Category: Giving

A successful Giving Joy Day commemorates an Eastern anniversary.   Eastern has for decades celebrated the anniversary of its founding during the first week of April. In more recent years, EWU’s birthday celebration has included an opportunity for Eagles to mark the occasion by giving gifts of support. Giving Joy Day brings together both the…

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Spokane’s historic SIERR building sees new life as a high-tech center for the health sciences.   In its day, the Spokane and Inland Empire Railroad was among the most popular regional “interurbans” in Washington, using its electric rail cars to connect thousands of passengers to points between Spokane and Moscow, Idaho. Cars eventually doomed the…

Once again, Giving Joy Day delivers for students.

Eastern’s new master’s degree in history is attracting national interest.

This winter especially, there is so much to be grateful for.

An Eastern trustee and his family step up for students.

In October, Eastern hosted the first of what it hopes will become an annual wheelchair basketball  event. Since its beginnings as a form of recreation for injured veterans returning from World War II, wheelchair basketball has been among the most popular — and competitive — of sports enjoyed by people who use wheelchairs.  Eastern’s wheelchair basketball…

EWU students join a gathering of lichen hunters in West Virginia.

Inclement weather aside, Giving Joy Day delivers again for students.   On a wet and windy Monday in April — the day after the university marked its 140th birthday —  EWU celebrated Giving Joy Day, the seventh annual iteration of its flagship service and philanthropy event. By the time the final totals were in, members…