News from the School of IAS
Category: Students
Kristin Gustafson and the Husky Herald Receive Awards at 2016 Club Council Recognition Banquet
At this year’s Club Council Recognition Banquet, the Husky Herald won the UW Bothell Club Council’s Rising Star Award. The Rising Star Award recognizes a registered campus club or organization that has shown tremendous improvements throughout the 2015-2016 academic school year. The Husky Herald was selected due to notable
June 8, 2016
Local writers share at “MFA Careers and Writing Futures”
A panel of local writers met with MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics students and alumni to share their career trajectories and advice for the road. They discussed how their MFA degrees have enhanced their writing, ways they’ve sustained their practices creatively and financially, and what professional opportunities they see for emerging writers. Panelists included MFA alumni Margaret Chiavetta (’14) and Travis Sharp (’15), and Priscilla Long, and Sarah Mangold.
June 3, 2016
Jin-Kyu Jung and Taylor Frazier Publish “A Mixed-Methods Exploration of the Relationship Between Crime and Community Gardens”
A recent IAS graduate, Taylor L. Frazier ('15, Law, Economics & Public Policy), and IAS faculty member Jin-Kyu Jung co-authored a paper, “A Mixed-Methods Exploration of the Relationship Between Crime and Community Gardens: A Case Study of Seattle’s P-Patches from 1996 to 2006,” in the International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities.
May 25, 2016
Brittaney Bunjong to Appear in November Issue of Allrecipes.com Magazine
Media & Communication Studies (MCS) major Brittaney Bunjong is a foodie. Inspired by her mother she has been interested in food all her life. Her blog, “Plenty of Pineapples,” was started as a hobby in which she shared recipes from her Thai and Hispanic background.
May 18, 2016
Three IAS Students Publish Entry in The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies
IAS undergraduate students Elizabeth Huffaker, Alejandra Pérez, and Jessica Velasquez co-authored an entry called “Chicana Feminism” which was just published in The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies, edited by Nancy Naples.
May 18, 2016
Three IAS Students Publish Entry in The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies
IAS undergraduate students Elizabeth Huffaker, Alejandra Pérez, and Jessica Velasquez co-authored an entry called “Chicana Feminism” which was just published in The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies, edited by Nancy Naples.
May 18, 2016
Five IAS Students Recognized in the Husky 100
This year the University of Washington inaugurated the Husky 100. The Husky 100 recognizes 100 UW undergraduate and graduate students from Bothell, Seattle and Tacoma in all areas of study who are making the most of their time at the UW, both inside and outside the classroom. The Husky 100 are juniors and seniors across all three campuses whose nominations are evaluated based on their passion, leadership, and commitment. In this inaugural class of the Husky 100, five students from UW Bothell were selected – and all five are from IAS! The IAS members of the 2016 Husky 100 are:
May 11, 2016
Namita Paul Exhibits Unyielding at UW Bothell
First year Master of Arts in Cultural Studies student Namita Paul’s visual art project Unyielding is currently on exhibit at UW Bothell. Unyielding was a set of visual responses to several readings, principally Nella Larson’s “Quicksand” and Fae Myenne Ng’s “Bone,” made over the course of a quarter at the University of Washington Seattle. This piece carries within it ...
April 20, 2016
Alia Marsha Publishes on the “Sidekicking” of Minorities in Journalism
IAS student Alia Marsha’s article, “Why Seattle Times’ “sidekicking” Hollis Wong-Wear is bad for journalism,” appeared yesterday on the Seattle Globalist site. Alia is a senior in Media and Communication Studies, and is editor-in-chief of the Husky Herald, UW Bothell’s student paper. In her article, Alia addresses ...
February 5, 2016
Rob Turner Principal Investigator on Stormwater Management Grant
A group of IAS faculty and students under the leadership of Rob Turner has received a grant from the Green Seed Fund Project to develop best management practices for campus stormwater. The project has been funded at $62,586 and will work to help preserve the North Creek Wetlands by ...
January 27, 2016