News from the School of IAS
Alka Kurian on the MeToo movement in India
IAS faculty member Alka Kurian's interview on MeToo was published in Times of India. In the interview, she claims that with older women outing sexual abuse of decades ago, the MeToo movement in India has widened its base that was previously led by the country's young millennial cyberfeminists. Kurian was also ...
October 30, 2018
Curtis Takahashi joins UW Bothell to lead new Professional Experience Program
An ardent champion of UW Bothell, alum Curtis Takahashi is taking his support to a new level. The IAS graduate was recently hired as the campus’s new Professional Experience Program Advisor. This program will create opportunities for UW Bothell students to gain intensive and immersive work experience during their final years of study, along with professional development to be successful in the workplace. Takahashi will focus on employer outreach and engagement, advising students on internship opportunities and professional development, and managing the program implementation, growth, and ...
October 25, 2018
Nicole McCarthy selected as 2018 GAP Award recipient by Artist Trust
IAS Alum Nicole McCarthy has received GAP Award funding from Artist Trust to begin her second hybrid book focusing on marriage, divorce, and shame. She will spend a week on a writing retreat to generate new material and the project will culminate with a public divorce performance in spring 2019. An MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics alum ...
October 23, 2018
Tanya Kumar launches cyber career at T-Mobile
As a student, Tanya Kumar was a Cyber Risk Management & Governance Intern at T-Mobile’s headquarters in Bellevue. Today, she is an Information Security Analyst with the company in Washington, D.C. Kumar, who was president of the Associated Students of the University of Washington Bothell for the 2016-17 year, graduated in winter 2018 with an IAS degree in Law, Economics & Public Policy. Read the ...
October 22, 2018
David Goldstein leads workshop on Using Classroom Response Systems to Enhance Engagement and Learning
IAS faculty member David Goldstein led a workshop, “Using Classroom Response Systems to Enhance Engagement and Learning,” at the Northwest eLearn Conference in Boise, ID, where Ana Thompson, a learning and access designer on UW Bothell’s Digital Learning and Innovation team, led the conference as president of Northwest eLearn. Goldstein shared how he uses PollEverywhere to ...
October 22, 2018
Shannon Cram interviewed in California Magazine
California Magazine interviewed IAS faculty member Shannon Cram about cleanup at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation and her related research. As part of their conversation, Cram and reporter Glen Martin discuss the political, cultural, and pedagogical challenges of multi-millennial waste. Read the interview ...
October 22, 2018
IAS Staff Integrates and Reorganizes
The School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences has realized a long-term goal that has consolidated its staff and reorganized its offices. The new office configuration was envisioned and designed by staff to facilitate their work with faculty and students, and deliver greater value to the school...
October 19, 2018
Alumni Shout Out!
Fatima Al-Shemary (’15, Culture, Literature & the Arts) has joined Refugees Northwest Foster Care as a Program Assistant, working to connect unaccompanied refugee and immigrant minors to foster families and safe housing in the greater Seattle area. Frances Lee (’18, M.A. in Cultural Studies) has accepted a position as a Program Coordinator at Resource Media. Resource Media is a non-profit communications agency that crafts PR campaigns to promote environmental justice, climate change, and health equity initiatives. Colton Lindelof (’09, Global Studies) has been appointed ...
October 17, 2018
Natalia Dyba and David Goldstein present on virtual global exchanges
Natalia Dyba, UW Bothell Director of Global Initiatives, and IAS faculty member David Goldstein presented a poster on virtual global exchanges, in which UW Bothell courses are paired with courses in another country through synchronous and asynchronous technology. Their poster, exhibited at the Global Engagement and Spaces of Practice Conference of the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) in downtown Seattle, described how
October 17, 2018
Amaranth Borsuk’s writing featured on The Writing Platform
An excerpt from IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk's The Book is currently featured on British website The Writing Platform, an online resource for writers. Covering "the book as recombinant structure," it details the way material books can be interactive and multi-sequential—features we tend to associate with the digital.
October 11, 2018