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“Universities
begin to embrace design-build”
Design-Build Dateline
December 2002
(Full text of article available online only to DBIA members)
The article profiles WSU Spokane’s
Design-Build Management
track in the MS
Architecture, as one of only four opportunities in the nation for
graduate study focusing on design-build.
“Professor questions poverty measuring stick”
Spokane Spokesman-Review
December 28, 2002
Builder.com online
January 1, 2003
Don Epley, professor,
real estate, cringes a
bit when people talk about poverty and economic development. Like when
Spokane Mayor John Powers, in pushing his One Spokane plan to ease
poverty, uses household income as a yardstick. Epley strongly urges the
use of a better measure -- median family income -- to track progress
against poverty.
“WSU News Briefs”
Fertility study seeks male participants
WSU Today
December 20, 2002
A study evaluating the effect of antidepressants on sperm DNA integrity
has generated international interest, according to lead investigators
Joanna Ellington, assistant professor,
Health Research and Education
Center, and Clarke St.Dennis, clinical assistant professor,
pharmacotherapy.
“WSU News Briefs”
Doctors must guide nonprescription use
WSU Today
December 20, 2002
Talk to your doctor about your pain medications is the message from
Brian Gates, clinical assistant professor,
pharmacotherapy.
“Business development center goes high tech”
WSU Today
December 20, 2002
The lead Small Business Development Center,
headed by director Carolyn Clark, oversees operations in three
dozen training and counseling centers around the state.
"Session to be ‘all about money’"
Spokane Journal of Business
December 19, 2002
Washington State University at Spokane will ask legislators to approve
funds for construction of the $32.5 million Academic Center, which already
has gone through the pre-design and design phases, says Bill
Gray, campus executive officer and dean of WSU-Spokane. The proposed
91,000-square-foot building would house classrooms, the campus library,
and student and administrative offices.
“The Real Deal”
Multigenerational housing may be a vital way for seniors to age
gracefully and healthfully
Pacific Northwest Inlander
December 19, 2002
Pacific Northwest InlanderWhat does it mean to age
successfully? Is the attainment of a certain numerical landmark enough, or
should quality of life be factored in? If so, how does one measure life's
quality? Questions like these are at the heart of research tackled by
gerontologists, health care providers and psychologists, but seldom do
these issues become fodder for design discussions. At the WSU Spokane
Interdisciplinary Design
Institute, however, a group of Bob Scarfo’s students used these
questions as the starting point for a recently completed project. The
students are part of the interdisciplinary design studio for fourth-year
students and come from the four disciplines of
architecture,
interior design, landscape
architecture and
construction management.
“A vision of change: WSU students create new look
for heart of Davenport Arts District”
Spokane Spokesman-Review
December 17, 2002
Matt Melcher’s interdisciplinary design studio presents concepts
for the Davenport Arts District.
“Screeners bring boost to region”
Spokane Spokesman-Review
December 15, 2002
http://www.spokesmanreview.com/news-story.asp?date=121502&ID=s1271723
Don Epley, professor,
real estate, and other
area economists believe the gain of federal airport screener positions
will have a significant impact on the region.
“Antidepressant may impact DNA, study gains
attention”
WSU
Today
December 12, 2002
A Spokane study evaluating the effect of selective serotonin reuptake
inhibitors (such as Prozac and Celexa) on sperm DNA integrity has
generated international interest, according to Joanna Ellington and
Clarke St.Dennis of Washington State University Spokane, the
study’s lead investigators.
"NSAIDs and Congestive Heart Failure"
KPBX Spokane Public
Radio (choose Dec. 12 program and scroll to 7:30 to hear the story)
December 12, 2002
KPBX news director Doug Nadvornick talks with WSU Spokane's Brian Gates,
pharmacotherapy, about a new study that warns people with congestive heart
failure about taking non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. For more on
the research, see the
news release
online, Dec. 10, 2002.
"Criminal justice research at WSU Spokane"
KPBX Spokane Public
Radio (choose Dec. 10 program and scroll to approx. 15:08 to hear the
story)
December 10, 2002
KPBX news
director Doug Nadvornick talks with WSU Spokane
Criminal Justice Professor
Michael Smith about research he's been doing for law enforcement agencies.
For more on Smith's background, see the
news release
online, Sept. 24, 2002.
“Awards & Honors”
WSU Today
December 6, 2002
Brandy Singer, clinical pharmacy instructor, has been awarded the
Health Systems Pharmacist of the Year Award from the Spokane Pharmacy
Association.
