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CBE Research and the role of Community Engagement

In FY24, CBE researchers have been awarded a number of grants and contracts for projects that include a community engagement component, defined as “collaboration between institutions of higher education and their larger communities (local, regional/state, national, global) for the mutually beneficial creation and exchange of knowledge and resources in a context of partnership and reciprocity,” by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

In FY24 (July 2023 – June 2024), CBE researchers were awarded 17 grant and contract awards, and 13 of those included community engagement components. This metric highlights the 76% of awards received which involve partnering with community stakeholders to further the impact of research in our communities. Below are the 13 project names awarded in FY24 and the faculty who are doing this work in our college.

  • Change Stories (PI: Helen Pineo)
  • CityEnerTwin: A Digital Twin Platform for Urban Building Energy Modeling to Support Decarbonization of the Built Environment – A Case Study of the University of Washington Campus (PI: Narjes Abbasabadi)
  • Emerging EC Leaders (PI: Kate Simonen)
  • Improving mobility for Disadvantaged Communities through Innovative Transit Approaches: A Comparative Cost Evaluation (PI: Qing Shen)
  • Investigating potential health and health equity impacts of planning deregulation: The case of permitted development housing in England (PI: Helen Pineo)
  • LCY City of Snohomish (PI: Branden Born)
  • LCY Pacific County Economic Development Council (PI: Branden Born)
  • LCY Snohomish Comprehensive Plan Update – Economic Development Element (PI: Branden Born)
  • LCY Snohomish First Street Master Plan (PI: Branden Born)
  • LCY Snohomish Lodging Feasibility Study (PI: Branden Born)
  • NEEA IDL (PI: Christopher Meek)
  • NREL Score (PI: Jan Whittington)
  • VDC Engineering Time Study (PI: Carrie Sturts Dossick)