Autumn 2020 UW Tacoma Publications

The library is excited to share the scholarly work of our community with campus through Digital Commons, author profiles, and the Library blog. The list below includes all known books, book chapters, edited volumes, and peer-reviewed articles that were first published (including online) between September 30 – December 31, 2020, as well as a list of sponsored research from the Office of Research.

An unlocked symbol appears beside all works that are available Open Access (OA), which means that it “is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions” (Peter Suber). We call attention to OA work because it enables the wider community to engage with it, and reflects the university’s central value of access. To be available OA, the work must be either published in an OA journal; shared via a disciplinary OA repository; or deposited in UW Tacoma Digital Commons. If you have questions about how to openly share your work, please contact us.

Articles

Ji-Hyun Ahn (SIAS/CAC) with co-author: “Between Love and Hate: The New Korean Wave, Japanese Female Fans, and Anti-Korean Sentiment in Japan” in Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia, DOI: 10.17477/JCEA.2020.19.2.179

Eyhab Al-Masri (SET) with co-author: “Using TOPSIS for Enhancing Service Provisioning Across Fog Environments” in 2020 IEEE Eurasia Conference on IOT, Communication and Engineering (ECICE), DOI: 10.1109/ECICE50847.2020.9301927

Eyhab Al-Masri (SET) and Hossam Fattah (SET) with co-authors: “Privacy-Risk Detection in Microservices Composition Using Distributed Tracing” in 2020 IEEE Eurasia Conference on IOT, Communication and Engineering (ECICE), DOI: 10.1109/ECICE50847.2020.9301952

Michael Allen (SIAS/SHS): “The Public’s Historian” in Middle West Review, DOI: 10.1353/mwr.2020.0017

Yajun An (SIAS/SAM) with co-authors: “High Definition image classification in Geoscience using Machine Learning”

Yajun An (SIAS/SAM) and Orlando Baiocchi (SET) with co-authors: “Computational model for temperature in tree trunk for energy harvesting” in 2020 IEEE International IOT, Electronics and Mechatronics Conference (IEMTRONICS), DOI: 10.1109/IEMTRONICS51293.2020.9216373

Yan Bai (SET), Chunming Gao (SET), and Bryan Goda (SET): “Lessons Learned from Teaching Cybersecurity Courses During Covid-19” in SIGITE ‘20, DOI: 10.1145/3368308.3415394

Connie J. Beck (SIAS/SBHS) with co-authors: “Families Who Return to the Child Welfare System after a Previous Termination of Parental Rights: Few in Number, High in Court Utilization” in Family Court Review, DOI: 10.1111/fcre.12522

Connie J. Beck (SIAS/SBHS) with co-authors: “Intimate partner violence (IPV) and family dispute resolution: A randomized controlled trial comparing shuttle mediation, videoconferencing mediation, and litigation” in Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, DOI: 10.1037/law0000278

Alison Cardinal (SIAS/CAC) and Emma J. Rose (SIAS/CAC) with co-author: “Language as Participation: Multilingual User Experience Design” in Proceedings of the 38th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication, DOI: 10.1145/3380851.3416763

Erin A. Casey (SWCJ) with co-author: “The Enactment of a “Postfeminist Sensibility”: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Teens’ Constructions of Dating Abuse Among Their Peers” in Affilia, DOI: 10.1177/0886109920978558

Erin A. Casey (SWCJ) with co-authors: “Gender Matters: Infusing a Gender Analysis into the “Healthy Development of All Youth” Grand Challenge” in Social Work, DOI: 10.1093/sw/swaa035

Erin A. Casey (SWCJ) with co-authors: “Life Course and Socioecological Influences on Gender-Equitable Attitudes Among Men: A Scoping Review” in Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, DOI: 10.1177/1524838020977140

Wei Cheng (SET) with co-authors: “A Blockchain Based Privacy-Preserving Cloud Service Level Agreement Auditing Scheme” in Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-59016-1_45

Vahid Dargahi (SET) with co-authors: “A Pyramid-Type (PT) Multilevel Converter Topology” in 2020 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), DOI: 10.1109/ECCE44975.2020.9236255

