Fall 2021

In this issue:

A new EOU degree equips students to “farm forward” as agripreneurs.
An alumnus who never intended to become an author now has multiple titles in amazon’s bestseller list.
Alumni who never crossed paths on-campus found each other in the Petrified Forest National Park

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President’s Letter – Fall 2021

A message from EOU President Tom Insko

Graduates throw their caps in front of inlow hall

A day to remember

The class of 2021 celebrated their Commencement like none before.

Creating a buzz:

EOU economics professor Jeff Dense’s research focuses on the political economy of vice.

Growing greatness

In the fall of 2022, the first cohort of Agriculture Entrepreneurship students will begin their studies at Eastern Oregon University.

Baseballer to bestseller

Paul Phillips, ’82, didn’t plan to go to college. Nobody else in his family had done it, but a clandestine visit to campus led him to baseball coach Howard Fetz’s office and the rest was history.

From generation, to generation

When you have a great-grandma and a great-great grandma who were both among the first students at your alma mater, you know the blue and gold roots run deep.

2018 Native Conservation Corps at Muir Woods

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.

Got Beef?

New technology ‘beefs up’ cattle care

Making women veterans visible

It was 1977 in La Grande, and Elizabeth Estabrooks, ’01, hadn’t really planned on joining the U.S. Army. She had just accepted a higher paying job and bought a new Nova SS, but the job fell through and a friend talked her into going down to the recruiters’ office together.