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 January 1 – March 27, 2022, 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

Julia M Aguirre. (Education) with co-authors:  “Authenticity of Elementary Teacher Designed and Implemented Mathematical Modeling Tasks” in Mathematical Thinking and Learning, 0(0), 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1080/10986065.2022.2028225

Yan Bai (SET) with co-author: “Introducing Penetration Test with Case Study and Course Project in Cybersecurity Education” in Journal of The Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education, 9(1), 6. https://doi.org/10.53735/cisse.v9i1.148

Connie J. Beck(SBHS) with co-authors: “Advocacy services for survivors of intimate partner violence: Pivots and lessons learned during the COVID-19 quarantine in Tacoma, Washington” in Family Court Review, 60(2), 288–302. https://doi.org/10.1111/fcre.12642

Vahid Dargahi (SET) with co-authors: “A Cost-Effective Approach for Optimal Energy Management of a Hybrid CCHP Microgrid with Different Hydrogen Production Considering Load Growth Analysis” in  International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 47(10), 6569–6585. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2021.12.036

Heather Dillon (SET) with co-author: Parametric Analysis and Validation of Machine Learning in Chaotic Transitions of the Lorenz System  presented at the ASME 2021 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. https://doi.org/10.1115/IMECE2021-71766

Charles Emlet (SWCJ) with co-authors: “ Determinants of Physical and Mental Health Among LGBT Older Adult Caregivers” in Alzheimer’s & Dementia https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.056620

Charles Emlet (SWCJ) with co-authors: “The First Intervention Study Addressing Dementia Among LGBT Older Adults and their Caregivers: Lessons Learned. Alzheimer’s & Dementia  https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.056600

Tessa Francis (PSI) with co-authors: “ mmrefpoints: Projecting Long-Term Marine Mammal Abundance with bycatch” in Journal of Open Source Software https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.03888

Tessa Francis (PSI) with co-author: “Equivocal Associations Between Small-Scale Shoreline Restoration and Subtidal Fishes in an Urban Estuary” in Restoration Ecology  https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.13652

Andrew Franks and Y. Jenny Xiao (SIAS/SHS) with co-author: “ Racial Framing of Pandemic Outcomes has Conditional Indirect Effects on Support for COVID-19 Mitigation Policies: Examining Moral and Threat-Based Mediating Mechanisms” in Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, 22(1), 130–149. https://doi.org/10.1111/asap.12295

Donta s. Harper (SWCJ): “How to Influence Positive Change? Managers’ Involvement as Emotional Architects in the Solution for Relieving Forensic Examiners’ Workplace Stress” in Forensic Science International. Synergy, 4, 100214. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fsisyn.2021.100214

Matthew Harvey (PPPA/SAIS) with co-authors: “Law Enforcement Officers’ Bills of Rights and Police Violence,” in AEA Papers and Proceedings, vol. 112, pp. 174–177 doi: 10.1257/pandp.20221099.

Hee-Seok Kim (SET) “Editorial for the Special Issue on Advanced Energy Conversion and Storage Microdevices” in Micromachines, 13(1), 138. https://doi.org/10.3390/mi13010138

Angela E. Kitali (SET) with co-authors: “Safety Evaluation of an Adaptive Signal Control Technology Using an Empirical Bayes Approach” in  Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part A: Systems, 148(4), 04022008. https://doi.org/10.1061/JTEPBS.0000652

Angela E. Kitali (SET) with co-authors: “ Effect of Incident Impact Area Estimation Approaches on Secondary Crash Identification: A Case Study of Florida Turnpike” in Advances in Transportation Studies, 56, 127–142.

Edward P. Kolodziej (IAS) with co-authors: “ Assessing Reliability of Non-targeted High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry Fingerprints for Quantitative Source Apportionment in Complex Matrices” in  Analytical Chemistry, 94(6), 2723–2731. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.1c03202

Edward P. Kolodziej (IAS) with co-authors: Characterizing the Chemical Profile of Biological Decline in Stormwater-Impacted Urban Watersheds. Environmental Science & Technology, 56(5), 3159–3169. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.1c08274

Tomas M.Koontz (SIAS/SAM) with co-authors: “ Understanding Barriers and Opportunities for Diffusion of an Agricultural Decision-Support Tool: An Organizational Perspective” in  Journal of Hydrology, 607, 127584. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2022.127584

