Community Planning + Visualization Lab

Current Sponsored Projects 

• Glassboro Health Equity Project (2020 - 2022)

  • Sponsor - Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/ New Jersey Health Initiatives, Mahbubur Meenar (Lead-PI), Leslie Spencer (Co-PI), Melanie Stewart (Co-PI)​, $50,000

• MRI: Acquisition of an Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer for Multidiscipline Research and Education (2020 - 2023)

  • Sponsor - National Science Foundation, Lei Yu (Lead- PI), Kauser Jahan (Co-PI), Tabbetha Dobbins (Co-PI), Harold Connolly (Co-PI), and James Grinias (Co-PI), Suzanne Bausch (Investigator), Gregory Caputo (Investigator), Renee Demarest (Investigator), Jeffrey Hettinger (Investigator), Subash Jonnalagadda (Investigator), Karen Magee-Sauer (Investigator), Mahbubur Meenar (Investigator), Elisha Moore (Investigator), Jane Rynex (Investigator), $144,389

• New Jersey Underserved Communities Electric Vehicle​ Affordability Program (2020 - 2021)

  • Sponsor - New Jersey Board of Public Utilities, Ayman Ali (Lead-PI), Mohammad Jalayer (Co-PI), Kevin Keenan (Co-PI), Jie Li (Co-PI), Mahbubur Meenar (Co-PI)​, $94,588​

• Watershed Storytelling: Connecting People, Place, and Water​ (2019 - 2020)

  • Sponsor - New Jersey Council for the Humanities, Jennifer Kitson (Lead-PI), Megan Bucknum (Co-PI), Mahbubur Meenar (Co-PI)​, $20,000​​

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Completed Sponsored Projects  

• Brownfields Area-Wide Plan for Philadelphia's Lower North Delaware Industrial District (2017 - 2019)

  • Sponsor - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Mahbubur Meenar (Solo-PI), $200,000 in two phases

• Camden Waterfront South Green Infrastructure Master Plan (2018 - 2019)

  • Sponsor - Camden County Municipal Utilities Authority, ​Mahbubur Meenar (Solo-PI)​, $53,175

• Equitable Distribution of Green Stormwater Infrastructure Projects in Philadelphia (2017 - 2018)

  • Sponsor - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Program, through a subaward from Temple University (Laura Toran - Lead-PI, Lynn Mandarano - Co-PI), Mahbubur Meenar (Solo-PI for Rowan University)​, $41, 020 in two phases

• Watershed Storytelling: Experiential Tools for Connecting People, Place, and Water​ (2018 - 2019)

  • Sponsor - New Jersey Council for the Humanities, Jennifer Kitson (Lead-PI), Mahbubur Meenar (Co-PI)​, Megan Bucknum (Co-PI), $5,000

• Using Immersive and Multi-Sensory Virtual Reality in Participatory Planning (2017 - 2018) 

  • Sponsor - Rowan University SEED grant, Mahbubur Meenar (Solo-PI), $10,000

• Listen. Record. Play. Equitable Placemaking and Environmental Park Design in Camden through Audio Storytelling​ (2018 - 2019)

  • Sponsor - Rowan Research Experience for Diversity and Inclusion (REDI) grant, Jennifer Kitson and Mahbubur Meenar (Co-PIs)​, $5,000

• NJ Map Watershed Explorer (2017 - 2018)

  • Sponsor - Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation and Kirby Foundation, John Hasse (Lead-PI), Jennifer Kitson (Co-PI), Mahbubur Meenar (Co-PI), $82,000

• The Montessori School Stormwater Management and Landscape Master Plan (2016 - 2017)

  • Sponsor - PA Department of Environmental Protection through Partnership for the Delaware Estuary and The Montessori School, Mahbubur Meenar (Solo-PI), $14,000

Other Ongoing Projects 

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• Glassboro Cultural Mapping Project (collaborator: Melanie Stewart)

• Perceptions of Crime in and around Green Infrastructure (collaborators: Kimberley Houser, Stuti Jha, Christine Saum)

• Evidences of Digital Public Participation from New Zealand Local Councils’ Facebook Pages (collaborators: Ashlaful Alam, Katie Knopp)

• Rethinking Housing Infrastructure in Slums: Planning with Interstitial Spaces (collaborator: Istiaque Ahmed, Ashraful Alam) 

• Understanding Social Aspects of Green Stormwater Infrastructure in Philadelphia and Camden (collaborators: Jordan Howell, Shane Walsh)