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December
"Lawsuit Claims Motrin Caused Child's Blindness"
Reuters
December 28, 2004
A 7-year-old girl on Tuesday sued the maker of Children's Motrin for
failing to label the over-the-counter pain reliever with a warning that
it could lead to an allergic reaction that caused her blindness. …
Dr. Stephen Setter, assistant professor of pharmacotherapy at
Washington State University, said Stevens-Johnson and Toxic Epidermal
Necrolysis, a related ailment, are very rare. There are about two to
three cases per million people annually in Europe and the United States,
he said. …
"Locke: Big plans for higher education"
Seattle PI
December 20, 2004
Gov. Gary Locke's new budget calls for a major expansion of higher
education enrollment and scholarships - but it takes higher taxes and
large tuition increases to pull it off. … The Locke budget includes $696
million in General Fund support for the University of Washington and its
Tacoma and Bothell campuses, up from $637 million this biennium.
Counting all funds, including tuition and grants, the total is $3.79
billion. Washington State University, including its campuses at
Spokane, Tri-Cities and Vancouver, would get $429.7 million, up
from $375.6 million. …
"WSU Spokane receives grant for cornea study"
Associated
Press as reported by KING-5 TV, Seattle
December 15, 2004
Washington State University has received a four-year grant to look for
causes of thinning of the cornea in the eye. The National
Institutes of Health grant will fund research by Dr. Bassem Bejjani at
WSU Spokane. The research is into keratoconus or thinning of the cornea.
A progressive and sometimes painful condition, it is currently treated
with hard lenses that reshape the cornea. The only other treatment is a
corneal transplant. ...
"Lawmakers wary of branch campus growth"
Tri-City Herald
December 3, 2004
They asked for it. Legislators this spring demanded the
state's five university branch campuses produce reports outlining their
future missions, and on Thursday four of them came back with the same
answer: We want to expand. But that could be a tall order considering
the state's slumping finances. … Only Washington State University's
Spokane campus, which now is being folded back into the operations of
the main campus in Pullman, isn't asking for a broadened mission. …
November
"Preparing the next design pioneers
WSU's new Doctor of Design program lets architects interact outside the
design field"
Seattle Daily
Journal of Commerce
November 18, 2004
Twentieth-century pioneers in the fields of architecture or interior
design were talented individuals who combined intuition with flair to
create interesting and exciting designs, often for a single client in a
residential setting. The early American architect is often remembered
for his ego as well as for his genius; and the early interior designer
for her social standing as well as for her creativity. … The Doctor of
Design degree at Washington State University is tailored to educate
members of the design community who are well-versed and professionally
advanced, but seek to make collaborative, original contributions to
their fields as well as to the ecological, cultural and physical
contexts in which they work. …
"Pitcher new chancellor at WSU-Spokane;
UI's White calls the provost pivotal in presidential transition"
Moscow-Pullman Daily News
November 12, 2004
University of Idaho Provost Brian Pitcher has been named chancellor of
the Spokane branch of Washington State University. Pitcher, who accepted
the position Friday in Spokane, had been considering a job change for
about a year, but said he delayed doing so to assist UI President Tim
White with a smooth transition. …
additional articles in
Seattle PI,
Lewiston
Tribune,
Spokesman-Review
October
"In Our View: Supply and
Demand"
The
Columbian
October 14, 2004
Let's see now, the only
medical schools in the Northwest are the University of Washington in
Seattle, Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, and the UW in
Spokane. Spokane? Since when? … The whole effort in Spokane would be a
collaboration of the UW and Washington State University, which already
operates a nursing school in Spokane with Eastern Washington University, Gonzaga University and Whitworth College. ...
"UW weighs expanding med
school
Study to look at
feasibility of first-year program in Spokane"
Spokesman-Review,
Seattle PI
October 13, 2004
Spokane business leaders are
trying to start a new program in Spokane to teach first-year University
of Washington medical students. Backers of the idea say it's a natural
fit with Spokane's well-established health care industry and a promising
opportunity to turn teaching into medical research and perhaps novel
ideas that inspire the birth of new companies. The concept has been
kicked around for years but only recently has the idea gained traction.
