Spokane

Team approach breathes life into teaching

Faculty and students participate in an excercise using a simulation manikin at WSU recently. (Photo by Tara Cunningham, WSU Today intern) SPOKANE – Collaboration is key when it comes to the human simulation manikins WSU health science students use at the Spokane Riverpoint Campus.   WSU nursing and pharmacy have teamed up with Gonzaga, Eastern […]

Riverpoint campus hosts living voices production The Right to Dream

SPOKANE — The Riverpoint Campus Diversity Events Subcommittee at WSU Spokane will host a free public production by Living Voices entitled “The Right to Dream” 1-2 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 22 on the Riverpoint Campus in the Phase I Classroom Building room 122 at 668 North Riverpoint Blvd. This is a production of the struggle and […]

Sleep research expert joins WWAMI Spokane faculty

SPOKANE – Jonathan Wisor has joined the research faculty of the WWAMI Medical Education Program at WSU Spokane. His appointment as an assistant professor is part of the growing focus on health sciences at the Spokane campus. He also holds an appointment with the Department of Veterinary and Comparative Anatomy, Pharmacology, and Physiology in the […]

Moving into new College of Nursing

Two years after groundbreaking, the WSU College of Nursing recently moved into the new Nursing Building on the WSU Spokane Riverpoint campus.   The college’s 600 or so Spokane students will begin classes there in spring semester, and the building will be dedicated sometime in the spring.   The $34.6 million building first received a […]

College of Nursing moving to Riverpoint

SPOKANE – Two years after a groundbreaking attended by hundreds of community leaders, students, faculty, staff, and alumni, the WSU College of Nursing will move into the new Nursing Building on the Riverpoint Campus. The Clinical Simulation and Performance Lab will move over the weekend, followed by about 200 faculty and staff who will move […]

Superintendent program receives statewide award

PULLMAN — A program to prepare leaders for the task of running school districts has won statewide recognition for WSU.   The Washington State Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (WSASCD) will bestow its 2008 Program Award on WSU’s Superintendent Certification Program at the association’s Nov. 7 conference.   “This outstanding education program has had […]

Experts offer multilevel bug defense

  Photo: WSU Spokane Extension Master Gardeners Levi Strauss, left, Wayne Green and Brigitta ozefowski discuss a strategy for dealing with a caterpillar outbreak. (Photo courtesy of WSU Extension Spokane)   By Robert Frank, WSU Today   Spiders and beetles and flies. Oh my!   Eggs and bugs in my food! Oh yuk!   ‘Tis […]

Donation expands book-swap options

A book exchange at the WSU Spokane library received a jump start with the donation of more than 200 works of fiction and nonfiction.   Faculty, staff and student readers are encouraged to swap and donate books on the “Leisure Reading” shelves at the Riverpoint Campus, said Bob Pringle, director of Riverpoint and nursing library […]

Plan developed for Riverpoint Campus

SPOKANE – A collaborative approach to academic planning will expand opportunities in public higher education for Spokane, under a comprehensive academic plan developed this spring for the Riverpoint Campus. The governing boards of Community Colleges of Spokane, Eastern Washington University and Washington State University recently reviewed and approved the plan, which lays out both short-term […]

Proposals requested for Pine St. property

SPOKANE – WSU has issued a request for proposals from developers for approximately 3.5 acres on the Riverpoint Campus, east of Pine Street between Main Avenue and Spokane Falls Boulevard. The university will consider proposals for one or more 80-year maximum ground leases on four parcels. Development proposals must address how the developer will plan, […]