News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
Ching-In Chen: “Breaths for Seattle” commissioned for Reimagine Seattle Storytelling Project
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen’s “Breaths for Seattle” is a poem commissioned by the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods for the Reimagine Seattle Storytelling Project, a public platform for community voices to help shape the conversation of ...
March 14, 2022
Julie Shayne presents two Pressbooks projects during Open Education (OE) Week
IAS faculty member Julie Shayne was an invited speaker, along with other UW instructors, on an Open Education Week panel called “Student Authored: UW Open Pedagogy & Publishing.” She discussed her two UW Pressbooks: Badass Womxn in the Pacific Northwest and ...
March 7, 2022
Jennifer Atkinson interviewed on “In this Climate” podcast
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson is featured in a new season of the podcast "In this Climate," which was released in March. The first episode, Existential loneliness, the climate crisis, and intrinsic hope features an interview with Atkinson (who is currently writing a book on climate despair and hope) and Sarah Jaquette Ray ...
March 7, 2022
Wanda Gregory selected to join the Fulbright Specialist Roster
IAS faculty member Wanda Gregory was selected to join the Fulbright Specialist Program, which is designed to pair qualified U.S. academics and professionals with host institutions to work on a variety of projects and activities. Having worked in ...
February 28, 2022
Min Tang publishes on U.S.-China Relations and the Geopolitics of Information
IAS faculty member Min Tang recently published an article on the highly topical issue of U.S.-China relations and the geopolitics of information in International Journal of Communication, a top scholarly journal ranking 4th among all Humanities, Literature & Arts journals, and 7th among Communication journals by the latest Google Scholar statistics. ...
February 28, 2022
Wanda Gregory receives Fulbright-NSF Arctic Scholar Award in Iceland
IAS faculty member Wanda Gregory has received a Fulbright-NSF Arctic Scholar Award in Iceland, where she will focus on the area of positive computing through the design and development of games and use of related game technologies (AR/VR/XR) and AI to bring about social change. ...
February 28, 2022
Adam M. Romero’s Economic Poisoning wins Outstanding Publication award
IAS faculty member Adam M. Romero's new book, Economic Poisoning: Industrial Waste and the Chemicalization of Agriculture, has received a 2022 Cultural and Political Ecology (CAPE) Outstanding Publication Award in recognition of innovative scholarship in cultural and political ecology. ...
February 28, 2022
Wanda Gregory speaks at Abertay University on the Metaverse (the good, the bad, and the ugly)
IAS faculty member Wanda Gregory was asked to speak at Abertay University, considered the birthplace of the UK game industry, on the topic of the Metaverse (the good, the bad, and the ugly). Her talk on February 16, 2022 was based on ...
February 28, 2022
Ching-In Chen publishes “Inside me, more family”
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen’s poem “Inside me, more family” was published in Concision Poetry Journal, a triannual online literary magazine which publishes work interested in the socio-political influences on ...
February 22, 2022
Becca Price publishes “Capturing instructor complexity with persona methodology”
IAS faculty member Becca Price and her colleague Tati Russo-Tait (The University of Texas at Austin) have published a set of annotations that introduce scholars to biology education research. The original paper (by Zagallo et al.) develops personas of instructors participating in ...
February 16, 2022