WSU Spokane Campus Bulletin
Issue 2004-8 (April 14, 2004)
IN THIS ISSUE
- Markin receives first-ever Distinguished Lifetime Service Award
- Coyne to head Center for International Health Services Research and Policy
- Sleep researchers to present talks April 23 and April 29
- Rawlins campus visit April 12 highlights students, community partners
- Staff Excellence Award nominations due April 16
- Cougar Pride Day
- What are we hiding?
- Personnel and staffing changes
- Community connections:
- Way to go!
- Find it on the Web
Markin receives first-ever Distinguished Lifetime Service Award
The
Showcase of Excellence held March 26 included a special presentation
by WSU president V. Lane Rawlins. He announced a new award,
the President’s Award for Distinguished Lifetime Service, and
presented it to Interim Chancellor Rom Markin.
This award recognizes outstanding lifetime achievement and service to Washington State University. The recipient is a faculty or staff member of WSU who has had profound influence on the direction and progress of the University throughout his/her career, demonstrating great personal and professional commitment to the University and our community.
In making the presentation, Pres. Rawlins said, “Our award winner has served Washington State University with distinction and pride for more than four decades…. He is an outstanding teacher and mentor who inspired hundreds, if not thousands of students throughout his career. His marketing textbooks are considered some of the definitive works in the field, and his former students throughout the country take every opportunity to describe the impact his teaching and wisdom has had on their lives and careers.”
Rawlins added, “In January 2003, he was appointed interim
chancellor for Washington State University Spokane, and his
leadership in that arena over the past year has played a major part
in the campus’s renewed vision and leadership within the Spokane
community.”
Coyne to head Center for International Health Services Research and Policy
On
March 11, 2004 the WSU Faculty Senate approved a proposal for a
Center for International Health Services Research and Policy. With
this university-wide approval, Joseph Coyne, Professor in the
Department of Health Policy and Administration, will assume the role
of Director for the Center. Coyne is recognized internationally as
an expert on health care finance, and his works are widely cited in
leading textbooks. The mission of the Center is to conduct
comparative analyses and related activities regarding health systems
around the world on the basis of a number of critical parameters
that differentiate and distinguish health systems in terms of
performance and outcomes.
The Center’s research agenda is directed toward contributing its scholarly and scientific results through peer-reviewed publications and funded research. The primary physical facility home of the Center is WSU Spokane with a principal academic affiliation with the Department of Health Policy and Administration. Coyne will give three presentations this summer on behalf of the Center, meeting with Ministries of Health representatives in Edinburgh, Scotland; Helsinki, Finland; and St. Petersburg, Russia.
Sleep researchers to present talks April 23 and April 29
Two candidates for a sleep research position with the Spokane Alliance for Medical Research will visit Spokane in April for interviews. As part of the interview process, each will deliver a public lecture on his sleep research. The lectures are free and open to the public. The candidates will also meet with area researchers and practitioners who specialize in sleep, and tour area sleep clinics.
Greg Belenky, MD, is a colonel in the U.S. Army Medical Corps, and director of the Division of Neuroscience at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. As part of his visit, Dr. Belenky will deliver a public lecture Friday, April 23. The talk on “Managing Sleep to Sustain Performance” takes place noon-1:15 p.m. in the Deaconess Health and Education Center, 910 W. Fifth Ave., Spokane, in Room 268.
Scott Campbell, PhD, is Director of the Laboratory of Human Chronobiology at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University and Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry. Campbell will speak Thursday, April 29, on “Napping as Compensation for Age-Related Sleep Loss: Implications for Basic and Clinical Research.” The lecture is presented noon-1:30 p.m. in the Deaconess Health and Education Center, Room 265.
Belenky’s presentation April 23 will describe studies he and his colleagues at Walter Reed are conducting on the neurobiology of sleep and performance, the effects of sleep restriction and subsequent recovery on performance, and contributions to the U.S. Army’s Sleep Management System.
