Visual and communication arts

Third EMU nature photographer earns NANPA scholarship, participates in ‘opportunity of a lifetime’

by Christopher Clymer Kurtz

For the third time, an Eastern Mennonite University student was selected to participate in the North American Nature Photography Association (NANPA) College Scholarship Program. Riley Swartzendruber, a senior digital media
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Conservationist, bird-lover and wildlife ecology professor Drew Lanham to keynote second annual ACE Festival

by Christopher Clymer Kurtz

Drew Lanham – author and poet, wildlife ecology professor, conservationist, birder – will be the keynote speaker during the second annual Academic and Creative Excellence Festival at Eastern Mennonite University.
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Senior orator wins C. Henry Smith contest with speech on the silencing of the church’s ‘political’ voice

by Jourdyn Friend

Sylvia Mast, a senior biology major and honors minor from Broadway, Virginia, won the C. Henry Smith oratorical contest at Eastern Mennonite University with her speech “An Exploration of Language—Recognizing
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Through audio, film and theater, versatile writer Liz Hansen ’99 tells stories and prompts questions

by Christopher Clymer Kurtz

Jay B. Landis and his checkerboard-wrinkled forehead: That’s basically what started Elizabeth Beachy Hansen ’99 on her career path. As a first-year student, she had biotech and science research leanings, some
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