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Peace scholar to offer Keim Lecture on predicting genocide and mass atrocities

January 13, 2020Last updated January 27, 2020 by EMU communications

Professor Ernesto Verdeja, of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at University of Notre Dame, presents the annual Keim Lecture at Eastern Mennonite University. His lecture begins at 5

Alumnus is new CEO for United Way of Lancaster County

December 4, 2019Last updated December 9, 2019 by EMU communications

Kevin M. Ressler ’07 has been announced as the next president and CEO of United Way of Lancaster County. He begins in his new role Jan. 2, 2020. Ressler is

Muslim scholar and cultural critic talks history, theology, film and more during multi-day visit

October 31, 2019Last updated January 26, 2021 by Randi B. Hagi

“The greatest athlete that I ever saw was another American Muslim … I was nine years old in those less enlightened times, the 1970s, when Ali fought George Foreman in

Common Read selection Exit West ‘at once a love story, a fable, and a chilling reflection’ on displacement

October 14, 2019Last updated November 1, 2019 by Christopher Clymer Kurtz

The Eastern Mennonite University Common Read for the 2019-20 academic year is the widely acclaimed Man Booker Prize finalist and bestselling novel Exit West by Mohsin Hamid (Riverhead, 2017). “We

EMU students, staff inspired by summer Interfaith Leadership Institute

October 10, 2019Last updated October 21, 2019 by Lauren Jefferson

Eastern Mennonite University’s Center for Interfaith Engagement (CIE) sent two students and two staff to the August 2019 Interfaith Leadership Institute in Chicago, Illinois. The event is hosted by Interfaith

Community criminal justice conference set for Oct. 17-18

October 9, 2019Last updated October 23, 2019 by admin

A free two-day conference Oct. 17-18 at Eastern Mennonite University will bring together community stakeholders for discussions and planning around reducing incarceration and recidivism in Harrisonburg and Rockingham County, Virginia.

WCSC students enter professional internships in Washington D.C.

September 26, 2019Last updated September 27, 2019 by EMU communications

Twelve students from Eastern Mennonite, Bethel College and Bluffton University are gaining professional, community and cultural experiences in EMU’s Washington Community Scholars’ Center (WCSC) this semester. The program, in Washington

EMU welcomes new faculty

August 26, 2019Last updated August 26, 2019 by Lauren Jefferson

Eastern Mennonite University and Eastern Mennonite Seminary welcome several new full-time faculty to the ranks for the 2019-20 academic year. The following appointments are announced by Fred Kniss, provost; David

A dispatch from Cape Town: Students share from the South Africa cross-cultural

August 21, 2019Last updated August 25, 2020 by EMU communications

EMU students scattered across the globe on summer cross-culturals to Mexico, Puerto Rico, Washington D.C. and South Africa. The cross-cultural experience has been a key component of EMU’s core curriculum

Practitioners from five states and 11 Virginia school districts attend EMU’s fourth annual Restorative Justice in Education Conference

July 3, 2019Last updated July 3, 2019 by Lauren Jefferson

The American public school system has many structural issues, from an emphasis on standardized assessments to inequitable disciplinary procedures and overcrowding, but Kathy Evans, an education professor at Eastern Mennonite

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