News from the School of IAS

Category: Research and Creative Practice

Jennifer Atkinson: Why the Covid Gardening Boom is About More than Food

IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson published an article on Why the Covid Gardening Boom is About More than Food with Earth Island Journal. The piece explores some of the reasons behind the surge in gardening's popularity during a time of pandemic, police violence, and protest. Atkinson interviewed University of Washington Bothell students and gardeners across the U.S., including the founders of Black Sanctuary Gardens, which ...

June 16, 2020

Price and Ferrare: Comparing Modes of Instruction with Instructor Beliefs

IAS faculty members Becca Price and Joe Ferrare, along with Clark Coffman (Iowa State) have published an article in a series of annotations that introduce scholars to biology education research. The original paper (by Ferrare) describes how college science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) courses are taught, and how the instructors’ teaching styles correspond to their beliefs about the way students learn. The paper concludes ...

June 10, 2020

Virtual Charter Schools Negatively Impact Students

A new paper co-authored by IAS faculty member Joseph Ferrare finds that for-profit virtual charter schools have a strong, negative impact on student learning in math and English/Language Arts. The study, which was recently published in the journal Educational Researcher, was a collaboration with colleagues from the University of Notre Dame and University of Kentucky. In the study ...

June 10, 2020

IAS Faculty Receive Scholarship, Research and Creative Practice Awards

UW Bothell has announced the first Scholarship, Research and Creative Practice awards. These awards represent a total investment of $284,000 to advance faculty research and creative practice. The program is intended to support UW Bothell faculty in all disciplines who are starting new projects or relaunching current projects in new directions that have the potential for internal UW and/or external funding. Out of the fifteen one-year seed grants awarded, six were awarded to IAS faculty:

June 9, 2020

Jed Murr receives grant for Black Arts Northwest project

IAS faculty member Jed Murr has received a UW Bothell Scholarship, Research and Creative Practice Seed Grant for his project, Black Arts Northwest, Phase One. The grant will enable the creation of a publicly accessible, interactive online digital history platform dedicated to preserving and sharing the story of a Black Power mural created in Seattle in the early 1970s in relation to the rich history, culture, and politics of Black Seattle. The digital platform constitutes ...

June 8, 2020

Melanie Malone receives Curriculum Innovation Award

IAS faculty member Melanie Malone and colleagues from an NSF IGERT program won a Curriculum Innovation Award from the Association of Collegiate Schools and Planning. The award honors excellence in teaching and design of learning experiences that are accessible, engaging, and effective for all students. Read the full award annoumcement.

June 3, 2020

My Story: Dance, dance, otherwise we are lost!

IAS faculty member Diana García-Snyder teaches performance, dance, and mindfulness at UW Bothell. Her work centers on dance and movement as healing and transformative practices, and COVID-19 has impacted her teaching in multiple ways.

June 3, 2020

Margaret Redsteer publishes “Sand Dunes, Modern and Ancient, on the Southern Colorado Plateau Tribal Lands, Southwestern USA”

IAS faculty member Margaret Redsteer published “Sand Dunes, Modern and Ancient, on the Southern Colorado Plateau Tribal Lands, Southwestern USA” in Inland Dunes of North America. In her chapter, Redsteer describes how understanding the past, and documenting the current and future potential for sand dune mobility, provides important insights about climate variability and change, particularly in regions prone to drought. Changes to ...

June 1, 2020

Ching-In Chen in @Salon: Queer Sound 2020 Showcase

IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen’s ‘Household Mutations’ was selected for inclusion by curator Samuel Ace for the @Salon Pride: Queer Sound 2020 showcase. In the month of June, sound artists from the showcase will be featured in a Live Zoom series in conversation and performance on Tuesdays, 5p PDT. Ching-In Chen, Ian Hatcher and micha cárdenas will be ...

May 29, 2020