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Common Grounds Coffeehouse and new student union celebrates grand opening

October 7, 2022Last updated October 12, 2022 by Lauren Jefferson

Just in time for Homecoming and Family Weekend, EMU’s renovated Common Grounds Coffeehouse is open for business. Approximately 200 EMU students, faculty and staff attended the Grand Reopening and ribbon-cutting

Inaugural Royals Go Downtown event connects students, H’burg businesses

September 23, 2022Last updated September 24, 2022 by EMU Communications

More than 200 Royals headed to downtown Harrisonburg Thursday evening for the first, and hopefully annual, Royals Go Downtown event. Following the EMU Pep Band, the group started at Magpie

National bestselling graphic novel ‘The Best We Could Do’ is ’22-23 Common Read

September 15, 2022Last updated October 10, 2022 by EMU Communications

Since 2013, Eastern Mennonite University has selected a Common Read. Last year, that announcement concluded with some excitement: Just Mercy author and civil rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson gave the Commencement

Saxophonist Ryan Kauffman ’97 joins EMU Jazz for Homecoming Celebration Concert

September 12, 2022Last updated October 10, 2022 by EMU Communications

Musician Ryan Kauffman ’97 is the special guest at the 2022 EMU Homecoming and Family Weekend Celebration Concert Friday, Oct. 7, at 8 p.m. in Lehman Auditorium. The program includes

Fall Move-In 2022: The Royals are back in town!

August 29, 2022Last updated September 5, 2022 by EMU Communications

View the 2022 Move-In/Orientation photo album. The annual ritual of college-bound teenagers, Move-In Weekend at Eastern Mennonite University means all hands on deck. Faculty, staff and student staff welcomed a

‘Here Together’ activities (Knit Together, Bird Together, and more) return for 2022 Faculty-Staff Conference

August 22, 2022Last updated August 29, 2022 by Lauren Jefferson

Nothing better to lead off our annual coverage of Fall Faculty-Staff Conference (AKA Fish Together, Bird Together, Knit Together…) than a short video of Professor David Berry at the piano

Mennonite World Conference Assembly draws EMU community

August 9, 2022Last updated October 13, 2022 by Kate Szambecki

Several EMU alumni, faculty and staff participated in the 2022 Mennonite World Conference (MWC) Assembly that took place from July 5-10 in Indonesia. MWC Assemblies are reunions of the Anabaptist-Mennonite

EMU arts prominent among local spring grants

June 2, 2022Last updated June 3, 2022 by admin

Theater and music programs at Eastern Mennonite University received Advancing the Arts grants this spring from the Arts Council of the Valley. The grants cover projects to be completed by

Tributes by faculty and staff for 2022 Cords of Distinction honorees

May 17, 2022Last updated May 18, 2022 by EMU Communications

Ten graduating seniors were honored as Cords of Distinction recipients in a ceremony Saturday afternoon, April 30, 2022, at Eastern Mennonite University. Faculty, staff and fellow students nominated the recipients, who were

Psychology students present research, with one winning best paper, at state conference

May 17, 2022Last updated May 18, 2022 by Kate Szambecki

Four psychology students presented their research at the Virginia Association for Psychological Sciences conference on April 1. After two years of cancellation due to COVID, seniors Garrett Cash, Avery Trinh

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