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Eastern’s multi-year Prairie Restoration Project reaches a milestone.   As previously noted in this magazine, Eastern’s Prairie Restoration Project aims to return a 120-acre parcel of university-owned farmland to its native habitat, thus creating a “living laboratory” of restored Northern Palouse prairie proximate to the Cheney campus. Together with the Spokane and other local tribes…

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Across the nation, institutions of higher education are facing difficult times.

Each year the EWU Alumni Association holds a gala event to honor a select group of Eastern’s most impactful alumni. This year, as always, the stories of our inspiring Eagle honorees made it an occasion to remember.   

Brendon Merritt, an Eagle basketball great with an indomitable will to win, died on May 16, 2024.

Big Sky MVP Jamie Loera reflects on a spectacular season for Eastern women’s basketball.

  View a complete PDF of the 2023-24 EWU Foundation Annual Report.  

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  During her inspiring investiture speech, Dr. McMahan spoke about leading our university’s students — both present and future— along a “clear path to a bright future” (our cover story on Page 16), it immediately brought to mind memories of my own journey to Eastern. For me, that path wasn’t all that clear. But, like…