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EOU invites public to free Latin American film screenings, director Q&A Nov. 9
LA GRANDE, Ore. — Eastern Oregon University invites the public to a free screening of “Zafari” at 6 p.m. Monday, Nov. 9, in Zabel Hall, Room 101. Director Mariana Rondón will join the audience via Zoom immediately after the film to discuss its historical context and answer questions. “Zafari” offers a dystopian portrait of Venezuelan...
EOU Theatre brings ‘Mean Girls’ to the stage Nov. 12-15
LA GRANDE, Ore. — Eastern Oregon University Theatre will present “Mean Girls,” a musical about high school popularity, friendship, and the consequences of trying to fit in, Nov. 12-15 in McKenzie Theater in Loso Hall. Performances begin at 7 p.m. Nov. 12, 13, and 14, with a 2 p.m. matinee Nov. 15. Adapted from the...
EOU’s Nightingale Gallery explores love, loss and memory in new exhibition
La Grande, Ore. – Eastern Oregon University’s Nightingale Gallery presents “Hospitality in a World That Won’t Last,” a solo exhibition by artist Rachael Zur. Zur’s expanded paintings blend sculptural physicality with traditional painting techniques to depict objects found in living rooms, exploring themes of grief, love, and the residue of lives lived. The exhibition opens...
Life Lessons on and off The Court.
Ryan Looney’s, ’98, skill at building teams has proven successful—and those successes culminated into an opportunity to be the head coach of an NCAA Division 1 basketball team. There were a lot of stops along the road to the Division 1 job, but that was never the plan. “Each time we moved, there was an...
Every room a classroom
Room 214 in Inlow Hall is not a classroom, but it’s where two recent graduates learned critical skills, discovered mentors and applied theoretical knowledge. Briana Rosenkranz, ’20, and Samantha Wegermann, ’20 and ’21, earned degrees in business from EOU, while gaining real-world experience through on-campus jobs and internships with the university’s marketing team. After graduation,...
Raising better readers: Modern methods promise improved literacy
By the end of third grade, about half of Oregon students have fallen behind in reading comprehension. Difficulty reading at this early stage often leads to lower achievement in school, as well as in adult life. A new program developed by Eastern Oregon University’s College of Education aims to equip teachers with tools and strategies...
Students, scholarships and one very special staircase: State funding makes an impact on campus
Following Oregon’s 2022 legislative session, EOU will see several important investments in student support services, scholarships and its iconic Grand Staircase. “We are happy to announce that Eastern Oregon University had a very successful February session with several significant investments from the state,” EOU President Tom Insko said. “I greatly appreciate the hard work and...
Writing Under a Western Sky
Garrett Christensen Home means something different to everyone. Amelia Ettinger, a 2021 MFA graduate, expresses home, or rather how to find home, through poetry in her 2020 collection “Learning to Love a Western Sky.” “It really is looking for home in many ways,” she said. “I think that a lot of the collection is a...
Finding their park
After 12 years of working in traditional Hopi homelands at the Petrified Forest National Park, Sarah Herve, ’03, got to introduce a group of young people from the Indigenous tribe to her own origins in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Growing greatness
In the fall of 2022, the first cohort of Agriculture Entrepreneurship students will begin their studies at Eastern Oregon University.
Creating a buzz:
EOU economics professor Jeff Dense's research focuses on the political economy of vice.
This land…
EOU Trustee Bobbie Conner has ancestral ties to the Grande Ronde Valley that long pre-date the university.
