WSU Spokane Campus Bulletin
Issue 2005-4 (February 16, 2005)
IN THIS ISSUE
From the Chancellor: Academic Showcase
Pres.
Rawlins describes the Academic Showcase, taking place in Pullman
Friday, April 1, as “the university’s annual meeting.” I encourage
you all to consider attending and participating, to keep building
relationships with Pullman colleagues and visibility for this
campus’s activities.
The Academic Showcase includes a juried poster session, university luncheon with the Distinguished Faculty Address, and an evening banquet, "Celebrating Excellence - An Evening Honoring Our Faculty and Staff."
Faculty wishing to submit an abstract to be considered for inclusion in the poster session have until Feb. 25 to do so; see www.showcase.wsu.edu for details.
The luncheon is free, but with limited seating; the chancellor’s office will support the cost of tickets for the evening banquet. Please let Pat Rossini know if you plan to attend the luncheon and/or banquet, so we’ll know who is representing us at this important event: rossini@wsu.edu.
Recipients of the university's top faculty and staff awards -- The Eminent Faculty Award, the Sahlin Faculty Excellence Awards, the Marian E. Smith Faculty Achievement Award, the President's Employee Excellence Awards and the presenter of the Distinguished Faculty Address -- as well as newly tenured and promoted faculty, including those named Regents' Professors, will be honored during the banquet.
Health policy students named to national fellowships
The graduate program in health policy and administration is building an increasingly prominent profile at the national level. One indicator is recognition by the U.S. Navy as an excellent program for health administrators. They provide tuition reimbursement in return for naval service upon degree completion. Nationwide, they received 11 applications in fall 2003. They accepted only four students, and three of those four are HPA students at WSU Spokane. All are due to graduate and be commissioned December 2005. The Navy’s chief recruiter in the West recommends the HPA program highly.
Another indicator is placement of students in nationally
competitive fellowships. Two recipients were recently announced.
Sean McCallister has accepted the nationally competitive
post-graduate administrative fellowship at Providence Health System
Alaska in Anchorage, Alaska. The fellowship program is a
preceptor-driven learning experience that fosters practical
development and operational experience in a values-based,
not-for-profit health care delivery system.
Ryan Rieger, who received several offers, has accepted the
nationally competitive administrative fellowship at the Portland VA
Medical Center. The Administrative Fellow is included as a member of
the top management team and has access to meetings and the decision
making process. This is a two-year administrative fellowship. Rieger
serves as 2004-2005 president of the
Associated Students of Washington State University Spokane (ASWSUS).
Rieger was also selected by the WSU HPA Program for one of the
competitive full-time U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Health
Administration Traineeships for 2003-2004 and 2004-2005. McCallister
was selected for a part-time HRSA Traineeship for Spring 2005.
Priority for HRSA traineeships is given to students who
demonstrate a commitment to employment with public or non-profit
private entities in health administration. Both students will be
graduating May 2005. 
Educational leadership program recognizes excellence
The
educational leadership program at
WSU Spokane, in partnership with the
Spokane
Teachers Credit Union and Educational Service District 101, has
established the Excellence in Leadership Award to recognize
exemplary achievement by local school administrators.
The first two recipients, Becky Cooke, of the Mead School District (above right, center), and Jan Rust, of Spokane Public Schools (above left, second from left), were honored recently with presentations at their workplaces and will be recognized at upcoming school board meetings by their districts.
Alzheimer’s and Aging: Developing a community research agenda
WSU
Spokane’s academic program mix and location in a regional medical
center and active design community provide many opportunities, not
the least of which is the chance to build truly interdisciplinary
research collaborations.
Keith Diaz Moore, assistant professor in architecture and landscape architecture, and other members of the Alzheimer’s Working Group at WSU Spokane are bringing together an invited group of participants at a colloquium to discuss just such an opportunity: The development of a community research agenda on Alzheimer’s and aging.
