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"With eye to future, community leaders share
common vision"
Spokesman
Review
Dec. 28, 2003
For Spokane's economic development leaders, 2003 was all about the vision
thing....Some of the initiatives discussed, notably a University District,
had barely been on the community's radar, In the months since, the
district has become a cetnerpiece of economic development efforts …
"Question marks in Olympia
Departure of West, status change for McMorris could affect region’s
clout"
Journal
of Business
Dec. 24, 2003
It’s tough to say what the upcoming legislative session holds for
Spokane and the rest of Eastern Washington. The uncertainty stems from a
transition as key regional legislators leave their leadership posts;
upcoming federal elections that are likely to divert lawmakers’
attention; and the fact that there won’t be much money up for grabs in a
non-budget-writing year, observers say. … Education also will be a hot
topic in the 2004 session. Locke, in his proposed capital budget,
recommended the appropriation of $6.7 million for a new Academic Center
building for Washington State University at the Riverpoint campus here,
the construction of which is a big priority for WSU-Spokane as well as for
the Spokane Regional chamber. WSU had requested $20 million for the
project. …
"WSU awarded Army sleep study
Military is interested in deprivation and performance"
Seattle
PI
Dec. 18, 2003
The U.S. Army thinks this city may be just the kind of snoozy place to do
advanced research on sleep. The Department of Defense has awarded $1.5
million to Washington State University for cooperative sleep research with
the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. The Army wants to
know more about sleep deprivation, a serious issue for the military. …
"Army abuzz over WSU research on sleep
Pentagon awards $1.5 million for cooperative research program in
Spokane"
Spokesman
Review
KING
5
Dec. 17, 2003
Call this coming attraction "Sleeping in Spokane." The Army
thinks this city may be just the kind of snoozy place to do advanced
research on sleep. This week, Rep. George Nethercutt, R-Spokane, announced
that the Department of Defense awarded $1.5 million to Washington State
University for cooperative sleep research with the Walter Reed Army
Medical Center of Washington, D.C. …
"Program HOPE Gives Teens Opportunity to Learn"
Yakima Herald
Dec. 16, 2003
As winter approaches, so does the time for seniors to start filling out
college and scholarship applications. Usually, by December students feel
even more pressure than normal about making decisions regarding their
future, what career they want to pursue and where they want to study for
it. One area that always has jobs in demand and is always changing is the
medical field. Everything from a cardiologist and dermatologist to a lab
technician and a front desk clerk can be found in this field. …
"The goal of the program is to introduce health occupations to high
school students from rural communities and/or diverse groups currently
underrepresented in careers in health care," says Bettie Rundlett,
program coordinator of the Area Health Education Center at the Spokane
branch of Washington State University. ...
"Faculty women honor Clark"
WSU
Today
Dec. 12, 2003
Carolyn Clark, WSU Spokane, state director of the Small Business
Development Center, has won the Associate for Faculty Women's Samuel H.
Smith Leadership Award. The fourth winner of the award, Clark has
achieved several significant "firsts" for women at Washington
State University. ....
"Spokane names mental health institute chief"
WSU Today
Dec. 12, 2003
Michael Hendryx has been named director of the Washington
Institute for Mental Illness Research and Training, eastern branch, at WSU
Spokane. Hendryx, an associate professor of health policy
administration and associate professor of psychology, previously served as
assistant director for WIMIRT. ...
"WSU researchers examine community safety perception"
The
Daily Evergreen
Dec. 1, 2003 WRICOPS
at WSU Spokane is participating in this project.
WSU researchers are polling eastern Washington residents to see just
how safe their communities are. The U.S. District Attorney's Office, in
conjunction with the Project Safe Neighborhoods Program, distributed Crime
and Criminal Justice System is polling up to 10,000 households this fall.
The surveys, which are intended to measure the level of gun violence in
various eastern Washington communities, are also aimed at gauging whether
or not residents feel secure in their neighborhoods, said Nicholas Lovrich,
WSU political science professor and director of Governmental Studies and
Sciences Division. …
"University district backers study the facts, Bert Caldwell
says."
