News from the School of IAS
Category: Students
Washington D.C. Human Rights Seminar transforms students
As UW Bothell’s longest running experiential learning program, the Washington D.C. Human Rights Seminar has catalyzed hundreds of students to seek justice. Whether personally or professionally, locally or globally, D.C. students become proponents of social change and human dignity. Each year ...
March 29, 2019
IAS students surprised by Legislature experience
When they went to Olympia as legislative interns, four University of Washington Bothell students expected they might witness political infighting while burdened with drudgery like making copies. After spending winter quarter inside the marbled walls, they said the experience wasn’t like that at all. Instead ...
March 29, 2019
Faculty and students collaborate on Viaduct podcast: Taxpayer Time Machine
IAS faculty member Amoshaun Toft and Community Radio Journalism student Kristine Kim (Interdisciplinary Arts) collaborated with the Culture Hustlers to record thoughts and reflections from attendees of a public festival where Seattle residents said goodbye to the “Alaska Way Viaduct” – a crumbling two story freeway that runs across the waterfront in downtown Seattle. The interviews were done in four vintage 1950s trailers on ...
March 15, 2019
Kyra Laughlin presents “Strategies for Engaging Student Survivors in Campus Efforts to Address Sexual Violence”
M.A. in Policy Studies (MAPS) student Kyra Laughlin traveled to Washington D.C. last month for the 2019 National Association of Student Personnel Administrators Strategies for Sexual Assault Prevention and Response conference. While there, Laughlin held a round table discussion titled "Strategies for Engaging Student Survivors in Campus Efforts to Address Sexual Violence" to an audience of ...
February 13, 2019
Jennifer Atkinson and students interviewed in Medium
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson and three IAS students - Rhissa Delphin, Mahleah Grant, and Michael Groves - were interviewed for a story published by Medium on the emotional dimensions of environmental loss. The article, titled "Climate Change’s Hidden Victim: Your Mental Health," explores UW Bothell's seminar on Environmental Anxiety and Grief. It argues that ...
January 30, 2019
Six students in Intro to Journalism class published
Six students from Kristin Gustafson’s autumn Introduction to Journalism class got published in local, community news sites. The course centers around fundamental journalism skills in reporting, writing, and media critique. The version of the 200-level course that Gustafson teaches gives students hands-on journalism experience through engagement with online media and community newspapers. Students visited one of five local news organizations mid-quarter and then submitted original news articles by the end of the quarter to those same sites. The International Examiner published ...
January 25, 2019
Kristin Gustafson and Hannah Horiatis featured in UW Bothell News
IAS faculty member Kristin Gustafson's Introduction to Journalism course was covered in a feature on UW Bothell's News site. The article, which also features alum Hannah Horiatis ('18, Media & Communication Studies), begins: "When University of Washington Bothell students learn journalism through community newspapers, they also learn about the ethnic and geographic communities served by the papers," said Kristin Gustafson ...
January 18, 2019
Community Radio Journalism students offer free workshops at area LPFM stations
Students in BISMCS 343D Community Radio Journalism were excited to facilitate two workshops on public affairs programming in November 2018. The first workshop was held at SPACE 101.1 FM KMPG-LP at Magnuson Park, on Saturday Nov 17th from 9am-12pm, where participants learned how to record and edit a Vox Pop. The second workshop was held at 96.9 FM KODX-LP in the University District, on Thursday Nov 29th from 6-9pm, where they ...
January 15, 2019
Brannan Widdis has feature about KBFG aired on KBCS
IAS student Brannan Widdis (Media & Communication Studies) had his feature aired on KBCS 91.3 FM as part of the daily Morning Blend program. The news feature was developed in Toft’s Community Radio Journalism course (BISMCS 343), and explored a new Low Power FM station called KBFG-LP - “a little station with a big heart” that covers Ballard, Freemont and Greenwood. You can hear ...
January 15, 2019
IAS faculty organize Resilient Visions film and media festival
IAS faculty members Minda Martin, Alka Kurian, Susan Harewood, and Masahiro Sugano are organizing the first annual UW Bothell film and media festival. The festival, entitled Resilient Visions, will take place on May 30th, 2019. Organized by internationally known filmmakers and IAS professors of film and media studies, this festival brings together films and media production from UW Bothell students and alumni. Members of the UW Bothell community (graduate and undergraduate students, and alumni) who have made media productions from 2017-2019 are invited to submit to the festival by April 15th, 2019.
December 19, 2018