Seun-Jin Lee (SET) with co-authors: “Ammonia Flow Analysis in the Domestic Fertilizer Industry of South Korea” in  Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management, 24(2), 517–527. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10163-021-01338-w

Anna Lovász (SIAS/PPPA) with co-authors: “ Gender Differences in the Effect of Subjective Feedback in an Online Game” in Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 98, 101854. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socec.2022.101854

Eric Madfis (SWCJ) with co-author: “ Whitewashing Criminology: A Critical Tour of Cesare Lombroso’s Museum of Criminal Anthropology” in Critical Criminology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10612-021-09604-x

Patsy Maloney (NHL): “ The Multisite Nursing Professional Development Leader Competency Determination Study” in  Journal for Nurses in Professional Development. https://doi.org/10.1097/NND.0000000000000836

Patsy Maloney (NHL) with co-authors: “Development of the Nursing Professional Development Scope and Standards of Practice: Overview” in  Journal for Nurses in Professional Development, 38(2), 109–112. https://doi.org/10.1097/NND.0000000000000851

William McGuire (IAS): “Technical Progress and Induced Innovation in China: a Variable Profit Function Approach” in Journal of Productivity Analysis, 57(2), 177–191. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11123-021-00626-9

Will McKeithen (Urban Studies): “ Carceral nutrition: Prison food and the biopolitics of dietary knowledge in the neoliberal prison. Food and Foodways, 30(1–2), 58–81. https://doi.org/10.1080/07409710.2022.2030938

Will McKeithen (Urban Studies): “Carceral Nutrition: Prison Food and the Biopolitics of Dietary Knowledge in the Neoliberal Prison” in Food and Foodways, 30(1–2), 58–81. https://doi.org/10.1080/07409710.2022.2030938

Altaf Merchant (Milgard) with co-authors: “ The Development and Validation of a Chinese American Affiliation Scale” in Journal of Business Research, 143, 331–345. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.01.056

Anderson Nascimento and Martine De Cock(SET) with co-authors: “Training Differentially Private Models with Secure Multiparty Computation” in ArXiv:2202.02625 [Cs]. http://arxiv.org/abs/2202.02625

Ariana Ochoa Camacho (SIAS) with co-author: “Love in Precarious Times: A Queer Politics of Immigration.” in Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 42, no. 2 (2021): 85-110. doi:10.1353/fro.2021.0017.

Jill Purdy (Milgard) with co-authors: “Confronting Power Asymmetries in Partnerships to Address Grand Challenges” in Organization Theory, 3. https://doi.org/10.1177/26317877221098765

Davis Railsback and Anderson C. A. Nascimento (SET) with co-authors: “Fast Privacy-Preserving Text Classification Based on Secure Multiparty Computation” in IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 17, 428–442. https://doi.org/10.1109/TIFS.2022.3144007

Emma J. Rose(SIAS/CAC) with co-authors: “ An industry in flux: where does UX go from here?” in Interactions, 29(2), 54–58. https://doi.org/10.1145/3511671

Shahrokh M. Saudagaran (Milgard) with co-authors: “Do CSR Ethics Dominate Weak Shareholder Protection? The Case of Corporate Insider Trading in Europe” in The European Journal of Finance, 0(0), 1–30. https://doi.org/10.1080/1351847X.2022.2026440

Claudia Sellmaier (SWCJ) with co-authors: “ Supporting Sleep and Health of Employed Parents with Typical and Exceptional Care Demands” in  Journal of Social Service Research, 48(2), 259–272. https://doi.org/10.1080/01488376.2021.2024935

Josh Tenenberg (SET) with co-author: “Bridging the Gap Between the Individual and the Group: The Education of Attention in Design” in CoDesign, 0(0), 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/15710882.2022.2028846

Jeffery P. Walters (SET) with co-authors: “Sector Perspectives on the Attributes of System Approaches to Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Service Delivery” in Journal of Environmental Engineering, 148(6), 05022002. https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)EE.1943-7870.0002010

Weichao Yuwen (NHL) with co-authors: “ ‘Mindfulness Living with Insomnia’: An mHealth Intervention for Individuals with Insomnia in China: A Study Protocol of a Randomized Controlled Trial” in  BMJ Open, 12(2), e053501. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-053501

