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WSU Spokane Campus Bulletin
Issue 2007-09 (October 10, 2007)
 

IN THIS ISSUE

• Pioneering Research Examines Communication Disorders in Children with Galactosemia
• Addressing Health Care in Indian Country
• An Innovation Home Run: WSU Serves as Research Partner in Four Newly Formed “Innovation Zones” around the State
• Growing International Contingent Enriches Spokane Campus  
• University District Month Celebrated
• Director of WSU Center to Bridge the Digital Divide To Focus on Rural Economic Development
• John Alderete to Become Associate Vice Provost for Research
• WSU ePortfolio Contest 2007-08: Collaborating to Address Real-World Problems
• A Healthy Start at Riverpoint
• Milestones
• Community Connections
• Personnel and Staffing Changes
• A Warm Welcome to...
• Way to Go!
• Find It on the Web

 

Pioneering Research Examines Communication Disorders in Children with Galactosemia

By Judith Van Dongen

Imagine touring for five weeks to nineteen locations in twelve states while lugging around 140 pounds of equipment. It sounds like the life of an up-and-coming musician, but it’s how assistant professor of speech and hearing sciences Nancy Potter spent this summer as part of her research on communication disorders in children with galactosemia, a rare disorder that affects one in 53,000 people in this country.

Galactosemia is a genetic disease that is detected during newborn screening and is fatal if left undiagnosed. Children who have galactosemia are unable to tolerate lactose, a complex sugar found in human and animal milk that is essential to the developing brain and nervous system. Lactose consists of glucose, a main source of energy for our bodies, and galactose, a building block for myelin, which is essential for the connection fibers in our brains.

“You and I can change glucose into galactose and galactose into glucose to adjust to our bodies’ needs,” Potter said. “What happens to children with galactosemia is that their bodies can change glucose into galactose, but they have difficulty using the galactose and changing the excess back into glucose. So they develop abnormal myelin patterns in their brains, and galactose builds up in their bodies, becoming toxic to them.”

As a speech-language pathologist with more than 20 years of pediatric experience, Potter is interested in these children because more than half of them have speech disorders, typically diagnosed as apraxia (the inability to plan and program the mouth and tongue movements needed for speech). She started her research as part of a larger study on apraxia led by Lawrence D. Shriberg from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where Potter earned her PhD in 2004. It was Shriberg who encouraged her to study children with galactosemia, although neither one of them had ever met a child with this disease.

Supported by funding from the National Institutes of Health, she has tested 33 children across the nation, using a three-hour-long battery of speech, language, cognitive, and motor tests. The goal of Potter’s study is to examine markers of apraxia and determine the nature and relationship of co-occurring speech, language, and motor disorders in children who have classic galactosemia.

Although not all data has yet been analyzed, data from a pilot study she conducted in 2005 suggests that the risk of language disorders occurring together with speech disorders may be up to five times greater in galactosemic children than in children whose speech disorders are of unknown origin. She also discovered that individual children with galactosemia have very different patterns of significant speech, language, and motor impairments.

Potter is also a collaborator on a study being conducted by geneticists at Emory University, who are trying to determine the relationship between genetic markers and specific problems—including speech, language, and motor disorders—in those affected by galactosemia.

Potter has come a long way in the past two and a half years. She is now considered the expert in communication disorders in children with galactosemia—a big frog in a very small pond, as Potter laughingly puts it. Her expertise has been sought out by parents of children with galactosemia from around the world, and she regularly consults with school districts and speech-language pathologists across the nation.

Potter’s involvement in this highly specialized area of study is also providing unique opportunities for graduate students in the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences at WSU Spokane. Last June, students assisted Potter in testing a control population—70 children from the Newport School District—that will be used as a basis for comparison in the apraxia studies.

She also has students helping her analyze data from her galactosemia study, as well doing their own research projects based on the data she gathered. Students in the language disorder classes taught by colleague Jeanne Johnson have analyzed speech samples from children tested by Potter, who uses audio and video examples in her own teaching as well.

