News from the School of IAS

Category: Students

IAS Community Engagement

The UW Bothell Office of Community Engagement recently released its 2018-19 Community Engagement Annual Report. Read the full report to learn about the IAS engagement efforts listed below:

January 21, 2020

IAS students exhibit artwork on campus

IAS student artwork is now on display in Husky Hall 1510 throughout Winter quarter, 2020. IAS faculty member Ted Hiebert led this effort, which we hope will lead to more full-time access to campus spaces for student art work. The students displaying their work include ...

January 10, 2020

Seattle Human Rights Day features student research and Abigail Echo-Hawk

For several years, students of the Washington D.C. Human Rights Seminar have participated in Seattle Human Rights Day by presenting their human rights research at the pre-program reception. The 2019 event was particularly special, as Abigail Echo-Hawk, both an IAS and D.C. Seminar alum, was a featured speaker in the main program, “Amplifying Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples’ Voices.”

January 7, 2020

UW Bothell students study around the world

The UW Bothell Global Scholars program launched in 2018. Its purpose is to create a support network for a cohort of students from diverse groups that often do not have access to these sorts of opportunities. “Before we began Global Scholars, we were getting really fantastic students who were interested in international education,” said IAS faculty member Ron Krabill, “but they weren’t able to make it those last few steps for a variety of reasons. We wanted to make a program that gave students the support that made it possible for them to get where they wanted to go.”

January 3, 2020

Student project with Snohomish County Department of Elections

This fall's BIS 175 American Government & Politics class worked on a quarter-long group project with the Snohomish County Department of Elections and the UW Bothell Community-Based Learning & Research (CBLR) office. Garth Fell (Snohomish County Elections manager) and Duncan Clauson (Elections and Voter Outreach Specialist) ...

December 23, 2019

Capstones are cornerstones for IAS grads

One of the final courses seniors take in IAS is BIS 499 Portfolio Capstone. This is where they sum up their undergraduate learning. Read about some of our recent grads: Corbin Rayburn (Law, Economics & Public Policy); Sophia Mallouk (Environmental Science); Dominic Cerillo (Law, Economics & Public Policy); and Destiny Wrenn (Society, Ethics & Human Behavior)!

December 23, 2019

“Kiss the Girl: Growing Up a Lesbian in the Age of Trump”

IAS student and Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies (GWSS ) major Ila Plank (formerly Samantha Plank) published “Kiss the Girl: Growing Up a Lesbian in the Age of Trump” in the local Seattle paper, The Stranger. The article reflects on Disney movies and the sexual dissent after the Trump election.

December 23, 2019

Students receive career mentoring through networking trek

On November 22, sixteen UW Bothell students caught a glimpse of their future. Leslie Olson, managing partner of Olson & Olson, PLLC and Chair of the IAS Advisory Board, greeted them on the 41st floor of Two Union Square in downtown Seattle. From there she led them to a conference room overlooking Puget Sound, where they found their places around a large conference table. Waiting to meet them were ...

December 19, 2019

IAS students engage in multi-media production

Students in Kristin Gustafson’s Multi-media Storytelling in Student Media class produced three live UWave radio shows focused on climate change, international student experience, and tuition. These two-way radio productions involved the BISMCS472 students talking with one another on air about their journalism reporting for the Husky Herald. In addition to the radio shows, the news story about climate change appeared in the December/January Husky Herald issue distributed this week. The other two news stories will appear in February’s edition. ...

December 6, 2019