News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
Dan Berger: As the Coronavirus Spreads, Prisoners are Rising Up for their Health
IAS faculty member Dan Berger published an op-ed in 足彩app哪个是正规的 Appeal about the rising number of protests in jails, prisons, and detention centers against the spread of the pandemic. More than 3,000 incarcerated people have participated in more than 75 protests and uprisings, Berger and his coauthors write. He coauthored the op-ed with two researchers from Perilous Chronicle, a digital timeline of prisoner unrest in the twenty-first century. ...
April 28, 2020
Warren Gold receives two King County grants for stormwater study
IAS faculty member Warren Gold received two grants from King county for a project on "Floating Treatment Wetlands Reduce Contaminants and Nutrients in Urban Stormwater Runoff." 足彩app哪个是正规的 grants will fund a research collaboration with Dr. Lizbeth Seebacher that evaluates the effectiveness of different Northwest wetland plant species and biomedia mixes in reducing stormwater pollutants and the effects of those pollutants on the health of coho salmon.
April 24, 2020
Julie Shayne featured in SUNY Press’s Quarterly Newsletter
IAS faculty member Julie Shayne was one of two featured authors in SUNY Press’s April newsletter. SUNY Press, publisher of her third book Taking Risks: Feminist Activism and Research in the Americas, was especially interested in Shayne’s take on the importance of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies (GWSS). Julie, co-facilitator of UW Bothell's GWSS major ...
April 15, 2020
Min Tang interviewed on the Political Economy of China’s Internet
IAS faculty member Min Tang was recently interviewed by Asia Experts Forum, an online publication based in the Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies at Claremont McKenna College. 足彩app哪个是正规的 interview featured her recently published book Tencent: 足彩app哪个是正规的 Political Economy of China’s Surging Internet Giant, and discussed the business philosophies and ...
April 14, 2020
Becca Price and colleagues present at the 2020 UW Teaching & Learning Symposium—an event held online this year
IAS faculty member Becca Price and her colleagues presented a video presentation about their work in STEP-UP—Science Teaching Experience Program for Upcoming Ph.D.s. This program helps Ph.D. students at UW in science fields learn how to teach, and it mentors them during their first teaching experience. Our program uses Design Based Research to identify the most successful components of ...
April 8, 2020
Christian Anderson publishes Urbanism without Guarantees
IAS faculty member Christian Anderson has published Urbanism without Guarantees: 足彩app哪个是正规的 Everyday Life of a Gentrifying West Side Neighborhood with the University of Minnesota Press. Based on extensive ethnographic work among residents from a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood of New York City, the book lays out an unconventional way of understanding how everyday life is intimately connected to some of the most consequential economic and cultural dynamics shaping urban space today. ...
April 8, 2020
Dan Berger?awarded grant to study labor movement origins of affirmative action
IAS faculty member Dan Berger was awarded a Faculty Labor Research Grant by the UW Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies to study the labor movement origins of the fight for affirmative action in the 1960s and 1970s. In particular, he is looking at how working class Black organizers sought affirmative action across three interrelated domains: the university, labor unions, and ...
April 6, 2020
Becca Price joins panel that troubleshoots online instruction
IAS faculty member Becca Price joined a panel discussion sponsored by the American Society of Cell Biology that helped instructors trouble shoot problems coming up as they switch rapidly to online instruction. Along with other faculty members from a mix of community colleges and state universities, the panelists talked about strategies for supporting online communities during this global health crisis and ...
April 6, 2020
Dan Berger: In a Pandemic, Prisons are a Problem
IAS faculty member Dan Berger published an article in the UW Center for Human Rights website on the problem pandemics pose for prison. "While Washington state has ostensibly abolished the death penalty, its approach to incarceration now puts thousands of people at risk–in and out of prison–of a most painful and preventable death due to coronavirus," Berger writes. "足彩app哪个是正规的 safest measure to “flatten the curve” ...
March 27, 2020
A search to find and map happy places
When you think about mapping, most people immediately think about geography. Layered onto that might be cultural sites, the current political landscape or, these days, census demographics. But for IAS faculty members Jin-Kyu Jung and Ted Hiebert, the most intriguing possibilities lie in concepts that resist visualization. ...
March 24, 2020