“Downtown condominiums key to urban revitalization”
Spokane Spokesman-Review
December 5, 2002
Two months ago, Doug Menzies, associate professor,
architecture,
and Matt Melcher, assistant professor,
interior design, won an
American Institute of Architects award for their Blue Chip Lofts design,
creating more buzz.
“Task force seeks to bolster health-worker ranks”
Spokane Journal of Business (not available online)
December 5, 2002
Statewide group, with four Spokane members, to issue report to next
Legislature. Bill Gray, dean, Washington State University Spokane,
is vice chairman of the task force.
“WSU Spokane profs edit new journal on pharmacy”
Spokane Journal of Business (not available online)
December 5, 2002
Danial Baker, professor, pharmacotherapy, and director,
Drug
Information Center, is the top editor of the quarterly publication.
Terri Levien, clinical assistant professor, and assistant director,
Drug Information Center, is its assistant editor. Contributing editors
include Steven Pickette; Brian Gates, clinical assistant professor,
pharmacotherapy; and Patrick Malone. For background information, see the
news release
online, Nov. 4, 2002.
"Toward n=24"
The Scientist (free registration required to access site;
scroll down to find story)
Vol. 16, No. 23
November 25, 2002
Research by Lisa Shaffer, Health Research and Education Center,
presented at the American Society of Human Genetics meeting, on
her genetic research into Robertsonian translocations.
“Busy Signal”
The Pacific Northwest Inlander
November 21, 2002
Mike Erp, director of the
Washington State Institute for
Community Oriented Policing at WSU Spokane and an instructor in the
criminal justice graduate
program, is quoted extensively in
an article on Crime Check and allocation of resources to pay for law
enforcement.
“Economic index suggests slow growth in Spokane”
Spokane Journal of Business (not available online)
November 21, 2002
The Spokane-area economy is headed in the right direction, according to
the most recent Spokane Leading Economic Index compiled by Don Epley,
professor, real estate.
“People”
Journal of Business (not available online)
November 21, 2002
Joanna Ellington, associate professor,
Health Research and
Education Center, has received the 2003 Young Andrologist Award. See
related news release online at
http://wsunews.wsu.edu/detail.asp?StoryID=3426.
“Design-build process gains popularity”
Spokane Journal of Business
November 21, 2002
Darlene Septelka, associate professor,
construction management,
and coordinator of graduate studies in
design-build management,
says more prospective building owners likely will chose the design-build
process as awareness increases.
drugstore.com, inc. and Bio~OriGyn Team Up for
Exclusive Launch and Advanced Sale of Pre-Seed
November 20, 2002
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/021120/200094_1.html
The drugstore.com (TM) Web Store will be the first and
exclusive online retailer of Pre-Seed, a "sperm friendly" intimate
moisturizer for couples trying to conceive, developed by
Bio~OriGyn LLC.
Bio~OriGyn was co-founded by Joanna Ellington, assistant professor,
and Sylvia Oliver, assistant director,
Health Research and
Education Center. Ellington is president of the company.
“Patient residences become classrooms for pharmacy
prof making house calls”
WSU Today
November 15, 2002
Steven Setter is an assistant professor, instructing in pharmacy.
But his pupils aren’t just the WSU students he teaches in small groups or
one-on-one. He calls on the needy elderly to teach these patients about
their own medications and how to avoid complications from them.
"Spokane launches pharmacy journal"
WSU Today
November 15, 2002
Danial Baker, professor of pharmacotherapy and director of the Drug
Information Center, and Terri Levien, clinical assistant professor
and assistant director of the DIC, are the editors of a new pharmacy
journal. "Advances in Pharmacy" is published by Facts and Comparisons, the
leading source of unbiased, comparative drug information and
pharmacotherapeutic-decision support tools.
“Awards & Honors”
WSU Today
November 15, 2002
http://www.wsutoday.wsu.edu/completestory.asp?StoryID=204
Joanna Ellington, associate professor at the College of
Pharmacy and the WSU Spokane Health Research and Education Center, has
been awarded the 2003 Young Andrologist Award. Larry Cohen,
pharmacotherapy chair, has been appointed to the Task Force on Faculty
Workforce, in the Section of Teachers of Pharmacy Practice, American
Association of Colleges of Pharmacy.
