WSU Spokane Campus Bulletin
Issue 2004-11 (June 2, 2004)
IN THIS ISSUE
Commencement 2004
 Another
successful WSU Spokane Commencement took place May 7, complete with
"Pomp & Circumstance," Pres. Rawlins and Butch, the
alma mater and the fight song.
Around 150 people attended the morning brunch, hosted by ASWSU
Spokane.
In the afternoon, the sun shone, the new system of having
faculty presenters march and sit with their programs worked well,
and the ceremony finished at 3:45 p.m.—15 minutes before the
Opera House requires that we be done so they can set up for that
evening's Spokane Symphony performance.
Many, many thanks to the volunteers who make it all possible for
the event to run so smoothly: 
Alumni Volunteers: Rian Emmerson, Lori Olson, Doris
Cleveland
Staff Volunteers: Jill Royston, Bettie Rundlett, Dori
Roberts, Lorri Bays, Jeannie Norton, Kristie Wardrop, Kenny
Bisagno, Kiley Schenk, Lonny Waddle, Debra Myhre, Pam Medley, Diane
Davis, Steve Meltzer, Vivian Knapp, Teresa Kruger, Doug Stephens,
Gretchen Eaker, Pat Rossini, Diane Wick, Linda Edwardson, Karen
Erp, Jeanie Wolf, Lisa Martin, Jane Kinkel, Marlene Spencer, Joyce
Harbison, Kathy Bridwell, Nancy Oberst, Renae Richter, Susan Lyons,
Tami Kelley, Debbie Holdren, Julie Shapori, Jeanne Wagner, Rick
Clapp, Dana Lohrey, Lorna Walsh.
The traditional Commencement scrapbook is available online:
http://www.spokane.wsu.edu/studentservices/commencement/commencement2004.html
Commencement news release: Washington State
University to Honor 337 Graduates in Spokane Ceremonies (May 5,
2004)
Kristie Wardrop receives first-ever Staff
Recognition Award from students 
Each year ASWSU Spokane presents a “students'
choice” faculty Excellence in Teaching Award. This year's
recipient was Winsor Schmidt, Health Policy and Administration (see
article in May 12 Campus Bulletin).
This year for the first time ever, students also nominated a
staff member for her “willingness to drop whatever she is
doing to help students.”
Kristie Wardrop, program assistant in the
Interdisciplinary Design
Institute, serves as a resource to all students in the Phase 1
Building. “If I ever have a question about anything in the
computer lab, studio, or the IDI, she always gives the right
answer. And I don't think that I have ever see her without a
smile on her face,” said a student in nominating her.
Wardrop began working at WSU Spokane four years ago as a
clerical assistant for senior associate dean Jo Ann Asher
Thompson prior to moving to her current position.
WSU
researcher finds emergency care access barriers in national
study
A team of researchers led by a Washington State University
health policy researcher has identified delays and access problems
for emergency medical care affecting almost 3 million Americans.
The findings of Jae Kennedy, associate
professor of health policy
and administrationat Washington State University Spokane, are
being published in the May 2004 issue of Annals of Emergency
Medicine. Annals is the peer-reviewed journal of the American
College of Emergency Physicians, a national medical specialty
organization with nearly 23,000 members.
“Emergency Departments are the front line of the American
health care system, and problems in this area reverberate
throughout that system,” says Kennedy. “Our federal
policy objective of eliminating access barriers to emergency care
is laudable, but many hospital emergency departments struggle with
growing demand from the poor and uninsured.”
Read more in the news release online: WSU Researcher
Finds Emergency Care Access Barriers in National Study (May 7,
2004)
Youth
depression and drug prescriptions on the rise, WSU researcher
finds
David Sclar, Ph.D., Boeing Distinguished
Professor of Health Policy, Department of Health Policy and
Administration, was cited as the featured researcher in a May 5,
2004 article in the Wall Street Journal (p. D2), "Diagnoses of
Youth Depression, Drug Prescriptions Rise Sharply."
Statistics presented by Dr. Sclar at the American Psychiatric
Association meeting in New York demonstrate that "The rate of
diagnosis of depression in children and adolescents more than
doubled from the early 1990s to 2001, and the rate of
antidepressant prescription for them more than tripled. . .
[D]iagnoses of depression in children five to 18 years old rose to
31.1 per 1,000 office visits [in the 1998 through 2001 period] from
12.9 diagnoses per 1,000 office visits in the first four year
period [1990 through 1993]."
Selected media coverage of the research includes:
Doctor of
Design approved
Washington State University joins Harvard University to become
only the second university in the nation to offer the
Doctor of Design (DDes) degree. May 20, WSU
Spokane received word that its Doctor of Design degree had been
approved by the Higher Education Coordinating Board.
The DDes degree, to be offered by the program in
interdisciplinary design at WSU Spokane, will be the only one of
its kind in Washington State, the Western United States and Canada.
