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EWU Alumna Inspires Students

June 23, 2025

Alumna teaching students how to test compounds.

Delaney Putnam, a 2022 graduate who now works as a chemist for Novelis, returned to campus to lead an engaging experiential lab for geochemistry students.

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Social Work Alumna Reconnects After 47 Years

May 13, 2025

Cyndy Stevenson and two social work faculty standing by the Senior Hall sign. One is holding a boomerang.

Cyndy Stevenson, who was among the first graduates of EWU’s School of Social Work, recently visited the Cheney campus.

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Announcing the 2025 EWU Alumni Award Winners

March 7, 2025

2025 Alumni Awards graphic.

The EWU Alumni Association is hosting an event to celebrate these inspirational award winners.

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Student Wins $1,000 Scholarship at Neighborfest

October 30, 2024

Student Wins $1,000 Scholarship at Neighborfest

The scholarship was among many awards provided by the EWU Alumni Association over the past year.

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Alumnus Finds Success as a Dental Hygienist

October 19, 2024

Alumnus Finds Success as a Dental Hygienist

Carlos Valdovinos says that scholarships and applied learning at EWU’s Dental Hygiene Clinic helped build a path to his future.

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EWU Honors Memorial Day

May 24, 2024

EWU Honors Memorial Day

The annual display at JFK Library remembers Eagle students and alumni lost over the years.

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EWU Electrical Engineering Alumnus Working on High Profile Project

January 26, 2023

EWU Electrical Engineering Alumnus Working on High Profile Project

Russell Thomas ’13 is senior design engineer for electrical systems inside a 600,000-square-foot building that is part of a $12 billion project to construct a chip manufacturing plant for Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.’s (TSMC) first U.S. campus.

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Lucky Student Wins a $1,000 Scholarship

October 25, 2022 by Melodie Little

Alizabeth Ashton, wearing and EWU shirt smiling.

EWU alumni and friends provided the scholarship, and other generous gifts, to support fall events at Eastern.

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Major Gift Honors Alumni Artist, Teacher Roger Riggs

February 14, 2022

ROGER RIGGS stands in front of his painting.

Roger Riggs is pictured with his ”9/11” painting, on the left, in this 2008 photo taken by Jesse Tinsley for The Spokesman-Review. The piece is part of a major gift that includes another painting and funds that created the Roger Riggs Art Scholarship.

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Steve Blewett Wants to Make Internships More Accessible

December 3, 2020 by Leilah Langley

Steve Blewett portrait

Internships are an important and valuable part of the college experience. A former EWU journalism and PR professor is launching a new scholarship fund to help make internships accessible to more students.

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