“National Diabetes Month”
WSU Today (not available online)
November 15, 2002
John White, professor, pharmacotherapy, is heading up a $2 million
project as part of a nationwide study funded by the National Institutes of
Health. Also, White and David Sclar, professor, health policy and
administration, have been awarded $110,000 by Aventis Pharmaceuticals to
analyze the financial impact of using a new long-acting insulin analog
believed to reduce the number of side effects. See the news tip sheet at
http://wsunews.wsu.edu/releases4/sht104.htm for more on WSU research
activities in diabetes.
“Firm offers product for
infertile couples”
Spokane Spokesman-Review
November 13, 2002
Bio~OriGyn LLC announces its first product. Assistant professor Joanna
Ellington is the company's president.
“Spokane economy may have bottomed”
Spokane Spokesman-Review
November 12, 2002
Don Epley, professor,
real estate, plots economic data and measures
trends up or down.
“Health Notes”
Spokane Spokesman-Review
November 12, 2002
Pharmacists will be the primary audience for a new journal edited by
Danial Baker, associate dean for clinical programs and professor of
pharmacotherapy. Terri Levien, clinical assistant professor,
pharmacy, is assistant editor.
“WSU Spokane Faculty Member Receives International
Award”
Spokane Regional Chamber of Commerce Newsletter
November 11, 2002
Joanna Ellington, associate professor in WSU's
College of Pharmacy
and the WSU Spokane Health Research and Education Center, has been awarded
the 2003 Young Andrologist Award.
“WSU Spokane proposes big new nursing facility”
Journal of Business
November 7, 2002
WSU Spokane will ask legislators to approve pre-design funds for a
new facility for its College of Nursing.
"Health sciences research at WSU Spokane"
KPBX Spokane Public
Radio (choose Nov. 7 program to hear the story)
November 7, 2002
KPBX news director Doug Nadvornick visits Washington State University's
Health Sciences Building in Spokane, where thousands of square feet of new
laboratory space is nearly filled by university researchers. He talks with
the two newest researchers, Drs. Lisa Shaffer and Bassem Bejjani, who
recently came to Spokane from the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston,
Texas, and with Health Research and Education Center assistant director
Sylvia Oliver and lab technology coordinator Jennifer Hogan.
“Awards & Honors”
WSU Today
November 1, 2002
Matt Melcher, assistant professor,
interior design, and Doug
Menzies, associate professor,
architecture, received an American
Institute of Architects citation for their submission, “Railroad Loft
Apartments.”
“$1.4 million shared grant eyes violence,
workplace”
WSU Today
November 1, 2002
A partnership between WSU Spokane and community institutions has
been awarded a three-year National Institutes of Health grant to develop
programs to address the effect of domestic violence on the workplace.
“Group aims to link East Sprague area, U District”
Journal of Business (not available online)
October 24, 2002
East Spokane Business Association is working to build support for a plan
that would link Sprague Avenue with an envisioned University District
which would include the Riverpoint Higher Education Park, the
Gonzaga University campus, and the area surrounding them.
“WSU Spokane funds health research efforts”
Journal of Business (not available online)
October 24, 2002
WSU Spokane has awarded small “seed” grants to faculty members to
fund five early-stage health research projects. Related news releases
online: Seed
grants announced,
funded projects
described
“Drug industry reckless, critic charges”
Spokane Spokesman-Review
October 19, 2002
Dr. Sidney Wolfe uses “research-based advocacy” to work for safer drugs
and medical devices and to get dangerous drugs banned. Wolfe spoke at the
WSU College of Pharmacy Allen I. White Lecture, hosted by the
Department of Health Policy and
Administration at WSU Spokane.
“Activist to address health care”
WSU Today (not available online)
October 18, 2002
Dr. Sidney Wolfe is this year’s Allen I. White lecturer.
“Institute directs research to betterment of
families”
WSU Today
October 18, 2002
The proposed Child and Family Research Institute has created a core
of research programs that serve as models for the nation.
“Awards & Honors”
WSU Today
October 18, 2002
Darlene Septelka, associate professor,
construction management, and
coordinator, design-build
management, was selected as one of the four professionals serving on
the jury for the 2002 DBIA Distinguished leadership Awards.
“$450,000 grant supports program for coping with
traumatic injury to brain, spinal cord”
WSU Today
October 18, 2002
Dennis Dyck, associate dean for research and director of the
Washington Institute for
Mental Illness Research and Training at WSU Spokane, and Dr. Bruce
Becker of St. Luke's Rehabilitation Institute are recipients of a grant to
develop a support program for people with traumatic brain or spinal cord
injury and their families.
