WSU Spokane Campus
Bulletin
Issue 2002-4 (February 6,
2002)
IN THIS
ISSUE
· GET TO KNOW WSU SPOKANE: COOPERATIVE
EXTENSION
· PERSONNEL DYNAMICS
· MEDIA COVERAGE
· NOTEWORTHY
· EVENTS
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GET TO KNOW WSU SPOKANE
This week’s department overview feature: Cooperative Extension at WSU
Spokane
This week’s overview is
in a little different format, highlighting the unit’s activities under each
person’s name. To read about each program in full detail, see the
attached.
Background
Washington State University Cooperative
Extension helps people develop leadership skills and use research-based
knowledge to improve their economic status and quality of life.
The
Smith-Lever Act of 1914 gave each land-grant university a mandate to extend
results of research and experience based knowledge to the people of the state in
order to improve the quality of their lives and enterprises. The provisions of
this act create a unique partnership of governments called Cooperative
Extension. Cooperative Extension is a nationwide network that combines federal,
state, and local expertise and resources to bring non-credit, practical
education to the people.
Cooperative Extension is available
statewide. There are county Cooperative Extension offices located in each
of the 39 counties in Washington State. In addition, Extension faculty and
specialists, are housed statewide in Pullman, 7 Research and Extension
Centers/Units, 10 Learning Centers, 3 Branch Campuses, and 2 Energy
Offices.
Spokane County Cooperative Extension Agent is Jim
Lindstrom, jlindstr@wsu.edu,
477-2170. Spokane County office web page:
spokane-county.wsu.edu.
Accomplishments of Cooperative Extension
faculty based at WSU Spokane
Since 1996, Ed Adams, Chris Blodgett and
Kelsey Gray have secured more than $7 million for various research and programs.
The attached reviews each faculty member’s accomplishments.
Meet the Staff:
Ed Adams, Director of Agriculture and
Natural Resources Programs, has been with Washington State University since
1982. He moved to WSU Spokane in 1990.
As statewide Director of
Agriculture and Natural Resources Programs for Washington State University
Cooperative Extension, Ed provides leadership for issues and programs related to
agriculture and natural resources by working in collaborative relationships with
faculty and administrators in nine academic departments and four extension
districts. He serves as administrative liaison with federal and state
agencies and programs at state, regional, and national levels including
administrative oversight for the Master Gardener Program, water quality,
forestry, pesticide education, farm safety, NREM, small farms, dairy, and
livestock marketing programs.
Chris Blodgett, Director of
Washington State University Institute, has been with Washington State University
and located at WSU Spokane since 1995.
Chris addresses services and
public policy for high-risk children and families. This Institute is currently
in development and the name and formal approval awaits University action.
The focus of the Institute's work will be outcome services research and public
policy research addressing the needs of children, families, and their
communities. As an Associate Scientist and Extension Specialist in Family
Living, Chris involves community development service and research in a shared
position combining Cooperative Extension in the Department of Human Development,
WSU Spokane, and the Washington Institute for Mental Illness Research and
Training. His current activities emphasize community change, services
development, and outcomes research addressing children's exposure to violence
from domestic violence, child abuse, and child neglect.
Kelsey
Gray, Organizational Development Specialist, has been with Washington State
University since 1975 and moved to Spokane with the opening of WSU
Spokane.
Kelsey works with local governments, statewide
associations for Washington's cities and counties, law enforcement agencies as
well as non-profit organizations to conduct regional planning, extension
education, and community and organizational development. Areas of
strategic management and planning ranges from data collection and analysis,
educational materials development, management training, long-term change
intervention design and implementation, conflict mediation, public involvement
program development, follow-up, and evaluation. Dr. Gray's work has been
supported by grants from numerous extramural sources, including the W.K. Kellogg
Foundation, Northwest Area Foundation, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and
the U.S. Department of Justice.
Linda Loos, Administrative
Assistant, has been with Washington State University and located at WSU Spokane
since 1990. Linda provides administrative support to the statewide ANR
program and clerical support to Kelsey Gray.
Go to http://www.photoboard.spokane.wsu.edu then click on Page 6 to see Cooperative Extension
personnel or visit them in person in the Phase I Classroom Building on the first
floor just off of the Gallery. Chris Blodgett can be found on Page 7 under “No
Name Department.”
To learn more about Cooperative Extension programs,
read Focus online at http://caheinfo.wsu.edu/focus/
PERSONNEL DYNAMICS
Coming
Steven Siegfried, Custodian, Facilities
Operations
Mark French, Custodian, Facilities
Operations
Recruitment
Custodian Lead, Facilities Operations
(internal/promotional only)
Searches
Professor and Chair,
Pharmacy Practice
Assistant Professor, Criminal Justice
Associate
Director, Cancer Prevention and Research Center
Assistant/Associate
Professor, Speech Language Pathology, Speech and Hearing
Sciences
Assistant/Associate Professor, Management Information
Systems
Chair/Director of Program in Interior Design and Assistant Director
of the Interdisciplinary Design Institute
Research Coordinator, Pharmacy
Practice Executive Director, SIRTI
MEDIA COVERAGE
Terri Levien was mentioned in Paul Turner's column
The Slice in The Spokesman-Review on Saturday, January 26,2002.
