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Concerts, sports, arts and reunions on tap for 2015 Homecoming and Family Weekend

September 30, 2015Last updated October 13, 2015 by Lauren Jefferson

Eastern Mennonite University’s Homecoming and Family Weekend “Celebrating People, Places, and Programs” on Oct. 9-11 has something for every Royal, future Royal or Royals fan. Highlights include musical performances, sporting

Ten Chinese scholars join EMU community to learn teaching techniques and immerse themselves in the English language

September 29, 2015Last updated July 19, 2016 by Kara Lofton

For the Chinese scholars at Eastern Mennonite University this semester, witnessing the difference between Chinese and American educational systems has been enlightening. “In China, students are willing to listen to

Poetry of and from the heart: cardiologist Joseph Gascho ’68 brings new perspectives of medicine, healing to Homecoming

September 27, 2015Last updated October 13, 2015 by Walt Wiltshek

Contract, pump, relax, fill. The heart takes blood in, then pumps it back out through the body, with life in each heartbeat. Joseph Gascho notices these patterns in his work

Scholars in Washington D.C. this fall semester land prestigious internships

September 25, 2015Last updated November 10, 2016 by Lauren Jefferson

Eastern Mennonite University’s home away from home in Washington D.C. — the Washington Community Scholars’ Center (WCSC) — is just that to three diverse groups of students this semester. Living

Bioethicist Sigrid Fry-Revere, who investigated Iran’s kidney donor system, advocates for living donors

September 24, 2015Last updated September 29, 2015 by Robert Propst

Iran’s waiting list of organ donors is in stark contrast to the donor shortage in the United States, where, on average, one American dies every hour for lack of a

Author Todd Wynward shares a wild way of discipleship, more ‘earth-honoring, empire-resisting, despair-erasing’

September 23, 2015Last updated October 8, 2015 by Lauren Jefferson

Wilderness lovers, sustainability advocates, farmers, writers, educators and seminarians – Todd Wynward’s message, shared during a series of events from Oct. 1-7 at Eastern Mennonite University, will appeal to anyone

Conservation photographer and professor Steven David Johnson advocates for environment

September 23, 2015Last updated October 5, 2015 by Rex Springston

Some environmentalists hold rallies. Some file lawsuits. Steven David Johnson takes photographs — then puts them to work. Johnson practices conservation photography, creating images with an aim of affecting environmental

EMU sets record enrollment with the largest first-year class in decades, while graduate programs show significant growth

September 22, 2015Last updated July 19, 2016 by Lauren Jefferson

Eastern Mennonite University’s traditional undergraduate first-year enrollment for the 2015-16 academic year was its highest in several decades, while graduate programs recorded a 26.4 percent increase in enrollment. The data

Given secret ingredient and instruments, EMU’s own ‘Iron Composer’ Ryan Keebaugh goes to work

September 22, 2015Last updated October 5, 2015 by Randi B. Hagi

Five hours, three instruments, unfamiliar musicians and a board game – these were the components of the 2015 Iron Composer competition in Berea, Ohio on Sept. 4. This year, Eastern

Emeritus professor Calvin Shenk, who led Bible department and championed cross-cultural program, lived a life of Christian witness

September 18, 2015Last updated September 29, 2015 by EMU communications staff

Calvin E. Shenk, professor emeritus of religion who taught at Eastern Mennonite University from 1976-2001, has died. He resided in Harrisonburg, Virginia. His wife Marie passed away in 2010. The

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