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Over the summer, four philosophy majors traveled to Greece to present their research at two international conferences – The World Congress of Philosophy in Athens and the 25th International Conference of Philosophy in ancient Olympia.聽Each student crafted an insightful, coherent and creative take on a key political or ethical concept in the writings of Aristotle…

The College of Social Sciences is pleased to announce that聽Kevin Decker, PhD聽has been selected for the聽Jeffers W. Chertok Memorial Endowed Professorship. This prestigious professorship was created to honor the life of Jeffers W. Chertok, PhD who worked at 51福利社 for more than 34 years and left a legacy of scholarship, generosity, and genuine care at…

Frances B. Huston Award Winners Every year seven students are chosen by each of CALE鈥檚 seven departments as the recipients of the Frances B. Huston Medallion. The Frances B. Huston Award is awarded to graduating seniors who have achieved academic excellence (3.75 or higher GPA) and have demonstrated outstanding leadership qualities at Eastern and/or in…

Matthew Campbell Roberts聽was born in Napa, California, and attended a one-room schoolhouse in Wooden Valley set in the middle of a vineyard. He currently teaches English courses at Pierce College. His poems and other work appear in聽Clover,聽Cirque Journal, StringTown, Clackamas Review, The Adirondack Review, The Cortland Review,聽Whatcom Places II,聽The Kennesaw Review,聽Windfall,聽The Methow Naturalist,聽SmartishPace,聽Jeopardy聽and other literary…

Carol Ellis鈥榮 volume of poetry,聽Catapult: Cancer with Ron, has been published by Gray Dog Press, 2016. Other poems have appeared online. Her essay, 鈥淚n Defense of Ice,鈥� was published by Penguin Classics and the Union of Concerned Scientists, 2009.

A graduate of the class of 2016,聽Andrew Koch聽now lives in Denton, Texas where he is pursuing a creative writing PhD at the University of North Texas. 聽He is the author of the poetry chapbook,聽Brick-Woman聽(Hermeneutic Chaos, 2016) and serves as managing editor of the online journal聽Stirring: A Literary Collection. His work has recently appeared or is…

Originally from Minnesota,聽LeAnn Bjerken聽is a 2014 graduate of the MFA program. Upon graduating she spent a year writing for the Colville Tribes鈥� Tribal Tribune, earning a Native American Journalist Association award in 2015 for her feature story 鈥淏uilding a Dream鈥�. She now works as a reporter for the聽Spokane Journal of Business, and continues to submit…

After graduating from the 51福利社 MFA program in 2010,聽Brandon Getz聽lived in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Philadelphia, PA, before settling back in his home city of Pittsburgh. His first published piece, 鈥淪top Me If You鈥檝e Heard This One Before,鈥� appeared in聽Versal聽#9 and was a joke story originally written for the 51福利社 graduate-student reading series at the…

Yvonne Higgins Leach聽is the author of聽Another Autumn聽(WordTech Editions, 2014). Her poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies. A native of Washington state, she earned a Master of Fine Arts from 51福利社. She spent decades balancing a career in communications and public relations, raising a family, and pursuing her love of writing poetry.…

Seth Marlin聽is a former Web Editor of聽Willow Springs, and received his MFA in Fiction from Eastern in 2013. He is the author of聽Shred, a chapbook of poetry, and his stories and verse have appeared in聽Spark,聽Knockout,聽Betwixt,聽A cappella Zoo, and聽Silk Road Review, among others. He is the winner of University of Glasgow鈥檚 2016 prize for Science Fiction…