IAS Faculty Members Receive I-DISCO Seed Funding for Research Initiatives

A total of 19 IAS faculty members received I-DISCO seed funding to support a variety of interdisciplinary and collaborative research and development efforts. (I-DISCO stands for “Initiative to Development Interdisciplinary Scholarship and Collaboration.” Launched in 2012, I-DISCO funding was reviewed by a task force last year, and formalized, with a charge to assess and publicize its outcomes. Funding categories, and recipients, for 2016-2017 are as follows:

February 17, 2016

Julie Shayne Leads Mock Classroom for Native American High School Students

IAS faculty member Julie Shayne lead a mock classroom for Native American high school students as part of the Reaching American Indian Nations (RAIN) recruitment event. Shayne did an abridged version of a lesson from her course “Place and Displacement in the Americas” that she co-teaches with IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson. She chose an interactive lesson about ...

February 8, 2016

Alka Kurian Presents at the South Asia Conference of the Pacific Northwest

IAS faculty member Alka Kurian presented "Transnational Strategies of Resistance" at the South Asia Conference of the Pacific Northwest (SACPAN) in Portland, Oregon. This paper discussed women's participation in the decade-long Maoist insurgency in Nepal (1996-2006) with the view to examining the potential emancipatory possibilities it held for them.

February 8, 2016

Alia Marsha Publishes on the “Sidekicking” of Minorities in Journalism

IAS student Alia Marsha’s article, “Why Seattle Times’ “sidekicking” Hollis Wong-Wear is bad for journalism,” appeared yesterday on the Seattle Globalist site. Alia is a senior in Media and Communication Studies, and is editor-in-chief of the Husky Herald, UW Bothell’s student paper. In her article, Alia addresses ...

February 5, 2016

Becca Price Publishes Suggestions for how to Update Teaching Evolution

IAS faculty member Becca Price and her co-author Kathryn Perez published “Beyond the Adaptationist Legacy: Updating our Teaching to Include a Diversity of Evolutionary Mechanisms.” Based on research conducted at several colleges and universities, the article suggests ...

February 3, 2016

Jennifer Gess Defends her Dissertation on Queering Counselor Education

Jennifer Gess (’07) is a PhD Candidate in Counselor Education and Counseling at Idaho State University and recently defended her dissertation: Queering Counselor Education: Situational Analysis of LGBTQ+ Competent Faculty. After completing her BA in Community Psychology at UW Bothell, Jennifer ...

January 28, 2016