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Since 1974, the National History Day non-profit education organization has offered annual year-long academic programs that engages over half a million middle- and high-school students around the world in conducting original research on historical topics of History. This year’s theme is Debate & Diplomacy in History and the Eastern Washington University Social Studies Education program…

EWU’s Gender, Women’s & Sexuality Studies and Women’s & Gender Education Center present Dr. Jessi Quizar A Logic of Care and Grassroots Claims to Home in Detroit Thursday, May 12th 4 – 5:15 p.m. In Person in Monroe 207  Masks Encouraged Or Virtual at bit.ly/GWSSLogicofCare This talk explores the ways in which Detroit Eviction Defense…

Sustainability Week, April 25 – 29, is about celebrating the work that the EWU community is doing to reduce the university’s impact on the environment, while also looking toward the future and finding new ways to make a difference for our planet. It will feature a variety of events and a daylong conference. An Earth…

Counseling and Wellness and the Women’s and Gender Education Center are collaborating to bring Sexual Assault Awareness Month activities to EWU this year. Paint the Town Teal April 1 – 30 Decorate your door or office to show your support of survivors for the month. Upload photos of your space here to be featured on…

For individuals and families who lack a permanent place to call home — and those trying to help them —the journey to stable housing is often long and arduous. Even understanding the scale and scope of the problem is a challenge. Spokane’s annual Point-in-Time (PIT) Count, a county-wide census of persons without housing, aims to…

2021 saw the publishing of the book The Clarinet that was edited by the EWU Fine & Performing Arts Music Department professor Jane Ellsworth. Along with overseeing editing the collection of essays written by leading performer-scholars, Professor Ellsworth also wrote two of the chapters. The Clarinet “offers unique perspectives on the clarinet’s historical role in…

EWU’s Associate Professor, Margo Hill, published her article No Honor in Genocide: A Case Study of Street Renaming and Community Organizing in the Wake of National Decolonization Efforts in the Gonzaga Journal of Hate Studies. The case study provides an example wherein Indigenous people have objected to a place-name that honors genocide and thus consequently…

I’d like to thank Lieutenant Ben Van Meter for bringing Colton Crawford’s recent promotion to Major in the Military Science Department to our attention. This is a significant accomplishment for any Captain, as more than a third of them do not make it to the rank of Major and it often takes ten competitive years…