News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
Ursula Valdez and Greg Tuke’s COIL course “The Great Rivers” profiled by Stevens Initiative
IAS faculty fember Ursula Valdez and COIL collaborator Greg Tuke’s COIL course on “The Great Rivers” has been profiled in “Exploring Environmental Sustainability: Promising practices in virtual exchange,” as one of the three examples for virtual exchange programs that connect young people in different countries to develop solutions to environmental issues. Valdez and Tuke ...
September 3, 2020
Ursula Valdez “Slipping Through the Cracks: Racism and the struggle for equity in the field of conservation”
IAS faculty member Ursula Valdez was one of 5 panelists who participated in this event as they discussed their experiences as members of the BIPOC community and co-conspirators working in and around the field of conservation. Together, panelists discussed how racism and other issues of social injustice are connected to ...
September 3, 2020
Jennifer Atkinson publishes in Resilience
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson's article, titled "Climate Grief: Our Greatest Ally?" explores the hidden benefit of dark emotions in response to our climate crisis. With growing attention to the mental health impacts of climate change -- and increasing popularity of terms like "eco-anxiety" and "climate grief" -- a constant stream of "five step" articles and support groups are offering tips to cope with that despair. But, as Atkinson asks, what if ...
September 1, 2020
Becca Price presents at the annual conference for the Society for the Advancement of Biology Education Research
The Society for the Advancement of Biology Education Research (SABER) hosted its annual conference virtually this year, with meetings distributed throughout July. IAS faculty member Becca Price presented some of her research in poster format, first talking about the large collaborative Science Teaching Experience Program, an established part of which trains scholars who recently received Ph.D.s in the sciences how to teach, and a new component which offers similar training for graduate students.
August 31, 2020
Students screen “The City as Character” at Northwest Film Forum
On August 23, 2020, students from IAS faculty member Minda Martin's class, "The City as Character Vol. 2," screened their work in an online event hosted by the Northwest Film Forum, and streamed live on their webpage and on Facebook. The course (BISMCS 343) is partnered with Seattle Municipal Archives and Moving Image Preservation of Puget Sound (MIPoPS) and requires students to work with the archives to tell stories about specific issues in Seattle from more than 50 years ago and connect it to the present. Some of these topics that surfaced are police accountability ...
August 24, 2020
Kari Lerum: Death, dying & pedagogy
Students examine death in the course Death Rituals, taught by IAS faculty member Kari Lerum, who hopes to instill a deeper comfort about an often-taboo topic. “This class has opened up so many conversations I otherwise might not have had with students,” said Lerum. “Some of our classes and office hours have been emotional, but this space and this course have also been restorative.
August 19, 2020
Amaranth Borsuk publishes article on books and bodies
As an outgrowth of her research into the book as object, content, idea, and interface, IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk has developed an interest in the relationship between books and bodies, historically and in the present moment. Not only is she interested in how books accommodate to our bodies and we to theirs, as examined in The Book (MIT Press, 2018), her recent research considers books that incorporate the human body into their material form, from ...
August 18, 2020
Julie Shayne in Ms. Magazine: “Damn Straight, We Persisted”
IAS faculty member Julie Shayne published an article with Ms, Magazine online about her new open-access book Persistence is Resistance: Celebrating 50 Years of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies. In the article, “Celebrating 50 Years of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies: ‘Damn Straight, We Persisted,’” Shayne explains how ...
August 17, 2020
Melanie Malone wins two UW research grants
IAS faculty member Melanie Malone won two UW research grants this month. The first grant, an Urban@UW Research Spark grant, was awarded to Melanie and other UW Seattle and Tacoma faculty and a Duwamish Tribal member. The grant is intended to support a co-created adaptive citizen science network that will ...
August 13, 2020
Julie Shayne publishes open-access book celebrating fifty years of gender, women, and sexuality studies
IAS faculty member Julie Shayne spent her sabbatical editing an open-access book titled Persistence is Resistance: Celebrating 50 Years of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies. Shayne, who is currently the Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies (GWSS) faculty coordinator, brought together authors from twenty-two institutions, including the University of Ghana and Universidad Icesi in Cali, Colombia. Authors represent ...
August 13, 2020