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Smithsonian Folklife Festival media internship brings Indonesian student to the Mall to help celebrate Peru

August 31, 2015Last updated November 10, 2016 by Brenna Cowardin with Lauren Jefferson

Eastern Mennonite University senior Victoria Gunawan, a native of Indonesia, spent her summer among Peruvians on the National Mall in Washington D.C. As a media intern at the Smithsonian Folklife

Eastern Mennonite University welcomes twelve new faculty members for 2015-2016 academic year

August 28, 2015Last updated September 14, 2015 by EMU communications staff

Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) welcomes 12 new faculty to the ranks for the 2015-16 academic year. The new faculty, announced by Fred Kniss, provost; Michael King, vice president and seminary

A poet blooms: Angela M. Carter ’09 finds healing through words and art

May 28, 2015Last updated June 15, 2015 by Randi B. Hagi

Angela M. Carter ‘09 has been shaped by hardships: she’s a survivor of childhood sexual abuse and of a lifelong battle against depression. But Carter, a talented, emerging poet, has

EMU stage adaptation of Andy Carvin’s ‘Distant Witness’ immerses audience in tech-driven revolution of Arab Spring

May 4, 2015Last updated May 11, 2015 by Kara Lofton

The story of a man with 107,000 Twitter followers – famous for publicizing the “Arab Spring” via social media – has been dramatized by Eastern Mennonite University faculty and students.

Students discern leadership gifts in summer-long Ministry Inquiry Program

April 29, 2015Last updated July 19, 2016 by Lauren Jefferson

Answering a call, following a hunch, listening to your heart – four Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) students, each with a different way of expressing what they are heeding in their

Ten EMU graduates earn Cords of Distinction for contributions to campus and community

April 27, 2015Last updated July 19, 2016 by Lauren Jefferson

Ten graduating seniors were honored as Cords of Distinction recipients in a ceremony held Saturday afternoon, April 25, 2015 at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU). Faculty, staff and fellow students nominated

In choosing EMU, Ygarza sisters share a friendship of on-court memories and off-court successes

March 20, 2015Last updated July 19, 2016 by Chris Yoder

In the semi-finals of the Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) basketball tournament, junior Alicia Ygarza and her teammates had an extra special fan in the stands among friends and family.

Mortal clocks ticking in EMU’S “Hickorydickory”

March 11, 2015Last updated March 26, 2015 by Florence Barrett

In the play “Hickorydickory,” normal people have mortal clocks behind their hearts. But others have clocks in their heads and they can hear the maddening ticking. Worse yet, they know

Upcoming Writers Read author and English professor Mark Bauerlein to speak on humanities in the digital age

January 29, 2015Last updated February 6, 2015 by Lauren Jefferson

Take a minute and read this book title: The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes our Future (or Don’t Trust Anyone under 30). Chances are those words

For fight against Ebola, international students plan fundraising event with Nobel laureate Leymah Gbowee

January 15, 2015Last updated January 6, 2016 by Lauren Jefferson

After spending the summer thousands of miles from her native Liberia and watching nervously from afar as Ebola swept through her country, sophomore Winifred Gray-Johnson wanted to take action when

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