“Yoga relaxing but may be too strenuous for heart
patients”
Spokane Spokesman-Review
October 15, 2002
Health professionals should consider findings when advising people with
heart problems to try yoga, said Sally Blank, associate professor,
exercise science.
“Health care activist to speak at college”
Spokane Spokesman-Review
October 15, 2002
Washington State University College of Pharmacy’s
Department of Health
Policy and Administration presents Dr. Sidney Wolfe, this year’s Allen
I. White Lecture guest speaker.
“Bio~OriGyn to Launch Lubricant in December”
Biotech Fresh Sheet
October 11, 2002
Joanna Ellington, assistant professor,
Health Research and
Education Center, announced that Drugstore.com will begin to sell the
vaginal lubricant produced by her company,
Bio~OriGyn.
“Interior Design program names new director”
WSU Today
October 4, 2002
Nancy Blossom comes to WSU Spokane from The George Washington
University. She will serve as director of the
interior design
program and assistant director of the
Interdisciplinary Design
Institute.
“Awards & Honors”
WSU
Today
October 4, 2002
E. Carolyn Johnson, associate professor of
exercise science, has
been appointed an adjunct research scientist at The Heart Institute of
Spokane.
“WSU Spokane hires nationally recognized faculty”
WSU Today
September 2002
New faculty join WSU Spokane this fall.
“WSU Spokane, CCS share $800,000 Head Start grant”
WSU Today
September 2002
A new initiative to create an outcome-driven model for Spokane Head Start
programs has received $800,000 from the U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services’ Administration for Children and Families. The project will
be managed by a partnership of researchers at Washington State University
Spokane and the Spokane Head Start program administered by the Community
Colleges of Spokane.
“Awards & Honors”
WSU Today
September 27, 2002
Jon Schad and Linda Loos receive WSU Spokane Employee
Excellence Awards.
“Genetics experts join WSU Spokane”
The Spokane Spokesman-Review
September 26, 2002
Lisa Shaffer and Bassem Bejjani have joined the Washington
State University Spokane faculty. News release:
Genetics
researchers welcomed by WSU Spokane, Sacred Heart Medical Center
(Sept. 23, 2002)
"New researchers move to Spokane; governor creates
new commission"
KPBX Public
Radio
September 25, 2002
“Spokane seed grant strategy aims at stronger funding”
WSU Today
September 20, 2002
Six Washington State University faculty will research issues in genetics,
cancer, nutrition, autism, and pediatric health, funded by a new seed
grant system created by WSU Spokane.
"New fries prove a little healthier"
Spokane Spokesman-Review
September 18, 2002
Washington State University (Spokane)
human nutrition professor Linda Massey calls
the switch "a small step, but in the right direction."
"The Real Deal"
The
Pacific Northwest Inlander
September 5, 2002
Students at WSU Spokane's Interdisciplinary
Design Institute spent the week conceiving design ideas for the
proposed Great Gorge Park.
"Sixth 'Charrette' Eyes Great Gorge Park"
WSU
Today
September 6, 2002
For 130 design students at WSU Spokane, the second day of school last week
meant being teamed to produce concepts for a project that has been calling
to the Spokane community since 1908. That’s the year Fredrick Law
Olmsted, a principal designer of New York City’s Central Park, proposed
The Great Gorge Park.
"Health News: Drug Costs A Problem For People With
Disabilities"
Volume 2, Issue 9, September 1, 2002
AARP
Health and Wellness Newsletter
More than a million adults with disabilities don't take their
medications as prescribed because they can't afford to, according to a
national study by Jae Kennedy, health policy and
administration,
published in last month's American Journal of Public Health. More than
half experienced health problems as a result.
Health Notes: "A family matter"
Spokane Spokesman-Review
September 3, 2002
Dr. Bruce Becker and Dennis Dyck, director of WIMIRT
and associate dean for research at WSU Spokane, are recipients of a
$450,000 grant to develop a first-of-its-kind support program for people
with spinal cord injury and traumatic brain injury and their families.
