News from the School of IAS
Mingyou Yang obtains 1st place at regional GIS competition and receives award at UW Undergraduate Research Symposium
Environmental Science student Mingyou Yang obtained 1st place at the Richard 'Dick' Thomas Memorial Student Presentation Competition that was held in Olympia in May 2018. His research was also awarded at the UW Undergraduate Research Symposium by UW’s Population Health Initiative. His research looked at the spatial distribution of cardiovascular disease induced mortality rate and its relationship with demographic and socio-economic characteristics, and accessibility to services such as ...
June 12, 2018
Cristina Cortez awarded Mineral School artist residency
Recent alum Cristina Cortez (’18, MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics) has been awarded a Mineral School artist residency. Mineral School nurtures literary, performing, and visual artists to generate new work and present that work to the public. Cortez is part of the fourth cohort of residents, who will spend two weeks this summer living and working at the Mineral School, a transformed 1947 school building located in a small lake town at the foot of Mt. Rainier.
June 12, 2018
Amaranth Borsuk interviewed about her new book, The Book
Whether you think it's on its way out or a permanent fixture in our culture, there's no denying that we're fascinated with books. IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk, author of the just released volume The Book (MIT Press, 2018), joins host Marcus Smith of the BYU Radio Podcast Thinking Aloud to explore the limits and possibilities of the book as object, as content, and as idea. Tune in at 8pm EST on Sirius XM 143, or listen online.
June 8, 2018
Karam Dana featured in Columns Magazine
Columns Magazine has published an article that imagines what it would be like to take a course with each of the winners of the 2018 Distinguished Teaching Award. The article, What if your class schedule put you in a room with all of this year’s best teachers?, is written by IAS alum Quinn Russell Brown, and features IAS faculty member Karam Dana, one of this year’s winners ...
June 6, 2018
Peter Brooks presents “SWIFT Participation: Hacking the Codes of Academic Writing”
IAS faculty member Peter Brooks attended the 2018 Computers & Writing Conference at George Mason University where he presented "SWIFT Participation: Hacking the Codes of Academic Writing" as part of a two-person panel focused on how to use creative practices within first year writing. Brooks’s presentation focused on using ...
June 4, 2018
Students in “Mapping Communities” course present work at Redmond City Hall
Students in IAS faculty member Jin-Kyu Jung’s “Mapping Communities” course conducted various community mapping projects and presented their works in the Council Chambers room at the Redmond City Hall on June 1. “Mapping Communities” is a community-based learning and research (CBLR) course that explores new possibilities of dramatic advancement of popularized digital data and mapping technologies, such as Google My Maps, Geographic Webs, StoryMaps, and Collector App. It provides ...
June 4, 2018
Science reviews recent paper by Becca Price
Science reviewed a recent paper by IAS faculty member Becca Price, in which she and her colleagues analyze the way biomedical scholars with Ph.D.s, but in temporary positions, interpret their identities as scientists. They found that some of the scientists want their primary focus to be on conducting experiments, that others want to focus on big picture questions that ...
June 4, 2018
Media & Communication Studies launches MCS International Student Mentor Program
Ten Media & Communication Studies (MCS) international students met on May 31 for the launch of a student mentor program that connects students with faculty members. IAS faculty member Min Tang, who spearheaded the program, and Kristin Gustafson, faculty coordinator for the MCS Curriculum Area Working Group, held a roundtable discussion where students shared their experiences, questions, challenges, and support they would like to have from MCS and IAS. The conversation ranged from ...
June 4, 2018
Jennifer Atkinson: “Addressing climate grief makes you a badass, not a snowflake”
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson published an editorial on “Ecological Grief” in High Country News. "Addressing climate grief makes you a badass, not a snowflake" discusses Atkinson’s experience teaching a pilot seminar on the emotional toll of ecological disruption, media coverage and public responses to the course, and the irony of labeling students "snowflakes" ...
May 30, 2018
Media & Communication Studies holds Spring 2018 Showcase
Media & Communication Studies faculty and students gathered to celebrate student media works from the past year, and to showcase individual and group achievements with the campus community. The event took place May 11, and featured documentary photography and audio and video production, as well as recent activities and successes in student journalism (Husky Herald), radio broadcasting (UWave), and ...
May 29, 2018