News from School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences
Category: Students
Purpose, History, Justice, and the Paranormal
IAS alum Anthony Safai finds his passion in an unconventional place through his web series Existence in Silence “Just go out there and you’ll find something. You won’t expect it, but you’ll definitely find it.” These are the words of Anthony Safai (’24), a recent graduate of UW Bothell who majored in Media & Communication...
March 25, 2024
Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies Student featured on UWB’s homepage!
Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies (GWSS) student Levi Gutierrez is featured in the lead UWB story this week! You can read the whole story here.
March 6, 2024
GWSS Hosts the Social Justice Career Panel
Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies (GWSS) Co-Directors Julie Shayne and Alka Kurian and GWSS Student Representatives Henry Ngyuen and Adrianna Horne hosted the Social Justice Career Panel at the North Creek Events Center.
January 26, 2023
Alysa Levi-D’Ancona (MFA ’23) Publishes work in Occulum Journal
Issue 13 of Occulum, an online journal of "prose, poetry, and other peculiarities," features the poem "molasses traps" by second-year MFA student Alysa Levi-D’Ancona (she/her).
November 22, 2022
MFA Alum Nicole McCarthy reads at Gig Harbor Poetry Festival
On October 9th 2022, MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics alum Nicole McCarthy (MFA 2017) was the keynote speaker for the Greater Gig Harbor Poetry Festival where she red from her new book, The Summoning.
October 17, 2022
Amaranth Borsuk Participates in Roundtable on Visual Poetry and Poetics
This past spring, IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk and her collaborator Terri Witek took part in a roundtable conversation of poets and book artists convened by writer Amanda Earl to discuss their poetics.
August 29, 2022
IAS student José Manuel Cuevas-Lopez is accepted into the IA/JGS fellowship
Current IAS student José Manuel Cuevas-Lopez has been accepted into the Imagining America/Joy of Giving Something, Inc. (IA/JGS) Fellowship for 2022-2023
August 24, 2022
MFA Alum Nicole McCarthy publishes her first book, A Summoning
Nicole McCarthy's (MFA 2017) first book, A Summoning, has just been published by Heavy Feather Review.
August 16, 2022
Dr. Julie Shayne publishes piece about her class The Power of Feminist Writing
This spring 2022 Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies professor Dr. Julie Shayne launched a new course called The Power of Feminist Writing.
August 16, 2022
Coming alive with performance
When most people think of performance, they think of dance recitals, plays or concerts. But according to IAS faculty member Anida Yoeu Ali, performance is something anyone can do, at anytime, anywhere. “Everything can be a stage, and any place can be a gallery,” Ali said. “It’s just a switch in your thinking.”
May 31, 2022