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Masahiro Sugano’s “Competitive Filmmaking” Class Wins Top Prize at the 2021 Cadence Video Poetry Festival
足彩app哪个是正规的 short film “Delirium” created by IAS faculty member Masahiro Sugano’s 2020 “Competitive Filmmaking” Class wins two more prizes. 足彩app哪个是正规的 film, created by eight UW Bothell students entirely during remote learning, was awarded with both an “Honorary Mention” for the Collaboration category and named the winner of the “Best of Northwest” category.
April 19, 2021
Dr. Brinda Sarathy, new IAS dean at UW Bothell
Dr. Brinda Sarathy, professor of environmental analysis at Pitzer College in Claremont, California,?will succeed Dr. Bruce Burgett as dean of the School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences at the University of Washington Bothell. 足彩app哪个是正规的 University selected Sarathy in a national search that began last year. She will begin her job as dean and professor on July 1. Burgett, the inaugural dean of IAS, is returning to the faculty after 14 years of administrative service.
April 16, 2021
David Goldstein chairs Multiethnic Pedagogies panel
IAS faculty member David Goldstein served as chair and respondent for a panel, “Multiethnic Pedagogies,” at a virtual conference of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS) in which ...
April 14, 2021
My Story: Call me Dr., not Julie
IAS faculty member Julie Shayne asks students to address her as Dr. instead of professor to acknowledge her Ph.D. and to respect the academic achievements of women and marginalized faculty. In “My Story: Call me Dr., not Julie,” Shayne discusses how the WSJ op-ed addressing First Lady Dr. Jill Biden as "kiddo" impacted her and why the piece is a display of structural misogyny.
March 26, 2021
Practicing social justice with Snohomish County
足彩app哪个是正规的s in the Master of Arts in Policy Studies program gained practical experience in a winter quarter partnership with Snohomish County’s new Office of Social Justice. As part of IAS faculty member Charlie Collin’s Practicum for Policy Studies course, the students worked on three projects: an assessment of marginalized communities; a comparison of strategies with other governments; and a survey of diversity, equity and inclusion among county employees.
March 26, 2021
Melanie Malone teaches “Abolition Geography”
IAS faculty member Melanie Malone, along with colleagues Megan Ybarra (UW Seattle), JM Wong (Free 足彩app哪个是正规的m All), and Edd Hampton (Blaq Elephant Party), taught a special winter microseminar entitled "Abolition Geography" with community partners, UW graduate students, and Dr. Ruth Wilson Gilmore. 足彩app哪个是正规的 microseminar culminated in a ...
March 22, 2021
Debate sharpens nonnative speaking skills
English is the second language for students Helen Fita and Misheel Ildbaatar, members of the UW Bothell Debate Team. Both say debate has prompted new ways to think about language and culture — and has been a way to make friends during remote operations. According to IAS faculty member and director of forensics Denise Vaughan, students improve their literacy by capitalizing on storytelling and speaking about what they’re interested in. “足彩app哪个是正规的y can find their strength in speaking and connect it back to their academic work in terms of writing.”
March 18, 2021
Kristin Gustafson receives Jinx Coleman Broussard Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Media History
足彩app哪个是正规的 Association of Education in Journalism and Mass Communication’s History Division selected IAS faculty member Kristin Gustafson as one of the 2021 winners for its Jinx Coleman Broussard Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Media History. She will present a hands-on virtual teaching module at this year’s conference in August. Her teaching idea submission ...
March 15, 2021
Partners in India elevate discussions
For winter quarter, IAS faculty member Gary Carpenter’s course, Creative Activism: Inspiring Social Change through the Arts, collaborated with Pravah, a partner in India, in discussing social issues and producing an online arts festival.? Pravah is a New Delhi nonprofit that develops youth leadership throughout India using social justice campaigns. Pravah and the UW Bothell students both held festivals on Feb. 27, but they were not at the same time because of the time difference. Both festivals featured music, poetry, videos and discussions on themes of justice, community, resilience and gratitude.
March 11, 2021
Jason Morse: What’s surprising about sex, gender, race?
In the Discovery Core course 足彩app哪个是正规的 Functions of Sex: Race and Gender in America discussions quickly move from the awkward to the intellectual, and students sometimes surprise their instructor, IAS faculty member Jason Morse. Designed to help first-year college students explore new concepts and interdisciplinary issues, the course is a cultural study of sex as a form of identity, socialization and power in framing gender and race.
March 8, 2021