Spokesman
Review
Nov. 30, 2003
University districts are hard. There's no magic, just toil, to
transforming an expanding higher-education campus into an economic
development powerhouse. And backers of a proposed district east of
downtown Spokane have done the road work to prove it. In the last month,
civic, business and education leaders have flown to Denver, Indianapolis
and Tacoma to find out how those cities used university assets as a
foundation for business and job growth. Local students, meanwhile, have
been deployed to do some of the leg and design work that will make sense
of the concept at street level in Spokane. …
"Research facility gets help
$1.5 million appropriation in federal defense budget"
Spokesman
Review
Nov. 22, 2003
Efforts to launch a medical research institute in Spokane have received a
$1.5 million boost in the 2004 federal defense budget. Congressman George
Nethercutt, R-Spokane, obtained a $1.5 million appropriation in the budget
for sleep deprivation research in Spokane. … The goal is to find a
director by July 1, said Dennis Dyck, associate dean of research at
Washington State University Spokane and a member of the steering
committee. … "Geneticist focuses on
glaucoma"
WSU
Today
Nov. 14, 2003
As Bassem Bejjani describes genetic research, it almost sounds
easy: The beauty of genetic research is that it is simple building blocks,
like Legos. Bejjani, research professor in the Health Research and
Education Center at WSU Spokane, seeks to understand abnormalities in
organ development and structure caused by genetic mutation. …
"WSU asking for money to build Academic Center"
KXLY TV
Oct. 27, 2003
Washington State University is turning to the state tonight for money
to build a $38 million academic center in Spokane. The school is asking
for $20 million this year to get construction going on the Riverpoint
campus. The school hopes to have the five story, $38 million academic
center built by 2006. WSU plans to make the Riverpoint Campus a hub for
health sciences studies, and the home of the school's nursing program.
"Keeping Your Medications Viable"
HealthDayNews
Oct. 23, 2003
Article quotes Linda Garrelts MacLean, clinical assistant
professor, department of pharmacothery
"Diabetes study pivotal"
WSU
Today
Oct. 17, 2003
How do you measure the significance of the ACCORD diabetes drug trial in
which WSU Spokane researchers are participating — size of the participant
field, scope of the problem, eventual impact on the community or
individuals? Regardless of how you measure the study, the result is the
same — huge.
"Variety reflects university breadth"
WSU
Today
Oct. 15, 2003
.The new federal Department of Homeland Security needs the research WSU
can offer but has yet to organize much in the way of funding...At WSU
Spokane, the Western Regional Institute for Community Oriented Public
Safety just received $750,000 from the U.S. Department of Justice, a
continuation of funding WRICOPS has gotten from DOJ since 1996. ...
"WSU-Spokane contest sparks ideas"
Journal
of Business
Oct. 3, 2003
Imagine sitting in traffic where Division Street meets Spokane Falls
Boulevard and Trent Avenue, and instead seeing a weedy concrete traffic
divider, you get an eyeful of picturesque 80-foot-tall steel columns with
water cascading down their sides. A recent Washington State University at
Spokane design and construction competition has produced that concept and
others for improving the Division Street entrance to downtown Spokane and
for creating a unique architectural “gateway” feature at the
Division-Trent-Spokane Falls junction. …
"Spokane honors staff for excellence"
WSU
Today
Oct. 3, 2003
In recognition of their contributions to campus and community, two
employees have received the WSU Spokane Staff Excellence Award for the
2002-03 academic year. The annual award recognizes classified and
administrative professional staff members. …
"WSU forges urban development partnership:
School’s design institute unites academia with the community"
Seattle Daily
Journal of Commerce
Oct. 2, 2003
Guest article by Bill Grubich, KJM Associates, Chair, WSU Spokane
Interdisciplinary Design
Institute Advisory Board
"The Real Deal"
The
Inlander
Sept. 4, 2003
Could some of Spokane's most pernicious design problems
really be solved in a little more than 48 hours by a team of college
kids? The WSU Interdisciplinary Institute's annual Charrette shows
it's quite possible...
"Spokane's economy improving"
Journal
of Business
Sept. 4, 2003
WSU prof's summer report shows positive movement, buying power still
declining... "In Brief: Upward Bound"
The
Inlander
Sept. 4, 2003
Washington State University is the recipient of three Upward Bound grants
totaling more than $3 million. The money will provide educational
services to school districts serving low-income and first-generation
college youth. WSU's Pullman campus, WSU Spokane, and WSU Tri-Cities
will each receive about $1 million, spread over five years...
"Historic Rookery an Irreplaceable Building Block"
Spokesman Review
Aug. 17, 2003
Guest column by Matthew Cohen, Assistant Professor, Architecture,
Interdisciplinary Design
Institute
"Economic metamorphosis
Spokane tries to reform development strategy to capitalize on economy in
new millennium"
Spokesman-Review
Aug. 10, 2003
...There are a host of possible programs and initiatives in the pipeline
that would benefit the region, but few of them have been widely embraced
except for plans to develop a medical research institute in Spokane and a
University District east of downtown...
