News from the School of IAS
Jennifer Atkinson and Pulitzer-Prize winner Elizabeth Kolbert speak about climate impacts
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson teamed up with Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction and Under a White Sky, to discuss solutions to our climate crisis, as well as reasons for hope as we face the challenges ahead. Their joint talk at the 2022 Environmental Summit was sponsored by The Delta College President’s Speaker Series, which invited Atkinson and Kolbert as keynote speakers. ...
March 23, 2022
Becca Price: “Reframing Educational Outcomes”
In collaboration with Sarita Shukla (School of Educational Studies), Elli Theobald (Department of Biology, UW Seattle), and Joel Abraham (CSU Fullerton), IAS faculty member Becca Price has published an essay about how to honor and build from the strengths that students bring into the classroom. “So much of traditional teaching,” Price says ...
March 16, 2022
Lauren Berliner: “Whatever Happened to Home Movies?”
IAS faculty member Lauren Berliner published the article, "Whatever Happened to Home Movies? Self-representation from Family Archives to Online Algorithms," in a special issue of Frames Cinema Journal titled "Sensing the Archive: Exploring The Digital (Im)materiality of the Moving Image Archive." In the article ...
March 15, 2022
MFA alumni and students selected as community performers in upcoming dance performance at Meany Hall
Members of the UW Bothell MFA community are excited to take part as community performers in Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company's What Problem?, forthcoming at Meany Hall March 24-26. Alum Emma Carson (MFA '16 ) and current first-year students Alexandria Simmons and Raelynne Woo will work with the company during spring break, culminating in ...
March 15, 2022
Ching-In Chen: “Breaths for Seattle” commissioned for Reimagine Seattle Storytelling Project
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen’s “Breaths for Seattle” is a poem commissioned by the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods for the Reimagine Seattle Storytelling Project, a public platform for community voices to help shape the conversation of ...
March 14, 2022
Julie Shayne presents two Pressbooks projects during Open Education (OE) Week
IAS faculty member Julie Shayne was an invited speaker, along with other UW instructors, on an Open Education Week panel called “Student Authored: UW Open Pedagogy & Publishing.” She discussed her two UW Pressbooks: Badass Womxn in the Pacific Northwest and ...
March 7, 2022
Jennifer Atkinson interviewed on “In this Climate” podcast
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson is featured in a new season of the podcast "In this Climate," which was released in March. The first episode, Existential loneliness, the climate crisis, and intrinsic hope features an interview with Atkinson (who is currently writing a book on climate despair and hope) and Sarah Jaquette Ray ...
March 7, 2022
Wanda Gregory selected to join the Fulbright Specialist Roster
IAS faculty member Wanda Gregory was selected to join the Fulbright Specialist Program, which is designed to pair qualified U.S. academics and professionals with host institutions to work on a variety of projects and activities. Having worked in ...
February 28, 2022
Min Tang publishes on U.S.-China Relations and the Geopolitics of Information
IAS faculty member Min Tang recently published an article on the highly topical issue of U.S.-China relations and the geopolitics of information in International Journal of Communication, a top scholarly journal ranking 4th among all Humanities, Literature & Arts journals, and 7th among Communication journals by the latest Google Scholar statistics. ...
February 28, 2022
Wanda Gregory receives Fulbright-NSF Arctic Scholar Award in Iceland
IAS faculty member Wanda Gregory has received a Fulbright-NSF Arctic Scholar Award in Iceland, where she will focus on the area of positive computing through the design and development of games and use of related game technologies (AR/VR/XR) and AI to bring about social change. ...
February 28, 2022