News from School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences

Category: Teaching

Pedersen, Lambert, and Gustafson facilitate workshop at the Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education national conference

IAS faculty members Alice Pedersen, Amy Lambert, and Kristin Gustafson attended the Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education national conference in Amherst, MA, where they facilitated a workshop entitled "Risk, Roles, Reflection in Contemplative Learning: Exploring via Liberating Structures." In the workshop, they reflected on the different ways their disciplines position them in relation with their objects of study, and ...

October 12, 2016

Barbara Noah co-directs “Interdisciplinary Studio Art & Italian Culture” in Rome

IAS faculty member Barbara Noah co-directed her third iteration of, Interdisciplinary Studio Art & Italian Culture, a UW Study Abroad program at the University of Washington Rome Center. Noah created the program for students from UW Bothell, as well as the Seattle and Tacoma campuses. This year, the students visited art and cultural sites in and outside Rome, explored concepts and processes in ancient through contemporary art, and ...

August 12, 2016

Amaranth Borsuk exhibits student work in Discovery Hall

Visitors to Discovery Hall this summer can see chapbooks created by students in IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk's Spring 2016 "Advanced Interdisciplinary Arts workshop: Chapbooks and Artists' Books." The class asks what poets might learn from book artists about placing form and content in dialogue. Students learn a new binding each week, read a contemporary chapbook, and create one of their own. As a culmination to the quarter, each participant creates an editioned work to trade with their peers, and the class collaborates on a chapbook consisting of their strongest writing from the quarter.

July 25, 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

Science, Technology, and Society Class Collaborates with Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility to Produce Podcasts

IAS faculty member Shannon Cram's Science, Technology, and Society class collaborated with Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility to create podcasts for its series, Down by the River: Stories of Hanford. Washington's Hanford Nuclear Reservation produced weapons-grade plutonium for more than forty years and is now the site of the world's largest and most expensive environmental cleanup.

May 18, 2016

Jed Murr and other Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) Fellows Participate the 10th Annual COIL Conference in NYC

IAS faculty member Jed Murr, one of the recepients of this year's Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) Faculty Fellowships, traveled with a cohort from UWB, UWS, and UWT to the 10th Annual COIL Conference held at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City on April 25th-26th. The SUNY COIL Center's annual international conference the brings together 350+ professors, international programs staff, instructional technologists, and university and college administrators from SUNY, across the U.S. and around the world to share interactive pedagogy and collaboration models and best practices. Collaborative Online International Learning intends to ...

May 11, 2016

IAS Faculty Members Present at the UW Teaching and Learning Symposium

Three IAS faculty members presented at 2016 Teaching and Learning Symposium. Ursula Valdez presented “Assessing Group Dynamics and Efficiency of Collaborative Assignments” in collaboration with Jeff Jensen from STEM, and “From Cascades to Andes: A Collaborative Online International Learning Experience”. ...

April 26, 2016

David Stokes Promoted to Full Professor

IAS faculty member David Stokes has been promoted from Associate Professor to Professor. Stokes came to IAS in 2006 as an Associate Professor from a tenured position at Sonoma State University. Stokes teaches ...

March 28, 2016