In addition to learning about this rare disease and its consequences for speech, students benefit in other ways. “These are great examples of motor speech disorders that may occur in children due to a number of causes,” Potter said. “The children I’ve studied and their parents have been gracious in permitting to use the audio and video footage as a valuable learning tool for our students.”

And that goes to show that world-class research and teaching go hand in hand.


 

Addressing Health Care in Indian Country

By Holly George

When it comes to health care, inadequate funding and poor infrastructure are facts of life in Indian country. According to a 2003 report quoted in Indian Country Today, American Indians and Alaska Natives die younger than most Americans—mostly from treatable conditions—and suffer a high rate of disease.

The good news? An expanding WSU program aimed at preparing Native Americans for health careers. In 1995 Robbie Paul, PhD, started recruiting Native American students to WSU’s Intercollegiate College of Nursing through a week-long nursing camp—Na-ha-shnee—and other initiatives. Soft money became hard money, and twelve years later, Paul has seen 35 students graduate, 70 percent of whom have returned to reservations as health care providers.

Now Paul has been promoted to director for Native American health sciences programs at WSU Spokane and has relocated to the Riverpoint Campus. Paul aims to increase the number of Native American students entering health science careers and is accomplishing that goal through a dizzying round of work.

This staff of one regularly meets with tribes in Oregon, Idaho, and Washington; maintains relationships with regional high schools; coordinates with government boards; and co-teaches a nursing course entitled “Plateau Tribes Culture and Health”. Above all, she focuses on students: making sure that scholarship information is accessible, meeting with each of them monthly, and sometimes just listening.

In the upcoming years, the Na-ha-shnee nursing camp will expand to a month-long program that includes all the health science programs at WSU Spokane. In the meantime, Paul is working to recruit—and retain—Native American students to WSU Spokane’s health sciences programs, including exercise physiology and metabolism, health policy and administration, pharmacy, nursing, speech and hearing sciences, and the WWAMI medical education program. All together, Robbie Paul’s efforts are ensuring the availability of world-class health care for all who call the Northwest home.

 

An Innovation Home Run: WSU Serves as Research Partner in Four Newly Formed “Innovation Zones” around the State

Courtesy of WSU News Service
 

The four campuses of Washington State University, homes to world-class research, teaching, and outreach, are also homes to innovation, in partnership with economic development groups and the business sector. WSU is a partner in four of the 11 Innovation Partnership Zones designated across the state earlier this week by Washington Governor Christine Gregoire.

The new zones are meant to bring together businesses and research institutions to develop cutting-edge technologies and boost regional economic growth.

“We’ve seen what can happen when we bring together research, training and commerce, put them in a beaker and shake,” Gregoire said in announcing the 11 regional designations. “Innovation Partnership Zones will be powerful economic engines to support our regional economies.”

Two of the zones in which WSU is a partner—the Spokane University District Innovation Partnership Zone and the Pullman Innovation Partnership Zone—were also among five of the new IPZs selected to receive $1 million in state grant startup funding during 2007-2009. WSU is also a partner with the Port of Benton in the Tri-Cities and the Columbia River Economic Development Council in Vancouver, Wash.

WSU Spokane chancellor Brian Pitcher, who also serves as vice provost for health sciences and directs WSU's statewide Division of Health Sciences, said, "With the Innovation Zone designation, Gov. Gregoire recognizes Spokane's competitive and great opportunity as we work together. At Riverpoint we are building an academic health center that will transform how we think about and deliver health to our citizens and communities, and how we grow our biomedical research and business cluster. With partners in the University District, and at WSU in our health sciences, we have a true culture of innovation that will accelerate even faster with this recognition and the funding assistance.”

The initial funding is expected to be used by Greater Spokane Inc. within Spokane’s University District to help in developing a planned supercomputer cluster which would aid in a variety of biomedical and other research. WSU Spokane will work with the other participants on the Spokane proposal team—Sirti, the Spokane Area Workforce Development Council, and the Institute for Systems Medicine—to refine the plans for high-speed, high-power IT capabilities that will connect to the Gigapop connection and expand global research collaborations. The precise location and design of the supercomputer cluster have yet to be determined.

