Graduate programs Archives - Page 96 of 187

Artist-activist connects communities in and out of prison with bold public art projects

February 9, 2016Last updated July 19, 2016 by Lauren Jefferson

As an undergraduate student at Virginia Commonwealth University in 2012, Mark Strandquist began the “Windows from Prison” project that continues today. He asks incarcerated men, women, and teens to respond to

Suter Science Seminar audience learns from case studies with surgeon and EMU alumnus

February 9, 2016Last updated February 15, 2016 by Walt Wiltschek

Only someone with a great passion for surgery could say that gallstones “can be very pretty.” Laura Rosenberger ’03 has that passion. Rosenberger, now a surgical breast oncology fellow at

Nursing professor Laura Yoder uses ‘Last Lecture’ to contemplate perfection and transformation through God

February 8, 2016Last updated February 18, 2016 by Maddie Flickinger and EMU communications staff

Laura Yoder, associate professor of nursing, gave her “last lecture” in the Northlawn Great Lounge on Tuesday, Jan. 26. Yoder started out by assuring the audience that she was not,

EMU leadership conference to create a new paradigm of “Leading into the Common Good”

February 5, 2016Last updated April 10, 2016 by Walt Wiltschek

Author and speaker Peter Block headlines a list of notable speakers for “Leading into the Common Good: An Anabaptist Perspective,” a conference for practitioners, scholars and students April 7-9, 2016,

CJP partners with Kellogg Foundation’s new national initiative on truth, racial healing and transformation

February 2, 2016Last updated July 19, 2016 by Lauren Jefferson

Eastern Mennonite University’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding has been invited to partner with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation in a new initiative aimed at truth, racial healing and transformation in

Defense-victim outreach pioneer Tammy Krause earns CJP Alumni Award for Outstanding Service

January 28, 2016Last updated June 29, 2016 by Lauren Jefferson

Tammy Krause, a 1999 graduate of Eastern Mennonite University’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding (CJP), has been selected for the center’s Alumni Award for Outstanding Service. Krause, a resident of

Doreen Ruto, alumna and peacebuilding partner in Africa, is remembered warmly for her many gifts

January 26, 2016Last updated June 29, 2016 by Lauren Jefferson

Doreen Ruto Jemutai, MA ’06, an integral supporter and partner of Eastern Mennonite University’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding, died Thursday, Jan. 21, 2016. Doreen’s peacebuilding work, anchored in her

Women’s Peacebuilding Leadership Program graduates 13 from Kenya and East Africa

January 26, 2016Last updated May 26, 2016 by Walt Wiltschek

Ruth Nalyanya works at a university in Kenya where ethnic conflicts regularly spilled over into campus life. She decided to address this negative pattern by conducting training sessions about acceptance

‘Oasis’-themed School for Leadership Training revisions the metaphorical desert as a vital site of growth and rebirth

January 22, 2016Last updated January 29, 2016 by Walt Wiltschek

Inviting participants to “several days of learning that have the potential to transform us,” School for Leadership Training (SLT) coordinator Linda Alley welcomed about 200 people to this year’s event

In Slate series on victim’s rights, Howard Zehr identifies ‘entrenched’ challenges to systematic change through restorative justice

January 20, 2016Last updated June 27, 2016 by Walt Wiltschek

When freelance legal affairs journalist Mark Obbie wrote a six-part series on crime victims for Slate in 2015, he made sure to include Howard Zehr, professor of restorative justice at

Quick Links