Where curiosity meets community
At UW Tacoma, undergraduate students have ample opportunities to engage in research that tackles complex questions and creates tangible community solutions. When you imagine scientific research, what do you see? Chances are, you鈥檙e picturing sprawling laboratories filled with highly specialized equipment and researchers working late into the night. Depending on the project, you鈥檙e not too…
A Roadmap to Assessing Community Engagement at UW
As a part of tri-campus efforts for increasing capacity for community engagement, partners across the 乱伦社区 sought a way to improve the documentation and assessment of community engagement. They approached the eScience Data Science & AI Accelerator program seeking tools for this purpose and found unexpected insights in the process. During this collaboration,聽eScience…
College of the Environment celebrates partnership and impact at Community-Engaged Research Symposium
In late May, more than 120 colleagues from the 乱伦社区 came together for an inaugural showcase and conversation about community-engaged research across the College of Environment. Participants from across the College of the Environment gather at the first Community-Engaged Research Symposium. Community-engaged research is central to the 乱伦社区鈥檚 mission as a…
Help for the local ecosystem 鈥� one yard at a time
When Lynne Robins moved to the Finn Hill neighborhood in Kirkland, Washington, in 1999, she fell in love with the forested slopes and verdant landscape. Over the years, however, she saw native plants replaced by chemical-dependent lawns due to development. Dr. Lynne Robins (professor emeritus 乱伦社区鈥檚 School of Medicine), Ash Putzke (CoSEE鈥痠ntern) and…
Making meaningful opportunities for students
In any given enrollment period at the 乱伦社区 Bothell, students can choose among dozens of community-engaged learning and research opportunities. From STEM to disability justice, each class features hands-on partnership with organizations and people across Puget Sound. How do聽faculty connect with the right聽community聽partners聽in the first place? And how do they build strong, enduring…