News from the School of IAS
Jennifer Atkinson speaks on eco-anxiety
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson spoke on the topic of eco-anxiety at an event sponsored by the City of Seattle's Office of Arts and Culture. Presenting alongside Clayton Aldern, a data scientist and writer for the environmental magazine Grist, Atkinson traced connections between climate change, environmental degradation, and mental health.
November 12, 2019
Ching-In Chen awarded Contemplative Social Justice Scholar grant
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen has been awarded a grant as a Contemplative Social Justice Scholar to attend the 2019 Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education conference at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The 2019 ACMHE conference is focused on Radical Well-Being in Higher Education: Approaches for Renewal, Justice, and Sustainability and will share how contemplative practices, including ...
November 12, 2019
Students and elders with early-stage memory loss connect through art
IAS faculty member Deborah Hathaway has partnered with Edmonds Center for the Arts and Silver Kite Community Arts to offer elders and UW Bothell freshmen the intergenerational course, “Making Art Together.” Through the course, older adults facing early-stage memory loss will work collaboratively with UW Bothell students to share their experiences and transform their stories into short theatrical performances. UW Bothell students ...
November 5, 2019
Katherine Voyles on James Mattis, ecology & religion, and national defense in culture
IAS faculty member Katherine Voyles recently published on the re-emergence into public life of General James Mattis for Small Wars Journal. She also participated in a conference on “Ecology and Religion in 19th Century Studies,” and appeared on the podcast Trumpcast to discuss issues of national defense in culture and the cultures of national defense.
November 4, 2019
Ching-In Chen curates a series of new poems in response to a New Asian Futurisms exhibit
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen has curated a series of new poems in response to a New Asian Futurisms exhibit currently on display at Philadelphia’s Asian Arts Initiative through December 6. In New Asian Futurisms, artists re-repaired the imaginations of fragmented pasts and observed multiple histories of diverse communities in looking forward to the future. In their work ...
November 1, 2019
Shibuki Hanai discusses his Public Management Fellowship with City of Hillsboro
IAS alum Shibuki Hanai (‘14, ’18) has been serving as a Public Management Fellow for the City of Hillsboro, Oregon since July. This fellowship is designed for emerging leaders with a strong commitment to public service and provides a breadth of experience in local government. Hanai talked with IAS News about his motivations to seek the fellowship and how his interdisciplinary education prepared him for this experience.
October 31, 2019
Alumni Shout Out!
Danny Molvik (Society, Ethics & Human Behavior, ’04, Policy Studies, ’07) is a Senior Technical Program Manager at Amazon working on their mobile shopping app. Hillary U (Culture, Literature & the Arts; Society, Ethics & Human Behavior, ’10) has joined Amazon Web Services as their Senior Communications & Operations Manager for EC2 Business Development. Woogee Bae (Creative Writing & Poetics, ’19) has joined Seattle Arts & Lectures as a Donor Relations Associate. Ray Corona (Society, Ethics & Human Behavior, ’13) visited Julie Shayne and ...
October 30, 2019
Jennifer Atkinson presents research on eco-anxiety, climate grief and pretraumatic stress
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson presented her research on eco-anxiety, climate grief and pretraumatic stress at the Association for Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education. Speaking to an audience of climate educators, students, university administrators and environmental justice activists, her panel shared emerging research in higher education showing that young people carry an increasing emotional response of fear, anger, frustration, and sadness in response to climate disruption.
October 30, 2019
Valdez and Groom lead exploration seminar in Peru
IAS faculty members Ursula Valdez and Martha Groom co-taught an Exploration Seminar "From Andes to Amazon: Biodiversity, Conservation and Sustainability in Peru." The 26-day study abroad program allowed 15 students to learn in person about species and ecosystems in tropical rainforest and the Andean mountains, and about traditional uses of resources and local conservation challenges. The location was also ...
October 30, 2019
IAS faculty members share insights into online international collaborations
Several IAS faculty members shared insights regarding online, international collaborations at the International Virtual Exchange Conference in Tacoma in late October. Ron Krabill led a workshop that addressed the ethics of virtual exchanges and study abroad programs, respectively. He also facilitated a panel discussion coordinate by Min Tang, together with Salwa Al-Noori (School of STEM) and Mo West (School of Nursing and Health Sciences), regarding UW Bothell’s cohort-based learning community on ...
October 29, 2019