Campbell’s presentation April 29 will examine the biological basis of napping behavior in humans and explore its place within the human circadian sleep/wake system. His findings explore the possible use of napping to enhance 24-hour sleep amounts in older individuals who, as a consequence of age-related changes in physiological processes that regulate sleep, are frequently unable to obtain adequate sleep during the usual nighttime sleep period. Implications of these findings will be discussed from the perspective of sleep need and its relationship to aging.
Rawlins campus visit April 12 highlights students, community partners
The quality of our programs and the opportunities created by our connections with the Spokane community highlighted WSU Pres. V. Lane Rawlins’ second formal campus visit of the year Monday, April 12. He was joined by WSU Provost Bob Bates and by Hal Dengerink, WSU Vancouver chancellor and special assistant to the president for systemwide affairs.
The Area Health Education Center kicked off the day with a presentation highlighting some of its activities.
- Project HOPE (Health Occupations Professional Experience) puts students right into the ER or the clinic, and is already seeing results in students choosing to go into the health professions. Some Project HOPE alumni are already enrolled at WSU, including a Regent’s Scholar who will be majoring in nursing.
- Workforce development activities help support health professionals in both rural and underserved urban areas with everything from continuing education to the temporary replacement called a locum tenens that allows someone who may be the only provider in a small town to take a vacation.
- Technical assistance includes “anything it takes to keep a rural health system viable,” according to AHEC director Steve Meltzer. The AHEC staff build long-term relationships throughout eastern Washington.
The open faculty/staff dialogue that followed gave Pres. Rawlins the opportunity to talk about recent changes in legislation governing the relationship between the Spokane and Pullman campuses. He said, “We don’t know exactly what it means, but the opportunities are wide open,” referring to initiatives such as PhD degrees.
He also discussed the chancellor search, which is expected to bring candidates to campus this fall, and fielded questions from the audience concerning campus construction projects, relationships with area universities both public and private, and the academic program approval process.
A panel of students presented highlights of their studies and the experience they’re gaining at WSU Spokane:
- Design Disciplines: Student CJ Goold, introduced
by
interior design department chair Nancy Blossom,
presented her thesis project on design of hospital rooms intended
to provide elements of control, support, and distraction that will contribute
to patient healing.
- School Psychology: Student Pedro Gonzalez was
introduced by program coordinator Steve Hirsch. Gonzalez,
who is retiring after 23 years in the Air Force, is completing the
program now, and has already been hired by the Pasco School
District. He spoke movingly of the importance of bilingual school
psychologists, since the nuances of children’s behavioral issues
may be lost in translation by someone not familiar with
psychological practice. Our program, which is taught jointly with
EWU, is the only post-master’s school psychology certification
program in the state and one of only three such programs in the
nation.
- Health Policy and
Administration: Student Amy Johnson was
introduced by professor Joseph Coyne. Johnson has received
a number of awards during her studies. A destination student
pursuing her JD at Gonzaga University as well as the MHPA, she
was the only student from Washington State University selected to
serve as a legislative intern in summer 2003 with the Washington
State Senate Committee Services Office, where she conducted health
policy analysis. She has already been offered a position by the
Senate upon graduation from both universities, and legislative
services is now recruiting additional internship applicants from
the HPA program.
- Pharmacy: Student Zuly Eden was introduced by Brenda Bray, who oversees the pharmaceutical care lab. Eden, who received her BA in Psychology from Carroll College in Helena, Montana, worked for 3 years at The Heart Institute of Spokane as a medical assistant and became interested in pursuing pharmacy as a career. In February, Zuly collaborated with Nordstrom’s to arrange a Healthy Heart Screening Event for Nordstrom shoppers. Zuly’s interest area is cardiology and she hopes to complete a hospital pharmacy residency training program following graduation from WSU.
Pres. Rawlins lunched with students, courtesy of ASWSU Spokane, and addressed their questions and ideas.
He then met with community leaders who work closely with the Child and Family Research Unit and the Western Regional Institute for Community Oriented Public Safety for a discussion on the wide range of social issues and agencies that benefit from our involvement as a research university.
