Eastern Mennonite University announces three honors of the annual Excellence in Teaching Awards: in the Tenured Faculty category, Daniel Showalter PhD, associate professor of mathematics; in the Pre-tenure Faculty category, ... read more about 2020 Excellence in Teaching awards honor professors Daniel Showalter, Johonna Turner and Bonnie Yoder
Howard Zehr – director emeritus of the Zehr Institute for Restorative Justice and a distinguished professor of restorative justice at the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding (CJP) – is the ... read more about Peacebuilder Podcast: “Journalist of Justice” with Howard Zehr
Poetry recitations, the gifts of home-grown roses, a special grace of dignity in the simple acts of being and sharing, and an encyclopedic memory that connected him deeply to all ... read more about Beloved professor Jay B. Landis ’54 leaves deep legacy
One master codebreaker and Appalachian Trail hiker, one supercomputer builder and high school soccer coach, one student organization leader headed to doctoral studies, one environmental designer bound for data analysis, ... read more about EMU’s first engineering grads head to work, grad school and service
Jolee Paden went from being a Division III runner at Eastern Mennonite University to working with Division I athletes in the nation’s capital. But the native of Illinois is not ... read more about Jolee Paden ’16 now on the run for bigger causes
Katie Mansfield is the featured guest of the eighth episode of the Peacebuilder podcast. Mansfield, lead trainer of the Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience (STAR) program at the Center ... read more about Peacebuilder Podcast: “Re-friending My Body” with Katie Mansfield
Right now, many Eastern Mennonite University students and alumni – wherever they’re waiting out the coronavirus pandemic – are observing the month of Ramadan. The ninth and holiest month in the ... read more about Students, grads reflect on Ramadan
Christine Kindler, a 2017 graduate of Eastern Mennonite University’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding, was announced as the recipient of the Berlin Fellowship from Humanity in Action (HIA). The fellowship ... read more about CJP alumna named Humanity In Action Berlin Fellow
Jim Bishop ’67 has resumed his popular “Bishop’s Mantle” column in the local Harrisonburg newspaper, Daily News-Record. We share last week’s nostalgia-laden installment with permission from the author, a former ... read more about Bishop’s Mantle: ‘A (College) Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes’
As I walk through my own new “normal” during this time of pandemic and talk with ministry leaders and restorative justice practitioners throughout the country, there are particular components of circle process and other restorative practices that I have found hold renewed meaning in this time. ... read more about Caitlin Morneau MA ’19 on lifting up restorative practices in a pandemic from Ignatian Solidarity Network