News from the School of IAS
Category: Students
Julie Feng and Pamela Santos receive PAGE Fellowships
Two IAS graduate students, Julie Feng, second-year M.A. candidate in Cultural Studies and Pamela Santos, first-year candidate in the MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics have received Publicly Active Graduate Education (PAGE) fellowships for 2020-21 from the national consortium of Imagining America: Artists & Scholars in Public Life (IA). University of Washington Bothell is a member campus of Imagining America, which “promotes public scholarship, cultural organizing, and campus change that inspires collective imagination, knowledge-making, and civic action on pressing public issues.” ...
September 1, 2020
Students screen “The City as Character” at Northwest Film Forum
On August 23, 2020, students from IAS faculty member Minda Martin's class, "The City as Character Vol. 2," screened their work in an online event hosted by the Northwest Film Forum, and streamed live on their webpage and on Facebook. The course (BISMCS 343) is partnered with Seattle Municipal Archives and Moving Image Preservation of Puget Sound (MIPoPS) and requires students to work with the archives to tell stories about specific issues in Seattle from more than 50 years ago and connect it to the present. Some of these topics that surfaced are police accountability ...
August 24, 2020
Bee Elliott: A musical activist for the environment
Bee Elliott, an Environmental Studies major, said she was sold on attending the University of Washington Bothell when she saw the wetlands on campus. “It was really attractive to me, not just another concrete paradise.” Elliott was recognized this last academic year as one of the Husky 100, students from across UW honored for making the most of their education. She has been an outdoor wellness leader, member of the Sustainable Student Action Club, and singer in the musical group, The People’s Echo, among other pursuits
August 19, 2020
Julie Shayne publishes open-access book celebrating fifty years of gender, women, and sexuality studies
IAS faculty member Julie Shayne spent her sabbatical editing an open-access book titled Persistence is Resistance: Celebrating 50 Years of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies. Shayne, who is currently the Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies (GWSS) faculty coordinator, brought together authors from twenty-two institutions, including the University of Ghana and Universidad Icesi in Cali, Colombia. Authors represent ...
August 13, 2020
Four students win Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarships
Four University of Washington Bothell students received the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship to support their study abroad. Awards ranging from $3,000 to $5,000 went to each student. Two of the students are IAS majors: Mari McMenamin (Media & Communication Studies) will study in Spain and France, and Julie Pham (Mathematical Thinking & Visualization) will study in South Africa. The other ...
August 7, 2020
Elisabeth Schnebele publishes article about toxic masculinity and mass shootings
Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies (GWSS) student Elisabeth Schnebele published an article, "Men and Masculinities: A Case Study of Mass Shootings in the United States," in the UW Bothell student journal The Crow (2020 edition). The article is a case study analysis of three mass shootings and explores the potential connection between mass shootings and the values imposed by hegemonic masculinity. Since ...
July 27, 2020
Interactive Media Design students present works
Interactive Media Design (IMD) majors, who are skilled in using technology to create digital forms, were uniquely prepared to present their “All Possible Futures” capstone projects via teleconference. Check out their work.
June 17, 2020
MFA launches Hearing Voices video series
Hearing Voices is a curated collection of video works produced by students and alumni of the MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics at UW Bothell. It is a forum for sharing projects, and a space to listen to and hear from the wide range of creative voices that emerge from our artistic community. Current works include ...
June 17, 2020
Sarah Ramirez selected as UW McNair Scholar
Acceptance to the Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program is yet another notable achievement of “firsts” for first-generation college student Sarah Ramirez, a junior in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences. As a freshman, Sarah was also selected to join the inaugural cohort of the UW Bothell Global Scholars Program, in which she studied comparative law and politics in Rome through the Law, Societies and Justice program at the UW. Now, as a ...
June 16, 2020
A Message to the IAS Class of 2020
Dear IAS 2020 Graduates, We’re so sorry that we cannot celebrate in person with you this year, but the IAS faculty and staff wanted to make this video to mark how proud we are of all of you!
June 12, 2020