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For winter quarter, Gary Carpenter’s course, Creative Activism: Inspiring Social Change through the Arts, collaborated with a partner in India in discussing social issues and producing an online arts festival. 

A fan of young adult fiction, Helen K. Thomas explored the genre in the Master of Arts in Cultural Studies program and now is researching the books' global appeal with a Fulbright in Nigeria.

Through education programs with the United Nations and the American Chemical Society, Dr. Grace Lasker is promoting sustainable chemistry, embedded with values of social and environmental justice.

Dr. Akhtar Badshah, distinguished practitioner with the School of Business, wrote “Purpose Mindset: How Microsoft Inspires Employees and Alumni to Change the World.”

While he waits for a postponed teaching Fulbright in Slovenia, Dr. Jed Murr is developing a digital history platform as part of a collaboration with scholars, librarians and archivists about Black arts in the Northwest.