Summer 2021 Scholarly Publications & Research Awards

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Summer 2021 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 June 16 – September 1, 2021, as well as a list of sponsored research from the Office of Research.

An unlocked Open Access logo connected to openly shared articles 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 taclibdc@uw.edu.

Articles

Julia Aguirre (Education) and co-authors: “Mathematical Modeling in the Elementary Grades: Developing and Testing an Assessment” in International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10763-021-10195-w

Open Access logo connected to openly shared articlesMohamed Ali (SET) and co-authors: “OSMRunner : A System for Exploring and Fixing OSM Connectivity” in 2021 22nd IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM). https://doi.org/10.1109/MDM52706.2021.00039

Yajun An (SIAS/SAM): “Time-space domain dispersion reduction schemes in the uniform norm for the 2D acoustic wave equation” in Journal of Computational Physics. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2021.110589

Open Access logo connected to openly shared articlesYan Bai (SET) and co-authors: “POI Recommendation with Federated Learning and Privacy Preserving in Cross Domain Recommendation” in IEEE INFOCOM 2021 – IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS). https://doi.org/10.1109/INFOCOMWKSHPS51825.2021.9484510

Connie Beck (SIAS/SBHS) and co-authors: “Intimate partner violence and family dispute resolution: 1-year follow-up findings from a randomized controlled trial comparing shuttle mediation, videoconferencing mediation, and litigation” in Psychology, Public Policy, and Law. https://doi.org/10.1037/law0000309

Connie Beck (SIAS/SBHS) and co-authors: “Screening for Intimate Partner Violence in Family Mediation: An Examination of Multiple Methodological Approaches Using Item Response Theory” in Assessment. https://doi.org/10.1177/10731911211022843

Gordon Brobbey (Education) and Zaher Kmail (SIAS/SAM): “Improving teacher evaluation outcomes for special educators: what do the ‘gatekeepers’ say?” in Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs. https://doi.org/10.1111/1471-3802.12532

Open Access logo connected to openly shared articlesAlaina Bull (Library) and co-authors: “Dismantling the Evaluation Framework” in In the Library With The Lead Pipe. https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2021/dismantling-evaluation/

Erin Casey (SWCJ) and co-authors: “Men’s participation in anti-violence activism: frequency and relationships with demographic characteristics and history of sexual harassment perpetration” in Journal of Aggression, Conflict and Peace Research. https://doi.org/10.1108/JACPR-02-2021-0579

Sunny Chieh Cheng (NHL) and co-authors: “Mobile Health for Caregivers of Young Adults With Early Psychosis: A Survey Study Examining User Preferences” in Psychiatric Services. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.202000193

Vahid Dargahi (SET) and co-authors: “A cost-efficient sizing of grid-tied hybrid renewable energy system with different types of demands” in Sustainable Cities and Society. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2021.103080

Open Access logo connected to openly shared articlesVahid Dargahi (SET) and co-authors: “A Fault-Tolerant Approach for Hybrid Modular Multilevel Converter Using Negative Voltage Levels” in 2021 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC). https://doi.org/10.1109/APEC42165.2021.9487238

Open Access logo connected to openly shared articlesVahid Dargahi (SET) and co-authors: “Power Loss Modeling and Thermal Comparison of SiC-MOSFET-Based 2-level Inverter and 3-level Flying Capacitor Multicell Inverter” in 2021 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC). https://doi.org/10.1109/APEC42165.2021.9487152

Martine De Cock (SET) and co-authors: “Privacy-Preserving Feature Selection with Secure Multiparty Computation” in Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Machine Learning. http://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/li21e.html

Martine De Cock (SET) and co-authors: “Privacy-Preserving Video Classification with Convolutional Neural Networks” in Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Machine Learning. http://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/pentyala21a.html

Open Access logo connected to openly shared articlesHaluk Demirkan (Milgard) and co-authors: “Intelligence Augmentation: Towards Building Human-Machine Symbiotic Relationship” in AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction. https://doi.org/10.17705/1thci.00149

Open Access logo connected to openly shared articlesHeather Dillon (SET) and co-authors: “Connecting Entrepreneurial Mindset to Software Development” presented at the 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference. Retrieved from https://peer.asee.org/connecting-entrepreneurial-mindset-to-software-development

Open Access logo connected to openly shared articlesHeather Dillon (SET) and co-author: “Creating an Inclusive Engineering Student Culture Through Diverse Teams: Instructor-led and Student-led Approaches” presented at the 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access. Retrieved from https://peer.asee.org/creating-an-inclusive-engineering-student-culture-through-diverse-teams-instructor-led-and-student-led-approaches

