Education & Talent

EWU looks to fix 'leaky' STEM pipeline with 100 Women Strong

Program aims to attract, keep females in engineering, computer science fields

November 7, 2019

The national average for women undergraduate students majoring in engineering and computer science is 20%, while the percentage of women students in those majors at Eastern Washington University trails even that low rate at 10%, says Leslie Cornick,

Spokane economist named to state Community Economic Revitalization Board

Ocasio Hochheimer to serve three-year term with revitalization entity

October 24, 2019

Virginia Thomas

Spokane economist Vange Ocasio Hochheimer has been appointed to the Washington state Department of Commerce Community Economic Revitalization Board. Her three-year volunteer term began Sept. 3.

Spokane startup Appiture develops new autism screening tool

Appiture hopes to land funding for clinical trials

October 24, 2019

Natasha Nellis

Spokane startup Appiture is exploring new handheld technology for a fast and noninvasive way to screen for autism spectrum disorder in children. The idea was born from research by Georgina Lynch, an associate professor in the Department of Speech

WSU to take another run at redeveloping Jensen-Byrd building

Project is one of many envisioned, underway in University District

October 24, 2019

Natasha Nellis

Spokane's University District has become a hotbed of development activity with envisioned projects valued at more than $135 million on top of over $225 million in projects currently underway.

East Central center adds Head Start space

CHAS dental clinic will replace classroom building

October 10, 2019

Virginia Thomas

The East Central Community Center is adding space to its building to serve an Early Head Start program. Carolina Lopez, executive assistant at the Martin Luther King Family Outreach Center, which operates the community center, says work to renovate three

Work starts at new site for Cd'A elementary school

NExA scheduled to open for 2020-21 academic year

October 10, 2019

Kevin Blocker

Construction crews have started work on a new, $12.5 million elementary school building in Coeur d'Alene that will replace an antiquated K-5 elementary school building in nearby Hayden. The new Northwest Expedition Academy building, which will have

Majority of new Spokane medical students are women

Trend consistent with national survey findings

October 10, 2019

Natasha Nellis

For the first time in the nation's history, the enrollment of women in medical degrees has surpassed male enrollment, a trend that Spokane-area medical schools say has found its way into their halls. And what's more, they report that a growing

2019 Rising Stars: Sinead Voorhees

Irish-born 'workhorse' advocates for Spokane

September 12, 2019

Virginia Thomas

Sinead Voorhees, director of Whitworth University's graduate studies in business program, characterizes herself as an underdog and a workhorse. Voorhees, age 34, was born and raised in Ireland, where her family often struggled to make ends meet.

Gonzaga, UW plan new $60 million health education building

McKinstry structure set to be completed in 2022

September 9, 2019

Kevin Blocker

Officials from Gonzaga University and the University of Washington announced today construction plans on a $60 million facility that will house their joint Spokane medical school. The proposed 80,000-square-foot building is to be constructed at 840 E.

$10.3 million elementary school rises in Post Falls

Facility will serve Foxtail residential development

August 29, 2019

Virginia Thomas

Construction has begun on a new elementary school at 4916 E. Hope, in the Foxtail residential development of northeast Post Falls, says Jerry Keane, Post Falls School District superintendent.