News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
Shannon Cram presents her work on nuclear politics and policy
IAS faculty member Shannon Cram presented a paper about her current book project, Unmaking the Bomb: Nuclear Life and the Politics of Impossibility, at the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society in Chicago in April.
September 19, 2017
Carrie Bodle selected for exhibition at the NY Hall of Science
IAS faculty member Carrie Bodle exhibits two works from her Waveforms and Wavelines series at the New York Hall of Science as part of the Science Inspires Art: OCEAN exhibition organized by Art & Science Collaborations (ASCI) and co-juried by Diana Moore, D&R Greenway Art Galleries, and John Stegeman, Senior Scientist & Director at the Center of Ocean and Human Health at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. The exhibition presents ...
September 12, 2017
Adam Romero co-edits newly published Genealogies of Environmentalism: The Lost Works of Clarence Glacken
IAS faculty member Adam Romero, in collaboration with S. Ravi Rajan and Michael Watts, is co-editor of Genealogies of Environmentalism: The Lost Works of Clarence Glacken, recently released by The University of Virginia Press. In 1967, Clarence Glacken published Traces on the Rhodian Shore, considered one of the most important books on environmental issues published in the twentieth century. This volume collects previously unpublished works written by Glacken following the publication of Traces.
September 11, 2017
Amy Lambert’s work on the island marble butterfly featured on KCTS9
IAS faculty member Amy Lambert’s work on preserving and studying the island marble butterfly is featured in “A Climate Rescue Mission for Puget Sound’s Rare Butterfly” on the KCTS9 site. The article notes: “The island marble is considered one of the rarest butterflies in North America, only found in a small section of this island’s small national historic park.” Lambert is quoted in the article:
September 1, 2017
Kristin Gustafson co-moderates panel: “Teaching with Archives of the Alternative Press of the 1960s–1980s”
IAS faculty member Kristin Gustafson co-moderated a teaching panel, "Teaching with Archives of the Alternative Press of the 1960s–1980s," at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication in August with Susan Keith. The panel brought together efforts of the association's History Division and Newspaper and Online News Division. Gustafson and Keith said they organized the panel because too often the narratives of journalism and media history are the stories of people who had power in society and took what were considered to be relatively mainstream positions. The panelists shared ...
August 29, 2017
Alice Pedersen at the Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education Summer Institute
IAS faculty member Alice Pedersen participated in the Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education's Summer Session on Contemplative Learning, a one-week institute at Smith College in Northampton, MA. This year's theme focused on how to integrate contemplative pedagogy with social justice pedagogy. In particular, Pedersen focused on developing her course for the FYPP Discovery Core, The Politics and Practices of Yoga, which ...
August 18, 2017
Dan Berger publishes op-ed about Charlottesville tragedy
IAS faculty member Dan Berger published an op-ed in the Washington Post about the Charlottesville tragedy. The op-ed, “When white supremacists strike, police don’t always strike back,” connects the killing of an antiracist protestor in Charlottesville to the 1979 Ku Klux Klan murders of five antifascist demonstrators in Greensboro, North Carolina. One of those killed was Cesar Cauce, brother of UW President Ana Mari Cauce. In his op-ed, Berger notes ...
August 18, 2017
Kristin Gustafson selected as one of the 2017 Kopenhaver Center Fellows
IAS faculty member Kristin Gustafson was selected as one of the 2017 Kopenhaver Center Fellows and then participated in the fifth annual Women Faculty Moving Forward Workshop, Surviving and Thriving in the Academy. The workshop was held at the AEJMC Convention in Chicago. Cosponsored by the Center and the AEJMC Commission on the Status of Women ...
August 9, 2017
Barbara Noah leads study abroad in Rome and is selected for an upcoming exhibit at the BAM
IAS faculty member Barbara Noah was selected for Making Our Mark, Bellevue Arts Museum, Washington, curated by Michael W. Monroe, Director Emeritus of BAM, Curator-in-Charge of the Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum. The exhibition will run from November 10, 2017 to April 2018. She also co-directed her 4th successful summer A term teaching a program she created, Interdisciplinary Studio Art & Italian Culture ...
August 9, 2017
Assessing the Impact of Community-Based Learning on Students: The Community Based Learning Impact Scale
IAS faculty members Shauna Carlisle and Keith Nitta, along with Educational Studies faculty member Karen Gourd, co-authored and published “Assessing the Impact of Community-Based Learning on Students: The Community Based Learning Impact Scale (CBLIS)”...
July 28, 2017