News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
IAS faculty receive international grant to study costal erosion
Former IAS Visiting Scholar Bo Ae Chun and IAS faculty members Jin-Kyu Jung and Santiago Lopez have been awarded an international collaboration grant over $200,000 from the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF). The 3-year project entitled “An International Comparative Study of Transnational Citizenship and Social Participation Competencies in the Post-COVID-19 Era” will focus on ...
September 22, 2021
Brinda Sarathy: 12 Women Scholars on undercitation of scholarship by women and people of color
12 Women Scholars, an environmental history writing group that includes IAS dean Brinda Sarathy, has issued a challenge to scholarly journals and presses. The group posted “A Disturbing Pattern” on the Inside Higher Ed website, exposing a pattern of inadequately citing or entirely omitting the scholarship of women and people of color in ...
August 27, 2021
Margaret H. Redsteer named Tribes and Indigenous Peoples chapter lead for 5th National Climate Assessment
IAS faculty member Margaret H. Redsteer has been selected as the chapter lead for the Tribes and Indigenous Peoples chapter of the Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5). Redsteer will work with Rachel Novak from the Bureau of Indian Affairs Climate Change Adaptation Program as the coordinating lead. Redsteer’s role as chapter lead includes ...
August 18, 2021
Testing soil for hidden contaminants in community gardens
IAS faculty member Melanie Malone's work on contamination in urban gardens and in the Duwamish Valley Research Coordination Network is featured on the UW News site. The story and video feature Malone teaching interns and community partners how to safely ...
July 28, 2021
Reducing harm and promoting justice for trans and intersex people
At the 2021 Society for Community Research and Action (APA Division 27) Biennial Conference, IAS students Jessica Belmont, Jordan Havlicek, and Luke Scott joined Reid Ellefson-Frank, another trans undergraduate student-researcher from Michigan State University, Yale post doc and LGBTQIA+ scholar Dani Chiaramonte, and IAS faculty member Lauren Lichty to talk about the experience engaging in participatory action research (PAR) in a session titled ...
July 19, 2021
IAS faculty organize and perform at “Still/Hear: A Healing Concert”
On Friday, May 14, 2021 IAS faculty members Anida Yoeu Ali, Masahiro Sugano, and Naomi Macalalad Bragin co-organized alongside students of Global Media Lab a healing concert to demand an end to Anti-Asian violence. The healing concert titled “Still/Hear” was a response to the Asian American community's experiences of ...
July 9, 2021
Jeanne Heuving named Judith E. Wilson Poetry Fellow
IAS faculty member Jeanne Heuving will be the Judith E. Wilson Poetry Fellow at Cambridge University (UK) beginning Fall 2021 through Spring 2022. During her fellowship, Heuving will write a new book to add to her series of books that ...
July 6, 2021
Jeanne Heuving edits volume on Nathaniel Mackey
IAS faculty member Jeanne Heuving is the editor of a collection of essays on the writer Nathaniel Mackey, a book of ten separate essays, with an introduction by Heuving, published by the University of Iowa Press. The essays cover ...
July 6, 2021
Ching-In Chen and Scott Bentley’s work included in Endangered Species Coalition exhibition
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen and MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics alum Scott Bentley’s work has been included in the Submergence: Going Below the Surface with Orca and Salmon Exhibition, an innovative, multi-media ...
June 29, 2021
Jung Lee receives IAS Staff Recognition Award
Jung Lee, IAS Assistant Director of Academic Services, has received an IAS Staff Recognition Award. Jung is recognized for her extraordinary and skillful work prior to and during the pandemic to manage course scheduling for IAS. The dedication, compassion, and ...
June 28, 2021