Area businesses and students teamed up at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) on Valentine’s Day to support RISE Harrisonburg’s “love packs” program for area children and Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) relief ... read more about EMU Students Send Packets of Love During Spiritual Life Week
Congress needs to be forced by Americans outside Washington, D.C., to take steps to curb gun violence, said U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan at a Capitol Hill press conference on ... read more about EMU President Swartzendruber Backs U.S. Education Secretary at D.C. Event for Gun Safety
Tal Shamir, a 2011 Student Academy Award winner, will premiere his latest video installation, “Di-Framing Vermeers,” on Saturday, Jan. 26, at 4 p.m. in the Margaret Martin Gehman Art Gallery ... read more about Student Academy Award Winning Artist to Premiere Work at EMU
Service and learning took center stage for Eastern Mennonite University’s expanded observance of Martin Luther King Day on Jan. 21. Some 200 students, faculty and staff participated in service opportunities ... read more about EMU Looks Beyond Charity in Observing MLK Day
For Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) student Brad Mullet, part of Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy means volunteerism. (Check out photos of MLK Day!) Mullet, a 19-year-old sophomore from Berlin, Ohio, ... read more about Shane Claiborne Challenges Students to Address Injustice
The library at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) is hosting a unique exhibit on the King James Bible beginning on Wednesday, Jan. 23. The exhibit, “Manifold Greatness: The Creation and Afterlife ... read more about Exhibit on 400-Year-Old King James Bible at EMU
Katie Fallon, an outdoor enthusiast and bird lover who authored Cerulean Blues: A Personal Search for a Vanishing Songbird (Ruka Press, 2011), kicks off the spring “Writers Read Dinner and ... read more about Writers Read Jan. 31: Katie Fallon Writes Gently on Her Environmental Passions
Mark K. Shriver, a leader in social justice and the son of parents who devoted themselves to public-service work, will give the 95th annual commencement address at Eastern Mennonite University ... read more about Mark Shriver To Be Commencement Speaker, Bringing Focus on Faith and Service
A Muslim scholar from Iran is teaching at Eastern Mennonite University this academic year as part of a new three-year visiting scholar series. Amir Akrami, from the Iranian Institute of ... read more about Visiting Scholar From Iran at EMU
Eastern Mennonite University President Loren Swartzendruber is among more than 300 college presidents asking for tighter gun controls in the aftermath of the Newtown, Conn., shooting. An open letter addressed ... read more about Swartzendruber Joins In Call For Tighter Controls On Firearms