News from the School of IAS
Category: Students
Dr. Shayne’s students publish Badass Womxn and Enbies in the Pacific Northwest, volume 5
Students in Dr. Julie Shayne’s Rad Womxn in the Global South spring 2026 class published volume five of the open access zine called, “Badass Womxn and Enbies in the Pacific Northwest.” This year’s students called themselves The Zinedom Writers: a fusion of “zine” and “freedom.” The class works collectively, in small groups, to build the...
June 10, 2026
IAS students help shape policy in Olympia
A group of students from University of Washington Bothell’s School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences spent winter quarter in Olympia, working alongside lawmakers during the legislative session. They responded to constituents, attended hearings, tracked bills, supported advocacy efforts, and navigated the realities of public policy work in real time. For Jennifer Ramirez and Hiro Hirano-Holcomb,...
May 28, 2026
Students explore the art of hand-drawn animation at UW Bothell
This winter, the School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences launched a Hand-Drawn Animation course, taught by Masahiro Sugano, Senior Artist-in-Residence. Like many creative experiments, the course involved plenty of trial and error along the way. But according to Sugano, something meaningful emerged through the process: a shared sense of discovery, persistence, and joy in learning...
May 6, 2026
IAS Students Selected to Present Research at International CHI Conference
Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences undergraduate students, Jayrylle Jaylo and Mia Chastain, have been selected to present at the 2026 Association for Computing Machinery Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) in Barcelona, where they will share their research, “Visualization use in Qualitative Research Reports: Evolving media types and competing epistemologies.” As part of the...
April 20, 2026
Professor Martha Groom featured in article on the success of UW Conservation Scholars Program
The UW College of the Environment recently published a new article detailing the impact of the Doris Duke Conservation Scholars Program (DDCSP) at the University of Washington. Central to the program’s long-standing success is the dedicated leadership of IAS Professor Martha Groom, an expert in conservation science and environmental education. As the DDCSP program director,...
November 17, 2025
Printing as a PAGE Fellow with C Genevieve Hicks: Art, Fellowship, and Public Scholarship
Join us in celebrating and congratulating C. Genevieve Hicks—a forever conjure woman, emerging poet, and dedicated physical therapist with over three decades of practice—for her continued contributions to art, healing, and community. During her first year in the MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics program, her professor Ching-In Chen encouraged her to apply for the...
June 3, 2025
Asian American Psychology Lab presents at UW Undergraduate Research Symposium and UWB Academic Showcase 2025
Asian American Psychology Lab undergraduate research assistants Dhishitha Madhavan, Nicholas Perez, and Danielle Garcia presented research at the 2025 UW Undergraduate Research Symposium and UWB Academic Showcase. IAS faculty member Jaki Yi served as a mentor for their research presentations. Drawing from initial findings of an ongoing qualitative study on the psychological and sociopolitical experiences...
June 3, 2025
Dr. Julie Shayne publishes a piece about the power of students’ voices
Dr. Shayne, Teaching Professor in Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, and Global Studies has a new piece in Ms. Magazine online. The piece is titled “‘Sharing Our Stories Loosens the Grip they Have on Us’: Watching Students Claim Voice to Power” and can be read here.In it she discusses her class “The Power of Feminist...
June 20, 2024
Congratulations to Our Distinguished IAS Faculty & Students!
The end of the academic year is a vibrant time of celebration and reflection throughout the UW. The School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences had the great pleasure of contributing to the energy of the season at our Graduating Student Send Off event. The event brought together IAS students, faculty, staff, alumni and families to...
June 13, 2024
phoenix kai vaughan-ende Shows that “Anything is Possible”
phoenix kai vaughan-ende is a multimedia artist & poet in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences’ MFA program in Creative Writing & Poetics. This June, they’ll be graduating amongst the rest of their 2024 cohort after spending the past two years engaged in research and conversations surrounding engrained societal codes and binaries. Their work...
June 4, 2024
