News from the School of IAS
Cinnamon Hillyard connects student success programs
IAS faculty member Cinnamon Hillyard, who had been serving as associate vice chancellor for undergraduate learning, took on an expanded role this summer as associate vice chancellor for student success. Hillyard’s position was created to center on the academic life cycle of students, align resources, and ensure a consistent vision of student success.
September 14, 2020
Melissa Watkinson receives Washington Wildlife and Recreation Coalition Forward Award
Local environmental justice leader and IAS alum Melissa Watkinson has been selected to receive a Washington Wildlife and Recreation Coalition Forward Award. Watkinson is a social scientist with Washington Sea Grant where she supports the social science efforts on the Olympic Coast Ocean Acidification Vulnerability study, a community-based participatory project with WA’s coastal treaty tribes. She is also the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion ...
September 11, 2020
Ching-In Chen poem included in Alone Together anthology
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen’s poem “Dear O” was selected for inclusion in the anthology Alone Together: Love, Grief, and Comfort in the Time of COVID-19. All proceeds will benefit indie booksellers via The Book Industry Charitable Foundation. Chen was also profiled as ...
September 9, 2020
Min Tang on the Geopolitics of 5G Infrastructures
IAS faculty member Min Tang has recently published an article, titled "Huawei Versus the United States? The Geopolitics of Exterritorial Internet Infrastructure?," in the International Journal of Communication. The article explores the complex political economy behind the controversies around the Chinese telecom company Huawei which have drawn much media attention worldwide in past years. While many ...
September 9, 2020
Midia De Souza: Making a positive impact on immigration
Midia De Souza graduated with a double major in Law, Economics & Public Policy and in Media & Communication Studies with a minor in Human Rights. She plans to become a lawyer to help immigrants.
September 8, 2020
Amaranth Borsuk Talks Writing and Nourishment at Entropy
IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk was interviewed this past spring by Danielle Susi for Entropy's Dinnerview, a column in which writers discuss food as it relates to their work, identity, and writing practice. Borsuk touches on how becoming a parent has rewired her relationship to food, reveals her own food quirks and favorites, and ...
September 8, 2020
Kristin Gustafson organizes teaching-related panels on media and journalism
IAS faculty member Kristin Gustafson co-organized two teaching-related panels at The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication 2020 conference. On the first panel, called “Transformative teaching of media and journalism history,” five scholars shared teaching modules that won this year’s AEJMC History Division’s teaching-idea contest. This was the contest’s second year. Gustafson and the division launched ...
September 8, 2020
Building Community: A Writing Group for Trans Scholars
IAS faculty members Ching-In Chen and Neil Simpkins have launched a UW-wide Imagining Trans Futures research group. Funded by the Simpson Center for the Humanities, the group support trans scholars in their research and writing and to bring trans studies scholars to the UW community through a speaker series open to the public. The aim of this group is ...
September 4, 2020
Becca Price: “Starting Conversations About Discrimination Against Women in STEM”
IAS faculty member Becca Price published an article about a workshop that helps end discrimination against women in university science. Attendees learn how to recognize discrimination against women—and how to intervene when they see it. The workshop focuses on four case studies about gendered microaggressions, intersectional ...
September 4, 2020
Ursula Valdez and Greg Tuke’s COIL course “The Great Rivers” profiled by Stevens Initiative
IAS faculty fember Ursula Valdez and COIL collaborator Greg Tuke’s COIL course on “The Great Rivers” has been profiled in “Exploring Environmental Sustainability: Promising practices in virtual exchange,” as one of the three examples for virtual exchange programs that connect young people in different countries to develop solutions to environmental issues. Valdez and Tuke ...
September 3, 2020