Category: Giving Stories

After a lifetime of making a difference in their careers, Ken and Kathy Privratsky continue to make a difference in retirement by supporting scholarships for EWU students who go on to do life-changing work with children and adults.

The Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineering (IEEE) Spokane chapter sent two Eastern students to the national IEEE Rising Star Conference on Jan. 3-5, in Las Vegas, Nevada. IEEE Spokane, which has been involved with the IEEE Student Chapter at Eastern for many years, began sponsoring students to attend the Rising Star event three years ago.…

The EWU Nursing Program recently received $274,000 from the state to help purchase simulation technologies for its new nursing labs.

Amerigroup Washington recently provided Eastern Washington University with a $50,000 gift to create the Amerigroup Rural Medicine Scholarship.

Numerica Credit Union is continuing its longstanding support of education at Eastern Washington University by dedicating a scholarship in honor of Sandy Williams.

The Toys for Tots Drive has raised two truckloads of toys and is being extended through Wednesday, Dec. 21. Eagles can drop off donations at the Veterans Resource Center.

Eastern Washington University was selected to receive a $21,000 grant from MultiCare’s Community Partnership Fund in support of the EWU Dental Hygiene Department’s nonprofit clinic, a leading provider of dental care for low-income households in Spokane County.

Wayne Wright, pictured above with his daughter and grandson, created a scholarship fund to honor his wife, Nancy, and pave the way to a degree for students from Rogers High School.

An Eastern alumnus who spent 26 years teaching and coaching elementary and middle school students has created a scholarship fund to inspire yet another generation of students as they pursue their dreams at Eastern. The E. Wayne and Nancy Wright Scholarship, named in honor of Wayne Wright and his wife Nancy, a longtime first-grade teacher who passed away in 2019, is now fully endowed and awarded its first scholarship recently.

Toulou, a junior at EWU, is modeling West Plains groundwater flows to track possible contamination by chemicals similar to those found in fire-fighting foam at Fairchild Air Force Base is receiving the inaugural Clawson-Youngs Environmental Studies Award.