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Applied Sciences Laboratory & Shock Physics

Washington State University Scientists Land $8.5 Million Defense Contract (Oct. 1, 2008)
WSU’S Applied Sciences Lab To Move To Sirti Tech Center (Aug. 4, 2008)
WSU Applied Sciences Lab Adds High-Performance Computing Capability (Aug. 4, 2008)
Itron and WSU-ASL Establish Research Partnership (Apr. 9, 2008)
WSU's Applied Sciences Laboratory Hires Manager (Jan. 25, 2008)
Avista and WSU-ASL Establish sustainable Energy Initiative (Oct. 17, 2007)
WSU's Applied Science Laboratory Receives Federal Funding for Sensor Research (Sept. 4, 2007)
Computational Scientist Joins Applied Sciences Laboratory at WSU Spokane (Jan. 2, 2007)
Avista Loaned Executive to Lead Applied Sciences Laboratory Business Development at WSU Spokane (Sept. 29, 2006)
George Nethercutt, Stacey Cowles Kick Off Applied Sciences Laboratory Endowment Campaign (Nov. 18, 2005)
Accomplished Physicist Joins WSU’s Spokane-based Applied Sciences Laboratory (Oct. 11, 2005)
Nanophase Optics Scientist Joins WSU Spokane (Feb. 12, 2004)
WSU’s Institute for Shock Physics Expanding to WSU Spokane (Jan. 30, 2004)

Architecture

The Real DaVinci Code: WSU Spokane Seminar Features Early Renaissance Architecture Research (Apr. 13, 2006)
See also Interdisciplinary Design
WSU Spokane Architecture Faculty Book Published in Chinese (May 27, 2005)
WSU Spokane Architecture Faculty Member Publishes Book on Spokane (Aug. 29, 2003)
WSU Spokane architecture faculty David Wang co-authors first-ever book on architectural research (April 15, 2002)

Biomedical

WSU Research Leaders Named to Biomed Board (June 4, 2004)
Genetics Researchers Join WSU Spokane, Sacred Heart Medical Center: Starting up Signature Genomic Services (Sept. 18, 2002)
New study by Tripp Umbach details Inland Northwest’s opportunities and recommendations for biomedical economic development (July 11, 2002)
Tripp Umbach Report Executive Summary
Tripp Umbach Final Report: Contents
Tripp Umbach Final Report: Introduction (pp. 1-2)
Tripp Umbach Final Report: SWOT Analysis (pp. 4-9)
Tripp Umbach Final Report: Centers of Excellence (pp. 10-19)
Tripp Umbach Final Report: Recommendations for Action (pp. 20-41)
Recommendation #1: WSU Spokane campus focus on health and biomedical sciences)
Tripp Umbach Final Report: Core Biomedical Development Components Matrix (pp. 42-46)
Tripp Umbach Final Report: Core Biomedical Development Components Matrix 11x17 version
Tripp Umbach Final Report: Current Biomedical Development Situation (pp. 47-60)
Tripp Umbach Final Report: Appendix A, Interviews (pp. 61-84)
Tripp Umbach Final Report: Appendix B, Glossary (pp. 85-91)
Tripp Umbach Final Report: Appendix C, 100-Job Impact Analysis (Excel spreadsheet)
WSU SBDC brings doctor's idea and NASA technology together (Feb. 21, 2002)
WSU Spokane engineering faculty receives National Science Foundation grant (July 20, 2001)
WSU Spokane researcher, local company land funding for technology project to aid in mental health care (Feb. 22, 2001)

Business

WSU Announces New Executive MBA Program in Spokane (Feb. 14, 2008)

