News from the School of IAS
Wanda Gregory on the representation of race in Doctor Who
IAS faculty member Wanda Gregory spoke at Los Angeles Comic Con on October 12th as part of a panel exploring the representation of race in the television series Doctor Who and other time travel movies and television shows. She also had a presentation and extended abstract accepted for the Philosophy of Games Conference in St. Petersburg, Russia this month. Her ...
October 15, 2019
UW Bothell recognized for contributions to American Indian and Indigenous Studies
UW Bothell was recognized in a recent PMLA editor's column for its contributions to the UW's innovative projects in American Indian and Indigenous Studies. Last year, IAS faculty member William Hartmann facilitated a tri-campus collaboration that explored the role of creative community practices in advancing Indigenous wellness. With financial support from the Simpson Center for the Humanities, the UW Bothell Diversity Council, Cascadia College, and the School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences ...
October 15, 2019
Avery Shinneman: Building Scientific Communication Skills through MythBusters Videos and Community Engagement
IAS faculty member Avery Shinneman, along with Charity Lovitt (School of STEM) and Kara Adams (Office of Community Engagement), published a book chapter on “Building Scientific Communication Skills through MythBusters Videos and Community Engagement” in a volume on “Communication in Chemistry” from the American Chemical Society. The chapter describes ...
October 11, 2019
IAS Faculty, Alumni & Community Partners Present at Radio Research Conference in Italy
IAS faculty, alumni and community partners presented two papers on the theme of “Radio as Social Media” at the ECREA Radio Research Conference held at the University of Siena (Italy). The first paper, titled “How we talk to each other: Strategies for sustaining student media,” was presented by Amoshaun Toft and Kristin Gustafson, and was also co-authored by IAS alumn Amani Sawari ...
October 9, 2019
Samantha Penjaraenwatana helps close the gap for first-generation students
Alum Samantha Penjaraenwatana (’15) was the first in her immediate family to go to college and now she’s helping other first-generation students find their way. Penjaraenwatana says the support she received at UW Bothell and the mentorship of fellow student Mina Hooshangi (’12) made all the difference. In fact, her experiences inspired her to pursue a professional career in student development, and she is now a graduate student at Seattle University.
October 3, 2019
Alumni Shout Out!
Isabel Conrad (Media & Communication Studies, ’18) is an Internal Communications Consultant at Vulcan and a second year student in the Master of Communication in Communities and Networks program at University of Washington. Jimena Huamani (Community Psychology and Society, Ethics & Human Behavior, ’17) has joined the UW Bothell Organizational Excellence and Human Resources (OE/HR) as the Human Resources Assistant. Paul Johnson (M.A. in Cultural Studies, ’11) has earned a master’s degree in Project Management from Georgetown University (’19). He also holds an M.S. in Human Resources Development from Villanova University (’15). Andrea Lu (Media & Communication Studies, ’17) is a Performance Marketing Associate at New Engen. Salvador Salazar-Cano
October 3, 2019
Jin-Kyu Jung leads study abroad trip to South Korea and establishes ties with local institutions
IAS faculty member Jin-Kyu Jung recently returned from South Korea with 9 UW students from the Bothell and Seattle campuses. This trip was part of an Early-Fall Student Abroad program, “Mapping Communities in the Smart City,” co-led with Gunwha Oh (affiliate faculty in IAS and lecturer in the Deptartment of Geography).
October 2, 2019
Jin-Kyu Jung co-authors “Qualitative GIS and Spatial Research”
IAS faculty member Jin-Kyu Jung co-authored a flagship chapter with Sarah Elwood, “Qualitative GIS and Spatial Research.” The chapter, which appears in SAGE Research Methods Foundations (SRMF), presents a critical review of qualitative GIS as a mixed methods framework for social and spatial research. It reflects an earlier wave of qualitative approaches in the 2000s implementing qualitative forms of representation or analysis into GIS-based research.
October 2, 2019
UWave Radio: ‘Your voice, your vibe’
Radio hardly describes all the media, programming, and community building that takes place through UWave Radio, the campus station. “Our students are learning the cutting edge of where digital broadcasting is going. It’s multimedia. It’s live and archived, and it’s engaging specific communities because that’s how media works,” says IAS faculty member and adviser Amoshaun Toft.
October 1, 2019
New graduate Aatqa Azhar launches global development career
Passionate about human rights and international development, recent alum Aatqa Azhar maximized her time at UW Bothell. She majored in both Global Studies and Law, Economics & Public Policy while actively supporting the Muslim Student Association on campus and serving as a digital communications intern for the Pakistan - US Alumni Network (PUAN), an association with the U.S. Embassy Pakistan for U.S. government-sponsored ...
October 1, 2019