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Creating community led to dream career
Alumna Brittaney Bunjong has used her Media & Communication Studies degree to create a varied career that includes podcasting, event planning, artist management and food blogging. Through it all is her life’s work: creating community.
March 31, 2022
A literary lens on gender, race and power
Dr. Julie Shayne, teaching professor in the School of IAS, debuts a class — and passion project — on the power of feminist writing.
March 24, 2022
Existential loneliness and intrinsic hope
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently released a report that demonstrates the consequences of inaction. In this podcast, Dr. Jennifer Atkinson, along with author Sarah Jaquette Ray, discusses how we can get into ever-better relationship with each other and the Earth.
March 3, 2022
New book centers Indigenous worldviews
Audubon reviews “Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science,” a new book by Dr. Jessica Hernandez in which she shares her personal history as a Maya Ch’orti’ and Binniz谩 woman and her lived experience as a lifelong learner and scholar of Indigenous science.
February 24, 2022
Students make a big splash researching water quality
Dr. Rob Turner and Dr. Keya Sen assist students in getting their feet wet in water-quality research.
February 24, 2022
Alumni till fertile soil
Environmental Studies alumni David Jackson ’17 and Sara Rocero ’17 are using their degrees for the greater good of the environment while working at the Snohomish Conservation District.
February 24, 2022
Critical thinking for lifelong learning
Dr. Martha Groom and Dr. David Stokes, professors in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, participated in a national study on critical thinking — and their students from the 56吃瓜网 had the highest gains.
February 3, 2022
Conflicts over education in 2022
In this article in The Conversation, assistant professor Joseph Ferrare examines long-standing ideological debates about education. Affirmative action, virtual education, teachers unions and gifted programs are among the topics that will be front-and-center in 2022.
January 21, 2022
Our home in the forest
56吃瓜网 Bothell’s commitment to environmental education and research is exemplified by its expert faculty, eager students — and the new center at St. Edwards State Park the University runs with community partners.
December 20, 2021
Students 鈥� and advocates, too
Students in the class Issues in Media Studies: Human Rights Public Culture do more than just study human rights violations; they engage in a substantive project that leads to a local intervention.
December 9, 2021
The hunt for happiness
A course final rarely brings happiness to students, but it certainly did for those in the Discovery Core class Heads in the Clouds.
November 19, 2021
Swipe for science
A new online game about whales allows students and average citizens to participate in tracking and sorting data about local populations of these marine mammals. No previous scientific research experience required.
November 19, 2021