A showcase of research & creativity

Sharing the discoveries, research and creative pursuits of faculty members is daily work on any university campus. Each fall in the University of Washington Bothell & Cascadia College Campus Library, however, the library staff also creates a special display to showcase some of the most recent work by faculty — and some staff and students.

“It’s great to feature the research and creative projects that our faculty and staff have worked on, and I hope that it gives people some pride,” said Hannah Mendro, materials processing lead, of the annual and eclectic display of publications.

“I also hope that it brings recognition to the faculty work and shows that there are many different works being done by different people. Plus,” she added, “it is so cool to see a scientific article right next to a poem — it shows the breadth of research taking place in our community.”

Normally, the display includes only work published from the year prior. Because the library was closed during remote operations for about 18 months, this year’s display also includes books, chapbooks, journal articles, art catalogs and other works published in both 2019 and 2020.

Many of the pieces, in fact, delve into what life is like during a pandemic. Dr. Ching-In Chen, assistant professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, wrote the poem “Dear O,” for example, which explores the impact of isolation and how to find connection in a time of struggle. “It also explores difficulty with lineage and inheritance, especially around gender expectations,” Chen said.

Dr. Dan Berger, associate professor in the School of IAS, also wrote about COVID-19, taking a social justice approach researching the problems pandemics pose for incarcerated people and prisons. “While Washington state has ostensibly abolished the death penalty, its approach to incarceration now puts thousands of people at risk — in and out of prison — of a most painful and preventable death due to coronavirus,” Berger wrote.

The Faculty & Staff Publications Display at the Campus Library features works from UW Bothell and Cascadia College

The works on display also cover topics from “dumpling-making” and “love letters to daughters” to “plague stories” and “pushing against perfectionism.” Most of the works in the case are available both in the library and online.

All are invited to come to the library and discover for themselves the work of these faculty — plus students and staff — from UW Bothell and Cascadia College. Any works available in the library collection will also be linked on the UW Bothell/CC Faculty and Staff Publications webpage, where you can also find an archive of works displayed in previous years.

UW Bothell publications:

  • Dr. Salwa Al-Noori, associate teaching professor, School of STEM
    • “STEP Forward: Combining Formal and Informal Education to Develop Communication Skills that Augment Postdoctoral Training” (article)
  • Dr. Jennifer Atkinson, associate teaching professor, School of IAS
    • “Climate Grief: Our Greatest Ally?” (article)
    • “The impulse to garden in hard times has deep roots” (article)
    • “Why the COVID Gardening Boom is About More than Food” (article)
    • “Mourning climate loss: ritual and collective grief in the age of crisis” (article)
  • Dr. P.V. ‘Sundar’ Balakrishnan, professor, School of Business
    • “PRODUCT LINE DESIGNS with dynamic programming and genetic algorithms: A comparison, guide, and caution” (article)
    • “Evolutionary disruption of S&P 500 trading concentration: An intriguing tale of a financial innovation” (article)
  • Dr. Arnold Berger, associate professor, School of STEM
    • “Debugging embedded and real-time systems: the art, science, technology, and tools of real-time system debugging” (book)
  • Dr. Dan Berger, associate professor, School of IAS
    • “As the Coronavirus Spreads, Prisoners Are Rising Up for Their Health” (article)
    • “Remaking radicalism: a grassroots documentary reader of the United States, 1973-2001” (book)
  • Dr. Lauren Berliner, associate professor, School of IAS
    • “MFON in Seattle Exhibition Program Catalog 2019 – 2020” (art exhibition catalog by Berette Macaulay, graduate student, School of IAS, in partnership with Lauren Berliner)
  • Dr. Amaranth Borsuk, associate professor, School of IAS
    • “Libros y cuerpos” (article)
    • Curt Curtal Sonnet Corona (chapbook)
    • The Book: 101 Definitions (book)
  • Dr. Bruce Burgett, professor, School of IAS,
    • “Keywords for American Cultural Studies” Third Edition (book)
    • “Keywords Now: Critical Race Theory” (book)
  • Dr. Ching-In Chen, assistant professor, School of IAS
    • “Dear O” (poem)
    • “Dumpling-Making Kin” (article)
    • “The Work of Breathing: Pushing against Perfectionism” (article)
    • “Kundiman for Kin” (chapbook)
    • “Behind the Ballroom,” “Household Mutations,” “Returning to a Posted Notice Taped to the Door,” “Trying to Feel Human/Tomorrow” and “Self-Portrait, house with no one present” (poems in the book “We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics”)
    • “Still Green,” “Pilgrimage,” “Flood Fathers,” “Overnight Holiday” and “Emperor” (hybrid poems)
    • “Gatha for Forest Walk/When No Father Arrives,” “Desert/Nine Days” and “Park” (hybrid poems)
  • Dr. Shannon Cram, assistant professor, School of IAS
    • “A Good Day to Die” (poem)
  • Dr. Karam Dana, associate professor, School of IAS
    • “Faculty keep creating impact while they flatten the curve” (article)
  • Dr. Colin Danby, professor, School of IAS
    • “Meade, Phillips, and the Two-Country Model” (article)
  • Dr. Joseph Ferrare, assistant professor, School of IAS
    • “Mixed Methods: Comparing Modes of Instruction with Instructor Beliefs” (article)
    • “Virtual Illusion: Comparing Student Achievement and Teacher and Classroom Characteristics in Online and Brick-and-Mortar Charter Schools” (article)
  • Dr. David Goldstein, adjunct principal lecturer, School of IAS
    • “Toni Morrison’s Secret Drive: A Reader-Response Study of the Fiction and Its Rhetoric” (book)
  • Dr. Maryam Griffin, assistant professor, School of IAS
    • “Transcending Enclosures by Bus: Public Transit Protests Frame Mobility, and the Many Facets of Colonial Occupation” (article)
  • Dr. Kristin Gustafson, associate teaching professor, School of IAS
    • “A white supremacist coup succeeded in 1898 North Carolina, led by lying politicians and racist newspapers that amplified their lies” (article)
  • Dr. Laura Harkewicz, lecturer, School of IAS
    • “‘We Can’t Relocate the World’: Activists, Doctors, and a Radiation-Exposed Identity” (chapter in the book “Legacies of the Manhattan Project: Reflections on 75 Years of a Nuclear World”)
  • Dr. William Hartmann, assistant professor, School of IAS
    • “Reconsidering rigor in psychological science: Lessons from a brief clinical ethnography” (article)
  • Dr. Jeanne Heuving, professor, School of IAS
    • “Nathaniel Mackey, Destination Out: Essays on his work” (book)
  • Dr. Jin-Kyu Jung, adjunct associate professor, School of IAS
    • “New Insights on Land Use, Land Cover, and Climate Change in Human-Environment Dynamics of the Equatorial Andes” (article)
  • Dr. Joey Shapiro Key, assistant professor, School of STEM
    • “Spectra 11: Super Special” (comic book)
  • Dr. Santiago Lopez, adjunct associate professor, School of IAS
    • “New Insights on Land Use, Land Cover, and Climate Change in Human-Environment Dynamics of the Equatorial Andes” (article)
    • “Landscape change in Southern Ecuador: An indicator-based and multi-temporal evaluation of land use and land cover in a mixed-use protected area” (article)
  • Dr. Arnold Lund, professor of practice, School of STEM
    • “A natural history of the soul: Who are we anyway? What does our future hold?” (book)
  • Dr. Melanie Malone, assistant professor, School of IAS
    • “Sustaining future environmental educators: building critical interdisciplinary teaching capacity among graduate students” (article)
    • “Teaching critical physical geography” (article)
    • “Seeking justice, eating toxics: overlooked contaminants in urban community gardens” (article)
  • Dr. Yolanda Padilla, associate professor, School of IAS
    • “Approaches to Teaching Early Twentieth-Century Mexican American Literature in Undergraduate Classrooms” (chapter in the book “Writing / Righting History: Twenty-Five Years of Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage”)
  • Dr. Becca Price, professor, School of IAS
    • “Starting Conversations about Discrimination Against Women in STEM” (article)
    • “Vitamin C for Colds? Writing LETTERS to Synthesize and Communicate Results from Multiple Studies” (teaching module)
    • “Mixed Methods: Comparing Modes of Instruction with Instructor Beliefs” (article)
    • “STEP Forward: Combining Formal and Informal Education to Develop Communication Skills that Augment Postdoctoral Training” (article)
    • “Harnessing the Power of the Immune System: Influenza Vaccines” (teaching module)
    • “Investigating Learning Objectives” (annotation)
    • “Pandemic-Related Instructor Talk: How New Instructors Supported Students at the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic” (article)
  • April Reagan, part-time lecturer, School of Business
    • “Bridge Makers: Becoming a Citizen Futurist” (book)
  • Dr. Brinda Sarathy, dean, School of IAS
    • “Before Amazon: land, labor, and logistics in the inland empire of WWII” (article)
  • Dr. Julie Shayne, teaching professor, School of IAS
    • “Celebrating 50 Years of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies: ‘Damn Straight, We Persisted’” (article)
    • “80 Million No’s Mean No” (article)
    • “Persistence is Resistance: Celebrating 50 Years of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies” (book, which also contains work from UW Bothell students and staff)
  • Dr. David Stokes, professor, School of IAS
    • “Saving all the pieces: An inadequate conservation strategy for an endangered amphibian in an urbanizing area” (article)
  • Dr. Min Tang, assistant teaching professor, School of IAS
    • “Huawei Versus the United States? The Geopolitics of Extraterritorial Internet Infrastructure” (article)
  • Dr. Rob Turner, teaching professor, School of IAS
    • “American Crows as Carriers of Extra Intestinal Pathogenic E. coli and Avian Pathogenic-Like E. coli and Their Potential Impact on a Constructed Wetland” (article)
  • Dr. Katherine Voyles, professor, School of IAS
    • “Plague Stories Are Cold Comfort: On the Limits of Fiction” (article)
  • Dr. Camille Walsh, associate professor, School of IAS
    • “‘Taxpayer Dollars’: The Origins of Austerity’s Racist Catchphrase” (article)

Cascadia College publications:

  • Dr. Azizeh Farajallah
    • “The American Chemical Society and two-year college chemistry faculty relationships” (article)
  • Dr. Margaret Harbol
    • “The American Chemical Society and two-year college chemistry faculty relationships” (article)
  • Denise Calvetti Michaels
    • “What You Really Want to Describe” (poem)
    • “The Colors of Reeds” (poem)
    • “In the Beginning, Glint of Sunrise low on the Horizon” (poem)
    • “Love Letter #2, Dear Daughter” (poem)
    • “The Things Downriver” (book)

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