Washington Community Scholars Center

Portrait of fictional president unveiled while student-historian interns at American Art and Portrait Gallery library

by Randi B. Hagi

In the National Portrait Gallery hangs a portrait of every president of the United States. Elsa Miller was recently present for the latest addition, which was, strangely enough, the portrait
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Smithsonian Folklife Festival media internship brings Indonesian student to the Mall to help celebrate Peru

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
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Nursing major finds that semester cross-cultural in Washington D.C. provides positive pre-clinical experience

by Lauren Jefferson and Chris Yoder

Nancy Wharton, who comes from the small town of Strasburg, Virginia, “definitely” wanted to spend her cross-cultural semester in a different country. But the nursing student at Eastern Mennonite University
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L’Arche internship, and a penny-seeking new friend who sings the Beatles, helps to turn recent grad into D.C. resident

by Chris Yoder and Lauren Jefferson

For recent Eastern Mennonite University graduate Mandi Stoll, the past several weeks since ending her cross-cultural semester at the Washington Community Scholar’s Center (WCSC) and walking in commencement ceremonies have
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