Books & Edited Volumes

George E. Mobus (SET). Systems Science: Theory, Analysis, Modeling, and Design (Springer)https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-93482-8

Michael Honey (SIAS)  with co-authors: Revolutionary Nonviolence, Organizing for Freedom (University of California Press)   https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520387843/revolutionary-nonviolence

Anne Taufen (Urban Studies) with co-author: The Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Cities and Landscapes in the Pacific Rim. (Routledge)

Book Chapters

Sonia De La Cruz (SIAS): “Resistance in Storytelling” in Showing Theory to Know Theory: Understanding Social Science Concepts Through Illustrative Vignettes (Showing Theory Press)

Christopher B. Knaus (Education): “Educational Apartheid: Resisting Whiteness in South African Schools” in Purposeful Teaching and Learning in Diverse Contexts, 275-283. (Information Age Publishing)

2022 Sponsored Research

Congratulations to UW Tacoma faculty who were recently awarded internal UW funding!

Royalty Research Fund Spring 2022

 Lorne Arnold, School of Engineering and Technology (SET)

Investigating the use of sliding block methods as an index for seismically induced rock slope failure volume -a proof of concept study

Seismically induced rock slope failures have caused tens of thousands of deaths and economic losses in the billions of dollars over the last century. They are among the most common, dangerous, and least understood of all seismic hazards. Recently, progress has been made toward understanding the fundamental mechanism of seismic rock slope failures using the Bonded Particle Model (BPM). Although powerful, BPM is computationally intensive and best suited to individual site characterization rather than modern, regional-scale or probabilistic hazard assessments. In contrast to BPM, sliding block methods (SBMs) are quick to run and widely used for seismic soil slope analysis. However, rock slope behavior during earthquakes is not well-captured by SBMs. In this study, pairs of BPM and SBM models of simple rock slopes will be subjected to a suite of recorded ground motions, and a framework for correlation of behaviors from complex (BPM) and simplified (SBM) analysis methods will be developed. The results of this study will provide a proof of concept showing that models of rock slopes with increasing levels of geologic complexity can be correlated to simplified methods, laying a strong foundation for future work and funding that will expand the parameters of both BPM and SBM models to encompass a wide range of rock slope characteristics. By developing a broad correlation with simplified methods that can reliably predict some of the key behaviors of rock slopes during earthquakes, this work will enable researchers, practitioners, and policy-makers to mitigate the severe detrimental consequences associated with this phenomenon.

Anindita Bhattacharya, School of Social Work and Criminal Justice

Understanding Help-Seeking Pathways among Racially Minoritized Women Experiencing Intimate Partner Violence: A Longitudinal Investigation

The World Health Organization estimates that 30% of women in a romantic relationship experience intimate partner violence (IPV), with racially minoritized women at a higher risk of victimization compared to White women. Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, there has been an alarming increase in rates of IPV. Despite the expansion of IPV-related programs in the US, racially minoritized women are less likely to seek help than White women because of personal, interpersonal, and systemic barriers. Scant literature examines longitudinal help-seeking pathways among racially minoritized women and how their needs and service use change over time. Guided by the theory of help-seeking and an Intersectional Feminist lens, the proposed project will fill a critical knowledge gap by conducting a longitudinal study with 15-20 survivors over 6 months to examine help-seeking pathways. Through sequential interviews with racially minoritized women, the study will: 1) Describe racially-minoritized women’s pathways to help-seeking and their experiences and perceptions related to service-use over time and, 2) Identify key individual, interpersonal, and socio-cultural factors that influence each stage of help-seeking; and 3) Elicit critical insights into the cultural relevance and acceptability of current services. Identifying barriers to service use will highlight focal points for future gender-sensitive and culturally responsive interventions. The longitudinal orientation of this work will advance theory and enrich knowledge around how stages of help-seeking operate across time for racially minoritized women. This study also advances the field by responding to the need for more survivor-centered research and practice, particularly among racially minoritized women.

