Assistant Professor of Speech and Hearing Sciences Mark VanDam works with young children at the Speech and Language Laboratory.
(This story appears in the latest edition of the WSU Spokane Magazine)
By Judith Van Dongen
Here’s a roundup of some of the research work happening at WSU Spokane.
Hans Van Dongen, Ph.D., is a researcher in our Sleep and Performance Research Center. He was recently invited to speak at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration conference don drowsy driving. You can watch his presentation in the video above.
A new research team focusing on community health in underserved populations recently transitioned to WSU Spokane. The team’s work will help sustain health, especially in underserved communities.
As we’ve noted many times before, research is a problem solver.
This week, two items of research news came out of WSU Spokane:
Grant Trobridge, WSU Spokane
Grant Trobridge, a microbiologist in the WSU College of Pharmacy on the WSU Spokane campus, has identified biomarker genes that can predict prostate cancer survival and breast cancer recurrence.
Ignite Northwest, a business accelerator located on our campus and an important partner of ours, recently won a $50,000 grant from the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). Ignite will also welcome its first class of ten companies to begin courses this fall that include mentoring, and other aspects of building a business.
WSU Spokane was the setting this week for the TEAM Conference, a two-day event that brought first responders and mental health professionals together to discuss ways our community can work together on issues of mental health.
Research from our campus played a big role in having the conference on campus.
We’ve written about it once and we’ll write about it again: research is a problem solver.
With that established, here’s some news from our campus: researchers in the WSU College of Pharmacy recently discovered a new role for protein in cell division.
REM sleep (it stands for rapid eye movement) is important for a good night’s rest. A lack of REM sleep gives way to a number of health consequences.
But did you know that REM sleep may be even more important for young brains, and helps them create memories? Research by Marcos Frank on the WSU Spokane campus tackled that issue. Frank also found that certain medications interfere with REM sleep, creating other problems.
We’ve written before about how research is a problem solver.
Recently, two items of research on campus have helped problems move closer to being solved.