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Spring recognition chapel honors nearly 130 student leaders

April 27, 2018Last updated May 14, 2018 by Lauren Jefferson

Leadership style and abilities emerge from experience and from constant learning, Vice President of Student Life Jim Smucker said in his welcome to Eastern Mennonite University’s spring semester recognition chapel.

Saturday’s Iron Composer contestants have five hours to create music that includes ‘secret ingredient’

April 24, 2018Last updated April 24, 2018 by Christopher Clymer Kurtz

Five student composers. Anticipation. Five hours. Fear. One concert. And one champion. But this spring’s first-ever Iron Composer competition at Eastern Mennonite University is less about proving who’s “best of

EMU wins international cryptoanalysis competition

April 16, 2018Last updated April 18, 2018 by Christopher Clymer Kurtz

“Furrowed eyebrows” may not technically be a mood, but it’s how Eastern Mennonite University sophomore engineering major Ben Stutzman described the atmosphere when his team was competing in the Kryptos

A meditation on vocation: academic departments host chapel services

March 1, 2018Last updated May 21, 2018 by Lauren Jefferson

Professor Ryan Thompson is a former Christian Church youth pastor who began a master’s degree in counseling at Richmont Graduate University, affiliated with the evangelical church, and then finished his

‘Close-up view’: Honors and Scholarship Weekend draws prospective students for interviews, auditions

February 5, 2018Last updated February 7, 2018 by Lauren Jefferson

More than 100 prospective students converged on Eastern Mennonite University last weekend — an inaugural Scholarship Weekend coupled with the traditional annual Honors Weekend. They came from as close as

EMU awarded record-breaking total of more than $3.3 million in grants in 2017

January 29, 2018Last updated February 14, 2018 by Lauren Jefferson

In 2017, Eastern Mennonite University was awarded grants in excess of $3.3 million, including more than $2.2 million in federal funding. The grants support the health and wellbeing of local

New STEM scholarships, funded by the National Science Foundation, encourage issues-based local exploration, inter-disciplinary skill-building

December 15, 2017Last updated December 20, 2017 by Lauren Jefferson

An innovative new program at Eastern Mennonite University will provide scholarships for academically talented students with financial need studying in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). The

Environmental statistician Mark Risser ’07 talks climate change and modeling at Suter Science Seminar

October 3, 2017Last updated October 9, 2017 by EMU communications staff

In the second of seven Suter Science Seminars this fall at Eastern Mennonite University, Mark Risser, a postdoctoral research fellow at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab in California, will discuss Statistical

From the Atlantic to the Pacific: Summer bike ride both ‘grueling’ and ‘exhilarating’

August 10, 2017Last updated August 14, 2017 by Christopher Clymer Kurtz

The trip began with the traditional dipping of back tires in the Atlantic Ocean at Rehoboth Beach in Delaware. It ended 59 days later in the Pacific at Lincoln City,

Research projects on diet and phytoremediation win annual STEM contest

April 25, 2017Last updated April 25, 2017 by EMU communications staff

Thirty-nine research projects in biology, chemistry, engineering, mathematical sciences psychology were showcased in the 2017 STEM Celebration poster show. Professors Greta Ann Herin and Daniel King coordinated the judging and