…A medical school program in Spokane would be a collaboration of UW and
Washington State University. Another collaboration that may come out of
the talks is a first-year dental program with UW and Eastern Washington
University working together. ...
"Riverside may head east
City seeks federal funds to extend it past Division"
Spokesman Review
October 4, 2004
Maybe cruising Riverside will
be revived. The big problem before kids moved
their weekend party on wheels to Division Street was that Riverside was
too short. But now the city of Spokane is working to extend Riverside
Avenue east of Division Street to ease traffic pressures on Trent
Avenue, make the street more amenable to students on the Riverpoint
campus and spur economic development in the neighborhood. The initial
phase of the project would build a street from Division as far east as
the Spokane Intercollegiate Research and Technical Institute building —
about five blocks…..
"U-District should tap its
liquid assets: Stretch of river is underused, Bert Caldwell says"
Spokesman-Review
October 3, 2004
What the University District needs is a good dock. The Spokane River
above the falls at Riverfront Park may be the most under-utilized
recreational asset in the city. Except during spring runoff, the river
flows placidly from at least as far upstream as the Mission Street
Bridge all the way to Division Street. Yet those two miles or so of
water are empty except for ducks and seagulls. Not a canoe or kayak in
sight. … Higher education and economic development, of course, are the
priorities for the University District. But enhanced recreational
opportunities at the doorstep could be the icing for young professionals
Spokane must attract and keep. The investment would be minimal.
September
"Army adds funds to
brain study to learn about sleep deprivation"
Houston Chronicle
September
18, 2004
The military has given billionaire Paul Allen's brain-research
project $1.8 million to add work on sleep deprivation to its mission of
gene-mapping the mind. Rep. George Nethercutt, vice chairman of the
House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, visited the Allen Institute
for Brain Science last month to announce the grant from the Army's
medical technology program. … (Dr. Greg) Belenky, an Army colonel, is a
researcher at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, who will soon
become a Washington
State University
professor and director of sleep research at the Spokane Alliance for
Medical Research. …
"Spokane's
Convention Center expansion environmentally friendly"
The Associated Press
September 13, 2004
The Spokane Convention
Center will be going green. Its developers are working to qualify the
expanded 100,000-square-foot exhibit hall as an official "green
building." … Spokane School District 81, Avista Corp., Community
Colleges of Spokane and
Washington State
University
are among those building green projects or promoting green building
practices locally. And a coalition of local building
professionals, the Resource Efficient Building and Remodeling Council
(REBAR) recently landed a state grant to train construction-industry
people in how to build green. Green building involves more than
high-efficiency furnaces or lighting fixtures. ...
"WSU buys land in
downtown Spokane"
Spokesman-Review
September 11, 2004
By selling and buying land, Washington State University has
managed to circumvent the state funding process to procure $5.2 million
in property in downtown Spokane. In its meeting Friday, WSU's Board of Regents unanimously
approved using a pool of money in campus coffers to purchase three
parcels at the edges of the university's Riverpoint Campus next
to the Spokane
River. ...
"Too much caffeine ups
risk of kidney stones"
Sunday Network,
India;
Paktribune.com.,
Pakistan;
Medical News Today,
UK
September 6, 2004
New research suggests people who are prone to kidney stones should limit
their caffeine intake. The study author, Dr. Linda K Massey of
Washington State University, says stone sufferers should limit
themselves to less than two cups of coffee per day or a comparable
amount of caffeine from other sources. …
"Sleep research mostly
will study ‘normal’ folks
Center here will examine how restricting sleep hurts people’s
performance"
Spokane Journal of Business
September 2, 2004
Before long,
every American soldier in a battlefield situation will wear a personal
physiological status monitor that will send commanders radio telemetry
readings on the soldier’s condition. The device will provide readings on
the soldier’s heartbeat, calorie burn rate, hydration status, and sleep
status, says Dr. Greg Belenky, the new director for sleep studies at the
fledgling Spokane Alliance for Medical Research. … The alliance is a
collaboration between Spokane-based Hollister-Stier Laboratories LLC and
Inland Northwest Health Services,
Washington State
University,
the University of Washington, …
"Economic index shows
bright Spokane
outlook
WSU prof’s calculations put indicator at highest point; ‘GDP’ here grows"
Spokane Journal of Business
September 2, 2004
An index intended to show the direction in which Spokane’s economy is
headed has reached its highest point possible, providing “the strongest
and most positive interpretation of the local economic trends” since the
index was created, its author says. Called the Spokane Leading Economic
Activity Index, it was developed in 2001 by Washington State
University professor Don Epley and uses select data that
reflect the metropolitan area’s economic makeup. …
"Hospitals, nurses need
Riverpoint facility"
Spokesman-Review
September 2,
2004
Dean Dorothy
Detlor of the Intercollegiate School of Nursing wants to trade up to a
new Nursing Center on the Riverpoint Higher Education Campus, even if it
means leaving the quiet, pine-shadowed grounds of the Warren G. Magnuson
Building behind. The inside of Washington's largest nursing college is
as packed and noisy as the outside is serene. … The intercollegiate
center is a cooperative effort of Washington State University,
Eastern Washington University...
