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The Cup is coming back to Cheney. For the third time in the last four seasons, Eastern Washington University has again won the Big Sky Conference Presidents’ Cup for the 2017-18 school year, the league office announced Wednesday (July 11). Based on a point system that takes into account both academic and athletic success, Eastern…

What if you could compose music to understand how salmon migrate through rivers? A team of researchers from UI and EWU have found a way to do it.

Textbooks, paperbacks, atlases and magazines fill every shelf in her classroom. Maps of the world, the United States and the local town adorn the walls, along with quotes from historic figures, postcards from around the world, hand-drawn artwork, high school memorabilia, thank you cards, and, secured with a shiny silver thumbtack in its own special…

Photographs from Eastern Washington University’s 2018 commencement ceremonies are now available on Flickr. Nearly 3,200 students (2,642 undergraduate and 534 graduate) were eligible to attend commencement ceremonies at the Spokane Arena on Saturday, June 16. Ceremonies were also held for semester students on May 4 at the Spokane Convention Center.

College Spark Washington has announced $1.5 million in Community Grants to help low-income students become college-ready and earn their degree, and Eastern Washington University will receive $149,573 of the funding. Eastern’s Department of Mathematics will utilize the funding to develop, pilot and scale corequisite remediation courses. In corequisite remediation, students are placed directly into college-level…

The eight white boxes in a weedy, fenced-off field behind the big red barn at Eastern Washington University are absolutely crawling with life…

Building on its legacy as a teaching institute, Eastern Washington University is excited to announce the launch of six accelerated online Master of Education (M.Ed.) programs and one certificate program designed for the working professional. The affordable, highly personalized education offerings include: M.Ed. – Curriculum and Instruction M.Ed. –  Literacy M.Ed. – Early Childhood Education…

Spencer Scott loves the amount of technology and availability of facilities on campus. So much so that he, along with other students, designed a rocket for competition – something he never knew that he wanted to do.

Aiko Nagabuchi studies teaching English as a second language. The tight-knit community is one of Nagabuchi’s favorite parts of her EWU experience, as well as her program which keeps her in-the-loop with international students.

Samuel Wani says the psychology program at EWU Bellevue has catered to his needs, and has made it easy for him to work full-time while being a full-time student. He considers the one-on-one time with instructors and counselors a privilege, and his overall experience has been an investment in himself that he considered worthwhile.