Population Health Initiative Tier 1 award – Feb. 2022

Chieh (Sunny) Cheng, School of Nursing and Healthcare Leadership with Lucas McIntyre, MultiCare Tacoma General Hospital and Susan Ramos, MultiCare Health System

Building Community Capacity Among MultiCare, Tacoma Public Schools, and University of Washington to Support Underserved Youth Well-being

Washington State ranks 43 out of 51 in the US for access to mental health services. For example, over 42% of Tacoma Public Schools (TPS) students face service barriers due to being economically disadvantaged. Accordingly, the Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction has deemed building staffing capacity to support student well-being a key priority in 2021-23. Studies demonstrate that consultations that are transferable from behavioral health care experts to school staff are an efficient, scalable, cost-effective and sustained model. However, this model has not been adopted in TPS. This capacity building project aims to strengthen an established partnership between UW Tacoma, TPS and MultiCare Adolescent Behavioral Health Unit and conduct a needs assessment that will inform the development and implementation of a transferable consultation program that supports students’ mental well-being. The project goal aligns with two pillars of population health—human health and social and economic equity—by establishing a collaborative framework with under-served public schools and developing an evidence-based training program to improve youth mental health.

Population Health Initiative Tier 1 award – May 2022

Weichao Yuwen, School of Nursing & Healthcare Leadership with Trevor Cohen and Serena Jinchen Xie, UWS Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education, and Magaly Ramirez, UWS Department of Health Systems and Population Health

Exploring Multicultural and Multilingual Methods in Developing Dialog -Based Health Technologies

In the United States, 53 million family caregivers are the backbones of our healthcare system. These informal caregivers spend on average more than 20 hours per week providing unpaid care to the care receiver, and this amount is even higher among the 40% of caregivers self-identified as having a racial or ethnic minority background. In addition, at least one-third of caregivers speak a language other than English at home. Existing barriers that prevent these marginalized caregivers from accessing services include a lack of culturally sensitive and linguistically appropriate programs of care.

On-demand digital health technologies delivering interventions through text-based dialogs could be cost-effective solutions to support family caregivers. Recent innovations in machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) have the potential to automate labor-intensive work such as language translation. However, these technologies, if used without careful intention, can increase biases and existing imbalances for marginalized groups.

To our knowledge, there has not been the development of efficient multilingual AI language models in the health domain. We propose to conduct a literature review of multicultural and multilingual model development methods in developing health dialogs and perform pilot training using an existing caregiver-domain-specific dataset in English to translate to and train in Spanish. This funding will support us to perform preparatory work and lay the foundation to submit for a larger grant to further develop novel and cost-effective methods in training cross-lingual language models in the health domain.

Congratulations to UW Tacoma faculty who received NEW externally sponsored research and scholarship awards during January – June 2022!

Huatong Sun, CAC-SIAS

Articulating Resilience Towards a Caring Democracy: Building a Research-Informed Allyship Network for Anti-Racist CPTSC Scholars

Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication (CPTSC)

Fighting against institutional racism and systemic oppression is a long-term process. To articulate strategies of resilience collectively towards “a caring democracy” (Toronto, 2013), this project proposes to build a research-informed allyship network for anti-racist CPTSC scholars as they are treading through their journeys. We’re employing an innovative approach that integrates knowledge building and community-engaged activism with platform technology. Qualitative interview will be a core part to help allyship network participants to increase resilience. Web platform, email newsletter, and social media engagement strategies will be used to disseminate best practices and strategies of resilience for anti-racist teaching and research in the TSC field. The innovative network-building work model informed by

academic research can be scaled to transform currently perfunctory practices in the DEI industry, which is our responsibilities as TSC scholars to promote anti-racist programs and pedagogies and to initiate changes, dismantle institutional racism, and carve out a better future.

Erica Cline, SAM-SIAS

Promoting Early Retention of STEM Students: The Achieving Change in our Communities through Equity and Student Success (ACCESS) in STEM Program, Phase 2

National Science Foundation

The “Achieving Change in our Communities through Equity and Student Success” (ACCESS) in STEM Phase 2 Program will 1) recruit talented, low-income students to STEM degrees, 2) retain those students, 3) support their academic success in STEM, and 4) broaden participation in STEM for underrepresented populations (URPs).