Turner had asked for some information through Lorraine Nelson with the College
of
Pharmacy. Following is the section from The Slice: “Got milk:
Responding to a reader's query, I had a question about lactose's presence in
many prescription medications. Terri Levien at the WSU-Spokane College of
Pharmacy Drug Information Center provided me with a lot of good details. But The
Slice can't do justice to the topic in a few short paragraphs. So here's my
advice. If you are lactose intolerant and are worried about this, talk to your
pharmacist.”
NOTEWORTHY
Danial
Baker has been appointed by Dean Fassett as Associate Dean for Clinical
Programs in the College of Pharmacy, starting February 1. He will have overall
responsibility for early and advanced practice experiences, and for our
relationships with partner institutions in which we place students for clinical
training.
Dorothy Hou, student in health policy and
administration, was invited for a nationally competitive (ACHE) internship
interview with the Cleveland Clinic (#4 hospital nationally). The Cleveland
Clinic funds three fellows each year, two domestic, one international. Two of
the past fellows graduated from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
(ranked #2 health services administration) and one graduated from the University
of Michigan (ranked #1). This year the Cleveland Clinic has selected two
domestic candidates from 50 applicants. Dorothy was one of three international
students selected from 20 international applicants for an onsite interview. Two
of the international students are from India (Dorothy is from China). One of the
students came from Virginia Commonwealth University (ranked #8) and another came
from Rush University (identified by U.S. News & World Report as one of the
top health services administration programs in the country).
Joseph
Coyne, associate professor of health policy and administration, is
the lead author on an article, “The World Health Report 2002: Can Health Care
Systems Be Compared Using A Single Measure of Performance?” that appears in the
January 2002 issue of the American Journal of Public Health. AJPH is the
official journal of the American Public Health Association, the oldest and
largest organization of public health professionals in the world, with more than
50,000 members worldwide. The article appears in the “On The Other Hand”
section of the journal that provides a forum for discussion of critical reports
and events in public health with two views on a given subject. A companion
opinion and critique of the article is provided by Dr. Vincent Navarro, director
of the Public Health Policy Program jointly sponsored by Johns Hopkins
University and Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona Spain.
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
Friday, February 8: Health
Sciences Seminar
The February seminar will be presented by the Area
Health Education Center. It will be held in the Phase I Classroom
Building Auditorium, Riverpoint Campus, 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Box lunches will
be provided.RSVP required, call Cathi Lamoreux at 358-7509.
A note to those of you who do not hold
parking permits for the Riverpoint Campus parking lot: Parking during the week
in the lot now requires a parking permit. There is metered parking available in
the lot, and free parking on the street. Day passes are also available for
purchase for $1 in the parking office located in the Phase I Classroom Building
(same building as where the Auditorium is located).
EXTERNAL EVENTS
Wednesday, February 6: Sync or
Swim: Managing the Flood of PDAs in Health Care
A Medical Library
Association Satellite Teleconference brought to you by the Inland NorthWest
Health Science Libraries (INWHSL), 12:00 to 1:30 p.m. (Pacific time) at WSU
Spokane (room TBA). Register with David Buxton (buxton@wsu.edu) before January
30 to ensure yourself a copy of the handouts. Your local health science library
is bringing you this teleconference at no registration fee. Visit http://www.mlanet.org/education/telecon/pda/index.html for an agenda, list of presenters, and other
details.
Thursday, February 21: “Public Perceptions of Biotechnology”
Presented by Thomas J. Hoban, Ph.D., a Phillip C. Holland Lecturer from
North Carolina State University. Free and open to the public, 1:00 to 2:00 p.m.,
Health Sciences Building Room 110B.
Friday, February 22: Health
Sciences Building Dedication Day Activities
·The Hearing & Speech and
Dental Hygiene Clinics are scheduling reduced-cost appointments for children in
the morning from 8:00 am to noon. MESA, Cooperative Extension, Student Services
and other units will have information and activities for children in the main
lobby; for more information on the booths at
358-7528. Please feel free to invite people into the building for this
activity.
·An Open House for public tours will begin at noon and
run through 1:00 p.m. (tours scheduled at noon, 12:30pm, and 1:00pm, to be led
by faculty and students Call Kaarin to volunteer!). We’ll work with
departments and units to help you publicize this opportunity to key audiences,
for example, professional organizations you belong to, program alumni, etc.
Please feel free to invite people into the building for this
activity.
·The formal dedication, 3:30-5pm in the quad classrooms
(HSB rooms 110A-D), is an invitation-only community-oriented event. Please do
not extend informal invitations externally to this event. We have space and
budgetary constraints.
·Due to space limitations, a live video feed of the
dedication program will be shown in HSB rooms 272-274 and 278 and the Dental
Hygiene Clinic. We believe we can accommodate our community guests in the quad
classrooms if faculty, staff, and students will congregate in the video feed
spaces listed above. Refreshments will be served in the video feed spaces during
the program.
·Volunteers are needed throughout the day, call or e-mail
Kaarin Appel at or
358-7528 to sign up!
Saturday, March 9: DOE Regional Science
Bowl
High school science bowl teams from Northeast Washington and Montana
will come to the Riverpoint campus to compete for the right to travel to
Washington D.C. for the Department of Energy’s National Science Bowl
competition. Volunteers are needed for this event. Call or e-mail Kaarin
at 358-7528 or for
more information.
Submit event information or send corrections to
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