The grant received by the Port of Whitman at the 96-acre Pullman Industrial Park will help found a nonprofit center dedicated to promoting "green" data centers, a concept being advanced by WSU alumnus and Spraycool founder Don Tilton. Partners in the Spokane grant are also looking at the use of green IT concepts in the design of the Spokane computing cluster.

As a partner in the Columbia River Economic Development Council’s Discovery Corridor Innovation Zone/Steinmueller Innovation Park, WSU will provide research support for semiconductor and micro-device design, IC manufacturing and processing, display technology and multimedia.

Working as part of the Port of Benton’s Tri-Cities Innovation Zone, the university will focus on research in sustainable development, with emphasis on integrated electrical-thermal production, solar dish generating systems, and commercial-scale fuel cells.

“The creation of the Innovation Partnership Zone concept was valuable in getting Washington communities thinking strategically into the future about their strengths, and what kind of jobs and businesses they want in the new economy,” said WSU Vice President for Economic Development and Extension John C. Gardner. “Such thinking fits well with the economic development partner WSU can be.”

 

 

Growing International Contingent Enriches Spokane Campus

By Judith Van Dongen
 

WSU Spokane nearly doubled its international student population this fall, as compared with last year's number. Thirty-three international students are pursuing degrees in the design disciplines, nursing, health policy and administration, and speech and hearing sciences.

The students come from all corners of the world, including China, Ethiopia, India, Iran, Ireland, Japan and Turkey. A few have not been in the United States before.

Several members of the Spokane campus community readily provided temporary housing and helped these students find their way around their new home town.

Among them were criminal justice faculty member Mike Erp and his wife Karen, who recently retired from WSU Spokane’s human resource services office. They hosted two students from India—Harshad Hapse and Abhishek Savant—for several weeks. In addition to helping them with practical matters, such as finding an apartment, the Erps also introduced them to people and places in Spokane.

While Hapse and Savant learned about life in the United States, the Erps increased their understanding of Indian culture. “They were so open and shared so much about their life and friends,” said Karen Erp.

Mike Erp fondly remembers how they helped celebrate his birthday. “They like to celebrate birthdays at midnight. So when they learned that it was my birthday, they came downstairs at midnight, woke me up—I had fallen asleep watching television—and took me outside. They had a bottle of champagne, and they shook it up and popped the cork. So we drank some champagne and told stories,” he said.

Although Hapse and Savant eventually moved out, they are still very close to the Erps. “They are no longer our host family—they are family,” said Hapse of the Erps. “On weekends, we like to have them over at our place for dinner, or we go to their house for dinner. We try to keep in touch.”

 

University District Month Celebrated

By Barb Chamberlain

Mayor Dennis Hession announced the first “University District Month” at a gathering of university and community leaders Friday, Oct. 5. The press event, held at “The Edge”, a condo development project at Sprague and Division, drew a crowd of close to 50 people who toured the condo spaces and listened to a long list of the last year’s milestones within the University District.

The year’s accomplishments include various buildings either started or completed at both the Riverpoint Campus and Gonzaga University, business growth and success among Sirti tenants and clients, and the move of EWU programs from their downtown center to Riverpoint, among other things.

Mayor Hession noted the city’s leadership in moving the University District plans toward implementation and the launch of a marketing communications group working to increase the visibility of the district. The event included the unveiling of a new logo for the University District, painted on the west side of the condo building.

The group also celebrated last week’s announcement by the state Community, Trade and Economic Development office that the University District has been named one of 11 “Innovation Partnership Zones” around the state, and that Spokane received one of the five $1 million grants given to these zones to help accelerate research-driven economic development.

For more information on the University District, go to www.spokaneuniversitydistrict.com.

 

Director of WSU Center to Bridge the Digital Divide To Focus on Rural Economic Development

By Kathy Barnard, WSU Extension

Bill Gillis, director of Washington State University’s Center to Bridge the Digital Divide, will step down as center director to focus on rural economic development. Vickie Parker-Clark, district director for WSU Extension’s Northeast District and an accomplished Extension professor with more than 25 years of experience, will serve as interim director.