UWT is a four year, public, urban, predominantly undergraduate institution (PUI), 45% Pell Grant eligible, and 55% first-generation to college degree (First Gen); 66% enter as transfer students. We are classified as a minority-serving institution (AANAPISI), and 33% of students are persons excluded due to ethnicity or race (PEERs). Despite rapid recent growth in our STEM programs, STEM degrees are requested by 31% of entering undergraduates, but only 26% of students graduate in a STEM major, with even greater disparities for women; 22% request STEM but only 15% graduate with STEM degrees. Among STEM-interested students, 16% of all students, 19% of First Year (e.g., first-time-in-college and first-year transfer students), and 25% of First Year PEERs and 27% of First Year First Gen students do not re-enroll after their first year. Graduation rates reflect similar patterns; for STEM-interested students, 27% of undergraduates, 40% of First Year students, and a striking 50% of First Year PEERs do not graduate in any major within 6 years.

To address this attrition point, the ACCESS program Phase 2 will provide targeted support during the crucial first two years, through annual scholarships of up to $10,000/yr for three cohorts of sixteen incoming First Year STEM-interested students per year. Eligible majors include all UWT STEM degrees (Mathematics, Environmental, Biomedical, and Computer Science, Information Technology, and Computer, Electrical, Mechanical, and Civil Engineering). Our optional, newly developed Early ACCESS summer math prep program will enhance entry into STEM majors, and ACCESS scholars will have the option to engage in a Research Experience or project-based Introduction to Design course in their first year. Coupled with an optional on-campus STEM living learning community and required individual faculty mentoring, the required quarterly 1 credit, non-graded Success in STEM seminar will form a cohesive community through group mentoring, skills development, and equity and inclusion workshops, helping develop a sense of belonging, identity, and empowerment to transform the culture of STEM.

Yan Bai, SET 

GenCyber Tacoma: UW Tacoma 2023 GenCyber Camp for Middle School Students

National Security Agency (NSA)

Utilizing well-established recruitment platforms, close partnership with Tacoma Public Schools, and Washington State University Gear Up Program, UW Tacoma hosts a one-week-long GenCyber hybrid student camp along with year-round outreach activities that engage 60 eighth and ninth grade residential and non-residential students from historically underrepresented groups in STEM fields. We anticipate a continued expansion beyond South Puget Sound schools into East Washington in collaboration with College Success Foundation-Tacoma and the Office of Early Outreach at Washington State University. 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, develop foundational knowledge of ethical use of technology and increase their interest in cybersecurity educations and careers.

Kayee Yeung-Rhee, SET

Integrative and interactive analyses of host transcriptional response to COVID-19 and other respiratory viral infections

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

With the on-going coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, the scientific community is racing to develop vaccines, diagnostics, and treatment strategies for patients. Given the varying severity and potential complications across different patients, it is critical to understand the underlying mechanisms of how the host responds to the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). While SARS-CoV-2 is a novel coronavirus, there is an extensive knowledge base and abundant publicly available data on other respiratory viral infections, such as influenza, rhinoviruses, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-1), and the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV).

This proposal focuses on secondary analysis of publicly available RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) data, and the development of software tools to facilitate the characterization of the host transcriptional response to SARS-CoV-2 and how this response compares to other known respiratory viruses. In particular, we will re-analyze the RNA-seq data profiling transcriptional response to SARS-CoV-2 infection available in NCBI Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO), such as GSE147507 (1), and GSE150316 (2). We will adopt a compendium approach to compare gene signatures from SARS-CoV-2 to those from other respiratory viruses. This compendium of gene signatures will be generated using the same analytical workflows, thus ensuring that interpretations of host transcriptional response are derived from data that are consistently processed. We will also provide an accessible browser-based dashboard to integrate data query capabilities with updatable and customized analytical workflows 

Kayee Yeung-Rhee, SET

Precision nutrition impact on health-related behavior change in active duty service members

