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Jeffress Trust grant of $100,000 kickstarts hypertension research with new equipment and student assistants

February 12, 2015Last updated March 2, 2015 by Steve Shenk

If you are among the one in three Americans who suffer from high blood pressure, you know to stay away from salty foods. On the no-go list from your doctor:

Veteran peacebuilder discusses global climate change as a destabilizing social and political threat

February 9, 2015Last updated April 18, 2017 by Robert Propst

Global climate change and human conflict are two different problems, dealt with by different groups, right? Wrong. In fact, the United States military combats terrorism and climate change. Both are

After Vietnam and Nigeria, Dr. Linford Gehman ’59 chooses to serve rural and homebound patients for almost a half century

January 20, 2015Last updated February 2, 2015 by Robert Propst

The image of an experienced country doctor making house calls with a big black bag full of basic medical equipment has not completely disappeared. Even in a culture of increasing

Classes begin in modernized wing of Science Center following first phase of renovation

January 5, 2015Last updated January 6, 2016 by Amelia Brust

Still smelling of fresh paint, new additions and renovations to Eastern Mennonite University’s Suter Science Center are due to open for the spring semester today. The $7.3 million project’s first

Symposium highlights work of student researchers, including one funded by National Science Foundation

December 15, 2014Last updated January 7, 2015 by Kara Lofton

The world is running out of petroleum. A dwindling supply of petroleum is troubling not only to automobile, plastic, and energy users, but also to organic chemists who heavily depend

Early detection is key to treatment of inherited metabolic disorders, says pediatrician of Amish, Brethren and Mennonite communities

November 18, 2014Last updated December 5, 2014 by Robert Propst

Sometimes, the only action a doctor need take to save a life is to change the patient’s diet. When treatment of a life-threatening genetic disorder is so simple, the key

Professor and former NASA researcher shares about science, faith, and the mysterious universe

November 11, 2014Last updated December 2, 2014 by Robert Propst

Have you ever wondered if animals are conscious? Are plants conscious? Does an amoeba have free will? David Pruett, James Madison University emeritus professor of mathematics, recently argued in a

As renovations proceed, Suter Science Center throws some curveballs

November 10, 2014Last updated January 6, 2016 by Andrew Jenner

The third time was indeed the charm when construction crews dug down to find the water main outside the Suter Science Center. The first time, they’d turned up what appeared

Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish, Palestinian physician and peace activist, brings message of hope and justice to EMU

November 7, 2014Last updated November 19, 2014 by Andrew Jenner

In his book, I Shall Not Hate, Izzeldin Abuelaish traces his journey from an impoverished childhood in the Gaza Strip to medical school in Egypt and eventually, in face of

Prominent Palestinian physician and peace activist to visit EMU, Nov. 4-5

October 20, 2014Last updated November 8, 2014 by Andrew Jenner

Late one January afternoon in 2009, during a three-week war between the Israeli military and Palestinian fighters in the Gaza Strip, two tank shells crashed through the bedroom wall of

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