News from the School of IAS

Rob Turner advances sustainability in teaching and scholarship

IAS faculty member Rob Turner helped run an hour-long discussion session at the 2021 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Colleges & Universities in January. The session was titled Fostering Sustainability Out of a Pandemic: Pathways for Higher Education to Create a More Resilient Institution and Society. In November, he received ...

February 9, 2021

Melissa Schutten discusses DEI in the Salish Sea on KPTZ

On February 3, IAS alum Melissa (Watkinson) Schutten and colleague Michael Chang, of Cascadia Consulting Group, were interviewed on KPTZ 91.9 FM’s Coastal Café about Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) in the Salish Sea. Schutten and Chang are ...

February 8, 2021

Ching-In Chen’s hybrid poetry published in Blue Cactus Press online journal

IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen’s hybrid poetry -- “Still Green,” “Pilgrimage,” “Flood Fathers,” “Overnight Holiday,” and “Emperor” -- was published in Blue Cactus Press’ online journal, edited by Christina Butcher. Blue Cactus Press crafts books that inspire dialogue about ...

February 5, 2021

Jennifer Atkinson’s course on climate grief and eco-anxiety featured in New York Times

IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson’s seminar on climate grief and eco-anxiety was featured in a New York Times story on efforts to support people experiencing distress over the global climate crisis. The article, Got Climate Anxiety? These People Are Doing Something About It, noted that the number of Americans who are “very worried” about climate change has more than doubled over the past five years to its current rate of ...

February 5, 2021

Speech and Debate Team wins Division II Silver Program

Under the leadership of IAS faculty member Denise Vaughan, the UW Bothell Speech and Debate Program won the Northwest Forensics Conference’s Division II Silver Program for 2020-2021. The 2020-2021 season for Speech and Debate has been a challenge with Covid and distance competition. UW Bothell students have turned this distance challenge into an amazing opportunity. Students have competed ...

February 1, 2021

Karam Dana on the Biden Administration’s reversal of the Muslim Ban (KUOW)

IAS faculty member Karam Dana was interviewed by KUOW’s Kim Malcolm for “All Things Considered” on the Biden Administration’s reversal of the Muslim Ban. Dana reflected on what this reversal means to the local Muslim American community, and its impact globally, situating the issue of discrimination towards Muslims as a central problem with how American society has operated ...

January 27, 2021

Kari Lerum: Rights, not rescue

IAS faculty member Kari Lerum researches the rights of sex workers and how anti-trafficking campaigns can bring more harm than good. “The general public is so conditioned to think about sex work as right or wrong and sex workers as free or coerced,” she said. “But what’s more useful is to think about how the state regulates and surveils sex workers who are just trying to make ends meet, especially when they are Black and brown, poor or transgender. These policies do nothing to alleviate poverty, racism or transphobia.”

January 27, 2021

Karam Dana: “Timely lessons from 2020: The Course”

IAS faculty member Karam Dana was a panelist on "Timely Lessons from 2020: The Course." The four panelists from all three UW campuses discussed their lectures in teaching the more than 900 students registered for the course in a live broadcast in which the discussion was around the significance of the course in reflecting on the year 2020. A recording of the segment ...

January 25, 2021

Karam Dana serves as panelist in “Teaching Remotely Pop-Up Series”

IAS faculty member Karam Dana served as a panelist on (“Had I But Known” Insights to Improve Teaching) as part of the UW Center for Teaching and Learning’s Teaching Remotely Pop-Up Series, which is designed to highlight best-practices and essential aspects of effective remote instruction along with ...

January 22, 2021