News from the School of IAS
Double Feature Screening Showcases Filmmaking Talent in IAS
This spring, the School of IAS hosted a film screening in collaboration with students and alumni from our arts and media majors. The two short films, Glitter Tears and Rust and Resonance, were created by IAS alum Melissa Lopez (‘23) and current student Nour Currie. Supported by family, friends, and fellow students, the night served...
June 27, 2024
Jennifer Atkinson speaks at Columbia University climate change forum
Jennifer Atkinson was a speaker at Columbia University’s Climate Change and Health Boot Camp, where she presented on “Climate Change and Mental Health: Impacts and Solutions.” Columbia University offers this workshop to help professionals build skills and knowledge for effective climate engagement. The three day workshop was coordinated by the Global Consortium on Climate and...
June 27, 2024
From Interdisciplinary to the Real World: A Conversation with the IAS Dean
What does interdisciplinary mean? How does an interdisciplinary education help students thrive in the real world? These are questions that Brinda Sarathy, Dean of the School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences (IAS), is excited to dive into. In a recent conversation with IAS’ Student Outreach Team, Dean Sarathy shared her perspective on the School of...
June 25, 2024
Dr. Julie Shayne publishes a piece about the power of students’ voices
Dr. Shayne, Teaching Professor in Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, and Global Studies has a new piece in Ms. Magazine online. The piece is titled “‘Sharing Our Stories Loosens the Grip they Have on Us’: Watching Students Claim Voice to Power” and can be read here.In it she discusses her class “The Power of Feminist...
June 20, 2024
Congratulations to Our Distinguished IAS Faculty & Students!
The end of the academic year is a vibrant time of celebration and reflection throughout the UW. The School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences had the great pleasure of contributing to the energy of the season at our Graduating Student Send Off event. The event brought together IAS students, faculty, staff, alumni and families to...
June 13, 2024
MFA’s Phoenix Kai features in Henry Art’s Gallery Speculative Fiction between Stars and Clay: Short Stories Inspired by Kelly Akashi’s Encounters
Creative Writing and Poetics MFA candidate, Phoenix Kai, along with UW, Seattle graduate students K. C. Smith, Andreas P. Bassett, and K. Meera, contributed short stories to the Henry Art Gallery’s latest interpretive guide, Speculative Fiction between Stars and Clay: Short Stories Inspired by Kelly Akashi’s Encounters. The fifth interpretive guide publication produced by the...
June 11, 2024
phoenix kai vaughan-ende Shows that “Anything is Possible”
phoenix kai vaughan-ende is a multimedia artist & poet in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences’ MFA program in Creative Writing & Poetics. This June, they’ll be graduating amongst the rest of their 2024 cohort after spending the past two years engaged in research and conversations surrounding engrained societal codes and binaries. Their work...
June 4, 2024
Jennifer Atkinson Announced as Keynote Speaker for the 2024 American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry meeting
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson will be one of the featured keynote speakers at the annual conference for The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in Seattle, fall 2024. She will join her colleague Susan Clayton, author of the book Psychology and Climate Change on a keynote plenary panel where the two author discuss...
June 4, 2024
Dr. Shayne’s students publish Badass Womxn and Enbies in the Pacific Northwest Volume 3
Students in Dr. Julie Shayne’s “Rad Womxn in the Global South” (BIS 227) class published volume three of the open access zine called Badass Womxn and Enbies in the Pacific Northwest. You can see and share the zine by clicking here. This year’s students called themselves the Rebel Ink Collective. The class works collectively, in...
June 4, 2024
Jennifer Atkinson Featured as Distinguished Visiting Professor at Chico State University
Jennifer Atkinson was featured as a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Chico State University, where she joined the campus to give a public lecture on her new book, The Existential Toolkit for Climate Justice Educators: How to Teach in a Burning World. Atkinson co-edited the book with Dr. Sarah Jaquette Ray, a climate author and environmental...
June 4, 2024