Category: Research

Bones Laid Bare

Bones Laid Bare

An EWU biologist explores the foundations of bone regeneration. Scientists have long known that the bones in our bodies are constantly repairing and rebuilding themselves, this thanks to an extraordinary regenerative process that is essential to maintaining mobility, organ protection and other critical skeletal functions.     The molecular-level mechanism behind our bones’ remarkable “remodeling”

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Air Force Eagles

Air Force Eagles

A new educational partnership will take experiential education to new heights.   Since it was founded during the Second World War, Fairchild Air Force Base, located just up the road from EWU’s Cheney campus, has been a critical part of our nation’s air defense system. Now it is poised to be a vital partner in

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Life Among the Martians

Life Among the Martians

Dillon Dalton, a recent computer science graduate, joins the space race.   For recent Eastern graduate Dillon Dalton, not even the sky’s the limit. Dalton, a 23-year-old computer science alumnus, is currently part of a NASA team working on the Mars Sample Return project. The goal? To bring rock and atmospheric samples from the Red

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Lab Girls

Lab Girls

A new summer event aims to sell kids on STEM.   Despite making tremendous professional progress over the past several decades, women are still distressingly under-represented in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math. According to the National Science Board, last year they represented only 26 percent of the college-educated workforce in STEM occupations.

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Movement Researcher

Movement Researcher

A scholar of global migration is named EWU’s Chertok Endowed Professor.   Kassahun Kebede, an associate professor of sociology at EWU whose work on immigration and refugees has attracted international acclaim, was honored in October as Eastern’s new Jeffers W. Chertok Memorial Endowed Professor. Kebede, who has served as an instructor and researcher in both

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Restoration, Repurposed

January 4, 2024

Restoration, Repurposed

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

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Flying High

Flying High

ROTC’s Frank Cantu is the latest Eagle “Instructor of the Year.”   Frank Cantu, a senior military science instructor for the Eastern Washington University ROTC program, was recently named as the U.S. Army Cadet Command Instructor of the Year for 2023. It is the fourth time in five years that a member of EWU ROTC’s

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Support for Speech

Support for Speech

A generous grant will help Eastern help Parkinson’s patients.

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A Need for Nurses

A Need for Nurses

A new degree is poised to ease a critical nursing shortage.

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PUB Love

Photo of the stairs and entryway of the PUB

Yet another award for Eastern’s most celebrated building.

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