Campus development & planning

Riverpoint Campus Master Plan First Community Workshop Features Health Sciences Expert (Mar. 13, 2009)
WSU Veterinary College to Open Spokane Clinic with $3.5 Million Gifts (Mar. 9, 2009)
Riverpoint Campus Master Plan Community Workshops Scheduled (Mar. 3, 2009)
Regents’ Executive Committee Approves Two Spokane Projects (Feb. 24, 2009)
Riverpoint Project to Have Big Regional Impact (Dec. 8, 2008)
Dec. 3 Open House to Present Vision for Pine Street Project at Riverpoint Campus (Dec. 2, 2008)
WSU College of Nursing Moving to Riverpoint Campus (Nov. 13, 2008)
WSU and Nexcore Sign Letter of Intent for Pine Street Property (Nov. 12, 2008)
WSU Chooses Potential Developer for Pine Street Property (May 8, 2008)
WSU Schedules April 9 Four-Campus Emergency Communication System Test (Apr. 7, 2008)
Riverpoint Campus Master Plan Update Getting Under Way (Apr. 3, 2008)
WSU Releases Request for Proposals for Pine Street Property (Mar. 27, 2008)
Comprehensive Academic Plan Developed for Riverpoint Campus (Mar. 27, 2008)
WSU Serves as Research Partner in Four Newly formed "Innovation Zones" (Oct. 3, 2007)
WSU Reports Higher, More Diverse Enrollment (Sept. 4, 2007)
New Riverpoint Nursing Building Gets $1.5 Million for Health Education Lab Technology (July 24, 2007)
HEC Board Approves New Nursing Ph.D. Program for WSU (May 30, 2007)
WSU Spokane Adds Director of Regional and Campus Development (May 17, 2007)
WSU Spokane Commencement to Honor its 17th Class of Graduates (May 5, 2007)
WSU to Hold Information Session on Jensen-Byrd Building Evaluation Oct. 27 (Oct. 18, 2006)
WSU College of Nursing to Celebrate New Nursing College Building Oct. 20 (Oct. 9, 2006)
WSU Receives Evaluation of Jensen-Byrd Building from Consultants (Sept. 22, 2006)
WSU Spokane Celebrates Opening of New Academic Center (Sept. 22, 2006)
Celebrate Art at WSU Spokane: Dedication of "Light Reading" by Peter Reiquam (Sept. 18, 2006)
Universities Present Plan to Expand Medical and Dental Education in Spokane (July 21, 2006)
Spokane Expansion of Regional Programs in Medical and Dental Education (July 21, 2006)
WSU Announces Creation of New Division of Health Sciences (July 21, 2006)
Riverpoint Library Moving to a New Location (July 19, 2006)
WSU Selects Firm to Review Jensen-Byrd Building (May 9, 2006)
WSU Spokane Commencement to Honor 442 Graduates (Apr. 26, 2006)
WSU’s Enrollment in Spokane Climbs to Another Record High (Sept. 20, 2005)
Gregoire’s Budget Proposal Includes Good News for WSU (Mar. 21, 2005)
WSU Names Pitcher as Chancellor of Spokane Campus (Nov. 12, 2004)
Rawlins to Introduce New Chancellor at WSU Spokane Friday (Nov. 10, 2004)
WSU’s Enrollment in Spokane Climbs to New Record High (Sept. 14, 2004)
WSU Spokane to Celebrate Academic Center Construction Aug. 25 (Aug. 12, 2004)
HEC Board Approves New Programs for Spokane, Pullman Campuses (July 23, 2004)
Doctor of Design Degree at WSU Spokane Receives Approval from the HECB (June 23, 2004)
Locke Approves Spokane Academic Center Funding (April 2, 2004)
Rom Markin Appointed Interim Head of WSU Spokane (Jan. 8, 2003)
William Gray Stepping Down as Head of WSU Spokane (Jan. 7, 2003)
WSU Spokane Moves Administration Offices (Nov. 22, 2002)
Two press conferences, dedication at WSU Spokane Feb. 21, 22 (Feb. 19, 2002)
Public invited to see the new Health Sciences Building (Feb. 14, 2002)
Riverpoint campus master plan workshop set for Feb. 24 (Feb. 18, 2000)
WSU Spokane breaks ground on new Health Sciences Building (Aug. 26, 1999)
WSU Spokane celebrates 10-year anniversary (June 11, 1999)

Cancer, chronic illness research

WSU College of Pharmacy to Cut State Funding of Research Center (Feb. 4, 2009)
Haberman Named Associate Director for Clinical Research at WSU’s Cancer Prevention and Research Center (Mar. 10, 2003)
WSU Spokane announces faculty seed grant awards to support research: Two projects on breast cancer (Sept. 4, 2002)
Faculty Seed Grants: Descriptions of funded projects: Two projects on breast cancer (Sept. 4, 2002)
WSU researcher's work indicates alcohol may hasten progression of cancer (May 17, 2002)
Inland Northwest Cancer Research Consortium launched (Nov. 2, 2001)
WSU Cancer Prevention & Research Center moves into SIRTI building (Feb. 9, 2001)

Child and family research

Criminal justice & law enforcement

Washingtonians Voice Support for Merit Selection of Judges (Jan. 15, 2009)
Luncheon to Focus on Global Crisis, Local Reality of Child Trafficking (Apr. 10, 2007)
Stopping Slavery in the 21st Century Workshop set for Nov. 16 (Nov. 9, 2006)
WSU Friday Seminar to Explore Impact of Fatigue on Disaster, Terriorism Responders (Oct. 17, 2006)
Human Trafficking Workshop Slated in Wenatchee April 21 (April 14, 2006)
Federal Funding Continues Work of Public Safety Institute at WSU Spokane (Sept. 27, 2005)
Crime Control Expert Joins WSU Spokane Criminal Justice Program (Sept. 23, 2005)
Department of Justice Funds Support Law Enforcement Training (Oct. 2, 2003)
WSU Researchers Study Racial Profiling for the Washington State Patrol (June 19, 2003)
Racial Profiling Conference Set for Feb. 4 in Spokane (Jan. 16, 2003)
Community Policing Institute Visits Russian Community (Nov. 4, 2002)
Expert on racial profiling and police use of force joins criminal justice program at WSU Spokane (Sept. 24, 2002)
Graduate certificate in public service leadership approved for WSU Spokane (July 22, 2002)
WSU Spokane, AIA, Spokane COPS host ‘security by design’ symposium (Oct. 26, 2001)
WSU Spokane faculty member Kelsey Gray receives national Dept. of Justice fellowship (April 20, 2001)
State jury commission to hold public forum at WSU Spokane March 25 (Feb. 16, 2000)

