b'Distinguished community engagement AWARDSCommunity engagement is built on the spirit of partnership and reciprocity, a process that values community knowledge and contributes to it in a manner that is respectful of our partners. The true spirit of community partnership is achieved through a deep and sustained relationship with partners who engage in the co-production of knowledge. These partner-ships improve the everyday lives of community members, and contribute to our public research and pedagogy. Dr. Katie Baird is a professor of economics in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences. She has an M.S. in agricultural economics from Michigan State University and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Massachusetts.Bairds work builds upon community-based partnerships to enhance information about election-related issues for voters and bring awareness of public affairs to the community at large. Recently she joined a research team to examine the effect of drop boxes on voting patterns in King County. Her commitment to extending a community-based focus for teaching and mentoring, inside and outside of the classroom, carries large community impact and responsibility, and fosters transformative and engaging experiences for students and lifelong citizen learners.Baird has served on the City of Tacoma Board of Ethics and the Pierce County Charter Review Commission.Dr. David Reyes is an assistant professor in the School of Nursing & Healthcare Leadership. He has Masterof Nursing, Master of Public Health and Doctor of Nursing Practice degrees from theUW School of Nursing.Reyes work champions community-based participatory research in a way that shapes community priorities into livable and actionable changes. He worked with the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department in East Tacoma to give community members a voice in the community health assessment process. The impacts of the participatory research approach, in combination with teaching and service, are truly impressive and evident by local, regional, and national recognitions he has received.Reyes has held leadership roles in the American Public Health Association, the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Washington State Public Health Association.DISTINGUISHED research AWARDThis award is to recognize a faculty member who has achieved a record of notable scholarship or creative activity, has generated new knowledge or creativity that impacts their intellectual discipline, and has contributed to the intellec-tual climate of the UW Tacoma campus and its communities. Dr. Edward J. Kolodziej has been with UW since 2014 and currently has a joint appoint-ment as an associate professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering (Seattle) and in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences (Tacoma). Kolodziejs research includes achievements in the areas of water quality and contaminant fate and transport. With uni-versity and government agency colleagues, he is systematically developing new methods to detect contaminants in stormwater run-off. He also engages with local and regional water quality efforts through the Center for Urban Waters. The committee recognized his impres-sive record of serving as the principal investigator on research grants and acknowledged his extensive publica-tions in high-impact peer review journals and service on advisory and journal editorial boards.Kolodziej has degrees in chemical and environmental engineering from Johns Hopkins University and the University of California, Berkeley.4'