When the college students are away, K-12 students come to play
Kevin Dudley
It’s been a little quieter since our health sciences students left town last month for summer break.
In their place, however, are students of a younger age.
WSU Health Sciences Spokane Extra
WSU Speech and Hearing Sciences
Spotlight Student: Talia Avalos
Kevin Dudley
Editor’s Note: Spotlight Students are nominated by staff and faculty at WSU Spokane and are recognized during commencement for their dedication, commitment, sacrifice and/or ability to overcome great odds to succeed as a student. They are selected by a committee ahead of commencement. WSU Spokane will feature each Spotlight Student each day through May 13.
Talia Avalos is a first-generation college student and didn’t let the opportunity go to waste.
Health sciences the focus of Business After School
Kevin Dudley
For the second year in a row, WSU Spokane hosted area high school students as part of Greater Spokane Incorporated’s Business After School program.
Being thankful at WSU Spokane
Kevin Dudley
Shameless cliché alert!
It’s the time of year where everybody makes a list of what they’re thankful for, and we’re not afraid to do the same (we will also post a “Year in Review” blog next month. You’ve been warned).
Time has an article on why being thankful is good for your health*. So being a health sciences campus, we figured we’d walk the talk and share what we are thankful for.
WSU Spokane research looks at autism, cancer
Kevin Dudley
As we’ve noted many times before, research is a problem solver.
This week, two items of research news came out of WSU Spokane:
New episodes of the Health Sciences Update are online
Kevin Dudley
Our Health Sciences Update programs air locally on Comcast channel 17 and feature a wide array of health sciences representatives from our campus and elsewhere.
These three recent episodes will soon start airing on channel 17:
Competition Set Aside for Good of Communication Disorder Students
Kevin Dudley
Students from the WSU and EWU speech and hearing sciences and communication disorders programs share an American Sign Language class.
(Ed. Note: The latest edition of the WSU Spokane Magazine is available as a PDF here. It is also distributed statewide to WSU alumni and friends. We will share a story each day from the latest issue on the blog. Enjoy!)
By Doug Nadvornick
On Spokane’s health sciences campus, where most of the departments complement each other, the University Programs in Communication Disorders (UPCD) is a unique case.
The UPCD partners—WSU’s Speech and Hearing Sciences (SHS) and EWU’s Communication Disorders programs— compete for undergraduate and graduate students who want to train to become speech-language pathologists and audiologists. But once the students are enrolled, they’re embraced by both institutions.