Diabetes

WSU Spokane Research Stresses Importance of Screening for Type 2 Diabetes (May 31, 2005)
WSU Researchers Seek Subjects for Type 2 Diabetes Study (Nov. 30, 2004)
WSU Spokane Center Gives Low Marks to U.S. on Diabetes Type 2 Management (Nov. 17, 2004)
WSU Spokane Announces Faculty Seed Grant Awards to Support Research: Project on screening children for diabetes risk (Sept. 4, 2002)
Faculty Seed Grants: Descriptions of funded projects: Project on screening children for diabetes risk (Sept. 4, 2002)
WSU Spokane faculty member Steve Setter achieves certified diabetes educator status (July 18, 2002)

Disabilities

Living with ALS: "Unfortunately Perfect" Opportunity Unites Campus and Community (Apr. 18, 2008)
Disabilities Policy Expert Joins Health Policy & Administration Department at WSU Spokane (Sept. 24, 2002)
Drug costs a barrier to prescription compliance for people with disabilities (July 8, 2002)

Domestic violence

WSU Spokane and four community partners share $1.4 million grant to address domestic violence in the workplace (Oct. 21, 2002)

Economic development

WSU Serves as Research Partner in Four Newly Formed "Innovation Zones" (Oct. 3, 2007)
New study details Inland Northwest’s opportunities and recommendations for biomedical economic development (July 11, 2002)

Education

Riverpoint Partners Want All Students Ready for College Math Success (Mar.12, 2009)
WSU Superintendent Certification Program Wins Second Statewide Honor (Feb. 17, 2009)
WSU, Spokane Public Schools Partnership Aims to Close Achievement Gap (Feb. 12, 2009)
Arts, Immigration, Native Wisdom on Agenda at Fifth Globalization Conference (Jan. 27, 2009)
Frost to Join WSU Spokane Education Programs (June 22, 2007)
Math-Science Partnership Initiative Launched (Feb. 5, 2007)
Four Local Educators Receive Excellence in Leadership Award (June 14, 2006)
Two Honored as First to Receive Educational Leadership Award (Feb. 14, 2005)
Joan Kingrey Joins WSU Spokane Faculty (Sept. 17, 2004)
WSU Spokane and CCS Share $800,000 Grant for Model Head Start Project (Sept. 17, 2002)
WSU superintendent program is national model (Aug. 14, 2002)
WSU program helps teachers get difficult national board certification (Mar.1, 2002)
Joint school psychology certification program receives state approval (Apr. 23, 2001)

Energy, clean technology, & sustainable design

WSU Interdisciplinary Design Students Plan "Smart" Housing with Habitat Spokane (June 12, 2007)
WSU, EWU Students Join to Address Smart Growth for Riverpoint District (Nov. 21, 2006)
Design, Health and Criminal Justice Students Unite to Examine Spokane's Urban Growth (Nov. 16, 2006)
WSU Spokane Faculty Member to Discuss Global Oil Depletion and its Economic Implications (Feb. 13, 2006)
Energy Experts Available at WSU Oil Depletion Conference (Sept. 30, 2005)
WSU Conference in Spokane to Examine Global Energy Future (Sept. 8, 2005)
Fast Facts About Daylight and Design (Jan. 20, 2005)
WSU Spokane Daylighting Lab to Promote Energy-Effective Design (Jan. 20, 2005)
Fast Facts About Daylight and Design (Jan. 20, 2005)
WSU Spokane Faculty Book on Ecological Planning Receives Statewide Honor (Dec. 1, 2003)
WSU Spokane Student Takes First in Lighting Design Competition (June 20, 2003)
Sixth annual design charrette focuses on the "Great Gorge Park" (Aug. 20, 2002)
WSU Spokane professor publishes ecological planning book (June 6, 2002)
WSU Spokane faculty and students work with Morning Star Boys’ Ranch to improve ranch, Glenrose watershed (May 13, 2002)
Sustainable design, construction workshops offered by WSU Spokane (Oct. 25, 2001)
Student design team wins first place at international competition for stone and gravel mine reclamation design (June 14, 2000)

Engineering

WSU Spokane and SFCC Sign Computer Engineering Articulation Agreement (May 27, 2003)
WSU Spokane engineering faculty receives National Science Foundation grant (July 20, 2001)
Three universities collaborate to offer engineering education (Apr. 10, 2000)

