If you’re going to extract stone from a 350-acre hole adjacent to a borough of 950 residents, Rod Martin has learned that it helps to live in a house beside ... read more about Alumnus at helm of Martin Stone Quarries recognized as national leader in the aggregates industry
As she boarded the first flight of her globe-circling journey, Jayne Docherty, PhD, program director at EMU’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding (CJP), carried a clutch of certificates she would ... read more about First graduates of EMU’s Women’s Peacebuilding Leadership Program recognized in Somaliland ceremony
After 20 years in the business and non-profit sector, Jeff Barbour returned to college as a gray-haired student in the late 1990s. Today he is the newly elected treasurer of ... read more about Middle-aged adult-degree-completion grad becomes treasurer of historic city in Virginia
“He needs me to go with him when he has the drone,” Marie Riehl says, referring to her husband, Daniel. It takes both Riehls to load this drone into their ... read more about Meet the drone-toting Riehls – radicals in their 80s?
One foggy morning in late summer of 1962, a 17-year-old native of Washington D.C. arrived on the campus of what was then Eastern Mennonite College not knowing a soul. Grandison ... read more about Much pain, one big gain, from being an African American student at EMU in 1962-63
Eastern Mennonite University has exceeded by nearly $600,000 its $7 million goal to modernize the laboratory section of the 1960s-era Suter Science Center, said vice president for advancement Kirk Shisler ... read more about Successful fundraising to modernize science labs sparks effort to upgrade western section of the Suter Science Center
When Devon C. Anders ’88 was finishing his bachelor’s degree at Eastern Mennonite University and heading into a career as a certified public account with a well-established firm, he probably ... read more about Accounting alumnus, head of InterChange Inc., named local Business Person of the Year
Lyubov Slashcheva has an awfully long resume of accomplishments for a 21-year-old. Add to this her start in life—in a small mining town in a remote corner of the former ... read more about Graduating as h.s. valedictorian at 16, Slashcheva ’11 racks up accomplishments on way to being public-service dentist
When Kumar Anuraj Jha returned home to Nepal with an MA in conflict transformation in 2007, he was hired as a child protection advisor by the United Nations Mission in ... read more about Reintegrating child soldiers in Nepal shows challenge of turning good intentions into reality
A beautiful mess is the title I would give my attempt to make applesauce this year. The only logical explanation for why I would undertake processing two bushels of apples ... read more about EMU-seminary alum reflects on the beauty and joy of life’s messes