News from the School of IAS
Category: Engagement
Amani Sawari interviewed on Democracy Now! about #august21 prison strike
IAS alum Amani Sawari (’16, Media & Communication Studies and Law, Economics & Public Policy) was interviewed by Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! on 21 August 2018. The focus of the interview was work she is doing on #august21 prison strike. Sawari was the station manager for UWave Radio and also the Program Coordinator for Student Media at UW Bothell. The whole program is available on the Democracy Now! site. Here is a short excerpt...
August 22, 2018
Frances Lee publishes free syllabus on critical activist culture
Master of Arts in Cultural Studies alum Frances Lee ('18) published "Woker Than Thou: an experimental syllabus" for a ten-week course on critical activist culture. Frances makes it a free and accessible resource for educators, activists, and organizers to use and adapt to their community needs. The course facilitates open, theory-based discussion of modern aspects of leftist activist culture, including identity, call-outs, cultural appropriation, "wokeness", and ...
August 1, 2018
Kari Lerum receives Washington State Labor Research Grant
IAS faculty member Kari Lerum has received a Washington State Labor Research Grant from the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies at University of Washington. The grant will fund the first year of her new research project, “Assessing the impact of anti-trafficking legislation on transgender sex workers.” This research comes out of years of community-based work, most recently with the Coalition for the Rights and Safety of People in the Sex Trade and the Seattle LGBQ commission. This project will focus on ...
June 26, 2018
STEP Forward – training postdocs in science communication
IAS faculty member Becca Price, along with Salwa Al-Noori and Eva Ma from the School of STEM and Kelly Snyder Assistant Vice Chancellor for Government & Community, hosted an event at which postdoctoral scholars shared interactive exhibits about cutting-edge science with business leaders and local legislators. Through a partnership with Pacific Science Center, the postdoctoral scholars have been participating in a program that moves evidence-based teaching practices from the classroom into ...
June 25, 2018
IAS faculty host Chilean scholars as part of Arts + Science Knowledge Building and Sharing in the XXI Century
IAS faculty member Becca Price, along with Martha Groom, Jason Pace, Amy Lambert, Sarah Verlinde (Office of Research), Gabe Barnes (Wetlands) and Chris Mangialardi (Wetlands), hosted a team of Chilean scholars who are actively combining arts and science. These scholars are participating in Arts + Science Knowledge Building and Sharing in the XXI Century (ASKXXI), a US-Chile program fostering collaboration in arts, technology, and ecological sciences to ...
June 18, 2018
Masahiro Sugano commissioned by Washington Filmworks and premieres at the 44th Seattle International Film Festival
IAS faculty member Masahiro Sugano has been commissioned by Washington Filmworks to create a short film for the 2018 Fly Filmmaking Challenge which will screen at the 2018 Seattle International Film Festival. This year’s Challenge will explore why creativity matters and how creativity changes the world we live in for the better. Sugano and his media lab Studio Revolt has been chosen to create a short documentary specifically on visual artists. Sugano has selected four Tacoma-based artists to ...
May 25, 2018
IAS celebrates student, alumni and community award recipients
On May 22, the IAS Circle of Recognition event celebrated the extraordinary achievements and contributions of our students, alumni, and community partners within the academic year. Honors included: The Husky 100, Husky Green Award, Washington Campus Compact Presidents’ Civic Leadership Award, UW Bothell Founders Fellows Scholarship Award, Create the Change Award, IAS Hall of Alumni Excellence, and IAS Outstanding Community Partner.
May 24, 2018
Karam Dana speaks on public opinion in Palestine at McMenamins Anderson School
IAS faculty member Karam Dana delivered a public lecture at McMenamins Anderson School in downtown Bothell. His talk was titled: ”Palestine and Palestinians: Exploring Public Opinion Two Decades After the Oslo Accords.” Dana was introduced by IAS Dean Bruce Burgett as part of a partnership between UW Bothell and McMenamins History Department, where ...
April 30, 2018
New veterans center coming to UW Bothell
Chancellor Wolf Yeigh announced that a new veterans resource center will open on campus in fall 2018. A task force of students, faculty, staff and alumni recommended creation of a center to enhance veterans’ educational experience, and MA in Policy Studies student and IAS alum Ben Studley (’16), was critical to the process. Studley is a Navy veteran and ...
April 26, 2018
Kyra Laughlin to partner with Advocates for Youth and Trojan in #AskForIt campaign
IAS alumn and Sexual Assault & Violence Education (S.A.V.E.) president Kyra Laughlin was selected as one of a hundred student activists to partner with Advocates for Youth and Trojan in their #AskForIt campaign. The campaign seeks to normalize conversation about consent on college campuses and promote safe sex. As part of her work, Laughlin developed a survey for students, faculty, and staff to show support for ...
April 25, 2018