Exercise physiology & metabolism

ExMet Degree at WSU Spokane Granted ADA Accreditation (June 13, 2006)
WSU Spokane Earns Gold-Standard Certification in Health & Fitness (Feb. 21, 2006)
Couch Potatoes and Small Fries: “Sedentary Death Syndrome” on the Rise (Nov. 3, 2004)
WSU Spokane to Offer New Degree in Exercise Physiology and Metabolism (Sept. 23, 2004)
HEC Board Approves New Programs for Spokane, Pullman Campuses: BS Exercise Physiology & Metabolism approved (July 23, 2004)
WSU Spokane Announces Faculty Seed Grant Awards to Support Research: Project on effects of yoga on women with advanced stage breast cancer (Sept. 4, 2002)
Faculty Seed Grants: Descriptions of funded projects: Project on effects of yoga on women with advanced stage breast cancer (Sept. 4, 2002)
WSU Spokane announces new faculty in exercise science (Sept. 27, 2002)
Graduate program in exercise science approved for WSU Spokane (May 28, 2002)

Genetic research & reproductive biology

NIH Grant Supports Gene Mapping for Eye Condition (Dec 10, 2004)
Genetics researchers welcomed by WSU Spokane, Sacred Heart Medical Center (Sept. 23, 2002, media advisory)
Genetics Researchers Join WSU Spokane, Sacred Heart Medical Center (Sept. 18, 2002)
WSU Spokane Announces Faculty Seed Grant Awards to Support Research: Project on role of Calneuron in autism (Sept. 4, 2002)
Faculty Seed Grants: Descriptions of funded projects: Project on role of Calneuron in autism (Sept. 4, 2002)

Health professions

Area High School Students Immerse Themselves in Health Care (July 23, 2003)
High school students experience health occupations firsthand (July 24, 2002)

Health policy & research

WSU Graduate Reports Findings in Obstetrical Anesthesia Study (Feb. 9, 2007)
WSU Faculty Seek Alternative Ways to Fight Childhood Obesity Through USDA Grant (Dec. 18, 2006)
Washington State University Health Policy Student Awarded Prestigious Scholarship (Nov. 8, 2006)
WSU Announces Creation of New Division of Health Sciences (July 21, 2006)
WSU Spokane and Spokane Advanced Imaging Institute Partnership to Aid Health Science Research (July 10, 2006)
WSU Researcher Explores Growing Use of Herbal Medicine (Jan. 4, 2006)
WSU Health Policy and Administration Grad Program Receives High Marks (Dec. 27, 2005)
Center for Health Services Research Opens at WSU Spokane (Nov. 17, 2004)
WSU Spokane Health Economist on the True Cost of Health Care (Sept. 13, 2004)
International Health Services Research Expert Joins Health Policy & Administration Department at WSU Spokane (Sept. 28, 2004)
Coyne Receives WSU Spokane 2004 Faculty Excellence Award (May 10, 2004)
WSU Researcher Finds Emergency Care Access Barriers in National Study (May 7, 2004)
Drug Affordability a Barrier to Access for Many Americans (May 7, 2004)
Cohen Named to Psychiatric Pharmacy Board (Jan. 2, 2004)
Disabilities Policy Expert Joins Health Policy & Administration Department at WSU Spokane (Sept. 24, 2002)
WSU Spokane graduate program in health policy and administration enters five-year agreement with Peking University (Aug. 20, 2002)
Drug costs a barrier to prescription compliance for people with disabilities (July 8, 2002)
Family Friend Project to study health benefits of social connections (Oct. 5, 2001)
Winsor Schmidt appointed inaugural chair of new department at WSU Spokane (Apr. 9, 2002)
Graduate health policy program’s admission to the WRGP allows residents in 14 Western states to enroll at in-state tuition rates (July 13, 2000)
WSU Spokane graduate program in health policy receives national accreditation (May 18, 2000)
Vision care project launched (Mar. 2, 2000)
WSU Spokane names Boeing Distinguished Professor in Health Policy (Sept. 2, 1999)
WSU Spokane faculty receive Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant to study community health (May 28, 1999)

Health sciences

Riverpoint Project to Have Big Regional Impact (Dec. 8, 2008)
WSU Spokane “Team Care” Health Sciences Concept Submitted to Google Foundation Idea Contest (Nov. 5, 2008)

Heart disease

WSU Spokane Study Helping Fight Heart Disease (Sept. 9, 2004)
Patients Should Talk to Doctors About Pain Medications, WSU Study Shows (Dec. 10, 2002)
WSU Spokane Announces Faculty Seed Grant Awards to Support Research: Project on screening children for heart disease risk (Sept. 4, 2002)
Faculty Seed Grants: Descriptions of funded projects: Project on screening children for heart disease risk (Sept. 4, 2002)
WSU Spokane and Centers for Disease Control form research collaboration (July 10, 2002)

