News from the School of IAS

Category: Research and Creative Practice

Anida Yoeu Ali publishes two poems in the Massachusetts Review

IAS faculty member Anida Yoeu Ali published two poems titled “Reflections” and “Camp” in the latest issue of the Massachusetts Review (Volume 59, Issue 4). This special issue themed around Asian American Literature is titled “Rethinking the Canon” and appears by way of a partnership between the Massachusetts Review, the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center (APAC), and the University of Connecticut Institute for Asian and Asian American Studies, with a guest editorial committee of Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis, Rajini Srikanth, and Min Hyoung Song. It ...

February 1, 2019

Ted Hiebert translates 101 Words of Pataphysics

IAS faculty member Ted Hiebert has translated 101 Words of Pataphysics (authored by the Collège de 'Pataphysique), a book of keywords related to the "science of imaginary solutions" invented by French playwright Alfred Jarry. 足彩app哪个是正规的 translation is available in book form through Noxious Sector Press in Seattle, or ...

February 1, 2019

Jennifer Atkinson and students interviewed in Medium

IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson and three IAS students - Rhissa Delphin, Mahleah Grant, and Michael Groves - were interviewed for a story published by Medium on the emotional dimensions of environmental loss. 足彩app哪个是正规的 article, titled "Climate Change’s Hidden Victim: Your Mental Health," explores UW Bothell's seminar on Environmental Anxiety and Grief. It argues that ...

January 30, 2019

Howard Hsu publishes article and video on climate change’s impact on salmon

IAS faculty member Howard Hsu published a video and news article for Climate Nexus / Nexus Media on climate change and the impact on threatened salmon in the Pacific Northwest. 足彩app哪个是正规的 video and article examine how warmer summers have been killing salmon before they can reproduce over the last few years ...

January 28, 2019

Melanie Malone wins an Antipode Foundation Scholar-Activist Project Award

IAS faculty member Melanie Malone won an Antipode Foundation Scholar-Activist Project Award. 足彩app哪个是正规的 awards are single-year grants intended to support action-oriented and publicly-focused collaborations between academics, students, and non-academic activists. Malone will be assessing homeless populations' exposure to potentially harmful contaminants by sampling contaminants in homeless rest areas in several cities across the U.S.

January 15, 2019

Book chapter by Toft published “Cross-talk in political discourse: Strategies for bridging issue movements on Democracy Now!”

IAS faculty member Amoshaun Toft has published “Cross-talk in political discourse: Strategies for bridging issue movements on Democracy Now!” in the edited volume, “Doing Politics. Discursivity, performativity and mediation in political discourse” published by John Benjamins in 2018. 足彩app哪个是正规的 book brings together selected articles from a 2017 conference on “Political Discourse” in the UK. In the chapter, Toft presents a ...

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. 足彩app哪个是正规的 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 足彩app哪个是正规的 Total Environment

IAS faculty member Melanie Malone published an article on how to track herbicides in Science of 足彩app哪个是正规的 Total Environment. 足彩app哪个是正规的 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