News release:
Grant to be used in development of support program for traumatic brain and
spinal cord injury patients, families (Oct. 1, 2002)
"WSU (Spokane) grant advances
undergraduates"
Terabyte
Triangle Newsletter
August 28, 2002
Paul Schimpf, associate professor of computer
engineering, has received a $12,000 NSF supplemental grant to support
undergraduate student involvement in research. News release on original
NSF grant: WSU
Spokane Engineering Faculty Receives National Science Foundation Grant
(July 20, 2001)
"Nethercutt pushes medical research center: Area
leaders say prosperous industry could stem from Spokane
project"
Spokane Spokesman-Review
August 28, 2002
U.S. Rep. George Nethercutt called on 30 area researchers and business
leaders Tuesday to sharpen their plan for creating a medical research
center here. Nethercutt, R-Wash., actively supports the formation of a
regional research center, an idea that was proposed earlier this year by
WSU Spokane and several community groups.
"Drug runners fill rural gap"
Spokane Spokesman-Review
August 18, 2002
Article quotes pharmacoeconomist David Sclar, Boeing Distinguished
Professor of Health Policy.
"Some downtown residents wouldn't choose anywhere
else"
Yakima
Herald-Republic
July 22, 2002
Quotes David Wang, associate professor and graduate program
coordinator, architecture.
"An ATM for Pills"
Pacific
Northwest Inlander
July 25, 2002
Together with Dennis Clifton, professor, pharmacy,
CHAS has developed a Telepharmacy project.
"Group banking on biotech payoff: Initiative aims
to bring more medical research money into Spokane region"
Spokane Spokesman-Review
July 16, 2002
Sidebar
Article on the Spokane Heart Study led by C. Harold Mielke,
MD, director of the Health
Research and Education Center, and the proposed Medical Research
Institute.
Press releases:
"Girls get excited at WSU (Spokane) Science
Camp"
Moscow-Pullman
Daily News
July 12, 2002
Article on summer science camp run by WSU
Spokane CityLab.
"WSU Spokane Scientists Launch Clinical
Research"
Terabye
Triangle Newsletter
June 28, 2002
Story on National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NIH)
award of $143,000 to WSU Spokane researchers Joanna Ellington and Clarke
St. Dennis to study the effects of antidepressants on male
reproductive health.
Press release: Federal
grant awarded to study effects of antidepressants on male reproductive
health
"Attract research with a strong plan—
Our View: Health sciences research could be a boon to Spokane"
Spokane Spokesman-Review
June 26, 2002
“Globalization is having a major effect on architecture”
In Construction (not available online)
April 2002
Changes in the world of architecture directly influence the future of the
construction industry. “Architecture I think is in a pretty exciting time
because of the new technology and ideologies,” says David Wang,
associate professor and graduate coordinator,
architecture.
"WSU (Spokane) Professor Creates Super Computer"
Terabyte
Triangle Newsletter
April 30, 2002
Paul Schimpf, associate professor of
computer engineering, is
building a super-computer to aid his biomedical engineering research,
funded by $400,000 from the National Science Foundation.
Press release: WSU
Spokane Engineering Faculty Receives National Science Foundation Grant
“Students go head to head in Science Bowl”
Spokane Spokesman-Review
March 10, 2002
Press releases:
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"Exploring Digital Signal Processing with WSU (Spokane)"
Terabyte
Triangle Newsletter
February 27, 2002
New class offered fall 2002 by Margaret Mortz, associate professor
of electrical engineering.
“Post Falls' gain brightens corridor--Our View: UI, WSU research
facilities could benefit our area”
Spokane Spokesman-Review
February 24, 2002
Spokane Small Business Development Center helps local entrepreneur
MD
“Baby Beats has new home: Fetal monitors to be manufactured in
Spokane”
Spokane Spokesman-Review
February 22, 2002
Press releases:
“WSU Spokane will show off new building”
Spokane
Spokesman-Review
February 20, 2002
Press release: Public
Invited to See the New Health Sciences Building
"Department of Health Policy and Administration moves into new
building"
Exchange (a
publication of the Association of University Programs in Health
Administration; see page 16 of PDF file)
January/February 2002
"Health-care ‘cluster’ promising: Report sets Spokane apart
in state; says area could become big player, even a ‘version of Mayo
Clinic’"
Spokane
Journal of Business
January 25, 2002
Presence of WSU Spokane noted as a factor; article quotes C. Harold
Mielke, MD, director of WSU Spokane Health
Research and Education Center.
“The Web Diet”
Spokane Spokesman-Review
January 14, 2002
Janet Beary, assistant professor in the graduate
program in nutrition and coordinator of the registrated
dietitian program at WSU Spokane, offers advice on weight-loss web sites.
“Breathing Room: New Health Science Building opens state-of-the-art
classrooms and labs to students at Riverpoint campus”
Spokane Spokesman-Review
January 15, 2002
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