News from the School of IAS
Category: Teaching
From Zine to Online Gallery: Growing and Reflecting in the Open
May 19, 2022, IAS faculty member Deborah Hathaway, along with UW Bothell librarians Denise Hattwig and Chelsea Nesvig, presented “From Zine to Online Gallery: Growing and Reflecting in the Open” at the University of Washington Teaching & Learning Symposium. Their presentation focused on...
April 21, 2022
Ted Hiebert: The camera is a raft
The coronavirus pandemic may have closed theaters and art galleries, but it didn’t quell the desire to create works of art that would eventually fill those spaces or provide comfort to others. As the great painter Dorothea Tanning once said, “Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity.” ...
April 12, 2022
Jennifer Atkinson featured in “Down with Doomscrolling”
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson's teaching and research on mental health and climate change was featured in The Planet Magazine. The piece, titled Down with Doomscrolling, profiled young people and students in environmental fields who are struggling with emotional distress from engaging with difficult topics around ...
March 28, 2022
Julie Shayne: A literary lens on gender, race and power
The spirit of IAS faculty member Julie Shayne’s new class, The Power of Feminist Writing, is perhaps best captured in the words of Malala Yousufzai, a Pakistani activist for female education, who said, “One book, one pen, one child and one teacher can change the world.” ...
March 28, 2022
Becca Price: “Reframing Educational Outcomes”
In collaboration with Sarita Shukla (School of Educational Studies), Elli Theobald (Department of Biology, UW Seattle), and Joel Abraham (CSU Fullerton), IAS faculty member Becca Price has published an essay about how to honor and build from the strengths that students bring into the classroom. “So much of traditional teaching,” Price says ...
March 16, 2022
Jennifer Atkinson and Bee Elliot featured in Taking the Heat
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson and alum Bee Elliot are featured in a new book called Taking the Heat: How Climate Change Is Affecting Your Mind, Body, and Spirit. In the book’s opening chapter, author Bonnie Schneider profiles Atkinson’s class on Climate Anxiety and Hope ...
February 15, 2022
Marth Groom and Dave Stokes: “Using Case Studies to Improve the Critical Thinking Skills of Undergraduate Conservation Biology Students”
IAS faculty members Martha Groom and Dave Stokes published an article on effective pedagogies for enhancing critical thinking among students. Groom and Stokes worked with colleagues across the country in a study using case study pedagogies coupled with the use of rubrics and exercises to ...
January 14, 2022
Jennifer Atkinson and Dave Stokes teach first class at new Environmental Education and Research Center
IAS faculty members Jennifer Atkinson and Dave Stokes taught UW Bothell's first class at the new Environmental Education and Research Center (EERC) at St. Edward State Park. "Our Home in the Forest," a Discovery Core class co-taught by Atkinson and Stokes, stretches the boundaries of what constitutes a classroom.
December 28, 2021
Santiago Lopez receives COIL Fellowship for work on Remote Sensing course development
IAS faculty member Santiago Lopez has received a 2022-23 Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) Fellowship. The COIL Fellowship supports faculty in developing and implementing COIL modules in their courses with structured training, a community of practice and a stipend. Lopez will develop ...
December 21, 2021
Ron Krabill: Human Rights Public Culture
In IAS faculty member Ron Krabill's course, Media Studies: Human Rights Public Culture, students gain the knowledge needed to intervene in human rights violations. “We often think that no one is against human rights, but someone is. Otherwise, they wouldn’t continue to be violated,” notes Krabill. “This course is about identifying the stakeholders who benefit from the perpetuated harm and figuring out how to use media to intervene.”
December 14, 2021