Vahid Dargahi (SET) with co-authors: “Active Voltage Balancing and Thermal Performance Analysis of Dual Flying-Capacitor Active Neutral-Point-Clamped (DFC-ANPC) Inverters” in IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2020.3036570

Vahid Dargahi (SET) with co-authors: “Fault Tolerant Isolated Dual Active DC-DC Converter Using WBG Devices” in 2020 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), DOI: 10.1109/ECCE44975.2020.9236351

Martine De Cock (SET) with co-author: “Cognitive load detection from wrist-band sensors” in Adjunct Proceedings of the 2020 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2020 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers, DOI: 10.1145/3410530.3414428

Martine De Cock (SET) with co-authors: “Malicious DNS Tunneling Detection in Real-Traffic DNS Data” in 2020 IEEE International Conference on Big Data 

Kivanc Dincer (SET) and Mohamed Ali (SET) with co-authors: “A Semi-Automated System for Exploring and Fixing OSM Connectivity” in Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, DOI: 10.1145/3397536.3422347

Kivanc Dincer (SET) and Mohamed Ali (SET) with co-authors: “An Interactive System to Compare, Explore and Identify Discrepancies across Map Providers” in Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, DOI: 10.1145/3397536.3422348

Rachel Endo (Education): “On Holding Various Truths to (Not) Be Self-Evident: Leading During the Dual Pandemics of 2020 as a Racialized Body” in Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, DOI: 10.1177/1532708620960171

Rachel Endo (Education): “Retaining and Supporting Faculty Who Are Black, Indigenous, and People of Color: The Promise of a Multi-Leveled Mentoring-Partnership Model” in Multicultural Perspectives, DOI: 10.1080/15210960.2020.1845178

Robin Evans-Agnew (NHL) with co-authors: “Measuring Our Success in Teaching Latinos about Asthma and Home Environments: Lessons Learned from an Intervention Developed through Photovoice” in Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action, DOI: 10.1353/cpr.2020.0043

Tessa B. Francis (PSI) and co-authors: “Can we manage marine mammal bycatch effectively in low-data environments” in Journal of Applied Ecology, DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.13816

Chunming Gao (SET) and co-authors: “A brain-computer interface system for smart home control based on single trial motor imagery EEG” in International Journal of Sensor Networks DOI: 10.1504/IJSNET.2020.111780

Chunming Gao (SET) and co-authors: “A contactless sensing system for indoor fall recognition based on channel state information” in International Journal of Sensor Networks, DOI: 10.1504/IJSNET.2020.111237

Katie Haerling (Adamson) (NHL) with co-author: “Two-by-Two Factorial Design” in Clinical Simulation in Nursing, DOI: 10.1016/j.ecns.2020.06.004

Sarah C. Hampson (SIAS/PPPA): “Fixing Parental Leave: The Six Month Solution by Gayle Kaufman (review)” in Social Forces, DOI: 10.1093/sf/soaa044

Lisa M. Hoffman (Urban Studies): “Volunteering for the environment in China: The urban as a terrain of problematization” in HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, DOI: 10.1086/712097

Michael Honey (SIAS/SHS): “Norway’s Democratic Challenge: Revisiting the Third Way” in Labor, DOI: 10.1215/15476715-8643472

Peter Horak (SIAS/SAM) and co-authors: “Characterization of basic 5-value spectrum functions through Walsh-Hadamard transform” in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, DOI: 10.1109/TIT.2020.3044059

Juhua Hu (SET) with co-authors: “Efficient Kernel Transfer in Knowledge Distillation”

Athirai A. Irissappane (SET) with co-authors: “Leveraging GPT-2 for Classifying Spam Reviews with Limited Labeled Data via Adversarial Training”

Arthur S. Jago (Milgard) with co-authors: “Losing More than Money: Organizations’ Prosocial Actions Appear Less Authentic When Their Resources are Declining” in Journal of Business Ethics, DOI: 10.1007/s10551-020-04645-8

Shalini Sarin Jain (Milgard) and co-author: “Allegations of Sexual Misconduct: A View from the Observation Deck of Power Distance Belief” in  Journal of Business Ethics, DOI: 10.1007/s10551-020-04644-9

Shalini Sarin Jain (Milgard) with co-authors: “Economic Revival or Virus Containment? Economic System Justification in the Time of COVID-19”