Open Access logo connected to openly shared articlesHeather Dillon (SET) and co-authors: “Design Systems Thinking for Innovation in an Engineering Faculty Development Program” presented at the 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access. Retrieved from https://peer.asee.org/design-systems-thinking-for-innovation-in-an-engineering-faculty-development-program

Open Access logo connected to openly shared articlesHeather Dillon (SET) and co-authors: “How the Entrepreneurial Mindset Supported the COVID-19 Transition in Engineering Unleashed Faculty Development” presented at the 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access. Retrieved from https://peer.asee.org/how-the-entrepreneurial-mindset-supported-the-covid-19-transition-in-engineering-unleashed-faculty-development

Heather Dillon (SET) and co-author: “Machine Learning for Chaotic Rayleigh Transition” presented at the ASME 2021 Heat Transfer Summer Conference collocated with the ASME 2021 15th International Conference on Energy Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.1115/HT2021-61158

Open Access logo connected to openly shared articlesHeather Dillon (SET) and co-authors: “Making Teaching Matter More – The Making of a T1 University” presented at the 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access. Retrieved from https://peer.asee.org/making-teaching-matter-more-the-making-of-a-t1-university

Open Access logo connected to openly shared articlesMichelle Garner (SWCJ): “Dyslexia Primer for Social Work: Translational Research to Update Strengths-Based Practice, Advocacy, and Attitudes” in Advances in Social Work. https://doi.org/10.18060/24035

Open Access logo connected to openly shared articlesLing-Hong Hung (Data Science) and Ka Yee Yeung (SET): “A graphical, interactive and GPU-enabled workflow to process long-read sequencing data” in BMC Genomics. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-021-07927-1

Open Access logo connected to openly shared articlesAthirai Irissappane (SET) and co-authors: “Deep Reinforcement Learning Framework for Category-Based Item Recommendation” in IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics. https://doi.org/10.1109/TCYB.2021.3089941

Susan Johnson (NHL) and co-authors: “Registered Nurses’ Experiences With Incivility During the Early Phase of COVID-19 Pandemic: Results of a Multi-State Survey” in Workplace Health & Safety. https://doi.org/10.1177/21650799211024867

Open Access logo connected to openly shared articlesMaureen Kennedy (SIAS/SAM) and co-authors: “Does hot and dry equal more wildfire? Contrasting short- and long-term climate effects on fire in the Sierra Nevada, CA” in Ecosphere, 12(7). https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.3657

JaeRan Kim (SWCJ): “Forever family is like a manufactured Hallmark idea”: Adoption discontinuity experiences of intercountry adoptees” in Child Abuse & Neglect. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2021.105184

Tomas Koontz (SIAS/SAM) and co-author: “A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Government Influence on Collaborative Watershed Institutions in Ohio (USA) and the Dominican Republic and Implications for Decentralization of Resource Management” in Society & Natural Resources. https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2021.1951410

Open Access logo connected to openly shared articlesBelinda Louie (Education) with co-authors: “Engaging English Language Learners as Cultural Informants in the Design of a Social Robot for Education” in Multimodal Technologies and Interaction. https://doi.org/10.3390/mti5070035

Patsy Maloney (NHL) and co-author: “Informing the Nursing Professional Development Scope and Standards: Exploring Current and Future Nursing Professional Development Practice Through a World Café Methodology” in Journal for Nurses in Professional Development. https://doi.org/10.1097/NND.0000000000000735

Marc Mangel (PSI) and co-authors: “Reproductive hyperallometry and managing the world’s fisheries. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2100695118

Gillian Marshall (SWCJ) and co-authors: “Dynamics of Financial Hardship in the United States: Health and Retirement Study 2006–2016” in Journal of Gerontological Social Work. https://doi.org/10.1080/01634372.2021.1953662

Ben Meiches (SIAS/PPPA) and co-authors: “Forum: Jelena Subotic’s Yellow Star, Red Star” in New Perspectives. https://doi.org/10.1177/2336825X211026448

Altaf Merchant (Milgard) and co-authors: “A decade (2008–2019) of advertising research productivity: A bibliometric review” in Journal of Business Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2021.07.030

Jinlan Ni (Milgard) and co-authors: “Monetary policy and its transmission channels: Evidence from China” in Pacific-Basin Finance Journal. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pacfin.2021.101621

Open Access logo connected to openly shared articlesSushil Oswal (SIAS/CAC) and co-authors: “Designing virtual team projects with accessibility in mind: an illustrative example of cross‐cultural student collaboration” in Journal of Virtual Exchange. https://doi.org/10.21827/jve.4.37192

