WSU Spokane Campus Bulletin
Issue 2001-35 (November 7, 2001)
IN THIS ISSUE
·COMBINED FUND DRIVE UPDATE
·GET TO KNOW WSU SPOKANE: AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER
·MEDIA COVERAGE & NEWS RELEASES
·NOTEWORTHY
·EVENTS
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COMBINED FUND DRIVE UPDATE LAST DAY
TO PARTICIPATE!
This year’s WSU
Spokane Combined Fund Drive event was a success! A big thank you goes out to all
of those who turned out for the event especially those in Halloween
costumes - and donated desserts and silent auction items to benefit our local
food bank.
A total of $605.56 was raised for the Inland Northwest Second
Harvest Food Bank. The food bank’s executive director, Al Brislain, spoke to the
group about how the organization fills the needs of the Spokane community and
how every $1 donation can be turned into $10 worth of food by Second Harvest.
The silent auction raised $519.50 and dessert salescame to $86.06. This combined
amount is $100 more than what was raised at last year’s event.
To
increase participation in this year’s CFD campaign, WSU Spokane issued a
challenge to ICN: Whichever has the highest participation will deliver cookies
to the other. So far 66 people (out of 160 WSU Spokane employees) have returned
the CFD pledge form for 41.25% participation.We’ve heard ICN’s participation
number is at 42%. Please take a minute, complete the form and return it to
Sherry Bye (358-7631 or byes@wsu.edu) by Wed., Nov. 7.
Pictures
from last week’s event can be viewed on the campus X: drive in the CFD2001
folder. Congratulations to dessert bake-off winners
Julie Breshears, Erlene Grosvenor, and Doug Stephens; and
to costume contest winners John Goldman (as Blues Brother, Elwood),
Doug Stephens (broom maker), and Gretchen Arend (cigarette girl).
GET TO KNOW WSU SPOKANE
Get to
know WSU Spokane and what is offered through various programs and departments
through a new addition to the Campus Bulletin: department overviews. These
overviews will be in the form of a short fact sheet about programs and
departments at WSU Spokane, sent as a separate attachment for your convenience
if you want to print and file them.
These overviews are being produced in
response to an internal communications need identified through strategic
planning efforts. Please take a few minutes to open the attachment and quickly
review the featured department or program and get to know your colleagues and
what they are doing.
Please pass along comments and suggestions about department overviews to
Kaarin Appel at .
This week’s department overview feature:
Area Health Education Center.
The Area Health Education Center (AHEC,
pronounced AY-HECK) at Washington State University Spokane, like its sister AHEC
organizations around the country, focuses on health professions education and
training, recruitment, and retention, especially for rural and underserved
communities.
The AHEC also provides technical assistance to communities
and serves as a grant partner for a number of initiatives. It is recognized as a
leader nationwide for its innovative and successful programs.
AHEC
online: www.ahec.spokane.wsu.edu
Meet the AHEC Staff
Go to AHEC’s web site to meet Steve Meltzer, Charlotte Hardt,
Bettie Rundlett,
Cathi Lamoreux, Helen Bolen, and Marlene O’Dea (in living
color) at http://www.ahec.spokane.wsu.edu/AHEC_Staff.html.
MEDIA COVERAGE & NEWS RELEASES
Spokane Show to Focus on Rural Farm Life:
Most people know that the Palouse region is home to agriculture. However, few
people, including Washington State University students, take the time to
discover its true nature and what its agricultural way of life is all about.
