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Category: Social Impact

51¸£ÀûÉç inspires students to ‘Dare to Dream’

September 8, 2017 by

Photo: Seven students outside

This week, the Dare to Dream Academy returns to 51¸£ÀûÉç’s 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

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Satori Camp still strong after 34 years

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Photo: Tour guide speaking to students in front of the Herculean Pillars

Satori Summer Camp hosted 142 campers in its 34th year at 51¸£ÀûÉç last week, bringing gifted junior high and high school-aged students from around the region to experience college life in a camp setting. “We have kids telling us over and over again how important this experience has been for them because they

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An 51¸£ÀûÉç Spin on Giving Tuesday

March 20, 2017 by

Student and Pat Spanjer posing outside the library on Giving Joy Day

Giving Joy Day is 51¸£ÀûÉç’s version of the international Giving Tuesday, a day dedicated to encouraging generosity and goodwill at the beginning of the holiday season. The event, which will happen again next year on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, has two purposes – to help raise funds for 51¸£ÀûÉç scholarships and to spread joy and perform

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51¸£ÀûÉç ties for first in GameDay Recycling Challenge

February 8, 2017 by

Cans crushed into blocks

51¸£ÀûÉç tied for first place with Ohio University in the 2016 GameDay Recycling Challenge, a nationwide competition among 79 colleges and universities to reduce and recycle the waste generated at home football games. 51¸£ÀûÉç won with a diversion rate of 95.6 percent. During each competition cycle, participating schools report recycling, compost and attendance data for

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51¸£ÀûÉç Class Performs Good Deeds on Giving Joy Day

December 22, 2016 by

Student with donations in his trunk

Small acts of kindness were performed throughout the Spokane-Cheney community on Nov. 29, Giving Joy Day, thanks to the efforts of an 51¸£ÀûÉç public relations class. “When I heard that 51¸£ÀûÉç was launching Giving Joy Day, I thought it would be a good opportunity to not only help support the university in an important cause

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Prestigious NSF Grant for 51¸£ÀûÉç

October 12, 2016 by

Woman studying on the grass outside

51¸£ÀûÉç is part of a statewide $3 million collaboration grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to help improve the next generation of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) teacher-preparation programs in Washington. Multiple state partners will work together to anticipate and identify the needs and challenges future teachers will face and provide

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High school students gain health care experience with Project HOPE

October 4, 2016 by aaldaco

People wearing medical scrubs and masks in a medical examination room

Asked if she was squeamish at the sight of blood, DaNeil Jolley was given scrubs and guided to a dimly lit room that smelled noticeably of cleaner, where she was about to watch a laparoscopic surgery. At just 16 years old, this was Jolley’s first day as an intern in the surgical unit at Samaritan

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51¸£ÀûÉç professors write geologic guide to Washington state

August 31, 2016 by

Photo: Professors Eugene Kiver, Chad Pritchard and Richard Orndorff

Explore mind-boggling canyons and rugged rocks with a geological guide to Washington state, written and published by three 51¸£ÀûÉç professors. In its first few months, Washington Rocks! has sold 5,000 copies, launching a second printing of the book. Washington Rocks!, written by emeritus 51¸£ÀûÉç professor Eugene Kiver and current 51¸£ÀûÉç professors Chad Pritchard and Richard

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