Education Eclipse

Hosted by Brandon Chapman, this episode of Education Eclipse features Amber Brown, newly appointed kinesiology faculty member at the College of Education, Sport and Human Sciences. Amber shares her excitement about teaching KINES 138: Introduction to Kinesiology , a gateway course for students pursuing careers in athletic training and related fields. She also discusses her ongoing role as director...

In late January, two small groups of Sport Management students, totaling eight students in all, went to Las Vegas to take part in the COSMA Conference Case Study Cup. The students were led by faculty members Elodie Wendling and Tammy Crawford. We split our look into the Case Study Cup into three parts: one with Elodie Wendling, who served as advisor for both teams; one with Asael Aburto and Brittn...

In late January, two small groups of Sport Management students, totaling eight students in all, went to Las Vegas to take part in the COSMA Conference Case Study Cup. The students were led by faculty members Elodie Wendling and Tammy Crawford. We split our look into the Case Study Cup into three parts: one with Elodie Wendling, who served as advisor for both teams; one with Asael Aburto and Brittn...

In late January, Sport Management faculty members Elodie Wendling and Tammy Crawford led two small groups of students, totaling eight students in all, to Las Vegas to take part in the COSMA Conference Case Study Cup. We split our look into the Case Study Cup into three parts: one with Elodie Wendling, who served as advisor for both teams; one with Asael Aburto and Brittney Lemke from one of teams;...

In this episode of Education Eclipse , host Brandon Chapman speaks with Tristan Loria, an assistant professor of kinesiology at Washington State University, about his groundbreaking research at the Interdisciplinary Music Performance and Learning Lab (IMPL Lab). Loria explores the intricate connections between music and kinesiology, using motion capture technology to study how musicians' movements...

First-year WSU student Sadie Chamberlain, who is majoring in Sport Management, has been involved in hands-on activities since her first day on campus. That includes time with the WSU men's soccer club, head coached by Sport Management faculty member Alex Gang. Now, along with Alex, and Kinesiology faculty member Tristan Loria, Sadie is helping with research pertaining to music and soccer. She and...

We join Sammi Nutter Charlton, a 2021 alumna from the WSU College of Education, who is now a third-grade teacher in East Wenatchee. Sammi isn't only a teacher, she's also a children's book author, recently with Dozer Day Paves the Way , proceeds of which benefit the Nutter Family Foundation. The book is based off the Dozer Days event that was started in Vancouver, Wash., but has spread to nine dif...

In this podcast episode, we sit down with Sport Management faculty member Tammy Crawford . Recently lauded by WSU for her role in the Core to Career program, Tammy has been at WSU for many years, as a rowing coach, faculty member, and student mentor. Her view on student success is well-rounded and the success of these students is evident.

Jørgen Kjær is from Denmark. He currently teaches in Sweden. He's a long-time coach and an expert in coaching education. The WSU College of Education has the privilege of hosting Jørgen Nov. 3-8. Today, we meet up with Jørgen to talk coaching education and get his advice to our Sport Management students who want to go into coach... spoiler alert: they need to be hungry.

During Color Cheney Crimson, we saw Jack Kunselman working one of the team-led booths. We talked to Jack and discovered he was doing an internship with the Tacoma Rainiers and was a current WSU Sport Management student. So, with his supervisor's permission, we interviewed Jack as part of our in-person, on-site Color Cheney Crimson podcast series (see episode No. 120 featuring employee Colin Connol...

At Color Cheney Crimson, we saw Jennifer Lee wearing Cougs gear so we just went up to her and started talking. She is an early-intervention teacher in the Enumclaw School District. She's a proud Wazzu alumna and we're so pleased she talked to us while watching the greatest sport ever.

As published recently in WSU Insider , a recent study indicates that just the facts may not be enough to overcome misinformation. Far more effective would be a refutation format. Robert Danielson breaks down what that means. He's an associate professor of Educational Psychology at Washington State University's College of Education and likes the puzzle of how people think, including deciphering inf...

Colin Connolly has a cool job. He watches baseball every night. OK, obviously, he has to work while doing, but it's still a cool job. Colin is the is the Director of Media Relations and Baseball Information for the Tacoma Rainiers (Triple-A for the Seattle Mariners). In conjunction with this year's Color Cheney Crimson, we chatted with Colin about his work now, and his time at WSU in the College o...

Dr. Holly Whittenburg is an assistant professor of Special Education in Washington State University's College of Education. She's taken an active role in research dedicated to students with intellectual or developmental disabilities. More specifically, her research focuses on improving employment outcomes for transition-aged students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and intellectual disability....

She grew up in Spokane's working-class neighborhood of Hillyard, and was once a Lilace Princess. Fast forward to today, and Kaysha Reinhart has worked diligently in the WSU College of Education's principal certification program and, this next year, will be an assistant principal in the Nine Mile Falls School District. We caught up with her at a reception for past, current, and future principals an...

Johanna Thomas Zapata is AWESOME. She has a smile that lights up the room. And, she’s a dynamite individual who previously won the College of Education’s Three Minute Thesis. She’s a Fulbright scholar from Honduras, and pretty soon, she won’t be a doctoral student because she’ll be a doctor and will leave WSU and embark on her career. We chat with Johana about her time at WSU, a recent scholarship...

We chat with Lane Salvig (Backstrom), one of our Secondary Education alumni who is changing the way our students look at the world around them. And now, thanks to a Fulbright award, she'll spend six weeks in Morocco learning addition skills to prepare students for a competitive global economy. The Fulbright program equips educators to bring an international perspective to their schools through tar...

On this episode of Education Eclipse, we talk to Mathematics Education Professor Amy Roth McDuffie who, along with her husband Steve, has started an endowment that supports doctoral students. It's named for Mike and Fran Trevisan, who have played an integral role in the College of Education for 30-plus years, the last 10+ of which include Mike as the college dean.

Each year, soon-to-graduate seniors in the Sport Management program complete their capstones. These are group fundraiser projects where a student’s knowledge of marketing, finance, legal, event planning, etc., is all put to the test. We sat down with faculty member Chris Lebens who has helped oversee the program for years, to discuss this year’s capstones and some of his best memories from days of...

This was a video podcast series the College of Education hosted during COVID when all employees were working off-site. It was called ZoomED In but we include the full episodes here in Education Eclipse in the same chronology.

This was a video podcast series the College of Education hosted during COVID when all employees were working off-site. It was called ZoomED In but we include the full episodes here in Education Eclipse in the same chronology.

This was a video podcast series the College of Education hosted during COVID when all employees were working off-site. It was called ZoomED In but we include the full episodes here in Education Eclipse in the same chronology.

This was a video podcast series the College of Education hosted during COVID when all employees were working off-site. It was called ZoomED In but we include the full episodes here in Education Eclipse in the same chronology.

This was a video podcast series the College of Education hosted during COVID when all employees were working off-site. It was called ZoomED In but we include the full episodes here in Education Eclipse in the same chronology.

This was a video podcast series the College of Education hosted during COVID when all employees were working off-site. It was called ZoomED In but we include the full episodes here in Education Eclipse in the same chronology.