August
"Riverpoint needs
healthy medical community"
Spokesman-Review
August 29, 2004
Spokane
business and academic leaders reveled Wednesday in the start of
construction on the $33.8 million Academic Center that will anchor the
Riverpoint Higher Education Campus. When completed, said
Washington State University President Lane Rawlins, the center will be a
gateway not only for students, but for all of Spokane. The project got a
boost from the increasing cooperation among the area's institutions of
higher education and, though not directly, the University of Washington,
which did not make an issue of the substantial expenditure despite the
absence of a similar-sized project at its Seattle campus. ...
"WSU cheers centerpiece
of new district
$33.8 million Academic
Center under way, with nursing center next"
Spokesman-Review
August 26, 2004
What was
once a wasteland of railroad yards and old warehouses is fast becoming
Spokane's hope for a strong economic future. At an early morning
celebration Wednesday, Washington State University President
V. Lane Rawlins opened the door wider to plans for a University
District on the east end of downtown Spokane. At the 53-acre site along
the Spokane River
where WSU and the Spokane Intercollegiate Research and Technology
Institute already have buildings, construction crews are breaking ground
on a new Academic Center. ...
"WSU Lands Snooze Study"
KXLY-TV,
Spokane
August 19, 2004
Washington State
University's Spokane Campus has landed a multi-million dollar grant
to establish a sleep research department at the school. The Defense
Department Grant will supply three-and-a-half-million dollars, enough to
cover the program's research budget over the next four years. The school
will focus on the link between sleep and productivity in normal
sleepers, who miss a small amount of sleep each night, not on those with
sleeping disorders. Spokane Congressman George Nethercutt helped secure
the federal funding for the program, hoping it will stimulate the area's
economy.
July
"WSU Spokane adds health,
development degree programs
Former chancellor
spearheaded addition"
Spokesman-Review
July 23, 2004
Finally there's a college
degree for students who can't make up their minds. Washington State
University plans to offer a new bachelor's degree this fall in
Spokane that's designed to draw in undecided scholars. "This is a
degree that will address those students who don't want to get a business
administration degree, but they do see themselves as taking a leadership
role in their careers," said Rom Markin, former WSU Spokane chancellor,
who retired June 30. Markin helped drive the program's development. …
"IRIS' ADIR Research
Subsidiary Awarded Two New Grants from National Institutes of Health for
$846,648
Federal Funding For R&D
Projects Covering Three Years Totals $3.5 Million"
Business Wire
July 20, 2004
IRIS International, Inc.
(NASDAQ: IRIS), a manufacturer and marketer of automated IVD urinalysis
systems and medical devices used in hospitals and reference clinical
laboratories worldwide, today announced that its Advanced Digital
Imaging Research, LLC subsidiary (ADIR) has been awarded two new
research grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) totaling
$846,648. This brings to $3.5 million ADIR's total federal funding for
research and development covering the next three years. The largest of
the new awards, for $746,648, is a Phase 2 Small Business Innovative
Research (SBIR) grant related to gene research. The two-year project,
"Automated Detection of Gene Duplications or Deletions," seeks to
develop a method that can better diagnose cancer and genetic disease
using modern DNA probe techniques. ADIR will receive $396,138 during the
first year of the study from the NIH's National Institute of General
Medical Sciences (NIGMS). The study will be carried out in collaboration
with Dr. Lisa Shaffer of Washington State University at Spokane.