http://www.spokesmanreview.com/news-story.asp?date=081003&ID=s1392763&cat=section.business
"SIRTI takes action on wet-lab project: Foundation OKs
borrowing $2.2 million; SIRTI pledges $250,000 to operate facility"
Spokane Journal of Business
Aug. 1, 2003
"Heart study toys with fame: Research here could change
the way heart disease is identified and treated"
Spokane Journal of Business
June 20, 2003
“Group endorses sleep research institute; Committee hopes
project will lead to grants, new companies and products”
Spokesman-Review
June 10, 2003
“Taint So - Fruit Valley residents say they're not
worried about health risks posed by groundwater problems”
June 5, 2003
The
Columbian
"Stigmatized properties occur all over the United States,"
said Don Epley, a professor of
real estate at
Washington State University Spokane. "It's not unique to Vancouver, and
it's not unique to one neighborhood." …
May
“Improving economy here lost steam, index suggests”
May 22, 2003
Spokane Journal of Business (not available online)
The Spokane-area economy, which had been showing signs of improvement
earlier this year, has since lost some steam, according to the most recent
Spokane Leading Economic Index compiled by Washington State University
Spokane real estate
professor Don Epley.
“Nursing school move proposed”
May 21, 2003
Spokesman-Review
Washington State University wants to move the Intercollegiate College
of Nursing to the academics-rich Riverpoint campus near downtown Spokane.
The nursing school has been housed down the street from Spokane Falls
Community College since 1980. The cash-strapped Legislature has been asked
to find $150,000 to start the process of erecting a new building that will
help the space-hungry program handle more students. "The need is clear,"
said Dorothy Detlor, dean of WSU's School of Nursing. "In my mind it's a
question of when it will happen." …
“Jaguar Ventures increases investment in Bio~OriGyn”
Spokesman-Review
May 17, 2003
Jaguar Ventures of Spokane has invested an additional
$300,000 in biotech company Bio-OriGyn. Bio-OriGyn, a privately held
company owned by Joanna Ellington, assistant professor,
HREC, makes products
designed to assist infertile couples.
“College graduates facing long road ahead in job hunt”
Spokesman-Review
May 16, 2003
Beau Barry is among the lucky graduates leaving college this weekend.
An electrical engineering major at the University of Idaho, Barry has a
$62,000-a-year job waiting for him at Micron in Boise. . . Heather
Wagoner, for instance, sent out more than 50 resumes to local and
regional companies. All that work led to just one phone interview with
Nike in Portland, which didn't give her a job. Wagoner, a 29-year-old grad
in Washington State University Spokane's
technology management program,
also got two replies by mail saying no jobs were available.
“Mayor names economic development adviser”
Spokane
Journal Of Business
May 7, 2003
Spokane Mayor John Powers today named Tom Reese, an urban
designer in the city's planning services department, as the city's new
economic development adviser. Reese succeeds Kim Pearman-Gillman, who had
served in that post for the past 18 months under loan from Avista Corp.
Reese has worked for the city since 1992, and also serves as an adjunct
professor of landscape architecture and urban design at Washington State
University Spokane's
Interdisciplinary Design Institute.
"Talent, courage a must to join those On Stage"
Spokesman-Review
May 6, 2003
Frankly, when Donna Douglass (project coordinator,
Washington Institute for
Mental Illness Research & Training) asked me to write about a musical
theater company composed of actors with mental health issues, my first
reaction was: "Yeah? What's so different about that?" (Insert Nick Nolte
or Winona Ryder joke here.) Then Douglass told me about
On Stage, a Spokane recovery program unique in the Pacific Northwest.
“Genome news delights Inland Northwest researchers”
April 15, 2003
Spokesman-Review
Bassem Bejjani, research professor,
Health Research and Education
Center, was quoted in an article on the announcement of the completion
of mapping of the human genetic code. Also quoted: Mike Skinner,
Center for Reproductive Biology, WSU.
“Medical industry to face new rules on privacy issues”
April 11, 2003
Spokesman-Review
Joseph Coyne, professor,
health policy and administration,
was quoted in an article on the effects of the Health Insurance
Portability and Protection Act.
"Local delegation gives region a unified voice in the
nation's capitol"
D.C. visit builds ties for future
April 6, 2003
Spokesman-Review
“Learning More On the Chamber Fly-In”
Spokane Regional
Chamber of Commerce Newsletter
March 31, 2003
A key initiative for the region is the development of the University
District at Riverpoint.
“SIRTI eyes wet-lab facility at Riverpoint”
35,000-square-foot project could get started as soon as May, federal
agency says
Spokane Journal of Business
March 28, 2003
The Real Deal
The Pacific Northwest Inlander
March 20, 2003
What image does the term "University District" conjure up? Lots of
students with backpacks, yes, but what else? Envisioning such a district
for Spokane became the project for a group of landscape architecture
students at the WSU Spokane
Interdisciplinary Design Institute this semester. The 16 students
split up into four project teams to focus on designing a vision for the
neighborhood just south of the Riverpoint campus that's home to a growing
higher education community.
“Design-Build Degrees Now Offered At Six US Universities”
Plumbing & Mechanical
March 17, 2003
Article includes information on the
MS Architecture
Design-Build Management focus offered at WSU Spokane.
