News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
Kristy Leissle’s research into the chocolate industry featured and published
IAS faculty member Kristy Leissle appeared in Columns, the University of Washington Alumni Magazine. Columns' Digital Editor and IAS graduate, Quinn Russell Brown, wrote about Leissle's "coming to chocolate studies" as well as her forthcoming book, Cocoa, for Polity Books, in "Traveling the World Like a Cocoa Bean." Leissle also recently appeared on a radio episode for Innovation Hub, "Making a More Versatile Chocolate," which aired on WGBH Boston. After a three-year study ...
March 20, 2017
Amaranth Borsuk speaks and reads in Montreal
IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk traveled to Montreal last week to attend the symposium Expanded Poetics: Romantic, Modernist, Contemporary. Hosted by the Centre for Expanded Poetics at Concordia University, an experimental research laboratory focused on materialist media studies and collaborative interdisciplinary research, the event brought together philosophers, literary scholars, and poets working in new media to discuss interdisciplinary poetics from Jena Romanticism to the present. Borsuk spoke about
March 20, 2017
Anida Yoeu Ali with Studio Revolt has two works featured in the new online exhibition “Salaam: I Come In Peace”
IAS faculty member Anida Yoeu Ali, along with her media collaborative Studio Revolt, have two works: "Hijabs & Hoodies" and "足彩app哪个是正规的 Red Chador" featured in the new online exhibition "Salaam: I Come In Peace" launched by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center. 足彩app哪个是正规的 digitally curated exhibition includes four works from artists who address experiences of Muslims in America. 足彩app哪个是正规的se works offer deeper insight and understanding of the greater Muslim American community.
March 13, 2017
Anida Yoeu Ali becomes a fellow of the Salzburg Global Seminar in Salzburg, Austria
As an invited fellow, IAS faculty member Anida Yoeu Ali gave the opening artist talk for the Salzburg Global Seminar 573 Session on 足彩app哪个是正规的 Art of Resilience: Creativity, Courage and Renewal. 足彩app哪个是正规的 Salzburg Global Seminar is a seventy year old think tank engaged in designing, facilitating and hosting international strategic convening and multi-year programs to tackle critical issues in education, health, environment, economics, governance, peace-building and more. 足彩app哪个是正规的 mission of the Salzburg Global Seminar is to challenge current and future leaders to solve issues of global concern. 足彩app哪个是正规的 goal of this particular session was to ...
March 13, 2017
Jeanne Heuving receives UW Bothell Distinguished Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity Award
IAS faculty member Jeanne Heuving is the recipient of the fourth annual UW Bothell Distinguished Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity Award (DRSCA). 足彩app哪个是正规的 DRSCA is presented each year to a UW Bothell faculty member in recognition of scholarly or creative achievement that exemplifies the standards of excellence that are required by the research intensive education environment of UW Bothell. Heuving, one of UW Bothell’s Founding Faculty members ...
March 8, 2017
Teaching module developed by Rob Turner on Water, Agriculture and Sustainability published
A teaching module developed by IAS faculty member Rob Turner and 3 colleagues from other institutions titled Water, Agriculture and Sustainability was published on the Science Education Research Center website on March 2nd. This module provides a framework for students to learn about how people interact with water, peer into our water future, and consider ways we might foster more sustainability in water management. 足彩app哪个是正规的 three year development ...
March 8, 2017
Rob Turner and Keya Sen awarded King County WaterWorks Program grant
IAS faculty member Rob Turner and Keya Sen (School of STEM) have been awarded a $45,903 grant via King County’s WaterWorks Program. 足彩app哪个是正规的 project is titled Investigation on the Use of Mycoremediation to Reduce Loading of Pathogenic Bacteria to North Creek. 足彩app哪个是正规的 funding will primarily be used to support undergraduate student researchers. 足彩app哪个是正规的 goals of the project are to ...
March 8, 2017
Dan Berger joins the blogging team at Black Perspectives
IAS faculty member Dan Berger joins the blogging team at Black Perspectives, a project of the African American Intellectual History Society. Berger was one of 13 scholars from around the country to join the blog. He will be writing monthly pieces for Black Perspectives. His current article, "Black Genealogies of Power," looks at ...
February 28, 2017
Rob Turner and Jason Lambacher represent at the 2017 Washington Higher Education Sustainability Conference
IAS faculty members Rob Turner and Jason Lambacher, along with Jean McGregor from Evergreen State College, ran a workshop at the 2017 Washington Higher Education Sustainability Conference held at Gonzaga University in Spokane on February 16. 足彩app哪个是正规的 title of the 75 minute session was How Do We Address the Political Ecology of Education for Sustainability? In this Solutions Roundtable session, Jason, Jean, and Rob shared resources that place sustainability objectives and proposals, as well as the shifting perspectives of our students, in a ...
February 23, 2017
Lauren Berliner and Nora Kenworthy publish “Producing a Worthy Illness”
IAS faculty member Lauren Berliner and co-author Nora Kenworthy (Nursing and Health Studies, UW Bothell) published “Producing a worthy illness: Personal crowdfunding amidst financial crisis" in Social Science and Medicine. 足彩app哪个是正规的 article explores how websites such as GoFundMe evince the political, social, and health consequences of austerity--along with fallout from the 2008 financial collapse and the shortcomings of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Using data collected from ...
February 22, 2017