September
17, 2004
Topics in Today’s Extension Update:
SECOND NOTICE: GRANTSMANSHIP WRITING WORKSHOP
Dr. Robert Lowman,
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill will present two grant
writing workshops in October.
Option One: Tuesday, Oct. 12 from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Quality Inn,
1050 SE Bishop Blvd., Pullman, WA
Option Two: Thursday, Oct. 14 from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., WSU Extension
King County, 919 SW Grady Way, Ballroom 2nd floor, Renton, WA
Each option provides a workshop with morning and afternoon sessions.
The morning session begins with the twelve main concepts related
to writing grants successfully. Planning first before writing is
emphasized. No grant writing experience is required. During the afternoon
session Dr. Lowman will compare the policies and procedures of six
different federal funding agencies (DHHS, USDA, DOE, NSF, NEH and
NEA) that are major players in funding research, scholarship or artistic
expression. Participants will learn how each agency does business
and how the six differ from each other. With this knowledge, workshop
participants will learn how to navigate successfully the sometimes
treacherous waters of the federal agency bureaucracy.
Seating is limited. In addition to registering on the OGRD
Web site,
registration payment will be required. For details on registration
fees and method of payment, please see
the OGRD Web site, Informer Online, WSU Announcements and WSU Today.
The registration fee is $100 per person. However, WSU Extension
will cover the registration cost for Extension faculty and APs and
up to one (1) community partner per county.
After registering on the OGRD Web site, WSU Extension Faculty and
Staff are to confirm attendance by emailing Linda
Kirk Fox.
These e-mails will enable Extension to remit payment on each extension
member and the one community partner’s behalf. Remember: You
must also register online with OGRD at the address above or your
seat will not be reserved!
Registration deadline to be included in this generous offer for
FREE registration for Extension employees: Monday, October 4th.
Washington State University faculty and staff not employed by Extension
should ask their department central office staff to prepare an Interdepartmental
Requisition Invoice.
Other attendees not employed by WSU should render checks payable
to Washington State University. Payment should be sent to Office
of Grant and Research Development, Washington State University, PO
Box 643140, Pullman, WA 99164-3140. Pullman Campus Zip: 3140. Registration
is considered complete upon receipt of payment. Refunds are unavailable
due to cancellation.
CONSERVATION INNOVATION GRANT PRESENTED TO WSU CLIMATE FRIENDLY
FARMING TEAM
James Moseley, Deputy Secretary, US Department
of Agriculture came to WSU Thursday, September 16 to present a $683,000
grant from
the
USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service Conservation Innovation
Grant program to support applied research in conservation. The team
of researchers is in the College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural
Resource Sciences and WSU Extension. They will use the grant to further
research into high-quality fiber and fertilizer as co-products from
anaerobic digestion. The team will explore methods for extracting
two high-value products from liquid manure: a high-quality fiber
that can substitute for peat moss as a type of "super soil conditioner" and
a slow-release fertilizer. The WSU research team includes Shulin
Chen, professor of biological systems engineering; Craig MacConnell,
Whatcom County Extension Educator; Joe Harrison, extension dairy
specialist; Richard Shumway, professor of economics; and Chris Feise,
director of the Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources.
A full story can be found at WSU
News Releases.
RAWLINS STATE OF THE UNIVESITY ADDRESS AVAILABLE VIA VIDEOSTREAM
Washington
State University President V. Lane Rawlins discussed the progress
the university has made and the challenges that lie
ahead in his annual State of the University address delivered Wednesday,
September 15 at Bryan Hall on the Pullman campus. As has become traditional
in Rawlins’ State of the University addresses, he outlined
the “Top Ten List” of WSU accomplishments over the past
academic year. The list includes: implementation of the plan to strengthen
WSU’s regional campuses and development of WSU research stations
in several areas of the state; avoiding mid-year budget cuts; creation
of the Office of Undergraduate Education; continued progress at the
WSU Spokane campus; athletics success; creation of the office of
vice president for equity and diversity; continued development of
the WSU physical plant; external relations programs that have enhanced
the university’s image, including Showcase, an event to honor
outstanding faculty and staff; the continued progress in recruitment
and retention of high-achieving undergraduates; and the research
and scholarship of WSU faculty. A more complete story can be found
at WSU News
Releases.