Dr. Fatima Merchant of ADIR is the Principal Investigator on the
project. ...
"New spunk, new mayor spur
Inland Empire's capital"
Seattle Times
July 12, 2004
Things are looking up for the
state's second- or third-largest city depending on who's counting
although it suffers from an inferiority complex. Spokane sits about 280
miles east of Seattle, a straight shot along the Interstate 90 ribbon
that traverses the Cascade Mountains, the mighty Columbia and some of
the most productive farmland in the nation. While Big Sister Seattle
rode the 1990s technology boom, Spokane retained the largely
natural-resources-based economy it has had since the area was settled
around 1810. … Add in development plans for a University District
that would integrate the city's health-care industry about 20 percent of
Spokane's economy with programs offered through Washington State
University, Eastern Washington University, Spokane's community
colleges and the Spokane Intercollegiate Research and Technology
Institute. West helped to usher through the Legislature to the
governor's signature $31.8 million for a WSU academic building at the
site. …
"Participants in Upward
Bound given taste of college life at WSU"
Moscow-Pullman Daily News
July 10, 2004
Life in the dorms at
Washington State University is a long way from life on the Colville
Indian Reservation. But that was the trip made this week by some
students enrolled in WSU's recently revived Upward Bound program. Other
students have come to Pullman from the Spokane reservation or the Yakima
area. ...
June
"WSU Spokane gets interim
chancellor
Political science
professor excited about university district"
Spokesman-Review
June 25, 2004
Washington State University
officials have appointed political science professor Nicholas Lovrich to
be the interim chancellor of WSU Spokane starting July 1. Lovrich, who
was in Spokane meeting with current interim chancellor Rom Markin on
Thursday afternoon, said he's excited about the new post and anticipates
a lot of work, since the campus and the neighborhood around it are
experiencing major development. …
"Shaping a University District
Dozens walk and talk, imagining a bustling campus area"
Spokesman-Review
Friday, June 18, 2004
People taking a University District walking tour
Saturday caught a glimpse of the other side of the tracks and discovered
that the view is phenomenal. The tour segued into a University District
community planning meeting that brought together 80 residents who
bypassed a chance to bask in the sun to sit inside Gonzaga University's
COG and brainstorm ideas for creating a viable college community. The
city of Spokane and a group of partners are working to create a
University District at Riverpoint, on Trent Avenue adjacent to Gonzaga
University. The proposed district is starting to develop and could
eventually have up to 14 buildings that integrate the city's health-care
industry with technology and programs offered through Eastern Washington
University, Washington State University, the Community Colleges of
Spokane and Spokane Intercollegiate Research and Technology Institute.
..
"More than 200 new Wash. state laws take effect Thursday"
KING5-TV,
Seattle
Thursday, June 10, 2004
Starting Thursday,
homeowners will be guaranteed the right to fly Old Glory even if
neighborhood covenants ban flagpoles. The new state law is among more
than 200 that take effect this week, including a crackdown on child
rapists, "cyberstalkers" and coaches who prey on their players. … -
BRANCH CAMPUSES. House Bill 2707 affirms the role of Washington State
University campuses at Spokane, Tri-Cities and Vancouver and University
of Washington campuses at Bothell and Tacoma. …
"Flagpole patriotism and child rapists subject to new laws starting
Thursday"
King
County Journal
June 9, 2004
Starting Thursday,
homeowners will be guaranteed the right to fly Old Glory even if
neighborhood covenants ban flagpoles. The new state law is among more
than 200 that take effect this week, including a crackdown on child
rapists, ``cyberstalkers'' and youth coaches who abuse their players. …
* Branch campuses. House Bill 2707 affirms the role of Washington State
University campuses at Spokane, Tri-Cities and Vancouver and University
of Washington campuses at Bothell and Tacoma. The legislation calls for
a study by each institution on how the campuses should develop. The bill
also says the colleges will no longer be called ``branch campuses.''
Even though they continue affiliation with the flagship institutions,
they are declared to have their own unique identity and mission.
