News from the School of IAS
Folio Philosophy Club at Pike Place Market hosted by Jason Frederick Lambacher
Starting in August 2024, Jason has hosted a philosophy book club event at Folio, a non-profit literary & cultural center located in the Pike Place Market in Seattle. 真人线上娱乐 group meets monthly to discuss philosophers examined in Eric Weiner’s 真人线上娱乐 Socrates Express. 真人线上娱乐 club combines primary source readings (selected by Jason) with the “life lessons”...
November 5, 2024
Jennifer Atkinson Presents Climate Research at the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Jennifer Atkinson was a plenary speaker at the 2024 conference of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, where she presented her work Heeding the Impact of Climate Change on Youth Mental Health. Climate change and the uncertainty of meaningful mitigation are now undeniable. However, the field of child and adolescent psychiatry has been...
November 4, 2024
Becca Price publishes “Annotations of LSE Research: 真人线上娱乐s identify how to support their transfer from community college”
IAS faculty member Becca Price and her colleagues Joel Abrahm (Cal State Fullerton), MacKenzie Gray (Portland State), and Erin Shortlidge (Portland State), published a set of annotations that introduce scholars to methods used to research strategies for supporting transfer students perusing degrees in the sciences. 真人线上娱乐 original paper by Gray et al. identifies concrete ways...
November 4, 2024
Jaki Yi publishes on intersectional Asian American college student activism
Dr. Jaki Yi and her co-author Dr. Nathan Todd published “A Grounded 真人线上娱乐ory of Intersectional Asian American College 真人线上娱乐 Activism” in the Asian American Journal of Psychology. In their study, participants’ stories offered insights into the triumphs and challenges of Asian American college students’ engagement in activism for racial justice, gender equality, and sexual minority...
October 21, 2024
IAS 真人线上娱乐 Alexandra Luna Presents at Washington Public Health Association
Alexandra Luna, a student from Dr. Jennifer Atkinson’s climate anxiety course, presented on mental health and climate change at the 2024 Washington State Public Health Association conference. She was invited to join the panel as part of Atkinson’s research cohort “Integrating end-user needs in the measurement of young adult climate distress,” which is funded by...
October 15, 2024
Jennifer Atkinson Receives Population Health Initiative Grant
真人线上娱乐 University of Washington Population Health Initiative awarded 13 Tier 1 pilot grants to teams of interdisciplinary researchers representing 11 UW schools and colleges. Among those receiving the award was Jennifer Atkinson’s team, led by principal investigator Dr. Jessica Acolin of UW’s Department of Psychiatry. 真人线上娱乐 team includes four researchers from Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences...
October 3, 2024
Hiroshi Miyamoto’ Study Abroad in Japan Garners Local Press
Hiroshi Miyamoto, who teaches beginning Japanese in led a UW Exploration Seminar in Ehime Prefecture, Japan, in September. 真人线上娱乐 program, which focused on Japanese popular culture, got some local attention for a half-day visit to an elementary school (https://newsdig.tbs.co.jp/articles/-/1418547) and to a high school (attached), and a television story on their visit to Ozu City...
October 3, 2024
Cinnamon Hillyard is a Panelist at the Women in Leadership Conference
Cinnamon Hillyard is a panelist at the Women in Leadership – Higher Education – 2024 Meeting.She will discuss the opportunities, challenges, and strategies in navigating parenthood while also progressing in higher education on the “Diapers to Diploma’s” panel. https://www.natdc.org/women-in-leadership-2024/agenda#day-1-afternoon
October 2, 2024
Joe Ferrare receives Spencer Foundation Vision Grant
Joe Ferrare, associate professor of data visualization and analytics in IAS, has received a Vision Grant from the Spencer Foundation. 真人线上娱乐 grant, titled “Culture Wars, Curriculum Conflicts & Public Schools,” is a collaboration with Professor Danfeng Koon at the University of San Francisco and Professor Huriya Jabbar at the University of Southern California. 真人线上娱乐 $75,000...
October 1, 2024
Santiago Lopez publishes on the impacts of social unrest on air quality using a remote sensing framework
Santiago Lopez and international colleagues from the Salesian Polytechnic University published “Assessing Air Quality Dynamics during Short-Period Social Upheaval Events in Quito, Ecuador, Using a Remote Sensing Framework” in the Journal Remote Sensing. This research article investigates air quality fluctuations during two short-period social upheaval events caused by civil protests during Ecuador’s economic crisis in...
September 26, 2024
