Category: Science

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…

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…

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

Work begins to refit a ‘Sputnik-era’ Science Building.   Just weeks after EWU’s glittering new Interdisciplinary Science Center opened its doors, construction began on the $45 million first phase of a Science Building renovation — a companion project that promises to usher in a new era of research and discovery at Eastern.     The…

A glass-tiled “mosaic mural” adds a colorful focal point to Eastern’s Interdisciplinary Science Center.   Even as students and faculty members continue settling into Eastern’s new Interdisciplinary Science Center, the work of adorning the building’s light-filled interior continues apace. Among the most striking of these decorative touches is a colorful, two-panel “mosaic mural” of glazed…

The Soviet Union’s successful launch of the Sputnik 1 satellite in 1957 didn’t just shock and embarrass the American political establishment, it led to a frantic game of superpower one-upmanship. Among the positive outcomes of the ensuing “space race” was a renewed national interest in — and greatly increased funding for — university-based science and…

Bob Quinn, a geography professor with a passion for the weather, died on Oct. 10. In 1967, Robert “Bob” Quinn, a newly minted assistant professor of geography at Eastern Washington State College, arrived in Cheney to find himself confronted by the coldest, snowiest winter in the city’s recorded history. His new colleagues no doubt thought…

Eastern students take on the cyber crooks.   A ransomware attack shuts down Colonial Pipeline, largest fuel supplier to the East Coast; a cryptocurrency heist drains $600 million from the accounts of the PolyNetwork blockchain site; a data breach exposes the personal information of 50 million T-Mobile account holders: These brazen cyberattacks, all pulled off…

  Once they were migrant and seasonal farm workers. Soon they’ll launch careers in health care.   CAMP, the College Assistance Migrant Program, is a federally funded program designed to help young people from migrant and seasonal farm worker backgrounds enroll in — and succeed at — the nation’s colleges and universities. Eastern’s program, led…