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Since 1974, the National History Day non-profit education organization has offered annual year-long academic programs that engages over half a million middle- and high-school students around the world in conducting original research on historical topics of History. This year’s theme is Debate & Diplomacy in History and the Eastern Washington University Social Studies Education program…

EWU’s Gender, Women’s & Sexuality Studies and Women’s & Gender Education Center present Dr. Jessi Quizar A Logic of Care and Grassroots Claims to Home in Detroit Thursday, May 12th 4 – 5:15 p.m. In Person in Monroe 207  Masks Encouraged Or Virtual at bit.ly/GWSSLogicofCare This talk explores the ways in which Detroit Eviction Defense…

Counseling and Wellness and the Women’s and Gender Education Center are collaborating to bring Sexual Assault Awareness Month activities to EWU this year. Paint the Town Teal April 1 – 30 Decorate your door or office to show your support of survivors for the month. Upload photos of your space here to be featured on…

2021 saw the publishing of the book The Clarinet that was edited by the EWU Fine & Performing Arts Music Department professor Jane Ellsworth. Along with overseeing editing the collection of essays written by leading performer-scholars, Professor Ellsworth also wrote two of the chapters. The Clarinet “offers unique perspectives on the clarinet’s historical role in…

EWU’s Associate Professor, Margo Hill, published her article No Honor in Genocide: A Case Study of Street Renaming and Community Organizing in the Wake of National Decolonization Efforts in the Gonzaga Journal of Hate Studies. The case study provides an example wherein Indigenous people have objected to a place-name that honors genocide and thus consequently…

I’d like to thank Lieutenant Ben Van Meter for bringing Colton Crawford’s recent promotion to Major in the Military Science Department to our attention. This is a significant accomplishment for any Captain, as more than a third of them do not make it to the rank of Major and it often takes ten competitive years…

The Department of Fine and Performing Arts is pleased to announce that Malcolm Pelles, Lecturer in Film and Screenwriting, has been elected to serve as Equity Chair at Washington Filmworks. Pelles and fellow Equity Chair Myron Partman will collaborate with the Washington Filmworks board, staff, and partners at Epiphanies of Equity to develop social and racial equity goals…

The College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences awarded World Music Fund Awards to four student organizations and groups whose activities include incorporating world music and related performance of cultural expression. CAHSS is excited to announce the student organizations receiving the award: Ballet Folklorico de Aztlan Black Student Union Native American Student Association (NASA) Native…

EWU’s Assistant Professor of History and Director of Social Studies Education, Jacki Hedlund Tyler, published her book Leveraging an Empire – Settler Colonialism and the Legalities of Citizenship in the Pacific Northwest. The book evaluates Oregon’s exclusionary laws related to national issues of slavery, immigration, land ownership, education, suffrage, and naturalization and examines the process…

Enjoy a moment of peace as our EWU String Orchestra performs Antonio Vivaldi’s “Spring” from “The Four Seasons.” Featuring Amanda Howard-Phillips on violin and directed by Dr. John Marshall.