Geneva Foundation

Military readiness is contingent on Service Members (SMs) being medically fit for duty. Despite high rates of physical activity, over 50% of military SMs are overweight, highlighting the negative impact of poor dietary behaviors on health and wellness. Active component soldiers with excess body fat are less capable of maintaining medical readiness and engaging in the prolonged physical activity required to carry out combat missions. Injuries occur at a higher rate in all overweight SMs making them less deployable and likely on a profile; musculoskeletal injuries account for 10 million limited duty days each year and 76% of the medically non-deployable population. As if these statistics are not concerning alone, 13% of SMs have one or more diagnosed chronic conditions with the most common being cardiovascular disease (CVD) manifested by high blood pressure in 56% of this young population. Strategic solutions for supporting health and readiness in times of high operational tempo and uncertain threats in diverse environments remain elusive but one undeniable strategy to harness is self-care. Efforts to meet this high demand for health-related behavior change must engage, motivate, and support the individual at the center of the care dynamic. We will again adopt Pender’s Health Promotion Model as the conceptual model for this study examining genes, diet, activity, and environment interactions because it effectively organizes variables previously identified as determinants of health that are amenable to intervention. Precision nutrition leverages the specificity of molecular and phenotypic differences toward personalizing diet interventions. Our interprofessional and highly qualified research team experienced with top priority issues of military readiness and health proposes the following aims and research questions:

Specific Aim 1: Examine the effectiveness of precision nutrition counseling on health-related behavior change in a military population as measured by fasting glucose, LDL/HDL, %body fat, waist circumference, BP, and 25(OH)D. RQ1: Does the use of gene-based disease risk data in nutrition counseling yield greater improvement in metabolic, cardiovascular, and bone biomarker outcomes than standard dietary instructions?

Specific Aim 2: Evaluate the feasibility of a digital application to accurately capture dietary intake, environmental exposure, and physical activity. RQ2: Is app-based data collection for digital phenotype valid and reliable as a means of informing self-care lifestyle modifications when compared to in-person interviews?

Specific Aim 3: Describe military-unique characteristics in demographics, lifestyle choices, and geographic exposures for a northwest Army cohort and a southwest Air Force cohort. 

RQ3: Beyond genetics, what contributions to health risk or disease prevention? 

Seung-Jin Lee, SET

Impact Assessment Program Support Planning for embodied carbon associated with building materials

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory/U.S. Dept. of Energy

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is working to better understand the embodied carbon associated with building materials. Part of this effort includes developing industry guidance for new, emerging insulation materials associated with the Advanced Building Construction (ABC) initiative. This task will help fill in knowledge gaps associated with residential insulation materials, help develop an industry guidance document, and provide the needed performance data to help populate the Argonne GREET Tool. Part of the analysis included in the deliverables should help develop an end-of-life plan for each material, which currently is not well understood.

The University of Washington (UW) shall support PNNL, as well as the Argonne National Laboratory and with further support from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory to understand the embodied carbon of 5 relatively new insulation materials. The final material choices will be chosen by the advisory committee of the entities mentioned above, as well as the ABC-Collaborative which includes at least the Rocky Mountain Institute.

Heather Dillon, SET

Creating Equitable Pathways to STEM Graduate Education

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

This project is focused on developing and supporting equitable pathways to STEM graduate education for Black, Latinx, and Indigenous Students, with an emphasis on female students. We plan to start optimizing existing undergraduate research programs at the three partner institutions to increase student participation in graduate programs, while dismantling systemic racism and institutional barriers. For this proposal we are focused on pathways in computer science and engineering fields, but we plan to expand the program to other STEM fields as our work matures.

Jeffrey Walters, SET

Research For All: Broadening Access to Research for Undergraduate Engineering Students

George Washington University/Kern Family Foundation

The collaborative, multi-university “Research for All” (R4A), seeks to develop tools and best practices that improve on the access and quality of undergraduate research experiences. The R4A project aims to broaden participation in undergraduate research with three complementary and interrelated tasks to develop entrepreneurially-minded (EM) frameworks and tools, Task 1: EM-focused course-based engineering research experiences (CURE), Task 2: EM-focused training modules that bolster student and faculty skills for improved quality and impact of these research projects, and Task 3: an online platform that connects students, faculty, and industry partners to enable and scale-up internal and external research collaborations. These will enable a substantial increase in access to meaningful and impactful research opportunities for undergraduate students. The eight universities involved in this grant proposal are George Washington University (GWU), George Fox University (GFU), North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, Olin College of Engineering, University of Washington–Tacoma, The University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, Campbell University, Valparaiso University. 