Interdisciplinary Design Institute

New Book Exemplifies Importance of Collaboration between Practitioners of Health and the Built Environment (Jan. 14, 2009)
First Week of Class at WSU Spokane’s Design Institute to Focus on Design and Culture (Jan. 14, 2009)
Design Students Help City Envision New Home for Looff Carousel (Sept. 2, 2008)
WSU Spokane Design Research Lecture To Focus on Health Impact of Building Design (Mar. 13, 2008)
WSU Spokane Design Research Spring Lecture Series: Designing Against Crime (Feb. 8, 2008)
WSU Design Students Present Downtown Hillyard Master Plan (Mar. 1, 2007)
WSU Spokane Design Students to Use Global Issues in Design of a New Downtown Hillyard (Jan. 10, 2007)
The Real DaVinci Code: WSU Spokane Seminar Features Early Renaissance Architecture Research (Apr. 13, 2006)
Weeklong Symposium at WSU Spokane Examines Interaction of Health and the Built Environment (Sept. 26, 2005)
National Workshops to Focus on ”Successful Agers” Communities (May 26, 2005)
Alzheimer’s, Aging and Design: Bringing together health care and design professionals to improve quality of life through research (Mar. 4, 2005)
WSU Interior Design Program Ranked Among Nation’s Top 10 (Jan. 6, 2005)
Can design keep you healthy? Weeklong Symposium at WSU Spokane Examines Interaction of Physical Environment and Health (Sept. 28, 2004)
Blossom to Head WSU Spokane Interdisciplinary Design Institute (Sept. 15, 2004)
First Director of WSU Spokane Design Institute Takes New Position (Sept. 14, 2004)
Doctor of Design Degree at WSU Spokane Receives Approval from the HECB (June 23, 2004)
WSU Faculty Members Picked to Head-Up Journal of Interior Design (June 23, 2004)
WSU Spokane Design Faculty Take Top Awards in National Exhibition (Nov. 25, 2003)
WSU Spokane Students To Examine Potential of Rookery Block (Sept. 26, 2003)
Students Design Spokane Gateway (Sept. 4, 2003)
WSU Spokane Architecture Faculty Member Publishes Book on Spokane (Aug. 29, 2003)
WSU Spokane Interior Design Students Sweep State Competition (Aug. 27, 2003)
Design and Construction Students to Tackle “Spokane Gateway” (Aug. 15, 2003)
WSU Spokane Names Faculty Excellence Recipient (June 26, 2003)
WSU Spokane Interior Design Faculty Wins National Award for Second Time (Apr. 28, 2003)
WSU Spokane Design Students to Present Concepts for University District to Mayor (Mar. 10, 2003)
Interior Design Program Names New Director, Blossom Also to Serve Interdisciplinary Design Institute as Assistant Director (Sept. 24, 2002)
WSU Spokane professor receives design educator of the year award (July 11, 2002)
WSU Spokane design camps July 15-19 and 22-26, 2002 (July 11, 2002)
WSU Spokane architecture faculty David Wang co-authors first-ever book on architectural research (Apr. 15, 2002)
WSU Spokane faculty Darlene Septelka named charter professional of Design-Build Institute of America (Apr.l 15, 2002)
WSU interior design students take top honors in state competition (April 3, 2002)
WSU Spokane students produce designs for downtown site (Dec. 18, 2001)
WSU Spokane design students assess revitalizing four-block area downtown (Dec. 5, 2001)
WSU Spokane design-build education program founder Darlene Septelka recognized nationally (Nov. 5, 2001)
WSU Spokane, AIA, Spokane COPS host "security by design" symposium (Oct. 26, 2001)
David Wang receives 2001 WSU Spokane faculty excellence award (May 24, 2001)
Interior design professors Matt Melcher and Nancy Clark Brown, local designer receive best in show for Holley-Mason project (Apr. 20, 2001)
Student teams take top honors at Associated Schools of Construction competition (Mar. 2, 2001)
Two student design teams chosen as finalists in international competition for professionals (Jan. 21, 2000)

Interior design

See also Interdisciplinary Design Institute
Two WSU Interior Design Students Make Top Three In National Competition (Sept. 18, 2006)
Expert in Effects of Design on Performance Joins WSU Spokane Interior Design Program (Sept. 15, 2005)
WSU Faculty Members Picked to Head-Up Journal of Interior Design (June 23, 2004)
WSU Spokane Design Faculty Take Top Awards in National Exhibition (Nov. 25, 2003)
WSU Spokane Interior Design Students Sweep State Competition (Aug. 27, 2003)
WSU Spokane Student Takes First in Lighting Design Competition (June 20, 2003)
WSU Spokane Interior Design Faculty Wins National Award for Second Time (Apr. 28, 2003)
Interior Design Program Names New Director; Blossom Also to Serve Interdisciplinary Design Institute as Assistant Director (Sept. 24, 2002)
WSU Spokane professor receives design educator of the year award (July 11, 2002)
Interior design professors Matt Melcher and Nancy Clark Brown, local designer receive best in show for Holley-Mason project (Apr. 20, 2001)
WSU interior design students take top honors in state competition (Apr. 3, 2002)
Interior design reaccreditation notes value of unique interdisciplinary learning experience (June 1, 2000)

Landscape architecture

See also Interdisciplinary Design Institute
New Book Exemplifies Importance of Collaboration between Practitioners of Health and the Built Environment (Jan. 14, 2009)
WSU Spokane professor publishes ecological planning book (June 6, 2002)
Student design team wins first place at international competition for stone and gravel mine reclamation design (June 14, 2000)

Leadership & professional studies

Clifton Barber to Head Bachelor’s Degree Program at WSU Spokane (June 2, 2005)

