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Royals Business Spotlight: CT Assist

June 3, 2019Last updated June 3, 2019 by EMU communications

The Royal Connections Business Spotlight is a monthly feature about businesses owned by EMU alumni featured in the university’s interactive business directory. Jair Drooger ‘97 and Scott Yoder ‘96 are co-founders

Retiring professor Chris Gingrich anchored EMU’s economics program for 24 years

May 22, 2019Last updated May 22, 2019 by Lauren Jefferson

Jelly beans, tennis balls and cups of coffee – these descriptors appear with regularity when former students remember Professor Chris Gingrich. The first two classroom props were used in activities

Internships net career starts for EMU business grads

May 7, 2019Last updated May 7, 2019 by Christopher Clymer Kurtz

Two Eastern Mennonite University seniors who interned at Farm Credit of the Virginias last summer will be employed there as generalists, a position that encapsulates a variety of roles that

Three future CPAs head to JMU for grad school

April 29, 2019Last updated April 30, 2019 by Lauren Jefferson and Jourdyn Friend

Three senior accounting majors have been accepted into James Madison University’s graduate accounting program: Riley Kingsley, of North Newton, Kansas; Erik Peachey, of Lititz, Pennsylvania; and Austin Tomlin, of Greenville,

EMU’s 2019 achievement and leadership excellence awardees honored at spring chapel

April 24, 2019Last updated April 25, 2019 by Lauren Jefferson

The Eastern Mennonite University community gathered to celebrate student successes of the 2019 spring semester and special end-of-the-academic-year recognitions. Academics Academic Success Center Nursing major Audrey Martin was recognized as

Second annual ACE Festival showcases student research, learning and creativity

April 22, 2019Last updated April 23, 2019 by Lauren Jefferson

A few friendly faces in the audience helped senior social work majors Eliana Tejedor and Jakya Jones through their presentations during a session on Virginia legislation at Eastern Mennonite University’s

Simulation boosts students’ business savvy in global market entrepreneurship

April 15, 2019Last updated April 23, 2019 by Christopher Clymer Kurtz

UPDATE 4/23/2019: Team Boom! Cameras, comprised of Alcinda Brubaker, Chris Simmons and Emily Hostetler, closed out the semester simulation with top scores as well, including a #3 global ranking in

With thriving vinyl graphics business, Joel Gross ’76 gives back in community leadership, service

March 29, 2019Last updated April 1, 2019 by Lauren Jefferson

Even though he used to be a social worker in Atlanta, Joel Gross ’76 says his more recent decades as a business owner have “enabled me to do more for people than I

EMU baseball player, a natural ‘people person,’ finds success in financial sales

March 23, 2019Last updated March 25, 2019 by Lauren Jefferson

In the EMU Royals dugout from 2014-16, Aaron Hooven was a talker, remembers baseball coach Ben Spotts. “I had to stay on him sometimes, but to his credit, he always

Royal Connections Business Spotlight: Trio invests in Hampton Inn Woodstock

March 7, 2019Last updated March 7, 2019 by EMU communications

The Royal Connections Business Spotlight is a monthly feature about businesses owned by EMU alumni featured in the university’s interactive business directory. Allon Lefever says “business is in my DNA.”

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