Spokane

Sixth ‘charrette’ eyes Spokane’s Great Gorge Park

For 130 design students at WSU Spokane, the second day of school last week meant being teamed to produce concepts for a project that has been calling to the Spokane community since 1908. That’s the year Fredrick Law Olmsted, a principal designer of New York City’s Central Park, proposed The Great Gorge Park. For the […]

NIH grant writing insights offered

A workshop designed to help researchers learn the fundamentals of preparing a strong application for National Institutes of Health funding will be held at WSU Spokane Sept. 10. The workshop is open to local grant administrators, researchers (particularly those new to NIH funding), and graduate students. The workshop will be held in the auditorium of […]

Cost a barrier to prescriptions for people with disabilities

A national study published in the July issue of “The American Journal of Public Health” suggests that 1.3 million adults with disabilities do not take their medications as prescribed because they cannot afford to do so, and more than half report resulting health problems. Principal investigator Jae Kennedy, assistant professor in the Department of Health […]

Girls encouraged in science

WSU Spokane has been encouraging girls to explore science as it hosted its popular CityLab summer science camp, July 8 – 12 on the Riverpoint campus. This year the program took young women grades 6 – 8 on an astrobiology quest. Young investigators will use tools of DNA analysis, blood typing, food analysis, and gel […]

Graduate exercise science program okayed

Students may now enroll in a new master’s degree program at Washington State University Spokane focusing on the cellular physiological responses to exercise. The Washington State Higher Education Coordinating Board recently approved the M.S. in exercise science. The degree replaces the M.S. in kinesiology formerly offered at WSU Pullman. Exercise science is a scientifically based […]

Antidepressants, sperm function studied by Spokane researchers

Researchers at Washington State University Spokane are now enrolling subjects in the first-ever study of the effects of a class of common antidepressant on sperm function. The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development has awarded $143,000 to fund the study on the effects of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) on sperm function, including […]