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Alumna illustrator nets 43,000 – and counting – Instagram followers

July 18, 2019Last updated July 22, 2019 by Christopher Clymer Kurtz

You can’t very well have an Instagram audience of 43,000 and not feel at least a little self conscious. But it helps freelance illustrator and Eastern Mennonite University alumna Madeline

Royal Connections Business Spotlight: VistaShare LLC

July 14, 2019Last updated July 9, 2019 by Lauren Jefferson

The Royal Connections Business Spotlight focuses on businesses owned by EMU alumni that are featured in the university’s interactive business directory. Click here to view other featured businesses. VistaShare LLC,

Lois Waybill Alderfer ’86 named Provider of the Year

July 12, 2019Last updated July 22, 2019 by Christopher Clymer Kurtz

Eastern Mennonite University alumna Lois Waybill Alderfer has been named the 2019 Provider of the Year by the Virginia Community Healthcare Association. A family nurse practitioner and the chief medical

EMU @ #MennoCon19

July 9, 2019Last updated June 28, 2021 by Lauren Jefferson

Eastern Mennonite University was well-represented at the July 2-6 Mennonite Church USA convention, aka MennoCon19. President Susan Schultz Huxman was among several administrators, faculty and staff to travel to Kansas

Practitioners from five states and 11 Virginia school districts attend EMU’s fourth annual Restorative Justice in Education Conference

July 3, 2019Last updated July 3, 2019 by Lauren Jefferson

The American public school system has many structural issues, from an emphasis on standardized assessments to inequitable disciplinary procedures and overcrowding, but Kathy Evans, an education professor at Eastern Mennonite

Alumni named as new principals for Harrisonburg City Schools

July 3, 2019Last updated July 13, 2019 by EMU communications

Two Eastern Mennonite University alumni, including a nationally recognized principal, were announced in new roles with Harrisonburg City Public Schools this week. Melissa Hensley ’92 will be principal of Harrisonburg

Blessings and burdens: Family businesses a ‘marketplace ministry’ of reconciliation

July 3, 2019Last updated July 3, 2019 by Christopher Clymer Kurtz

Family and business are each complicated in their own right. And family businesses? “Family business is complex,” said Sally Landis Derstine ’82, “because there is an overlap of three different systems:

EMU honored with CASE award for excellence in fundraising

July 1, 2019Last updated July 3, 2019 by Lauren Jefferson

For the third time in recent years, Eastern Mennonite University has earned accolades for its exceptional fundraising program from The Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). Only 90

TBI research offers one postgraduate path for psychology/history alumnus Roberto Wingfield ’15

June 27, 2019Last updated June 28, 2019 by Lauren Jefferson

Roberto Wingfield first developed an interest in interdisciplinary research while at EMU, and his current position as a project coordinator at the internationally renowned Moss Rehab Research Institute in Elkins

Geddes, DeWolf offer skills, strategies and an invitation into deep conversation with ‘Little Book of Racial Healing’

June 27, 2019Last updated August 25, 2020 by Lauren Jefferson

Co-authors Jodie Geddes MA ‘16 and Tom DeWolf launched The Little Book of Racial Healing (Skyhorse Publishing, 2018) during a webinar hosted by the Zehr Institute for Restorative Justice in

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