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Peacebuilder Podcast: “There’s a Knock on the Door” with Bill Goldberg

May 6, 2020Last updated May 8, 2020 by Randi B. Hagi

In the seventh installment of the Peacebuilder podcast, Bill Goldberg, director of the Summer Peacebuilding Institute (SPI), speaks on the importance of grassroots and domestic peacebuilding, even in Eastern Mennonite

CJP’s virtual blessing ceremony honors 16 grads

May 4, 2020Last updated July 14, 2020 by Lauren Jefferson

With EMU’s Commencement rescheduled to fall 2020, Sunday’s virtual Ceremony of Blessings for graduates of the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding was in no way normal. Yet there was still

EMU Honors and Awards Spring 2020

April 28, 2020Last updated May 18, 2020 by Lauren Jefferson

Eastern Mennonite University held its annual student recognition ceremony during finals week. The various recognitions included honors from academic departments, student life and athletics. Academic Honors Academic Success Center Linda

Campus activities (Screaming Bingo, COVIDeos!) still thriving: here’s how (more like who)

April 16, 2020Last updated April 28, 2020 by Randi B. Hagi

“SCREAMING BINGO! COVIDeos! NEW WEEKLY PUZZLE! PEN PALS! & MORE!” Undergraduate students at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) are well-familiar with these raucous, all-caps subject lines hitting their inboxes like glitter-filled

Peacebuilder Podcast: “Colorizing Restorative Justice” with Johonna Turner

April 14, 2020Last updated April 15, 2020 by Randi B. Hagi

Johonna Turner, assistant professor of restorative justice and peacebuilding at the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding (CJP), is the featured guest of episode six of the Peacebuilder podcast. Turner speaks

In Memoriam: Nate Yoder, professor emeritus of church history and university archivist, helped many ‘put feet on their prayers’

April 8, 2020Last updated April 9, 2020 by Lauren Jefferson

Here my goal is to assist students in naming the way God is calling them to help shape the history they are living. To name such a calling is to

Herm ready to ‘pass the torch’ of Royal Pride to next blue lion mascot

April 2, 2020Last updated April 7, 2020 by EMU communications

Eastern Mennonite University has announced the retirement of Herm, the school’s mascot, effective at the end of the 2019-20 academic year. Known less by his official moniker of Herm the

One EMU family of writers gives an honest take on their quarantine challenges

March 27, 2020Last updated March 30, 2020 by admin

Michael Whetzel BSN ’17 specializes in marketing of nursing programs at Eastern Mennonite University. He’s currently enrolled in the MA in Organizational Leadership program. His son Joe is a first-year

EMU publications win advertising honors

March 27, 2020Last updated March 31, 2020 by Lauren Jefferson

EMU picked up honors in the 35th Annual Educational Advertising Awards, earning two “Merit” awards for the 2020 viewbook and the fall/winter issue of Crossroads alumni magazine. The viewbook and

The Citizen: A Facebook group that started in Harrisonburg connects people across the globe through dance

March 20, 2020Last updated March 30, 2020 by Nzar Sharif / The Citizen

This article by Nzar Sharif is republished with permission from The Citizen, an independent Harrisonburg-based news website with several EMU alumni involved, including co-founder Andrew Jenner. We encourage you to

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