April 12, 2002

DIALOGUE WITH PRESIDENT RAWLINS
The next Dialogue with President Rawlins will take place on Monday, April 15th from 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM in the Cub Cascade Room. Click on the link below to watch the live videostream of this event http://experience.wsu.edu/articles/exprawlins.asp

FACULTY HONORS CONVOCATION
On Thursday, April 4th, faculty, staff and students attended the WSU Faculty Honors Convocation Honoring Excellence. Among those recognized with special honors were Ronald C. Mittelhammer, Professor, Department of Ag Economics who received one of the Sahlin Faculty Excellence Awards and Don A. Dillman, Professor, Departments of Rural Sociology and Sociology who received the Eminent Faculty Award. Congratulations to all of the award recipients. Provost Roberts Bates delivered the keynote address "Is Excellence the Ultimate Goal?" You can view the convocation at this site.

DR. JOSEPH JEN RECEIVES AWARD
USDA Undersecretary for Research, Education, and Economics Dr. Joseph Jen will be on WSU campus Monday and Tuesday April 15 and 16 to attend the awards ceremony and be recognized with the "Graduate Alumni Achievement Award" for CAHE. He is one of nine WSU alumni being honored. Dr. Jen received his MS in Food Science from WSU in 1964. While in Pullman we've arranged for Dr. Jen to tour and/or attend presentations on the following:

• Institute of Biological Chemistry (IBC)
• Center to Bridge the Digital Divide
• Cooperative Extension's technology networks
• Strengthening Families
• 4-H Youth programs
• the Plant Growth Facilities and Extension agronomy programs
• North American Barley Genome Project
• Metabolic Laboratory in Food Science and Human Nutrition

Thanks to everyone who is taking time out of their busy schedules to meet Dr. Jen and showcase our outstanding programs: Bill Gillis, Scott Fedale, Laura Griner Hill, Kathleen Rodgers, Pat BoyEs, Terry Miller, Kim Kidwell, John Burns, Andris Kleinofs, Al McCurdy, Norman Lewis and the CAHE administrators.

PUBLICATIONS COMING YOUR WAY
This weekend is Moms' Weekend at WSU and activity is in the air and at our fingertips. Today the WSU "CE Focus" spring 2002 edition is being widely distributed throughout campus and the area hotels to guests, many of whom are WSU Moms. The cover article is "Cooperative Extension Across the University" as presented by Provost Bob Bates. You'll enjoy all the articles. Additionally, the spring 2002 issue of CAHE "Connections" magazine has been distributed to alumni and friends. Watch your mailbox for both these exciting publications.

NATIONAL EXTENSION TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE
In addition to more than 70 concurrent sessions focusing on the latest information and education technologies and issues, the 2002 National Extension Technology Conference (NETC), at Penn State May 18-21, will feature presentations by some of the most innovative leaders in the field. Last time, we told you about Penn State President Graham Spanier, Iowa State University President Gregory Geoffroy and John Harwood, senior director of Penn State's Center for Education Technology Services. Also among the conference's featured Speakers is Nirmal Pal, executive director of the eBusiness Research Center, a joint venture of Penn State's School of Information Sciences and Technology and Smeal College of Business Administration. For more information on the schedule, featured Speakers, concurrent sessions and other conference activities, visit NETC 2002 on the Web at http://www.netc2002.psu.edu/.

NORTHWEST AREA FOUNDATION'S NEW ONLINE INFORMATION TOOL
The Northwest Area Foundation (www.nwaf.org) announces the launch of a new Web site designed to assist users obtain social and economic information on any of the 480 counties in the Foundation's eight-state region. The Regional Indicators website (www.indicators.nwaf.org) is accessible worldwide and enables users to look up information such as population characteristics, income and poverty statistics, employment, housing, and family household information. In addition to providing information for online review, the interactive Web site allows users to print or download information as graphs, tables or maps.

The Northwest Area Foundation is based in Saint Paul, Minnesota and works to reduce poverty by cooperative assistance to communities throughout its eight-state region of Iowa, Minnesota, North and South Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Washington, and Oregon. The Foundation does not accept requests for grants, but works directly with communities on a wide variety of strategic initiatives. A cooperative project with the University of Idaho, the Web site was conceived as a way to put community-level information from a variety of federal and state agencies in one convenient location. Future enhancements to the Web site will provide detailed information in a wider range of topics and will enable interactive mapping, and will explore other types of geographic areas including Indian reservations and multi-county regions.

PERSONNEL
Title change:
Dean Glawe, Scientist
WSU Puyallup Research & Extension Center
Effective April 1, 2002

SCHEDULE
The week of April 15-19, Mike will be in Pullman Monday, Tuesday, and Friday. He will be attending and speaking at the Western 4-H Institute in Logan, UT Wednesday and Thursday. Linda will be in Pullman on Monday. The rest of the week be spent attending the Food $ense conference in Wenatchee and traveling and meeting NE District faculty.

Mike Tate
Dean and Director
Linda Kirk Fox
Associate Director
Cooperative Extension
PO Box 646230
Washington State University
Pullman, WA 99164-6230
Ph 509-335-2933
Fax 509-335-2926
lkfox@wsu.edu