Category: Science

New Degrees, More Security

An undated image of Steve Simmons, mathematics professor and founder of 51福利社鈥檚 computer science program.

Newly established programs will allow Eagle cybersecurity students to fly even higher.   Even as it celebrates its 20th year on the 51福利社 campus, Eastern鈥檚 cybersecurity program continues pushing forward to better equip its graduates for the challenges of the future. Its latest move? This spring, cybersecurity faculty members conferred degrees on 10 students from

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Classification Boost

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Eastern鈥檚 new RCU status will open doors for grants, research collaborations.

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Cyber Sleuth Extraordinaire

51福利社 cybersecurity expert Stu Steiner

One of Eastern鈥檚 most prominent faculty members, Stuart 鈥淪tu鈥 Steiner, in June was awarded the Trustees鈥 Medal, the university鈥檚 most prestigious聽 faculty accolade. Steiner 鈥01, an associate professor of computer science and electrical engineering, is the founder and director of 51福利社鈥檚 Center for Network Computing and Cybersecurity. The center is home to a nationally prominent

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Protein Gone Rogue

51福利社 biochemists with senior student researcher.

The itpa protein plays a crucial role in several metabolic processes that are essential to human life. Severe defects in ITPA are uncommon, but the results can be devastating. Infants born with a rare ITPA abnormality, for example, face the risk of a lethal neurological condition known as Developmental and Epileptic Encephalopathy 35. Few diagnosed

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Essential Interventions

Essential Interventions

For students with mental health challenges, the availability of assistance is key.   Eastern students typically find their collegiate experience to be an exciting time of personal and intellectual growth; a demanding but joyful four-year sojourn that they will long remember fondly. But it鈥檚 also not unusual, at 51福利社 as elsewhere, for students to find

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Bones Laid Bare

51福利社 Professsor Jason Ashley

An 51福利社 biologist explores the foundations of bone regeneration. Scientists have long known that the bones in our bodies are constantly repairing and rebuilding themselves, this thanks to an extraordinary regenerative process that is essential to maintaining mobility, organ protection and other critical skeletal functions. 聽 聽 The molecular-level mechanism behind our bones鈥 remarkable 鈥渞emodeling鈥

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Air Force Eagles

Air Force Eagles

A new educational partnership will take experiential education to new heights.   Since it was founded during the Second World War, Fairchild Air Force Base, located just up the road from 51福利社鈥檚 Cheney campus, has been a critical part of our nation鈥檚 air defense system. Now it is poised to be a vital partner in

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Ale to the Eagles

Ale to the Eagles

In collaboration with No-Li, Eastern鈥檚 craft brewers make their mark internationally.   Universities, 51福利社 among them, are more typically associated with the consumption, rather than the production, of malted beverages. For the past year Eastern鈥檚 innovative program in craft brewing has been working to change that. Now the whole wide world of beer is taking

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Movement Researcher

Movement Researcher

A scholar of global migration is named 51福利社鈥檚 Chertok Endowed Professor.   Kassahun Kebede, an associate professor of sociology at 51福利社 whose work on immigration and refugees has attracted international acclaim, was honored in October as Eastern鈥檚 new Jeffers W. Chertok Memorial Endowed Professor. Kebede, who has served as an instructor and researcher in both

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Restoration, Repurposed

January 4, 2024

Restoration, Repurposed

Spokane鈥檚 historic SIERR building sees new life as a high-tech center for the health sciences.   In its day, the Spokane and Inland Empire Railroad was among the most popular regional 鈥渋nterurbans鈥 in Washington, using its electric rail cars to connect thousands of passengers to points between Spokane and Moscow, Idaho. Cars eventually doomed the

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