News from the School of IAS

Category: Students

Namita Paul Exhibits Unyielding at UW Bothell

First year Master of Arts in Cultural Studies student Namita Paul’s visual art project Unyielding is currently on exhibit at UW Bothell. Unyielding was a set of visual responses to several readings, principally Nella Larson’s “Quicksand” and Fae Myenne Ng’s “Bone,” made over the course of a quarter at the University of Washington Seattle. This piece carries within it ...

April 20, 2016

Alia Marsha Publishes on the “Sidekicking” of Minorities in Journalism

IAS student Alia Marsha’s article, “Why Seattle Times’ “sidekicking” Hollis Wong-Wear is bad for journalism,” appeared yesterday on the Seattle Globalist site. Alia is a senior in Media and Communication Studies, and is editor-in-chief of the Husky Herald, UW Bothell’s student paper. In her article, Alia addresses ...

February 5, 2016

Rob Turner Principal Investigator on Stormwater Management Grant

A group of IAS faculty and students under the leadership of Rob Turner has received a grant from the Green Seed Fund Project to develop best management practices for campus stormwater. The project has been funded at $62,586 and will work to help preserve the North Creek Wetlands by ...

January 27, 2016

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...