was a guest on the “Learning Matters: A Bridge to Practice” podcast hosted by Scott Macklin from Trinity Western University in British Colombia. In the podcast episode addressing global connections, Dana describes his research, and its power in transforming our understanding with regard to studying Palestine and Palestinians, and with regard to the study of American Muslims ...
February 26, 2021
Becca Price publishes annotations to biology education research
IAS faculty member Becca Price and her colleague Clark Coffman (Iowa State) have published another set of annotations that introduce scholars to biology education research. The original paper (by Sana et al.) tests the effect of presenting learning objectives to students before they begin to study new material. The annotations ...
February 24, 2021
Ching-In Chen’s “Asking for Blue” inspires new single by Claire Michelle
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen’s hybrid work, “Asking for Blue,” inspired a new single by singer-songwriter Claire Michelle as part of the Bushwick Book Club Seattle, which matches musicians with writers. Chen and Michelle’s work was featured as part of this ongoing collaborative series, in which Bushwick Book Club Seattle musicians create original music inspired by the writers’ work published in the 2020 Jack Straw Writers Anthology. You can listen to “Asking for Blue” and ...
February 22, 2021
Ching-In Chen publishes “Dumpling-Making Kin”
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen’s creative nonfiction essay "Dumpling-Making Kin" was published in the South Seattle Emerald. The South Seattle Emerald was founded as a platform that amplifies the voice and experience of South Seattle by authentically depicting ...
February 17, 2021
Angelica Lucchetto publishes research in UW FieldNotes journal
IAS Environmental Science major Angelica Lucchetto published, "Impacts of Floating Woody Debris on Algae Communities: A Comparison between Spirit Lake and Coldwater Lake, Mount St. Helens," a feature article on her research in the UW FieldNotes journal. The article ...
February 11, 2021
Jed Murr: Teaching ethnic studies here and in Slovenia
During a sabbatical originally planned as a teaching Fulbright in Slovenia, IAS faculty member Jed Murr is working on a project funded with a UW Bothell Scholarship, Research and Creative Practice Seed Grant. As part of a larger Black Arts Northwest collaboration with scholars, librarians and archivists, Murr is creating a digital history platform. Part of the platform will be a website about a Black Power mural in Seattle that was created in the early 1970s and destroyed in the 1990s. Another project would digitize Black periodicals published in Seattle and make them publicly accessible.
February 9, 2021