Category: Students

A group of Eastern music students finds inspiration in the great outdoors.   During the summer of 1829, the German composer Felix Mendelssohn, age 20, journeyed with a family friend to the Hebrides. Then, as now, these remote Scottish islands contained all the ingredients of Romantic fascination: towering cliffs battered by powerful storms, sun-dappled hillsides…

    Every autumn at EWU, a host of on- and off-campus groups gather together for Neighborfest, a joyful rite of information sharing that kicks off the new academic year. The 2025 festival, held under crystalline blue skies at the Arevalo Mall, was one of the biggest ever, with close to 150 groups participating. Among…

EWU’s first class of nurses is ready to make their mark.

The Prom earns accolades from a noted regional publication.

  Just after the beginning of the 2023 academic year, Eastern’s Board of Trustees met to discuss, among other pressing issues, how the university could better share its strengths with the wider world: “How might we more authentically communicate who we are,” they asked, “while differentiating ourselves in our region’s competitive higher education landscape?” Eastern’s…

  EWU’s annual Senior Send-off procession — in which graduating seniors reverse course through the Herculean Pillars they traversed as incoming freshman — took on particular poignancy this spring. These seniors were members of the so-called “covid class” of 2024. Each began their Eastern journey during lock-down, a time when remote learning and event restrictions…

An EWU program helps school kids advance their literacy skills.   Reading may be fundamental, but it doesn’t come naturally. Learning to make sense of the written word takes patience, practice and, if you’re lucky, guidance from educators who care. Since its earliest days, Eastern has trained teachers who love sharing the gift of reading.…

A prize-winning urban planning student works to expand Latino housing opportunities.   During her time as an economic development specialist for the nonprofit Latinos en Spokane, Mayra Velazquez, an EWU senior studying urban planning and economics, was tasked with the sort of job one might expect would go to a much-more experienced staffer: documenting how…

A new, old-school printer helps student artists, and visiting professionals, revel in the retro.   Eastern’s Risograph copier, a “digital duplicator” named Ferdinand, isn’t old. But the art it produces — funky screen-prints created in layers of stenciled spot color — reproduce the retrograde vibe craved by today’s creatives. Built by Japan’s Riso Kagaku Corporation, EWU…

For Hilary Baird, graduate school will be just the latest in a long line of triumphs.   From a rejection on her first application to Eastern, to admission as a graduate student at one of the nation’s top music programs, EWU’s Hilary Baird has lived a true Cinderella story. In January, Baird was shocked and…