Medical education

Sleep Research Expert Joins WWAMI Spokane Faculty (Dec. 17, 2008)
Molecular Microbiologist Joins WWAMI Spokane Faculty (Oct. 8, 2008)
Layton Joins WWAMI Spokane Faculty (Sept. 25, 2008)
WSU Spokane Welcomes WWAMI Medical Education Director (Jan. 16, 2008)
Spokane WWAMI Director Candidates to Make Presentations (Aug. 27, 2007)
State Funding to Bring High-Tech WWAMI Classroom to Spokane, Pullman, Seattle (Jan. 11, 2007)
Universities Present Plan to Expand Medical and Dental Education in Spokane (July 21, 2006)
Spokane Expansion of Regional Programs in Medical and Dental Education (July 21, 2006)

Mental health

WSU Scientist Wins Life Sciences Discovery Fund Grant for Work on Addiction and Mental Illness (Dec. 17, 2008)
Short Named Director of Institute for Mental Health Research and Training (July 16, 2008)
Roll Honored at WSU Spokane for Faculty Excellence (May 12, 2008)
On Stage! Presents Two Events in Celebration of Mental Health Month (Apr. 27, 2006)
On Stage! Variety Show Slated June 8 at The Met in Spokane (Apr. 22, 2005)
Hendryx Named Director of Institute for Mental Illness Research and Training (Dec. 5, 2003)
On Stage! at the Met (May 1, 2003)
Grant to be used in development of support program for traumatic brain and spinal cord injury patients, families (Oct. 1, 2002)
Federal Grant Awarded to Study Effects of Antidepressants on Male Reproductive Health (May 13, 2002)
WSU Spokane hosts national mental health research development conference (Mar. 20, 2001)
WSU Spokane researcher, local company land funding for technology project to aid in mental health care (Feb. 22, 2001)
Infectious illness in family caregivers linked to severity of family member's mental illness (Aug. 2, 1999)

Nursing

Teen Girls Catching up to Boys in Prevalence of Metabolic Syndrome (Apr. 6, 2009)
Grant Money for College of Nursing Equals Rural Clinical Experience for Students (Feb. 4, 2009)
Bindler Continues Fight against Childhood Obesity as WSU’s First Cougar Gold Scholar (Jan. 14, 2009)
WSU Scientist Wins Life Sciences Discovery Fund Grant for Work on Addiction and Mental Illness (Dec. 17, 2008)
Harborview to Expand Partnership with WSU College of Nursing (Dec. 10, 2008)
WSU College of Nursing Moving to Riverpoint Campus (Nov. 13, 2008)
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to Fund WSU Nursing/Pharmacy Study to Improve Medication Safety (Oct. 9, 2008)
UW, WSU, OHSU to Collaborate in Landmark National Children’s Health Study (Oct. 3, 2008)
Nursing Scholar to Speak about Nursing Education Reform (Sept. 12, 2008)
WSU College of Nursing Welcomes New Associate Dean of Research (June 27, 2008)
Local Nursing Faculty Member Elected as Honor Society Regional Chapter Coordinator (Jan. 18, 2008)
People's Clinic Committee Recommends New Approach to Caring for Underserved (Jan. 24, 2008)
Patient Safety Focus of Annual Nursing Scholar Event (Sept. 19, 2007)
WSU Spokane Design, Nursing Students Partner in Designing Housing for Parkinson's Patients (Sept. 4, 2007)
New Riverpoint Nursing Building Gets $1.5 Million for Health Education Lab Technology (July 24, 2007)
People's Clinics in Spokane to Close By End of July (June 18, 2007)
HEC Board Approves New Nursing Ph.D. Program for WSU (May 30, 2007)
Keynote Speaker to Address Patient Care Outcomes at the Inland Northwest Nursing and Health Sciences Research Symposium (Apr.16, 2007)
Regional Clinical Simulation Lab Enhances Education of Healthcare Students, Practitioners (Jan. 18, 2007)
WSU College of Nursing Presents Seminars for Nursing Entrepreneurs (Jan. 18, 2007)
WSU College of Nursing to Celebrate New Nursing College Building Oct. 20 (Oct. 9, 2006)
WSU College of Nursing, Spokane Community College Partner in New Student Health Center (Sept. 18, 2006)
Hirsch Named Interim Dean of College of Nursing (Aug. 22, 2006)

Nutrition

"Super Size Me" at WSU Spokane (Apr. 12, 2005)
WSU Spokane Announces Faculty Seed Grant Awards to Support Research: Study on diet and bladder disease (Sept. 4, 2002)
Faculty Seed Grants: Descriptions of funded projects: Study on diet and bladder disease (Sept. 4, 2002)
Research at WSU Spokane Shows That Excess Soy Increases Risk of Kidney Stones (Aug. 30, 2001)
WSU Spokane Nutrition Professor to Study Role of Dietary Salt in Kidney Stone Formation (Apr. 20, 2001)

