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EWU Professor of Psychology Phil Watkins, PhD, has found ways to make people happier through gratitude exercises. Watkins’ research was recently featured on the Academic Minute, which highlights researchers from colleges and universities around the world. His research focused on how gratitude can improve people’s lives. “Gratitude seems to have positive consequences,” he said. “My…

Food Trucks Three food trucks, as part of Greater Spokane Food Trucks, have set up shop between Monroe Hall and Showalter Hall. Mac Daddy’s Gourmet Grub, CRATE and Soup’s On will be on campus Monday-Friday from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Thomas Hammer Coffee Thomas Hammer Coffee reopened in the JFK Library Monday, Jan. 9. In its…

With the 2017 legislative session just days away, EWU has approved our 2017 operating budget priorities. Washington Competes – EWU joins Washington’s other public universities and colleges in strongly supporting “Washington Competes,” a proposal to maintain the state’s competitive edge by bolstering degree production, student success, and academic quality. Degrees to Meet Demand: Address State Needs…

Small acts of kindness were performed throughout the Spokane-Cheney community on Nov. 29, Giving Joy Day, thanks to the efforts of an EWU public relations class. “When I heard that EWU was launching Giving Joy Day, I thought it would be a good opportunity to not only help support the university in an important cause…

Veterans Resource Center (VRC) Director Dave Millet and psychology Senior Lecturer Alan Basham presented the Got Your 6 program Wednesday, Nov. 9, guiding faculty and staff toward veteran cultural competency. “Everyone who comes in contact with our veterans are either going to make it difficult for them to come home and heal or you’re going…

  Lawrence Krauss: A Universe from Nothing Thursday, Nov. 17, 2016 1 p.m., Hargreaves Hall, Cheney EWU Campus event for students, faculty and staff 7 p.m., Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox, Spokane Doors open at 6:15 p.m. – Free public admission The EWU President’s Forum for Critical Thought is a lecture series presented by the…

President Mary Cullinan and EWU alumna Elena Calderon published a joint op-ed piece in The Seattle Times Nov. 3 on college debt, titled Don’t scare students about college debt—there are other options. “Elena Calderon is a first-generation college student who graduated from Eastern Washington University with two degrees and without debt. This isn’t the story…

Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2016 1 p.m., Hargreaves Hall, Cheney – EWU Campus event for students, faculty and staff 7 p.m., Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox, Spokane – Free public admission New York Times bestselling author Jack Weatherford shares how Genghis Khan harnessed the power of religious freedom to rule the world’s largest empire in…

Eastern Washington University is part of a statewide $3 million collaboration grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to help improve the next generation of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) teacher-preparation programs in Washington. Multiple state partners will work together to anticipate and identify the needs and challenges future teachers will face and provide…

Story by Rosie Perry, Editor-in-Chief of The Easterner One hundred years ago on Oct. 10, EWU students produced their first weekly newspaper known as The State Normal School Journal. In 1929, they shortened their name to The Journal. Twenty-two years later in 1951, The Journal ceased publication and The Easterner resumed publication in its place.…