News from the School of IAS
MFA Alum Simon Wolf Teaches at Hugo House and leads Monthly Writing Circle
This winter Simon Wolf (MFA, 2022) will offer Place Based Poetics: Writing with the Duwamish River, a workshop through Hugo House, an essential literary community in Seattle.
December 28, 2022
Dan Berger publishes in Washington Post on Raphael Warnock win
IAS Professor Dan Berger published an op-ed in the Washington Post on Senator Raphael Warnock's re-election in Georgia
December 8, 2022
Santiago Lopez and the EERC receive recognition at Mountains to Sound Greenway Annual Ceremony
IAS faculty member Santiago Lopez, community member Susan Carlson, WA Sate Ranger Daryl Kline, and arquitects John Kennedy and Nicole Lew were recognized at the annual ceremony of the Mountains to Sound Greenway for their work and contribution to environmental education and stewarship of Pacific Northwest ecosystems through their work at UWB's Environmental Education and Research Center at Saint Edward State Park.
December 6, 2022
Joe Ferrare presents research on the effects of virtual charter schools
Joe Ferrare, associate professor in IAS, recently presented his research on the effects of virtual charter high schools at the annual meeting of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management in Washington, D.C.
November 29, 2022
Katherine Agyemaa Agard Wins the 2018 Essay Press MFA Book Contest
of colour is an experimental essay about color, hybridity, and art-making. Selected by Mary-Kim Arnold for the 2018 Essay Press | UW Bothell MFA Book Contest.
November 29, 2022
Kaia Solvig Preus Wins the 2018 Essay Press MFA Book Contest
The War Requiem blends memoir, research, and historical fiction, in order to explore Benjamin Britten’s dynamic piece of choral and orchestral music, the War Requiem, Op.66. Selected by Rebecca Brown for the 2018 Essay Press | UW Bothell MFA Book Contest.
November 29, 2022
Alysa Levi-D’Ancona (MFA ’23) Publishes work in Occulum Journal
Issue 13 of Occulum, an online journal of "prose, poetry, and other peculiarities," features the poem "molasses traps" by second-year MFA student Alysa Levi-D’Ancona (she/her).
November 22, 2022
Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies (GWSS) faculty present at the annual National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) Conference.
This year five GWSS faculty attended the annual National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) conference.
November 22, 2022
Jin-Kyu Jung coauthors a paper in Sociology of Health & Illness
IAS faculty member Jin-Kyu Jung has published a coauthored article, “Struggling, helping and adapting: Crowdfunding motivations and outcomes during the early US COVID-19 pandemic” in Sociology of Health & Illness.
October 17, 2022
Jin-Kyu Jung participate in the panel at 2022 Edge of Amazing conference
IAS faculty members Jin-Kyu Jung participated as a discussant in the “Go Fund Us? What Crowdfunding Means For the Future of Healthcare Access” workshop session in 2022 Edge of Amazing conference.
October 17, 2022