Parkinson's Disease

WSU Spokane Design, Nursing Students Partner in Designing Housing for Parkinson's Patients (Sept. 4, 2007)
Hearing and Speech Clinic to Offer Specialty Clinics in Spokane: Lee Silverman Voice Treatment for Parkinson's Patients (Sept. 5, 2002)

Pharmacy

WSU Pharmacy Professors Help with Nation’s Elementary School Science Lessons (Mar. 3, 2009)
Pharmacy Professor Named Outstanding Mentor (Jan. 5, 2009)
WSU Pharmacy Professors Author Book on Diabetes Medications (Dec. 4, 2008)
WSU Pharmacy Student Honored for Volunteer Work (Nov. 24, 2008)
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to Fund WSU Nursing/Pharmacy Study to Improve Medication Safety (Oct. 9, 2008)
WSU Pharmacy Professor Receives NIH Senior Scientist Award (Aug. 27, 2008)
WSU Professor Named Editor of Pharmacy Law Newsletters (June 25, 2008)
WSU Professor Honored at Pharmacists Convention (Oct. 16, 2007)
New Riverpoint Nursing Building Gets $1.5 Million for Health Education Lab Technology (July 24, 2007)
WSU Pharmacy Students Have Winning Business Plan (July 23, 2007)
Regional Clinical Simulation Lab Enhances Education of Healthcare Students, Practitioners (Jan. 18, 2007)
WSU Spokane Pharmacy Students Extend Medicare Part D Assistance (Jan. 17, 2006)
WSU Spokane Pharmacy Students Help Make Sense of Medicare Part D (Dec. 16, 2005)
WSU Spokane Prof Named Community Pharmacist of the Year (Dec. 15, 2005)
WSU Spokane Faculty Member Receives Pharmacy Journal Award (July 21, 2004)
Patients Should Talk to Doctors About Pain Medications, WSU Study Shows (Dec. 10, 2002)
Study on Antidepressants and Male Fertility Generates International Interest (Dec. 10, 2002)
New Pharmacy Journal Launched At WSU Spokane (Nov. 4, 2002)
WSU Spokane faculty member Steve Setter achieves certified diabetes educator status (July 18, 2002)
Drug costs a barrier to prescription compliance for people with disabilities (July 8, 2002)
College of Pharmacy Announces ‘Preceptor of the Year’ (June 6, 2002)
Federal Grant Awarded to Study Effects of Antidepressants on Male Reproductive Health (May 13, 2002)
WSU Spokane names 2002 faculty excellence award recipient Clarke St.Dennis (May 9, 2002)
WSU faculty member Steve Setter earns pharmacy honor (June 26, 2001)

Planning

WSU Spokane professor publishes ecological planning book (June 6, 2002)

Research & commercialization

WSU Serves as Research Partner in Four Newly Formed "Innovation Zones" (Oct. 3, 2007)
WSU Research Commercialization Opportunities (Apr. 30, 2007)
WSU Researcher to Provide Insight into Understanding Emotional Well-being (Apr. 19, 2007)
Scientist Strengthens WSU's Research Commercialization Efforts in Spokane (Oct. 5, 2006)

Sleep and Performance Research

Washington State University Researchers Awarded $1.4M for Driver Fatigue Studies (Jan. 7, 2009)
Sleep Research Expert Joins WWAMI Spokane Faculty (Dec. 17, 2008)
Defense Grant Adds Critical Job Tasks Simulation Lab to WSU Sleep Research Center (June 4, 2008)
Guest Lecturer to Discuss Consequences of Too Much or Too Little Sleep (May 20, 2008)
Research Shows Individual Differences in Sleep Structure Are Biologically Determined (May 29, 2007)
WSU Sleep Researchers Awarded $1.5M Grant by W.M. Keck Foundation (Feb. 23, 2007)
Scientific Symposium to Feature International Experts in Sleep and Sleep Medicine (Nov. 15, 2006)
WSU Spokane Sleep Researchers Receive Defense Instrumentation Grant (June 14, 2006)
Scientist to Speak Dec. 2 at WSU Spokane on Adolescent Sleep Patterns (Nov. 23, 2005)
Sleep Scientist Expands WSU’s Sleep and Performance Research (Nov. 1, 2005)
Belenky to Head Sleep Research Effort Under Spokane Alliance for Medical Research (Aug. 5, 2004)
Spokane Sleep Research Candidates to Make Presentations (April 16, 2004)

Small Business Development Center

New Report Shows the SBDC is a Good Investment (Aug. 8, 2007)
Morrisette Honored by Washington Small Business Development Center (Dec. 13, 2006)
Awards Presented to Certified Business Advisors (May 24, 2006)
Bill Lotto Receives SBDC Silver Star Award (May 24, 2006)
Rep. Deb Wallace Honored by Washington Small Business Development Center (May 18, 2006)
SBDC Training Award Given to Skagit Valley College (May 17, 2006)
Washington Small Business Development Centers Names Rode New Associate State Director (May 20, 2005)
Fact Sheet on Washington Small Business Development Centers (Feb. 15, 2005)
Rogers New State Director of Small Business Development Centers (Feb. 15, 2005)
Small Business Development Center Names Associate Director (June 25, 2003)
WSU SBDC brings doctor's idea and NASA technology together (Feb. 21, 2002)
Washington SBDC’s innovative program helps navigate stormy economic seas (Nov. 7, 2001)

