"WSU to offer flexible employee schedules for summer - Four-day week intended to save energy, reduce commuting costs"
Friday, May 16, 2008,
Moscow-Pullman Daily News
Washington State University officials are encouraging departments campuswide to move to four 10-hour work days for faculty and staff members during the summer to reduce energy consumption and lower commuting costs for employees...
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"WSU offers some employees 4-day work week"
Friday, May 16, 2008,
Seattlepi.com
Washington State University will let some employees work a 10-hour day, four days a week to reduce commuting time and save gas.
Those who qualify can start Monday, and the university will decide in August whether to continue the program into the fall quarter...
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"WSU to negotiate with Denver outfit on Jensen-Byrd redevelopment"
Wednesday, May 07, 2008,
The Spokesman-Review
Washington State University will continue negotiations for redeveloping a 3.5-acre chunk of its Riverpoint Campus with Denver-based healthcare real estate developer NexCore Group after choosing its proposal over three concepts by other companies...
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"WSU selects plan for Riverpoint health, research center - Proposal keeps historic building, adds two"
Tuesday, May 06, 2008,
The Spokesman-Review
A Denver-based development company is negotiating with Washington State University to transform a 3.5-acre portion of its Riverpoint Campus into a health care, academic and research center comprising two new three-story buildings.
NexCore Group first envisions constructing a three-story, 60,000-square-foot building on the northwest part of the site, which borders Pine Street and Spokane Falls Boulevard, to house a multispecialty outpatient facility anchored by Spokane practice Arthritis Northwest, a company director said. If the initial phase succeeds, the multiyear project could include renovating the historic Jensen-Byrd Building and erecting a second 60,000-square-foot building...
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"Colleges prepare for graduation ceremonies"
Thursday, May 01, 2008,
The Spokesman-Review
Washington State University-Spokane will kick off the commencement season with its ceremony Friday at 2 p.m. at the Spokane Convention Center...
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"Geared up to give back"
Thursday, May 01, 2008,
The Spokesman Review
As college graduates toast their accomplishments in the coming weeks, they might consider Patrick Muturi.
Muturi, a 35-year-old from Kenya, will graduate Friday with a nursing degree from Washington State University...
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"Riverside extension plans set; project to start by 2010 - City has secured funding, to start acquiring right-of-way property soon"
Thursday, May 01, 2008,
Spokane Journal of Business
After years of planning, a project to extend Riverside Avenue east from Division Street through the southern portion of the University District is scheduled to start by early 2010.
The city of Spokane has secured the $11 million it needs to complete the first two phases of the three-phase project, and plans to start acquiring right of way within the next two months, says Dave Mandyke, Spokane’s director of public works and utilities. Construction of the first phase is to start in late 2009 or early 2010, with the second phase to start one year later. The first two phases are expected to take two years to complete, Mandyke says...
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"Schools adopt joint plan here for academics - Collaborative document outlines education themes, joint outreach programs"
Thursday, May 01, 2008,
Spokane Journal of Business
Eastern Washington University, Washington State University, and Community Colleges of Spokane have adopted a joint academic plan for the Riverpoint Campus in response to a 2004 state directive that they collaborate in their offerings here.
The plan, released last month, lays out those institutions’ roles in providing instruction, research, and community outreach programs on the campus, located east of downtown. It’s focused on four academic themes—health and biomedical sciences and professions, interdisciplinary design, education, and community viability and economic development...
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"Putting the plan into play - U-District advocates look to hire exec, set up entity to promote, oversee projects there"
Thursday, May 01, 2008,
Spokane Journal of Business
Proponents of the University District here say that after years spent laying the groundwork, they’re preparing to execute some of the top priorities outlined in a U-District master plan approved in 2005.
Development plans have been reenergized recently with the formation of an advisory board that’s seeking ways to implement the master plan. Meanwhile, the city of Spokane is putting together a new downtown master plan, and WSU-Spokane also is creating a new master plan, both of which will include U-District projects...
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"WSU mulls proposals for Jensen-Byrd site - Wells & Co. among four developers interested in 3.5-acre Riverpoint property"
Thursday, May 01, 2008,
Spokane Journal of Business
Spokane-based Wells & Co., two California companies, and a Denver concern all have submitted proposals for the possible redevelopment of all or parts of a 3.5-acre chunk of land in the Riverpoint Campus east of downtown.
Washington State University sought the proposals in late March, hoping to attract a private company to redevelop the property for market-based mixed uses that would be compatible with the multi-school college campus. The property, which is located south of Spokane Falls Boulevard and east of Pine Street, includes the former Jensen-Byrd warehouse building, as well as other nearby buildings and vacant land...
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"No Rest for the Weary"
Wednesday, April 30, 2008,
Justice Technology Network - TechBeat
It’s a schedule all too familiar to many in public safety. Night shift ends at 8 a.m. Court begins a short time later, with no time for sleep in between. By the time court is over, it’s time to pick up the youngest child after school. An hour later it’s time to take the oldest to soccer practice. Then it’s dinner time, and in a few short hours, it’s back to work.
For a day or two, even a few more, most people in good health can keep pace with that kind of schedule. But as the months and years go by, lack of proper rest can really take its toll. So says Bryan Vila, a former law enforcement officer who is a professor at Washington State University in Spokane and a pioneer of research into how fatigue affects police officers...
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"Business in Brief: WSU gets more Riverpoint bids"
Wednesday, April 30, 2008,
The Spokesman-Review
Wells & Co. and GVD Commercial Properties, which has a Spokane office, submitted development proposals for portions of Washington State University's Riverpoint Campus.
WSU officials read those proposals and bids from the Amidi Group, of Redwood City, Calif., and the NexCore Group, of Denver, earlier this month...
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"ISM hangs by a thread"
Wednesday, April 30, 2008,
The Spokesman-Review
The Institute for Systems Medicine has laid off all but one employee in a bid to keep the organization viable until new funding arrives and a scaled-down business plan can be implemented...
...A U.S. Department of Defense grant to Washington State University professor Mike Skinner, a pioneer in the field of epigenetics, typifies the work ISM hopes to build on, said Paine, who manages government relations for Avista Corp...
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"Port authority officials fail to curb overtime pay"
Saturday, April 26, 2008,
The Star-Ledger
...Washington State University Criminal Justice Professor Bryan Vila, who wrote a book "Tired Cops: The Importance of Managing Police Fatigue," said too much time spent on duty results in sharp reductions in officers' vigilance, coordination and alertness.
"We depend on them to use their judgment judiciously," said Vila, a former law-enforcement officer himself. "The idea of putting them on the street impaired and armed -- it's dumb. ... This is a fundamental risk management and human capital issue."...
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"Spokane wants to clear the air - City pledges to cut carbon, hopes others will think outside the car"
Wednesday, April 09, 2008,
The Spokesman Review
Barb Chamberlain's Honda Accord seldom leaves her driveway.
Most days, Chamberlain, 45, pedals 2 ½ miles to her job at Washington State University-Spokane. If she has meetings during the day, she'll hop on her bike to head downtown, to the Spokane Valley or even to Airway Heights.
"I've made the mental shift from 'sometimes I ride to work' to 'I ride to work pretty often' to 'I'm a bike commuter,' " said Chamberlain, WSU-Spokane's communication director....
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