In the opening ceremony at this month’s SPI Community Day, each participant made an introduction and shared hopes and dreams. One military veteran came to Eastern Mennonite University to “learn ... read more about Regional peacebuilders learn and practice new skills at one-day event modeled after Summer Peacebuilding Institute
As an undergraduate student at Virginia Commonwealth University in 2012, Mark Strandquist began the “Windows from Prison” project that continues today. He asks incarcerated men, women, and teens to respond to ... read more about Artist-activist connects communities in and out of prison with bold public art projects
Only someone with a great passion for surgery could say that gallstones “can be very pretty.” Laura Rosenberger ’03 has that passion. Rosenberger, now a surgical breast oncology fellow at ... read more about Suter Science Seminar audience learns from case studies with surgeon and EMU alumnus
Laura Yoder, associate professor of nursing, gave her “last lecture” in the Northlawn Great Lounge on Tuesday, Jan. 26. Yoder started out by assuring the audience that she was not, ... read more about Nursing professor Laura Yoder uses ‘Last Lecture’ to contemplate perfection and transformation through God
Some athletes leave their sport and never go back, but Hunter Taylor, from Richmond, Virginia, has returned after a year off with an even greater love for volleyball. His dedication ... read more about Junior volleyball player named to U.S. national deaf team, will play in World Championships and the Deaflympics
Senior Derrick Turner believes in letting theater speak for itself. His position as a dramaturg facilitates exactly that – providing a design team, cast, and audience with the information necessary ... read more about EMU theater experience has been ‘soul-snatching’ for this history-major-turned-award-winning-dramaturg
Striking photos taken by an Eastern Mennonite University professor and his students of a rarely seen, endangered salamander supported citizen lobbying that may have influenced a U.S. Forest Service decision ... read more about Photography class photos helped efforts to block Atlantic Coast Pipeline on sensitive sections of national forestland
Eastern Mennonite University’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding has been invited to partner with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation in a new initiative aimed at truth, racial healing and transformation in ... read more about CJP partners with Kellogg Foundation’s new national initiative on truth, racial healing and transformation
A decade and a half ago, Laura Rosenberger set records as a national champion pole vaulter for Eastern Mennonite University (EMU). These days, though, it’s her medical career that’s soaring. ... read more about Surgeon Laura Rosenberger kicks off spring Suter Science Lectures with talk about residency experiences
On her Facebook page, Martha Woodroof offers the following whirlwind summary of her career journey: “NPR freelancer, WMRA public radio person, restaurateur, essayist, country music jock, college dropout, TV talk ... read more about NPR personality, author and raconteur Martha Woodroof shares humor, life experiences at Writer’s Read event