The mission of the MetroLAB Collaborative is to engage faculty, students, and the community in collaborative activities that advance scholarship and improve the well-being of the community within a metropolitan sub-tropical setting. The MetroLAB Collaborative endeavors to discover knowledge through inquiry, guided by the disciplines at the university, to address local and global challenges; and to explore, exchange, and apply knowledge and information for the mutual benefit, resilience, vitality and health of our communities and the regional physical environment.