WSU Spokane Campus
Bulletin
Issue 2002-5 (February
20, 2002)
IN
THIS ISSUE
· GET TO KNOW WSU SPOKANE:
EDUCATION
· WSU SBDC, NETHERCUTT EFFORTS HELP SPOKANE PHYSICIAN
RECEIVE NASA PATENT LICENSE
· PUBLIC PERCEPTIONS OF BIOTECHNOLOGY LECTURE FEB.
21
· HEALTH SCIENCES BUILDING DEDICATION ACTIVITIES FEB.
22
· EDC BREAKFAST WITH CONTRACT PHARMA EDITOR FEB.
26
· PERSONNEL DYNAMICS
· NOTEWORTHY
· VOLUNTEER BOARD OPPORTUNITIES
· EVENTS
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GET TO KNOW WSU
SPOKANE
This week’s department
overview feature: Education
Highlights
· Statewide Superintendent’s Certification
program
· Field-based Principal’s Certification
Program
· Master’s in Teaching Program (a Pullman-based program
offered in Spokane)
· School Psychologist’s Certification program in
collaboration with EWU
· Student Teaching supervision of undergraduate Pullman
students
· National Board Professional Teacher Certification
(academic credit option created by Lenore Schmidt of WSU
Spokane)
Accomplishments
Over two-thirds of the
superintendent’s in Washington State received their Superintendent Credential
from Washington State!!
First year of operation
Education
programs have been a part of WSU Spokane since the inception of the branch
campuses.
Mission
The mission of WSU’s Leaders for
Tomorrow’s Schools program is “… to prepare school district leaders with
the leadership and management skills needed to lead their organizations to the
improvement of student learning.” The Field-Based Superintendent’s
Certification Program, a component of Leaders for Tomorrow’s Schools,
is specifically designed to prepare current building principals and mid-level
administrators to meet the leadership challenges to be faced by school
superintendents in the twenty-first century.
Plans
Development
of a multi-campus Ed.D. program, state-level professional teacher certification
program, and establishment of the High Tech High in connection with a Gates
Foundation grant.
Community Partners
The program has extensive
involvement with almost all of Spokane County’s schools and school districts
through internship placement in the Principal’s credential program or student
teacher placement with the MIT and Student Teaching Supervision.
Meet the
Staff:
Dennis Ray, Director,
Leader for Tomorrow’s Schools
Program Coordinator, Superintendent’s
Certification Program
Unit Director
Jim Howard, Program
Coordinator, Principal’s Certification Program
Fred Peterson,
Professor, Director of International Academic Affairs
Jack
Marchant, Student Teacher Supervisor
Lenore Schmidt, Program
Coordinator, Masters in Teaching (MIT)
Steve Hirsch, Program
Coordinator, School Psychologists Certification Program
Alison
Olzendam, Director, High Tech High Project
Deborah Hoerner,
Secretary Senior
WSU SBDC, NETHERCUTT EFFORTS HELP SPOKANE PHYSICIAN RECEIVE
NASA PATENT LICENSE
A press
conference is set for 10:30 a.m. Thursday, February 21, at Washington State
University Spokane's new Health Sciences Building, Room 110A, to announce that a
NASA patent license has been secured by Spokane physician Don Baker for a
portable fetal heart rate monitor.
The monitor is the first of its kind
using aerospace technology developed by NASA.
Among those attending the
press conference will be Dr. Baker, Congressman George Nethercutt, Spokane Small
Business Development Center staff member Rick Thorpe, statewide SBDC
director Carolyn Clark, and NASA representatives, including Barrie L.
Price of its Technology Commercialization Program Office.
Reporters will
have an opportunity to interview Dr. Thomas Hoban (see below) and to tour and
photograph the new health sciences building following the press
conference.
PUBLIC
PERCEPTIONS OF BIOTECHNOLOGY LECTURE FEB. 21
Thomas J. Hoban, an international expert on the growing
use of biotechnology in society, will discuss the public perceptions of the
industry during a 1 p.m. talk at Washington State University Spokane Thursday,
Feb. 21. The lecture will be held in the new Health Sciences Building on the
Riverpoint campus, 310 N. Riverpoint Blvd., Room 110B.
For the past 10
years, the professor and extension specialist in the Department of Sociology and
Anthropology at North Carolina State University has researched how American
agriculture, the food industry, public officials and others can most effectively
respond to issues surrounding biotechnology. His most recent research project
examines what global leaders think and know about biotechnology.
More
information: http://wsunews.wsu.edu/detail.asp?StoryID=2717
HEALTH SCIENCES BUILDING DEDICATION
ACTIVITIES FEB. 22
We encourage
you to invite friends, family, and colleagues into the Health Sciences Building
this Friday, Feb. 22, for the public activities. See details online:
http://wsunews.wsu.edu/detail.asp?StoryID=2732
Faculty, staff, and students, we hope to see you
at the dedication ceremony activities, 3:30-5pm, and the social hour and tours
following. Gov. Gary Locke will be touring the building immediately following
the dedication.
Thanks to the Herculean efforts of Kenny Bisagno,
Sicco Rood, Mike Bergam, and Larry Hoffman, we can view the events
via live video feed in Rms. 272-274 and the Dental Hygiene Clinic. Please
feel free to invite prospective students to join you there as
well.
EDC BREAKFAST
WITH CONTRACT PHARMA EDITOR FEB. 26
Contract Pharma is the nation's leading magazine devoted
to contract services and the outsourcing sectors of the pharmaceutical and
biopharmaceutical industries.
