News from the School of IAS
IAS students featured in article on internships in state government
A recent article in the Bothell Reporter highlights four IAS students who have begun working in public policy at the state level through IAS’s internship course, BIS 497, Political Internship in State Government: Shelby Lubchuk (Media & Communication Studies) Jared Mead (’14, Global Studies) Aysha Raza (Law, Economics & Public Policy) Claira Rolfson (’16, Law, Economics & Public Policy)
April 3, 2017
Alumni Shout Out!
Paula Matano (‘12, Policy Studies) is now the program manager for Oregon State University’s Professional and Continuing Education division. In this role, she develops and manages non-degree certificate programs and roughly 50 online and onsite courses. Hillary U (’10, Culture, Literature & the Arts) has accepted the position of Employee Communications Manager for Horizon Air, where she is responsible for employee-facing communication channels, including the company's intranet, for Horizon's 4000 employees. Josh Thompson (’11, Policy Studies) has announced his candidacy for Edmonds City Council...
April 3, 2017
Mindfulmedia artist Drew Stone shares career wisdom through “College to Confidence”
Drew Stone is a mindfulmedia artist bent towards creativity, design, organizational leadership, games, and forward-thinking culture. Drew holds a Certificate of Excellence in Filmmaking from Seattle Film institute. He completed undergraduate degrees in Media & Communication Studies and Society, Ethics & Human Behavior (’14) at UW Bothell and a Master of Communication in Communities and Networks (’16) at UW Seattle. He is a Project Manager for the Augmented Reality tool...
April 3, 2017
Heidi Schauble finds her passion in supporting people with disabilities
Heidi Schauble graduated from UW Bothell with a Bachelor of Arts in Society, Ethics & Human Behavior (’13), and a Master of Arts in Policy Studies (‘15). During this time, she worked as a teacher for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities in a private, nonprofit school, and she partnered with the Woodinville Rotary to launch the Rotaract Club at UW Bothell, a student club dedicated to civic service. After completing her masters and a capstone research project on education policy issues in Washington State, Heidi was hired as an Employment Consultant for AtWork!...
March 30, 2017
Kristy Leissle’s research into the chocolate industry featured and published
IAS faculty member Kristy Leissle appeared in Columns, the University of Washington Alumni Magazine. Columns' Digital Editor and IAS graduate, Quinn Russell Brown, wrote about Leissle's "coming to chocolate studies" as well as her forthcoming book, Cocoa, for Polity Books, in "Traveling the World Like a Cocoa Bean." Leissle also recently appeared on a radio episode for Innovation Hub, "Making a More Versatile Chocolate," which aired on WGBH Boston. After a three-year study ...
March 20, 2017
After the MFA: Good things come in small portions
By Natalie Singer-Velush ('16) The time spent as a student in an MFA program, especially the early months, can be overwhelming. There are never enough hours to read, to spend with new ideas, to fulfill the requirements of the program, and also follow our own newly developing inquiries and impulses. The time, conversely, is often also highly charged artistically: These new ideas, however demanding and sleep-depriving, activate a desire to engage deeply with language and art and the process of making and investigating these. One group of IAS’s MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics students responded to that charge by launching a micropress, a project that has evolved as its instigators have, and which has provided space for the incubation and expression of art and ideas within the realm of the program and, now, beyond.
March 20, 2017
Amaranth Borsuk speaks and reads in Montreal
IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk traveled to Montreal last week to attend the symposium Expanded Poetics: Romantic, Modernist, Contemporary. Hosted by the Centre for Expanded Poetics at Concordia University, an experimental research laboratory focused on materialist media studies and collaborative interdisciplinary research, the event brought together philosophers, literary scholars, and poets working in new media to discuss interdisciplinary poetics from Jena Romanticism to the present. Borsuk spoke about
March 20, 2017
Mojan Ahmadi presents on game industry resumes at Game Developers Conference
As Coordinator of Career Services at DigiPen Institute of Technology, IAS alum Mojan Ahmadi (’13, Law, Economics & Public Policy; ’15, Policy Studies) advises students and facilitates professional development opportunities in the video game, entertainment, and technology industry. DigiPen is a private university that offers bachelor and master degree programs, as well K-12 programs. Recently, Mojan and colleagues gave a panel presentation on creating effective game industry resumes at the Game Developer's Conference in San Francisco ...
March 13, 2017
Mojan Ahmadi presents on game industry resumes at Game Developers Conference
As Coordinator of Career Services at DigiPen Institute of Technology, IAS alum Mojan Ahmadi (’13, Law, Economics & Public Policy; ’15, Policy Studies) advises students and facilitates professional development opportunities in the video game, entertainment, and technology industry. DigiPen is a private university that offers bachelor and master degree programs, as well K-12 programs. Recently, Mojan and colleagues gave a panel presentation on creating effective game industry resumes at the Game Developer's Conference in San Francisco ...
March 13, 2017
Anida Yoeu Ali with Studio Revolt has two works featured in the new online exhibition “Salaam: I Come In Peace”
IAS faculty member Anida Yoeu Ali, along with her media collaborative Studio Revolt, have two works: "Hijabs & Hoodies" and "The Red Chador" featured in the new online exhibition "Salaam: I Come In Peace" launched by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center. The digitally curated exhibition includes four works from artists who address experiences of Muslims in America. These works offer deeper insight and understanding of the greater Muslim American community.
March 13, 2017