UW Bothell students study around the world

The UW Bothell Global Scholars program launched in 2018. Its purpose is to create a support network for a cohort of students from diverse groups that often do not have access to these sorts of opportunities. “Before we began Global Scholars, we were getting really fantastic students who were interested in international education,” said IAS faculty member Ron Krabill, “but they weren’t able to make it those last few steps for a variety of reasons. We wanted to make a program that gave students the support that made it possible for them to get where they wanted to go.”

January 3, 2020

Maryam Griffin receives Society of Scholars Fellowship

IAS faculty member Maryam Griffin has been awarded a Society of Scholars fellowship from the Simpson Center for the Humanities. This fellowship will support Griffin's work on her research project “Vehicles of Decolonization: Politics and Public Transportation in the Palestinian West Bank.” Griffin will join ...

January 2, 2020

DJ and radio personality Harmony Soleil visits campus

IAS alum Harmony Soleil is a resident DJ at Seattle’s C89.5 and co-founder of UWave Radio. Recently, she visited UW Bothell to chat with students in IAS faculty member Amoshaun Toft’s “Community Radio Journalism” course about her experiences with interviewing musicians and…

January 2, 2020

Student project with Snohomish County Department of Elections

This fall's BIS 175 American Government & Politics class worked on a quarter-long group project with the Snohomish County Department of Elections and the UW Bothell Community-Based Learning & Research (CBLR) office. Garth Fell (Snohomish County Elections manager) and Duncan Clauson (Elections and Voter Outreach Specialist) ...

December 23, 2019

Lambacher on ecological nostalgia at Pacific Northwest Political Science Conference

AS faculty member Jason Lambacher presented a paper currently being worked on for publication at the PNW Political Science conference in Boise, ID in November 2019. The paper argues technological, cultural, and environmental change has produced a world that is awash in nostalgia for what has vanished or is threatened with disappearance. But while nostalgia is pervasive ...

December 23, 2019

Ching-In Chen publishes “15” in Lavender Review

IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen has published “15,” from the hybrid series, Houston in Compilation, in Lavender Review’s December issue. Lavender Review is a literary journal published by Headmistress Press dedicated to lesbian poetry and art.

December 23, 2019

Capstones are cornerstones for IAS grads

One of the final courses seniors take in IAS is BIS 499 Portfolio Capstone. This is where they sum up their undergraduate learning. Read about some of our recent grads: Corbin Rayburn (Law, Economics & Public Policy); Sophia Mallouk (Environmental Science); Dominic Cerillo (Law, Economics & Public Policy); and Destiny Wrenn (Society, Ethics & Human Behavior)!

December 23, 2019

“Kiss the Girl: Growing Up a Lesbian in the Age of Trump”

IAS student and Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies (GWSS ) major Ila Plank (formerly Samantha Plank) published “Kiss the Girl: Growing Up a Lesbian in the Age of Trump” in the local Seattle paper, The Stranger. The article reflects on Disney movies and the sexual dissent after the Trump election.

December 23, 2019