The video streamed version is available at experience.wsu.edu.
The PowerPoint presentation used by Rawlins for this address is available
at http://www.ir.wsu.edu under the "Presentations" link.
In addition, the PowerPoint presentation on "Institutional
Benchmarks" used by President Rawlins at the Board of Regents
in August is available at http://www.ir.wsu.edu/ under the "Presentations" link.
2005/07 BIENNIUM: INVESTING IN A KNOWLEDGE-BASED ECONOMY
The details
and a
PowerPoint presentation on the joint Cougar/Husky 2005/07 Biennium
Budget was presented to the WSU Board of Regents
on September 10, 2004. The dollars quoted below are proposed increases
to WSU for the 2005/07 biennium.
- Core funding: $51 million (in support of existing programs)
- Veterinary Medicine: $2.0 million (compensates for loss of OSU
support)
- Research and Technology Transfer: $7.1 million (focuses on health
and job creation)
- New enrollment: $15.0 million (increase capacity)
These numbers, plus a request of $28.4 million just to maintain
constant dollars but with no new or expansion of programs, amounts
to a $103.4 or roughly a 25% budget increase over the 2003/05 biennium.
WASHINGTON TO HOST THE 2005 NAE4-HA ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Oct. 30 through
Nov. 4, 2005, Washington will have the privilege of hosting the National
Association of Extension 4-H Agents Annual
Conference in Seattle. The theme of the conference "Better Your
Best in the Pacific Northwest" will be highlighted through Traditions,
Trends, and Technology. More than 1,200 4-H Extension faculty and
staff will experience dynamic speakers, seminars, service learning,
research round tables, and off-site experiences, i.e. Beach Watcher
Program, Bonney Lake Ropes Course. Also an important part of the
conference is to showcase the state of Washington through tours,
food, and facilities. It takes a large group of dedicated staff to
plan and facilitate a conference of this size. A group of 4-H faculty
and staff from around the state have been working on the conference
for the last two years.
You can help by publicizing the conference, supporting your colleagues
in their attendance and participation, volunteering to help with
a conference task, or by buying a 2005 conference logo shirt.
We have small bookmarks available that you can take to any meeting
or gathering to help promote the conference. The conference shirts
are sage green high-quality chambray button down with the conference
logo on the pocket. Sizes range from medium to 4XL and cost $29.95.
Contact Joan Vance in Grays Harbor Extension office to order a shirt.
If you would like a handful of bookmarks for promotion or would
like to volunteer to help please contact Mary
Katherine Deen or Susan
Butts.
AG APPROPRIATIONS BILL PASSES SENATE
2005 Agriculture Appropriations
bill passed the full Senate Appropriations Committee this week. As
a senior appropriator, Senator Patti Murray
secured funding to detect and prevent Mad Cow disease, to support
Washington's wine industry, and to build a new Agricultural Research
Service building at Washington State University in Pullman.
Now that the bill has passed the Senate Appropriations Committee,
it must be brought up for a vote on the Senate floor.
National Food Safety Efforts:
The bill funds food safety efforts
at the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration.
It includes funding for a broad
Food and Agriculture Defense Initiative, including $33 million to
establish a national animal identification program and $7 million
for food safety research. The bill also includes $8 million for mad
cow disease testing for the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service;
$22 million for the Food Safety and Inspection Service for mad cow
disease-related activities; and an increase of $8 million for the
Food and Drug Administration specifically for mad cow disease-related
activities.
Here are the Washington-state specific projects for which Senator
Murray secured more than $17 million:
- Agricultural Research Service Research Laboratory Construction—Pullman,
WA ($3 million):
- Wine Industry ($435,000)
- Asparagus Technology and Production ($249,000)
- Small fruits research ($400,000)
- Competitiveness of Agricultural Products ($700,000)
- Strengthening Organic Crops Research and Education ($500,000)
- Tree Fruit Quality Research ($418,000)
- Potato Research ($1,450,000)
- Restoring $6 million in proposed Bush Administration cuts for
Agricultural Research Service Projects
The bill includes funding for the following programs (which total
$6,150,706):
Minor Use Pesticides (IR-4) in Prosser and Wapato, Potato Research
Enhancement, Viticulture Research, Air Quality (PM-10), Grain
Legume Plant Pathologist Position, Malignant Catarrhal Fever (MCF)
Virus, Microbial Genomics Initiative, National Germplasm Resources
Program, Root Diseases in Wheat and Barely, Temperate Fruit Flies,
Virus Free Fruit Tree Cultivars, Hops Research, Northwest Center
for Small Fruits Research, Shellfish Genetics and Marine Ecology
Research, Regional Molecular Genotyping, and Western Wheat Quality
Laboratory.
