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Jolee Paden ’16 now on the run for bigger causes

May 15, 2020Last updated June 2, 2020 by David Driver/Daily News-Record

Jolee Paden went from being a Division III runner at Eastern Mennonite University to working with Division I athletes in the nation’s capital. But the native of Illinois is not

EMU Honors and Awards Spring 2020

April 28, 2020Last updated May 18, 2020 by Lauren Jefferson

Eastern Mennonite University held its annual student recognition ceremony during finals week. The various recognitions included honors from academic departments, student life and athletics. Academic Honors Academic Success Center Linda

EMU announces 2020 Cords of Distinction recipients

April 13, 2020Last updated April 28, 2020 by EMU communications

Ten graduating seniors are the 2020 Cords of Distinction recipients. They will wear blue and gold cords signifying their achievement during the 2020 Commencement, tentatively scheduled for fall 2020. More

EMU’s tutors find fresh purpose in helping fellow students through online shift

April 9, 2020Last updated May 5, 2020 by Lauren Jefferson

Looking back over the last few weeks, Professor Linda Gnagey thinks about one meeting as particularly fortuitous. As director of Eastern Mennonite University’s Academic Success Center, Gnagey recruits, trains and

WCSC interns work in athletics, criminal justice, legal services, Smithsonian, and more

February 12, 2020Last updated February 14, 2020 by Lauren Jefferson

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

Alum rings first bell of 2020 at the New York Stock Exchange

January 28, 2020Last updated February 10, 2020 by Randi B. Hagi

A very loud, 18-inch diameter bell at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) has announced the first trades of each new day since the current building opened in 1903. On

Greencastle’s new borough manager aims high for fellow citizens

January 24, 2020Last updated February 10, 2020 by Lauren Jefferson

Lorraine Armstrong Hohl ‘17 was among the EMU alumni briefly profiled in our “Lead Together” feature pages of the fall/winter 2019-20 issue of Crossroads magazine. We’re pleased she took time

Yutzy family honored with local chamber’s Farm Family Stewardship award

January 9, 2020Last updated January 9, 2020 by Ian Munro/Daily News-Record

A local family was among five area business figures to be honored at the 2019 Harrisonburg-Rockingham Chamber of Commerce annual awards banquet in early January. Windcrest Holsteins, in Timberville, and

Diversified lumberyard helps to manage ‘God-given’ resource

January 2, 2020Last updated January 6, 2020 by Lauren Jefferson

This article was originally published in the spring/summer 2019 issue of Crossroads magazine. WHEN THE FLATBED TRUCK pulled into Heacock Lumber carrying a gigantic 5-foot-wide red oak trunk, foreman Zach Grasse ’15 didn’t

Artist Zac Nafziger ’01 and new VMRC installation featured in ‘Stained Glass Quarterly’

December 19, 2019Last updated February 6, 2020 by Randi B. Hagi

It all starts with a full-scale Sharpie drawing – black lines curving around one another, mapping out designs up to several feet in width. Then, stained glass artist Zac Nafziger

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