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Students from area middle schools are gearing up for the seventh annual SeaPerch Challenge at 51福利社, putting their engineering skills to the test after months of building an underwater remotely operated vehicle (ROV). Thirty-two 51福利社 student volunteers from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) club co-host the event in which roughly 60-80…

Cristina Santana鈥檚 small stature and quiet, comforting manner are nearly lost in her sizable bulletproof vest. She roams the streets of Sunnyside, Washington, with her husband, Arturo, whose medium-sized build fits his T-shirt labeled U.S. Probation in large, yellow letters on his back. They walk with confidence among the streets of their hometown, often stopped…

51福利社鈥檚 College of Health Science and Public Health (CHSPH) and St. Luke鈥檚 Rehabilitation Institute have created a collaborative out-patient therapy clinic program located in the recently opened Spokane Teaching Health Clinic (STHC). The emphasis on this program focuses on student learning opportunities within a clinical environment that provides excellence in patient care to meet the…

This week, the Dare to Dream Academy returns to 51福利社鈥檚 campus to provide migrant high school students a glimpse of college life and expose them to resources for pursuing higher education. The six-day program includes 14-hour workdays including team building activities, workshops and a variety of keynote speakers. The 146 attending students are divided into…

51福利社 is hosting an intensive summer workshop for people working to manage a stuttering disorder, July 9-23, at the University Hearing and Speech Clinic on the 51福利社 Spokane Campus. The Successful Stuttering Management Program (SSMP) program was developed 52 years ago by Emeritus Professor Dorvan Breitenfeldt, and has been utilized at Eastern since…

Learning the ins and outs of robotics, students in 51福利社鈥檚 Engineering Department worked for four weeks to program industry-level robots, instructing the bots to make pancakes, burn landscapes into wood or sort bottles and cans into recycling. Students demonstrated their projects last week in MENG 385. Senior mechanical engineering student Nick Beeler and his team…

51福利社 student Celiann 鈥淐eCe鈥� George was born in Montrouis, Haiti, a struggling tourist destination that has little else to bolster its economy. Haiti鈥檚 history of devastating hurricanes and earthquakes has led to ongoing health issues, crime and the most extreme poverty of any country in the Western Hemisphere. Haiti鈥檚 weak educational system makes it difficult…

Two programs in the College of Health Science and Public Health have built a community partnership with Excelsior Youth Center to help 51福利社 students learn while helping the organization in return. CHSPH鈥檚 undergraduate health services administration (HSA) program and graduate occupational therapy (OT) program have formed a partnership with Excelsior, a school and specialty medical…

Carmen Nezat, PhD and 51福利社 associate professor of geology, volunteered at GeoGirls, an outdoor volcano science program at Mount St. Helens聽to learn about volcanoes and the technology that scientists use to monitor them.

Sarah Keller never understood why people hated Mondays. She has always had a perfectly good time at work, teaching within the anthropology program she created in 1966. However, the academic journey for Keller 鈥� 51福利社鈥檚 most senior faculty 鈥� has now ended after 51 years at the university. As a young woman growing up in…