May
"WSU set to offer a new doctorate in design studies"
Spokesman-Review
May 21, 2004
Washington State University and Harvard University now have something
in common – they are the only U.S. institutions to offer doctoral degrees
in design. On Tuesday, the Higher Education Coordinating Board approved a
doctorate in design at Washington State University Spokane's
Interdisciplinary Design
Institute....
"Med school proposal comes under scalpel
Medical Society, UW, others talk health-care education; year of classes to
be here?"
Spokane Journal of Business
May 20, 2004
...Brewster says he would like to see UW set up a medical school that
could collaborate with the planned new Intercollegiate College of Nursing
and a pharmacy school to create a medical-education complex.
"These too shall pass, but
not without some pain"
Los Angeles Times
May 10, 2004
Dr. Leslie Spry likes to tell
a story about one of his friends who thought he was a tough guy - until
the day his pal, a surgeon, ended up as a patient with a kidney stone.
"He just kept telling them to bring the morphine," says Spry, a
spokesman for the National Kidney Foundation. "He had never experienced
anything like that in his life." … All patients should drink plenty of
fluids to discourage stone growth. Guzzle eight to 10 cups of water a
day, and more if you're active, says Linda Massey, a professor of human
nutrition at Washington State University in Spokane, Wash. Also
reported in Newsday: http://www.newsday.com
"Seniors play integral role
in clinical trials here: Spokane researchers say inclusion of elderly
gives studies age diversity"
Spokane Journal of Business
May 7, 2004
Once mostly interested in
young, healthy males, clinical researchers here say seniors now play an
integral role in testing new drugs and medical devices. Spokane has a
large, fairly nontransient population of older adults, they say,
allowing the research community here to take on studies that require
participants with diverse age ranges. … Washington State University at
Spokane currently is one of 70 sites for a National Institutes of Health
study mostly involving seniors. The study is looking at the correlation
between diabetes and cardiovascular disease and is called the Action to
Control Cardiovascular Risk and Diabetes, or ACCORD, trial. Debbie
Weeks, WSU-Spokane research associate and lead coordinator here for the
trial, says that unlike studies that look for young candidates, the
researchers in the study are focusing almost exclusively on seniors who
have diabetes and signs of cardiovascular disease. …
"Economic index shows
Spokane has rebounded
WSU professor calculates
that economy here is back to where it was in 2000"
Spokane
Journal of Business
May 7, 2004
Spokane’s economy
has rebounded to nearly where it was before the swoon that began in
2001, according to the most recent Economic Activity Index compiled by
Washington State University professor Don Epley. That index estimates
growth in purchasing power in the Spokane metropolitan area by tracking
both employment and wages here. The index, Epley says, can be viewed as
an approximation of what he calls the Spokane domestic product, similar
to the U.S. Gross Domestic Product. …
"WSU halts search for new chancellor
Spokane post will be split into two positions"
Spokesman-Review
April 16, 2004
Washington State University Spokane halted its search last month
to fill the single position of WSU Spokane Chancellor/Vice Provost for
Health Sciences. Three weeks after applications were being reviewed, the
school's search committee told WSU's president that the job was too big
for one person. President V. Lane Rawlins accepted the committee's idea to
split the job into two positions, which sets back the search several
months. …
"U-District promoters optimistic
Meeting draws unusually large, positive crowd"
Spokesman-Review
April 1, 2004
The
University District planning process blasted off Wednesday night
and as these types of gatherings go, this one was unusual, said veterans
of the process. First off, nearly 300 people came to contribute their
ideas and everyone was positive. … Business and property owners came, as
did college students, two state legislators, City Council members, two
dozen business owners, neighborhood representatives and college officials
from Eastern Washington University, Washington State University and
Community Colleges of Spokane. …
"Workshop to visualize University District
Riverpoint seen as anchor for future commercial area"
Spokesman-Review
March 28, 2004
Higher education officials have plans to bring more students to the
Riverpoint Higher Education campus near downtown Spokane. Surrounding the
campus, civic and business leaders envision a thriving business district
of shops and apartments. Now the city of Spokane is asking the general
public for their ideas in shaping the vision of a Spokane
University District. …
"All branch campuses to look at expansion"
The
Columbian
March 24, 2004
Each of the state's branch campuses, not just Washington State
University Vancouver, will study whether to become a four-year school
