News from the School of IAS
Brannan Widdis has feature about KBFG aired on KBCS
IAS student Brannan Widdis (Media & Communication Studies) had his feature aired on KBCS 91.3 FM as part of the daily Morning Blend program. The news feature was developed in Toft’s Community Radio Journalism course (BISMCS 343), and explored a new Low Power FM station called KBFG-LP - “a little station with a big heart” that covers Ballard, Freemont and Greenwood. You can hear ...
January 15, 2019
Toft awarded top paper for “Talking across movements on Democracy Now!”
IAS faculty member Amoshaun Toft presented two papers at the National Communication Association in Salt Lake City, one of which – “Talking across movements on Democracy Now!” – received the Top Paper award in the Communication as Social Construction division. Building on earlier exploratory research on the Civil Rights movement as narrative bridge, the paper argues ...
January 15, 2019
Amaranth Borsuk reviews Diana Khoi Nguyen’s Ghost Of
IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk reviews Nguyen's first book of poems, Ghost Of, in Lana Turner 11. Combining lyric reflections and visual poetry in invented forms, Nguyen's book explores the after-effects of her brother's suicide, which was preceded by his careful excision of himself from family photos in her parents' home. The gaps left behind become frames or nets in which Nguyen's language is caught as she tries to reconstruct her missing sibling. Borsuk writes:
January 14, 2019
Melanie Malone publishes an article on how to track herbicides in Science of The Total Environment
IAS faculty member Melanie Malone published an article on how to track herbicides in Science of The Total Environment. The article considers the relation between no-till agriculture and herbicide use. It deploys multiple methods – spatial analysis of remote sensing satellite imagery of vegetation health along streams; use of a drone fitted with an agricultural camera to detect vegetation health; and soil, sediment, and water sampling for the most commonly used herbicides in the study area – to show where stream vegetation health continues to ...
January 2, 2019
Dan Berger publishes introduction to new edition of Concrete Mama: Prison Profiles from Walla Walla
IAS faculty member Dan Berger published a lengthy introduction in the new edition of Concrete Mama: Prison Profiles from Walla Walla. A photo essay authored by two journalists with unprecedented access to Washington's infamous prison, Concrete Mama was first published in 1981 and won a Washington State Book Award before going out of print. The University of Washington Press has just republished the book in connection with the UW Library. Berger will join Concrete Mama author John McCoy, formerly incarcerated activists ...
January 2, 2019
Mira Shimabukuro’s Relocating Authority reviewed
In December 2018, IAS Associate Dean and faculty member, Mira Shimabukuro, received three glowing reviews of her book, Relocating Authority: Japanese Americans Writing to Redress Mass Incarceration: “Review of Relocating Authority” in Community Literacy, “Reconciling Past and Place through Rhetorics of Peacemaking, Accountability, and Human Rights in the Archives” in College Composition and Communication, and ...
January 2, 2019
Jennifer Atkinson: ‘Climate grief’: The growing emotional toll of climate change
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson was featured in an article on climate grief on NBC News. The article, "'Climate grief': The growing emotional toll of climate change," cites Atkinson’s seminar as one of the few nationally to take up this important issue.
January 2, 2019
Simone de Rochefort finds success as digital media journalist
IAS alum Simone de Rochefort (’13, Culture, Literature & the Arts) produces videos for Polygon, a top website for video game news and reviews. While her affinity for video games began long before college, the possibility of building a career around this passion crystalized at UW Bothell. “I would not be where I am today ...
January 2, 2019
IAS faculty organize Resilient Visions film and media festival
IAS faculty members Minda Martin, Alka Kurian, Susan Harewood, and Masahiro Sugano are organizing the first annual UW Bothell film and media festival. The festival, entitled Resilient Visions, will take place on May 30th, 2019. Organized by internationally known filmmakers and IAS professors of film and media studies, this festival brings together films and media production from UW Bothell students and alumni. Members of the UW Bothell community (graduate and undergraduate students, and alumni) who have made media productions from 2017-2019 are invited to submit to the festival by April 15th, 2019.
December 19, 2018
Nicole Sanderson promoted to Director of Finance & Customer Care role at UW Bothell
IAS alum Nicole Sanderson has accepted the newly created role of Director of Finance & Customer Care with UW Bothell Facilities Services and Campus Operations (FS&CO). Sanderson is a Certified Educational Facilities Manager and has served the FS&CO unit for more than 12 years in various project, construction, and fiscal management capacities. She enjoys the opportunities her position provides to collaborate with and support the work of staff, faculty and students across campus.
December 18, 2018