News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
Becca Price publishes on measuring student knowledge of biological concepts
IAS faculty member Becca Price published two co-authored papers about measuring what students know about different biological concepts. The first paper describes the Homeostasis Concept Inventory, a tool for assessing undergraduate students’ understanding of a process that is critical to physiology. Briefly, the concept of homeostasis describes the way the body maintains equilibrium, for example regulating a steady blood pressure. The Homeostasis Concept Inventory advances ...
June 1, 2017
Colin Danby publishes The Known Economy: Romantics, Rationalists, and the Making of a World Scale
IAS faculty member Colin Danby publishes The Known Economy: Romantics, Rationalists, and the Making of a World Scale. The book engages in and advances debates concerning globalization by starting from a deceptively simple question: Why do critics and celebrants of globalization concur that international trade and finance represent an inexorable globe-bestriding force with a single logic? In addressing this question, Danby shows that both camps rest on the same ideas about how the world is scaled. Beginning at least two centuries ago ...
May 30, 2017
Colin Danby publishes The Known Economy: Romantics, Rationalists, and the Making of a World Scale
IAS faculty member Colin Danby publishes The Known Economy: Romantics, Rationalists, and the Making of a World Scale. The book engages in and advances debates concerning globalization by starting from a deceptively simple question: Why do critics and celebrants of globalization concur that international trade and finance represent an inexorable globe-bestriding force with a single logic? In addressing this question, Danby shows that both camps rest on the same ideas about how the world is scaled. Beginning at least two centuries ago ...
May 30, 2017
Martha Groom blogs on ways scientists can support inclusivity
IAS faculty member Martha Groom collaborated with national colleagues to draw attention to the need for diversity in STEM fields. While the April national March for Science highlighted the social importance of supporting scientific research and education, the blog post from the Concerned Scientists' website ...
May 16, 2017
Mira Shimabukuro speaks about her book Relocating Authority: Japanese-Americans Writing to Redress Mass Incarceration
IAS faculty member Mira Shimabukuro spoke twice recently about her book, Relocating Authority: Japanese-Americans Writing to Redress Mass Incarceration. The first was an interview/article published in the journal Discover Nikkei: Japanese Migrants and their Descendants . The second was a talk presented in Los Angeles at the Japanese American National Museum. Both emphasized the ways Japanese Americans used vernacular writing to respond to mass incarceration during World War II and ...
May 15, 2017
Eight IAS Faculty Members Promoted
Eight IAS faculty members were promoted this year. S. Charusheela was promoted from associate to full professor. Becky Aanerud and David Goldstein were promoted from senior to principal lecturer. Dan Berger, Shauna Carlisle, Johanna Crane, and Santiago Lopez were promoted with tenure from assistant to associate professor. And Kristin Gustafson was promoted from lecturer to senior lecturer.
May 15, 2017
Lauren Lichty wins UW Bothell Mentor Award
IAS faculty member Lauren Lichty and is one of two UW Bothell faculty that received the 2017 Chancellor’s Distinguished Undergraduate Research and Creative Practice Mentor Award. Lichty joined IAS in 2013 and found the undergraduate mentoring process to be a particularly rewarding part of her career. Nominated by peers and students, Lichty’s mentoring philosophy centers on meeting students where they are and allowing the work to flow from that starting point. One student writes ...
May 15, 2017
Anida Yoeu Ali’s Red Chador performance featured in NBC News and exhibited internationally
IAS faculty member Anida Yoeu Ali's "Red Chador" series is featured in NBC News. Ali's "Red Chador" performance continues the artist's interest in investigating issues of otherness. In this particular performance, The Red Chador asks the public "What is you fear?" Since the debut of the work at the Palais de Tokyo (Paris) in April 2015 ...
May 12, 2017
Christian Anderson, Ben Gardner and Santiago Lopez present research at the 2017 meeting of the American Association of Geographers in Boston
Three IAS faculty members presented at the 2017 meeting of the American Association of Geographers in Boston, April 5-9. Christian Anderson was a panelist on two panels, “Gazing at Power in Alternative Economies Research” and “Keywords for Urban Geography” where he discussed how power is theorized in alternative economies research and what becomes of the city when certain key concepts are disrupted. Ben Gardner’s recent book, Selling the Serengeti ...
May 10, 2017
Adam Romero publishes “Chemical Geographies”
IAS faculty member Adam Romero published a co-authored article, “Chemical Geographies,” in GeoHumanities. The article is a collection of essays that arose from a conference panel on Chemical Geographies organized by Romero and Matt Huber (Syracuse University) at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers.
May 10, 2017