Contract Pharma editor Gil Roth will visit
Spokane this month to learn more about the companies here and the resources our
region offers this industry. He will speak at a breakfast sponsored by the
Spokane Area Economic Development Council about trends in the industry and the
kinds of resources and tools communities such as Spokane can use to help grow
the industry here.
Cost for breakfast is $12. Seating is limited, and
seats are going fast. RSVP to the EDC,
624-9285.
Date:
Time:
Location:
Cost:
Mr.
Roth will be touring the Health Sciences Building the afternoon of Tuesday, Feb.
26, as part of his introduction to Spokane. Barb Chamberlain is
coordinating arrangements with the EDC and their public relations firm and with
our faculty to provide information to Mr. Roth on WSU Spokane research
activities.
PERSONNEL DYNAMICS
Coming
Myah Houghten, Research Associate, Child
and Family Research Institute (CAFRI)
Recruitments
Fiscal
Technician II, SIRTI
Searches
Associate Director, Cancer
Prevention and Research Center
Associate Professor, Audiology, Speech and
Hearing Sciences
Assistant/Associate Professor, Speech Language Pathology,
Speech and Hearing Science
Assistant/Associate Professor, Management
Information Systems
Chair/Director of Program in Interior Design and
Assistant Director of the Interdisciplinary Design Institute
Chair, Pharmacy
Practice
Clinical Assistant Professor, Pharmacy Practice
Research
Coordinator, Pharmacy Practice
Executive Director, SIRTI
NOTEWORTHY
Darlene Septelka, associate professor and Spokane
construction management program coordinator, Interdisciplinary Design Institute,
had a peer reviewed paper accepted for the 38th Annual Associated Schools of
Construction International Conference at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and
State University in Blacksburg, Virginia in April. The title of the paper is
"The Design-Build Charrette - An Educational Model for Teaching Multidiscipline
Team Collaboration".
David Wang, associate professor and graduate
coordinator of architecture, Interdisciplinary Design Institute, is pleased to
announce the publication of his book, Architectural Research Methods, released
by John Wiley & Sons on January 25, 2002. The book is co-authored with Linda
Groat of the University of Michigan. WSU Spokane is prominently featured
in the book with examples from the design charrettes and various other student
contributions.
WSU Researchers: ADHD Rising Rapidly Among U.S. Girls:
The number of children visiting U.S. physicians for the treatment of
attention deficit hyperactivity disorder tripled between 1990 and 1998,
according to an article by Washington State University researchers published in
the February issue of CNS Drugs. Researchers participating in the study include
Linda M. Robison; Tracy L. Skaer, assistant dean of pharmacy; David A.
Sclar, Boeing Distinguished Professor, pharmacy; and Richard S. Galin. See
more online: http://wsunews.wsu.edu/detail.asp?StoryID=2738
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.
VOLUNTEER BOARD OPPORTUNITIES
The City of Spokane Mayor’s Office is presently
accepting applications for the following volunteer boards and
commissions:
Design
Review Committee (1 Vacancy): Licensed
architect, deadline for application is Friday, February 22, 2002, 5:00
p.m.
Sister Cities
Association (1 Vacancy): Open to both
city and county residents, deadline for application is Friday, February 22,
2002, 5:00 p.m.
Human
Services Advisory Board (4 Vacancies):
Deadline for application is Friday, February 22, 2002, 5:00 p.m.
Park Board (2 Vacancies): Deadline for application is Friday,
February 22, 2002, 5:00 p.m.
Lodging Tax Advisory Committee (2 Vacancies): The first vacancy is for a
representative of businesses required to collect hotel/motel tax monies, and the
second vacancy for representative involved in a group or activity with
authorization to be funded by revenue from the hotel/motel tax.
Sports, Entertainment, Arts and
Conventions Advisory Board (SEACAB) (1
Vacancy): Deadline for application is Friday, March 1, 2002, 5:00
p.m.
Library Board of
Trustees (1 Vacancy): Deadline for
application is Friday, March 22, 2002, 5:00 p.m.
Applicants must be a
resident of the city unless otherwise noted. Applications and position
descriptions are available in the Mayor’s Office at 808 W Spokane Falls Blvd or
by clicking on the links above.
UPCOMING EVENTS
EXTERNAL EVENTS
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.
·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).
·The formal dedication,
3:30-5pm in the quad classrooms (HSB rooms 110A-D), is an invitation-only
community-oriented event.
·Due to space limitations, a live video feed of the
dedication program will be shown in HSB rooms 272-274 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.
Thursday, February 28: Winter Rally on
Hospitality
Did you know that the hospitality and tourism industry is the
No. 1 business in the world today? We are all customers. As we look at our food,
drink, the decor, and service, we can see how the hospitality industry operates
from a customer’s viewpoint. Join us for the EDC Winter Rally at 7:30 a.m. for a
look at the industry from the inside and its regional economic impact. Featured
speakers include: Denney G. Rutherford, Ph.D., Ivar Haglund Distinguished
Professor, Washington State University Hotel and Restaurant Administration
Program; John Brewer, President and CEO, Spokane Regional Convention and
Visitors Bureau; Ken Belisle, Vice President of Operations, Landmark
Restaurants. The rally will be at the Regal Cinemas Theater 12, Spokane Valley
Mall.
RSVP by February 26 to 624-9285 or e-mail Pam Mackey at
pmackey@edc.spokane.net. Washington State University and Jones & Mitchell
Insurance and Risk Management are sponsors of the rally.
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. See press release online: http://wsunews.wsu.edu/detail.asp?StoryID=2737
Submit
event information or send corrections to
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