Category: Students

A new degree is poised to ease a critical nursing shortage.

Yet another award for Eastern’s most celebrated building.

In October, Eastern hosted the first of what it hopes will become an annual wheelchair basketball  event. Since its beginnings as a form of recreation for injured veterans returning from World War II, wheelchair basketball has been among the most popular — and competitive — of sports enjoyed by people who use wheelchairs.  Eastern’s wheelchair basketball…

EWU students join a gathering of lichen hunters in West Virginia.

In Olympia, David Buri is on the job for Eastern Washington University.

Inclement weather aside, Giving Joy Day delivers again for students.   On a wet and windy Monday in April — the day after the university marked its 140th birthday —  EWU celebrated Giving Joy Day, the seventh annual iteration of its flagship service and philanthropy event. By the time the final totals were in, members…

An EWU researcher and his students aim to quantify the scope of homelessness. 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. …

Work begins to refit a ‘Sputnik-era’ Science Building.   Just weeks after EWU’s glittering new Interdisciplinary Science Center opened its doors, construction began on the $45 million first phase of a Science Building renovation — a companion project that promises to usher in a new era of research and discovery at Eastern.     The…

A premium bus plaza promises to keep riders warm and (mostly) wind-free.   At Eastern, one’s EagleCard identification doubles as a bus pass for rides on any Spokane Transit Authority route. It’s a benefit meant to encourage individual Eagles, particularly those living up the road in Spokane, from fouling the air, congesting the highways and…