A soon-to-be-graduate of the Nutrition and Exercise Physiology program at WSU Spokane is off to Fort Bragg, the Army base in North Carolina.
But Callie Roseland (pictured), won’t be one of the more than 50,000 active duty military personnel. She’ll be keeping them healthy.
Ashley Bezotte (left), a student in the Health Policy and Administration (HPA) department at WSU Spokane, was one of 15 students accepted into the Administrative Summer Internship Program at Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU).
Bezotte was one of 200 that applied for 15 spots. She’ll work in the Operations Compliance department at the OHSU clinic.
WSU Spokane Chancellor Daryll DeWald handed out the Chancellor’s Awards for Leadership and Engagement yesterday, honoring students, staff and faculty who advance leadership and engagement on campus and in the community.
WSU Spokane Chancellor Dr. Daryll DeWald hosted his first Chancellor’s Update to provide information on what’s happening at WSU Health Sciences Spokane.
By Lorraine Nelson, WSU Spokane Communications
What if you were promoted at work over someone who had been there longer and was qualified, but who had been laboring at a more menial job and who did not enjoy the same rapport with the boss?
Would you feel squeamish about accepting the job?
That happened to Jonathan Potter many years ago when he was a young librarian, and he recounts that experience in an academic paper published in the peer-reviewed International Journal of Servant Leadership.
By Lorraine Nelson, WSU Spokane Communications
The job of managing the new fitness center on the WSU Spokane campus is in the hands of Maria-Ximena Hedrick, a graduate student in the Nutrition and Exercise Physiology program.
A $300,000 grant over three years from the U.S. Department of Justice will enable the Spokane campus of Washington State University to enhance what it has to offer victims of domestic or dating violence or stalking.
“Based on national data, we know that students experience violence in many areas of their lives,” says James Mohr, vice chancellor of Student Affairs at WSU Spokane (pictured). “This grant provides us the opportunity to reach those students and tell them that they are not alone and we are here to assist them.”
Medicinal chemist Travis T. Denton, Ph.D. says the antioxidants found in many fruits and vegetables are superheroes when it comes to protecting your brain from neurological disorders like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and ALS.
By Lorraine Nelson, WSU Spokane
The patient had end-stage COPD and could hardly walk more than a few steps before she had to rest.
She was tethered to oxygen all of the time, and when she arrived at her health care provider’s office she declared she wanted to stop taking her medications.
If you were on her health care team, how would you treat her?
By Dana R. Bowers, Pharm.D., clinical assistant professor, infectious diseases pharmacy specialist, WSU College of Pharmacy
West Nile Virus was recently found in five horses in Spokane County causing people to wonder “What precautions can I take against West Nile Virus?”