This weekend, Park School in Harrisonburg hosts its second annual reunion, with special guests to highlight the school’s unique role in local racial integration during the time of “massive resistance,” ... read more about Park School celebrates legacy of racial harmony and integration in an era of ‘massive resistance’
Finding and catching salamanders might look like something Eastern Mennonite University senior Cerrie Mendoza would have done as a science-loving child, but in reality, amphibian hide-and-seek was just one aspect ... read more about Collecting salamander DNA, intern gets ‘crash course’ in modern field biology
Events are subject to change at any time. To see most current details and further information about events, please visit the EMU events calendar at www.emu.edu/events September Sept. 14 – ... read more about EMU Centennial Arts and Lectures Calendar Fall 2017
Eastern Mennonite University’s Homecoming and Family Weekend is fast approaching. This fall is a special opportunity to celebrate EMU’s Centennial … 100 years of dynamic, countercultural, Anabaptist education. While commissioned ... read more about Saturday afternoon at Centennial Homecoming and Family Weekend is packed with special events
Professor Kim Brenneman calls the cross-cultural experience “the ultimate classroom.” Most Eastern Mennonite University alumni who have participated in the program agree. Each semester and summer, EMU students spread out ... read more about The world as classroom: Faculty-staff panel discusses past, present and future of EMU’s unique cross-cultural program
Today, as a campus community committed to extending the peace of Jesus Christ, we stand in sympathy and in solidarity with our brothers and sisters caught up in the ugly, ... read more about EMU President Susan Schultz Huxman responds to aftermath of events in Charlottesville, Virginia
Eastern Mennonite University faculty and staff dipped their hands into bowls of water as they received a blessing on their work for the coming year. The sacred ritual concluded the ... read more about ‘Expanding the Legacy, Enlarging the Tent’: Annual faculty-staff conference draws community to Centennial themes
As news of the Aug. 12 Unite the Right rally reverberated out of Charlottesville, Eastern Mennonite University — located 60 miles over Afton Mountain in the Shenandoah Valley — and ... read more about EMS alumna leads clergy protest in Charlottesville; EMU community members join activism
“Ministry” can take many forms and happen in many contexts: preaching and pastoral care in a church, yes, but also serving firefighters, pursuing restorative justice, leading music and offering spiritual ... read more about New seminary degree trains leaders for ever-broadening spectrum of roles and contexts
Marian Yoder Payne, a founding donor of Eastern Mennonite University’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding, died Sunday, Aug. 6, 2017. She and husband James, residents of Richmond, Virginia, helped to ... read more about Center for Justice and Peacebuilding mourns the passing of founding donor Marian Payne