“WSU sees big future here”
Branch campus to target health sciences, boost graduate programs
Spokane Journal of Business
March 14, 2003
“WSU sees big future in Spokane--Research is Key”
Montana Associated
Technology Roundtables
March 14, 2003
“Navigating the Health Care Maze”
KPBX Community
Health Forum
March 12, 2003
Forum participants included clinical assistant professor
of pharmacy Linda Garrelts MacLean.
“Plan would create district linking GU, Riverpoint”
March 12, 2003
Spokesman-Review
"On the Job"
Spokesman-Review
March 10, 2003
Jerry Nicholls, Master of
Engineering Management alumnus, was profiled.
"Sounds of Science"
College professors' offspring nail answers in leading Pullman High to bowl
victory
Spokesman-Review
March 9, 2003
The DOE Spokane Science Bowl was held on the WSU Spokane campus Sat.,
March 8, with sponsorship support from WSU and WSU Spokane.
"STA Board picks agent of change"
Spokesman-Review
March 7, 2003
Master of Engineering
Management alumna Kim Zentz was named CEO of the Spokane Transit
Authority.
“Racial profiling and how to measure it”
KPBX Radio
February 13, 2003
Coverage of the Feb. 4, 2003,
Racial Profiling
Conference, with excerpts from the conference content, including
discussion by Michael Smith, associate professor of
criminal justice at WSU
Spokane.
“Law enforcement listening on race” (editorial)
Spokesman-Review
February 9, 2003
Who should take the first step to improve relations between Spokane's
Police Department and minority groups?
The police should. Says who? Says Police Chief Roger Bragdon.
"It's up to us to make the first move," he said this week during a
conference on racial profiling.
NOTE: Conference sponsored by WSU Spokane and WSU’s Foley Institute:
www.spokane.wsu.edu/racialprofiling.
“Police hold conference on racial profiling”
Spokesman-Review
February 5, 2003
NOTE: More than 230 people attended the
Racial Profiling
Conference put on by WSU’s Foley Institute in partnership with WSU
Spokane and others; the article refers to 100 attendees.
“Grants to battle gun violence”
Spokesman-Review
February 4, 2003
Three organizations in the state of Washington were awarded grants last
weekend at a national conference targeting gun violence, including the
Spokane Police Department in partnership with the
Western Regional Institute
for Community Oriented Public Safety at WSU Spokane.
“Munson asks group to evaluate Sioux Falls police”
Aberdeen News
Associated Press
Jan. 14, 2003
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - Sioux Falls Mayor Dave Munson said he has asked
a team of criminal justice experts from Washington State University to
evaluate the Sioux Falls Police Department. The evaluation will be
conducted this spring by the
Western Regional Institute for Community Oriented Public Safety (at
WSU Spokane)…. John Goldman,
executive director of WRICOPS, said he has been contacted by Sioux Falls
but the assessment has not been finalized yet. In the past, the group has
conducted assessments for sheriff's departments in Hughes County and
Custer County and for police departments in Pierre and Spearfish.
“Local lawmakers brace for battle; Cox, Schoesler
worry about effect on education and small communities”
Lewiston Morning Tribune
January 12, 2003
With Washington Gov. Gary Locke's announcement that the state is $2.4
billion short, local legislators are expecting the session, opening
Monday, to be all about money. "Budget matters, like Idaho, will take the
major energy of the session," says 9th District Rep. Don Cox,
R-Colfax. (Cox is an associate professor in the
educational
leadership program at WSU Spokane).
“Markin to step in for Gray”
WSU Today
January 10, 2003
William H. Gray, the founding campus executive officer and dean of
Washington State University Spokane, is stepping down from his post,
effective Jan. 31. Rom Markin, who served as dean of the College of
Business and Economics for 15 years, has been appointed as the interim
replacement for Gray.
“Environment design project serves dementia
sufferers”
WSU Today
January 10, 2003
Keith Diaz Moore, assistant professor of
architecture and
landscape
architecture in the Interdisciplinary Design Institute at WSU Spokane,
works to develop students’ understanding of the social responsibility
environmental designers have. In Anne Hanenburg (BLA 02), he found
a student who took this message to heart.
“Markin to serve as WSU Spokane dean”
Spokane Spokesman-Review
January 9, 2003
Rom Markin, a veteran administrator and marketing faculty member at
Washington State University, will serve as interim campus executive
officer and dean of WSU Spokane.
“Leader of WSU Spokane taking break”
Spokane Spokesman-Review
January 8, 2003
The man who played a pivotal role in the establishment and growth of
Washington State University Spokane is taking a year's leave at month's
end. William H. Gray, campus executive officer and dean of WSU
Spokane, said he plans to take his first break in more than 20 years.
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