Academics

Grad student — at EMU to study restorative justice and civic engagement — wins humanitarian award for recent activism

by Randi B. Hagi with Lauren Jefferson

Darsheel Kaur, a first-year graduate student at Eastern Mennonite University’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding (CJP), has been awarded a Youth Humanitarian Award by the Greater Dayton, Ohio chapter of
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Family-owned dairy works towards eliminating electricity bill with largest private solar power installation in Virginia

by Vic Bradshaw/Daily News-Record

For more than five decades, the Yutzy family has produced milk, corn and small grains at Windcrest Holsteins. Next week, the dairy farm will start producing a new commodity —
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Winsome creatures from Appalachia take the stage in Tony-nominated musical ‘A Year with Frog and Toad’

by Florence Barrett

Singing and dancing animals in Eastern Mennonite University’s MainStage Theater? A fly fishing frog and toad, an Appalachian Trail-hiking snail and mining moles? A community of critters showing how delightful
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‘Justice in the Margins’: Professors Carl Stauffer and Johonna Turner to speak at Bridgewater College

by Bridgewater College communications staff

Dr. Carl Stauffer and Dr. Johonna Turner of the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University will address “Justice from the Margins” at Bridgewater College on Tuesday, Nov.
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‘No better place’: Nepali judges explore restorative justice with EMU experts and Harrisonburg community practitioners

by Lauren Jefferson

Six experts who are developing curriculum to train Nepali judges and law enforcement officials in restorative justice practices came to Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) on a week-long trip to the
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Annual gala concert features rare opportunity to hear ‘Concert Selections from Leonard Bernstein’s MASS’

by Lauren Jefferson

Leonard Bernstein’s “MASS,” commissioned by Jacqueline Kennedy for the 1971 dedication of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C., is subtitled “A Theatre Piece for
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