Tag: Fall/Winter 2025-26

A newly reopened Office of Community Engagement helps Eagles help others. This fall, Eastern celebrated the reopening of its Office of Community Engagement, reviving a campus resource that had been shuttered for nearly four years. The office, located on the first floor of Showalter Hall, will function as a hub for student volunteerism, service-learning and…

Newly established programs will allow Eagle cybersecurity students to fly even higher.   Even as it celebrates its 20th year on the EWU campus, Eastern’s cybersecurity program continues pushing forward to better equip its graduates for the challenges of the future. Its latest move? This spring, cybersecurity faculty members conferred degrees on 10 students from…

‘Eagfunder’ will help students and faculty members bring their ideas to life.   Especially when budgets are tight, even the most promising projects can face significant funding challenges. Eastern students and faculty now have a new way to turn their dreams into reality — by enlisting the Eagle community to chip in. EagFunder is a…

Eastern’s newly revived men’s golf program completes its inaugural season.   In the fall of 2024, Eastern announced the return of varsity men’s golf after an absence of close to 25 years. Soon after, Tim Collins, Eastern’s athletics director, brought on Russell Grove to restart the program. Grove, a certified PGA class member who came to…

    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…

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…

Alexander Schilt brought energy and enthusiasm to Eastern’s top job.

Camping in Cheney: When Seattle was awarded an NFL expansion franchise 50 years ago, one of the first orders of business was establishing a site for the team’s summer training camp. In those days, the hardboiled owners who ran the league were convinced that, during the crucial preseason training period, their mostly youthful players should…