“This move allows Bill to dedicate his time to rural economic development,” said Linda Kirk Fox, associate vice president and dean of WSU Extension. She announced the personnel changes Oct. 4. “His heart has always been in working with people, non-governmental agencies and local governments to serve rural communities.”

Founded in 2001, the Center to Bridge the Digital Divide focuses on empowering people with the ability to apply technology in ways that build community and create opportunity. It fosters collaborative partnerships and provides education outreach as well as research and policy guidance to expand access to telecommunications infrastructure and critical information technologies among underserved populations.

Financially self-sustaining, CBDD has attracted an average of $3 million a year in grants and contracts to WSU for project support; about 80 percent of those funds have been disseminated to community-based organizations in Washington or to international partners through sub-grants and subcontracts. More than 20 funding sponsors, including multi-million-dollar grants from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the U.S. Agency for International Development, have contributed to CBDD.

The center has pursued projects both internationally and in Washington. It has significant work underway in Africa and Afghanistan, and its Rural Bridges program is working to create 5,000 new, sustainable jobs in Washington over the next five years. Gillis will be a part of that effort in his new role as leader of the center’s Rural Networks project. His title will be extension specialist for rural economic development.

Parker-Clark participated in the U.S. Department of Agriculture International Programs Agribusiness/Extension Development project in South Africa in 2000, teaching Extension methods to more than 100 South African Extension officers working with small-scale farmers in the Northern Transvaal and KwaZulu-Natal provinces. Since becoming district director, her focus has been on strategic planning and intercultural communication.

• News Release Online

John Alderete to Become Associate Vice Provost for Research

By Tom Spencer, Office of Research

John F. Alderete (Al-de-re-te), who has served as a professor of microbiology and immunology at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio since 1991, will assume the responsibilities of associate vice provost for research at Washington State University.

“I am pleased that John has chosen to join WSU,” said Jim Petersen, vice provost for research. “He brings a wealth of experience in research and technology commercialization that greatly adds to our programs. As a renowned scholar, he is a superb example to others. He also will vastly increase our administrative capabilities in the Office of Research and enhance WSU’s reputation as a national and international research institution.”

Alderete's research focuses on Trichomonas vaginalis, the number one non-viral STD in the United States. During his career, he has received nearly $20 million (direct and indirect costs) in research funding, mostly from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He holds six patents and patent pendings, invented a point-of-care diagnotic test for this STD, and participated in a start-up company that produces diagnostic tests for this disease.

He has served on national boards, including several panels for the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. He is a member of the Board of Scientific Counselors for the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, an NIH institute. He is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences in Mexico.

Alderete, who is bilingual in English and Spanish, is the former president of the Society for Advancement of Chicano and Native American Scientists (SACNAS). While president, he secured nearly $3 million in funding from the NIH and other government agencies in support of this society. He also started an inquiry-based science training program that allowed 100 K-12 teachers to attend the annual SACNAS conference. For a ten-year period, he conducted a Saturday Morning Science Camp for minority students, parents and teachers.

Alderete will assume the responsibilities of his new position on January 1, 2008. Bryan Slinker, professor and chair, Department of Veterinary and Comparative Anatomy, Pharmacology, and Physiology, will be serving as interim associate vice provost until then.

• News Release Online

 

WSU ePortfolio Contest 2007-08: Collaborating to Address Real-World Problems
 

The Office of Undergraduate Education is sponsoring a WSU-wide ePortfolio contest that asks contestants to collaborate with community members—institutional, local, or global—in identifying a problem or need. Teams will then develop a solution or plan of action and take steps toward implementing that plan. Submitted ePortfolios will be a record of that process: problem identification, solution exploration and development, plan follow through, and impact evaluation.

A minimum of $5000 in scholarships/grants will be awarded for those portfolios that most effectively capture and communicate the team’s problem solving processes.

The contest is open to the entire WSU community on all campuses, including undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff. Submitted ePortfolios may be produced as a class assignment, as a project unrelated to a specific class, or as any combination the contestants truly feel addresses the process of solving an authentic problem.

Enrollment will be open from September 21, 2007 until January 25, 2008. The deadline for submissions is March 25, 2008.

