Collaborators: Learning and Living Together: Building the Human-Animal Bond:
Online Version
Franois Martin, M.A., Ph.D., (Project Coordinator) is the successor of Dr. Leo
K. Bustad as the Head of the People-Pet Partnership (PPP) program at the College
of Veterinary Medicine at Washington State University. His research interests
focus on how the human-animal bond influences the practice of veterinary
medicine and veterinary education. Dr. Martin has been on the WSU faculty since
1998.
Dr. Martin is the co-coordinator of Success in Veterinary Medicine, a required
DVM course that explores the balance between the science and art of veterinary
medicine as it relates to important issues like ethical decision making, pet
loss and grief, self care, the impaired professional, legal issues, animal
rights and animal welfare, and the human-animal bond. He also teaches Reverence
for Life, a course that investigates connections between living things,
especially those between humans and animals in Western societies, veterinary
education, and social issues related to veterinary medicine. Dr. Martin oversees
the WSU Palouse Area Therapeutic Horsemanship (PATH) program which provides
horseback riding lessons to people with disabilities. PATH is a North American
Riding for the Handicapped Association (NARHA) Premier Accredited Center.
Dr. Martin is also the Associate Director of the Center for the Study
of Animal Well-being (CSAW) at WSU. The goals of CSAW are to generate and
disseminate new knowledge aimed at improving the well-being of animals, to
enhance the mutual benefits of human-animal interactions and to develop and
present educational and public service programs on animal well-being and
human-animal interactions.
Starting in the fall of 2007, Dr. Martin will be the new Section
Leader for the Behavior group at the Nestl Purina PetCare Product Technology
Center in St Joseph, Missouri. He will be responsible for the development of
innovative well-being canine and feline testing methodologies.
Cheryl R. Dhein
(Technical Project Coordinator). Dr. Dhein, DVM, MS Diplomate ACVIM (Internal
Medicine) is an Associate Professor in the College of Veterinary Medicine and
Head of Instructional Technology, Veterinary Information Systems since 1996. She
currently teaches several didactic veterinary courses to professional students
as well as several animal laboratories. In addition, Dr. Dhein instructs classes
in the use of software applications as it relates to the development of teaching
materials. Her primary responsibility is to integrate technology into both the
CVM student curriculum and the curriculum for continuing education courses for
practicing veterinarians. Dr. Dhein designed and maintains much of the content
of the College of Veterinary Medicine
's web site. In
addition to supervising the technical aspects of project development, Dr. Dhein
served as an advisor on veterinary medical aspects of the project.
Lynda Paznokas (Pedagogy Consultant): Dr. Lynda Paznokas is
the Boeing Distinguished Professor of Science Education in Washington State
University's Department of Teaching and Learning. She prepares future and
current K-8 teachers to teach science. Prior to coming to WSU in 1999, she
was a science educator at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. She has
also been an elementary/middle school teacher and a district curriculum
director in Oregon and Washington. In 1982, she was the Oregon Teacher of
the Year and in 2002 she received the Marian E. Smith Faculty Excellence
Award for Teaching at WSU. She writes curriculum books for teachers, serves
on national science committees, and does educational consulting around the
world.... (but her real passion is the time she and her husband spend with
their three border collies at their home in the country!)
Jennifer Farnum
Assistant Content Coordinator - grades
1-3
Claire Huntsberry Assistant Content
Coordinator - grade 4
Nicholas Brazeau
(System Developer - grades 1- 3)
Robert Mitchell (Media
Editor)
Illustrators
Narrators
- K-1: Robin Rilette
- 2nd Grade: Casey
Negreiff
- 3rd Grade: Sueann
Ramella, Robin Rilette, Robert
Mitchell, Dan Maher, Patrick
Braillard, David Thompson, Jesse
Calixto
- 4th
Grade: Robin Rilette, Sueann Ramella,
David Fuller
Sponsors
Grades 1-3 were sponsored by The
Kenneth A. Scott Charitable Trust, a
KeyBank Trust.
The development of the grade four curriculum was sponsored in part by the
Banfield Charitable Trust .
Last Edited: Oct 31, 2007 8:38 AM
