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Students on Europe cross-cultural semester explore art and identity

November 8, 2019Last updated August 25, 2020 by Lauren Jefferson and Randi B. Hagi

Eastern Mennonite University student Kate Stutzman thought of herself as removed from the tragedy of the Holocaust. Her perceived distance — of time and geography — was bridged in “terrifying,

Staff Spotlight #8: Jon Styer, brand guru

November 4, 2019Last updated December 17, 2019 by Lauren Jefferson

Want to know who is responsible for the beautiful new mountainscape graphics accompanying the university’s new tagline? That would be our talented creative director and brand manager Jon Styer ‘07.

‘Voices Together’: EMU’s Benjamin Bergey on the new Mennonite hymnal

October 25, 2019Last updated October 25, 2019 by Christopher Clymer Kurtz

When the new Mennonite worship and song resource Voices Together is released next fall, Eastern Mennonite University professor of music Benjamin Bergey ’11 has a hope: that this collection “draws

‘Phantom’ on Broadway and Met opera star Janinah Burnett to perform at EMU’s annual Gala Concert

October 21, 2019Last updated October 14, 2020 by Lauren Jefferson

Eastern Mennonite University’s Gala Concert has always been a musical tour de force, involving all ensembles on campus and often bringing in special guests. But the 2019 event will no

Common Read selection Exit West ‘at once a love story, a fable, and a chilling reflection’ on displacement

October 14, 2019Last updated November 1, 2019 by Christopher Clymer Kurtz

The Eastern Mennonite University Common Read for the 2019-20 academic year is the widely acclaimed Man Booker Prize finalist and bestselling novel Exit West by Mohsin Hamid (Riverhead, 2017). “We

CJP’s 2019 Peacebuilder magazine kicks off 25th anniversary celebration

October 6, 2019Last updated October 29, 2019 by EMU communications

Name any current major conflict in the world, domestic or international, and there is likely at least one graduate of Eastern Mennonite University’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding (CJP) on

Writers Read at EMU Homecoming to feature Faith Eidse ’79

September 27, 2019Last updated October 14, 2019 by admin

Faith Eidse ’79 will read from her bestselling novel, Healing Falls (Faitheyes Press, 2018), during an Eastern Mennonite University Writers Read event at 8 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 12. She will

Poet Todd Davis returns to EMU for Writers Read

September 24, 2019Last updated September 27, 2019 by EMU communications

Poet and professor Todd Davis returns to Eastern Mennonite University for a Sept. 26 Writers Read event. He will read at 6:30 p.m. in Common Grounds Coffeehouse in the University

Mel Lehman ’71 and Common Humanity bring contemporary Syrian art exhibit to EMU

September 20, 2019Last updated July 22, 2021 by EMU communications

Alumnus Mel Lehman ’71 brings a traveling exhibit featuring the work of contemporary Syrian artists to Eastern Mennonite University. The exhibit opens Friday, Sept. 20, in the Hartzler Library Gallery

Free Union headlines Homecoming and Family Weekend’s fall festival

September 15, 2019Last updated October 14, 2019 by Lauren Jefferson

Free Union, a Charlottesville-based musical collective that stands for collaboration, “positivity and community,” will headline the 2019 Fall Festival on the front lawn during Eastern Mennonite University’s Homecoming and Family

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