The only other DDes in the nation, offered at Harvard University,
accepts only 4 students of the 80 or so who apply each year. The
degree is available at both the Spokane and Pullman campuses.
A number of factors drive demand for doctoral education in
design, including strong growth in the design and planning
professions that drives enrollment in programs, and increased
demand for graduates with doctoral degrees for teaching positions
to meet that demand.
The DDes program at Washington State University is intended to
advance both the “art” and “science” of
design within the philosophical and pedagogical framework of
interdisciplinary inquiry, critical synthesis, and
problem-solving.
It is intended for persons who are well-versed and
professionally advanced in a design profession and who seek to make
collaborative, original contributions to, and critical assessments
and synthesis of their fields and the ecological, cultural and
physical contexts within which they function.
The unique features of the program involve its genuine
interdisciplinary focus, a design focus, and critical inquiry
within the context of the Inland Northwest. Interdisciplinarity
will not only involve inter-professional collaborations (such as
planning, landscape architecture, architecture, and interior
design), but will also include truly interdisciplinary interactions
(such as natural science, social science, and philosophy).
The DDes shares important similarities with the PhD, but has
distinct learning outcomes. Like the PhD, the DDes requires the
same degree of rigor and is research-oriented. In addition, the
DDes emphasizes the unique and original contribution to the field
of design as explored through particular disciplines.
The main distinction between the two degrees is that the DDes
will emphasize philosophical, theoretical, and pragmatic issues in
translating knowledge into action. Consequently, it will have
components of application and professional practice and emphasizes
design as either an outcome or a methodology.
For more information, see the Interdisciplinary Design Institute
Web site. Those interested in applying to the program should
contact Jaime Rice, Academic Coordinator, jlrice@wsu.edu, (509)
358-7945.
Personal
holiday reminder
Administrative/Professional employees and 12-month faculty who
receive annual leave must take their Personal Holiday by June 30,
2004 or lose it.
Classified staff personal holidays are calculated on the
calendar year, not the fiscal year, so you have until Dec. 31,
2004.
To check on your Personal Holiday, please contact Gretchen
Eaker, eakerg@wsu.edu, 8-7559.
The economic impact of health care
in Spokane County
A report on the economic impact of health care was released
Monday, May 24, at a health care forum held by the Spokane Regional
Chamber of Commerce that was sponsored in part by WSU Spokane.
Conducted by David Bunting, PhD and D. Patrick Jones, PhD, of
the EWU Institute for Public Policy and Economic Analysis, the
study, based on a standard input-output model, found that health
care is far more important to the Spokane County economy than to
any other county in Washington or the state as a whole.
In Spokane County, data for 2001 (the latest year data are
available) indicate that the output of the health care sector was
$2.6 billion, almost 12 percent of total county output of $21.6
billion and more than twice that of the next leading industry,
wholesale trade. Direct employment was 29,300, almost 12 percent of
the country labor force of 252,000 and 60 percent larger than that
of State and Local Education, the second leading employer. Finally,
direct health care employment income was $1.2 billion, 14 percent
of total county income of $8.2 billion, and 70 percent larger than
the next industry.
Executive
Summary online
Personnel &
staffing changes
Coming
Jane Rudd, Program Assistant (Scheduling),
Student Services, effective 5/24/04
Hesheng Liu, Research Associate, Computer
Engineering, effective 5/26/04
Tracey Rice, Upward Bound Academic Coordinator,
Student Services, effective 6/9/04
Dodi Rode, Assistant Director, Small Business
Development Center, effective 6/9/04
Patricia Krafft, MSN, ARNP, CDE, research
coordinator, ACCORD research team, Pharmacotherapy
Going
Dennis Clifton, pharmacotherapy, effective
5/31/04
Joanna Ellington, HREC, effective 4/30/04
Community
connections
Pharmacy students screen kids at
Wellpinit
In mid-May 10 WSU College of Pharmacy students participated in a
diabetes screening event at Wellpinit, WA. On the first day alone,
they screened approximately 60 children.
Children age 10 years and older were encouraged to participate
in the event, which included measurement of blood pressure, blood
glucose, height/weight and some brief health questions. In addition
to the screening, two men from the local area who have diabetes
talked to the students about their disease and the importance of
maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Butch made an appearance and was a
BIG hit with the kids!
This activity was organized by student Heidemarie
Windham, professor John White, and a
colleague from the Wellpinit Indian Health Services Clinic. The
Institutional Review Board approved this activity, and Windham
plans to evaluate the data in hopes of publication.
Spokane
River Gorge Community Workshop June 7
When: Monday, June 7, 2004, 6-9 p.m.
Where: Masonic Temple, 1108 West Riverside Avenue, river view
Falls Room
Friends of the Falls online: www.friendsofthefalls.org
In a continuing public design process, begun four years ago by
Friends of Falls (FOF), the Great Spokane River Gorge Strategic
Master Plan (SMP) project will host a community workshop open to
the public.
