December
9, 2005
Topics in today's issue of Extension Update:
EXTENSION ENGAGED – ENERGY
Extension Engaged "The WSU
Energy Program: National Leadership Toward Energy Solutions" is
scheduled for December 16th at 9:30 am in T-101 and via video stream
at: http://caheinfo.wsu.edu/video/stream.html.
Increasing prices for gasoline, natural gas and electrical energy
have helped renew interest in alternative and sustainable energy
sources within Washington state. The WSU Extension Energy Program
is at the forefront of efforts to help people and businesses
cope with the high cost of energy, and to shape state's energy
policy for the future. Energy Program director, Jake Fey, will
talk about how the program assumed the responsibilities of
the former state Energy Department and discuss the state's
energy situation, the program's role in addressing them and
the resources available to Extension educators to help their
clients deal with energy issues.
HARVESTING CLEAN ENERGY CONFERENCE
The Harvesting Clean Energy
is the Northwest's premiere event bringing together agriculture
and energy to advance opportunities for producers and rural communities
to profitably diversify into clean energy production. The conference
will be held February 27-28, 2006 in Spokane, WA. For more information
or to register go to the conference Web site at: http://www.harvestcleanenergy.org/index.html.
TRANSCRIPT OF WASHINGTON FARM BILL
LISTENING SESSION
On Thursday,
November 3rd, Rep. Cathy McMorris hosted the Secretary of Agriculture Mike
Johanns for the Farm Bill Listening Session held in Cheney, WA.
The transcript of WA Farm bill listening session is available at:
http://www.usda.gov/documents/FBFWA110305.doc.
REMINDER WSU EXTENSION CLOTHING ORDERS DUE BY DECEMBER
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Show
your Cougar pride by wearing merchandise with the Washington State
University Extension logo! We will be placing a bulk order for
selected clothing items as listed on the Web at: http://ext.wsu.edu/marketing,
then click on the “Clothing Items” link.
Be sure to take a look at the options for color for the shirts!
The choices are: light denim, dark denim, white, stone, and brick
(a great Cougar crimson color!).
Other WSU Extension logo merchandise available at any time through
Bulletins include: pens, lapel pins, ceramic mugs, travel mugs,
and post-it-note cubes. These items are available for direct
order on the Web at http://ext.wsu.edu/marketing,
and then click on the “Accessories” link. We
are also offering static window clings displaying the WSU Extension
logo for only $1.00 (plus tax and S&H) available on
the clothing order form at this time.
Just fill out the appropriate order form and send in your check
or IRI to Kathy Stilwell, P.O. Box 646230, Pullman, WA 99164-6230.
Please submit all clothing orders by Wednesday, December 21.
Orders for accessories can be placed at any time as the items
are maintained in stock at Bulletins. Due to
minimum order requirements, we must have at least 24 clothing
items ordered in any combination of the items offered. All
payments must be received before order can be placed.
Please contact
Kathy Stilwell at
509-335-2837 if you have any questions.
OUTREACH SCHOLARSHIP CONFERENCE
The Outreach Scholarship Conference
2006 will be hosted by The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio
October 8-10. You are invited to submit a proposal for a paper
or poster presentation for the conference. Proposals may be submitted
online at www.outreachscholarship.org by
February 24, 2006. You can find complete information about requirements
for submission at that site.
This annual conference is sponsored by The Ohio State University,
The Pennsylvania State University, University of Wisconsin-Extension,
and The University of Georgia. Another national leadership conference,
Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life, will
be in Columbus concurrently (October 6-8). Learn more about that
conference at www.ia.umich.edu.
GRANTS FOR HEALTHY EATING RESEARCH: BUILDING EVIDENCE
TO PREVENT CHILDHOOD OBESITY
Healthy Eating Research is an $11-million national
program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) created to
support research that identifies, analyzes and evaluates environmental
and policy strategies that can promote healthy eating and combat
obesity among children. The program’s first call
for proposals will be released in December 2005 and will focus
on school food policies and environments.
Environmental and policy changes are potentially the most powerful—but
least well understood—strategies for addressing childhood
obesity. We currently know relatively little about the
most important environmental influences affecting children’s
eating patterns and weight, or about the most effective policies
for improving children’s food environments. Healthy
Eating Research aims to reduce this knowledge gap.
Up to $3 million is available in this first round of funding,
which will be awarded through two types of grants:
- Studies to identify and evaluate promising school food environment
and policy changes (grants of up to $400,000).
- Macro-level policy analyses (grants of up to $75,000).
Once the program is announced a Funding Alert will be released.
Please sign up for this and other RWJF
Funding Alerts.
To learn more about RWJF’s efforts to address childhood
obesity, please visit www.rwjf.org/obesity.
JCEP 2006 PUBLIC ISSUES LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE
The JCEP
2006 Public Issues Leadership Development Conference will be held
April 24 -27, 2006 at the Marriott Crystal City Hotel in Arlington,
Virginia. The conference is sponsored by JCEP – Joint Council
of Extension Professionals. For conference details, visit www.jcep.org or
contact
Luann Boyer,
PILD Chair.
Request for Proposals – Posters
Poster Guidelines: Poster must show educational programming
outcomes in the area of Public Issues Leadership Development.
Poster proposals will be selected by January 20th. Recipients
must attend and present their poster at the 2006 PILD Conference.
Applicants need to be a current member of one of the JCEP Professional
Organizations.
Ten applicants will receive a $100.00 scholarship to attend
PILD. The individual receiving the scholarship must submit a
form to JCEP for reimbursement after the 2006 PILD Conference.
All proposals must be received electronically by 5:00 p.m.,
January 5, 2006 to
Mickey Cummings,
University of Georgia. In addition, a hard copy must be
mailed to Mickey Cummings, CEP President Elect, Union County
Extension Service, 185 Wellborn St. Blairsville, GA 30512, and
post marked no later than January 5, 2006. FAX copy will
not be accepted.
The poster proposals will be reviewed by the JCEP Review Committee
which is comprised of the National President from the Extension
Professional Organizations: Association of Natural Resource Extension
Professionals (ANREP), Epsilon Sigma Phi (ESP), National Association
of Extension 4-H Agents (NAE4-HA), National Association of County
Agricultural Agents (NACAA), and National Extension Association
of Family & Consumer Sciences (NEAFCS).
LOW COST/NO COST SOFTWARE DEALS EXPAND
According to a WSU
Today article from December
7th, discounted Microsoft software, available to WSU students
for more than a year, is now available to WSU faculty and staff.
And the free specialized developer software offering will continue
for another five years. What’s more, some of the software
can be downloaded for personal use on home computers. And you
can take it with you if and when you leave WSU.
Faculty and staff can access information and download software
from http://my.wsu.edu by
clicking on Tech Tools in the navigation bar on the left.
WSU’s participation with Microsoft in this program came
about partly through a WSU alumnus who works for Microsoft. For
more on that, see a fall 2004 WSU Today article at www.wsutoday.wsu.edu/completestory.asp?StoryID=1116.
Source: WSU Today by Cynthia
King December 7, 2005
SCHEDULE
Linda will be in Seattle on Tuesday for the CASE (Change
Agents States for Engagement) Diversity Consortium and will be
in Pullman the rest of the week. Ed will be in Spokane all week.
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Linda Kirk Fox, PhD
Dean and Director
Washington State University Extension
PO Box 646230, 411 Hulbert Hall
Pullman WA 99164-6230
(509) 335-2933 Office
(509) 335-9223 Desk/Voicemail
FAX (509) 335-2926
lkfox@wsu.edu |
