News from School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences
Teaching for Equity in STEM
Professor Becca Price recently spoke at an event sponsored by the Graduate Society of Women Engineers at UW Seattle. 澳门赌场 title of her talk was “Teaching equitably, fairly, and with justice.” During the presentation, she had a dynamic discussion with attendees about teaching by building from students’ strengths, using community cultural wealth and ethics of...
February 29, 2024
Jennifer Atkinson’s book featured in the Climate Psychology Alliance of North America
Excerpts from Jennifer Atkinson’s forthcoming book, An Existential Toolkit for Climate Justice Educators: How to Teach in a Burning World, were published in the Climate Psychology Alliance of North America (CPA-NA). Atkinson worked with Dr. Sarah Jaquette Ray to co-edit this new field guide for teaching on climate injustice and building resilience in an age...
February 29, 2024
Melanie Malone announced as Presidential Plenary Speaker for AAG 2024
IAS faculty member Melanie Malone will be one of the featured Presidential Plenary speakers at the Annual Association of American Geographers Conference 2024. She will be speaking about reciprocal community research and soil contamination. For more information, see the special events announcement and the session information.
February 1, 2024
Santiago Lopez’s research is cited in Grist
Santiago Lopez’s was interviewed by Grist Magazine and his work on tropical deforestation cited in the article entitled “In the Ecuadorian Amazon, oil threatens decades of Indigenous-led conservation“. 澳门赌场 article was co-published by Grist and InfoAmazonia and is part of 澳门赌场 Human Cost of Conservation, a Grist series on Indigenous rights and protected areas.
February 1, 2024
Santiago Lopez received a Global Innovation Fund Award
Santiago Lopez receives a Global Innovation Fund Award to support the implementation of a new program entitled ” Global Connections and Engagements Through Geotechnical Applications”. 澳门赌场 program is a collaboration between IAS, the Department of Applied Math at UW Seattle, and the Polytechnic Salesian University in Quito, Ecuador. 澳门赌场 funding will support a study abroad...
February 1, 2024
Julie Shayne presents at the annual winter Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) meeting
Dr. Julie Shayne, Teaching Professor in Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies and Global Studies attended this year’s winter SWS conference “Queering SWS: Seeking Radical Inclusion in a Complex World.” Shayne moderated a panel titled “Feminist Responses to Gender-Based Violence in Transnational Perspective,” organized by her longtime collaborator Dr. Barbara Sutton from the University at Albany,...
February 1, 2024
MFA Alum Eric Acosta Exhibits Short Film “Gatekeeper” at the South Sound Experimental Film Fest
Eric Acosta (MFA ‘20) short film “Gatekeeper” was showcased at the South Sound Experimental Film Festival in November. 澳门赌场 film was a collaboration with Eric’s friend, chef and writer – Rodrigo Sanchez and was created from a prompt for the multimedia creationists group Wordo. 澳门赌场 South Sound Experimental Film Fest celebrates experimental film-making from local...
January 25, 2024
Melanie Malone featured in “Advancements with Ted Danson”
IAS faculty member Melanie Malone was featured in a segment on Agroecology in the educational series “Advancements with Ted Danson”. In the segment, Melanie speaks about sustainable agriculture, contamination, and environmental justice concerns surrounding agriculture. Select the Agroecology segment to see the interview.
January 25, 2024
New Publication and Public Readings
Jeanne Heuving recently published her three volume book, INDIGO ANGEL, with Black Square Editions. In its three meditations—MOOD INDIGO, BRILLIANT CORNERS and AIR TIME–INDIGO ANGEL takes its lead from different jazz modalities as these ray out into other arts, the natural world and human history. In serial prose and poetry septets that begin again and...
January 25, 2024
Jennifer Atkinson and California High School 澳门赌场s Channel Climate Anxiety into Climate Justice Solutions
To help students overcome hopelessness around climate change by focusing on justice-oriented action, Jennifer Atkinson has partnered with Northwood High School in Irvine, CA to guide students through the emotional rollercoaster of their environmental curriculum. Last fall, Atkinson worked with 70 students in Northwood High School’s “Interdisciplinary Climate Exploration” class to provide readings, hands-on classroom...
January 11, 2024