News from the School of IAS
Category: Students
IAS Student Alia Marsha is New Editor-in-Chief of Husky Herald
Senior Alia Marsha (Media and Communication Studies major) will serve as the new Editor-in-Chief of Husky Herald for the 2015-2016 academic year. Husky Herald is the UW Bothell student newspaper, which goes to print monthly, and publishes online as news happens.
September 23, 2015
IAS Students Experience Dance, Healing, and Community-Building
IAS faculty memberCarrie Lanza, Diana Garcia-Snyder, and their students devoted the summer quarter to an exploration of dance as a technology for healing and community building in BISIA 484: Arts Learning in the Community. Students participated in and engaged critically with...
September 23, 2015
Rezina Habtemariam Selected as 2015 PAGE (Publicly Active Graduate Education) Fellow
Rezina Habtemariam, a second-year MA in Cultural Studies student, has been selected as a 2015 PAGE (Publicly Active Graduate Education) Fellow. PAGE is the graduate-student organized network of Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life (IA)...
September 10, 2015
Nafasi Ferrell: Let’s Talk! Race and Class through Hip-Hop and Poetry
Nafasi Ferrell, a second year Master of Arts in Cultural Studies student, developed and facilitated a three-hour workshop at Youngstown Cultural Arts Center with community members of varying ages. Let’s Talk!! Race and Class Through Hip-Hop and Poetry challenged participants to define and redefine their understandings of race and class using the mediums of hip-hop and poetry.
July 23, 2015
Melissa Watkinson Selected as Hershman Marine Policy Fellow
Melissa Watkinson (Master of Arts in Policy Studies ’15 and Bachelor of Arts in Global Studies and Society, Ethics, and Behavior ‘11) has been selected as the first Hershman Marine Policy Fellow from UW Bothell. She will start working with The Nature Conservancy this fall on coastal climate resiliency and policies, where she hopes to learn how established non-profits engage with local communities and policies on pressing environmental issues.
July 23, 2015
IAS faculty members and students participate in the 2015 Cultural Studies Association conference.
Twelve IAS faculty members and students participated in the 2015 Cultural Studies Association (CSA) conference, engaging in activities ranging from plenary sessions and roundtables to workshops and seminars. All contributed to the conference theme, “Another University is Possible: Praxis, Activism, and the Promise of Critical Pedagogy.”
July 16, 2015
IAS Students Map Bothell Communities
IAS Students in Jin-Kyu Jung’s BIS352 “Mapping Communities” class created a number of maps for the City of Bothell in Spring 2015. The course provides a unique opportunity for students to critically examine the constructions of both “community” and “mapping.” Two students, Jef Song and Sung Chu produced a great video ...
July 14, 2015
IAS Students Analyze Demographics of Real Change Readership
IAS students in Charlie Collin’s spring 2015 course BIS 315 "Understanding Statistics" partnered with Real Change to conduct an online questionnaire of Real Change publication readers. The aim of the survey was to gather feedback regarding the quality of the publication and to better understand the demographic of its readers. The findings ...
July 14, 2015
Erica Seibert Collaborates on Conveyance Sound Art Project
Erica Seibert, an IAS double major in Media and Communication Studies and Culture, Literature and the Arts, has collaborated with Perri Howard, a Seattle-based sound and visual artist, on a multimedia public art project. This project juxtaposes...
July 9, 2015
IAS Environmental Studies students obtained 2nd place at regional GIS competition
IAS Environmental Science and Studies students David Headrick and Mattie Wheeler presented their research in the Richard 'Dick' Thomas Memorial Student Presentation Competition at the 2015 Washington State Chapter of the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (WAURISA) conference.
July 9, 2015