Leaders such as Mary Ann Murphy of Partners for Family and
Children (formerly Casey Family Partners) and Roger Bragdon, Chief
of the Spokane Police Department, spoke of the importance of
building in outcome-oriented research measures at the front end of
program design, to enable the essential analysis at the end that
provides funders with assurance that their investment is making a
difference.
The value of faculty like Chris Blodgett, Mike Erp, and Nick Lovrich who bring people to the table, with the university as a neutral convenor and essential partner, was stressed more than once. Pres. Rawlins shared with the agency leaders the funding challenges faced by WSU in a system that focuses on student FTE as an outcome measure and basis for funding, and encouraged participants to develop ways of demonstrating the essential outcomes that result from our service, outreach, and research partnerships.
A tour of the WSU Spokane CityLab provided a look at the hands-on science education made possible by Sylvia Oliver and crew. Katie and Laura Chamberlain were enlisted to demonstrate gel electrophoresis, one of the real-world experimental activities conducted in CityLab camps and workshops. CityLab grants guru Glynis Hull wrote the proposal that provided funding to Spokane Public Schools for a 21st-Century Schools project that includes after-school science clubs, including the "Wacky Science Club" at Roosevelt Elementary that Laura goes to.
The
final stop of the day was a tour of the
Hearing and Speech Clinic. Director Doreen Evans led the
tour, showing individual treatment rooms, the augmentative lab that
helps people with communication problems such as those caused by
strokes, and the preschool room. Last year the clinic had
2,627 patient visits and provided 3,825 hours of treatment.
Jeff Nye, clinical assistant professor of
speech
and hearing sciences, showed the audiology clinic, and assistant
professor Mimi Salamat demonstrated her brain imaging lab.
Six first-year graduate students briefly presented research posters
they've created that will be taken to an international conference in
Iran in June: Devon Baskett, Betty Gilchrist, Ginna Maggio,
Brenda Craig, Mary Silva, and Matt Williams.
Staff Excellence Award nominations due April 16
Nominations are due this Friday for the WSU Spokane Classified Staff and Administrative/Professional Staff Excellence Awards.
Complete the nomination now. It's quick, easy and available ONLINE. For a list of eligible employees and past recipients, see the Faculty/Staff Excellence Awards page.
If you have any questions or would rather email or deliver a hard copy of the nomination form (attached), send an email to excellent@wsu.edu or contact a member of the committee (Kiley Schenk, Doug Stephens, Linda Loos, Jon Shad, Diane Wick, Vivian Knapp, Liz West, Steve Meltzer, Bart Brazier or Charlotte Hardt).
This is an excellent way to give recognition to A/P and
Classified staff at WSU Spokane for their outstanding contributions.
Cougar Pride Day
Ryan Rieger, ASWSU Spokane
WSU
Spokane took part in Cougar Pride Day on Saturday, March 27, by
volunteering time at the Union Gospel Mission.
Cougar Pride Day is an annual event held in the spring by
Washington State University and its campuses, providing an
opportunity for WSU students, faculty, and staff members to show
pride in their university and community in various ways.
The Associated Students of WSU Spokane arranged for volunteers from campus to tour the Union Gospel Mission and assist in the preparation and service of lunch to residents of the Union Gospel Mission. Approximately twenty students, faculty, and staff participated.
The Union Gospel Mission has ministered to Spokane’s homeless and needy men since 1951. The present facility located just east of downtown Spokane houses up to 200 guests. Over 3,000 individuals benefit from the Union Gospel Mission’s services each year. All services provided at the Mission are offered free of charge through the continuing support from the Spokane community.
What are we hiding?
Lisa Breitenfeldt, Child & Family Research Unit
Pssst… did you know that there is something secret hidden on campus? People are using high tech tools and their own skill and cunning to find it--and you can too.
I’m talking about geocaching and a geocache that has been hidden on our campus.
