News from the School of IAS
Category: Students
Shining the spotlight on Sarah Ramirez
Sarah Ramirez is used to being on stage as a dancer with Bailadores de Bronce, a Mexican traditional dance team. Ramirez is also now in the spotlight as a 2019-20 participant in the Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program, which prepares students for graduate school. Ramirez, who is double majoring in American & Ethnic Studies and in Law, Economics & Public Policy, is only the second student in UW Bothell’s 30-year history to receive this honor.
December 2, 2020
Masahiro Sugano’s “Competitive Filmmaking” Class Wins Top Prize in International Film Competition
The short film “Delirium” created by IAS faculty member Masahiro Sugano’s “Competitive Filmmaking” Class won at the 2020 ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival held in Berlin, Germany. In Spring 2020 when Washington State went into COVID-19 lockdown, IAS faculty Masahiro Sugano had the unique challenge of remotely teaching a new advanced level media production course ...
November 24, 2020
Mari McMenamin: Border Stories
IAS student Mari McMenamin's podcast on life at the Mexico/Southern California border for 91.3 KBCS (Bellevue College’s award-winning community radio station serving the Seattle-Tacoma region) is featured in an article from Bellevue College News. At KBCS ...
November 9, 2020
Q&A: First-generation students
In honor of National First-Generation College Celebration Day on Nov. 8, a few of UW Bothell’s first-gen students answer questions from Director of Communications Maria Lamarca Anderson. Included are three IAS students: Hieu Doan, a Black and Vietnamese senior in Interactive Media Design; Jacky Guzman, a Mexican-American transfer student from Everett Community College majoring in both American & Ethnic Studies and in Society, Ethics & Human Behavior, with a minor in Diversity Studies; and Maritza Lauriano Ortega, a Mexican/Latina senior in Environmental Studies with a minor in Human Rights.
November 6, 2020
My Story: Why I vote
Elisabeth Schnebele, a senior majoring in Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, could have voted in 2016, but didn’t. Learn what happened, how her mind has changed since then, and why she voted in 2020. “This year, I am voting — for myself, for Molly, the Jane Doe’s, people of color, the LGBTQ community, immigrants both documented and undocumented ... for anyone who feels like they don’t have power. I will fight for you with my vote and help write a better future for us all.”
October 28, 2020
Denise Vaughan discusses the difference between the presidential debate and academic debate (KOMO news)
IAS faculty member Denise Vaughan was interviewed by KOMO news sports reporter Bill Swartz about the UW Bothell Speech and Debate team and the upcoming Presidential Debate. The discussion (listen here) focused on difference between academic debate and what we see on the Presidential Debates where interruptions are frequent, as well as how the UW Bothell team has adapted during the COVID-19 pandemic.
October 23, 2020
Study abroad in India turns into virtual internship
Everyone on campus had to pivot when the coronavirus forced the University of Washington Bothell into remote operations, but one of the biggest twists may have been how a planned study abroad trip to India turned into a virtual internship program.
October 19, 2020
Alumni support virtual human rights seminar
While the pandemic has pushed most courses online, students continue to benefit from rich learning experiences like UW Bothell’s annual Washington D.C. Human Rights Seminar. When the 2020 D.C. Seminar went virtual, leaders Ron Krabill and Jung Lee enlisted the program’s vital network in a series of online dialogues. Several IAS alumni joined this cadre of experts and mentors, sharing their firsthand experiences with human rights and social justice. ...
October 9, 2020
Troy Landrum Jr. wins first Quarantine Book Club Fellowship
Troy Landrum Jr., second-year student in the UW Bothell MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics program, is the winner of the first Quarantine Book Club Fellowship. This fellowship supports Troy’s four week long in-depth study of Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved as part of the Quarantine Book Club, a nationwide group of ...
October 9, 2020
MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics students and alumni interview recently-published authors
Since 2018, the MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics has collaborated with Essay Press on the annual publication of a work or works of innovative prose. The first two books in the series were published this summer, and MFA students and alumni have come together to interview the authors to gain deeper insights into their work and poetics. Stephanie Segura (2020), N. L. Sweeney (2020) and Scott Bentley (2021) interviewed Katherine Agyemaa Agard about their book of colour, an experimental essay about color, hybridity, and art-making that provides a memoir of Agyemaa Agard’s coming to North America and encountering binaries of black and white within global anti-blackness. Cliff Watson (2021), Annika Bunney (2021), and Sabina Livadariu (2020) spoke with Kaia Preus about ...
October 2, 2020