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EMU hosts Intercollegiate Peace Fellowship

March 7, 2020Last updated April 29, 2020 by Tim Seidel

EMU hosted the 2020 Intercollegiate Peace Fellowship February 7-9. The Intercollegiate Peace Fellowship (ICPF) is an annual student-led conference for students exploring peace and justice from a faith perspective. The

Former NAACP president preaches Black history, past and present, is God’s movement among us and touches us all

February 26, 2020Last updated March 1, 2020 by Lauren Jefferson

It took a few years of persistence and many phone calls on the part of Eastern Mennonite University’s Director of Multicultural Services Celeste Thomas to bring The Rev. Dr. Cornell

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

EMU grads have plans for Lincoln’s ancestral home

Harrisonburg Citizen

“There was a sense that there was a bigger meaning living here,” said Sarah Bixler, a professor at Eastern Mennonite Seminary. “This was something that was consistent with some of our faith commitments and even our sense of direction from God — that there is important work to do here.” ... read more about EMU grads have plans for Lincoln’s ancestral home from Harrisonburg Citizen

Students pilgrimage to local enslaved graveyard

November 26, 2019Last updated August 25, 2020 by Randi B. Hagi

On a sunny day in September, 64 students from Eastern Mennonite University stood in a graveyard, listening to the names of people who may be buried there. Cream violets blanketed

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

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

Meet EMU’s Young Alum of the Year: Liza Heavener ’07

September 9, 2019Last updated September 9, 2019 by Christopher Clymer Kurtz

Eastern Mennonite University’s 2019 Young Alum of the Year Liza Heavener ’07 says she is “not afraid to jump into unchartered territory.” Her passion for changemaking has taken her from

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