News from the School of IAS

Ursula Valdez wins 2020 Husky Green Award

IAS faculty member Ursula Valdez is one of the 2020 Husky Green award winners. The selection committee highlighted the incorporation of conservation and sustainability into Valdez's classes and activities. "She actively encourages students and other researchers to document avian diversity and natural history in urban spaces and educates them on how to restore these habitats. She also ...

April 29, 2020

Melanie Malone publishes on “Sustaining future environmental educators” and is featured for her work on urban community gardening

IAS faculty member Melanie Malone published an article with three colleagues entitled "Sustaining future environmental educators: Building critical interdisciplinary teaching capacity among graduate students" in the Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences. The article focuses on training graduate students to teach interdisciplinary environmental methods to undergraduate students and ...

April 28, 2020

Dan Berger: As the Coronavirus Spreads, Prisoners are Rising Up for their Health

IAS faculty member Dan Berger published an op-ed in The Appeal about the rising number of protests in jails, prisons, and detention centers against the spread of the pandemic. More than 3,000 incarcerated people have participated in more than 75 protests and uprisings, Berger and his coauthors write. He coauthored the op-ed with two researchers from Perilous Chronicle, a digital timeline of prisoner unrest in the twenty-first century. ...

April 28, 2020

D.C. Human Rights Seminar scholarship continues to change lives

Since 1991, the Washington D.C. Human Rights Seminar has provided students with the opportunity to be a part of conversations around national and global policies. After two full-day workshops, they spend six days in Washington D.C. attending seminars and briefings with institutions and policy makers across the political spectrum. The most recent cohort travelled in September 2019, and 12 students received financial support through ...

April 28, 2020

IAS names 2020 Hall of Alumni Excellence inductees

Each year IAS honors the extraordinary achievements and contributions of its alumni through the Hall of Alumni Excellence, and we are excited to announce our 2020 inductees: Jacob Allen, Ray Corona, EJ Juarez, Courtney Normand, and Kat Sweet. The IAS Hall of Alumni Excellence recognizes alumni at varying stages of career who are established or emerging leaders in their fields, policy changing public servants, and devoted and inspiring mentors. They are remarkable individuals who ...

April 24, 2020

Warren Gold receives two King County grants for stormwater study

IAS faculty member Warren Gold received two grants from King county for a project on "Floating Treatment Wetlands Reduce Contaminants and Nutrients in Urban Stormwater Runoff." The grants will fund a research collaboration with Dr. Lizbeth Seebacher that evaluates the effectiveness of different Northwest wetland plant species and biomedia mixes in reducing stormwater pollutants and the effects of those pollutants on the health of coho salmon.

April 24, 2020

Kristin Gustafson elected to Association of Educators in Journalism and Mass Communication’s teaching committee

Members of the Association of Educators in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) elected IAS faculty member Kristin Gustafson to the organization’s Teaching Committee. The 3,700-member professional, nonprofit, international organization is “the oldest and largest alliance of journalism and mass communication educators and administrators at the college level.” Gustafson will serve a three-year term beginning October.

April 21, 2020

Amani Sawari advocates for release of Michigan prisoners amidst COVID-19

IAS alum Amani Sawari (’16) is the statewide campaign coordinator for the Michigan Prisoner Rehabilitation Credit Act (MPRCA), an initiative for the November 2020 ballot that would restore "good time" credits to the prison system, which were eliminated in the state's 1998 Truth In Sentencing law. Michigan is one of three states in the U.S. that does not make earned credits available to incarcerated people. For several years Sawari has ...

April 16, 2020

Julie Shayne featured in SUNY Press’s Quarterly Newsletter

IAS faculty member Julie Shayne was one of two featured authors in SUNY Press’s April newsletter. SUNY Press, publisher of her third book Taking Risks: Feminist Activism and Research in the Americas, was especially interested in Shayne’s take on the importance of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies (GWSS). Julie, co-facilitator of UW Bothell's GWSS major ...

April 15, 2020