Natalie Jolly (SIAS/SBHS): “Hemmed In? Considering the Complexities of Amish Womanhood” in Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies

Natalie Jolly (SIAS/SBHS): “Making Hay: Gendered Inquiry in Anabaptist Studies as Communal Endeavor” in Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies

Turan Kayaoglu (SIAS/PPPA): “Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment: A Global and Historical Comparison” in The Review of Faith & International Affairs, DOI: 10.1080/15570274.2020.1835001

Maureen C. Kennedy (SIAS/SAM) with co-authors: “How climate change and fire exclusion drive wildfire regimes at actionable scales” in Environmental Research Letters, DOI:  10.1088/1748-9326/abd78e

Maureen C. Kennedy (SIAS/SAM) with co-authors: “Model Predictions of Postwildfire Woody Fuel Succession and Fire Behavior Are Sensitive to Fuel Dynamics Parameters” in Forest Science DOI: 10.1093/forsci/fxaa036

JaeRan Kim (SWCJ) with co-author: “Examining the Intersection of Ethics and Adoption” in Adoption Quarterly, DOI: 10.1080/10926755.2020.1830326

Edward P. Kolodziej (SIAS/SAM) with co-authors: “Photolysis of Trenbolone Acetate Metabolites in the Presence of Nucleophiles: Evidence for Metastable Photoaddition Products and Reversible Associations with Dissolved Organic Matter” in Environmental Science & Technology, DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.0c03821

Sharon S. Laing (NHL) with co-authors: “Provider perceptions of mHealth engagement for low-resourced, safety-net communities” in Public Health Nursing, DOI: 10.1111/phn.12811

Wes Lloyd (SET) with co-authors: “The Serverless Application Analytics Framework: Enabling Design Trade-off Evaluation for Serverless Software” in Proceedings of the 2020 Sixth International Workshop on Serverless Computing, DOI: 10.1145/3429880.3430103

Thillainathan Logenthiran (SET) with co-authors: “Adaptive Protection for Microgrid with Distributed Energy Resources” in Electronics, DOI: 10.3390/electronics9111959

Eva Y. Ma (SIAS/SAM) with co-authors: “STEP Forward: Combining Formal and Informal Education to Develop Communication Skills that Augment Postdoctoral Training” in Journal of STEM Outreach, DOI: 10.15695/jstem/v3i1.12

Marc Mangel (PSI): “Sidney Holt on principles for the conservation of wild living resources, whaling in the Antarctic, and the Beverton–Holt stock–recruitment relationship” in ICES Journal of Marine Science, DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsaa187

Michael Mccourt (SET) with co-author: “Distributed Estimation of an Uncertain Environment using Belief Consensus and Measurement Sharing” in IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, DOI: 10.1109/SMC42975.2020.9283404

Michelle Montgomery (SIAS) with co-authors: “Bringing Indigenous and Earth Sciences, Knowledges, and Practices Together to Understand and Respond to COVID-19” in Journal of Indigenous Social Development

Sushil K. Oswal (SIAS/CAC) with co-author: “Culturally Situated Do-It-Yourself Instructions for Making Protective Masks: Teaching the Genre of Instructional Design in the Age of COVID-19” in Journal of Business and Technical Communication, DOI: 10.1177/1050651920959190

Emma J. Rose (SIAS/CAC) with co-authors: “Design research for medical devices in low resource environments” in IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference

Emma J. Rose (SIAS/CAC) with co-authors: “The Pedagogy of User Experience: Methods, Tools, and Approaches” in Proceedings of the 38th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication, DOI: 10.1145/3380851.3416787

Emma J. Rose (SIAS/CAC) with co-authors: “Preparing Future UX Professionals: Human Skills, Technical Skills, and Dispositions” in Proceedings of the 38th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication, DOI: 10.1145/3380851.3416774

Claudia Sellmaier (SWCJ) with co-authors: “Workforce participation of parents of children and youth with mental health difficulties: The impact of community services and supports” in Community, Work & Family, DOI: 10.1080/13668803.2020.1820954

Gim Seow (Milgard) with co-authors: “The U.S. versus international ethics codes for accountants: A computerized content analysis” in The International Journal of Digital Accounting Research, DOI: 10.4192/1577-8517-v20_5

