News from the School of IAS
Category: Teaching
IAS hosts third annual Circle of Recognition event
On May 15, IAS hosted the third annual Circle of Recognition event to honor achievements and contributions of IAS students, alumni, and community partners within the academic year. Honorees were introduced by a faculty or staff member of their choice, and accompanied by friends and family members who had encouraged and enabled their success. Honors included:
May 31, 2019
IAS adds six new faculty members
IAS undertook three faculty searches this year, resulting in six new hires in the areas of Rhetoric & Composition, Data Visualization & Analytics, and Creative Writing & Poetics. To learn more about who will be joining IAS next fall, read below.
May 29, 2019
IAS faculty poster on team teaching recognized
IAS faculty members Kristin Gustafson and Amy Lambert created a poster on team teaching for the UW’s 15th Annual Teaching & Learning Symposium in Seattle. The Gustafson-Lambert poster, “Team Teaching Models for Professional Development and Peer Learning,” was judged one of three winners (out of about 60) based on appearance, content, and presentation.
May 29, 2019
Bartha and Burgett facilitate workshop
IAS Director of Graduate Programs Miriam Bartha and Dean Bruce Burgett facilitated a two-day workshop at the University of Iowa on publicly-engaged graduate education.
May 21, 2019
Peter Brooks receives 1st place in AEJMC teaching contest
IAS faculty member Peter Brooks received 1st place in a teaching contest sponsored by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC). Submissions were blindly reviewed for teaching activities that addressed ethical journalism and media literacy. Brooks' submission, "The Summerwind Simulation,"
May 9, 2019
Diane Gillespie and Leah Shin build reciprocal mentoring relationship
Mentorship can be an uneven partnership, but one pair is redefining this. Last winter IAS major Leah Shin enrolled the course, “Women, Culture, and Development,” taught by IAS faculty member Julie Shayne, and was inspired by guest speaker Professor Emeritus Diane Gillespie, who discussed her work with the human rights organization Tostan. Shin found ...
April 25, 2019
UW Bothell and Alyssa Burnett Adult Life Center students collaborate through drama
Last fall IAS faculty member Deborah Hathaway’s students joined students at Seattle Children’s Alyssa Burnett Adult Life Center (ABC) to study drama and co-create an applied theatre community. The collaborative partnership challenged all of the students to learn acting and performance technique, and actively practice and embody the curricular goals of creating an inclusive community. ABC is ...
April 24, 2019
Julie Shayne receives UW Distinguished Teaching Award
IAS faculty member and GWSS faculty coordinator Julie Shayne has received the Distinguished Teaching Award for 2019. The Distinguished Teaching Award is given annually to seven faculty members: five from the Seattle campus and one each from UW Bothell and UW Tacoma. Recipients are chosen based on a variety of criteria, including mastery of the subject matter; enthusiasm and innovation in the teaching and learning process; ability to engage students both within and outside the classroom; ability to ...
April 24, 2019
Discovery Core: The Science and Medicine of Harry Potter
Seldom is there a college class where students have read more on a topic than the professor, but that might be the case with The Science and Medicine of Harry Potter. It’s one of the Discovery Core classes for first-year, pre-major students at the University of Washington Bothell. IAS faculty member Laura Harkewicz is a Harry Potter fan...
March 19, 2019
IAS faculty promotions
IAS faculty members Christian Anderson, Amaranth Borsuk, and Lauren Lichty were official notified by the UW Provost’s Office of their promotion from Assistant to Associate Professor (with tenure).
February 1, 2019