News from the School of IAS
A Message to the IAS Class of 2020
Dear IAS 2020 Graduates, We’re so sorry that we cannot celebrate in person with you this year, but the IAS faculty and staff wanted to make this video to mark how proud we are of all of you!
June 12, 2020
Deborah Hathaway receives UW Bothell Outstanding Community-Engaged Scholar Award
IAS faculty member Deborah Hathaway was honored with the 2020 UW Bothell Outstanding Community-Engaged Scholar Award, which recognizes impactful community-engaged scholarship by a UW Bothell faculty member. Hathaway’s community-engaged scholarly work centers around creating community through performance. In her seven years in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences and First Year Pre-Major Program, Hathaway has partnered with several organizations:
June 10, 2020
Price and Ferrare: Comparing Modes of Instruction with Instructor Beliefs
IAS faculty members Becca Price and Joe Ferrare, along with Clark Coffman (Iowa State) have published an article in a series of annotations that introduce scholars to biology education research. The original paper (by Ferrare) describes how college science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) courses are taught, and how the instructors’ teaching styles correspond to their beliefs about the way students learn. The paper concludes ...
June 10, 2020
Virtual Charter Schools Negatively Impact Students
A new paper co-authored by IAS faculty member Joseph Ferrare finds that for-profit virtual charter schools have a strong, negative impact on student learning in math and English/Language Arts. The study, which was recently published in the journal Educational Researcher, was a collaboration with colleagues from the University of Notre Dame and University of Kentucky. In the study ...
June 10, 2020
IAS Faculty Receive Scholarship, Research and Creative Practice Awards
UW Bothell has announced the first Scholarship, Research and Creative Practice awards. These awards represent a total investment of $284,000 to advance faculty research and creative practice. The program is intended to support UW Bothell faculty in all disciplines who are starting new projects or relaunching current projects in new directions that have the potential for internal UW and/or external funding. Out of the fifteen one-year seed grants awarded, six were awarded to IAS faculty:
June 9, 2020
Jed Murr receives grant for Black Arts Northwest project
IAS faculty member Jed Murr has received a UW Bothell Scholarship, Research and Creative Practice Seed Grant for his project, Black Arts Northwest, Phase One. The grant will enable the creation of a publicly accessible, interactive online digital history platform dedicated to preserving and sharing the story of a Black Power mural created in Seattle in the early 1970s in relation to the rich history, culture, and politics of Black Seattle. The digital platform constitutes ...
June 8, 2020
Letter of Solidarity to our Black Students
Dear IAS students, We first want to apologize for our delay in getting this message to you. Please do not take our silence as inaction on our part. From the first ship bringing enslaved people in 1619, to the Colfax, Louisiana massacre in 1873, to the burning of Tulsa this week in 1921, to the police murder of Amadou Diallo in New York in 1999, to Ferguson in 2014, and so many more, state violence with impunity against Black people is everywhere in US history. Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd,Tony McCade, David McAtee. There are so many more names before these that should also be named out loud, exemplifying the Call to Action initiated by the Black students at the Seattle campus, the change.org petition signed by students, faculty, and staff throughout the UW, and the ongoing pain of the Black community, our Black students, our Black faculty, and our Black staff. ...
June 4, 2020
Melanie Malone receives Curriculum Innovation Award
IAS faculty member Melanie Malone and colleagues from an NSF IGERT program won a Curriculum Innovation Award from the Association of Collegiate Schools and Planning. The award honors excellence in teaching and design of learning experiences that are accessible, engaging, and effective for all students. Read the full award annoumcement.
June 3, 2020
My Story: Dance, dance, otherwise we are lost!
IAS faculty member Diana García-Snyder teaches performance, dance, and mindfulness at UW Bothell. Her work centers on dance and movement as healing and transformative practices, and COVID-19 has impacted her teaching in multiple ways.
June 3, 2020
Margaret Redsteer publishes “Sand Dunes, Modern and Ancient, on the Southern Colorado Plateau Tribal Lands, Southwestern USA”
IAS faculty member Margaret Redsteer published “Sand Dunes, Modern and Ancient, on the Southern Colorado Plateau Tribal Lands, Southwestern USA” in Inland Dunes of North America. In her chapter, Redsteer describes how understanding the past, and documenting the current and future potential for sand dune mobility, provides important insights about climate variability and change, particularly in regions prone to drought. Changes to ...
June 1, 2020