News from the School of IAS
Category: Teaching
Teaching for Equity in STEM
Professor Becca Price recently spoke at an event sponsored by the Graduate Society of Women Engineers at UW Seattle. The title of her talk was “Teaching equitably, fairly, and with justice.” During the presentation, she had a dynamic discussion with attendees about teaching by building from students’ strengths, using community cultural wealth and ethics of...
February 29, 2024
Jin-Kyu Jung and Ted Hiebert publish “Mapping Haunted Data: Creative Geographic Visualization”
IAS faculty members Jin-Kyu Jung and Ted Hiebert published the article Mapping Haunted Data: Creative Geographic Visualization in Livingmaps Review. The article emphasizes forms of visualization and mapping that preserve, represent, and generate more authentic, contextual, and nuanced meanings of space and the people that inhabit space—using specifically artistic and humanistic perspectives and approaches. This...
November 28, 2023
Jin-Kyu Jung coauthors “(Un)Mapping the Digital Landscape of Medical Crowdfunding”
AS faculty member Jin-Kyu Jung has published a coauthored article, “(Un)Mapping the Digital Landscape of Medical Crowdfunding: A Critical and Creative Geovisualization Pedagogy for Public Engagement in Livingmaps Review.
May 30, 2023
Ben Gardner teaches at the African Leadership University
Associate Professor, Ben Gardner spent part of his sabbatical teaching classes at the African Leadership University in Kigali, Rwanda.
May 23, 2023
Julie Shayne publishes article about teaching in the wake of Trump
Julie Shayne publishes article about teaching in the wake of Trump Dr. Julie Shayne, co-coordinator of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies just published an article in the Humboldt Journal for Social Relation’s (HJSR) special issue “Teaching in the Wake of Trump.”
May 2, 2023
Jin-Kyu Jung co-edited a special issue in Urban Planning journal
IAS faculty member Jin-Kyu Jung co-edited the thematic issue for Urban Planning, “Smart Engagement with Citizens: Integrating “the Smart” into Inclusive Public Participation and Community Planning,” with Jung Eun Kang at the Pusan National University in Korea.
May 2, 2023
Becca Price publishes on teaching students how to recognize disinformation about Ivermectin
Understanding science has become all the more critical to our daily lives since the COVID-19 pandemic started, and students have urgent questions about what has been going on.
April 13, 2023
IAS Faculty Wanda Gregory is Featured for her Fulbright Scholarship and Research in Iceland
IAS faculty member Dr. Wanda Gregory has been featured on the UWB News Highlights for her work in Iceland with her awarded Fulbright scholarships.
January 31, 2023
Melanie Malone’s work on urban community gardens featured in SESYNC Lessons
Melanie Malone's research on contamination, public health, and environmental justice in urban community gardens is featured in the National Socio-environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) resources for sustainable agriculture.
January 30, 2023
Jennifer Atkinson and Students Featured in National Geographic, Generation Dread, and Climate Speakers Series
Jennifer Atkinson and several students from her climate seminars have been featured in publications on climate anxiety and hope including National Geographic’s Climate anxiety is widespread among youth—can they overcome it? and the book Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis by science writer Britt Wray.
January 30, 2023