News from the School of IAS
Category: Students
President’s Medal to Jordan Woltjer
President’s Medal recipient Jordan Woltjer is graduating with a 4.0 GPA and is headed to Duke University in the fall for graduate school. He credits his UW Bothell professors with cultivating his potential and providing career opportunities that support his goals. Woltjer will receive a bachelor’s degree in Law, Economics & Public Policy and double minor in Economics and Mathematics.
June 8, 2021
Chancellor’s Medal to Chris Hays
Chancellor’s Medalist Chris Hays is a champion for change. One nominator called him “an innate fire that is impossible to quench.” Having had strong advocates in his life — including faculty, staff and friends at UW Bothell — he is committed to helping other students succeed. Hays will graduate this June with a bachelor’s degree in Law, Economics & Public Policy and a minor in Human Rights.
June 8, 2021
Speech and Debate Team tournament results
National Forensics Association National Championship American Forensics Association National Tournament Novice No More Pi Kappa Delta National Comprehensive Tournament
June 7, 2021
Sarah Ramírez presents research on discourses of globalization in Latino film
IAS undergraduate student Sarah Ramírez presented her research at the UW Undergraduate Research Symposium. Her presentation, titled “Caught on Camera: Discourses of Globalization and Global Citizenship in Latino Film,” examined the ways that ...
May 26, 2021
IAS undergraduate students present their research at the 2021 Global Engagement Conference
IAS undergraduate students Katharina Brinschwitz and Sarah Ramirez presented their research, "Reimagining Global Education: How the High Impact Practice Model Can Decolonize International Engagement," at the 2021 Global Engagement Conference at UW Tacoma. You can view ...
May 25, 2021
Six IAS students recognized in the 2021 Husky 100
Each year, 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. The Husky 100 actively connect what happens inside and outside of the classroom and apply what they learn to make a difference on campus, in their communities, and for the future. This year six IAS students are included in this recognition:
May 24, 2021
Chelsea Nesvig and Nia Lam publish “Online library research refresher activities for third-year transfer students”
UW Bothell librarians Chelsea Nesvig and Nia Lam published a book chapter, “Online library research refresher activities for third-year transfer students” in Transfer Student Success: Academic Library Outreach and Engagement, published by ALA Editions.
May 21, 2021
Ten students share the fifth annual Leslie Ashbaugh Feminist Praxis in Education (LAFPIE) Award!
This year ten GWSS students from Lauren Lichty’s class “Participatory Action Research to Address Sexual and Relationship Violence at the University of Washington Bothell” will share the LAFPIE award. The Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies (GWSS) community created the award in 2016, the year they launched the degree, to honor and commemorate their colleague Leslie Ashbaugh.
May 21, 2021
Masahiro Sugano’s “Competitive Filmmaking” Class Wins Top Prize at the 2021 Cadence Video Poetry Festival
The short film “Delirium” created by IAS faculty member Masahiro Sugano’s 2020 “Competitive Filmmaking” Class wins two more prizes. The film, created by eight UW Bothell students entirely during remote learning, was awarded with both an “Honorary Mention” for the Collaboration category and named the winner of the “Best of Northwest” category.
April 19, 2021
MFA candidate Troy Landrum, Jr publishes in South Seattle Emerald
Troy Landrum, Jr recently published a work of short fiction, “The New Life,” in the South Seattle Emerald. Landrum is a second-year candidate in the MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics program, currently completing his thesis, a work of historical fiction that traces the Great Migration through the history of a Black family. In addition to his writing ...
April 12, 2021