WSU Spokane Campus
Bulletin
Issue 2002-12 (April 17,
2002)
IN THIS
ISSUE
·GET TO KNOW WSU SPOKANE: INTERDISCIPLINARY DESIGN
INSTITUTE
·OPEN MEETING WITH PRESIDENT RAWLINS AND CLASSIFIED
STAFF SET FOR MAY 2
·NOTEWORTHY
·PERSONNEL
·IN THE NEWS
·THIS WEEK IN SPOKANE
·EVENTS
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GET TO KNOW WSU SPOKANE
This week’s department overview feature: Interdisciplinary Design Institute
Highlights
Efforts toward the development of the
Interdisciplinary Design Institute at WSU Spokane began in 1987. In 1985, the
Interdisciplinary Design Institute was formally established. Participating
academic units in the Institute include the School of Architecture and
Construction Management; the Department of Apparel, Merchandizing, and Interior
Design; and the Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture.
Architecture, construction management, interior design, and landscape
architecture are among the programs offered by the institute. The attached
document outlines details on graduate and undergraduate programs as well as the
Doctor of Design degree.
The Design Institute’s mission at WSU Spokane is
to advance knowledge to enhance the quality of people’s lives in the built and
natural environment through interdisciplinary instruction, research, and service
among design, construction, and allied disciplines. The philosophy is to foster
collaborative learning and inquiry in a way that enables the participating
disciplines to go beyond and between traditional boundaries while contributing
to the definition and evolution of the participating disciplines.
A few goals of the Design Institute include: educating students to
develop an enlarged and holistic understanding of the phenomena, events, and
objects that shape the quality of people's lives in the urban environment.
Preparing students to work as members of multi- and interdisciplinary teams in
clarifying and solving design and construction problems. Advancing the synergy
between learning, scholarship, and public service in design and construction
disciplines.
Student Enrollment for 2001/2002
Graduate Programs
Total:
52 students; 44 students active
Undergraduate Programs Total:
120 students; Architecture (32 students); Construction Management (35
students); Interior Design (29 students); Landscape Architecture (24
students).
Vision
Develop the Interdisciplinary Design
Institute as a destination center in the Western United States and the U.S. for
Interdisciplinary Design education, research and creative scholarship, and
service.
Instructional, Research and Service Programs
In line
with the institute’s goals and along with the variety of design discipline
programs offered, the attached briefly describes the following research and
service programs: Cambridge Studies Abroad Program; Lectures, Exhibitions &
Sponsored Events Program; Geographical Information Systems and Simulation Lab;
Institutional Research; and the Design and Construction Assistance
Program.
Staff
The Design Institute consists of 16 full-time
faculty, 8 adjunct faculty, 2 administrative professionals, and one classified
staff. In addition, institutional partnerships have been developed with
the US Department of Agriculture (2 adjunct
faculty).
Interdisciplinary Design Institute
Maria
Beebe
Gary
Kuhn
Ruby
Latham
Forster
Ndubisi
Jaime
Rice
Bruce
Walker
Kristie
Wardrop
Architecture
John
Abell
Keith Diaz Moore
Doug
Menzies
Sam
Rodell
David
Wang
Construction Management
Larry
Fischer
Dale
Hokanson
Darlene
Septelka
Interior
Design
Catherine
Bicknell
Nancy Clark Brown
Matt
Melcher
Judy Theodorson
Jo Ann Asher Thompson Professor/Associate
Dean
Landscape Architecture
Kerry
Brooks
Elizabeth Payne
Bob
Scarfo
Susie
Snowdon
GIS
and Simulation LAB
Kerry
Brooks
The Interdisciplinary Design Institute is located in the Phase I
Classroom Building with offices and design studios located on the first, second
and third floors. Visit the Design Institute’s web site at
http://www.spokane.wsu.edu/academic/design/design_disciplines.asp.
OPEN MEETING WITH PRESIDENT RAWLINS AND
CLASSIFIED STAFF SET FOR MAY 2
Due to a great response from branch campus and extension
employees, we have rescheduled the open meeting with President Rawlins and the
Classified staff to May 2, noon until 1:30 p.m. This will allow us to
present the meeting over WHETS.
The Washington Federation of State
Employees is very pleased to sponsor an Open Meeting with President Rawlins and
the Classified Staff of WSU's campuses on May 2, noon to 1:30 p.m. Locations for
the Open Meeting include FSHN T101 where the meeting will originate, and WHETS
classrooms at WSU Spokane, WSU Tri-Cities, WSU Vancouver, and the WSU Learning
Center at Colville.
In addition, the meeting will be transmitted live via
the College of Agriculture and Home Economics WECN system to the Puyallup
Research and Extension Center, the Wenatchee Tree Fruit Research Center, the WSU
Learning Center at Mt. Vernon, the Irrigated Agriculture Research and Extension
Center at Prosser and the Energy Extension office in Olympia. The meeting will
also be available the next day via videostream from the online
archive.
If you have any questions you wish to submit to President
Rawlins before the meeting so that he can answer them at the session, please
submit them to snookl@wsu.edu. The questions will be compiled and submitted all
at once to the President's Office.
If there is anyone who will need
disability accommodations, please contact snookl@wsu.edu.
NOTEWORTHY
Jayanti Ray, assistant professor, speech and hearing
sciences, will present two papers on children's metacognitive abilities at the
IX International Congress for Study of Child Language and the Symposium on
Research in Child Language Disorders to be held at the University of Wisconsin,
Madison, July 13-18, 2001.
Gail Chermak, professor and chair,
speech and hearing sciences, will present differential diagnosis of auditory
processing disorder at an invited workshop presented at the annual conference of
the Canadian Association of Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists,
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, April 2002.
