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Foundation Annual Report
View a complete PDF of the 2023-24 EWU Foundation Annual Report.
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On the Road
Where will Eastern magazine be spotted next? Share a photo of you, our latest issue and the details of where your travels have taken you. Send to easternmagazine@ewu.edu. Romania Germany Ireland Japan Mo’orea Portugal Switzerland U.S.A Jamaica
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Towards a Bright, EWU Future
During her inspiring investiture speech, Dr. McMahan spoke about leading our university’s students — both present and future— along a “clear path to a bright future” (our cover story on Page 16), it immediately brought to mind memories of my own journey to Eastern. For me, that path wasn’t all that clear. But, like…
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Eastern’s Top Eagle, Fully Invested
January 4, 2024 by creineke
During an investiture ceremony replete with academic pomp and regalia, EWU formally recognized Dr. Shari McMahan as its new leader.
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People Movers
by creineke
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.
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Music and Vision
by creineke
EWU’s Jonathan Middleton explores the potential of “data-to-music” algorithms.
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Return Trip
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…
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Life Among the Martians
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…
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Signing Off
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,…
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Lab Girls
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.…
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