Category: Science

Art and Science

Painted mural in the entryway of the Science Building featuring the moon, a whale, buildings and a helicopter

A colorful celebration of discovery now enlivens the Science Building. By Eastern Magazine Even as the new Interdisciplinary Science Center rises next door, the old Science Building at 51福利社 remains a vital center for learning and discovery. It is also now a destination for art aficionados, thanks to a massive, science-celebrating mural recently completed by

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Joy and Growth

51福利社 DPT students interact with a small child on a therapeutic swing

Eastern physical therapy students learn by assisting little ones in need. By Eastern Magazine Watching children grow, play and learn is a timeless joy. It鈥檚 a pleasure made even more palpable when kids with developmental delays and disabilities are doing these things with the help of 51福利社 physical therapy students. This was the scene last

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Mysteries of the Microbiome

Microscopic closeup of microbes

A prominent 51福利社 scientist and his students explores new ways of thinking about a devastating neurodegenerative disease.

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Brave New Communications

Outdoor augmented reality installation on a green slope surrounded by trees

Augmented reality gives prospective students a window into all things Eastern. By Eastern Magazine Plopped down among 51福利社鈥檚 Cheney Hall, the Science Building and the Computing and Engineering Building is a small storage structure that in recent years has come to lead something of a double life: mundane maintenance facility on the inside, transformative student

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Beauty Wild and Untrammeled

Sloping hills of the Palouse with the 51福利社 campus and Mt. Spokane in the background

Can Eastern Restore a Long-Lost Patch of Prairie? By Charles E. Reineke In the days before the land was plotted, plowed and paved, the patch of Palouse prairie that 51福利社 calls home was part of a wild, magnificent landscape; a terrestrial ocean of sun-kissed rolling hills carpeted by a vast, kaleidoscopic medley of native flora.

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A Next-Generation Science Star Steps Up

Marcos Monteiro in the lab

Earlier this year Marcos Monteiro, a molecular biology student at 51福利社, earned the university鈥檚 first-ever Goldwater Scholarship. Think of it as the start of something big. By Leilah Langley When he arrived in the United States from Brazil six years ago, Marcos Monteiro started down a winding path in search of his future. That road

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For the Love of Lichen

June 4, 2019

Closeup of lichen attached to tree bark

Thanks to an intrepid Eastern researcher, an 鈥榦dd organism鈥 gets its turn in the spotlight. By Charles E. Reineke She is a renowned star of stage and screen, a media mogul and philanthropist. It is a previously unidentified 鈥渟ymbiotic organism formed by close cooperation between a fungus and an alga.鈥 Now, thanks in part to

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