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CJP welcomes new faculty and staff for 2021-22 academic year

August 23, 2021Last updated September 2, 2021 by EMU Communications

The Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University welcomes several new faculty and staff for the 2021-22 academic year. “CJP is blessed to have highly qualified faculty members

Locals march for Palestinians

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After 10 days of fighting and hundreds killed, Israel and Hamas are observing a cease fire. In Harrisonburg, protesters rallied in solidarity with Palestinians on Saturday. Tim Seidel, professor and director of EMU's Center for Interfaith Engagment, spoke at the rally. ... read more about Locals march for Palestinians from WMRA/NPR

EMU honors students for academic, leadership achievements

April 28, 2021Last updated May 5, 2021 by EMU communications

Ninety Eastern Mennonite University students were recognized for accomplishments and achievements during the 2020-21 academic year during a special recognition ceremony today. View the livestream recording Academics Academic Success Center

Hot topics: Five spring semester discussion groups focus on faith, race, and gender

April 21, 2021Last updated April 29, 2021 by Randi B. Hagi and Lauren Jefferson

EMU’s campus community entered into a wave of critical discussions about faith, race, and gender this semester. Three book clubs emerged independently, while yet another reading group and a film

ACE Festival to welcome Rabbi Niles Goldstein for keynote

April 13, 2021Last updated April 22, 2021 by Randi B. Hagi

Rabbi Niles Goldstein, a former visiting scholar with the Center for Interfaith Engagement, returns to Eastern Mennonite University as the keynote speaker for the 2021 Academic and Creative Excellence (ACE)

Center for Interfaith Engagement brings expert on anti-Muslim racism for March colloquium

March 8, 2021Last updated March 18, 2021 by Moderator

Eastern Mennonite University’s next colloquium will be given by Saher Selod, PhD, on her book Forever Suspect: Racialized Surveillance of Muslim Americans in the War on Terror (Rutgers University Press,

All-virtual Homecoming and Family Weekend features new Herm, fun run/ride, TenTalks and much more

August 31, 2020Last updated October 5, 2020 by EMU communications

Newsflash! Wondering how the Great Herm Search of 2020 was going? Mark Oct. 16 on your calendar. Eastern Mennonite University’s new blue lion mascot will meet his fans during the

Poet, theologian and peacemaker Pádraig Ó Tuama to make a virtual visit to EMU Sept. 14-18

August 18, 2020Last updated August 25, 2020 by Randi B. Hagi and Lauren Jefferson

Pádraig Ó Tuama speaks softly, soothingly, with just a touch of grit in his gentle Irish accent. Next month, you can hear the voice of this poet, theologian, and mediator on

President’s Statement on the Death of George Floyd

June 1, 2020Last updated June 29, 2020 by Moderator

Dear beloved EMU community, Like you, I am overwhelmed with revulsion and sadness by the reprehensible death of George Floyd. That the death occurred in the midst of a pandemic

Students, grads reflect on Ramadan

May 14, 2020Last updated May 18, 2020 by EMU communications

Right now, many Eastern Mennonite University students and alumni – wherever they’re waiting out the coronavirus pandemic – are observing the month of Ramadan. The ninth and holiest month in the

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