Eastern Mennonite University’s recipients of the annual Excellence in Teaching Awards for 2021 are: in the Tenured Faculty category, Martha Greene Eads, PhD, professor of English, in the Pre-tenure Faculty ... read more about 2021 Excellence in Teaching Awards honor professors Martha Greene Eads, Leah Kratz, and Robert Curry
After 10 days of fighting and hundreds killed, Israel and Hamas are observing a cease fire. In Harrisonburg, protesters rallied in solidarity with Palestinians on Saturday. Tim Seidel, professor and director of EMU's Center for Interfaith Engagment, spoke at the rally. ... read more about Locals march for Palestinians from WMRA/NPR
Ninety Eastern Mennonite University students were recognized for accomplishments and achievements during the 2020-21 academic year during a special recognition ceremony today. View the livestream recording Academics Academic Success Center ... read more about EMU honors students for academic, leadership achievements
EMU’s campus community entered into a wave of critical discussions about faith, race, and gender this semester. Three book clubs emerged independently, while yet another reading group and a film ... read more about Hot topics: Five spring semester discussion groups focus on faith, race, and gender
“Community organizing is fundamentally a project of power-building within and among groups of people marginalized from existing power structures,” says Professor Ryan Good, co-director of the Washington Community Scholars’ Center ... read more about EMU announces community organizing and development minor
Ten graduating seniors are the 2021 Cords of Distinction recipients. They will receive blue and gold cords signifying their achievement to wear with other academic regalia to the Cords of ... read more about EMU honors ten seniors with Cords of Distinction
Eastern Mennonite University hosts a panel on “Empowering Children’s Literature for Challenging Times” Sunday, April 11, at 3 p.m. The panel will include authors and educators who have conducted research ... read more about Writers Read panel to discuss ‘Children’s Literature for Challenging Times’
This column by Jim Bishop ’67 was published in the March 20, 2021, Daily News-Record. Jim has graciously “lent” us his blessing to share, as well as a few photos ... read more about Bishop’s Mantle: ‘Brothers and sisters, Lent me your ears – listen, hear’
This semester, students are mapping racially restrictive deeds, nursing and caring for the most vulnerable patients, improving food access in food apartheid areas, and monitoring zoo animals – all through the ... read more about WCSC interns work in food access, end-of-life care, zoos and more
Rebecca Kauffman, writer-in-residence at Eastern Mennonite University, presents a Writers Read event Thursday, March 25, at 6:30 p.m. She will preview her next work, Chorus, a novel told in linked ... read more about Writer-in-residence and Times best crime fiction honoree Rebecca Kauffman to present Writers Read