News from the School of IAS
MFA Alumni Aya Bram and Allison Morton Collaborate on Artist Website
Aya Bram (MFA '19) and Allison Morton (MFA '17) were friends long before they started their MFAs in Creative Writing & Poetics at UW Bothell. The two met at Ringling College, where they studied the arts and collaborated on films and other projects. After graduation, Morton moved back to Washington to be near family and begin her MFA. The experience was such a positive one ...
January 26, 2022
Bee Guzman-Elliott’s film “BROKEN PROMISES” awarded grand prize
IAS alum Bee Guzman-Elliott's experimental film, “BROKEN PROMISES,” was awarded Grand Prize Winner in The Artist Forum 2021 Spoken Word Competition; the politics of emotion. "BROKEN PROMISES is a performance art/spoken word short that expresses Guzman-Elliott's grief and love as a young person living through the 6th mass extinction in the age of the Anthropocene. The film is ...
January 18, 2022
Rebecca Brown’s The Gifts of The Body adapted for theater performance in Japan
IAS faculty member Rebecca Brown’s 1994 novel, The Gifts of The Body, has been adapted for theater and performed at the Sapporo Cultural Arts Community Center in Sapporo, Japan. Brown's novel tells the story of a home-care aid who helps people living with AIDS, and ...
January 14, 2022
Martha Groom reviews capacity development evaluation in biodiversity conservation
IAS faculty member Martha Groom and colleagues published a review of capacity development efforts to enhance biodiversity conservation. Part of a special issue on capacity development - training and supports to conservation practitioners - Groom and colleagues poured through a database of capacity development reports to ...
January 14, 2022
Marth Groom and Dave Stokes: “Using Case Studies to Improve the Critical Thinking Skills of Undergraduate Conservation Biology Students”
IAS faculty members Martha Groom and Dave Stokes published an article on effective pedagogies for enhancing critical thinking among students. Groom and Stokes worked with colleagues across the country in a study using case study pedagogies coupled with the use of rubrics and exercises to ...
January 14, 2022
Joe Ferrare publishes article, bringing together scholars of network science
IAS faculty member Joe Ferrare published “Measuring Issue Preferences, Idea Brokerage, and Research-Use in Policy Networks: A Case Study of the Policy Innovators in Education (PIE) Network” in the recent book Knowledge Brokers, Networks and the Policymaking Process (Eds. M. Weber & I. Yanovitzky). The article connects to ...
January 12, 2022
Martha Groom awarded Royalty Research Fund grant to study undergraduate DEI programs
IAS faculty member Martha Groom was awarded a Royalty Research Fund grant to explore how undergraduate programs impact the DEI mission of their partner organizations. The grant "Impacts of Undergraduate Equity and Inclusion Programs on Partner Organizations: A Case Study of ...
January 12, 2022
Joe Ferrare covers education conflicts in The Conversation
IAS faculty member Joe Ferrare published “Watch for these Conflicts Over Education in 2022" in The Conversation with co-author Kate Phillippo from Loyola University Chicago. The article is a commentary about ...
January 12, 2022
Amaranth Borsuk and Ching-In Chen publish new work in Interim
IAS faculty members Amaranth Borsuk and Ching-In Chen each have new work in Interim: A Journal of Poetry & Poetics 38.4, a special issue guest edited by Ronaldo V. Wilson. Of the issue, Black The [Or] Y: Praxis, Sum Unknown, Wilson writes:
January 4, 2022
MFA alum Cliff Watson Publishes New Media Work
Cliff Watson (MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics, '21) recently published the piece Storage closet in Finnish web journal Nokturno, a longstanding venue for digital, experimental and cross-disciplinary literature. Watson's video artwork includes a virtual and augmented-reality rendering of a scene from his MFA thesis manuscript, 6-foot Pine, a work of hybrid dramaturgy that tells the love story of ...
January 3, 2022