The Peace Fellowship at Eastern Mennonite University will hold a 24-hour prayer vigil for the people of Iraq and the ongoing conflict there on Thursday, Sept. 20. A prayer “tent” ... read more about EMU Group to Hold Iraq Prayer Vigil
Academics
Lefever Announces Retirement from EMU Roles
It’s been “five wonderful years,” but he wants to retire from EMU in order to “devote more time to family, other organizations and several entrepreneurial interests.” Allon H. Lefever (61), ... read more about Lefever Announces Retirement from EMU Roles
Lancaster Pastor to Speak at Spiritual Life Services at Seminary
Jane Hoober Peifer, pastor at Blossom Hill Mennonite Church, Lancaster, Pa., and EMS alumna, will be guest speaker for spiritual life week Tuesday through Thursday, Sept. 25-27, at Eastern Mennonite ... read more about Lancaster Pastor to Speak at Spiritual Life Services at Seminary
Seminary Diversity Increases
Profile of Cyndi Gusler, Featured Artist, in ‘The Christian Pulse’
Suter Science Seminar Examines ‘Sustainability’ Topic
The effect of disasters, man-made or natural, on agricultural systems in developing countries of Africa is the focus of the second Suter Science Seminar of fall semester at EMU. Dr. ... read more about Suter Science Seminar Examines ‘Sustainability’ Topic
Special 90th Anniversary Issue of Crossroads Now Online
This 90-year retrospective focuses on the buildings and grounds through which EMU has aimed to be ‘a learning community marked by academic excellence.’ Read stories of devotion, sacrifice, love, and ... read more about Special 90th Anniversary Issue of Crossroads Now Online
EMU, City Schools Launch Strings Instruction Program
The (Shenandoah) hills will be alive with the sound of (string) music as a cooperative program between Harrisonburg City Schools and EMU begins this fall. The city school system is ... read more about EMU, City Schools Launch Strings Instruction Program
EMU Doubles National Average of Children Going to Alma Mater
Alumni of EMU are sending their children to the school in numbers that far surpass most colleges nationwide. Twenty-three percent of EMU’s first-year students this fall are from families where ... read more about EMU Doubles National Average of Children Going to Alma Mater
Novelist Payne to Speak at First ‘Writers Read’
Novelist Peggy Payne will kick off the 2007-08 Writers Read dinners at EMU. The language and literature department at EMU will hold its first "Writers Read" program of the new ... read more about Novelist Payne to Speak at First ‘Writers Read’