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The show must go on. Though students are learning virtually this spring due to the COVID-19 pandemic, their hard work will still be celebrated in the annual Student Research and Creative Works Symposium.

The COVID-19 pandemic could not stop innovative, entrepreneurial-minded EWU students taking part in this year’s $40,000 Startup Challenge. Sixty teams, representing all five colleges, entered the event.

Chris Cindric, a senior lecturer in recreation and leisure services, is brewing up a tasty new class for the fall: Craft Beer Evaluation and Service. His goal is to broaden his students’ understanding of craft beer, from grain to glass, and its connection to agriculture and recreation.

A week after the district meet, as the Eagles prepared for national competition, Mount St. Helens erupted. Join us in revisiting their story, plus see photos of EWU and Cheney in the days following the historic eruption.

To honor the 40th anniversary, Chad Pritchard, chair of the EWU Geology Department, created a “trashcano” to model how gas bubbles can grow and lead to Plinian eruptions.