News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
Karam Dana chairs Comparative Politics section of WPSA conference
IAS faculty member Karam Dana has been selected to chair the Comparative Politics section of the 2021 Western Political Science Association’s conference. which will be held in Seattle, WA in April 1-3, 2021. The theme of the 2021 WPSA conference is "POPULISM, NATIVISM, DEMOCRATIC BACKSLIDING AND PANDEMIC POLITICS.”
July 13, 2020
Dan Berger says incarcerated people must be freed to halt virus spread
When the coronavirus pandemic hit Washington state, IAS faculty member Dan Berger thought immediately of prisons. As co-curator of the Washington Prison History Project, Berger joined a chorus of activists and scholars calling for Gov. Jay Inslee to release many of the 19,000 people incarcerated in the state’s prisons and jails. Read his interview in University of Washington Magazine.
June 30, 2020
Jennifer Atkinson featured on KUOW’s Speakers Forum
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson's work on eco-anxiety and her podcast Facing It were featured on KUOW's Speakers Forum in a segment titled Solastalgia and you. ‘The pain was necessary to know the truth.’ From producer John O'Brien:
June 26, 2020
Jennifer Atkinson featured on KUOW’s Speakers Forum
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson's work on eco-anxiety and her podcast Facing It were featured on KUOW's Speakers Forum in a segment titled Solastalgia and you. ‘The pain was necessary to know the truth.’ From producer John O'Brien:
June 26, 2020
IAS Faculty Members Win Simpson Center Funding Awards
Five IAS faculty members won Simpson Center for the Humanities awards in the Spring 2020 funding round. Dan Berger, Ching-In Chen, Neil Simpkins, Ron Krabill, and Ben Gardner's funded projects include ...
June 26, 2020
Jennifer Atkinson: Why the Covid Gardening Boom is About More than Food
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson published an article on Why the Covid Gardening Boom is About More than Food with Earth Island Journal. The piece explores some of the reasons behind the surge in gardening's popularity during a time of pandemic, police violence, and protest. Atkinson interviewed University of Washington Bothell students and gardeners across the U.S., including the founders of Black Sanctuary Gardens, which ...
June 16, 2020
Price and Ferrare: Comparing Modes of Instruction with Instructor Beliefs
IAS faculty members Becca Price and Joe Ferrare, along with Clark Coffman (Iowa State) have published an article in a series of annotations that introduce scholars to biology education research. The original paper (by Ferrare) describes how college science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) courses are taught, and how the instructors’ teaching styles correspond to their beliefs about the way students learn. The paper concludes ...
June 10, 2020
Virtual Charter Schools Negatively Impact Students
A new paper co-authored by IAS faculty member Joseph Ferrare finds that for-profit virtual charter schools have a strong, negative impact on student learning in math and English/Language Arts. The study, which was recently published in the journal Educational Researcher, was a collaboration with colleagues from the University of Notre Dame and University of Kentucky. In the study ...
June 10, 2020
IAS Faculty Receive Scholarship, Research and Creative Practice Awards
UW Bothell has announced the first Scholarship, Research and Creative Practice awards. These awards represent a total investment of $284,000 to advance faculty research and creative practice. The program is intended to support UW Bothell faculty in all disciplines who are starting new projects or relaunching current projects in new directions that have the potential for internal UW and/or external funding. Out of the fifteen one-year seed grants awarded, six were awarded to IAS faculty:
June 9, 2020
Jed Murr receives grant for Black Arts Northwest project
IAS faculty member Jed Murr has received a UW Bothell Scholarship, Research and Creative Practice Seed Grant for his project, Black Arts Northwest, Phase One. The grant will enable the creation of a publicly accessible, interactive online digital history platform dedicated to preserving and sharing the story of a Black Power mural created in Seattle in the early 1970s in relation to the rich history, culture, and politics of Black Seattle. The digital platform constitutes ...
June 8, 2020