Open Access logo connected to openly shared articlesGregory Rose (Milgard) and co-authors: “Brand narratives: Content and consequences among heritage brands” Psychology & Marketing. https://doi.org/10.1002/mar.21543

Open Access logo connected to openly shared articlesMegan Schwartz (SIAS/SAM) and co-authors: “Species delimitation and phylogenetic analyses reveal cryptic diversity within Cerebratulus marginatus (Nemertea: Pilidiophora)” in Systematics and Biodiversity. https://doi.org/10.1080/14772000.2021.1950231

Claudia Sellmaier (SWCJ): “Physical and Mental Health of Mothers and Fathers Caring for Children with Special Health Care Needs: The Influence of Community Resources” in Journal of Family Issues. https://doi.org/10.1177/0192513X211035580

Open Access logo connected to openly shared articlesZhiquan Shu (SET) and co-authors: “Modelling Analysis of COVID-19 Transmission and the State of Emergency in Japan” in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18136858

Ankur Teredesai (SET) with co-authors: “Software as a Medical Device: Regulating AI in Healthcare via Responsible AI” in Proceedings of the 27th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining. https://doi.org/10.1145/3447548.3470823

Zhenyu Tian (Urban Waters), Kevin Bogue (PSI), Andrew James (Urban Waters) and co-author: “Suspect and non-target screening of contaminants of emerging concern in streams in agricultural watersheds” in Science of The Total Environment. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.148826

Open Access logo connected to openly shared articlesZhenyu Tian (Urban Waters) and Ed Kolodziej (SIAS/SAM) and co-authors: “Treading Water: Tire Wear Particle Leachate Recreates an Urban Runoff Mortality Syndrome in Coho but Not Chum Salmon” in Environmental Science & Technology. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.1c03569

Carolyn West (SIAS/SBHS) and co-authors: “Domestic Violence Through a Caribbean Lens: Historical Context, Theories, Risks and Consequences” in Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma. https://doi.org/10.1080/10926771.2019.1660442

Carolyn West (SIAS/SBHS) and co-author: “Introduction to Special Issue: Domestic Violence in Black Communities” in Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma. https://doi.org/10.1080/10926771.2021.1930314

Carolyn West (SIAS/SBHS): “Widening the Lens: Expanding the Research on Intimate Partner Violence in Black Communities” in Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma. https://doi.org/10.1080/10926771.2021.1919811

Open Access logo connected to openly shared articlesWeichao Yuwen (NHL) and Sunny Chieh Cheng (NHL), and co-authors: “Self-Care Needs and Technology Preferences Among Parents in Marginalized Communities: Participatory Design Study” in JMIR Pediatrics and Parenting. https://doi.org/10.2196/27542

Books & Edited Volumes

Nicole Blair (SIAS/CAC): FemPoetiks of American Poetry and Americana Music: A Woman’s Truth. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781793621276/FemPoetiks-of-American-Poetry-and-Americana-Music-A-Woman%E2%80%99s-Truth 

Book Chapters

Leighann Chaffee (SIAS/SBHS) and co-author: “Neuroscience in the Psychology Curriculum” in International Handbook of Psychology Learning and Teaching. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26248-8_19-1

Turan Kayaoglu (SIAS/PPPA): “Struggling with jihad over Jerusalem: The Organisation of Islamic Cooperations approach to war and peace” in Handbook on Religion and International Relations. Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839100246

Randy Nichols (SIAS/CAC): “This is Gig Leisure: Games, Gamification, and Gig Labor” in The Gig Economy: Workers and Media in the Age of Convergence. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003140054  

Anaid Yerena (Urban Studies) and Rubén Casas (SIAS/CAC): “A Place for Life: Striving Towards Accessible and Equitable Public Spaces for Times of Crisis and Beyond” in Volume 3: Public Space and Mobility. Bristol University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1t4m1m6

Summer 2021 Sponsored Research

Congratulations to the following externally sponsored research award recipients at UW Tacoma who received new funding between June 16 – September 1, 2021!

