For local group The Walking Roots Band, playing music together is a natural extension of collective friendship. The band formed when four friends started playing music under the name The ... read more about EMU, Goshen Alumni Go “Back To The Roots”
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Grad Lands in Soccer Spotlight in Solomon Islands
The team departed Rendova Island in a dugout canoe powered, barely, by a tiny outboard motor. Between the players, assembled ad hoc from the island’s villages, the meager amount of ... read more about Grad Lands in Soccer Spotlight in Solomon Islands
Students Take EMU Back to Community-Centered Food Production
In a scene that would have been familiar to the farmers’ sons and daughters who populated this campus in the early 20th century, college-aged adults can be seen planting, thinning, ... read more about Students Take EMU Back to Community-Centered Food Production
Successes That Don’t Show Up in School Test Scores
From the moment the eighth-graders left Montevideo Middle School for their annual field trip to Baltimore until they returned hours later, Nathan Medlin was every bit a part of the ... read more about Successes That Don’t Show Up in School Test Scores
Massive Knitting Project (to Cover a Bridge) Aims at Building Community in Pittsburgh
On the weekend of August 10, Pittsburgh’s famous Andy Warhol Bridge will begin wearing a massive knitted sweater of sorts, designed, created and installed (save for high-altitude stuff left to ... read more about Massive Knitting Project (to Cover a Bridge) Aims at Building Community in Pittsburgh
Band Gives Old Hymns New Life
The Walking Roots Band, a Harrisonburg, Virginia-based band made up of primarily Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) graduates, is taking centuries-old hymn texts and putting them to music that is accessible ... read more about Band Gives Old Hymns New Life
EMU Alum, County Registrar To Monitor Albanian Election
Doug Geib isn’t going into completely unfamiliar territory next week when he travels to Albania to serve as an elections monitor. Geib, voter registrar for Rockingham County, visited the former ... read more about EMU Alum, County Registrar To Monitor Albanian Election
EMU Alum Chosen “School Nurse of the Year” for Michigan
Phyllis Yoder wasn’t born in Huron County, but she has been a big hit in this area for the past 25-30 years. Yoder is a registered nurse who works for ... read more about EMU Alum Chosen “School Nurse of the Year” for Michigan
Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival, June 9-16, Shows Bach – and Verdi and Britten – Live On
The music of Johann Sebastian Bach never dies, as will be obvious to those experiencing his music at the 21st Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival. For more than two decades, the ... read more about Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival, June 9-16, Shows Bach – and Verdi and Britten – Live On
EMU President Honored by National Multiple Sclerosis Society
An annual dinner benefiting efforts to cure and treat multiple sclerosis raised more than $100,000 by Tuesday evening with money still on the way. The Blue Ridge Chapter of the ... read more about EMU President Honored by National Multiple Sclerosis Society