Geocaching is an entertaining adventure game for GPS (global positioning system) users: GEO for geography, and CACHING for the process of hiding a cache. A cache in computer terms is information usually stored in memory to make it faster to retrieve, but the term is also used in hiking/camping as a hiding place for concealing and preserving provisions. It’s pronounced “Geo-cashing,” like cashing a check.
Participating in a cache hunt is a good way to take advantage of the wonderful features and capability of a GPS unit. The basic idea is to have individuals and organizations set up caches all over the world and share the locations of these caches on the internet. GPS users can then use the location coordinates to find the caches.
Once found, a cache may provide the visitor with a wide variety of rewards. All visitors are asked to do is if they get something that’s been left by another, they should try to leave something for the cache.
If you're interested in finding more information about Global Positioning Systems, check out GPS: The New Navigation by PBS. They have an excellent Shockwave and/or Web page that explains how GPS works.
Most geocaches are in waterproof containers such as a Tupperware type container or an ammo box, and are called ‘regular’ in size. Some caches are ‘micros’ and can be very small, such as a magnetic key holder; these are usually placed in interesting locations when it would be difficult or impossible to hide a regular sized cache.
A cache can come in many forms but the first item should always be the logbook. In its simplest form a cache can be just a logbook and nothing else. Visitors sign the book and then can log their finds on the Internet at the official geocaching web site: www.geocaching.com
There are many types of other caches such as puzzle caches, virtual caches, off-set caches and multi caches. The possibilities are only limited by the hider’s imagination and daring.
So, you want to find the cache on campus? It’s a micro, and is aptly named the “University District." Log on to University District to get the details. If you would like to learn more about geocaching visit the FAQ page at www.geocaching.com or contact Lisa Breitenfeldt at lbreit@wsu.edu. Happy hunting!
Personnel and staffing
changes
Coming
Carolyn Losh, Mail Services Lead, Mailing Services, 4/2/04
Steve Bachman, Custodian, Facilities Operations, 4/14/04
Deanna VanNice, Communications Assistant, Communications,
4/8/04
Shawna Campbell, Program Assistant (Scheduling), Student
Services, 4/26/04
Going
Adi James, Program Assistant (Scheduling), Student Services,
4/14/04
Searches
Director, Sleep Research Initiative, Health Sciences, position
is open until filled
Clinical Assistant Professor (3 positions), Pharmacotherapy,
positions are open until filled
Chancellor, WSU Spokane, position is open until filled
Community connections
Second Harvest Food Bank
Hunger impacts many families, especially children, every day in Spokane, says Terrie Scott, past chair of the Second Harvest Food Bank of the Inland Northwest.
That's why Scott pledges her support for the food bank's mission more than seven years ago. She volunteered for the Second Harvest's Program Committee in 1996, then was elected to the board of directors in 1999. She was the chair of the board from July 2001 to June 2003.
Currently Second Harvest launched the Peanut Butter Drive, which will run during April and May, culminating on National Hunger Awareness Day June 3. The goal is to collect 30,000 jars of peanut butter to go along with a donation of more than 2,500 cases of jam and jelly.
The problems of hunger and poverty are relative to issues Scott deals with regularly as director of MESA Spokane. MESA, which stands for Mathematics, Engineering Science Achievement, provides guidance to students of color and girls interested in pursuing math, science and technology careers.
"What the food bank does is a natural extension of the types of things I'm already involved in, such as social justice and diversity issues," Scott explains.
Scott has called Spokane home for 30 years and is a longtime advocate of community service. She is on the board of directors for the Federal Defenders of Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho since 1994, and served on the boards of the Women Helping Women Fund, the Diversity Child Protection Team for the Division of Children and Family Services, and the Spokane County Ethnic Minority Advisory Group.
Scott enjoys being part of the camaraderie that reverberates through the many food drives and fund-raisers that are so important to the Second Harvest. The opportunity to volunteer with other volunteers has been rewarding.
"People are very giving. That's very exciting," Scott says. "Especially at this time, it's important to look within our own community, where there is tremendous need in our own back yard."
