Students present at Washington Lakes Protection Association

Three UW Bothell students presented at the annual Washington Lakes Protection Association (WALPA) meeting online in October, supported by IAS faculty member Avery Shinneman. Jodylene DeLosReyes and Tram Lam presented on the outcome of a CBLR partnership with King County, supported by a ...

November 8, 2021

Amaranth Borsuk publishes new collaborative poems in Snail Trail 3

The latest issue of Snail Trail, a journal of ecopoetics, includes two poems by IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk. These epistolary poems and accompanying visual artwork are part of W/\SH, Borsuk's collaboration with poet and artist Terri Witek, a book-length work of speculative poetry that includes correspondence by women on two worlds ...

November 8, 2021

Anida Yoeu Ali: Red Chador rises again

A chador is a full-body gown worn by some Muslim women, but the Red Chador, created by IAS faculty member Anida Yoeu Ali, is more than just a garment. It is an artistic expression that depicts to the public what it means to be a Muslim, a woman and a performer in an age of heightened Islamophobia. ...

November 8, 2021

Ching-In Chen: “Inside me, a family”

IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen’s poem “Inside me, a family” was selected by guest curator Kimberly M. Blaeser for the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day Series, which is sent out to 450,000 subscribers daily. The poem is ...

November 5, 2021

Becca Price publishes results of science education program

IAS faculty member Becca Price and colleagues published a paper about the success of the Science Teaching Experience Program: Working in Science Education. Ph.D. scientists who go through the program are very successful at teaching with techniques that we know work especially well and that include everyone in the class in the learning. A key feature of the program is ...

November 4, 2021

Alka Kurian remote-directs Tasveer South Asian Litfest

IAS faculty member Alka Kurian, currently on a Fulbright research trip to Morocco, remote-directed Tasveer's South Asian Litfest TSAL 2021. The festival was enabled thanks to a combination of technology – Zoom, Elevent, Slack, WhatsApp, FaceTime, and YouTube – and the tireless behind-the-scenes work of Tasveer staff and volunteers scattered across the world who ...

November 1, 2021

Ching-In Chen: “Breath Is Missing”

IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen’s poem “Breath Is Missing” was published in Concision Poetry Journal, a journal edited by Haley Lasche which highlights work investigating the socio-political influences on language and ...

October 27, 2021

Ching-In Chen awarded Kristi Larkin Havens Memorial Fellowship

IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen was awarded the Dr. Kristi Larkin Havens Memorial Residency Fellowship for Service to the Community from The Sundress Academy for the Arts (SAFTA), which awards a one-week fully-funded residency at Firefly Farms in Knoxville, Tennessee. The fellowship awards a writer who has ...

October 26, 2021