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  During her inspiring investiture speech, Dr. McMahan spoke about leading our university’s students — both present and future— along a “clear path to a bright future” (our cover story on Page 16), it immediately brought to mind memories of my own journey to Eastern. For me, that path wasn’t all that clear. But, like…

During an investiture ceremony replete with academic pomp and regalia, EWU formally recognized Dr. Shari McMahan as its new leader.

Beginning winter quarter 1970, a new transportation option debuted at EWU, one that, even at the moment of its inception, was widely acknowledged as a game-changer for thousands of Eastern students.

EWU’s Jonathan Middleton explores the potential of “data-to-music” algorithms.

Eastern celebrates 100 years of coming home. It was a Homecoming celebration a century in the making. This year’s 100th anniversary edition of Eagle Family Homecoming, a must-attend happening that included both time-honored traditions and exciting new events, kicked off on Oct. 16. Before concluding a week later with a victorious football tilt against Weber…

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…

Eastern’s 75-year-old radio station confronts a “changing media landscape.”   Eastern announced earlier this fall that its long-running non-commercial jazz radio station, 89.5 KEWU-FM, has transitioned to DJ-free, “pre-loaded” jazz as part of a phase-out plan that could eventually result in the university ceding ownership. The decision to potentially offload the station did not come lightly,…

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.…

In collaboration with No-Li, Eastern’s craft brewers make their mark internationally.   Universities, EWU among them, are more typically associated with the consumption, rather than the production, of malted beverages. For the past year Eastern’s innovative program in craft brewing has been working to change that. Now the whole wide world of beer is taking…