under legislation signed this week by Gov. Gary Locke. A ballyhooed
$90,000 study focused only on WSU Vancouver evaporated weeks ago. Instead,
the Legislature ordered branch campuses in Bothell, Tacoma, Tri-Cities,
Spokane and Vancouver to conduct studies on how to expand. The
legislation does not come with money. …
"Campuses may seek independence"
Branches of UW and WSU, including one in Vancouver, will study sprouting
into four-year institutions
The Oregonian
Mar. 24, 2004
Washington State University's Spokane campus is about to
graduate from branch-campus status, and four other branches -- including
Vancouver -- may propose expanding to full four-year university status. A
higher education study was among the stack of bills signed this week by
Gov. Gary Locke. "Our branch campuses are going to get to tell us what
they want to be when they grow up," the governor said as he signed
legislation authorizing a self-study by the branch campuses in Spokane,
Tri-Cities, Vancouver, Tacoma and Bothell. …
"Locke has way with names"
Seattle Times
March 20, 2004
Two Democratic candidates got a nice boost this week from Gov. Gary
Locke, who used his taxpayer-funded PR operation to snap back at
Republicans he thought were hogging the glory. Maybe Locke is starting to
feel his partisan oats in the waning days of an administration that strove
to be so nonpartisan his toughest critics were often fellow Democrats.
Locke issued a press release Wednesday to announce his "intention" not to
veto $31.6 million appropriated for a downtown Spokane campus for
Washington State University. …
"Locke supports WSU branch funds"
Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce
March 19, 2004
Gov. Gary Locke has reversed himself and agreed to support full funding
for a new building on Washington State University's branch campus in
downtown Spokane. When he signs the state construction budget, Locke will
include $31.6 million authorized by the Legislature to build a combination
library, classroom and office building on the Riverpoint campus downtown.
…
"Locke to OK $31.6 million for Riverpoint"
Spokane Spokesman-Review
March 18, 2004
Ending a week of nervous local speculation, Gov. Gary Locke said
Wednesday that he'll approve $31.6million in state construction money for
a new Washington State University building in downtown Spokane. The
Democratic governor credited three Spokane people -- all of them Democrats
running for political office this year -- with convincing him not to veto
the money. "Sen. (Lisa) Brown, Don Barbieri and Laurie Dolan made
excellent points about the impact on the local area and importance of the
Riverpoint campus to Spokane," Locke said in a press release. He spoke to
the three during a telephone conference call Tuesday, and named each three
times in his press release the following day. …
"Governor decides to support new building"
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
March 17, 2004
Gov. Gary Locke has reversed himself and agreed to support full funding
for a new building on Washington State University's branch campus in
downtown Spokane. When he signs the state construction budget, Locke will
include $31.6 million authorized by the Legislature to build a combination
library, classroom and office building on the Riverpoint campus downtown.
…
"WSU pharmacy students
reach out"
Spokesman-Review
March 9, 2004
They've screened for potential
stroke victims at Nordstrom. They've provided more than 1,000 doses of flu
vaccine in Spokane. Now they're doing free screening for diabetes today
and Thursday at Jones Pharmacy, 906 S. Monroe. Washington State University
Spokane third-year pharmacy students have vowed to do as much outreach
work as possible in Spokane, says Heidemarie Windham. …
"WSU hires drug-abuse treatment researcher"
Spokesman-Review
Feb. 28, 2004
Washington State University Spokane has hired an
experienced drug-abuse treatment researcher, WSU graduate John Roll. Roll
is a recent director of behavioral pharmacology at UCLA, according to a
WSU media release published on the Web Friday. His new job is associate
director of substance abuse at the Washington Institute for Mental Illness
Research and Training at WSU Spokane. …
"Colleges to get bulk of building funds
Many local projects left out of state budget"
Spokesman-Review
Feb. 28, 2004
OLYMPIA _ Unless you're a college, it seems, 2004 isn't a good year to ask
state lawmakers for construction dollars. The state Senate released its
2004 supplemental construction budget Friday, and none of the Spokane-area
community projects that had vied for state cash were on the list. … Both
budgets allocate $31.6million for an academic center at Washington
State University's Riverpoint campus in Spokane. Both include
$3.4million for a wastewater reclamation system at WSU in Pullman, and
$8.1million to renovate Eastern Washington University's old Senior Hall,
which houses EWU's school of social work. The Senate budget proposes an
extra $2million for work on WSU's data network. …
"House Democrats trim construction budget"
