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Grad School Q & A: Karla Martin ’13, pursuing a doctorate in physical therapy at Duke University

February 27, 2018Last updated March 7, 2018 by EMU communications

Karla Martin graduated from Eastern Mennonite University in 2013 with a bachelor’s degree in biology and pre-physical therapy and a minor in psychology. She is currently pursuing a Doctor of

Free donuts, coffee and clothespins make Appreciation Week at EMU ‘simple,’ ‘edifying’

February 26, 2018Last updated February 27, 2018 by Christopher Clymer Kurtz

If there was one thing Appreciation Week planners at Eastern Mennonite University hoped to leave out in the February gray and drear last week, it was this: the winter doldrums.

BSU helps prep historic home to be future museum site

February 20, 2018Last updated March 14, 2018 by Kelly Clark/Daily News-Record

Eastern Mennonite University students teamed up with the Northeast Neighborhood Association to begin renovations to the Dallard/Newman House on Saturday. About a dozen people worked through snow flurries to strip

EMU awarded $300,000 Department of Justice grant

February 14, 2018Last updated March 14, 2018 by Lauren Jefferson

Eastern Mennonite University has named Leda Werner as the project coordinator of a new grant funded by the U.S. Department of Justice that focuses on connecting with community partners to

Local and global practicum experiences prepare EMU’s next generation of peacebuilders

February 7, 2018Last updated February 9, 2018 by Christopher Clymer Kurtz

Writing an instructional manual about growing and using elderberries for medicinal syrups may not look like peacebuilding at first glance, but Eastern Mennonite University senior Ben Rush’s practicum last fall

‘Close-up view’: Honors and Scholarship Weekend draws prospective students for interviews, auditions

February 5, 2018Last updated February 7, 2018 by Lauren Jefferson

More than 100 prospective students converged on Eastern Mennonite University last weekend — an inaugural Scholarship Weekend coupled with the traditional annual Honors Weekend. They came from as close as

Biochemistry degree, theater involvement and liberal arts education prepared this Ebola researcher for challenging work

January 18, 2018Last updated January 23, 2018 by Christopher Clymer Kurtz

Imagine a scientist working in a lab, and you might envision gleaming, sterile equipment in a strictly controlled environment. For one Eastern Mennonite University graduate now studying effects of Ebola

Versatile violin performance graduate Jacinda Stahly gains experience in teaching, arts administration

January 15, 2018Last updated January 15, 2018 by Christopher Clymer Kurtz

Jacinda Stahly is a newly graduated violin performance major, and among her options for what’s next is pursuing a master’s degree in performance. Yet she prefers behind-the-scenes work over “being

Rev. Risher urges MLK celebration attendees to ‘stay woke through this revolution’

January 15, 2018Last updated January 16, 2018 by Christopher Clymer Kurtz and Lauren Jefferson

In 1967, Sharon Washington Risher heard The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speak in Charleston, South Carolina. Then a little girl, she remembers being summoned with a phone call

‘Trust in the Lord in your long journey’: Dedicated commuter students make weekly trek for seminary classes

January 12, 2018Last updated January 15, 2018 by Lauren Jefferson

David Gaylor commutes 320 miles round-trip to Eastern Mennonite Seminary each week, traveling from the south-central town of Martinsville and staying Tuesday and Wednesday night. In his second year of

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