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Key component upgrades bring reliability, sustainability and safety improvements to Eastern’s Rozell Physical Plant.

With its Science Building renovation nearing completion, Eastern’s polytechnic future comes into focus.   By Charles E. Reineke Back in 2022, just three weeks after the inauguration of EWU’s gleaming new Interdisciplinary Science Center, construction began on the renovation of the 148,000-square-foot Science Building next door. The second and final phase of that $110 million…

Jess Walter reflects on how class, ambition, and a fifteen-dollar decision shaped his path to stardom.

For more than two decades, Eastern’s CAMP program gave the children of migrant parents a better shot at obtaining a college education. When budget cuts threatened to close its doors, donors stepped up.     By Linn Parish During long, hot summers back in the late 2000s, Tanya Núñez would spend 10 to 12 hours…

EWU recently celebrated its 2025 Alumni Award winners.

Like her company’s unique products, Darby McLean didn’t follow a familiar path to success.

Eastern steps up in the fight to preserve the endangered pygmy rabbit.

  By Avery Knochel At the beginning of the 20th century, the United States was riding an extended wave of rapid industrialization and explosive urbanization — developments that, in a sense, created the modern nation we live in today. For millions of average Americans, however, our nation’s rise came at significant costs. Harsh working conditions,…

Text-based, generative artificial intelligence has emerged as a powerful tool for creating content and exploring ideas across various domains, including education. Travis Masingale ’03, an EWU professor of design, is a nationally prominent authority on AI’s potential for advancing student learning. In a recent conversation with Open-AI’s Chat GPT 4o, he explored the potential benefits…

  The frontier settlement that had recently become Cheney wasn’t yet 5 years old when a committee of concerned citizens convened an urgent meeting at the offices of the town’s first newspaper. The topic? Education, or the lack thereof. If their growing community was to thrive, the attendees agreed, it needed a place for the…