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International business grad, fluent in Spanish with a passion for soccer, guides sports team tours around the world

February 16, 2016Last updated November 10, 2016 by Brenna Cowardin

Daniel Shenk-Moreno visited Barcelona six times in the past year. The city offers many attractions, but for Shenk-Moreno, a lifelong Barcelona fan, seeing his favorite soccer team defeat Manchester City

Regional peacebuilders learn and practice new skills at one-day event modeled after Summer Peacebuilding Institute

February 11, 2016Last updated June 29, 2016 by Lauren Jefferson

In the opening ceremony at this month’s SPI Community Day, each participant made an introduction and shared hopes and dreams. One military veteran came to Eastern Mennonite University to “learn

On the Suter seminar agenda: physician-alumnus to speak on hepatitis C and neuroscientist on the neurobiology of pain

February 11, 2016Last updated February 25, 2016 by Lauren Jefferson

Two doctors headline the next two Suter Science Seminars at Eastern Mennonite University. Kevin Steiner, a 2002 alumnus and internal medicine physician in Massachusetts, speaks about hepatitis C on Monday, Feb.

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,

Junior volleyball player named to U.S. national deaf team, will play in World Championships and the Deaflympics

February 8, 2016Last updated February 15, 2016 by Alicia Ygarza

Some athletes leave their sport and never go back, but Hunter Taylor, from Richmond, Virginia, has returned after a year off with an even greater love for volleyball. His dedication

EMU theater experience has been ‘soul-snatching’ for this history-major-turned-award-winning-dramaturg

February 5, 2016Last updated July 19, 2016 by Randi B. Hagi

Senior Derrick Turner believes in letting theater speak for itself. His position as a dramaturg facilitates exactly that – providing a design team, cast, and audience with the information necessary

Photography class photos helped efforts to block Atlantic Coast Pipeline on sensitive sections of national forestland

February 5, 2016Last updated July 19, 2016 by Bonnie Price Lofton

Striking photos taken by an Eastern Mennonite University professor and his students of a rarely seen, endangered salamander supported citizen lobbying that may have influenced a U.S. Forest Service decision

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,

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