Student life

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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L’Arche internship, and a penny-seeking new friend who sings the Beatles, helps to turn recent grad into D.C. resident

by Chris Yoder and Lauren Jefferson

For recent Eastern Mennonite University graduate Mandi Stoll, the past several weeks since ending her cross-cultural semester at the Washington Community Scholar’s Center (WCSC) and walking in commencement ceremonies have
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After two years as Recyclemania runner-up, EMU wins the top state ranking in campus community recycling contest

by Lauren Jefferson

For the last four years, Eastern Mennonite University has finished as runner-up in the state rankings of colleges and universities participating in the national Recyclemania contest. But not in 2015.
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