News from the School of IAS
IAS Faculty, Alumni & Community Partners Present at Radio Research Conference in Italy
IAS faculty, alumni and community partners presented two papers on the theme of “Radio as Social Media” at the ECREA Radio Research Conference held at the University of Siena (Italy). The first paper, titled “How we talk to each other: Strategies for sustaining student media,” was presented by Amoshaun Toft and Kristin Gustafson, and was also co-authored by IAS alumn Amani Sawari ...
October 9, 2019
Samantha Penjaraenwatana helps close the gap for first-generation students
Alum Samantha Penjaraenwatana (’15) was the first in her immediate family to go to college and now she’s helping other first-generation students find their way. Penjaraenwatana says the support she received at UW Bothell and the mentorship of fellow student Mina Hooshangi (’12) made all the difference. In fact, her experiences inspired her to pursue a professional career in student development, and she is now a graduate student at Seattle University.
October 3, 2019
Alumni Shout Out!
Isabel Conrad (Media & Communication Studies, ’18) is an Internal Communications Consultant at Vulcan and a second year student in the Master of Communication in Communities and Networks program at University of Washington. Jimena Huamani (Community Psychology and Society, Ethics & Human Behavior, ’17) has joined the UW Bothell Organizational Excellence and Human Resources (OE/HR) as the Human Resources Assistant. Paul Johnson (M.A. in Cultural Studies, ’11) has earned a master’s degree in Project Management from Georgetown University (’19). He also holds an M.S. in Human Resources Development from Villanova University (’15). Andrea Lu (Media & Communication Studies, ’17) is a Performance Marketing Associate at New Engen. Salvador Salazar-Cano
October 3, 2019
Jin-Kyu Jung leads study abroad trip to South Korea and establishes ties with local institutions
IAS faculty member Jin-Kyu Jung recently returned from South Korea with 9 UW students from the Bothell and Seattle campuses. This trip was part of an Early-Fall Student Abroad program, “Mapping Communities in the Smart City,” co-led with Gunwha Oh (affiliate faculty in IAS and lecturer in the Deptartment of Geography).
October 2, 2019
Jin-Kyu Jung co-authors “Qualitative GIS and Spatial Research”
IAS faculty member Jin-Kyu Jung co-authored a flagship chapter with Sarah Elwood, “Qualitative GIS and Spatial Research.” The chapter, which appears in SAGE Research Methods Foundations (SRMF), presents a critical review of qualitative GIS as a mixed methods framework for social and spatial research. It reflects an earlier wave of qualitative approaches in the 2000s implementing qualitative forms of representation or analysis into GIS-based research.
October 2, 2019
UWave Radio: ‘Your voice, your vibe’
Radio hardly describes all the media, programming, and community building that takes place through UWave Radio, the campus station. “Our students are learning the cutting edge of where digital broadcasting is going. It’s multimedia. It’s live and archived, and it’s engaging specific communities because that’s how media works,” says IAS faculty member and adviser Amoshaun Toft.
October 1, 2019
New graduate Aatqa Azhar launches global development career
Passionate about human rights and international development, recent alum Aatqa Azhar maximized her time at UW Bothell. She majored in both Global Studies and Law, Economics & Public Policy while actively supporting the Muslim Student Association on campus and serving as a digital communications intern for the Pakistan - US Alumni Network (PUAN), an association with the U.S. Embassy Pakistan for U.S. government-sponsored ...
October 1, 2019
Hugo House Interviews Ching-In Chen
Hugo House published an interview with IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen and co-reader Kenji C Liu about their Spotlight Poetry reading at Hugo House in Seattle on Thursday, September 26, 2019 as well as their paths to poetry and recent books. Spotlight readings feature ...
September 26, 2019
Julie Shayne delivers keynote speech at this year’s convocation ceremony
UW Bothell tradition dictates that the previous year’s winner of the Distinguished Teaching Award delivers the keynote speech at convocation to welcome the incoming students. This year’s speaker was IAS faculty member and Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies (GWSS) coordinator Julie Shayne. The main message of Shayne’s speech (see video below) ...
September 24, 2019
Alka Kurian Launches Podcast on South Asian Writers and Filmmakers
IAS faculty member Alka Kurian has launched a new podcast where she investigates how South Asian writers and filmmakers explore some of the major issues of the world and help us make sense of our reality. In her very first episode, she interviewed the award-winning author ...
September 23, 2019