WSU Spokane Campus
Bulletin
Issue 2002-15 (May 8,
2002)
IN THIS
ISSUE
·GET TO KNOW WSU SPOKANE: STUDENT
SERVICES
·PERSONNEL
·MEDIA COVERAGE
·NOTEWORTHY
·EVENTS
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GET TO KNOW WSU SPOKANE
This week’s feature: Student
Services
Commencement is
consuming the Student Services staff this time of year, but they’re busy all
year round. See the attachment to read about all of the functions of Student
Services, their accomplishments, and why they consistently receive high marks
from students on the service they receive. This information provided by Joan
Menzies, director of student services.
PERSONNEL
Searches
Associate Director, Cancer Prevention
and Research Center
Clinical Assistant Professor, Pharmacy
Practice
Executive Director, SIRTI
NOTEWORTHY
"SPOKANE Seen from the Street," an exhibit of
photographs by Catherine Bicknell, associate professor and graduate
coordinator, interior design, will be on display in the lobby of The Met (not
MFC; the performance venue at 901 W. Sprague) May 18-June 30.
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 for other publications and web content.
UPCOMING EVENTS
EXTERNAL EVENTS
Friday, May 10: Commencement
Brunch
The Associated Students of WSU Spokane invite all WSU Spokane
staff and faculty to join them in honoring this year's graduates at a brunch
from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. in the 110 Series of the Health Sciences Building. Join
graduates, their families and alumni in this celebration and in what the
students hope will become a tradition. Call the ASWSUS office at 358-7921 or
email aswsus@hotmail.com if
you are planning to attend and have not reserved a seat. Tours of the Health
Sciences Building will be offered from 10:45 to 11:45 a.m.
Friday, May
10: Commencement
Commencement will take place beginning at 2 p.m. at the
Opera House, 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. Press release online: http://wsunews.wsu.edu/detail.asp?StoryID=3017
Friday,
May 10: Post-Commencement Reception
Reception follows the Commencement
ceremony 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.
Thursday, May 16: Living Free: A Musical Celebration of
Life
On Stage! a program of the Washington Institute for Mental Illness
Research and Training (WIMIRT) 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. Event supported by Spokane County Regional
Support Network, United Behavioral Health, WSU Spokane, WIMIRT, and the Simanton
Foundation. For more information contact Donna Douglass at 358-7676 or email
douglass@wsu.edu.
Thursday and Friday, May 16 and 17: Inland
Northwest Association of Clinical Research Professionals (INACRP) Spring
Symposium
Registration is $30 for members and $45 for non-members. CEU
credit 6 hours. May 16, 6 8 p.m., "ACRP Update" presented by Dennis
DeRosia, Chair, Board of Directors, ACRP, at Spokane Club. May 17, 8 a.m.
2:30 p.m., HIPPAA Privacy Standards & Regulations, at Deaconess Health and
Education Center. For more information, call Linda Appleby at
879-3762.
Tuesday, May 21: PA/NP Seminar Series
Wound Care
presented by Greg Jones, MD. Held at the Deaconess Health and Education Center,
910 W Fifth Ave. Registration required. Contact Cathi Lamoreux, 358-7509 or
lamoreux@wsu.edu.
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 5:30 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.
Saturday, June 15: WSU Alumni Cruise on Lake Coeur
d'Alene
Presented by the Young Alumni of Spokane
Enjoy the beauty of
summer on Lake Coeur d'Alene as you cruise around the lake aboard the
Mish-ah-Nock with fellow Cougs. All Cougars and friends are encouraged to
start boarding at 6:30 p.m. The cruise will be from 7 to 9 p.m. Cost is $15. All
public cruises depart from Independence Point, located just west of The Coeur
d'Alene Resort, adjacent to the Resort Clock Tower and City Park in Downtown
Coeur d'Alene. For more information contact Rian Emmerson at
rianemmerson@msn.com (509) 536-4477. For tickets call: 1-800-258-6978.
