May 10, 2021
Eleven individuals, and one team of 14 earned recognition for their exceptional contributions to research, teaching, and Extension. They were celebrated last week as the 2021 Faculty and Staff Award Winners in WSU’s College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences.
Administrative Professional Excellence Award
Heather MacDermott Havey, director of the WSU Children’s Center, is responsible for the daily operations of the Center, including fiscal sustainability, family engagement, and child outcomes.
AP Technical Staff Excellence Award
Jennifer Kiser, a lab manager in the Department of Animal Sciences, first arrived at WSU in 2013 to pursue a master’s degree and was offered the lab manager position. She continues the research she enjoys and works with students.
Medical advancements have often been measured by the number of people these technologies, medical procedures and drug therapies are able to save. But along with the benefit of being able to save people, there comes a price.
Over the last century, that price has inflated at the cost of patients and their well being. While the U.S. healthcare system has become more structured over the past hundred years, it went from being unregulated and modestly priced, to being modeled after a perfect market that has privatized health care for consumers who can afford it.
The intentions of healthcare professionals are often altruistic. However, the system they work under is not as transparent in the cost and quality of the healthcare they offer to consumers.
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Male and female leaders who use a confident tone are more likely to be listened to, WSU researchers found.
A study shows gender discrimination does not affect participants’ willingness to follow advice, said Shanthi Manian, assistant professor in the WSU School of Economic Sciences.
About 1,000 participants were randomly assigned a male or female leader and played a difficult video game while following their leader’s advice to win the game, she said.
The participants were given an incentive in the game to follow or not follow the advice from their leader to achieve victory, Manian said. The better the participant’s outcome in the game, the more money they received.