News from the School of IAS
Category: Students
UWave Radio awarded Cultural Equipment Program Grant from 4Culture
UWave Radio received a grant from 4Culture through the 2016 Cultural Equipment Program to support community access to FM radio at KUWU-LP 104.9FM. The application was authored by Media & Communication Studies student Jathiya Hilber, with support from other UW Bothell and Cascadia students. It reads ...
August 15, 2016
Amaranth Borsuk exhibits student work in Discovery Hall
Visitors to Discovery Hall this summer can see chapbooks created by students in IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk's Spring 2016 "Advanced Interdisciplinary Arts workshop: Chapbooks and Artists' Books." The class asks what poets might learn from book artists about placing form and content in dialogue. Students learn a new binding each week, read a contemporary chapbook, and create one of their own. As a culmination to the quarter, each participant creates an editioned work to trade with their peers, and the class collaborates on a chapbook consisting of their strongest writing from the quarter.
July 25, 2016
IAS Students Participate in the Fourth Annual Latinx Graduation!
This year’s Latinx graduation (formerly called Latino/a Graduation) celebrated twenty-seven UW Bothell students, sixteen from IAS. This bilingual celebration has grown every year, and this year was no exception. The top floor of the ARC was full to capacity and organizers had to wheel in more tables at the last minute to accommodate the ...
June 13, 2016
Kristin Gustafson and the Husky Herald Receive Awards at 2016 Club Council Recognition Banquet
At this year’s Club Council Recognition Banquet, the Husky Herald won the UW Bothell Club Council’s Rising Star Award. The Rising Star Award recognizes a registered campus club or organization that has shown tremendous improvements throughout the 2015-2016 academic school year. The Husky Herald was selected due to notable
June 8, 2016
Local writers share at “MFA Careers and Writing Futures”
A panel of local writers met with MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics students and alumni to share their career trajectories and advice for the road. They discussed how their MFA degrees have enhanced their writing, ways they’ve sustained their practices creatively and financially, and what professional opportunities they see for emerging writers. Panelists included MFA alumni Margaret Chiavetta (’14) and Travis Sharp (’15), and Priscilla Long, and Sarah Mangold.
June 3, 2016
Jin-Kyu Jung and Taylor Frazier Publish “A Mixed-Methods Exploration of the Relationship Between Crime and Community Gardens”
A recent IAS graduate, Taylor L. Frazier ('15, Law, Economics & Public Policy), and IAS faculty member Jin-Kyu Jung co-authored a paper, “A Mixed-Methods Exploration of the Relationship Between Crime and Community Gardens: A Case Study of Seattle’s P-Patches from 1996 to 2006,” in the International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities.
May 25, 2016
Brittaney Bunjong to Appear in November Issue of Allrecipes.com Magazine
Media & Communication Studies (MCS) major Brittaney Bunjong is a foodie. Inspired by her mother she has been interested in food all her life. Her blog, “Plenty of Pineapples,” was started as a hobby in which she shared recipes from her Thai and Hispanic background.
May 18, 2016
Three IAS Students Publish Entry in The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies
IAS undergraduate students Elizabeth Huffaker, Alejandra Pérez, and Jessica Velasquez co-authored an entry called “Chicana Feminism” which was just published in The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies, edited by Nancy Naples.
May 18, 2016
Three IAS Students Publish Entry in The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies
IAS undergraduate students Elizabeth Huffaker, Alejandra Pérez, and Jessica Velasquez co-authored an entry called “Chicana Feminism” which was just published in The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies, edited by Nancy Naples.
May 18, 2016
Five IAS Students Recognized in the Husky 100
This year the University of Washington inaugurated the Husky 100. The Husky 100 recognizes 100 UW undergraduate and graduate students from Bothell, Seattle and Tacoma in all areas of study who are making the most of their time at the UW, both inside and outside the classroom. The Husky 100 are juniors and seniors across all three campuses whose nominations are evaluated based on their passion, leadership, and commitment. In this inaugural class of the Husky 100, five students from UW Bothell were selected – and all five are from IAS! The IAS members of the 2016 Husky 100 are:
May 11, 2016