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

Yet another award for Eastern’s most celebrated building.

A welcoming new center opens for community and collaboration.

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…