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Mark Loving on the film ‘Loving’ and a Supreme Court case that changed the nation

November 3, 2016Last updated November 3, 2016 by Lauren Jefferson

In his native Caroline County, Virginia, Mark Loving II’s family name is well known. Beyond generations of rootedness, there is both a plaque at the courthouse and a historical marker about his family history. One reason why Mark came to

Former Intensive English Program student from South Africa finds success at Goshen College

July 19, 2016Last updated July 19, 2016 by Grace Weaver

Simelwe “Sim” Dlova, of South Africa, was a student in Eastern Mennonite University’s Intensive English Program during the fall 2013 semester before attending Goshen College in Indiana. This article is

Summer interns settle in at Washington Community Scholars’ Center

June 15, 2016Last updated November 10, 2016 by Lauren Jefferson

Teresa Garcia-Bautista has a long list of summer goals while living at the Washington Community Scholars’ Center and working in Washington D.C. this summer. The first two are “meet the

Outreach chamber quartet brings together biology, religion, education majors and yes, one future professional musician, to give the gift of music in unusual venues

June 7, 2016Last updated October 23, 2017 by Lauren Jefferson

Isaac Dahl is a religious and intercultural studies major. Quinn Kathrineberg plans on a career as an English teacher. Maria Yoder wants to be a doctor. Among the members of

‘Street Sense’ editorial intern helps provide a voice for the homeless in Washington D.C.

May 23, 2016Last updated November 10, 2016 by Randi B. Hagi and Lauren Jefferson

Homelessness wasn’t something Abby Hershberger was familiar with while growing up in Millersburg, Ohio, a town of about 3,500 residents. “It didn’t happen to people I knew,” she says. “It

Lyubov Slashcheva ’11 graduates from VCU dental school, earns excellence award

May 16, 2016Last updated July 13, 2016 by VCU News

[Reprinted with permission from VCU] Lyubov Slashcheva arrived in the United States when she was 5 years old not knowing a word of English, but already determined to make an

In Reunion’s ‘Freedom Circles,’ peacebuilding major facilitates life changes and his own learning

May 12, 2016Last updated November 10, 2016 by Randi B. Hagi

Nathan McKnight recognized a quality of reciprocity in his spring semester internship. The people who come through the “freedom circles” hosted by the organization Reunion, he says, “are improving me,

‘Third-culture kids’ find a home at Eastern Mennonite University

April 21, 2016Last updated October 5, 2021 by Andrew Jenner

In the best of cases, a college career is often a time of tumult and transition, a succession of new faces, a million conversations that begin with: “Where are you

Undergraduate presents computer science research at prestigious SIGSCE conference

April 7, 2016Last updated July 19, 2016 by Walt Wiltschek

Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) senior Alex Bender presented in the Student Research Competition at this year’s Association for Computing Machinery’s Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, popularly known as SIGCSE.

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