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. ... read more about Free donuts, coffee and clothespins make Appreciation Week at EMU ‘simple,’ ‘edifying’
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 ... read more about BSU helps prep historic home to be future museum site
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 ... read more about EMU awarded $300,000 Department of Justice grant
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 ... read more about Local and global practicum experiences prepare EMU’s next generation of peacebuilders
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 ... read more about ‘Close-up view’: Honors and Scholarship Weekend draws prospective students for interviews, auditions
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 ... read more about Biochemistry degree, theater involvement and liberal arts education prepared this Ebola researcher for challenging work
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 ... read more about Versatile violin performance graduate Jacinda Stahly gains experience in teaching, arts administration
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 ... read more about Rev. Risher urges MLK celebration attendees to ‘stay woke through this revolution’
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 ... read more about ‘Trust in the Lord in your long journey’: Dedicated commuter students make weekly trek for seminary classes
From our newest president watching her father give an address at her inauguration to a young butterfly taken its first wingbeats from a safe perch near Roselawn, enjoy a collection ... read more about Check out EMU’s ‘Top Photos of 2017’