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Jennifer Atkinson Shares Climate Anxiety Strategies with ALA, EarthLab, and In the Meanwhile
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson partnered with the American Library Association, UW EarthLab, and the podcast “In the Meanwhile” to share strategies for supporting young people facing climate despair. Atkinson joined a panel on eco-anxiety hosted by the American Library Association (ALA). Alongside authors Kelsey LaPort, Noel Reich, and Heather White, she discussed eco-anxiety, burnout,...
October 16, 2026
From Washington to Iceland: Exploring Geology and Sustainability
What can the landscapes of Washington and Iceland teach us about sustainability? This summer, 19 University of Washington students, including 10 from UW Bothell’s School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, explored this question through “Water, Fire, and Ice: How Geology Shapes Sustainability in Washington and Iceland,” a study abroad experience led by IAS faculty, Avery...
October 16, 2026
Min Tang presents at the 2026 Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Conference
IAS faculty Dr. Min Tang presented at the 2026 annual conference of Society for Social Studies of Science (4S). In her presentation titled “Who controls the AI unicorns? Unravel the capital supply chain in the emerging AI industry”, Dr. Tang shared her research on the issues of financialization and geopolitics in the emerging artificial intelligence...
October 9, 2026
Shannon Cram Awarded Writing Residency at Yaddo
IAS faculty member Shannon Cram was awarded a prestigious writing residency at Yaddo. Based in Saratoga Springs, New York, Yaddo brings writers and artists together from around the world to spend concentrated time on creative projects. Cram spent two and a half weeks there in August, learning from fellow residents and working on her new...
October 9, 2026
Teaching students to think and work like scientists
IAS Professor Becca Price published an article, “Using the Paleobiology Database to Teach Scientific Practices: an Approach Aligned to Relational Culture Theory,” in the journal Integrative Organismal Biology. The article documents her philosophy teaching BES 301: Science Methods and Practice, in which students learn how science works by conducting their own research. In just ten...
August 7, 2026
Julie Shayne publishes review essay in Feminist Pedagogy
Dr. Julie Shayne wrote a review of two new novels about reproductive autonomy denied: “Enormous Wings” by Laurie Frankel and “Where the Girls Were” by Kate Schatz. Schatz’s “Where the Girls Were” is set in 1968 San Francisco, California in a home for unmarried pregnant girls. Frankel’s “Enormous Wings” is set nearly sixty years later...
July 17, 2026
Shannon Cram publishes in Bellingham Review
IAS professor Shannon Cram published a flash essay in the spring issue of Bellingham Review. Tuesday Morning recounts a brief, bright memory of Cram’s mother in one long sentence. Editor-in-Chief, Jane Wong, writes that the piece “stays in the belly of a moment of laughter despite loss and fear vibrating through: ‘this memory will rush...
July 13, 2026
IAS Professors Santiago Lopez, Jin-Kyu Jung, and UW Bothell student, Haoye Zhang publish research in Urban Climate
IAS Professors Santiago Lopez and Jin-Kyu Jung, data visualization student Haoye Zhang, and Professor Bo Ae Chun from Kwandong Catholic University of Korea have published a research article in Urban Climate “Restored Wetlands as Urban Heat Mitigators: A UAS-Based Assessment of Land Use, Land Cover, and Surface Temperature in Bothell, Washington.” The study evaluated whether...
May 20, 2026
Dr. Collins Honored with UW Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor Award
Dr. Charlie Collins has been selected as a recipient of this year’s Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor Award, presented by the University of Washington’s Office of Undergraduate Research. Chosen from an impressive pool of 305 nominations, Collins was nominated by his mentees—four of whom have been selected for Population Health Recognition Awards and will present their...
April 10, 2026
Recent UWB Alums Publish Systematic Review on Representations of Indigeneity in the Mental Health Literature
Recent UW Bothell alums Jeremie Walls and Mikyla Sakurai published a systematic review of how Indigeneity (i.e., what it means to be Indigenous) has been routinely misrepresented in recent mental health research publications about suicide among American Indians and Alaska Natives. Working as part of the UW Bothell Indigenous Mental Health Research Training Experience, together...
September 29, 2025