News from the School of IAS
Anida Yoeu Ali exhibits in Fragilità with support of The Embassy of Italy in Kuala Lumpur
IAS faculty member Anida Yoeu Ali was selected as one of four Southeast Asian artists to exhibit alongside Italian artists in an immersive online group exhibition titled "Fragilità." “Fragilità” is curated by Alberto Salvadori, director of Fondazione ICA Milano, Luigi Fassi, director of MAN in Nuoro, and Lim Wei Ling, director of the Wei Ling Gallery in Kuala Lumpur, and it is organized with the support of the Italian Embassy in Malaysia. “Fragilità” began on Instagram channel @particle____ from March 3-10, 2021 with platform access and public program found on the Fragilità website.
April 26, 2021
Ching-In Chen publishes in The Rupture
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen’s hybrid pieces “Gatha for Forest Walk / When No Father Arrives,” “Desert / Nine Days,” and “Park” were published in The Rupture, a bimonthly publication of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction.
April 23, 2021
Anida Yoeu Ali exhibits at MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum in Chiang Mai
IAS faculty member Anida Yoeu Ali exhibited prints from The Buddhist Bug series at MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum in Chiang Mai, Thailand from Nov 14, 2020 - March 30, 2021. The photographs were part of a final touring exhibition titled “A Beast, A God and A Line” originally curated by Hong Kong based curator Cosmin Costinas.
April 23, 2021
IAS faculty receive grant and organize UW Bothell Labor Colloquia Series
IAS faculty members Ching-In Chen, Dan Berger, S. Charusheela, Joseph Ferrare, and Kari Lerum received a grant from the UW Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies. The grants committee noted that “the progress in growing Labor Studies made at UW Bothell was extraordinary in the 2019-2020 academic year, reaching new faculty and audiences both on and off-campus, and we applaud your work!
April 23, 2021
Jennifer Atkinson: The Search for Environmental Hope
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson’s podcast Facing It was featured in the Washington Post Magazine’s cover story for their Earth Day edition. The article, titled “The Search for Environmental Hope,” included an interview with Atkinson and several naturalists, scientists and climate activists about how they engage with the question of hope. ...
April 23, 2021
Science Teaching Experience Program (STEP) graduate reflects on lessons learned
IAS faculty member Becca Price runs the Science Teaching Experience Program (STEP) in which Ph.D. scientists and students pursuing Ph.Ds learn how to teach with methods that are proven to be effective and equitable. The Association for Women in Science just ran a feature about the program, written by STEP graduate Katie Mitzelfelt. Dr. Mitzelfelt concludes ...
April 20, 2021
Mask and You Shall Receive: Student Support During the Pandemic
IAS staff members Eva Navarijo, Nhi Tran, Sakara Buyagawan, Jung Lee, and Jessica Trenkamp ran a session at the UW/Community College Advising Conference on “Mask and You Shall Receive: Student Support During the Pandemic.” The session focused on ...
April 20, 2021
Ching-In Chen presents at “Creative Politics, Political Poetics” roundtable
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen spoke about the intersection of their activism, literary and academic engagement, and community building at the “Creative Politics, Political Poetics: An Ecology of Change” roundtable. Chen joined ...
April 19, 2021
Masahiro Sugano’s “Competitive Filmmaking” Class Wins Top Prize at the 2021 Cadence Video Poetry Festival
The short film “Delirium” created by IAS faculty member Masahiro Sugano’s 2020 “Competitive Filmmaking” Class wins two more prizes. The film, created by eight UW Bothell students entirely during remote learning, was awarded with both an “Honorary Mention” for the Collaboration category and named the winner of the “Best of Northwest” category.
April 19, 2021
Dr. Brinda Sarathy, new IAS dean at UW Bothell
Dr. Brinda Sarathy, professor of environmental analysis at Pitzer College in Claremont, California, will succeed Dr. Bruce Burgett as dean of the School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences at the University of Washington Bothell. The University selected Sarathy in a national search that began last year. She will begin her job as dean and professor on July 1. Burgett, the inaugural dean of IAS, is returning to the faculty after 14 years of administrative service.
April 16, 2021