For more information, go to the WSU ePortfolio contest 2007-08 home page.

 

A Healthy Start at Riverpoint

By Judith Van Dongen

Healthy living was a recurring theme at the Riverpoint Campus this past month, with two events promoting regular exercise, healthy eating habits, and overall wellness.

September 18 marked the kickoff of the Governor's Health Bowl, part of the "Healthiest State in the Nation" campaign. The Riverpoint Campus served as a starting point for a healthy walk along the river to Riverfront Park, where WSU students from the pharmacy, exercise physiology and metabolism, and nursing programs stood ready to provide a variety of health screening services to members of the Spokane community.

On October 3, the campus was the venue for the 2007 Healthy Fare, organized by the Wellness Collaborative and students from the exercise physiology and metabolism program. The event filled the Academic Center with vendors of health-related foods and services.

 

 

Milestones
 

• Barb Chamberlain, director of communications and public affairs, has been appointed to a three-year term on WSU’s University Publishing Advisory Board. Units on campus that have comments or ideas concerning University Publishing are encouraged to contact her at chamberlain@wsu.edu.
• Professor of pharmacotherapy Lawrence Cohen has been elected to the Board of Regents for the American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP), a professional and scientific society that provides leadership, education, advocacy, and resources for clinical pharmacists. Cohen was also recently appointed as a member of the 2007-08 American Heart Association’s Pacific Mountain Affiliate Research Committee
• Ella Inglebret, assistant professor in the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, has recently published a book with coauthor Michael Pavel, an associate professor in the College of Education. Published by Greenwood Press, "American Indian and Alaska Native Student's Guide to College Success" includes first-person stories of Native Americans who earned degrees. Read more at WSU Today. 
• Earlier this month, recently appointed security officer Michael Norman was officially presented with his badge. Norman (at right) worked part time for Parking Operations and Campus Security before joining the Campus Security staff as a full-time employee this fall. His security badge was given to him by sergeant Al Pignataro (second from left) in a presentation witnessed by vice chancellor for finance and administration James Dalton (not pictured), fellow security officer Mike Reitemeier (left), and director of facilities operations Jon Schad (second from right).
• The Riverpoint Campus Safety Committee, the College of Nursing Safety Committee, and Norene Phillipson and Jon Schad (both from Facilities Operations) were recognized at the fourth annual WSU Environmental Health and Safety Conference and Award Ceremony. Phillipson and Schad won individual awards for going above and beyond normal duties to provide a safe campus environment at Riverpoint. The College of Nursing Safety Committee was honored with an Award of Excellence, and the Riverpoint Campus Safety Committee received an Award of Achievement.

If you or one of your colleagues or students has received a special honor or award, or reached another professional milestone, please e-mail the information to Judith Van Dongen at jcvd@wsu.edu.

 

Community Connections

• Family MACFest -- PLAY BALL! Saturday, October 13, 2007, noon to 3 p.m, at the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, 2316 W. First Avenue, Spokane. Family activities relate to the Smithsonian exhibition, Sports: Breaking Records, Breaking Barriers. Dribble and shoot basketball courtesy of Hoopfest, try on baseball and hockey gear with Brett Sports, design your own team pennant with artist Gloria Fox, make a Frisbee with Mobius Kids and a sports "medal" with MAC volunteers, meet local team mascots, and play the historic game of graces at Campbell House. (Events are subject to change or cancellation.) The MACFest special discounted admission of $10 per family includes all activities, galleries and Campbell House. Free for MAC members! For more information, call 509-456-3931 or e-mail pr@northwestmuseum.org.
   
• Sustainable Food & Farming Network is hosting a "Harvest Party" Reception in the lobby of the Community Building, 35 West Main, Spokane on Thursday evening, October 18 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Featuring live music local folk musician Don Thomsen. This is a free event, but you do need to register by contacting Gale Sterrett, administrative nanager, Washington Sustainable Food & Farming Network at 360-336-9694 or gsterrett@wsffn.org.
   