Longview
Daily News
Feb. 25, 2004
The House Democrats' proposed construction budget trims $47
million from Gov. Gary Locke's proposal, mostly by dropping a proposed new
prison. The Senate version of the budget is expected to delete the prison
as well. Locke had asked for $46 million to accelerate expansion of the
Coyote Ridge prison at Connell in Benton County. … Colleges and
universities typically get the majority of the construction budget, and Dunshee's plan is actually slightly larger than Locke's in that area --
about $103 million in bonds. However, in an unusual move, he shifted
roughly $18 million from the University of Washington to Washington
State University. Most of that money would help plow $31.6 million
into WSU's Riverpoint academic building in Spokane. …
"Spokane a model for job growth"
Spokesman-Review
Feb. 22, 2004
Make no mistake, Tuesday's visit by three Bush Administration cabinet
members was the start of a five-city political road show intended to
reinforce the president's message that the economy is recovering, and to
boost the senatorial campaign of Rep. George Nethercutt against incumbent
Democrat Patty Murray. To travel with them for even half a day was to hear
the same sound bites, the same statistics, repeated as if a chant. But in
remarks at the Spokane Intercollegiate Research and Technology Institute,
and later on the bus trip to Richland, Department of Commerce Secretary
Don Evans and Treasury Secretary John Snow set aside the script, and made
some interesting comments about how economic growth will be fostered in
the 21st Century, as opposed to the 20th. And SIRTI, Evans said, could be
the shape of things to come. …
"WSU lab to put science theory to use in real
world
Research center aims to aid public, private sectors"
Seattle
PI
Feb. 17, 2004
To accelerate a projectile to 9,000 mph and smash it into another object,
watch the impact and take measurements while it's happening requires
training, planning and expensive equipment. To make money on such an
experiment requires entrepreneurship. Those are the sorts of
challenges Washington State University is taking on with the new Applied
Science Laboratory. ...
"Startup receives a big hand"
Spokesman-Review
Feb 10, 2004
A Spokane startup company created by two area researchers will
offer cutting-edge genetic diagnoses using specialized DNA testing.
The company, Signature Genomics Laboratories, was founded by Dr. Bassem
Bejjani and Lisa Shaffer, who holds a doctoral degree in microbiology.
Both are researchers at Washington State University Spokane.
"WSU research lab thriving
Riverpoint Campus brings key scientists and important projects to
Spokane"
Spokesman-Review
Feb. 9, 2004
The future's looking bright at Washington State University
Spokane. After years of modest development, WSU Spokane is nearing
what administrators call critical mass. The Riverpoint Higher Education
Campus seems poised to become the thriving college center and research
facility that community leaders have long desired....
"Science takes big step forward"
Spokesman-Review
Feb. 3, 2004
Creation of an Applied Science Laboratory in Spokane will be the most
exciting development so far toward realizing the vision of a University
District around the Riverpoint Campus. With a $6.5 million federal
appropriation arranged by Rep. George Nethercutt, a team pulled together
by leading Washington State University researcher Yogendra
"Yogi" Gupta will pursue studies in material and optical
sciences. ...
"Campus plan a step in right direction"
Spokesman-Review
Feb. 3, 2004
Legislative backing for Spokane-area needs is elusive under any
circumstances. It's only made matters worse when the community's
representatives have been at cross purposes. Lack of a common vision,
forcefully articulated, has doomed many a Spokane initiative when it
arrived before the Western Washington-dominated House and Senate.
"Come back when you have your act together," goes the refrain.…
The center, which Washington State University put in its budget proposal
at the request of the Spokane Regional Chamber of Commerce, would house a
library, classrooms and offices. With the library facility, WSU will be in
a position to open a downtown Nursing Center in Spokane. Not only will
such a facility be strategically close to the hospitals and other
facilities in Spokane's important health-care industry, it will expand the
regional capacity to train desperately needed nurses. …
"WSU gets grant for Spokane lab"
Seattle Daily Journal
of Commerce
Feb. 2, 2004
Washington State University announced the extension of its Institute for
Shock Physics to Spokane. WSU has gotten a $6.5 million grant from the
Office of Naval Research to support research in the new Applied Sciences
Laboratory, which has operations in Spokane and Pullman. The work involves
understanding how solids and liquids behave under very large and rapid
compression. …
"WSU Spokane to Expand"
KXLY News 4
Washington State University's World Class Institute of Shock Physics will
extend its mission to Spokane.
