Academics

When the Ebola outbreak limited travel, this environmental sustainability major made new internship plans

by Gee Paegar with Lauren Jefferson

Sometimes, the best-made plans fall apart. That’s what happened last summer to senior Gee M. Paegar, Jr., currently in his last semester of environmental sustainability and history studies at Eastern
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Howard Zehr awarded Zinn Lifetime Achievement Award for his groundbreaking leadership in the restorative justice field

by Lauren Jefferson

Howard Zehr, professor of restorative justice with the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University, has been awarded the Howard Zinn Lifetime Achievement Award in Peace and Justice
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Summer seminar on slave narratives at Yale helps English professor on sabbatical delve into historic harms and trauma

by Lauren Jefferson with Kara Lofton

During her sabbatical, Eastern Mennonite University English professor Marti Eads is studying how, in one author’s fiction, “the Civil War conflict reverberates in one Appalachian community even after most people
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Environmental educator Blake Rogers helps residents learn and practice stewardship of Shenandoah Valley resources

by Brenna Cowardin

Blake Rogers has been involved with the Shenandoah Valley Soil and Water Conservation District (SVSWCD) since his days representing Turner Ashby High School in Envirothon, an academic contest focused on
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‘Searching for Zion’ author visits campus to kick off 2015-16 Common Read focus on race, identity and culture

by Lauren Jefferson

Of all the possible suggestions that came to Common Read committee chair Tara Kishbaugh from the Eastern Mennonite University community, one topic bubbled to the surface. “Race,” said Kishbaugh, a
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Former Virginia attorney general, now against the death penalty, to speak on the issue of mass incarceration

by Lauren Jefferson

Mark Earley, former state senator and attorney general of Virginia, has changed his mind about incarceration and the ultimate punishment within the United States’ current criminal justice system. While he
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Cooperative by Design peacebuilders committed to helping congregations of all denominations through positive change

by Walt Wiltschek

A Mennonite congregation is going through a restructuring process. Its members sense that the 20- and 30-somethings in its community desire a different model for congregational life, but they don’t
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Junior Hannah Daley preps for grad school with NSF- sponsored summer lab research on caffeine and athletes

by Andrew Goodstein

Does caffeine provide a benefit to athletes? This deceptively simple question guided Hannah Daley’s research this summer. Daley, who is planning a career in environmental chemistry, is a junior double
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