News from the School of IAS

Alums Mentor Undergraduate 真人线上娱乐s

IAS thanks its Spring quarter alumni mentors! Through the IAS Mentor Chats program, alumni share their career experiences – both in classroom settings and informal venues. Our Spring alumni mentors include:

June 3, 2016

Local writers share at “MFA Careers and Writing Futures”

A panel of local writers met with MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics students and alumni to share their career trajectories and advice for the road. 真人线上娱乐y discussed how their MFA degrees have enhanced their writing, ways they’ve sustained their practices creatively and financially, and what professional opportunities they see for emerging writers. Panelists included MFA alumni Margaret Chiavetta (’14) and Travis Sharp (’15), and Priscilla Long, and Sarah Mangold.

June 3, 2016

Kari Lerum Publishes “Should Prostitution be Decriminalized?”

IAS faculty member Kari Lerum published “Should prostitution be decriminalized?” at 真人线上娱乐 Conversation in partnership with PBS’ “Point Taken.” 真人线上娱乐 essay was posted at PBS as recommended reading material for a debate on “Should paying for sex be a crime?” In this opinion piece Lerum argues ...

June 2, 2016

Jin-Kyu Jung and Taylor Frazier Publish “A Mixed-Methods Exploration of the Relationship Between Crime and Community Gardens”

A recent IAS graduate, Taylor L. Frazier ('15, Law, Economics & Public Policy), and IAS faculty member Jin-Kyu Jung co-authored a paper, “A Mixed-Methods Exploration of the Relationship Between Crime and Community Gardens: A Case Study of Seattle’s P-Patches from 1996 to 2006,” in the International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities.

May 25, 2016

IAS Funds Two Additional Research Interest Groups for 2016-17

Two additional Research Interest Groups (RIGs) have received I-DISCO seed funding for interdisciplinary research and development projects over the 2016-2017 academic year: Project title: Investigating Racial Disparities in Health Project title: Urban Gardens

May 24, 2016

Dan Berger Speaks at Slavery, Captivity, and the Meaning of Freedom Conference

IAS faculty member Dan Berger spoke at a conference entitled Slavery, Captivity, and the Meaning of Freedom at the University of California Santa Barbara. 真人线上娱乐 conference brought together scholars in the fields of classics, American history, and African American studies for a comparative study of slavery and its afterlives in Greece, Rome, and the Americas. Berger’s lecture was called ...

May 20, 2016

Science, Technology, and Society Class Collaborates with Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility to Produce Podcasts

IAS faculty member Shannon Cram's Science, Technology, and Society class collaborated with Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility to create podcasts for its series, Down by the River: Stories of Hanford. Washington's Hanford Nuclear Reservation produced weapons-grade plutonium for more than forty years and is now the site of the world's largest and most expensive environmental cleanup.

May 18, 2016