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Jordan Hollinger, now working in the solar industry, sees his undergraduate research published in SolarToday magazine

by Kara Lofton

Recent graduate Jordan Hollinger landed his dream job in energy and environmental policy, after an undergraduate internship that included professor-mentored research on the local economic impacts of Eastern Mennonite University’s
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Sustainable Food Initiative partners with Virginia Mennonite Retirement Community farm to grow, harvest vegetables

by David Brennan

When Tyler Eshleman took the helm of Eastern Mennonite University’s sputtering student-led Sustainable Food Initiative (SFI) last year, his goals were modest: to return the weed-choked campus gardens to their
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Nursing major finds that semester cross-cultural in Washington D.C. provides positive pre-clinical experience

by Lauren Jefferson and Chris Yoder

Nancy Wharton, who comes from the small town of Strasburg, Virginia, “definitely” wanted to spend her cross-cultural semester in a different country. But the nursing student at Eastern Mennonite University
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Lassana Kanneh, a former child soldier in Liberia’s civil war, shares his story to help heal himself and others

by Andrew Goodstein

Lassana Kanneh is healing. In 1999, along with more than 20,000 Liberian children, 11-year-old Lassana became a soldier. He was kidnapped and forced to use drugs and alcohol, destroy property,
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Transdisciplinary seminar on adverse childhood experiences teaches future health professionals unique diagnostic tools

by Lauren Jefferson

What if a traumatic childhood event could be contributing to health problems? Wouldn’t listening and learning from a patient about that experience be as valuable for diagnostic purposes to a
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