WSU Spokane will be the site of new applied sciences laboratory at
Riverpoint. The Institute conducts research in shock-wave, and
high-pressure compression of matter.
"WSU gets grant for lab in Spokane"
Spokesman
Review
Jan. 31, 2004
Plans to help Spokane's struggling economy got a $6.5 million boost Friday
when Washington State University officials unveiled a proposal for an
applied research center downtown. The money, set aside in the 2004 defense
budget by Rep. George Nethercutt, R-Spokane, will launch the research
center at WSU Spokane. Spokane civic leaders, on hand for the
announcement, said the center will be key to turning downtown Spokane into
a center for innovation and groundbreaking research. …
"WSU institute expanding to Spokane campus"
KING
5 News
Jan. 30, 2004
Washington State University will extend its internationally recognized
Institute for Shock Physics to Spokane. A $6.5 million grant from
the Office of Naval Research will support research to be conducted under
the auspices of the new Applied Sciences Laboratory, with operations in
Spokane and Pullman. ...
"WSU bashes branch campus bill"
Tri-City
Herald
Jan. 28, 2004
Washington State University blasted a plan Tuesday that it believes would
force the elimination of some programs at its branch campuses while
preventing some new graduate programs from getting off the ground.
"We cannot support this bill as drafted," WSU lobbyist Larry
Ganders told the House Higher Education Committee. "It simply must be
changed." House Bill 2707, sponsored by committee Chairwoman Phyllis
Kenney, D-Seattle, attempts to limit the research activities at branch
campuses and shift focus to providing courses in high-demand undergraduate
fields while boosting collaboration with community colleges. …
"Universities reach agreement to govern Riverpoint
campus"
Spokesman-Review
Jan. 24, 2004
A key piece needed to create a thriving Riverpoint campus in downtown
Spokane fell into place this week. Eastern Washington University and
Washington State University, which share the Riverpoint campus near
Gonzaga University, agreed Thursday on how they will govern it. As part of
the deal, members of both universities will serve on a decision-making
board, a move that grants Eastern additional clout in shaping the campus.
It also means Eastern will close its downtown building, and consolidate
operations at Riverpoint. …
"Branch campus research missions in doubt"
Tri-City
Herald
Jan. 23, 2004
The chairwoman of the state House Higher Education Committee has
introduced a plan that could curtail research missions at university
branch campuses. The proposal comes as Washington State University
Tri-Cities is looking to expand its offerings at its Richland campus and
team with Pasco's Columbia Basin College to produce the equivalent of a
four-year baccalaureate school. …
"Students find beauty along mundane highway"
Daily
Evergreen
Jan. 21, 2004
Generations of Washington State University students know it as the Vantage
Cutoff; the final two hour segment of a long trip to Pullman from the
state's west side. But to Paul Hirzel's graduate architecture students,
State Route 26 is a 133-mile-long museum of the diverse geology, biology
and cultural history of Eastern Washington. A four month exhibit
celebrating the highway between Vantage on the Columbia River and Colfax
on the Palouse opens this weekend at Spokane's Northwest Museum of Arts
and Culture. …
"Efforts launched to help builders, others ‘go
green’"
Journal
of Business
Jan. 15, 2004
In Seattle, all city-funded buildings with more than 5,000 square feet of
space have to be built “green,” meaning they must meet certain
standards for energy efficiency and resource conservation. A bill
introduced in the Washington Legislature last year would have extended
that criteria statewide. … The group is eyeing for that purpose a mostly
unused brick building on Division Street owned by Washington State
University at Spokane that at one time housed the Spokane Farmer’s
Market. Discussions are in the early stages, however, and the group hasn’t
yet approached WSU-Spokane about using the building, which is just north
of the railroad viaduct, Wavada says. …
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