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A generous gift restores historic Roos Field to its inferno-like luster By Eastern Magazine On an appropriately sweltering July day, crews at The Inferno began installing the second generation of Roos Field’s iconic red turf. The project was slated to be completed well in advance of Eastern’s home football opener against Western Illinois on Sept.…

Eastern Graduates Are at the Heart of Spokane’s Coronavirus Response By Charles E. Reineke It is not glamorous work. The days are long, often exhausting: there are phone calls, data analyses, site visits, isolation interventions, testing, more testing, and messaging that urges, sometimes pleads, with residents to “wash your hands, maintain social distance, wear masks,…

Men’s Basketball honored for its 2020 Big Sky Conference title By Eastern Magazine In May, the Spokane County Board of Commissioners recognized the Eastern men’s basketball team in a proclamation made during a remotely-held meeting. The citation recognized EWU for winning the Big Sky Conference outright championship, honored Mason Peatling for his conference MVP win,…

Not only will the new Catalyst structure help change the way the world constructs buildings, it will alter for the better the way students learn and companies do business.   By Leilah Langley Innovators can see a future where others see only blight. When they look across an industrialized riverscape, over scrubby railroad tracks to…

Eastern graduates look down from a billboard at the corner of N. Monroe St. and Boone Ave. in downtown Spokane. EWU reserved the billboard — pre-pandemic — to congratulate graduates and their families as they left the commencement ceremony planned for Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena. When graduation went online, the university moved to replace its…

Eagle Athletes and Coaches Adapt to Pandemic Uncertainty. By Paul Delaney Eastern Washington University men’s basketball head coach Shantay Legans had a unique view of the outbreak of COVID-19 back in March. In Boise for the Big Sky Conference Tournament, Legans vividly recalled the day it all fell apart for his red hot Eagles, a team…

On the Colville Reservation, deadly car crashes have become a tragic fact of life. EWU faculty and students are determined to change that.   By Dave Meany To drive along one stretch of the Coulee Corridor, a national scenic byway, is to experience North Central Washington in all its glory. The majestic Columbia River is…

A prominent EWU scientist and his students explores new ways of thinking about a devastating neurodegenerative disease.

The Hawaiian word lokahi, roughly defined, means “balanced, unified and harmonious.” For Michelle Horton ’10, and others who call the Aloha State home, the term is often deployed to describe the sort of benevolent, communitarian way of living that they and their neighbors aspire to perfect.

A cornucopia of organic produce aims to take a bite out of hunger. By Eastern Magazine Recent upgrades to the university’s sort-of-secret Sustainability Garden — already a cornucopia of gorgeous organic produce — are giving this out-of-the-way plot a more prominent role in helping food-insecure students eat better. The changes this season, according to EWU…