News from the School of IAS
Shining the spotlight on Sarah Ramirez
Sarah Ramirez is used to being on stage as a dancer with Bailadores de Bronce, a Mexican traditional dance team. Ramirez is also now in the spotlight as a 2019-20 participant in the Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program, which prepares students for graduate school. Ramirez, who is double majoring in American & Ethnic Studies and in Law, Economics & Public Policy, is only the second student in UW Bothell’s 30-year history to receive this honor.
December 2, 2020
Brandon Washington discusses philanthropy at UW Bothell
How has work in Advancement & External Relations changed since remote operations began at UW Bothell? Brandon Washington, manager of annual giving and philanthropy, answers a few questions from Maria Lamarca Anderson, director of communications. A graduate in Media & Communication Studies (’15), Washington worked in community engagement for several years before joining UW Bothell in January 2020, and his onboarding experience has been far from normal.
December 2, 2020
Melanie Malone publishes “Teaching Critical Physical Geography”
IAS faculty member Melanie Malone recently published an article in the Journal of Geography in Higher Education entitled "Teaching Critical Physical Geography." Beyond providing a framework for how to teach CPG, the article also provides methods for students to overcome power dynamics and ...
November 24, 2020
Masahiro Sugano’s “Competitive Filmmaking” Class Wins Top Prize in International Film Competition
The short film “Delirium” created by IAS faculty member Masahiro Sugano’s “Competitive Filmmaking” Class won at the 2020 ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival held in Berlin, Germany. In Spring 2020 when Washington State went into COVID-19 lockdown, IAS faculty Masahiro Sugano had the unique challenge of remotely teaching a new advanced level media production course ...
November 24, 2020
Jennifer Atkinson presents “Navigating Climate Anxiety”
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson spoke at Whitman College on November 18 for a public event exploring climate anxiety, eco-grief, and how to cope with the mental health impacts of our ecological crisis. The talk was attended by student activists and mental health professionals. Atkinson explained not only climate change's external impacts, but also the emotional toll it's having on young people, climate justice activists, scientists, and ...
November 23, 2020
Santiago Lopez and Jin-Kyu Jung publish in the Annals of the American Association of Geographers
IAS faculty members Santiago Lopez and Jin-Kyu Jung in collaboration with colleagues from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO – Ecuador) published a paper in the Annals of the American Association of Geographers. The paper provides new insights on land use and climate change in human-environment dynamics of the equatorial Andes. The study supports the notion that ...
November 23, 2020
Santiago Lopez publishes in the journal Ecological Indicators
AS faculty members Santiago Lopez in collaboration with colleagues from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO – Ecuador) and the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg published a paper in the journal Ecological Indicators. The paper addresses land use/land cover changes in Southern Ecuador and the implications for ...
November 23, 2020
Santiago Lopez publishes a book chapter in Applied research on climate change: Contributions to Latin American cities
IAS faculty member Santiago Lopez in collaboration with colleagues from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO – Ecuador) published a book chapter entitled “Between techno-science and experience: hybrid knowledge as a foundation for applied research on climate change”. In this chapter, the authors argue that ...
November 23, 2020
Becca Price publishes annotations to biology education research
IAS faculty member Becca Price and her colleague Clark Coffman (Iowa State) have published another set of annotations that introduce scholars to biology education research. The original paper (by Estrada et al.) describes factors that contribute to persistence in graduate training for a biomedical career. The annotations explore ...
November 20, 2020
Julie Shayne blogs about Trump inspired trauma
IAS faculty member and Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies Faculty Coordinator Julie Shayne wrote a blog piece for Ms. Magazine about the trauma the Trump campaign caused many feminists. In it she argues that reliving the sexist double standards of the 2016 campaign, watching the misogyny on the campaign trail, and seeing an accused sexual predator get so close to the presidency for a second time, was a psychologically traumatic experience for millions of women in the US; especially survivors of sexual assault.
November 20, 2020