Category: Research

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…

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.…

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…

ROTC’s Frank Cantu is the latest Eagle “Instructor of the Year.”   Frank Cantu, a senior military science instructor for the Eastern Washington University ROTC program, was recently named as the U.S. Army Cadet Command Instructor of the Year for 2023. It is the fourth time in five years that a member of EWU ROTC’s…

A generous grant will help Eastern help Parkinson’s patients.

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 Olympia, David Buri is on the job for Eastern Washington University.