May 12 - 18
Now through May 31
Healthiest State Campaign Thaws Winter Chill with Hot Spring
Challenge
2008 Spring Training Challenge
Our long winter hibernation is finally over. Spring is here at
last! How do we know? Trees are blooming, baseball is back and
the Healthiest State Campaign’s Spring Training Challenge
runs through May 31. Get ready to log your healthy activity
on the innovative trackers available through the Healthiest
State Campaign’s newly redesigned website at
www.HealthiestState.org.
Log-on and track physical activity, nutrition goals, track
weight and other health indicators such as sleep, water intake,
oral health and tobacco cessation. Questions? Contact Heather
Pitre at the Washington Health Foundation at 206-438-6113 or
HeatherP@whf.org.
May 12-16
Bike to Work Week
Work to eat. Eat to live. Live to bike. Bike to work.
Support the Riverpoint Commute Trip Reduction group and the
Spokane Community during Bike to Work Week. Lower your stress,
improve your health, burn calories, not carbon, wave at the gas
prices as you coast by, and enjoy your trip to work--what could
be easier? Log on at
www.biketoworkspokane.org and register. As a participant,
you pledge to bike to work, school, or errands the week of May
12-16. If you're one of the first 300 to register, receive a
cool T-shirt and other stuff at one of our events: the kickoff
riders' breakfast at Riverfront Park Monday, May 12, 7-9 a.m.,
or the wrap-up party at the Steam Plant Grill Friday, May 16,
4:30-6:30 p.m. In between, you can bike to work with your kids
on May 14; Spokane Public Schools is encouraging kids in the
elementary schools to participate. At the wrap-up party, we'll
also give away prizes to registered participants (must be
present to win), including a way-cool foldable commuter bike
donated by REI.
Tuesday, May 13
Searching for a Local Response to the Trafficking of Human
Beings
Hundreds of thousands of women and children are sold into slavery
around the world every year to work in sweatshops and brothels.
They are promised a better life only to become victims of brutal
assaults and degrading conditions. After being transported
through our borders, hundreds are victimized in our region.
Learn how to help put a stop to Human Trafficking on Tuesday,
May 13 from noon to 3 p.m. at the Central United Methodist
Church at 518 W. 3rd, Spokane. A free luncheon is
included. Register and gather more information at
www.wricops.org or call 509-358-7949. You may also register
at the door.
Riverpoint Weight Watchers
Watch for the Riverpoint Weight Watchers' lighter, springier steps
around campus this week. Collectively, this group lost 27.6
pounds in the week between April 29 and May 6! Visualize about
27 and a half pounds of butter, then figure as an average that
each participant would have lost about 7 cubes worth! It's
impressive. And you can still join the group that will meet each
Tuesday at noon until August 19. Contact Susan, 358-2234, for
information.
Friday, May 16
Spokane
Science & Technology Discovery Series
Human Patient Simulation Project
The Spokane Science & Technology Discovery Series is a program
of the Technology Alliance and the Northwest Association for
Biomedical Research. Join Suzan Kardong-Edgren from the College
of Nursing at Washington State University as she discusses how
human patient simulation is helping to educated and train
nursing students. Discovery Series presentations begin at 8:00
am and open with a buffet breakfast at 7:30 am at the Spokane
Athletic Club. Cost of regular membership for the series is
$250, and the presentations are held on the third Friday of each
month. If you would like more information about the Spokane
Science & Technology Discovery Series, please visit
http://www.technology-alliance.com/strt/spokane.html,
or contact
Laurie Hassell
at 206-465-4691.This series is sponsored in part by
Washington State University.
SAVE THE DATE
Tuesday, May 20
TCA-NPAC
MOVIE MEETING
You are invited to
join your Community Assembly Neighborhood Planning Action
Committee (CA-NPAC) for movies that matter. By popular demand,
two movies suggested by Professor Bob Scarfo of WSU Spokane’s
Interdisciplinary Design Institute will be shown to help educate
us on what other communities have done by a few individuals and
a lot of dedication to their community. The Power of Community
documents what happened in Cuba when the Russians pulled out and
Cuba’s oil supply dropped by 80% overnight. Join us from
6:15-8:30 p.m. on the Riverpoint Campus in the Academic Center
room 147 at 600 North Riverpoint Blvd. This event is free and
open to the public and is hosted by the Interdisciplinary Design
Institute. For more information or for accommodations, please
contact
Bob Scarfo at 509-358-7913 or
Luke Tolley at 509-475-3509.
Event parking is available at the meters in the green parking
lots, in the Pay and Display lot located just off of Spokane
Falls Boulevard to the west of the South Campus Facility, or by
purchasing a permit through Parking Operations in the South
Campus Facility behind the Bookie at 412 E. Spokane Falls Blvd.