• Sustain Spokane is holding its first annual Bioneers Conference at Spokane Falls Community College, Friday, October 19 through Sunday, October 21. This conference will convene in 20 cities across the country to highlight innovative efforts in biology, ecology, green technologies, food and farming, integrative medicine, social activism, and the arts. Some of the features include a film festival, dance, and fresh, local organic fare. The evening program will feature a jazz festival, art exhibits and theater. Students may attend the conference free of charge. To preregister, go to www.sustainspokane.org . For more information, contact Patty Gates at info@sustainspokane.org.
   
• A Community Breast Health Fair is held on Tuesday, October 23, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Intercollegiate College of Nursing first floor lobby, 2917 W Ft George Wright Dr, Spokane. Although there is a special emphasis on educating young women (ages 18-39) about breast health, the fair is open to women and men of all ages, including students, faculty, staff and community members. Many resources and organizations will be present. Prizes and giveaways for those who attend! The fair is made possible by a generous grant from The Eastern Washington Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure®. For more information,  contact Chris Riebe, MSN, ARNP at 509-324-7205.
   
• Washington Higher Education Coordinating Board  is holding a public forum from 11:30 to 1:30 on Monday, October 29 in the Gilkey room of the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, 2316 W. 1st Avenue, Spokane. Roberta Greene and members of the board invite you to help formulate the new Strategic Master Plan for Higher Education. Community input is needed to help them plan what Washington's colleges and universities should do to help our state achieve its full 21st-century potential. For more information, call Bob Burdick at 360-704-4169 or visit www.hecb.wa.gov.
  
   

Personnel and Staffing Changes

Comings:

• Gary Johnson, Laboratories Manager, Office of Research, effective 09/16/07
• Colleen Musa, Program Assistant, Student Affairs, effective 10/01/07
• Trevor Manthey, Project Associate, WIMIRT, effective 10/08/07
• Shannon Redel, HR Generalist, Human Resources, effective 10/1/07
• Heather Speer, HR Generalist, Human Resources, effective 10/04/07
• Yvonne Montoya Zamora, HR Generalist, Human Resources, effective 11/01/07

Goings:

• Teena Vanderholm, Program Assistant – Upward Bound, Student Affairs, effective 10/05/07
• Peter McCauley, Computational Modeling Research Assistant, effective 11/30/07

Promotions:

• Virginia Moran, Fiscal Technician 3, Budget/Finance Office, effective 10/01/07

Searches:
(More information at www.hrs.wsu.edu)

• Director, WWAMI Program in Basic Medical Education, review of applications began 06/01/07
• Senior Assistant/Associate Professor of Sociology, Program in Leadership and Professional Studies, review of applications begins 10/26/07
• Assistant/Associate Professor, four positions, WWAMI, review of applications begins 10/01/07
• Research Associate, Health Policy & Administration, review of applications begins 10/26/07
• Grants & Contracts Administrator, Office of Research, apply by 10/26/07

 

A Warm Welcome to...
 

Colleen Musa, our new program assistant in the Office of Student Affairs. Colleen—the daughter of Virginia Moran from the Budget and Finance Office―has been with the Intercollegiate College of Nursing for the past eight years, working in the People's Clinic. Her "spare" time is spent being a mom to her two little girls.

 

Way to Go!

• I'd like to extend a big and well-deserved thanks to my communications colleagues for their help in producing the WSU Spokane Campus Bulletin every month—to Cinda Romans, for her work on the layout and for chasing down all sorts of useful information; to Barb Chamberlain and Becki Meehan, for their story ideas and article contributions; and finally, to Holly George, who got her feet wet in bulletin writing this month with the great article on Robbie Paul.
  (from Judith Van Dongen, Creative Services Manager, Communications)

Here's where you make someone's day a little brighter by extending your thanks for a job well done. Send your “Way to Go!” comments to Cinda Romans, and watch for your thanks to be published in an upcoming issue of the Campus Bulletin!

 

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• Judith Van Dongen, jcvd@wsu.edu, 509-358-7524
• Barb Chamberlain, chamberlain@wsu.edu, 509-358-7527
• Becki Meehan, rmeehan@wsu.edu, 509-358-7528
• Cinda Romans, cindaromans@wsu.edu, 509-358-7540