Zhiquan Shu (SET) and co-authors: “A Study of Policies and Guidelines for Collecting, Processing, and Storing Coronavirus Disease 2019 Patient Biospecimens for Biobanking and Research” in Biopreservation and Biobanking, DOI: 10.1089/bio.2020.0099

Zhiquan Shu (SET) with co-authors: ”Management and Data Sharing of COVID-19 Pandemic Information” in Biopreservation and Biobanking, DOI: 10.1089/bio.2020.0134

Josh Tenenberg (SET) with co-authors: “How actions and words come to make sense in a continuously changing world of work: A case study from software development” in Semiotica, DOI: 10.1515/sem-2019-0002

Ankur Teredesai (SET) with co-authors: “Survey of Explainable Machine Learning with Visual and Granular Methods beyond Quasi-explanations”

Zhenyu Tian (Urban Waters), Melissa Gonzalez (Urban Waters), Edward P. Kolodziej (SIAS/SAM/Urban Waters), and co-authors: “A ubiquitous tire rubber–derived chemical induces acute mortality in coho salmon” in Science, DOI: 10.1126/science.abd6951

Zhenyu Tian (Urban Waters), Edward P Kolodziej (SIAS/SAM) and co-authors: “Developing Unique Nontarget High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry Signatures to Track Contaminant Sources in Urban Waters” in Environmental Science, DOI: 10.1021/acs.estlett.0c00749

Matthew Weinstein (Education): “Reflections on Bodies and Absences in the COVID-19 Interregnum” in Northwest Journal of Teacher Education, DOI: 10.15760/nwjte.2020.15.2.8

Weichao Yuwen (NHL) with co-authors: “Understanding preparation for preterm infant discharge from parents’ and healthcare providers’ perspectives: Challenges and opportunities” in Journal of Advanced Nursing, DOI: 10.1111/jan.14676

 

Books & Edited Volumes

Linda Dawson (SIAS): The Politics and Perils of Space Exploration (Springer International)

Lisa M. Hoffman (Urban Studies) and Mary L. Hanneman (SIAS/PPPA): Becoming Nisei: Japanese American Urban Lives in Prewar Tacoma (University of Washington Press)

Umit S. Kucuk (Milgard): Consumer Voice: The Democratization of Consumption Markets in the Digital Age (Springer International)

 

Book Chapters

Yonn Dierwechter (Urban Studies): “‘Urbanizations’ of green geopolitics: new state spaces in global unsustainability” in Handbook on the Changing Geographies of the State: New Spaces of Geopolitics (Edward Elgar)

Marian S. Harris (SWCJ): “Racial Bias as an Explanatory Factor for Racial Disproportionality and Disparities in Child Welfare” in Racial Disproportionality and Disparities in the Child Welfare System (Springer International)

Annie Nguyen (SIAS/CAC): “Reflection: Finding Home, Identity, and Meaning in Study Abroad Programs Targeted to Heritage Students” in Study Abroad and the Quest for an Anti-Tourism Experience. (Rowman & Littlefield)

Ingrid Walker (SIAS/CAC): “Women and the Politics of Pleasure in Critical Drug Studies” in The Impact of Global Drug Policy on Women: Shifting the Needle (Emerald)

*Note: This list comprises all known peer-reviewed publications first published, including on-line, during the Summer 2020 quarter (June 13- September 29, 2020), as well as books, book chapters, and edited volumes published during the same period and reported to the Library and/or found in Scopus or Google Scholar).

Autumn 2020 Sponsored Research

Congratulations to Weichao Yuwen, Nursing and Healthcare Leadership Assistant Professor, who is leading a project called “Coco” funded through UW’s CoMotion Innovation Gap Fund. This project aims to develop a platform that delivers on-demand, tailored, and empathetic support to family caregivers. A hybrid approach will be implemented that combines A.I and real-life coaching support in a self-learning system.