For further information or to drop off jars of peanut butter or jam, contact Terrie Scott at 8-7967 or scotttm@wsu.edu, or visit the Second Harvest’s website at http://www.shfoodbank.org/shfoodbank/ .
To see your community connection profiled here, contact Barb Chamberlain, chamberlain@wsu.edu.
WSU Spokane to help host Japan Week
WSU Spokane will be one of the city-wide hosts for Spokane’s Japan week activities.
The WSU Spokane campus will feature A Window to Japan, which will discuss teaching in Japan to promote intercultural understanding. This is a free session that will be held in the Phase I Classroom Auditorium from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 22.
On Friday, April 23, Japanese students from WSU will share traditional games, origami, and other cultural activities. This session will take place at the North East Youth Center at 4001 N Cook, from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. This will also be a free activity so come and join the fun!
For any questions concerning these or other Japan Week activities, please contact Gordon Gates at 358-7749 or Joan Menzies at 358-7526. Gordon and Joan are both WSU Spokane community members who serve on the Japan Week Planning Board.
Deadline Friday April 16 to order child abuse prevention box lunch
Have a great gourmet lunch delivered and contribute to the fight against child abuse! Order and pay for your $10 box lunch (turkey club or grilled veggie wrap) by Friday, April 16.
Lunches will be delivered between 8 a.m. and noon on Thursday, April 22. Proceeds benefit the Spokane Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Center.
Building contacts to place your order:
- HSB: Joyce Harbison, harbison@wsu.edu, 8-7667
- Phase I: Pam Medley, pmedley@wsu.edu, 8-7920
- Ad Annex: Deanna Vannice, vannice@mail.wsu.edu, 8-7540
- SIRTI: Debra Myhre, dmyhre@wsu.edu, 8-7500
WSU & Bloomsday
Do you want to be a part of Bloomsday, but don’t want to run or walk with thousands of people? The WSU Alumni group here in Spokane is looking for volunteers to help at a Bloomsday water station and show Cougar Pride by wearing crimson and gray. It will also give you a chance to cheer on the WSU Spokane participants!
General information about the water station is on the Bloomsday web site. www.bloomsdayrun.org The water station is at Government Way (Greenwood Cemetery) and volunteers are asked to arrive at 7 a.m. on Sunday, May 2. Please respond to Heather Watson at HWatson@wb22.net if you want to join in the fun! Feel free to bring others.
WSU Wednesday April 21
Come network, socialize, and enjoy great food and drink with fellow Cougs at O'Doherty's (Downtown Spokane) on Wednesday, April 21 from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Please note: Families are welcome in O'Doherty's until 9 p.m., so bring the family down for dinner!
Sponsored by the WSU Alumni Association. Contact Heather Watson, HWatson@wb22.net, for more information.
Campus clothing drive sponsored
by ACHE
You may have noticed a brightly painted collection box recently placed in the lobbies of HSB and Phase I. The American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) WSU Student Chapter is sponsoring a summer clothing drive benefiting the Northwest Community Center in Spokane.
While we often think of clothing drives as a winter activity to provide warm clothes, coats and shoes to those in need, summer clothes are needed just as much. The community center advised they already have people coming in requesting shorts, t-shirts and other summer items.
Please take some time to check your closets for gently used summer clothing (adult and child sizes) and deliver to the lobby of Phase 1 or HSB or the HPA Department Office (212A). All donations will be delivered to the Community Center on or about April 23.
Any questions? Email the ACHE WSU Student Chapter at ache@wsu.edu.
Spokane Guild’s School penny drive
results
Students Taking Action for Healthcare in Rural and underserved areas (STAHR) is a multidisciplinary, multi-institutional student organization coordinated through the Area Health Education Center.
The STAHR penny drive for the Spokane Guild's School raised $427.90, and they’d like to thank all who contributed. The department on campus raising the most was EWU's Physical Therapy Department.
Way to go!
Send your “Way to Go!” comments to Deanna Vannice,
vannice@wsu.edu, and watch for
your thanks to be published in an upcoming issue of the
Campus
Bulletin!
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