Saturday, June 22: Savor the Columbia A Festival of Wine, Food
& Fun
Join us to celebrate the nationally acclaimed wine industry in
Eastern Washington. Savor the Columbia is the first of its kind in Spokane where
more than 25 Eastern Washington wines will be featured and paired with food from
local restaurants such as Luna, Fugazzi and the Spokane Club. In addition to
experiencing fine wine and dining you will be helping in renovating the historic
FOX Theatre. A silent auction will add to the festivities of the evening with
awesome items donated by local wineries, restaurants and the travel industry.
Tickets are $75 each or $130 per pair and can be purchased by calling the
Spokane Regional Chamber of Commerce at 624-1393 or by visiting their web site
at www.spokanechamber.org then go to current events. Ticket proceeds will benefit
Fix the FOX and auction proceeds will benefit Washington State University
programs in Viticulture & Enology and Hotel & Restaurant Administration.
For more information or to donate silent auction items contact Debbie Haberman
at 358-7565 or habermad@wsu.edu or
Kaarin Appel at 358-7528 or .
Watch for more information to come!
Submit event information or
send corrections to
.
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The
Bulletin is usually published on Wednesday weekly during the academic year,
biweekly during breaks and summer session. Deadline is Monday of the week of
publication.
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The
Bulletin covers news of interest to the faculty and staff of WSU Spokane.
Regular columns cover personnel changes, upcoming events, professional
accomplishments, opportunities for involvement in the campus community and the
Spokane community, notices of new developments on campus, and other news.
The Bulletin also serves as a source of information for external
communications directed to alumni, future and current students, and friends of
WSU Spokane. You'll read it here first!
WSU Spokane Campus
Bulletin
Issue 2002-14 (May 1,
2002)
IN THIS
ISSUE
·GET TO KNOW WSU SPOKANE: TELL US WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT
THE BULLETIN AND DEPARTMENT OVERVIEWS
·MEDIA COVERAGE
·NOTEWORTHY
·EVENTS
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GET TO KNOW WSU SPOKANE
This week’s feature: Tell us what you
think about the Bulletin and Department Overviews!
By now you should have had the chance to read the newest
addition to the Campus Bulletin, the Department Overviews. This information
piece was added to the Bulletin last fall as a result of comments gathered
through the strategic planning process and through a focus group and survey done
summer 2000 on internal communications. The purpose is to educate the campus on
various programs offered at WSU Spokane and to introduce the faculty and staff
associated with each.
We are requesting your feedback on the Department
Overviews and other Bulletin content. Please take a few minutes to fill out and
return the attached survey. You may edit the text file directly and submit your
answers by attaching the file to an email to Joyce Harbison, harbison@wsu.edu, or print the survey and send via campus mail to Joyce
at MFC.
MEDIA
COVERAGE
Kerry Brooks, associate
professor of landscape architecture and director of the GIS lab at Washington
State University Spokane, has been named to the Fulbright Senior Specialist
Roster by the Council for International Exchange of Scholars. Read more at
http://wsunews.wsu.edu/detail.asp?StoryID=2986.
Paul
Schimpf, associate professor of engineering, is doing original research in
biomedical engineering and received a $400,000 grant from the National Science
Foundation to fund his research. His research project requires a lot of
heavy-duty computing accomplished quickly, so he needs a lot of computer power.
His answer was to create a “Beowulf Cluster.” Read more in the Terabyte
Triangle Newsletter, Volume 2, Issue 4, at http://www.terabytetriangle.com/index.php/id=5&article_ID=44.
The
Inland NW Academy of Family Physicians, Family Medicine Spokane Residency
Program, and the Area Health Education Center at Washington State
University Spokane are presenting the 19th Annual Primary Care Update Conference
in Spokane, May 3 and 4, 2002. The two-day conference designed for primary care
providers including physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners,
registered nurses, and allied health professionals will be held at the WestCoast
Grand Hotel at the Park. The press release can be read online at: http://wsunews.wsu.edu/detail.asp?StoryID=2990.
The
UPCD Clinic was featured on KHQ over the weekend covering the free
hearing screenings that were conducted at the Valley and Northtown malls on
Friday, April 19 and Saturday, April 20.
