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Justapaz intern shares hopes for a future Colombian peace billed as ‘impossible’

November 28, 2016Last updated November 29, 2016 by EMU communications staff/Elisabeth Wilder

Senior social work major Elisabeth Wilder spent 12 weeks last summer working for peacebuilding organization Justapaz in Bogota, Colombia. A grant from Eastern Mennonite University’s Peacebuilding and Development Department funded

Cross-cultural medical service provides biomed students with important skills

November 15, 2016Last updated November 20, 2016 by Lauren Jefferson

With cross-cultural medical service trips becoming increasingly common, one graduate student in Eastern Mennonite University’s MA in Biomedicine program is sharing his own experience working in Nicaragua. Graduate student Milan

Forty years of service and learning celebrated at WCSC’s Nelson Good House

November 8, 2016Last updated February 28, 2019 by Randi B. Hagi

Fellowship, Greek food and a walking tour brought together more than 50 people to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Washington Community Scholars’ Center, known for many years as the

From the Hill to homeless shelters, this semester’s WCSC scholars gain work experience and grow in community

October 21, 2016Last updated November 10, 2016 by Lauren Jefferson

From brushing shoulders with congressmen and lobbyists to working with homeless people and at-risk youth, students spending the fall semester at the Washington Community Scholars’ Center bring home a range

October celebration will mark 40 years of service and learning at the Washington Community Scholars’ Center

August 18, 2016Last updated August 18, 2017 by Lauren Jefferson

Best friends through their college years at Eastern Mennonite University, Joel Daly and Bess Steury spent the fall semester of 2002 at Washington Community Scholars’ Center in Washington D.C. Joel

Interdisciplinary conference on women of Anabaptist traditions, slated for June 2017, announces call for proposals

August 4, 2016Last updated September 29, 2016 by Lauren Jefferson

Scholars, activists, students and literary, performing and visual artists alike are invited to submit proposals for consideration to “Crossing the Line: Women of Anabaptist Traditions Encounter Borders and Boundaries,” a

Summer interns settle in at Washington Community Scholars’ Center

June 15, 2016Last updated November 10, 2016 by Lauren Jefferson

Teresa Garcia-Bautista has a long list of summer goals while living at the Washington Community Scholars’ Center and working in Washington D.C. this summer. The first two are “meet the

‘Street Sense’ editorial intern helps provide a voice for the homeless in Washington D.C.

May 23, 2016Last updated November 10, 2016 by Randi B. Hagi and Lauren Jefferson

Homelessness wasn’t something Abby Hershberger was familiar with while growing up in Millersburg, Ohio, a town of about 3,500 residents. “It didn’t happen to people I knew,” she says. “It

In Reunion’s ‘Freedom Circles,’ peacebuilding major facilitates life changes and his own learning

May 12, 2016Last updated November 10, 2016 by Randi B. Hagi

Nathan McKnight recognized a quality of reciprocity in his spring semester internship. The people who come through the “freedom circles” hosted by the organization Reunion, he says, “are improving me,

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

April 11, 2016Last updated November 10, 2016 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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