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RTC Master’s Alumna Publishes Article

April 14, 2020

Raquel De Leon

EWU Rhetoric & Technical Communication alumna Raquel DeLeon (formerly Dean) recently published her article “User Experiences of Spanish-Speaking Latinos with the Frontier Behavioral Health Website,” in Xchanges: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Technical Communication, Rhetoric, and Writing Across the Curriculum. DeLeon shows in her article that technical communication and advocacy are not mutually exclusive endeavors. DeLeon’s

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MFA Alumna Finds Career as Employment Specialist

April 2, 2020

Maura Lammers

Eastern Washington University alumna Maura Lammers finds a career after getting her MFA in Nonfiction and achieving publication in The New York Times and The Masters Review Eastern Washington University alumni Maura Lammers has had her fair share of successes and learning moments in her life. She comes from a diverse professional background and has

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Pencils Down Symposium – Call for Papers

T-shirt that reads "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter," by Martin Luther King

Call For Papers: Pencil’s Down, Student-Led Symposium, Co-Sponsored by EWU English Department, Stands Up Against Bigotry and Weaponized Hatred Symposium Date: To Be Announced Symposium Location/Format: To Be Announced In light of the recent COVID-19 epidemic/pandemic, we are reevaluating the format/location/date/programming for the symposium and will be making an announcement about alternative format/location/date/programming soon. Abstracts

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Freedom or Fascism

Speech Acts in the Age of Normalized Violence: Understanding truth and meaning-making in the fight for social justice Hosted Thursday, Feb 13th, 2020 | 12-2pm -| HAR 201 Natasha Lennard is a journalist and essayist. She is a columnist for The Intercept, editor for the Commune Magazine, and her work has appeared regularly in The

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Silent Sky runs March 6-14 at EWU Theatre

Silent Sky with dates March 6-14

SILENT SKY By: Lauren Gunderson Directed by: Sara Goff Silent Sky tells the true story of Henrietta Leavitt, the astronomer ahead of her time. It is 1900 and Henrietta has the opportunity to work at Harvard University as a human computer, one of Edward Pickering’s “harem,” mapping the stars but receiving no scientific credit. Silent Sky is the poignant tale of

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EWU Theatre 2019-2020 Season

Silent Sky with dates March 6-14

Winter Quarter 2020 | Mar. 6-14 “Silent Sky” by Lauren Gunderson Directed by Sara Goff “When Henrietta Leavitt begins work at the Harvard Observatory in the early 1900s, she isn’t allowed to touch a telescope or express an original idea. Instead, she joins a group of women “computers,” charting the stars for a renowned astronomer

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EWU Professor’s Book Finds Admirers in an Unexpected Place

February 18, 2020

Mimi Marinucci

Like many university professors, EWU’s Mimi Marinucci uses her own book in one of the classes she teaches. But she never imagined that a former student would help her promote her work to readers half-way around the world. Marinucci is a professor of philosophy and women’s and gender studies at Eastern. In her Queer Theory

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KREM Features AiR

February 14, 2020

Lili Navarrete and Lisa Logan Interviewed by Casey Decker of KREM

Casey Decker of KREM visited Women’s and Gender Studies to interview 2020 Activist in Residence, Lili Navarrete and WAGE Center Manager, Lisa Logan about the program and Lili’s goal to educate EWU students about immigration activism.

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Spokesman-Review Features AiR

February 12, 2020

Lili Navarrete

Spokesman-Review reporter, Chad Sokol visited the WAGE Center for the Activist in Residence event on Wednesday, February 5th.

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EWU Education Students Present at NCTE 2019

EWU students pose in the #NCTE19 photo booth

Every November the National Council of Teachers of English hosts a convention where thousands of educators, experts, authors, administrators, publishers, and more travel to Baltimore, Maryland to attend workshops, listen to keynote speakers, make presentations, etc. For the past four years, professor Shelly Shaffer has had the honor of taking a few of her students

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