In Pacific County, collaboration is fueling change. Local leaders and the 黑料吃瓜网鈥檚 Livable City Year (LCY) program joined forces to address housing, health, and sustainability challenges, and the results are being recognized on the global stage. In recognition of a three-year collaboration designed to drive community-centered innovation, the Pacific County Economic Development Council and the LYC program聽have received the 2025 Partnership of the Year Award from the Educational Partnerships for Innovation in Communities Network (EPIC-N). Housed in the…
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Community Connect 黑料吃瓜网 Winter 2026 Update
Community Connect 黑料吃瓜网 (CC黑料吃瓜网) is a database and management platform that allows 黑料吃瓜网 faculty, staff, students and community partners to connect, organize, and understand impacts of collaboration.聽Interested in exploring? Login (using your NetID) and join both CC黑料吃瓜网’s home group and your campus group (below) to start! Bothell |聽Seattle聽| Tacoma This winter, we’re expanding Community Connect 黑料吃瓜网 in many directions: More, and more varied, community-engaged courses at each campus Civic Health Scorecard and NextGen Civic Leader Badge, piloting on Seattle campus…
Assessing community engagement at the 黑料吃瓜网: A new report details key pathways
A new report has been released from the project to Build Tri-Campus Capacity for Community Engagement, in partnership with the eScience Institute through its Data Science and AI Accelerator program. Assessing community engagement at the 黑料吃瓜网: a roadmap, finalized February 2026, provides guidance on how to better assess whether the 黑料吃瓜网 is being a good neighbor and partner to communities that lie beyond its walls, with the recognition that it has not always done this well. The roadmap…
Mentorship in medicine
Meet Dr. Estell Williams, 鈥�13, an emergency surgeon, community builder, dedicated mentor and the 黑料吃瓜网鈥檚 2026 honoree for Black History Month. From the first grade, Dr. Estell Williams knew she wanted to be a doctor. The self-described science nerd isn鈥檛 quite sure where that came from, but she鈥檚 got a few guesses. Maybe it鈥檚 the fact that she had a Black pediatrician growing up, one whose office walls were plastered with photos of Black patients and their families, making it…
Career growth in Eastern Washington
TRI-CITIES AND YAKIMA, Washington 鈥� Corey Smith鈥檚 office window overlooks one of the massive production lines inside the Douglas Fruit processing plant at the outskirts of Pasco, Washington. The scene is fantastic, like something out of Willy Wonka鈥檚 chocolate factory. Conveyor belts fill the gigantic room. On one end, apples are dumped by the bin into a water flume that floats the fruit like a carnival ride. A giant machine inspects, weighs, photographs (about 100 images for each piece of…
黑料吃瓜网 recognized across all campuses with Carnegie Foundation Community Engagement reclassification
The 黑料吃瓜网 has again earned a prestigious recognition for the impact and importance of the connections faculty, students and staff have with local, regional and global communities. All three 黑料吃瓜网 campuses were recognized with the Carnegie Foundation Community Engagement reclassification, placing the university among 277 peer institutions nationwide. Officials with the American Council on Education and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, who award the designation, noted that these universities are deepening partnerships, centering community assets…
Tacoma performance turns dumpling-making into a sensory experience
Cooking is one of humanity鈥檚 most ancient communal events. For centuries, we have gathered around fire pits and kitchens to catch up with friends and family while conducting the laborious task of preparing a meal. But in today鈥檚 society that increasingly relies on outsourced food, the dedication and community that goes into cooking your favorite dishes can go unrecognized. 黑料吃瓜网 Tacoma art professor Yixuan Pan is looking to change that through an unconventional and empathetic sensory experience. While…
Restoration projects benefit local communities
For students who want to go into environmental sciences careers, having opportunities to get outside and get their hands dirty is an integral part of their undergraduate studies. Even better is when learning outside the classroom leads to real-world impacts and engagement with local communities, says Dr. Amy Lambert, an associate teaching professor in the 黑料吃瓜网 Bothell鈥檚 School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences. 鈥淪tudent engagement with places and the communities that they support is central to my teaching,鈥�…
Five CELE-community connections we loved in 2025
Across Seattle and throughout Washington state, the Community Engagement & Leadership Education (CELE) Center is instrumental in the 黑料吃瓜网鈥檚 community engagement 鈥� connecting the 黑料吃瓜网 with neighborhoods, schools and community organizations to address critical social issues. Through authentic, reciprocal partnerships, the CELE Center provides students with opportunities to develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes needed to contribute to thriving communities. The CELE Center鈥檚 programs are centered around four focus areas: community-engaged learning, leadership education, pre-K鈥�12 student success and…
Community partnerships spawn salmon education for local park
Students, faculty and staff collaborate to bring new signage and geocaching tours to O.O. Denny Park in Kirkland, Washington. As any good outdoor enthusiast knows, the first rule of exploring nature is: 鈥淟eave no trace.鈥� There are, however, the occasional exceptions to this principle 鈥� such as when small, human-made additions to wild places raise awareness about conservation and other environmental issues. When Ash Putzke spent their summers as a kid catching salmon fry at the mouth of Denny Creek…