News from the School of IAS
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
Melissa Watkinson researches the social and cultural dimensions of ocean acidification
IAS alum Melissa Watkinson is a social scientist with Washington Sea Grant where she supports the social science efforts on the Olympic Coast Ocean Acidification Vulnerability study. Washington Sea Grant, the UW Applied Physics Laboratory, and the Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean have teamed with federal and tribal partners to study the social and ecological vulnerabilities of ocean acidification in the Olympic Coast. They hope their work will help policy makers and tribal communities develop evidence-based strategies for anticipating and responding to the effects of ocean acidification. “Harvesting ...
May 29, 2018
Anida Yoeu Ali exhibits at MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum and is reviewed in Bangkok Post
IAS faculty member Anida Yoeu Ali exhibits in a new group show titled “Diaspora: Exit, Exile, Exodus of Southeast Asia” curated by Loredana Pazzini-Paracciani. The group exhibition features artists from MAIIAM’s permanent collection who engage with historical or autobiographical accounts of the diaspora experience drawing particular attention to the act of crossing the permeable, geopolitical borders that punctuate Southeast Asia. The exhibition also received a review in the Bangkok Post article titled “The Invisible Borders.”
May 29, 2018
Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies celebrates its second birthday!
Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies (GWSS) students, staff, and faculty, along with supporters at UW Bothell, gathered for a recognition ceremony to celebrate the end of our second year. As is now tradition, the day was dedicated to Dr. Leslie Ashbaugh, beloved colleague who passed away before the degree launched. GWSS faculty member Kris Kellejian shared memories of Leslie and GWSS faculty coordinator Julie Shayne presented student Mica Coronel with the Leslie Ashbaugh Feminist Praxis in Education (LAFPIE) Award.
May 25, 2018
Masahiro Sugano screens his films at Afrika Eye Festival
IAS faculty member Masahiro Sugano screened his film at Afrika Eye Festival held in Bristol, UK, a site recently named a UNESCO City of Film. The short films “Dreams” and “Neon Poem” directed by Masahiro Sugano featured the poetry and performance of Tjawangwa (TJ) Dema, from Botswana, who recently won the 2018 Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets for her collection, The Careless Seamstress.
May 25, 2018
Masahiro Sugano commissioned by Washington Filmworks and premieres at the 44th Seattle International Film Festival
IAS faculty member Masahiro Sugano has been commissioned by Washington Filmworks to create a short film for the 2018 Fly Filmmaking Challenge which will screen at the 2018 Seattle International Film Festival. This year’s Challenge will explore why creativity matters and how creativity changes the world we live in for the better. Sugano and his media lab Studio Revolt has been chosen to create a short documentary specifically on visual artists. Sugano has selected four Tacoma-based artists to ...
May 25, 2018