Congratulations to the following externally sponsored research award recipients at UW Tacoma who received new funding between September-December 2020

Yan Bai, School of Engineering and Technology
UW Tacoma GenCyber Camp for Middle School Students
National Security Agency (NSA)

GenCyber Tacoma hosts two separate one week-long, non-residential student camps that will engage a diverse spectrum of urban youth in the sciences and arts of cybersecurity.  UW Tacoma will utilize its well-established recruitment platforms and close partnership with Franklin Pierce Schools to target middle school students to engage 50 eighth and ninth grade students from demographic groups historically underrepresented in STEM fields. It is hoped in time this program will expand into other nearby school districts throughout Pierce County and into south King County, including Federal Way, Kent and Renton. This ongoing approach could provide a clearly laddered elevation of student capabilities and enhanced ability to track student outcomes through the University and into their careers. Through culturally responsive, hands-on and project-based pedagogy; youth will learn Cybersecurity First Principles, gain cybersecurity knowledge and skills, learn online safety practices and privacy techniques and will develop foundational knowledge of ethical use of technology and ultimately increase their interest in pursuing cybersecurity education and careers.

 

Wesley Lloyd, School of Engineering and Technology
Optimized and accessible cloud-based multi-omics workflows for the Cancer Research Data Commons
BIODEPOT, LLC/National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Cloud computing has emerged as a solution to address the challenges of storing and analyzing big data. However, the technical complexity required to provision and configure virtual servers has been a major barrier to widespread adoption of cloud technologies in cancer research. There is a clear opportunity for a platform that can deliver optimized analytical tools to the cancer community and integrate seamlessly with existing multi-omics databases and tools. To address the gap in cloud optimized analytical tools for cancer omics data, we have developed the Biodepot-workflow-builder (Bwb), a user-friendly graphical platform for building and executing bioinformatics workflows in the cloud.

 

Andy James, Center for Urban Waters
Monitoring and Prioritizing Contaminants of Emerging Concern (CEC) in Columbia River
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

This project will provide occurrence information on previously unmonitored contaminants such as endocrine disruptors in Columbia River and utilize a range of effects information to evaluate potential for harm to important species. This project specifically addresses the funding priority, “increased monitoring and access to data from monitoring in the Columbia River Basin with a focus on toxics with an impact on human health and fish and wildlife.”

 

Andy James, Center for Urban Waters
Contaminants of Emerging Concern (CEC) in Salmon Streams
King County Water and Land Resources Division/Environmental Protection Agency

This agreement with King County and UW Tacoma is a flow through project originating from EPA funding via WA State Department of Ecology and King County. UWT will provide services to King County to help characterize chemicals of emerging concern (CECs) in salmon bearing streams in the Cedar-Lake Washington and Duwamish-Green basins. CECs are rarely monitored in the aquatic environment and results of this project will help fill this data gap.

 

Ed Kolodziej, Center for Urban Waters
Development of Chemical Indicators to Detect, Track and Assess Pollutants
Washington State Department of Ecology

This project will improve water quality by identifying and quantifying a suite of chemical indicators representing legacy, novel and emerging chemical toxicants important to salmonid health and that impair water quality, especially in systems impacted by urban storm water. Prof. Kolodziej and his team will survey the occurrence of chemical indicators in regional watersheds, particularly those in relation to watershed restoration efforts and evaluate treatment systems for identified chemical removal performance.

 

Joel Baker, Center for Urban Waters
Puget Sound Action Agenda-Implementation Strategic, Science, Monitoring and Adaptive Management Analysis and Activities
Puget Sound Partnership

An expert coalition will guide, use, review, and revise scientific processes and information to support the development and adaptation of Action Agenda Vital Sign Implementation Strategies (IS). The coalition will collaborate with Strategic Initiative teams, the Partnership’s science panel, the science community, and other partners to characterize the state of knowledge about Vital Signs and their management; identify and address needs for research, monitoring, and modeling, including contributions from social sciences; design the science based adaptation of ISs; and synthesize science findings to improve the development of ISs and to communicate key messages from and about ISs. During the fourth year of this award, the UW Tacoma Puget Sound Institute (PSI) team will continue to (1) develop regional consensus that Implementation Strategies are credible depictions of the paths to recovery and protection and (2) increase confidence that plans for recovery and protection will deliver expected results.

