News from School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences
Jennifer Atkinson’s students host conversation about climate ethics
Students in IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson's "Ethics and the Environment" (BIS 356) hosted a conversation on climate ethics with Dr. Robert Bindschadler, former Chief Scientist of NASA's Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Laboratory.
June 26, 2015
IAS hosts “Mentor Chat” with T. Andrew Wahl
In early March, IAS alumnus T. Andrew Wahl (Comparative U.S. and International Studies, ‘96) met with undergraduate students to share his career journey and advice as part of IAS’s “Mentor Chat” series. Mentor Chats assist students with career exploration and networking by providing opportunities to dialogue...
June 26, 2015
Joe Milutis Tenured and Promoted to Associate Professor
IAS faculty member Joe Milutis has been tenured and promoted to the rank of associate professor. Milutis joined IAS as an assistant professor in 2008.
June 26, 2015
Alka Kurian Talks with Dr. Nitasha Kaul on U-Wave Radio Station
IAS faculty member Alka Kurian hosted writer, scholar, and human rights activist Dr. Nitasha Kaul on the February 24, 2015 edition of her "Voices from the Margins: Conversations with non-mainstream writers and filmmakers" program at the U-Wave radio station.
June 26, 2015
Suzanne M. Cohen presents on non-traditional casting at Scholars Studio
Master of Arts in Cultural Studies student Suzanne M. Cohen presented her research in a lightning talk entitled ‘Nontraditional Casting: Transgressive or Transcendent?’ as part of a March 5th Scholar’s Studio event on the theme of “Play.”
June 26, 2015
Amaranth Borsuk video extension of As We Know
IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk had her video collaboration with Andy Fitch, an extension of their book As We Know (Subito, 2014) published on the video poetry website PoetrySeen and subsequently picked up in Harriet, the official blog of the Poetry Foundation.
June 26, 2015
Dan Berger tours east coast to promote Captive Nation
IAS faculty member Dan Berger delivered a series of lectures on the east coast related to his book, Captive Nation. Berger gave a lecture entitled "Prisons, State Violence, and the Organizing Tradition" at Dickinson College. More than 100 students and faculty attended the talk, which was hosted by the Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues and the Popal Shaw Center for Race and Ethnicity.
June 26, 2015
UWave Radio broadcasts World Radio Day
UWave Radio collaborated in a regional celebration of World Radio Day on February 13th titled "Celebrate Radio: The Big Power of Local New Low Power FM Radio Stations." The free event took place at the Seattle Public Library Downtown Branch, and brought together a cohort of regional non-profit and educational groups that will start broadcasting on the FM dial over the next 10 months.
June 25, 2015
Becca Price helps students learn about insects that use gears to jump
IAS faculty member Becca Price published a set of resources for teachers to teach and students to learn about the first-ever interactive gears found in animals. The resources accompany a Science article by Malcolm Burrows and Gregory Sutton that describes...
June 25, 2015
Becky Aanerud, Lauren Lichty, and Julie Shayne present at Sociologists for Women in Society
Becky Aanerud, Lauren Lichty, and Julie Shayne presented at the Sociologists for Women in Society winter meeting in Washington, DC. Shayne organized a session titled “Curricular and Administrative Feminist Activism” where...
June 25, 2015