News from the School of IAS
Vy Nguyen Co-presents Report on “Brain Waste” among WA State Immigrants and Refugees
Vy Nguyen (’12, MA in Policy Studies) has focused the past year on workforce and education issues related to immigrant integration, particularly the issue of "brain waste" among foreign-educated immigrants. Many immigrants and refugees bring a wealth of knowledge and experience yet find it difficult to continue their professional careers in the U.S. This enormous underutilization of human resources has been dubbed “brain waste,” and OneAmerica’s report details ...
December 8, 2015
Martha Groom Becomes Co-PI on the Doris Duke Conservation Scholars Program
IAS faculty member Martha Groom is now a Co-PI on the Doris Duke Conservation Scholars Program. She and collaborators from across the University of Washington successfully submitted a new proposal this year for an extension of funding, receiving an additional $1.9 million on top of the initial $1.6 million from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. The program began in 2014 and now is funded through 2019.
December 1, 2015
Alums Hillary U and Zaheeda Edwards advise students through IAS Mentor Chats
This fall’s Mentor Chats featured alumni working in the business sector. Hillary U ('10, Culture, Literature and the Arts, Society, Ethics and Human Behavior) and Zaheeda Edwards (’95, Liberal Studies) met with students to discuss their career trajectories and the value of interdisciplinary training within corporate settings. Both highlighted ...
November 30, 2015
Amaranth Borsuk Launches Abra, a Book and App that Change in the Reader’s Hands
This past week saw the publication of IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk's collaborative project Abra: A Living Text, created with Kate Durbin and Ian Hatcher. Abra presses at the boundaries of the book, coupling a limited-edition, fine press artists' book with a free art app for iPad and iPhone that ...
November 30, 2015
David Goldstein Publishes “Holistic Learning-Centeredness: De-Centering the University for Social Justice”
IAS faculty member David Goldstein published “Holistic Learning-Centeredness: De-Centering the University for Social Justice” in the inaugural issue of Race & Pedagogy. Goldstein argues that de-centering the college campus in favor of ...
November 25, 2015
Santiago Lopez and David Stokes Publish on Spatial Relationships and Model Plant Invasion Process
IAS faculty members Santiago Lopez and David Stokes published “Modeling the Invasion of Holly (Ilex aquifolium): Spatial Relationships and Spread Trajectories” in the journal The Professional Geographer. The article ... Lopez also gave a lightning talk at this year’s GIS Day Conference at UW Seattle. Lopez presented the work students ...
November 25, 2015
Alka Kurian Co-directs the 10th Seattle South Asian Film Festival
IAS faculty member Alka Kurian co-directed the 10th Seattle South Asian Film Festival (SSAFF) October 15 - 25, 2015. Held over five cities in the Greater Seattle area, with nearly 60 films, and 25 invited filmmakers, SSAFF is the biggest and the most diverse film festival of its kind in the US. As part of the festival ...
November 25, 2015
Julie Shayne Presents Taking Risks at Howard Zinn Book Fair
IAS faculty member Julie Shayne presented her edited book Taking Risks: Feminist Activism and Research in the Americas (SUNY 2014; 2015) at the Second Annual Howard Zinn Book Fair in San Francisco. Shayne read her essay “Mother’s Day” which discusses her decision to prioritize family, quality of life, and ultimately ...
November 16, 2015
Dan Berger speaks on Captive Nation in Baltimore
IAS faculty member Dan Berger gave three talks in Baltimore based on his book Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era. Berger gave a lecture at Goucher College on “Prisons, State Violence, and the Organizing Tradition.” At the annual meeting of ...
November 16, 2015
David Goldstein Publishes Clickers in the Classroom
David Goldstein, along with co-editor Peter Wallis of UW IT, published Clickers in the Classroom: Using Classroom Response Systems to Increase Student Learning (Stylus Press). The book includes ...
November 16, 2015