Jennifer Atkinson Receives Population Health Initiative Grant

The University of Washington Population Health Initiative awarded 13 Tier 1 pilot grants to teams of interdisciplinary researchers representing 11 UW schools and colleges. Among those receiving the award was Jennifer Atkinson’s team, led by principal investigator Dr. Jessica Acolin of UW’s Department of Psychiatry. The team includes four researchers from Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences...

October 3, 2024

Hiroshi Miyamoto’ Study Abroad in Japan Garners Local Press

Hiroshi Miyamoto, who teaches beginning Japanese in led a UW Exploration Seminar in Ehime Prefecture, Japan, in September. The program, which focused on Japanese popular culture, got some local attention for a half-day visit to an elementary school (https://newsdig.tbs.co.jp/articles/-/1418547) and to a high school (attached), and a television story on their visit to Ozu City...

October 3, 2024

Cinnamon Hillyard is a Panelist at the Women in Leadership Conference

Cinnamon Hillyard is a panelist at the Women in Leadership – Higher Education – 2024 Meeting.She will discuss the opportunities, challenges, and strategies in navigating parenthood while also progressing in higher education on the “Diapers to Diploma’s” panel. https://www.natdc.org/women-in-leadership-2024/agenda#day-1-afternoon

October 2, 2024

Joe Ferrare receives Spencer Foundation Vision Grant

Joe Ferrare, associate professor of data visualization and analytics in IAS, has received a Vision Grant from the Spencer Foundation. The grant, titled “Culture Wars, Curriculum Conflicts & Public Schools,” is a collaboration with Professor Danfeng Koon at the University of San Francisco and Professor Huriya Jabbar at the University of Southern California. The $75,000...

October 1, 2024

Santiago Lopez publishes on the impacts of social unrest on air quality using a remote sensing framework

Santiago Lopez and international colleagues from the Salesian Polytechnic University published “Assessing Air Quality Dynamics during Short-Period Social Upheaval Events in Quito, Ecuador, Using a Remote Sensing Framework” in the Journal Remote Sensing. This research article investigates air quality fluctuations during two short-period social upheaval events caused by civil protests during Ecuador’s economic crisis in...

September 26, 2024

Yolanda Padilla Co-Founds New Latinx Studies Journal, “Pasados: Recovering History, Imagining Latinidad”

Yolanda Padilla is one of the founding editors of a new Latinx studies journal, titled Pasados: Recovering History, Imagining Latinidad. Appearing twice annually, the journal publishes essays in the fields of Latinx history, literary and cultural criticism, and archive studies, as well as translations of recovered materials and pedagogical models for classroom teaching. The inaugural...

September 18, 2024

Jennifer Atkinson Joins Lead Climate Litigator and Youth Plaintiff to Speak About Climate Lawsuits

Jennifer Atkinson spoke on a panel with Andrea Rogers, lead litigator for the national youth climate cases Our Children’s Trust, Olivia Vesovich, youth plaintiff in the Held v. Montana case, andyouth leader/educator Terrell Engmann, founder of the environmental justice organization Basilica Bio. The four panelists spoke about what young people need to cultivate climate hope...

September 5, 2024

Jason Frederick Lambacher’s International Relations course hosts HHS official for discussion on unaccompanied child migrants at the U.S. Souther border

Jason’s International Relations course welcomed Mary Myslewicz, Unaccompanied Children Program Policy Advisor with the U.S Department of Health and Human Services for a discussion about immigration policy as it affects children at the U.S. Souther Border. Mary delivered a presentation that separated fact from media fiction when it comes to what the federal government is...

August 12, 2024

Everett Comedian Cory Michelis partners with Office of CELR and Jason Frederick Lambacher’s Art and Politics of Comedy Course

Dana Washington with the Office of CELR contacted Cory Michelis, host of the Everett Comedy Night, and helped build a partnership with Jason’s BCORE Art & Politics of Comedy class. Students prepared for Cory’s in-class visit by applying concepts from the course (different theories of comedy; issues of free speech and censorship; comedy as dangerous...

August 12, 2024