A map to help guide you to your campus location can be viewed or
printed at the following link:
http://www.spokane.wsu.edu/campusresources/Facilities/documents/CampusMap2006.pdf.
Thursday, May 22
Annual North Idaho Aging Conference to Explore Pathways to
Financial Health
A one-day conference designed for a wide range of healthcare
providers, agency personnel and seniors will be held May 22 at
North Idaho College, Edminster Student Union Building. The
conference is presented by the Area Agency on Aging of North
Idaho.
Registration is required for the one-day conference, which
includes lunch. The registration fee is $100, or $20 for
seniors age 60 and over. For all registration information,
contact the Area Agency on Aging of North Idaho, 208 667-3179,
800 786-5536 or
www.aaani.org.
WWAMI
Science in Medicine Lecture:
Wnt Signaling in Regeneration and Regenerative Medicine
Dr. Randall T. Moon, professor of the
University of Washington department of pharmacology and Howard
Hughes Medical Institute, and director and William and Marilyn
Conner Professor for the Institute for Stem Cell and
Regenerative Medicine will be the featured speaker for the WWAMI
Science in Medicine Lecture on Thursday, May 22 from noon to 1
p.m.
This lecture will be video televised from the University of
Washington to the Riverpoint Campus Phase I Classroom Building
auditorium (room 122) from noon to 1:00 p.m. If you have any
questions, please contact
Dr. Ken Roberts at (509) 358-7516.
Friday, May 23
"Sleep - Too Much, Too Little: Consequences with a Real World
Perspective"
Washington State University Spokane's Sleep and Performance
Research Center will host Dr. Clare Anderson, Ph.D., an
established sleep researcher from Loughborough University in the
U.K. On Friday, May 23, she will deliver a free presentation to
the campus community and the general public on the consequences
of getting too much or too little sleep. Join us from
12:30-1:30 p.m. on the Riverpoint Campus in the Academic Center
room 345.
Event parking is available at the meters in the green parking
lots, in the Pay and Display lot located just off of Spokane
Falls Boulevard to the west of the South Campus Facility, or by
purchasing a permit through Parking Operations in the South
Campus Facility behind the Bookie at 412 E. Spokane Falls Blvd.
A map to help guide you to your campus location can be viewed or
printed at the following link:
http://www.spokane.wsu.edu/campusresources/Facilities/documents/CampusMap2006.pdf
.
Friday, May 30
Registration Deadline
Riverpoint CTR June Promotion
Your Riverpoint Commute Trip Reduction Committee has a promotion
going on in the month of June! Register by Friday, May 30 for
your chance to win a 2GB MP3 Player. All you have to do is use a
Commute Alternative at LEAST 4 times in the month of June. The
drawing will be held 2nd week of July. Fill out your
commute trip calendar at
www.mycommute.org by July 3, 2008. Please contact any of
your CTR representatives with any questions on how to get
started;
Cy Parker,
Teresa Kruger,
Susan Lopez,
Rose Morgan,
Terri Rothwell or
Kristie Wardrop.
Friday, June 13
Deadline
to Register
WSU Spokane CityLab Young Women’s Summer Science Camp:
The Secrets of CSI
We're
offering an exciting, CSI-themed science camp this summer at the
Riverpoint Campus for girls entering the sixth to eighth grades.
Get on your super sleuth's hat and get ready to solve the crime
of the year! All 6th, 7th, and 8th grade girls are invited to
register now for June 23-27 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day. The
registration fee is $150.00 which includes
lab materials, a T-shirt, a day trip to WSU Pullman, and an
afternoon climbing at Wild Walls. For
more information visit us online at
http://www.spokane.wsu.edu/ResearchOutreach/CityLab/camps.asp.
To register or ask questions about
this camp, please contact Sylvia Oliver at
olivers@wsu.edu or 509-358-7635. The deadline for
registration is June 13, 2008 or until filled to capacity.
Thursday, June 19
All Animals - All Disasters
Free Training Opportunity
Join the Illinois Regional Institute for Community Policing &
the American Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) & the Western Regional Institute for
Community Oriented Public Safety on June 19 for a free training
opportunity. Presenters Matthew Martyn, Charlene Moe, and
Commander Mark Bridges will address specific fundamental
concepts and skills associated in developing a coordinated local
response that will help alleviate the panic of crisis and
minimize the consequences of disasters that affect animal
populations and human populations in order to return the
jurisdiction to normal as quickly as possible following a major
disaster or incident. This training session will take place on
the Riverpoint Campus in the Academic Center room 241 from 8:30
a.m. to 4:30 p.m.To register for this FREE training opportunity,
please complete the attached registration form and fax it to
509-358-7933 or contact Mr. Larry Gutierrez, Training
Coordinator by telephone at 509-358-7949 or by e-mail at
gutierrez@wsu.edu.
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