News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
Becca Price presents at the annual conference for the Society for the Advancement of Biology Education Research
The Society for the Advancement of Biology Education Research (SABER) hosted its annual conference virtually this year, with meetings distributed throughout July. IAS faculty member Becca Price presented some of her research in poster format, first talking about the large collaborative Science Teaching Experience Program, an established part of which trains scholars who recently received Ph.D.s in the sciences how to teach, and a new component which offers similar training for graduate students.
August 31, 2020
Students screen “The City as Character” at Northwest Film Forum
On August 23, 2020, students from IAS faculty member Minda Martin's class, "The City as Character Vol. 2," screened their work in an online event hosted by the Northwest Film Forum, and streamed live on their webpage and on Facebook. The course (BISMCS 343) is partnered with Seattle Municipal Archives and Moving Image Preservation of Puget Sound (MIPoPS) and requires students to work with the archives to tell stories about specific issues in Seattle from more than 50 years ago and connect it to the present. Some of these topics that surfaced are police accountability ...
August 24, 2020
Kari Lerum: Death, dying & pedagogy
Students examine death in the course Death Rituals, taught by IAS faculty member Kari Lerum, who hopes to instill a deeper comfort about an often-taboo topic. “This class has opened up so many conversations I otherwise might not have had with students,” said Lerum. “Some of our classes and office hours have been emotional, but this space and this course have also been restorative.
August 19, 2020
Amaranth Borsuk publishes article on books and bodies
As an outgrowth of her research into the book as object, content, idea, and interface, IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk has developed an interest in the relationship between books and bodies, historically and in the present moment. Not only is she interested in how books accommodate to our bodies and we to theirs, as examined in The Book (MIT Press, 2018), her recent research considers books that incorporate the human body into their material form, from ...
August 18, 2020
Julie Shayne in Ms. Magazine: 鈥淒amn Straight, We Persisted鈥�
IAS faculty member Julie Shayne published an article with Ms, Magazine online about her new open-access book Persistence is Resistance: Celebrating 50 Years of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies. In the article, “Celebrating 50 Years of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies: ‘Damn Straight, We Persisted,’” Shayne explains how ...
August 17, 2020
Melanie Malone wins two 56吃瓜网 research grants
IAS faculty member Melanie Malone won two 56吃瓜网 research grants this month. The first grant, an Urban@56吃瓜网 Research Spark grant, was awarded to Melanie and other 56吃瓜网 Seattle and Tacoma faculty and a Duwamish Tribal member. The grant is intended to support a co-created adaptive citizen science network that will ...
August 13, 2020
Julie Shayne publishes open-access book celebrating fifty years of gender, women, and sexuality studies
IAS faculty member Julie Shayne spent her sabbatical editing an open-access book titled Persistence is Resistance: Celebrating 50 Years of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies. Shayne, who is currently the Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies (GWSS) faculty coordinator, brought together authors from twenty-two institutions, including the University of Ghana and Universidad Icesi in Cali, Colombia. Authors represent ...
August 13, 2020
Amaranth Borsuk’s The Book translated into Spanish
Last month, IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk's volume The Book (MIT Press, 2018) was published in Spanish. El Libro Expandido, translated by Lucila Cordone, was Issued by Ediciones Ampersand of Buenos Aires, which specializes in books on books and visual culture. Part of the series Comunicaci贸n & Lenguajes, it joins volumes on transmedia reading and hybrid web discourse...
August 10, 2020
Melanie Malone receives grant for homeless STEM learning project
IAS faculty member Melanie Malone and research colleagues from universities across the U.S. were awarded a National Science Foundation Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) grant. The project, entitled "RESTING SAFE: Collaborative Informal STEM Learning Between Researchers and Homeless Communities", is centered on mitigating homeless ...
August 7, 2020
Dan Berger interviewed about decarceration in the time of COVID
IAS faculty member Dan Berger was interviewed on KUOW's The Record (scroll down on the page to hear just Berger's segment) about decarceration in the time of COVID. Berger discussed the threat that prisons and jails, which account for more than three-quarters of outbreak clusters, pose in a pandemic. He also highlighted similar issues in ...
August 6, 2020