In the eight years since first attending the Summer Peacebuilding Institute (SPI) at Eastern Mennonite University, Ala Ali, an Iraqi-Kurdish civil society activist and peacebuilder, has put the lessons she learned then to extensive practical use.
Now the program development manager for the Iraqi Al-Amal Association, a development, human rights an ...More
Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) has partnered with Catholic University of America (CUA) for a new dual degree program that will prepare students to pursue peacebuilding and sustainability through engineering.
“We envision the dual degree program as one that will allow students to embrace the Anabaptist mission and vision that EMU espouses while also obtaining the training needed to ...More
Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) will welcome in 53 incoming students to the honors program, the largest class in the program’s history.
In addition, two incoming students, Hannah Chappell-Dick, a senior at Bluffton High School in Bluffton, Ohio, and Charlie Good, a senior at Warwick High School in Lititz, Pa., were recognized as Yoder Scholars, ...More
On the week that Bill Goldberg welcomed 67 people from 27 countries to the first session of the 2012 Summer Peacebuilding Institute (SPI), he pondered the changes he has seen since his arrival at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) 14 years ago.
“Probably 80 percent of the people wh ...More
Mennonite Education Agency (MEA) announced a new three-year agreement among all five colleges/universities of Mennonite Church USA that will facilitate the success of undergraduate international students.
Bethel (Kan.) College, ...More
People in Harrisonburg and around the world are invited to an MBA “open house” on Tuesday, May 8, from 6-7 p.m.
People in the area are invited to the EMU Campus Center Lehman board room, 301, to meet co-directors, Ron Stoltzfus and Tony Smith, current students ...More
Courtesy Daily News Record, May 1, 2012
Dan Terry devoted his life to helping Afghan people.
For nearly four decades, the humanitarian aid worker coordinated small-scale community development projects throughout the struggling country until his murder in 2010.
“I never know how to describe what my dad did. Every time I called him, he was doing something different ...More
A group of Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) students will begin summer internships with congregations throughout the U.S. as part of Mennonite Church USA‘s Ministry Inquiry Program (MIP).
Funded in part by Mennonite Church USA, the MIP gives students ...More
Ten graduating seniors were honored as “Cords of Distinction” recipients in a ceremony held Saturday afternoon, April 28 at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU).
Faculty, staff and fellow students nominated the recipients, who were cited for their “significant and verifiable impact” on the university and on student life, for their contributions to developing the institution’s pos ...More
Being twins, Justin and Joel Rittenhouse learned to share growing up: toys, birthdays, even, in one sense, each other’s face.
Now, the 21-year-olds share another distinction — Eastern Mennonite University graduate. The brothers were among the more than 400 Royals who received diplomas on Sunday during commencement exercises at the liberal arts school.
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