This was just the challenge given to WSU faculty members Paul Hirzel and Greg
Kessler's third-year architecture students. What can architects learn from
farmers? How can WSU's rural location be a benefit to good design? The results
of their research and their design projects is on display at the
Interdisciplinary Design Institute on the WSU Spokane campus, Riverpoint
Higher Education Park, 668 N. Riverpoint Blvd., Spokane. The exhibit runs
through the end of November. The institute gallery is open 8 a.m.-5 p.m.,
Monday-Friday. More online: http://wsunews.wsu.edu/detail.asp?StoryID=747
Margaret Mortz, associate professor, Electrical Engineering, is
collaborating with Jeanne Small of EWU on a project to develop air-sampling
technology under a $1.2 million grant from the Office of Naval Research. Their
project was included in an article in the November 2, 2001, Seattle
Post-Intelligencer: http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/business/45116_combi02.shtml
Award-winning faculty and students: Design-Build Institute of America
recognized a Washington State University Spokane faculty member for developing
one of the first graduate integrated design and construction education programs
in the United States. Darlene Septelka, associate professor of
Construction Management, received DBIA's Faculty Distinguished Leadership
Special Recognition Award at its annual conference in October in Boston.
Leandra Thompson, graduate student, also received an award, and Septelka and
grad student
Margaret Downing were awarded a research grant. More online: http://wsunews.wsu.edu/detail.asp?StoryID=757
Inland Northwest Cancer Research Consortium Launched: A research consortium
intended to increase the quality of patient care in Spokane and broaden existing
public-private collaboration in cancer research and treatment was unveiled
Friday, November 2. V. Lane Rawlins, president, Washington State University,
joined with top officials of Empire Health Services and Providence Services of
Eastern Washington to announce the creation of the Inland Northwest Cancer
Research Consortium. More online: http://wsunews.wsu.edu/detail.asp?StoryID=750
Third-Year Pharmacy Classes Moving To Spokane: The Washington State
University College of Pharmacy and WSU Spokane have finalized arrangements to
move the third year of pharmacy's professional degree program to Spokane
starting in fall of 2002. The fourth year of the doctor of pharmacy program is
already based at WSU Spokane, which will leave the program's first two years,
along with the first two years of pre-pharmacy classes, located at Pullman. More
online: http://wsunews.wsu.edu/detail.asp?StoryID=763
WSU
Tri-Cities Holds Architecture, Design-Build Information Night November 15:
Washington State University Tri-Cities will sponsor an information night next
week to discuss a proposed executive track program in design-build management at
the Richland campus. Faculty from WSU Spokane's Interdisciplinary Design
Institute will join WSU Tri-Cities representatives in explaining the program
and all admission requirements. The core courses in the potential program will
come from WSU Spokane, which offers a master of science degree in
architecture with a design-build emphasis. More online: http://wsunews.wsu.edu/detail.asp?StoryID=762
NOTEWORTHY
Anne Haneburg, 5th year undergraduate
student in landscape architecture, developed a proposal entitled "Therapeutic
Landscape: Riverview Retirement Community's Answer to Eden." The proposal was
selected by the College of Agriculture and Home Economics as one of this year's
Undergraduate Research and Creative Projects. Haneburg receives a $1,000 grant
to fund the program. She worked with Suzanne Snowdon, instructor in
landscape architecture, to develop the project. Results will be presented at the
CAHE Awards Banquet April 13, 2002.
Danial Baker, professor,
pharmacy practice, and director, Drug Information Center, and Terri Levien,
drug information specialist, DIC, published Levien TL, Baker DE, Campbell RK,
White J. Nateglinide therapy for Type 2 diabetes mellitus. Ann Pharmacother
2001;35:1426-34.
SEND YOUR NOTEWORTHY NEWS about staff, faculty,
students, or graduates of WSU Spokane to chamberlain@wsu.edu for inclusion in
future editions of the weekly campus bulletin and
spokane@wsu.edu, the quarterly newsletter.
UPCOMING EVENTS
INTERNAL EVENTS
Wednesday, November 7, through
Friday, November 16: ASWSUS Food Drive. There are drop-off boxes at MFC 1st floor and the
Interdisciplinary Design Institute office and design studios at Phase I
Classroom Building. ASWSUS is collecting non-perishable food items for Second
Harvest Food Bank and will accept warm clothing items as well. For more
information, contact Courtney or Mark at 358-7921.
