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Admitted Student Day 2020

EWU Students celebrating in front of JFK Library

Learn more about EWU and get answers to your admissions questions.

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Campus Flyover

Aerial view of EWU campus with a stormy sky

Surrounded by golden, rolling hills and basalt outcroppings, the EWU campus is an ideal place for learning. Our immersive student-faculty community is designed to keep you focused and supported. EWU is so much more than a degree, a campus, a red field. It’s new friendships, future relationships and collaborations that will result in something spectacular.

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‘It Is Priceless:’ Testimonials from WGSS Graduates

March 9, 2020 by Leilah Langley

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Hanncel Sanchez and Noahloni Garcia, both 2019 graduates, describe the value of a degree in Women’s and Gender Studies from Eastern Washington University. The women talk about their life changing experiences at Eastern and the tools they gained to help them pursue their careers and community activism goals.

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Student MMR Vaccination Enforcement Suspended

October 18, 2019 by David Meany

photo: summer campus flyover

Earlier this year, the EWU Board of Trustees passed a policy requiring all Eastern students to provide proof of immunization for measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) in order to minimize the significant health risks these diseases pose to our campus. Initially a deadline was set for students to provide proof before registering for winter quarter.

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EWU Student Named One of 10 Women of the Year

September 18, 2019 by David Meany

Aerial shot of Cheney campus

Story from The Spokesman-Review, highlighting its 2019 INLAND NORTHWEST WOMEN OF THE YEAR. As a child Jordan Stevenson was an overachiever. She competed in speech and debate in high school, graduated with honors and loved to volunteer. Then, just weeks before she finished high school, she found out her parents were not going to help

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Biology Student Wins Prestigious STEM Scholarship

May 31, 2019 by Leilah Langley

Marcos Monteiro Eagle Statue

Marcos Monteiro, a junior studying Biology at Eastern, is the university’s first ever Barry Goldwater Scholar.

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Eastern ME Students’ Work on Prosthetics Highlighted

May 16, 2019 by Leilah Langley

Eastern ME Students’ Work on Prosthetics Highlighted

Mechanical engineering students received local media attention this week for their work building prosthetic limbs for area school kids. The KREM 2 News story highlighted the work students Shannon Kellam, Guthrie Boleneus and Jacob Stewart did to create a 3D-printed prosthetic arm for Rogers High School senior Ryan Merkle. Previously the team did the same

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Unusual Dance Venue Opens in the PUB

April 1, 2019 by eastern247

Disco club and PUB facade

Cheney, Wash., APRIL 1 — Get ready to boogie in the basement, say officials from Eastern Washington University. An EWU spokesperson announced Monday that during reconstruction of the university’s Pence Union Building (PUB) last summer workers inadvertently opened up what they believed to be an underground cavern beneath the structure’s community room. Further inspection determined

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Yazmin Zepeda

December 20, 2018 by eastern247

Photo: Student-teacher Yazmin in her first grade classroom surrounded by her students

Yazmin came to EWU from Yakima to join the education program. She has wanted to be a teacher her whole life, and loves how much all her EWU professors care about her and want her to succeed.

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Rickie Morris Jr.

December 14, 2018 by eastern247

Photo: Rickie Morris in a classroom setting with other students

Rickie came to EWU from Saginaw, Michigan, to study philosophy. He loves Eastern because everyone he knows everyone on campus is here to help him succeed. “It’s like a big family,” says Rickie.

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