Other Projects that benefit Washington State include:
STEEP III—water quality in the Pacific Northwest ($625,000)
Aquaculture ($850,000)
Cool season legume research ($600,000)
Food security ($400,000)
Grass seed cropping systems for sustainable agriculture ($407,000)
Regional barley gene mapping project ($700,000)
Aegilops cylindrica ($341,000)
"SERVICE CENTER" STAFF SUPPORT TRAINING
The series of training
which we launched last spring begin again Thursday, September 30th,
9:00 – 12:00 noon with a training
on Service Centers. Session
materials will be available at the Service Centers link. The
program will be videostreamed and archived.
Presentors are Brad Bailey, Facilities and Administrative Costs
Specialist, Sponsored Program Services and Mary Hoffman, Asst. Director
of Finance, CAHNRS and WSU Extension.
WSU Sponsored Program Services has revised the Service Center application
and is in the process of updating the Business Policy Procedures
Manual. Brad will discuss theses changes and will provide information
about service centers. Specific topics include: service centers defined,
types of service centers (recharge, auxillary, enterprise), state
and federal regulations (non-compete with private business, charging
overhead), rate development (multiple rates, variable rates) service
center questionaire. Mary will discuss routing procedures and Extension
policy. There will be a question and answer period following each
presentation.
If you have specific questions/topics regarding service centers
that you would like to have discussed, please send an e-mail to Mary
Hoffman.
PERSONNEL
New Hires:
Hans Kok, Ph.D., Extension Specialist/Conservation Tillage
Specialist
Crop & Soil Sciences (appt. w/WSU & University of
Idaho)
Funding: 100% Extension
Status: Faculty
Effective September 16, 2004
Robert Scholes, Development Coordinator, Alumni & Development
Funding: Teaching/Research/Extension
Status: Administrative Professional
Effective September 1, 2004
Barbara Smith, Administrative Manager, Entomology
Funding: Research/Extension
Status: Administrative Professional
Effective September 1, 2004
Retirements:
Catherine Bicknell, Associate Professor, Interior Design
Funding:
100% Teaching
Status: Faculty
Effective May 16, 2004
Kurt Schekel, Associate Professor/Extension Specialist
Horticulture & Landscape
Arch., WSU Vancouver
Funding: Teaching/Extension
Status: Faculty
Effective May 14, 2004
Resignations:
Thomas Rane, Assistant Professor, Human Development
Funding: 100%
Teaching
Status: Faculty
Effective August 15, 2004
Gary Bingham, Assistant Professor, Human Development
Funding: 100%
Teaching
Status: Faculty
Effective August 15, 2004
Fabio Chaddad, Assistant Professor/Assistant Scientist
School of
Economic Sciences
Funding: Teaching/Research
Status: Faculty
Effective August 15, 2004
Appointment Complete:
Richard Rossi, Assistant Research Professor,
Center for Precision Ag Systems
Funding: 100% Research
Status: Faculty
Effective August 31, 2004
NOTICE: SPOKANE PLANT DIAGNOSTIC LAB CLOSES FOR SEASON
The WSU Extension
Spokane County Plant Diagnostic Lab will be closed October 1, 2004,
through January 28, 2005. Service to other counties
will resume on February 1, 2005.
SCHEDULE
Next week Linda will be in Pullman Monday and Friday. She
will be in Puyallup on Tuesday. Wednesday and Thursday she will be
attending
the President’s Cabinet Retreat at WSU Spokane. Ed
will be in Spokane next week except for Wednesday when he will be
in Whatcom attending the Coordinated Resource Management Executive.
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Linda Kirk Fox, PhD
Interim Dean and Director
Washington State University Extension
PO Box 646230
Pullman WA 99164-6230
(509) 335-2933 Office
(509) 335-9223 Desk/Voicemail
FAX (509) 335-2926
lkfox@wsu.edu
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