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SPOKANE VALLEY, Wash. – The Eastern Washington University Regional Geology and Field Methods classes studied rock formations from an old Saltese Uplands Conservation Area fault zone. There are multiple fault zones, both active and inactive, in the greater Spokane region, and students like Marilyn Smith explained how these zones can show how our region came…

“The biggest activity I’ve been involved with is Eastern’s Prairie Restoration Project. It includes my own research, but also with helping students with their independent research and creating a foundation for my career.”  

October 2023 On October 27th EWU’s ISC Hosted “Spooky Science” EWU’s Spooky Science hosted a fun group of activities including glowing rocks and fungus, bugs, Bones (as seen in our featured image), and many others! This event was welcome to all ages and candy was handed out to those brave enough to come! Trunk-or-treating was…

August 2023 EWU hosts their first ever Girls+ STEM Camp This month Eastern hosted its first Girls+ STEM Camp teaching young students all about the fun of science through various activities, such as: Barbie Bungee Jump, Wetland in a bottle, Microbes (a two-day experiment), Necklace making, Creating paper rockets and writing secret messages, Circuits to light…

July 2023 Spokane Tribes comes for a fun science visit Spokane tribes students came for a visit to learn a little bit about science! The first experiment, taught by Dr. Masiello, was about why we don’t use fire around hydrogen. Make sure to watch the video on our Instagram to hear the big boom 😆…

June 2023 Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Physics Graduation Award Recipients 2023: Kyle Reum: Chemistry Kailani Kennedy: Biochemistry Richard Ingraham: Analytical Chemistry Research Jaelin Ishikawa: Pre-Clinical Professions Duncan Briggs: Service Olivia Sikora: Forensic Science Nhat Nguyen: Physics Research Eugene Korchemniy: Chemistry Research Enjoy your summers everyone and Congratulations to our Graduates. We are very proud of you!

2023 Student Research and Creative Works Symposium Ben Novak – Presented Ordinal Analysis of 2D Chaotic Maps Ryan Breithaupt – Chaotic Forecasting via Artificial Intelligence Nhat Nguyen – TARDYS Quantifiers: Extracting Temporal and Reversible Dynamical Symmetries   Conference Participation Nhat Nguyen – Attending and Presenting at the SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems, May…

CHBP people Nick Burgis got elected for four more years as department chair. Congratulations! Ben Lundgren confirmed his official acceptance to be a new member of our department. Congratulations! Outreach Janelle Jenkins and Andrés Aragoneses participated at an outreach event at Wilson Middle School in Spokane. Dean Bowman will be giving a presentation on “The Magnitude 7.8…

Alumni finding jobs in science Taylor Mundel (’22) got a position as equipment engineer at Microchip Technology. Malek Chriaki (’22) got a position as Project Technician at Jubilant HollisterStier Contract Manufacturing and Services. Congratulations! People in the CHBP department Ashley Lamm laboratory: Plastics and polymers are incredibly useful and ubiquitous in our daily lives but…

Papers published Undergraduate student Nhat Nguyen (Physics Minor 2023), together with  Andrés Aragoneses, and  Carleton College Professor, Arjendu Pattanayak, have recently published a paper: “TARDYS: Extracting Temporal And Reversible DYnamical Symmetries” Published in Photonics (MDPI), open access: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.organomet.2c00353 Faculty candidate seminar and teaching demonstration Biochemistry candidate Steven Karpowicz, from Eastern New Mexico University, will deliver a…