IAS faculty receive international grant to study costal erosion

Former IAS Visiting Scholar Bo Ae Chun and IAS faculty members Jin-Kyu Jung and Santiago Lopez have been awarded an international collaboration grant over $200,000 from the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF).

The 3-year project entitled “An International Comparative Study of Transnational Citizenship and Social Participation Competencies in the Post-COVID-19 Era” will focus on coastal erosion monitoring on both sides of the Pacific Ocean of Gangneung, South Korea and Seattle, WA through community- and project-based learning (C-PBL) and Collaborative Online Teaching and Learning (COIL) pedagogies.