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EWU Researcher Seeks Insights Into Immunity

EWU's Science Building

A $362,000 federal grant will help Eastern Washington University’s Savini Thrikawala observe drug interactions with immune cells in real time.

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EWU Students Activate a Living Laboratory

August 11, 2026

Erin Endres in the outdoor seed garden.

A new course is transforming the campus landscape into a living laboratory focused on applied learning and environmental sustainability.

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EWU Hosts Middle School Students for Day of Hands-On Learning

June 10, 2026

Three middle school students with a district representative.

The Eastern team partnered with Spokane Public Schools’ Native Education Program for this memorable science-theme visit.

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Scholarships Fuel a Future in Fisheries Science

March 10, 2026

EWU student Sam Caruso holds a Westslope Cutthroat Trout

Scholarship support helps EWU graduate student Sam Caruso turn a lifelong love of Spokane’s rivers into fisheries research.

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CSTEM Students Make Science ‘Spooky’ for Kids

October 28, 2025

Three students with experiment that has fog.

More than 100 student volunteers collaborated with faculty for this fun-filled, Halloween-theme event.

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Campus Clean-Up Boosts EWU Climate Resiliency

May 13, 2025

Campus Clean-Up Boosts EWU Climate Resiliency

Faculty and staff volunteers beautified campus, adding native and climate resilient plants to the landscape.

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Student Overcomes Obstacles to Graduate

June 20, 2024

Student Overcomes Obstacles to Graduate

Scholarship recipient Roxanne McPeck was conferred with a Master of Science in biology degree during Eastern’s June 15 commencement ceremony.  

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Researchers Have a ‘New’ Home

May 17, 2024 by Melodie Little

EWU leadership along with state representatives Joe Schmick, Leonard Christian, Suzanne Schmidt and Mary Dye pose with a student who has big scissors and is cutting the ribbon

EWU celebrates the opening of the first phase of a renovation that is transforming the 1960s-era Science Building into a modern research hub.

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Biology Student Wins Prestigious STEM Scholarship

May 31, 2019 by

Marcos Monteiro Eagle Statue

Marcos Monteiro, a junior studying Biology at Eastern, is the university’s first ever Barry Goldwater Scholar.

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EWU Launches Prairie Restoration Project

May 7, 2019 by

Members of the drum circle gather around the drum on the edge of the prairie

Members of the Eastern community and representatives from local tribes joined EWU President Mary Cullinan on Wednesday to launch a major sustainability initiative that will restore one-third of EWU-owned land to its native habitat. The Cheney campus spans some 300 acres, more than 100 acres of which is farmland to the west of campus. The

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