News from the School of IAS
Baba Badru paves career in environmental health and real estate
Baba Badru (’08, Science, Technology & the Environment) has spent the past two years as an Environmental Investigator for Public Health – Seattle & King County. He works on a wide range of projects, including developing and implementing strategies to prevent and mitigate unlawful dumping of waste across King County. More recently, Baba has conducted public health and environmental monitoring of solid waste facilities across King County, ranging from small scale recyclers, to private and public solid waste transfer stations and material recovery facilities. Baba also ...
May 22, 2017
Martha Groom blogs on ways scientists can support inclusivity
IAS faculty member Martha Groom collaborated with national colleagues to draw attention to the need for diversity in STEM fields. While the April national March for Science highlighted the social importance of supporting scientific research and education, the blog post from the Concerned Scientists' website ...
May 16, 2017
Mira Shimabukuro speaks about her book Relocating Authority: Japanese-Americans Writing to Redress Mass Incarceration
IAS faculty member Mira Shimabukuro spoke twice recently about her book, Relocating Authority: Japanese-Americans Writing to Redress Mass Incarceration. The first was an interview/article published in the journal Discover Nikkei: Japanese Migrants and their Descendants . The second was a talk presented in Los Angeles at the Japanese American National Museum. Both emphasized the ways Japanese Americans used vernacular writing to respond to mass incarceration during World War II and ...
May 15, 2017
Eight IAS Faculty Members Promoted
Eight IAS faculty members were promoted this year. S. Charusheela was promoted from associate to full professor. Becky Aanerud and David Goldstein were promoted from senior to principal lecturer. Dan Berger, Shauna Carlisle, Johanna Crane, and Santiago Lopez were promoted with tenure from assistant to associate professor. And Kristin Gustafson was promoted from lecturer to senior lecturer.
May 15, 2017
Lauren Lichty wins UW Bothell Mentor Award
IAS faculty member Lauren Lichty and is one of two UW Bothell faculty that received the 2017 Chancellor’s Distinguished Undergraduate Research and Creative Practice Mentor Award. Lichty joined IAS in 2013 and found the undergraduate mentoring process to be a particularly rewarding part of her career. Nominated by peers and students, Lichty’s mentoring philosophy centers on meeting students where they are and allowing the work to flow from that starting point. One student writes ...
May 15, 2017
Anida Yoeu Ali’s Red Chador performance featured in NBC News and exhibited internationally
IAS faculty member Anida Yoeu Ali's "Red Chador" series is featured in NBC News. Ali's "Red Chador" performance continues the artist's interest in investigating issues of otherness. In this particular performance, The Red Chador asks the public "What is you fear?" Since the debut of the work at the Palais de Tokyo (Paris) in April 2015 ...
May 12, 2017
Rob Turner’s course activity recognized as exemplary by the National Association of Geoscience Teachers
IAS faculty member Rob Turner’s course activity "Quantifying Greenhouse Gas Emissions at the County Level: A Collaborative Term Project to Enhance Understanding of Climate Modeling and Quantitative Reasoning" has been recognized as exemplary by the National Association of Geoscience Teachers' On the Cutting Edge Exemplary Teaching Activity program. On the Cutting Edge supports excellence in geoscience education through faculty development workshops, web-based resource services and related activities. Over the past few years ...
May 11, 2017
Chris Covey speaks on victory for Bothell’s North Creek Forest
Alum Chris Covey ('03, Policy Studies; '01, Society, Ethics & Human Behavior) and other supporters recently celebrated the acquisition of the final parcel of North Creek Forest. UW Bothell has a long history with saving the forest, a 63.4 acre reserve in the heart of Bothell. A primary champion has been Friends of North Creek Forest, of which IAS faculty members Warren Gold and Amy Lambert are board members and alum Alice Tsoodle (’13, Environmental Studies) serves as Education Manager. Countless UW Bothell students and alumni have toured, studied, and restored the forest, many though UW’s Restoration Ecology Network program. As co-president of Friends of North Creek Forest ...
May 10, 2017
Christian Anderson, Ben Gardner and Santiago Lopez present research at the 2017 meeting of the American Association of Geographers in Boston
Three IAS faculty members presented at the 2017 meeting of the American Association of Geographers in Boston, April 5-9. Christian Anderson was a panelist on two panels, “Gazing at Power in Alternative Economies Research” and “Keywords for Urban Geography” where he discussed how power is theorized in alternative economies research and what becomes of the city when certain key concepts are disrupted. Ben Gardner’s recent book, Selling the Serengeti ...
May 10, 2017
Adam Romero publishes “Chemical Geographies”
IAS faculty member Adam Romero published a co-authored article, “Chemical Geographies,” in GeoHumanities. The article is a collection of essays that arose from a conference panel on Chemical Geographies organized by Romero and Matt Huber (Syracuse University) at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers.
May 10, 2017