News from the School of IAS
Green building champion Tadashi Shiga reconnects with UW Bothell
Alum Tadashi Shiga (’96) is an evangelist for sustainable living. Shiga’s passion for energy efficiency runs deep, as do his local roots as a third generation Seattleite. With 20+ years in real estate development, it was the 2007 economic downturn that sparked Shiga’s passion for green building. Faced with the market’s uncertainty, he began researching sustainability and energy efficiency for homes, eventually ...
April 10, 2019
IAS Faculty Organize Alive 3.0 Spring Performance Festival
This Spring Quarter 2019, IAS faculty members Anida Yoeu Ali and Naomi Macalalad Bragin, professors from Critical Acts: Socially Engaged Performance Research Interest Group (RIG), are organizing the Alive Performance Festival and Critical Acts Visiting Artist Residency. Now in its third consecutive year, Alive animates campus, asking UW Bothell and extended communities to engage, witness and participate in performance as social justice activism. This year ...
April 10, 2019
Amaranth Borsuk is poet-in-residence at the Seattle Review of Books for National Poetry Month
The Seattle Review of Books has asked IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk to be their poet in residence for April. The editors will publish a poem by Borsuk each week and interview her about her work and reading. Borsuk's first piece, a new poem titled "Strap on a Witness When You Go Out with the Tongue in Your Mouth Worn Thin from Walking," was published on 4/2. "It Goes without Saying," a collaboration with artist Julie Wills, has just been published. Borsuk's current reading list was ...
April 9, 2019
Community Mural Project at Interfaith Solidarity Event
On Friday, March 22nd, the Bothell community came together to honor the lives lost in the New Zealand live-stream shooting. The ICOB Mosque hosted an Interfaith Solidarity Event at the Bothell United Methodist Church which brought numerous speakers, including: law enforcement agencies, religious leaders, and community members to reflect on the tragedy and offer their condolences. People were given ...
April 9, 2019
IAS board member Leslie Olson supports the Global Scholars program in a big way
On April 4, 2019 all three University of Washington campuses participated in the first annual Husky Giving Day with a 24 hour, high energy, online campaign across all our media channels. The UW Bothell School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences came in second on the Bothell campus for most dollars raised, thanks in a large part to a $25,000 pledge for the Global Scholars program from UW alum and IAS Advisory Board member Leslie Olson. Leslie has
April 5, 2019
Alumni receive Fulbright awards to Estonia and Namibia
Hana Bloedel has been selected for a U.S. Student Fulbright grant to Estonia, where she will serve as an English Teaching Assistant. Hana completed her B.A. in Global Studies and Society, Ethics & Human Behavior, with a minor in Human Rights, in June 2018. Mariah Crystal (formerly Ortiz) has been granted a Fulbright award to conduct research in Namibia during the 2019-2020 academic year. She will be analyzing the oral history narratives of Namibian women who contributed the anti-apartheid movement and ...
April 5, 2019
Amaranth Borsuk speaks at Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference
IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk attended the annual AWP conference in Portland, Oregon last week, joining more than 12,000 writers in a three-day marathon of panels, talks, and off-site readings. Borsuk spoke and shared her work as part of the panel Poetry and Technology: Appendage, Mask, Voice, Body, and Song. With fellow panelists Samuel Ace, Douglas Kearney, and Ronaldo Wilson, Borsuk shared the ways ...
April 4, 2019
Lauren Berliner at the Digital Diaspora Symposium
IAS faculty member Lauren Berliner was an invited participant at the Digital Diaspora Symposium at the University of Rochester. She was a featured panelist and workshopped a paper called “When You Hit Rock-bottom, Your Views Can Only Go Up: Overdose Videos in Desperate Times.” The symposium included ...
April 4, 2019
Human rights in practice: The D.C. Seminar
Since 1991, more than 450 students have participated in the Washington D.C. Human Rights Seminar, which provides an experiential learning opportunity for students to engage with human rights policy at national and international levels. Hear faculty and alumni perspectives on the seminar in this video.
April 2, 2019
Jacob Allen co-founds social identity-focused school
IAS alum Jacob Allen (’12) is CEO and co-founder of pilotED Bethel Park, a new charter elementary school in Indianapolis that believes identity and civic engagement could transform the educational landscape, especially for students of color. Says Allen, “Once you acknowledge who the child is as a human being … what comes after that are highly engaged students.”
April 1, 2019