The purpose is to capture increasingly specific input into the
Spokane River Gorge SMP, a process working toward defining short,
medium and long range projects and programs for the Spokane River
Gorge area between Spokane Falls and the river confluence at
Hangman Creek.
Following additional review and refinement, a final report and
draft plan is targeted for presentation to a combined City Council
and Spokane Parks Board meeting later in 2004. That report will
describe in words and graphics a detailed set of actions, along
with an implementation plan. Linked within the plan will be
reviews, commentary and specific recommendations regarding land
use, transportation, planning guidelines, culture, trails, signage,
access opportunities, habitat restoration--all in anticipation of
deliberations by the Park Board and City Council about plan
adoption and implementation.
Under contract with FOF, the workshop and plan development
process is being managed by local consulting architect Sue Lani
Madsen and a regional team of master planning professionals
including landscape architect Mike Terrell and the engineering firm
Thomas, Dean & Hoskins, both of Spokane. They are working in
association with Berkley, California-based Moore Iacofano Goltsman
(MIG), Inc., a strategic planning firm with extensive experience in
Spokane. The combined consultant team was selected in April
following an extensive national search.
Students at the Interdisciplinary Design
Institute created conceptual work on the Great Gorge Park in
the 2002 Annual Community Design & Construction Charrette.
Read more online: Sixth Annual
Design Charrette Focuses on the ‘Great Gorge Park'
(Aug. 20, 2002)
Public Design Charrette June 19
to Give Shape to University District Vision
The second of several planned University District Community
Workshops will be held Saturday, June 19, from 9 a.m.-3 p.m., at
Gonzaga University in the COG.
This design charrette follows up on the first community
workshop, held March 31. Attended by close to 300 citizens, that
workshop identified a number of key elements and core values to be
addressed as design and development concepts are developed for the
University District area.
At the June 19 charrette, citizens will be able to view a
variety of detailed maps that describe existing conditions in the
area that centers on the Riverpoint and Gonzaga campuses, from
roads and pedestrian access to environmental conditions and
possible historic structures. Also available will be information on
existing economic conditions such as business growth in the area,
and projected demand for new services, housing, and other
amenities.
This will be an interactive workshop where community members
will be asked to take these conditions into consideration as they
help identify opportunity sites where targeted development could
anchor future growth in the area and provide services needed by
university students, staff, and faculty, and people in the
surrounding neighborhoods and districts.
The input from citizens received at this charrette will serve as
the basis for the next phase of concept development, which will be
presented at a future workshop.
The COG is located at 710 E. Desmet, just east of the Crosby
Student Center. Attendees are asked to park in the main Admin
Building parking lot, which is accessible from Sharp and
Addison.
The workshop agenda will include a short lunch break. A
buffet-style lunch will be available at $5.89 per person, including
coffee, tea or fountain drinks. Other beverages are available at an
additional charge. Attendees may also choose to patronize nearby
dining establishments or brown bag it.
More information on the University District concept is available
at the City of Spokane Economic Development Office Web site for the
project: www.spokaneuniversitydistrict.info.
Way to go!
Bill Harris and Joel Lohr
deserve a big THANK YOU! for all the extra effort provided in
setting up the new Shock Physics lab. Hergen
Eilers particularly appreciated their good, quick work,
which will help him get his research going. (from Jon
Schad, facilities operations, and Eilers, Applied Sciences
Lab).
Chris Blodgett has volunteered his time and
expertise -- for the price of a Diet Pepsi or two --to assist the
eastern Washington Area
Health Education Center staff in interpreting and organizing
the huge amount of data gathered last summer during interviews with
all of the 102 Medicare certified Rural Health Clinics in
Washington State.
This project, sponsored by DOH's Office of Community and
Rural Health through a grant from the Federal Office of Rural
Health Policy, has garnered a great deal of attention both
statewide and nationally. The AHEC staff have given presentations
at the NW Regional Rural Health Conference and the Annual Meeting
of the Washington Rural Health Clinic Association and will be
presenting findings at the National Rural Health Association in a
presentation the last week in May. In June, they will be giving an
in-depth presentation to Washington State Department of Health
staff, the Medicaid (MAA) staff of DSHS, the Governor's Office,
the regional CMS staff and others in Olympia.
“We would not be able to do any of this nearly as well or
with as valid an analysis of data without Chris's wonderful
assistance and guidance. His wizardly work with SPSS is awesome to
see! We at the Eastern Washington Area Health Education thank and
salute him!” (from Steve Meltzer and all the
AHEC gang)
Send your “Way to Go!” comments to Deanna Vannice,
vannice@wsu.edu, and watch for
your thanks to be published in an upcoming issue of the
Campus Bulletin!
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