Fox TV covered the Area
Health Education Center’s workshop on integrating cultural competence into
healthcare Thursday, May 2, 2002. (This coverage resulted from a news release
and follow-up)
NOTEWORTHY
Joseph
Coyne, associate professor, health policy and administration, has presented
a paper before the French Ministry of Health in Paris, France, March 19-21,
2002, as a follow-up to his article in the January 2002 issue of the American
Journal of Public Health regarding the WHO 2000 study, in which the French
health system was ranked first worldwide among 191 countries. His paper was on
"The Evolution of the Hybrid Model in the Publicly Financed French Health
System".
Heidee McMillin has been awarded the Paul L. Beckett
Graduate Fellowship for doctoral research from the Department of Political
Science in Pullman. Heidee is a 2001 graduate of the Criminal Justice MA. Her
doctoral studies are largely centered around WSU Spokane with areas of
specialization in Health Policy Administration and Criminal
Justice.
Steve Setter, assistant professor, pharmacy practice,
spoke to the “Deep Brain Stimulator (DBS)” support group in April. Deep brain
stimulators are used to decrease the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease and
essential tremor. He covered new therapies and therapeutic approaches to the
treatment of Parkinson’s disease.
Gail Chermak, the Edward R.
Meyer Distinguished Professor of Audiology and Chair of the Department of Speech
and Hearing Sciences at Washington State University, received the 2002 College
of Liberal Arts Distinguished Faculty Award.
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 for other publications and web content.
UPCOMING EVENTS
EXTERNAL EVENTS
Thursday, May 2: Integrating
Cultural Competence into Healthcare
Pre-conference workshop sponsored by
the Primary Care Update Conference. Target audience is health care providers in
all sectors. Registration fee. Contact AHEC at 358-7640 or ahec@wsu.edu.
Friday, May 3 & Saturday, May 4: Primary
Care Update
Annual conference for primary care providers. Held at the
WestCoast Grand Hotel at the Park. Registration fee. Contact AHEC at 358-7640 or
ahec@wsu.edu.
Friday, May 10: Commencement Brunch
The
Associated Students of WSU Spokane invite all WSU Spokane staff and faculty to
join them in honoring this year's graduates at a brunch from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m.
in the 110 Series of the Health Sciences Building. Join graduates, their
families and alumni in this celebration and in what the students hope will
become a tradition. RSVP by May 3rd to ASWSUS office at 358-7921 or email
aswsus@hotmail.com.
The event is free of charge. To volunteer, call Sandie Kruse at 358-7551 or
e-mail her at kruses@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 (WIMIRT) 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. Event supported by Spokane County
Regional Support Network, United Behavioral Health, WSU Spokane, WIMIRT, and the
Simanton Foundation. For more information contact Donna Douglass at 358-7676 or
email douglass@wsu.edu.
Thursday and Friday, May 16 and 17: Inland
Northwest Association of Clinical Research Professionals (INACRP) Spring
Symposium
Registration is $30 for members and $45 for non-members. CEU
credit 6 hours. May 16, 6 8 p.m., "ACRP Update" presented by Dennis
DeRosia, Chair, Board of Directors, ACRP, at Spokane Club. May 17, 8 a.m.
2:30 p.m., HIPPAA Privacy Standards & Regulations, at Deaconess Health and
Education Center. For more information, call Linda Appleby at
879-3762.
Tuesday, May 21: PA/NP Seminar Series
Wound Care
presented by Greg Jones, MD. Held at the Deaconess Health and Education Center,
910 W Fifth Ave. Registration required. Contact Cathi Lamoreux, 358-7509 or
lamoreux@wsu.edu.
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 5:30 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
.
------------------------------------------------------
The
Bulletin is usually published on Wednesday weekly during the academic year,
biweekly during breaks and summer session. Deadline is Monday of the week of
publication. Submit items to Kaarin Appel, , for
inclusion.
------------------------------------------------------
The
Bulletin covers news of interest to the faculty and staff of WSU Spokane.
Regular columns cover personnel changes, upcoming events, media coverage,
professional accomplishments, opportunities for involvement in the campus
community, notices of new developments on campus, and other news.
The
Bulletin also serves as a source of information for external communications
directed to alumni, future and current students, and friends of WSU Spokane.
You'll read it here first!