News from the School of IAS
Amber Shirk recognized as one of Tacoma’s top volunteers
Alum Amber (Monson) Shirk has always been involved in her community, but her engagement has only deepened since graduating from the M.A in Policy Studies (MAPS) program in 2017. This June, Shirk will receive a City of Destiny Award from Tacoma Mayor Victoria Woodards and the City Council for her contributions to the city’s economic development. Shirk is Digital Marketing Chair for Tacoma Waterfront Association, Event Coordinator for Friends of the Foss’s annual Free Summer Concert Festival Series, and ...
April 22, 2019
Interactive art illustrates climate change
Recent graduate Vancie Fu created a senior project that still has her teachers talking. With elements of art, environmental studies, digital media and creative storytelling, Fu uses an multi-disciplinary approach to discuss climate change with her “artifact from the future.”
April 22, 2019
Crystal Nelson recognized as member of the Husky 100
Each year, the UW recognizes 100 exemplary students through the Husky 100. IAS student Crystal Nelson has received this honor and is channeling her education and life experience into a law career.
April 22, 2019
David Goldstein: John Waters was a pioneer of queer cinema
IAS faculty member David Goldstein was quoted in an article about pioneering film director John Waters in the online magazine them. Goldstein explained why Waters is an icon in the queer community, making films since 1972 that subvert social mores about sexuality and fearlessly center marginalized groups in the United States.
April 18, 2019
Carrie Bodle’s Sound Field Sea Cycles highlighted by Creative Capital
Creative Capital features IAS faculty member Carrie Bodle’s in-progress project Sound Field Sea Cycles in their "On Our Radar” announcement. Bodle was a finalist for their nationally competitive award being in the top 2% of over 5,200 applications. Her work in-progress consists of ...
April 17, 2019
Angelica Mendoza receives first Founders Fellow Conference Travel Award
Angelica Mendoza saw that a lot of the activists she respects were attending the 34th Annual Women of Color Conference at the University of California, Berkeley, so the UW Bothell senior signed up to take part. Then she panicked. Expenses were a problem.
April 15, 2019
Anida Yoeu Ali published in “Turning Tides: Caribbean Intersections in the Americas and Beyond”
IAS faculty member Anida Yoeu Ali has published in the edited volume, “Turning Tides: Caribbean Intersections in the Americas and Beyond” published by Ian Randle Publishers. The book brings together an eclectic collection of 19 essays, conversations and reports intended to reach beyond regions and compartmentalized disciplines. The book hopes to broaden the horizons of what we call ‘The Caribbean’ both geographically and intellectually.
April 15, 2019
Green building champion Tadashi Shiga reconnects with UW Bothell
Alum Tadashi Shiga (’96) is an evangelist for sustainable living. Shiga’s passion for energy efficiency runs deep, as do his local roots as a third generation Seattleite. With 20+ years in real estate development, it was the 2007 economic downturn that sparked Shiga’s passion for green building. Faced with the market’s uncertainty, he began researching sustainability and energy efficiency for homes, eventually ...
April 10, 2019
IAS Faculty Organize Alive 3.0 Spring Performance Festival
This Spring Quarter 2019, IAS faculty members Anida Yoeu Ali and Naomi Macalalad Bragin, professors from Critical Acts: Socially Engaged Performance Research Interest Group (RIG), are organizing the Alive Performance Festival and Critical Acts Visiting Artist Residency. Now in its third consecutive year, Alive animates campus, asking UW Bothell and extended communities to engage, witness and participate in performance as social justice activism. This year ...
April 10, 2019
Amaranth Borsuk is poet-in-residence at the Seattle Review of Books for National Poetry Month
The Seattle Review of Books has asked IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk to be their poet in residence for April. The editors will publish a poem by Borsuk each week and interview her about her work and reading. Borsuk's first piece, a new poem titled "Strap on a Witness When You Go Out with the Tongue in Your Mouth Worn Thin from Walking," was published on 4/2. "It Goes without Saying," a collaboration with artist Julie Wills, has just been published. Borsuk's current reading list was ...
April 9, 2019