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Rural Engagement Vitality Center Cultivating vibrant and prosperous rural communities in Eastern Oregon. The Rural Engagement Vitality Center brings Eastern Oregon University students to communities across eastern Oregon and southeastern Washington to collaborate with local leaders on realworld projects in order to develop future rural leaders. REV offers essential energizing and applicable learning experiences to graduate and upperlevel undergraduate students while simultaneously providing valuable services to communities. By performing research to gain knowledge of a community finding the ways people have been resilient and combining that with new practices innovative approaches can be used to resolve longterm problems.