 

Joel Baker and Tarang Khangaonkar, Center for Urban Waters
University of Washington Tacoma Salish Sea Modeling Center
City of Tacoma

Nutrient dynamics in Puget Sound may be playing a part in lower dissolved oxygen levels in parts of the Sound. UW Tacoma Puget Sound Institute is uniquely qualified to refine models and run scenarios that will provide insights into effects of various sources of nutrients on dissolved oxygen levels in Puget Sound. Expertise currently exists at Puget Sound Institute to run and refine the Salish Sea model. The overall objective of this agreement is to establish a modelling center and sustainable program of work at the UW Tacoma Puget Sound Institute, Center for Urban Waters that addresses regional modelling needs on access, stakeholder engagement, and model applications.

 

Tarang Khangaonkar, Center for Urban Waters
Salish Sea Model – Hydrodynamic Hindcast Solutions and Processing Support for a Zone-Of-No-Save Analysis
Nuka Research & Planning Group, LLC

Nuka Research and Planning Group, LLC (Nuka Research) has received a contract to conduct a Zone-Of-No-Save (ZONS) analysis in support of San Juan County’s (SJC) Oil Spill Risk Consequences Assessment. The ZONS analysis provides an estimate of the probability that an emergency response tow vessel (ERTV) could reach the location of a disabled vessel in time to achieve an emergency tow before the disabled vessel would drift aground. The analysis is expected to be conducted using Nuka Research’s proprietary model ZONS through a scenario-based application. The model provides probability estimates based on the scenario inputs, random samples of wind and current data drawn from historic winds, ocean current hind cast, and a ship drift trajectory algorithm. The Salish Sea Modeling Center (SSMC) at the University of Washington Tacoma Puget Sound Institute’s primary objective within the overall project is to provide wind and hydrodynamic hind cast solutions from the Salish Sea Model – Operational Forecast System (SSM-OFS) high resolution version for use with the ZONS model.

 

Emma Rose, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences
Understanding UX Teaching Practices in Technical and Professional Communication
Technical and Scientific Communication (CPTSC)

While Technical Communication and User Experience (UX) have long, intertwined histories, Technical and Professional Communication (TPC) programs have been slower to transition to preparing students for UX roles. In this research project, we will research existing teaching practices related to UX through a mixed method research project that includes a survey of TPC instructors about their current UX teaching practices, a corpus analysis of syllabi and assignments, and qualitative interviews with instructors of UX courses in TPC programs. The outcomes of this research will contribute to the development of best practices for teaching UX within TPC courses and programs. It will also help support the future creation of a repository of example teaching materials such as assignments and syllabi. This proposal responds to CPTSC grant opportunity as a curricular exploration that could lead to best or effective practices. UX is an important topic to the future of TPC and to date there has not been a large scale study trying to understand existing teaching practices related to UX.

 

Belinda Louie, School of Education
Teaching Engish Language Learners (TELL) Professional Development
US Department of Education (DOEd)

Project goals for TELL-PD aim at supporting educators to improve academic performance for English Learners (EL): 1) preservice teachers complete WA certification with EL endorsement license; 2) principals and in-service teachers complete hybrid professional development modules to improve EL instruction; 3) in-service teachers take online endorsement program; and 4) Parents, families, and community will expand and enhance their skills, strategies, and knowledge to communicate and to collaborate to support ELs’ learning.

 

Jose Rios, School of Education
The Next Generation of STEM Teacher Preparation in Washington State (NextGen-WA)
Western Washington University

A consortium of Washington State Colleges and Universities, in partnership with Washington’s Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI), P-12 educators, and other key stakeholders from business, government, and non-governmental organizations (NGO’s), seeks to transform science learning for all Washington State P-12 students by producing more, better prepared, and diverse elementary and secondary STEM Teachers. Cross-institutional Working Groups dedicated to improving 3 key components will research, create, and produce a set of materials and professional development workshops for Regional Teams of faculty and administrators from Institutions of Higher Education (IHEs), P-12 educators, and representatives from STEM businesses, NGO’s, and government agencies. These Regional Teams will in turn adapt, implement, and sustain teacher preparation program innovations tailored to their institutions and regions. Three capacity-building components: Organizational Change, Increasing the Diversity of the STEM teaching workforce, and Collaboration Building, will underlie the efforts of every Working Group and Regional Team.