Haluk Demirkan, Milgard School of Business

An Industry Perspective on STEM Education for the Future, Further Explored: Workshop

International Society of Service Innovation Professionals (ISSIP)/National Science Foundation

This award provides support for a series of 3-hour virtual workshops, organized by the International Society of Service Innovation Professionals, ISSIP, to take place in 4Q2020 or 1Q2021. Building on the findings during the executions of an earlier award (No. 1917026 – “An Industry Perspective on STEM Education for the Future”), a few areas of research emerged that require further investigation in order to fully inform higher education leaders on industry perspective on skills needs for STEM jobs of the future.

1) How has industry perspective on skills demand changed as a result of the COVID-19 crisis?

2) How are industry recruiters and hiring managers screening STEM graduates for both “Specialized” and “foundational skills?”

3) From industry perspective, which colleges/universities curricula better align with industry demand?

4) Can a set of desirable curriculum and teaching pedagogy attributes be developed from findings?

Jeffrey Cohen

IDEAS (Increase and Diversify Education Abroad for US Students) Program

World Learning/ Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, United States Department of State

This 10-hour virtual workshop, entitled Expanding Access and Inclusion: Developing Holistic Strategies for Recruiting and Supporting Students from Underrepresented Groups, is aimed at supporting U.S. higher education institutions in creating, expanding and diversifying study abroad opportunities for students and deepening their capacity to support students before, during, and after their study abroad experience. Drawing from the expertise and experiences of the host institution, facilitators, and the participants themselves, the workshop will engage participants around recruiting and supporting students from underrepresented groups with a focus on access and inclusion. Through four 2-hour, highly participatory, scaffolded sessions, workshop participants will engage with expert facilitators from across the United States and abroad to share promising and proven strategies, identify strengths and limitations in their current practices, and develop institutionally-appropriate resources to be shared with fellow participants and with the broader field through the IDEAS website and resource database.

Leading up to the workshop, participants will collect data about study abroad participation at their institutions, with an emphasis on key student demographics. Using these data, participants will identify underrepresented student groups at their institution and orient their resource development around expanding access and a sense of inclusion for these students. Throughout the workshop, participants will collaboratively develop three deliverables, present these at the follow-on session, and provide them to the host institution as part of their sources to be shared with IDEAS after completion of the workshop. These deliverables include: 1) A model lesson plan aimed at supporting study abroad program directors’ development of inclusive learning environments for study abroad students; 2) A model lesson plan aimed at supporting study abroad program directors’ design of inclusive study abroad programming, and; 3) An institutionally-appropriate study abroad outreach plan aimed at increasing participation among underrepresented students.

Andy James, Center for Urban Waters

Screening and Prioritization of CECs in Regional Waters

Washington State Department of Ecology/EPA

The purpose of this work is to improve our understanding of the occurrence and ecotoxicological relevance of Contaminants of Emerging Concern (CECs) that have previously been identified as having the potential to cause biological impacts to aquatic organisms in the Puget Sound (i.e., contaminants of interest).

Tarang Khangaonkar, Salish Sea Modeling Center-Center for Urban Waters 

The overall objective of this project is to develop ocean boundary input preparation procedure for the Salish Sea Model (SSM) for the use of one-way nested ocean boundary connection to HYCOM. This objective is to be achieved through the following specific tasks: 1. Model compilation: Review FVCOM_v4.3 guidance to prepare the use of the model to operate in nested mode. This includes compilation with suitable modules turned on and preparation of the run control file; 2. Preparation of ocean boundary nesting file; 3. Prepare the nesting boundary input file that contains all required nesting variables in netCDF format SSM Testing in nested mode; 4. Conduct performance testing and skill assessment characterizing the influence of the mesoscale currents; 5. Development of FVCOM nesting preprocessing package; and 6. Prepare a software package that may be used with SSM grid to generate the nesting input file using standard HYCOM solutions for any specified year. 

 Ocean currents boundary nesting for the Salish Sea Model using standard HYCOM Global Model Solutions – Preprocessing and Testing with FVCOM

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Joel Baker, Center for Urban Waters

Regional modeling needs and stakeholder engagement

King County Department of Natural Resources and Parks

The purpose of this agreement is for King County (i) to support the Puget Sound Institute and the Salish Sea Modeling Center at the UW Tacoma for the purpose of addressing regional modeling needs on access, stakeholder engagement, and model applications, and (ii) to support the Institute’s communication efforts to share scientific data and modeling outcomes regarding Puget Sound water quality.