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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…

For EWU’s new men’s basketball coach, Cheney is familiar ground.   Eastern’s new men’s head basketball coach, Dan Monson, was the talk of the basketball world earlier this year when, after being fired as the head coach of Long Beach State, he led his team to a Big West Conference Tournament title and a NCAA…

Eastern’s multi-year Prairie Restoration Project reaches a milestone.   As previously noted in this magazine, Eastern’s Prairie Restoration Project aims to return a 120-acre parcel of university-owned farmland to its native habitat, thus creating a “living laboratory” of restored Northern Palouse prairie proximate to the Cheney campus. Together with the Spokane and other local tribes…

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Each year the EWU Alumni Association holds a gala event to honor a select group of Eastern’s most impactful alumni. This year, as always, the stories of our inspiring Eagle honorees made it an occasion to remember.   

Brendon Merritt, an Eagle basketball great with an indomitable will to win, died on May 16, 2024.

Big Sky MVP Jamie Loera reflects on a spectacular season for Eastern women’s basketball.

  View a complete PDF of the 2023-24 EWU Foundation Annual Report.