Julie Gleason-Comstock, Ph.D., WSU assistant professor of community medicine, recently received the university's Innovative Instructional Technology Faculty Grant Award. The project funded is "Public Health Emergency Preparedness: Matching Function to Fact," a distance-learning module designed to enhance academic and community understanding of public health emergency preparedness core competencies. Through the Department of Community Medicine's new Master of Public Health program and the Educational Instructional Technology program, students will participate in a web-simulated public health studies reinforcement game matching public health emergency preparedness electronic "fact" chips to "functions" on card squares.