Speech & hearing sciences

Living with ALS: "Unfortunately Perfect" Opportunity Unites Campus and Community (Apr. 18, 2008)
University Hearing & Speech Clinic Offers Book Club for Stroke Patients (Mar. 22, 2006)
WSU Spokane Will Host Foreign Fulbright Scholar (Jan. 12, 2006)
WSU Spokane Announces New Faculty in Speech & Hearing Sciences (Aug. 30, 2005)
HOPE School to Open for Young Children with Hearing Loss (Aug. 4, 2004)
WSU Speech and Hearing Sciences Scores at the Top (Jan. 16, 2003)
WSU Spokane announces new faculty in speech & hearing sciences (Oct. 1, 2002)
Hearing and Speech Clinic to Offer Specialty Clinics in Spokane (Sept. 5, 2002)
WSU faculty member Gail Chermak named Fellow of American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (July 2, 2002)

Substance abuse & addictions

WSU Scientist Wins Life Sciences Discovery Fund Grant for Work on Addiction and Mental Illness (Dec. 17, 2008)
Substance Abuse Scientist Roll Joins WSU Spokane (Feb. 27, 2004)

Youth programs

MESA Science Competition Tests Seventh Grade Scientists (Mar. 3, 2009)
Spokane MESA Students Use the Brain to Understand Science (Feb. 26, 2009)
MESA Science Competition Tests Seventh Grade Scientists (Dec. 16, 2008)
Spokane High Schoolers Put Science to the Test During MESA Competition (Mar. 24, 2008)
MESA Science Competition Tests Eighth Grade Scientists (Mar. 12, 2008)
Annual MESA High School Competition Sets Stage for Scientific Inquiry (Mar. 26, 2007)
WSU Researcher Builds Math and Science Literacy Among Underserved Children (Mar. 13, 2007)
Middle School Logic and Engineering Tested at MESA Science Competition (Mar. 12, 2007)
WSU Spokane CityLab Partners with SCC, EWU, in Major Grant Initiative (Aug. 3, 2006)
Full Court Press ‘SPARKs’ Health Champions at WSU Spokane CityLab (Mar. 28, 2006)
Young Scientists Test Speed and Distance at MESA Science Middle School Competition (Mar. 16, 2006)
WSU Spokane MESA to Ignite Scientific Inquiry during Annual High School Competition (Mar. 16, 2006)
Spokane Students Score Big in National Engineering Competition (July 8, 2005)
Spokane MESA Students Advance to National Engineering Competition (May 31, 2005)
WSU Spokane Hosts Middle School Scientists for a Day (May 10, 2005)
High School Teams Converge for WSU Spokane MESA Competition (Mar. 21, 2005)
Building a Better Mousetrap (Vehicle, That Is) (Mar. 10, 2005)
Sleep-over for Science Set for Jan. 21-22 (Jan. 3, 2005)
How does Gil Grissom solve the mystery week after week on “CSI”? (June 14, 2004)
Middle School and High School Students Convene in Spokane to Compete in 2004 MESA State Competition (May 24, 2004)
WSU Spokane Hosts Summer Camps (May 10, 2004)
MESA Competitions Set for Nontraditional Science Students (Mar. 17, 2004)
Pullman High School Wins Third Straight Spokane Science Bowl, Headed to Washington, D.C. (Mar. 17, 2004)
Third Annual Department of Energy Science Bowl To Be Held at WSU Spokane (Feb. 27, 2004)
Area Junior High, High School Students Vie for National MESA Competition (May 22, 2003)
MESA Competition Reaches Nontraditional Science Students (Mar. 24, 2003)
Pullman High School Wins Science Bowl for Second Straight Year, Heads to Washington, D.C. (Mar. 10, 2003)
Middle School Logic and Engineering Tested at MESA Competition (Mar. 9, 2003)
High School Students Prepare for Saturday’s Science Bowl at WSU Spokane (Mar. 5, 2003)
Department of Energy Science Bowl Scheduled for March 8 at WSU Spokane (Feb. 12, 2003)
WSU Spokane design camps July 15-19 and 22-26, 2002
WSU Spokane summer camps offer young students fun with science and design (June 6, 2002)
Spokane middle school students to test science skills at MESA competition (Apr. 4, 2002)
Pullman High School wins Spokane Science Bowl, earns trip to Washington, D.C. (Mar. 15, 2002
DOE Science Bowl set for WSU Spokane (Feb. 18, 2002)
After-school lesson for Shaw Middle School students: anatomy by dissection (Nov. 7, 2001)
Middle school students receive hands-on anatomy lessons through CityLab (Oct. 31, 2001)
High school students to compete in MESA science competition (Mar. 21, 2001)
Middle school summer camps at WSU Spokane offer fun and learning (Apr. 28, 2000)
Math and science competition set for middle school students (Feb. 14, 2000)

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