Diaz Moore’s work as a design scholar focuses on this arena; recent publications include articles in the Journal of Aging Studies and Environment and Behavior. He is the author of “The Dementia Day Care Facility Development Workbook” (funded by a grant from the Group Health Community Foundation and developed in collaboration with student Anne Hanenburg, LA 02).
The colloquium, to be held March 3, features experts from the fields of psychiatry, design, nursing, and disability studies. Following their presentations, attendees will engage in working sessions to develop a potential research agenda.
For more information or to reserve a seat, contact the Eastern Washington Area Health Education Center, ahec@wsu.edu, (509) 358-7640. Registration fee is $25.
Members of the Alzheimer’s Working Group also include Cynthia Corbett, associate professor, nursing; Alice Dupler, clinical assistant professor, nursing; Dennis Dyck, associate dean for research and director, Health Research and Education Center; Brian Gates, clinical assistant professor, pharmacotherapy; Cathi Lamoreux, manager, professional development and continuing education, Eastern Washington Area Health Education Center; Steve Setter, assistant professor, pharmacotherapy; and 3 graduate students, Gwen Fitzgerald (landscape architecture), Anna Kokurina (interior design) and Krystal Shockey (architecture), all of the Interdisciplinary Design Institute.
The colloquium is sponsored in part by an Initiation of Collaboration Grant from the WSU Office of Research, and by support from Pfizer.
- WSU Today (PDF) article on Diaz Moore’s work in designing for people with dementia (Jan. 10, 2003; see page 8).
Pharmacy student receives national recognition
A pharmacy student at Washington State University has received national recognition for her one-to-one patient counseling abilities. Lisa Kostelac will receive an expense-paid trip to the American Pharmacists Association annual meeting in Orlando, Fla., in April and be profiled in the organization's magazine Pharmacy Student.
She was one of five students from across the country to be recognized by the APhA in its second annual patient counseling award for pharmacy students.
Kostalec was nominated for the honor last fall by a pharmacist at Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center in Seattle, where she was doing the first of several six-week internships to complete her fourth and final year of pharmacy school. While there, Kostelac became involved in counseling children who had experienced an organ transplant, teaching them and their families about their medications.
Kostelac, 24, is from Bremerton, Wash; she will graduate in May.
Gov. Gregoire tours research labs
Gov. Christine Gregoire toured the research labs in the Health
Sciences Building as part of a day-long schedule inSpokane Feb. 10.
Our stellar tour guide and Pied Piper of Science, Sylvia Oliver,
provided a whirlwind tour through significant research in a number
of areas: cellular biology, cardiovascular disease, cancer,
diabetes, cytogenetics, and more.
Tom Reese, City of Spokane, and
Kim Pearman-Gillman, Avista Development, presented information on
the University District and the value of the state’s investment in
growth at the Riverpoint campus as an anchor for research and
learning at the heart of the District.
Academic Center
construction update
Aided by the mild winter, the Academic Center construction is on time and on budget. Completion of the building is projected for summer 2006, with move-in that fall. The photo at right was taken from the top of the Phase I Classroom Building.
For more information on the building, see the information page.
Personnel & staffing changes
The Health Research and Education Center has announced adjunct faculty appointments for three faculty in the EWU physical therapy program, intended to facilitate collaborative research: Byron Russell, Tanya LaPier, and Darl Vander Linden.
Searches:
- Assistant/Associate Professor, Construction Management, open until filled
- Assistant/Associate Professor, Interior Design, open until filled
- Assistant/Associate Professor, Pharmacotherapy, open until filled
- Clinical Assistant Professor, Pharmacotherapy, 7 positions full- and part-time, open until filled
- Research Associate/Research Scientist, Washington Institute for Mental Illness Research & Training, open until filled
- Director of Finance & Budget, WSU Spokane, apply by March 18, 2005
Way to go!
"Way to go" is the place for you to recognize a co-worker's extra effort, outstanding contribution, or all-around good nature that makes your work day go a little more smoothly.
Send your “Way to Go!” comments to Laura Scholtens,
scholtens@wsu.edu,
and watch for your thanks to be published in an upcoming issue of
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