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Professors collaborate to improve instructional methods in STEM classes, thanks to NSF research grant

October 10, 2016Last updated November 7, 2016 by Andrew Jenner

In a 2014 Scientific American blog post championing greater diversity within the sciences, Dr. Kenneth Gibbs Jr. writes that “the large and persistent under-representation of certain social groups from the

Mathematics and computer science double major David Hooley ’15 teaches in Kenya

August 16, 2016Last updated August 16, 2016 by Jennifer Steiner/MCC

David Hooley, from First Mennonite Church in Bluffton, Ohio, knew education was important, but not until he taught in Kenya did he really see the impact of his work. He

Spring STEM Celebration showcases forty individual and group research projects

April 27, 2016Last updated July 8, 2016 by Lauren Jefferson

Senior Derek Harnish and sophomore Braden Herman were upperclass and underclass division winners, respectively, at last week’s Spring STEM Celebration poster show. Harnish, who performed research under the supervision of

Spring recognition chapel celebrates student leadership and achievement

April 15, 2016Last updated May 2, 2017 by Lauren Jefferson

A variety of student accomplishments were celebrated at Eastern Mennonite University’s annual spring student recognition chapel service today [April 15, 2016]. Rachel Roth Sawatzky, director of student programs, opened the

Undergraduate presents computer science research at prestigious SIGSCE conference

April 7, 2016Last updated July 19, 2016 by Walt Wiltschek

Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) senior Alex Bender presented in the Student Research Competition at this year’s Association for Computing Machinery’s Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, popularly known as SIGCSE.

Join the ‘Suter West’ campaign: Phase II renovations will host lab spaces, new engineering program and updated museum

December 23, 2015Last updated October 21, 2021 by Lauren Jefferson

If a building could have a motto, Suter Science Center, named after longtime professor Dr. Daniel B. Suter, might have “Science, service, success” as its memorable catchphrase. Since its opening

EMU’s Hour of Code features fun with computational analytics, cupcakes for programmer Grace Hopper’s birthday

December 14, 2015Last updated July 19, 2016 by Lauren Jefferson

For one day each year, during the One Hour of Code worldwide celebration of computer science, Eastern Mennonite University professor Dee Weikle spends not just One Hour, but several in

Student research on hypertension, caffeinated athletes and radio-tracked beetles rewarded at annual STEM symposium

December 11, 2015Last updated January 13, 2016 by Lauren Jefferson

Kaylee Ferguson, a junior biology major, and Jared Fernandez, a second year master’s in biomedicine graduate student, took top honors at Eastern Mennonite University’s Annual STEM Student Research Symposium. Their

Nine ‘SALTers’ head into communities around the world for a year of service with Mennonite Central Committee

September 11, 2015Last updated July 19, 2016 by Lauren Jefferson

They are individuals willing to get their hands dirty, be flexible, make mistakes, be challenged, and to live simply in communities around the world. They do not come as experts,

George Mason University neuroscientist’s research uses computer modeling to ‘map’ Parkinson’s disease

April 7, 2015Last updated April 29, 2015 by Robert Propst

No organ can even compare to the complexity of the human brain. It may be the only thing in the universe that can comprehend itself, but scientists still know very

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