News from the School of IAS
Jennifer Atkinson interviewed on “In this Climate” podcast
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson is featured in a new season of the podcast "In this Climate," which was released in March. The first episode, Existential loneliness, the climate crisis, and intrinsic hope features an interview with Atkinson (who is currently writing a book on climate despair and hope) and Sarah Jaquette Ray ...
March 7, 2022
Wanda Gregory selected to join the Fulbright Specialist Roster
IAS faculty member Wanda Gregory was selected to join the Fulbright Specialist Program, which is designed to pair qualified U.S. academics and professionals with host institutions to work on a variety of projects and activities. Having worked in ...
February 28, 2022
Min Tang publishes on U.S.-China Relations and the Geopolitics of Information
IAS faculty member Min Tang recently published an article on the highly topical issue of U.S.-China relations and the geopolitics of information in International Journal of Communication, a top scholarly journal ranking 4th among all Humanities, Literature & Arts journals, and 7th among Communication journals by the latest Google Scholar statistics. ...
February 28, 2022
Wanda Gregory receives Fulbright-NSF Arctic Scholar Award in Iceland
IAS faculty member Wanda Gregory has received a Fulbright-NSF Arctic Scholar Award in Iceland, where she will focus on the area of positive computing through the design and development of games and use of related game technologies (AR/VR/XR) and AI to bring about social change. ...
February 28, 2022
Adam M. Romero’s Economic Poisoning wins Outstanding Publication award
IAS faculty member Adam M. Romero's new book, Economic Poisoning: Industrial Waste and the Chemicalization of Agriculture, has received a 2022 Cultural and Political Ecology (CAPE) Outstanding Publication Award in recognition of innovative scholarship in cultural and political ecology. ...
February 28, 2022
Wanda Gregory speaks at Abertay University on the Metaverse (the good, the bad, and the ugly)
IAS faculty member Wanda Gregory was asked to speak at Abertay University, considered the birthplace of the UK game industry, on the topic of the Metaverse (the good, the bad, and the ugly). Her talk on February 16, 2022 was based on ...
February 28, 2022
Aimee (Harrison) Wright Clow Receives Beulah Rose Poetry Prize
Last week venerable literary journal Smartish Pace named IAS alum Aimee (Harrison) Wright Clow (MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics, 2014) the winner of its 19th annual Beulah Rose Poetry Prize. Her poem "the what inside the thing made kin" will appear in the Summer 2022 issue of the journal alongside the other winners and finalists. ...
February 24, 2022
Talena Lachelle Queen’s Poem Featured in New Jersey Black History Curriculum
IAS alum Talena Lachelle Queen (MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics, 2014) has been busy at work with the New Jersey Education Association (NJEA) to support the design and implementation of representative curricula throughout the state. ...
February 23, 2022
Kyra Laughlin helps launch medical advocacy services for sexual assault survivors
IAS alum, Kyra Laughlin (Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies and Society, Ethics & Human Behavior, 2018, Master of Arts in Policy Studies 2019), has successfully partnered with the community-based organization Rebuilding Hope to implement King County’s only in-person medical advocacy program for sexual assault victim-survivors. ...
February 23, 2022
Ching-In Chen publishes “Inside me, more family”
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen’s poem “Inside me, more family” was published in Concision Poetry Journal, a triannual online literary magazine which publishes work interested in the socio-political influences on ...
February 22, 2022