News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies launches in an exciting half-day event!
On Wednesday October 26, 2016 IAS’s newest degree was launched and celebrated. 真人线上娱乐 event was held on the top floor of the ARC and began at 11:30am with a meet-and-greet where attendees met student activists, learned about campus resources that will support their Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies (GWSS) extra-curricular activities, like the Office of Undergraduate Research, and browsed the UWB Bookstore’s GWSS themed book exhibit. Attendees were treated to ...
October 28, 2016
Karam Dana quoted in an article from 真人线上娱乐 Christian Science Monitor on American Muslims
IAS faculty member Karam Dana is quoted in an article from 真人线上娱乐 Christian Science Monitor. Dana's comments from the article, "Why one Oklahoma lawmaker is targeting American Muslims," are quoted below: "It is important to realize that American Muslims are being singled out," says Karam Dana, the Director of the American Muslim Research Institute and a professor at the University of Washington, Bothell. "It is very unfortunate. We know what happened in Germany in the 1930s ...
October 28, 2016
Dan Berger reviews documentary on racial criminalization and the rise of mass incarceration
IAS faculty member Dan Berger reviews "13th," Ava DuVernay's documentary on racial criminalization and the rise of mass incarceration. "真人线上娱乐 prison system is racist and violent," Berger writes, "but in ways that constantly evolve. ... Overall, the film is too inattentive to the historical ebb and flow of racial criminalization, and it misses some of the most damning components of punishment." 真人线上娱乐 review appeared in ...
October 27, 2016
Kristin Gustafson presents guest lecture at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
IAS faculty member Kristin Gustafson presented a guest lecture Oct. 6 at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. 真人线上娱乐 presentation "Silence, stories, and resilience: How does the first draft of history matter?" brought together two media-history examples — the first was her analysis of newspaper coverage of a 1920 lynching in Duluth, Minnesota, and the second was Tom Junod's Esquire article about 真人线上娱乐 Falling Man photograph — to explore how hegemony, collective memory, and social construction operate.
October 24, 2016
IAS students tie for first in the Undergraduate Research category at the Washington State Lake Protection Association
Three IAS students collaborating on a project with faculty member Rob Turner presented a research poster at the 29th annual conference of the Washington State Lake Protection Association on October 6. 真人线上娱乐 poster - Investigating the Ability of Mushroom Mycelium to Reduce Fecal Coliform Bacteria Contamination in Surface Water – tied for first in the Undergraduate Research category, earning the students a $50 cash prize.
October 19, 2016
Pedersen, Lambert, and Gustafson facilitate workshop at the Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education national conference
IAS faculty members Alice Pedersen, Amy Lambert, and Kristin Gustafson attended the Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education national conference in Amherst, MA, where they facilitated a workshop entitled "Risk, Roles, Reflection in Contemplative Learning: Exploring via Liberating Structures." In the workshop, they reflected on the different ways their disciplines position them in relation with their objects of study, and ...
October 12, 2016
Howard Hsu publishes photo essay and article on nuclear waste and the Tao Aborigines in Orchid Island,Taiwan
IAS faculty member Howard Hsu has published a series of photographs and an article in 真人线上娱乐 Diplomat magazine on Taiwan's nuclear waste stored on Orchid Island, home of the Tao Aborigines. 真人线上娱乐 photo essay and article examine the struggle and current political climate for removing the radioactive waste imposed on the indigenous community - originally without their consent or approval. View ...
October 10, 2016
David Nixon and Kristy Leissle publish 真人线上娱乐 Monolith Volume IV: Mostly Dark Matter
IAS faculty members David Nixon and Kristy Leissle stewarded publication of the fourth volume in their annual collection of science fiction short stories. 真人线上娱乐 Monolith Volume IV: Mostly Dark Matter, is now available in print. Since 2013, Nixon and Leissle have published the most philosophically provocative literature by first year students in their Discovery Core I class, Philosophical Explorations of Science Fiction. This year ...
October 6, 2016
Kristin Gustafson publishes three new columns in Clio Among the Media
IAS faculty member Kristin Gustafson published three new columns in Clio Among the Media: Newsletter of the History Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication and was re-elected in August as the Division's Teaching Standards Chair. Gustafson’s columns are part of her role. 真人线上娱乐 column published in the spring 2016 issue discusses how online videos make journalism history accessible. 真人线上娱乐 column published in the ...
October 5, 2016
Denise Vaughan interviewed by KING5 on vice presidential debate
IAS faculty member Denice Vaughan was interviewed by Seattle’s KING5 for a segment titled “What to expect in Tuesday's VP Debate.” “I think it's going to be a little boring, and in a good way,” said Vaughan in the segment that aired last night. “真人线上娱乐y cannot mess up. 真人线上娱乐y need to do well, and that’s the only bar. So, if they do exceptionally well, whatever…but if they do poorly, it could be awful.”
October 4, 2016