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Beginning winter quarter 1970, a new transportation option debuted at EWU, one that, even at the moment of its inception, was widely acknowledged as a game-changer for thousands of Eastern students.

EWU’s Jonathan Middleton explores the potential of “data-to-music” algorithms.

Eastern celebrates 100 years of coming home. It was a Homecoming celebration a century in the making. This year’s 100th anniversary edition of Eagle Family Homecoming, a must-attend happening that included both time-honored traditions and exciting new events, kicked off on Oct. 16. Before concluding a week later with a victorious football tilt against Weber…

Dillon Dalton, a recent computer science graduate, joins the space race.   For recent Eastern graduate Dillon Dalton, not even the sky’s the limit. Dalton, a 23-year-old computer science alumnus, is currently part of a NASA team working on the Mars Sample Return project. The goal? To bring rock and atmospheric samples from the Red…

Eastern’s 75-year-old radio station confronts a “changing media landscape.”   Eastern announced earlier this fall that its long-running non-commercial jazz radio station, 89.5 KEWU-FM, has transitioned to DJ-free, “pre-loaded” jazz as part of a phase-out plan that could eventually result in the university ceding ownership. The decision to potentially offload the station did not come lightly,…

A new summer event aims to sell kids on STEM.   Despite making tremendous professional progress over the past several decades, women are still distressingly under-represented in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math. According to the National Science Board, last year they represented only 26 percent of the college-educated workforce in STEM occupations.…

In collaboration with No-Li, Eastern’s craft brewers make their mark internationally.   Universities, EWU among them, are more typically associated with the consumption, rather than the production, of malted beverages. For the past year Eastern’s innovative program in craft brewing has been working to change that. Now the whole wide world of beer is taking…

Money magazine weighs in on why Eastern is a high-value performer.   Here in Washington, it’s no secret that Eastern is a premier destination for top-notch instruction at value-conscious prices. Now, thanks to a recent ranking from Money magazine, students around the nation can appreciate the bang-for-your-buck benefits that come with being an Eagle.   …

A scholar of global migration is named EWU’s Chertok Endowed Professor.   Kassahun Kebede, an associate professor of sociology at EWU whose work on immigration and refugees has attracted international acclaim, was honored in October as Eastern’s new Jeffers W. Chertok Memorial Endowed Professor. Kebede, who has served as an instructor and researcher in both…

Spokane’s historic SIERR building sees new life as a high-tech center for the health sciences.   In its day, the Spokane and Inland Empire Railroad was among the most popular regional “interurbans” in Washington, using its electric rail cars to connect thousands of passengers to points between Spokane and Moscow, Idaho. Cars eventually doomed the…