In professor Jonathan Johnson’s creative writing classes at Eastern Washington University, students receive feedback and constructive criticism to improve their writing and creative ventures.
Boise State University has a new president. The Idaho State Board of Education on Wednesday voted to hire David Hahn, dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Arizona, to serve as Boise State’s new president. The hire comes over a year after former President Marlene Tromp took a new job at the University of Vermont and left the university. During a board meeting Wednesday, David ...
On a recent June day on upper Mount St. Helens, there was a tail flap, a splash, and a native species returned to its ancestral waters for the first time in four decades. Chinook salmon had thrived in the North Fork Toutle watershed for thousands of years before the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens wiped out their spawning grounds (and nearly everything else in its path). Now, thanks to ...
A former software manager at Wisk Aero, Boeing’s autonomous air taxi subsidiary, has accused Wisk of rushing software testing and retaliating against her for raising safety concerns. Briahna O’Neill said she was fired from Wisk in March 2025 after filing two internal safety reports alleging company executives pushed engineers to reduce testing on flight-critical software. O'Neill claims they ...
The decision, made by the Board of Trustees following recommendations from the provost and president, comes after months of petitions, public testimonies and official faculty recommendations in favor of continuing the degrees, including a visit from Spokane Mayor Lisa Brown in February in support of the women's program.
Starting this fall, students at the University of Idaho can major in artificial intelligence. The university announced Thursday that it is offering three options for students to pursue AI degrees, including a bachelor’s degree, a master’s of science or a master’s of engineering. The programs will be offered at the university’s Moscow and Coeur d’Alene locations, and the graduate degrees will ...
When Shari McMahan was 23, her father died of cancer. A few years later, her mother died from heart disease. Losing both parents so early in her life, McMahan made it a point to prioritize physical and mental health.
A team of 14 Eastern Washington University aerospace enthusiasts are preparing to blast a 13-foot-5 rocket 30,000 feet into the Midland, Texas, sky in mid-June as part of the world’s largest collegiate rocket engineering competition.
Following a nationwide cyberattack downing popular coursework and grading platform Canvas, universities in Washington and North Idaho were largely operational once again Friday.