Ed Kolodziej, Sciences and Mathematics division of SIAS and Center for Urban Waters
MRI:  Acquisition of a LC-High Resolution Mass Spectrometer for Characterization of Environmental Organic Contaminants
National Science Foundation (NSF)

Hundreds of thousands of anthropogenic chemicals are produced and used in modern societies; yet most of these have almost no data available on their environmental fate and toxicity.  With so many potential environmental pollutants, high throughput and analytical capacity are critical limiting factors to research effectiveness. Because of the richness, depth and breadth of their data, suspect and non-target screening techniques employing high resolution mass spectrometry have now become key methodologies for environmental chemistry and engineering studies. Therefore, we seek to acquire a cutting-edge high-resolution mass spectrometer to identify, quantify, and source apportion emerging/unknown chemical pollutants in surface water, stormwater, drinking water, wastewater and biological tissue sample types. This instrument will be housed at the Center for Urban Waters. Our research team seeks to further develop cutting-edge expertise in environmental chemistry and engineering, especially suspect and non-target screening for chemical source control and treatment system optimization.


Alison Gardell, Sciences and Mathematics Division of SIAS   
Collaborative Research: NSF-BSF: Somatic cell adaptation towards immortalization in a marine tunicate
National Science Foundation (NSF)

This project investigates the conditions and gene regulatory/ proteome networks that promote cell proliferation, counteract senescence, and induce somatic cell immortalization in the marine tunicate Botryllus schlosseri. Primary cultures of haemocytes and epithelial monolayers have been established for this species. They will be investigated to learn how (1) environmental factors (media supplements and attachment substrates), (2) stress-induced evolution, (3) synthetic biology

(manipulation of pro- and anti-proliferative genes), and (4) cell fusion technology alter cellular proliferation and senescence and the underlying molecular phenotypes (gene regulatory/ proteome networks). The goal is to a) understand the sequence of molecular events that promotes cell proliferation and inhibits senescence in vitro and b) to generate the first cell line for any marine invertebrate. This new collaboration integrates expertise in marine invertebrate cell culture, B. schlosseri culture, isolation of marine invertebrate stem cells, and cell fusion methodology (Rinkevich) with experience in fish cell immortalization (Gardell, Kültz), transcriptomics (Gardell), stress-induced evolution, synthetic biology, molecular phenotyping by proteomics, and network analyses of complex molecular phenotypes (Kültz).


Yan Bai, School of Engineering and Technology                             
GenCyber Tacoma:  University of Washington Tacoma 2019 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. While the UW Tacoma campus will host one camp, the second camp will take place at Franklin Pierce Keithley Middle School. 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. In time, we hope to expand this program to provide additional offerings to elementary and high school students.  We look forward to a gradual expansion into other nearby school districts, throughout Pierce County and into southern King County, including Federal Way, Kent and Renton. 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.


Andy James, Center for Urban Waters    
City of Tacoma and UWT, Wapato Lake Stormwater Treatment Project
City of Tacoma/Washington State Department of Ecology

The City of Tacoma has taken and continues to take actions to reduce stormwater-related phosphorus impacts to Wapato Lake. As part of this ongoing effort the city has undertaken a Wapato Lake Stormwater Treatment project to evaluate treatment options to reduce and remove phosphorus from Wapato Lake in an effort to further improve water quality. UWT has knowledge and expertise to study and evaluate treatment options to reduce and remove stormwater-related phosphorus impacts to Wapato Lake. Therefore, the city has determined that UWT is highly qualified to provide a thorough evaluation of various stormwater treatment options to reduce and remove such impacts, and further that UWT’s proximity to the city within the Center for Urban Waters building facilitates informal opportunities to consult and collaborate frequently on such treatment evaluation, which benefits the Wapato Lake Stormwater Treatment project.


Wesley Lloyd, School of Engineering and Technology   
Accessible Cloud-Based Multi-Omic and Imaging Analysis for the Cancer Research Data Commons the Cancer Research Data Commons
BioDepot LLC/National Institutes of Health (NIH)

This project is led by a grant submission by BioDepot LLC in response to the NIH National Cancer Institute SBIR contract Topic 428 proposal. The overarching goal of this project is to develop cloud-based analytical tools for multi-omics and imaging data for the cancer research community. In particular, investigators will build on their previous work, the Biodepot-workflow-builder (Bwb), a user-friendly graphical platform for building and executing bioinformatics workflows in the cloud. They will enhance the Bwb to provide a front-end to allow cancer researchers to easily access databases from the Cancer Research Data Commons (CRDC), and analyze multi-omics and imaging data using customizable cloud-based workflows from a curated repository.

Huatong Sun, School of Interdiscplinary Arts and Sciences, and Xiaoli Li, University of Dayton
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

Fighting against institutional racism and systemic oppression is a long-term process. To articulate strategies of resilience collectively towards “a caring democracy” (Tronto, 2013), this project proposes to build a research-informed allyship network for anti-racist CPTSC (Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication) 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 (Technical and Scientific Communication) 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.