Chermak will also
present management of auditory processing disorders at an invited one-day
workshop presented to the College of Health Related Professions, University of
Puerto Rico, San Juan, May 2002.
Darlene Septelka, associate
professor of construction management and coordinator of the graduate
design-build management track, has been named a charter professional in the new
Design-Build Institute of America designated design-build professional
certification program. See story at http://wsunews.wsu.edu/detail.asp?StoryID=2935
David
Wang, associate professor of architecture, has co-authored a book on
research methods for architects. Wang wrote Architectural Research Methods,
released by John Wiley & Sons, with Linda Groat of the University of
Michigan. See story at http://wsunews.wsu.edu/detail.asp?StoryID=2934
Jack
Severinghaus, student counselor, counseling services, will present
"Fostering Success: Helping Graduate and Professional Students Experiencing
Faculty Criticism" at the May 23, 2002, conference of the National Association
of Student Personnel Administrators.
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.
PERSONNEL
Comings
Andre Wamsley, custodian, Facilities
Operations
Arriene Womack, research coordinator, Pharmacy
Practice
Promotions
Diane Davis, promoted to an A/P project
coordinator, Health Research & Education
Center
Searches
Associate director, Cancer Prevention and
Research Center
Clinical assistant professor, Pharmacy Practice
Executive
director, SIRTI
IN
THE NEWS
The MESA Middle
School Science Competition that took place Wednesday, April 10, at the East
Central Community Center, received coverage that evening on the 5 p.m. newscasts
on KHQ and KXLY, the 10 p.m. newscast on FOX, and a feature picture on the front
page of the Region section of Thursday, April 11 Spokesman-Review. Look for a
story in Thursday’s Voice section in the Spokesman-Review. More than 120
eighth graders from all District No. 81 middle schools competed in logic and
engineering challenges at this event coordinated by Keith Orchard and the
MESA office at WSU Spokane. This coverage was generated by a press release and
follow-up calls by the Communications office. See the press release at http://wsunews.wsu.edu/detail.asp?StoryID=2889.
The
fourth year Interior Design students could be seen in action on KXLY’s 6 p.m.
news on Wednesday, April 10. Matt Melcher’s students were filmed
doing fieldwork related to a current studio project where a warehouse is
transformed into a dozen condominiums (Urban Loft Condominiums, 1220 W Railroad
Ave, Spokane, WA). The project has a "real" client who intends to move forward
with the proposal and has funded the studio for students to look at conceptual
alternative plans. There is excitement about the possibility of facilitating
research into this contribution to Spokane's urban
revitalization.
THIS
WEEK IN SPOKANE
Each week the
Spokane Convention & Visitor’s Bureau (CVB) sends out an events sheet
called, “This Week in Spokane.” It lists upcoming events for the current week as
well as a few weeks out. It is great information to post for students,
faculty, staff or visitors looking for something to do in the Lilac City. To
receive “This Week in Spokane” via e-mail contact Katherine Funk at 624-1341 or
visit the web site at http://www.visitspokane.com then click on Calendar in the left margin. WSU Spokane
receives this information as a member of the CVB.
UPCOMING EVENTS
INTERNAL EVENTS
Thursday, April 18: Nutrition
Seminar, “Risk Factors for Eating Disorders in College Students”
Students
in all majors, both male and female, have this disorder. Jennifer Flint's
presentation will review risk factors, with recommendations from educators about
how to discourage eating disorders. The seminar will begin promptly at 4:10 p.m.
in HSB 334 and be done by 5 p.m. All interested persons are
welcome.
EXTERNAL EVENTS
Saturday, April 27: March of Dimes
WalkAmerica. Start/finish line at Phase I Classroom Building. 8 a.m.
check-in and pre-walk festivities, 9 a.m. walk begins. Route is a 6-mile stroll
along the scenic Centennial Trail. Anyone interested in recruiting a team of WSU
Spokane walkers? Forms available from Joyce Harbison, 8-7540, harbison@wsu.edu.
Tuesday, April 30: Speech & Hearing
Sciences Open House
The University Programs in Communications Disorders
(UPCD) will hold an open house and reception for professional community
colleagues in their new facilities in the Health Sciences Building, 310 N.
Riverpoint Blvd., from 4 to 6 p.m. Metered parking is available. To RSVP or for
more information contact Doug Stephens at 358-7602 or
stephend@wsu.edu.
Friday, May 10: Commencement
Commencement
will take place from 2 to 3:45 p.m. at the Opera House, 334 W. Spokane Falls
Blvd. Reception to follow in the Health Sciences Building lobby, 310 N.
Riverpoint Blvd., from 4 to 6 p.m. All faculty, staff, students and their
families are encouraged to attend. To volunteer, call Kaarin Appel at 358-7528
or send e-mail to .
Thursday, May 16: Living Free: A Musical
Celebration of Life
On Stage!, a program of the Washington Institute for
Mental Illness Research and Training at WSU Spokane, presents a free performance
in tribute to National Mental Health Month. Metropolitan Center for the
Performing Arts, 901 W. Sprague, 7:30 p.m. For information call 358-7676. Event
supported by Spokane County Regional Support Network, United Behavioral Health,
WSU Spokane, WIMIRT, and the Simanton Foundation.
Sunday, June 2:
Football and Fashion 101
Find out everything you want to know about
Cougar Football from WSU Head Coach Mike Price at the Downtown Spokane Nordstrom
at 7 p.m., complete with a Nordstrom fashion show, prizes and a post-event
shopping opportunity just for attendees. Tickets are $30 with proceeds to
support student-athletes’ scholarships at WSU. Send checks to the Athletic
Foundation, 601 W First Ave., Spokane, WA 99201 by May 24th or call Lori Olson at 358-7541 or e-mail
olsonl@wsu.edu.
Submit event information or send corrections to
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