Tag: Fall/Winter 2024-25

Comeback Kids

51福利社's 2024 women's soccer team

For most teams, a painful season like 51福利社鈥檚 2023 soccer campaign would take years to bounce back from. Matches were usually tight, play was always competitive, but poor results spoke for themselves: Just two wins, 14 losses and one draw. After a particularly frustrating, season-ending losing streak that concluded with a dismal 4-0 beatdown at

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51福利社: The Region鈥檚 Polytechnic

51福利社: The Region鈥檚 Polytechnic

  We are the region鈥檚 polytechnic. It鈥檚 a bold phrase that I was honored to pronounce earlier this year, and since then we have seen remarkable enthusiasm for this earnest expression of who we are and why we鈥檙e different. Across our state and region, people are excited that Eastern is moving forward with the polytechnic

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Forever Eastern

51福利社's Cheney campus in the fall.

Even as 51福利社 moves to embrace a new identity as 鈥渢he region鈥檚 polytechnic,鈥 it鈥檚 worth remembering that much of what makes Eastern special will never change. That鈥檚 especially true in the fall, when returning students bring the campus back to life, filling the autumn air with their laughter, excitement and eager anticipation for the coming

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Machine Learning?

51福利社 professor Travis Masingale at a photo shoot in Spokane.

Text-based, generative artificial intelligence has emerged as a powerful tool for creating content and exploring ideas across various domains, including education. Travis Masingale 鈥03, an 51福利社 professor of design, is a nationally prominent authority on AI鈥檚 potential for advancing student learning. In a recent conversation with Open-AI鈥檚 Chat GPT 4o, he explored the potential benefits

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A Lasting Legacy

Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, 51福利社 Native studies founder.

Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, a professor emeritus of English and Native American studies at 51福利社, wasn鈥檛 just an influential novelist, short-story writer and poet 鈥 though her literary legacy speaks for itself 鈥 she was also a tireless advocate in support of research and instruction centered on tribal histories and cultures. Among her lasting contributions was a

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Back Story

Student researchers on a boat at the Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge, circa 1980.

On July 30, 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, signed Executive Order 7681 to create the Turnbull Migratory Waterfowl Refuge, a 23,000-acre, federally protected home for migratory birds and other wildlife in the Channeled Scablands near Cheney. Thirty-seven years later, after energetic lobbying by members of Eastern鈥檚 biology faculty, what is today known as the Turnbull

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Foundation Annual Report

Cover image of the annual report

View a complete PDF of the 2023-24 51福利社 Foundation Annual Report.

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Transformative Impact

Transformative Impact

  The frontier settlement that had recently become Cheney wasn鈥檛 yet 5 years old when a committee of concerned citizens convened an urgent meeting at the offices of the town鈥檚 first newspaper. The topic? Education, or the lack thereof. If their growing community was to thrive, the attendees agreed, it needed a place for the

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