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Infectious Winning

Infectious  Winning

A Big Sky Tournament Championship, and a third March Madness appearance, cap a Covid-plagued season to remember. By Paul Delaney

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Legans Ends an Enviable Run

Shantay Legans, EWU head basketball coach

Eastern’s head basketball coach accepts the top job at the University of Portland. By Charles E. Reineke Following Eastern’s Big

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Prairie’s Progress

Prairie’s Progress

A snowy seed-sowing session ushers in a prairie’s revival.   Prairie Restoration Project, a multi-year effort aimed at transforming a

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Kick-Start for Scholars

Catalyst

A 10-year, $500,000 gift aims to encourage ‘experiential learning’ at the Catalyst.   EWU research to be conducted at Spokane’s

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Return Flight

EWU students on campus wearing Covid-19 masks

With cautious optimism, Eastern plans for resuming in-person instruction this fall.   More than a year has passed since the

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Art Ballers

Eastern HoopFest backboard design

Eastern students and alumni are used to attacking rims at Spokane Hoopfest. Now they’re bringing the backboards.   Hoopfest, the

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Pandemic notwithstanding, the hoodies must go on

Fifth grader with hoodie.

Since 2016, Eastern admissions staff members have partnered with Spokane Public Schools and local-business donors to bring red and black

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Assistance and Experience

student learning on a computer

An EWU program pairs mathematics-education students with the children of health workers.   Eastern students studying to be teachers have

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Services, Extended

Panoramic aerial view of the EWU Campus

When Madison Flint, a senior English major at EWU, sat down to fill out the Winter 2021 Student Satisfaction Survey,

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Professor, Mentor, Friend

Professor, Mentor, Friend

For more than 50 years, Bill Youngs has put students first.   During his more than 50 years at EWU,

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