News from the School of IAS
Jennifer Atkinson publishes in Resilience
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson's article, titled "Climate Grief: Our Greatest Ally?" explores the hidden benefit of dark emotions in response to our climate crisis. With growing attention to the mental health impacts of climate change -- and increasing popularity of terms like "eco-anxiety" and "climate grief" -- a constant stream of "five step" articles and support groups are offering tips to cope with that despair. But, as Atkinson asks, what if ...
September 1, 2020
Becca Price presents at the annual conference for the Society for the Advancement of Biology Education Research
The Society for the Advancement of Biology Education Research (SABER) hosted its annual conference virtually this year, with meetings distributed throughout July. IAS faculty member Becca Price presented some of her research in poster format, first talking about the large collaborative Science Teaching Experience Program, an established part of which trains scholars who recently received Ph.D.s in the sciences how to teach, and a new component which offers similar training for graduate students.
August 31, 2020
Amadanyo Oguara publishes “Asanda of Agirisaba”
Alum Amadanyo Oguara (’16) has published his second book, Asanda of Agirisaba, now available as eBook and in paperback on Amazon. Asanda of Agirisaba is the sci-fi story of an African heroine princess from Agirisaba, a sub-kingdom of The Nembe Kingdom of Nigeria, in West Africa, who by abduction, journeys to a "Fascinating Alien World Of Saturna" and acquires "Weapons of Magical Powers" from the Saturnian Moons of Ringa, Sworda, Spearda, and Shielda and returns back to Earth to become an "Intermediary of Peace and Environmental Crusader" in The Coastal Kingdoms of The Niger Delta Region of Nigeria. The book fulfills Oguara’s vision of the African female heroine...
August 27, 2020
Students screen “The City as Character” at Northwest Film Forum
On August 23, 2020, students from IAS faculty member Minda Martin's class, "The City as Character Vol. 2," screened their work in an online event hosted by the Northwest Film Forum, and streamed live on their webpage and on Facebook. The course (BISMCS 343) is partnered with Seattle Municipal Archives and Moving Image Preservation of Puget Sound (MIPoPS) and requires students to work with the archives to tell stories about specific issues in Seattle from more than 50 years ago and connect it to the present. Some of these topics that surfaced are police accountability ...
August 24, 2020
Jeff Ketchel: How an environmental health career MAPS out
Jeff Ketchel says his Master of Arts in Policy Studies (’08) gave him skills needed to head health districts and now serve as executive director of the Washington State Public Health Association. As a public health leader, Ketchel is grateful for his interdisciplinary training, which helps him view public health at the intersection of science and human behavior.
August 19, 2020
Bee Elliott: A musical activist for the environment
Bee Elliott, an Environmental Studies major, said she was sold on attending the University of Washington Bothell when she saw the wetlands on campus. “It was really attractive to me, not just another concrete paradise.” Elliott was recognized this last academic year as one of the Husky 100, students from across UW honored for making the most of their education. She has been an outdoor wellness leader, member of the Sustainable Student Action Club, and singer in the musical group, The People’s Echo, among other pursuits
August 19, 2020
Kari Lerum: Death, dying & pedagogy
Students examine death in the course Death Rituals, taught by IAS faculty member Kari Lerum, who hopes to instill a deeper comfort about an often-taboo topic. “This class has opened up so many conversations I otherwise might not have had with students,” said Lerum. “Some of our classes and office hours have been emotional, but this space and this course have also been restorative.
August 19, 2020
Amaranth Borsuk publishes article on books and bodies
As an outgrowth of her research into the book as object, content, idea, and interface, IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk has developed an interest in the relationship between books and bodies, historically and in the present moment. Not only is she interested in how books accommodate to our bodies and we to theirs, as examined in The Book (MIT Press, 2018), her recent research considers books that incorporate the human body into their material form, from ...
August 18, 2020
Julie Shayne in Ms. Magazine: “Damn Straight, We Persisted”
IAS faculty member Julie Shayne published an article with Ms, Magazine online about her new open-access book Persistence is Resistance: Celebrating 50 Years of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies. In the article, “Celebrating 50 Years of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies: ‘Damn Straight, We Persisted,’” Shayne explains how ...
August 17, 2020
Melanie Malone wins two UW research grants
IAS faculty member Melanie Malone won two UW research grants this month. The first grant, an Urban@UW Research Spark grant, was awarded to Melanie and other UW Seattle and Tacoma faculty and a Duwamish Tribal member. The grant is intended to support a co-created adaptive citizen science network that will ...
August 13, 2020