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For the Class of 2020, a graduation experience like no other By Eastern Magazine At EWU, and on college campuses across the nation, graduation ceremonies are a celebratory rite of spring, a time when the diligence and dedication of seniors and graduate students is rewarded with cheers, hugs and high-fives.  For the class of 2020,…

Covid-19 restrictions make ‘community’ gardening a one-man affair By Eastern Magazine As this magazine reported last fall, Erik Budsberg, indefatigable sustainability coordinator at Eastern, has long been committed to building up the EWU Community Garden, a verdant plot of organic goodness located on the southwest corner of campus. “The goal has always been to grow…

Eagles respond to neighbors in need By Eastern Magazine For some of the university community’s most vulnerable, COVID-19 made already difficult situations that much worse. But it didn’t take long for members of the Eagle family to jump into action.  Within days of coronavirus shutdowns, a group of five friends, each with a connection to…

In February, EWU hosted the USA National Curling Championships. By Eastern Magazine Back in February, just weeks before the coronavirus upended athletic competitions across the globe, the EWU Recreation Center for the first time played host to the USA Curling National Championships. The weeklong competition featured the nation’s top men’s and women’s curling sides, each…

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…