RIP Seminars for Spring 2012
Tuesdays at 4 pm in LB1-205
April 10 - "Emptiness, Mindfulness, and the Sustainable Life: Insights from Japanese Aesthetics, Poetry, and Philosophy" Steven W. Collins, Associate Professor, Science and Technology Program and Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences and Amie Heisserman, Undergraduate Student, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences
April 17 - "Coffee Science in Nicaragua: A Retrospective" Chuck Jackels, Professor, Science and Technology Program and Computing and Software Systems
April 24 - "Children's Meanings of Community: Applying Qualitative GIS to Child-Orientated Research" Jin-Kyu Jung, Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences
May 8 - "My Place in Puget Sound, Part 2: Understanding Students' Sense of Place in Relation to the Environment" Carrie Tzou, Assistant Professor, Education Program
May 15 - "Sustainable Business: Oxymoron? Smokescreen? or Strategic Imperative?" Kevin Laverty, Associate Professor, Business Program
May 22 - "'We are the Conspiracy' An Oral History of the Seattle Liberation Front, The Day After Demonstration and the Seattle 7 Trial" Linda Watts, Professor, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences
Research-In-Progress seminar series featuring UW Bothell investigators discussing their research, are open to interested faculty, students and staff. The aim of this series is to foster interdisciplinary communication/collaboration to increase awareness of work currently being done by UW faculty.
Past Research in Progress Sessions:
January 10 - "Building Student, Staff and Organizational Capacity; Collaborative Community Based Program Evaluation (CCBP)" Shauna Carlisle, Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences
January 17 - "Creating and Maintaining Great Teams: Team Mindset, Flow and Self-efficacy" David Socha, Assistant Professor, Computing and Software Systems
January 24 - "An Overview of Air Quality Research in the Jaffe Research Group" Jesse Ambrose, Post-doctoral Research Associate and Lecturer, Science and Technology
January 31 - "Night and Day on Planet 4-Earth." Peter Littig, Assistant Professor, Science and Technology
February 13 - 16 - TIC Talks at the Chancellor's Forum on Exploring Innovation and Creativity
February 21 - "It may be green, but is it just? Utility-scale wind energy in the Pacific Northwest" Gwen Ottinger, Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences
February 28 - "Countering an Ecology of Violence: The Ethical Complexity of Curriculum Leadership" Pamela Bolotin Joseph, Senior Lecturer, Education Program and Edward Mikel, Interim Dean and Core Faculty, Antioch University, Seattle WA
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October 18 - "Game-Themed Computer Science EducationL Empowering the Faculty." Kelvin Sung, Professor, Computing and Software Systems
October 25 - "Having the Right People: A Study of Team Composition and Performance." Deanna Kennedy, Assistant Professor, Business
November 8 - "Social and Civic Development Through Engaged Scholarship: Building Capacity and Assessing Outcomes." Shauna Carlisle, Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences; Karen Ericson, Director, Community-Based Learning and Research, The Teaching and LEarning Center; Karen Gourd, Assistant Professor, Education; and Keith Nitta, Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences
November 15 - "Kinesthetics in Mathematics Education." Robin Angotti, Associate Professor, Education
November 22 - "Leadership and Entrepreneurial Resilience." Alan Boss, Assistant Professor, Business
November 29 - "The Financing Choices of American Consumers: The Influence of Cognitive Disposition, Material Values, and Quantitative Literacy." Cinnamon Hillyard, Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences; and Peter Nye, Associate Professor, Business
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April 12: Hazel Asuncion, Assistant Professor, Computing and Software Systems, “Automated Traceability Techniques for Software Engineering and e-Science.”
April 19: Kristy Leissle, Lecturer, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences and Center for University Studies Program, “The Politics of a Chocolate Bar: From Single Origins to Craft Market Innovations”
April 26: Kristin Gustafson, Lecturer, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences and Center for University Studies Program, “Grassroots, Activist Media: Balancing Loyalties to Community, Activism, and Journalism”
May 10: Christopher Wade, Assistant Professor, Nursing Program, “Will Telling People About their genetic Susceptibility for Developing Common Diseases Improve the Effectivenss of Public Health Prevention Efforts?”
May 17: Betheny Gross, Senior Research Analyst, Center for Reninventing Public Education, “Getting the Teachers They Want: Hiring Teachers for Autonomous Charter Schools”
May 25: "Discourse 2011" - A Gala Dinner Celebration of Research-In-Progress featuring 5 minute "lightning talks" by UW Bothell faculty discussing new and cutting edge research.
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January 8: Rob Turner, Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, “Applications of 3-D High Resolution Measurements of Nitrate Concentrations In and Around Puget Sound (and other Adventures in Water Quality).”
January 18: Kimberly Williams-Guillén, Acting Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, “Investigating Cryptic Trophic Interactions Through Molecular Scatology -- The Diets of Insect-Eating Bats in the Neotropics.”
January 25: Carol Zander, Principal Lecturer, Computing and Software Systems, "Threshold Concepts: Investigating the Learning Process."
February 8: Tony Smith, Assistant Professor, Education Program, “Assessing Adolescent English Language Learning Students’ Recall of Informational Texts Using Scaffolded Prompts.”
February 15: Peter Littig, Assistant Professor, Science and Technology Program, “Playing Games in the Classroom: A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Collaborative Group Work.”
February 22: Wayne Au, Assistant Professor, Education Program, “Of Automatons and Activists: High-stakes Testing, the Control of Teaching, and the Resistance of Teachers.”
Special Brown Bag RIP - Thursday, March 3 at 12:30 pm in LB1-205: Peter Richardson, Lecturer, Center for University Studies and Programs, "The Imaginary Organization: Play and Work on Shopfloors."
March 8: Rebecca Price, Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, "Stress and Sea Snail Size: Submersion,Selection and Students."
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October 19, 2010 - Carrie Tzou, Education - "My Place in Puget Sound: Applying Ethnographic Findings about Youths' Sense of Place in Ocean Education"
October 26, 2010 - Tayfun Keskin, Business - "You can Leave When the Systems are in Place: an analytical model of collaborative information technology moderation in dyanmic teamwork with team member departure"
November 9, 2010 - Peter Littig, Science & Technology - "Playing Games in the Classroom: A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Collaborative Group Work" Postponed
November 16, 2010 - Deanna Kennedy, Business Program, "Examinging team collaboration to learn about process (in)effectiveness.
November 23, 2010 - Kimberly Williams-Guillen, Assistant Professor, Interdiscplinary Arts & Sciences - "Investgating Cryptic Trophic Interactions through Molecular Scatology - The Diets of Insect-eating Bats in the Neotropics" Postponed
November 30, 2010 - Eric Salathe, Science & Technology - "Regional Climate Modeling Research: simulating pathways for climate change impact"