Friday, November 9:
Health Science Seminar. Phase I Classroom Building, Auditorium from 11:30
a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Presenters will be Jon Schad, facilities manager, and Bruce
Thompson, assistant director of Facilities Development, speaking about moving
and building details in anticipation of the move most of the WSU Spokane
departments, and the OT, PT, Communication Disorders, and Dental Hygiene
Departments will shortly be making to the new Health Sciences Building. RSVPs
were due by noon, Wednesday, November 7, to Cathi Lamoreux. If you plan on
attending and have not RSVP'd, please call Cathi at 358-7509 or lamoreux@wsu.edu.
Thursday, November 29: Karen DePauw, Dean of the Graduate School, will visit
Spokane for an open dialog. You are invited to attend the appropriate session
outlined below. All meetings will be held in the Phase I Classroom Building in
the first floor conference room. Her schedule is as follows:
1:30 to 2:15
p.m. Meet with the Instructional Leadership Council
2:15 to 2:45 p.m.
Open session with Spokane faculty and staff
2:45 to 3:15 p.m. Open
session with Spokane graduate students
EXTERNAL EVENTS
Today
through Friday, November 30: “Palouse Farm Architecture: Reinterpretations of
Rural Landscapes”. Exhibit of student work from the School of Architecture
at the WSU Spokane Interdisciplinary Design Institute. Riverpoint Higher
Education Park, Phase I Classroom Building Gallery. Hours: Monday Friday,
8:00 a.m. 7:00 p.m.; Saturday, 8:00 a.m. 5:00 p.m. Open and free to
the public. Call 358-7920.
Wednesday, November 7: “Urban Centers that
Support Health Across Generations”. Presented by Bob Scarfo, Ph.D.,
associate professor of horticulture and landscape architecture,
Interdisciplinary Design Institute. Lecture begins at 4:30 p.m., Community
Building, 35 W. Main, Spokane. Call 358-7920. The lecture is free and open to
the public.
Thursday, November 8: EDC Rally to Discuss Workforce
Education. The EDC’s Fall Rally, scheduled for 7:30 a.m. at Spokane
Community College, will feature a panel discussion on the evolving health care,
high technology, and biotechnology sectors and how these rapidly changing
industries affect workforce development and education.
Panelists
include:
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The rally will be held in the SCC
Student Lair, 1810 N. Green Street. RSVP by Tuesday, November 6, by calling
624-9285 or e-mailing Pam Mackey at pmackey@edc.spokane.net.
Thursday, November 8: Real Estate Open
House. Spokane Bookie, 410 E. Trent Ave., Riverpoint campus, 5:30 p.m. For
more information go to
http://www.spokane.wsu.edu/news&events/infosessions01.html
Tuesday, November 13: Computer Engineering Open
House. Spokane Bookie, 410 E. Trent Ave., Riverpoint campus, 5:30 p.m. For
more information go to
http://www.spokane.wsu.edu/news&events/infosessions01.html
Friday, November 16, & Saturday, November 17: “The
Human Genome Project: The Ethical, Legal & Social Implications”.
WSU Spokane Stier Memorial Lecture along with St. Stephen’s Lecture Series
presents this public lecture and discussion series for health professionals and
community members, Friday, November 16, from 7:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., and
Saturday, November 17, from 8:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Sacred Heart Medical
Center Providence Auditorium, W. 20 Ninth Ave., Spokane. Featuring nationally
recognized speakers, Victor A. McKusick, MD, university professor of medical
genetics at Johns Hopkins, and Albert R. Jonsen, Ph.D., professor emeritus of ethics in medicine. RSVP required,
call 509-358-7640 or e-mail ahec@wsu.edu. The lecture is approved for
continuing education units for health professionals for a $20 fee.
Tuesday, November 20: Cougar Basketball Rally. Join the pre-game festivities
as the men’s basketball team comes to Spokane to take on Colorado State. The
rally is from 5:30 to 6:45 p.m. in the Les Schwab Meeting Room at the Spokane
Arena. Tickets are $15 in advance or $25 at the door. RSVP to Lori Olson at
358-7541. Game tickets sold separately at 1-800-GO-COUGS. Game time is 7:00 p.m.
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