Announcements and Upcoming Events

 February 13-16, 2012

IAS Assistant Professor Ted Hiebert and student exhibitors will discuss the project On the Ceiling, an exhibition of student work created as a visual response project, inspired by the novel Au Plafond (On the Ceiling) by Éric Chevillard. The images will be on display throughout Innovation Forum week.  

IAS Assistant Professor, Gwen Ottinger, is chairing a panel titled Innovation Squared: Why Innovations in Technology Require Innovations in Ethics.  Researchers from diverse disciplines will give examples of cutting edge technology that is creating new ethical dilemmas; explain why our current best thinking about ethics cannot fully resolve them; and sketch out the ethical innovations needed to act well in the context of rapid technological advance. 

Student, Alumni, and Faculty News

Policy Studies

Students

Dylan D'Entremont  has been hard at work gathering data for his capstone research project. Thanks to his work as a research intern at the Center for Education Data and Research (CEDR) over the last year, he has access to great information and supportive colleagues. Dylan's capstone looks at the ramifications of collectively bargained teacher transfer dates on the late hiring of teachers in Washington.

Jenelle Van Eynde was recently promoted from a Program Assistant to a Program Coordinator at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Jenelle has been with the foundation for just over two years. She is excited about her new position with the Global Libraries Initiative, which is part of the foundation's Global Development Program.  As the PC on Global Libraries , she will spend half of her time serving as a liaison and coordinator for GL grantmaking/ grant management activities and contracts pipeline management. The other half of her time will be spent on information management, including project managing the GL Toolkit, an online community of grantees, consultants and staff.

Congratulations, Jenelle.

Alumni

Mariah Ortiz (2010) facilitated a panel discussion titled "Civil Rights and Human Rights in Seattle" as part of the Seattle Human Rights Commission's 30th annual Martin Luther King celebration.  Professor Bruce Kochis served as a panelist. Thanks, Mariah and Bruce, for keeping the dialogue alive! 

Cultural Studies 

Alumni

Trina Ballard (2010) returns for her second period of research on the Costa Rican surfing subculture this February, observing differences in expression of identities between surfing Costa Ricans and surfer tourists. She seeks to investigate how these groups position themselves; while one group attempts to penetrate the local landscape and participate as the authentic surfing self, the other resident group keeps boundaries in place between locals and non-locals by communicating tourists' "outsider" identity, predominantly expressed by a paid-for-service relationship.

Rosemary Ferreria (2010) has been hired by Big Fish Games where she has launched over 60 games, exclusively in Portugese. Rosemary told us, "The protagonist in these games is 80% of the time a woman. In the other 20% it's usually gender neutral. In a small way I feel I'm empowering women. If they can solve a mystery and save the day in the virtual world they'll believe they can do it in the real world. At least that's how I feel."  Thanks, Rosemary, keep up the good work.  

Priya Frank (2011) recently spent a week in New York City as a participant with the Association of Performing Arts Presenters' Emerging Leadership Institute (ELI).  The ELI invites a select group of emerging leaders to be part of an intensive two-day seminar that provides participants with many of the critical leadership skills they need now and in the future.  More on Priya's experience may be found on her blog.  Congratulations, Priya.  

IAS Graduate Faculty

Nives Dolsak, Associate Professor, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, is one of the two faculty who received 2011/2012 competitive grant to give research presentations and set up student exchange between University of Washington and University of Ljubljana, Department of Economics.

Congratulations, Nives.

SEIU, Government Affairs Manager, Tukwila
Open until filled    

The Council of State Governments ERC, Policy Analyst, Seattle and New York
Open until filled  

Washington State Budget & Policy Center, Seattle

Development Manager  

Director of Operations

Outreach Coordinator  

Open until filled  

Internships

Cascade Bicycle Club, Political Communications Intern, Seattle
Volunteer, 18 hrs/wk
Closes: Feb 17

Cascade Bicycle Club, Political Program Intern, Seattle
Volunteer, 18 hrs/wk
Closes: Feb 17

U.S. Dept of State, Fall Internships, D.C. or overseas
Volunteer or paid (limited number), 40 hrs/wk
Closes: Mar 2

World Affairs Council, Spring internships, Seattle
Positions within: International Visitor Program, Community Programs, Communications, Global Classroom, Administration
Volunteer, 12-15 hrs/wk
Closes: March 9 

WA State House of Representatives, Public Affairs Intern, Olympia
Volunteer
Closes: Mar 16

National Asian Pacific Center on Aging, Communication/Policy Intern, Seattle
HuskyJobs #: 58872
Open until filled

Futurewise, Political Evaluation Intern, Seattle
Volunteer, 20 hrs/wk
Open until filled