News from the School of IAS
William Hartmann awarded grant to study Indigeneity and suicide
IAS faculty member William Hartmann was awarded a Royalty Research Fund Scholar grant to study how Indigeneity and suicide are (mis)represented in mental health research on American Indian and Alaska Native suicide to clarify relevancies of this literature for specific Indigenous communities ...
June 10, 2021
Ching-In Chen, Neil Simpkins, Ben Gardner, and Ron Krabill receive Cross-Disciplinary Research Clusters awards
IAS faculty members Ching-In Chen, Neil Simpkins, Ben Gardner, and Ron Krabill received awards for Cross-Disciplinary Research Clusters from the Simpson Center for the Humanities as part of the Center’s spring funding round. Chen and Simpkins were awarded funding for their second year of “Imagining Trans Futures.” ...
June 10, 2021
Jin-Kyu Jung and Christian Anderson : (Un)Mapping Social and Spatial Inequality
IAS faculty members Jin-Kyu Jung and Christian Anderson co-chaired a panel session on “(Un)Mapping Social and Spatial Inequality: Extending Socio-Theoretically Informed Critical Approaches to Engage Policy” at the 2021 University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) Symposium held virtually. The session ...
June 9, 2021
Amaranth Borsuk’s libretto “The Familiar Spirit” performed at live virtual concert INTERSPACE
On June 5 virtual concertgoers experienced haunting sounds and images emanating from their screens during INTERSPACE, a unique live-streamed concert experience combining new choral compositions and electronic music. A live performance tailored to virtual delivery, the concert featured 7 works designed to showcase the powerful beauty of latency, layers, loops, and textures and was a collaboration between ...
June 8, 2021
President’s Medal to Jordan Woltjer
President’s Medal recipient Jordan Woltjer is graduating with a 4.0 GPA and is headed to Duke University in the fall for graduate school. He credits his UW Bothell professors with cultivating his potential and providing career opportunities that support his goals. Woltjer will receive a bachelor’s degree in Law, Economics & Public Policy and double minor in Economics and Mathematics.
June 8, 2021
Chancellor’s Medal to Chris Hays
Chancellor’s Medalist Chris Hays is a champion for change. One nominator called him “an innate fire that is impossible to quench.” Having had strong advocates in his life — including faculty, staff and friends at UW Bothell — he is committed to helping other students succeed. Hays will graduate this June with a bachelor’s degree in Law, Economics & Public Policy and a minor in Human Rights.
June 8, 2021
Speech and Debate Team tournament results
National Forensics Association National Championship American Forensics Association National Tournament Novice No More Pi Kappa Delta National Comprehensive Tournament
June 7, 2021
Denise Vaughan appointed to Board of Directors for the Greater Seattle Debate League
IAS faculty member Denise Vaughan has been appointed to the Board of Directors for the Greater Seattle Debate League. The mission of the GDSL is to facilitate opportunities for underserved students to participate in Speech and Debate. Vaughan is a...
June 7, 2021
Coastal Poets Film Festival: Navigating creative practice within a pandemic
One year into the throes of a pandemic and I missed live poetry readings. Severely. There was a sense of estrangement from Seattle’s caring literary community. Plus, I felt that undying hunger to express and connect with others through the power of metaphor. These were some of the reasons why I curated the Coastal Poets Film Festival. This event was livestreamed on YouTube with pre-recorded video poems by five genre-bending writers, including Allison Morton, Simon Wolf, Brent Cox, Shelby Handler and myself. The film festival ...
June 7, 2021
Minda Martin discusses street ecology and Ramps to Nowhere
IAS faculty member Minda Martin screened and discussed her essay film Ramps to Nowhere for a Sustainable Transportation Policy course in UW Seattle Civil and Environmental Engineering department’s Master of Science in Sustainable Transportation. She also ...
June 4, 2021