News from School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences
Category: Students
Three IAS Students are Awarded Prestigious Mary Gates Research Scholarships
Kelsey Bolinger is a senior majoring in Society, Ethics and Human Behavior and Media and Communication Studies. Her project is titled “Representation of Race and Gender in PEOPLE Magazine.” Kelsey is working under the mentorship of IAS faculty member Julie Shayne. Bonnie Johnson is a senior in Community Psychology and her project is titled ...
January 26, 2016
IAS Students Featured in Article on North Creek Forest in Bothell
The Bothell Reporter published an article today on the North Creek Forest that features work being done by IAS students in the Restoration Ecology Network (pictured at left are Environmental Studies majors Nicholas Vradenburg and Kai Farmer). Students from all three University of Washington campuses work to restore portions of the forest, providing fieldwork application of classwork as part of the Restoration Ecology Network (REN).
January 21, 2016
Asaya Plumly (MACS 2017) Named Grad Rep to the New Campus Diversity Council
Asaya Plumly, a first-year MA in Cultural Studies student, has been named the graduate student representative on the newly constituted campus Diversity Council. The Diversity Council is charged with guiding campus work to fully implement the Diversity Action Plan, and “intentionally include(s) membership from all campus units and appropriate diversity related student groups.” Asaya comes from a mixed race family and ...
December 11, 2015
Leissle and Nixon Publish the Third Volume of The Monolith: Science Fiction Short Stories
IAS faculty members Kristy Leissle and David Nixon published the third volume of The Monolith: Science Fiction Short Stories, subtitled What's In My Head. UWB students in Nixon and Leissle's Discovery Core 1 class, "Thinking Beyond Borders: Philosophical Explorations of Science Fiction," author all the stories in the collection.
October 9, 2015
IAS Student Alia Marsha is New Editor-in-Chief of Husky Herald
Senior Alia Marsha (Media and Communication Studies major) will serve as the new Editor-in-Chief of Husky Herald for the 2015-2016 academic year. Husky Herald is the UW Bothell student newspaper, which goes to print monthly, and publishes online as news happens.
September 23, 2015
IAS Students Experience Dance, Healing, and Community-Building
IAS faculty memberCarrie Lanza, Diana Garcia-Snyder, and their students devoted the summer quarter to an exploration of dance as a technology for healing and community building in BISIA 484: Arts Learning in the Community. Students participated in and engaged critically with...
September 23, 2015
Rezina Habtemariam Selected as 2015 PAGE (Publicly Active Graduate Education) Fellow
Rezina Habtemariam, a second-year MA in Cultural Studies student, has been selected as a 2015 PAGE (Publicly Active Graduate Education) Fellow. PAGE is the graduate-student organized network of Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life (IA)...
September 10, 2015
Nafasi Ferrell: Let’s Talk! Race and Class through Hip-Hop and Poetry
Nafasi Ferrell, a second year Master of Arts in Cultural Studies student, developed and facilitated a three-hour workshop at Youngstown Cultural Arts Center with community members of varying ages. Let’s Talk!! Race and Class Through Hip-Hop and Poetry challenged participants to define and redefine their understandings of race and class using the mediums of hip-hop and poetry.
July 23, 2015
Melissa Watkinson Selected as Hershman Marine Policy Fellow
Melissa Watkinson (Master of Arts in Policy Studies ’15 and Bachelor of Arts in Global Studies and Society, Ethics, and Behavior ‘11) has been selected as the first Hershman Marine Policy Fellow from UW Bothell. She will start working with The Nature Conservancy this fall on coastal climate resiliency and policies, where she hopes to learn how established non-profits engage with local communities and policies on pressing environmental issues.
July 23, 2015
IAS faculty members and students participate in the 2015 Cultural Studies Association conference.
Twelve IAS faculty members and students participated in the 2015 Cultural Studies Association (CSA) conference, engaging in activities ranging from plenary sessions and roundtables to workshops and seminars. All contributed to the conference theme, “Another University is Possible: Praxis, Activism, and the Promise of Critical Pedagogy.”
July 16, 2015