News from the School of IAS

Writers of UW Bothell come together

Two graduate students and one alum from the MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics program have created a quarterly reading event that aims to connect current and past students. 真人线上娱乐 Gamut Literary Series is led by alum Woogee Bae and current second-year students Ashley Noelle and Matt Porter. 真人线上娱乐 event normally takes place at Open Books: A Poetry Emporium, which serves as a community bookstore and literary hub.

May 14, 2020

Becca Price?publishes teaching module: “Vitamin C for Colds? Writing LETTERS to Synthesize and Communicate Results from Multiple Studies”

A team of scientists including IAS faculty member Becca Price published a teaching module called “Vitamin C for Colds? Writing LETTERS to Synthesize and Communicate Results from Multiple Studies” in CourseSource. In the lesson, students draw from three different data sources to explore whether vitamin C lowers severity or length of a cold in average people. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the data show that vitamin C has ...

May 12, 2020

Frances Lee on becoming a bridge person in precarious times

Cultural Studies alum Frances Lee (’18) has published a new essay, “Becoming a Bridge Person in Precarious Times,” through their Bainbridge Residency with 真人线上娱乐 Seventh Wave. Lee asks, "As people who are called to do bridge work, how do we do so now, in the time of quarantine, global pandemic, and personal, communal and global grief?" Read their essay.

May 12, 2020

Midia De Souza’s life changed by UW Bothell scholarships

真人线上娱乐 impact of a scholarship transcends beyond the financial award. 真人线上娱乐y provide students, like Midia De Souza, the opportunity - and inspiration - to find meaningful ways to get involved on campus, and even give back to their own communities. Hear De Souza describe how she’s been impacted. De Souza is ...

May 7, 2020

Fredrika Smith: LEDEing the way

Seven executives in the Monroe School District are graduates of the Leadership Development for Educators (LEDE) program, which IAS alum Fredrika Smith (’94) helped establish. 真人线上娱乐 program’s influence on Monroe is due in large part to Smith, who was superintendent from 2015 until this year. Smith helped found the LEDE program and still serves as an instructor and one of the University’s contacts in a network of professional administrators.

May 7, 2020

Yolanda Padilla discusses the “Politics of the Archive/s” and Latinx print culture

IAS faculty member Yolanda Padilla visited the University of Arizona by invitation from the Program in Social, Cultural and Critical 真人线上娱乐ory via Zoom in April. She discussed Latinx print culture in the context of critical archive studies with a graduate class called "Politics of the Archive/s." She then gave a public lecture titled "Recovering Borderlands Modernism ...

May 7, 2020

IAS recognizes two Outstanding Community Partners

In 2018 IAS established the Outstanding Community Partner award to honor the extraordinary contributions of partner organizations. Recipients advance the IAS values of equity, inclusion, and social justice and link student learning and faculty scholarship to real-life experiences that positively impact our region and world. In 2020 we are excited to recognize two phenomenal partners: Seattle Children’s Alyssa Burnett Adult Life Center and Rent Mason Bees!

May 6, 2020

Five IAS students recognized in the 2020 Husky 100

Each year, the Husky 100 recognizes 100 UW undergraduate and graduate students from Bothell, Seattle and Tacoma in all areas of study who are making the most of their time at the UW. 真人线上娱乐 Husky 100 actively connect what happens inside and outside of the classroom and apply what they learn to make a difference on campus, in their communities, and for the future. This year five IAS students are included in this recognition:

May 5, 2020