Student Profiles

Master’s in biomedicine candidates defend research in e-cigs, health policy, athlete injury rates, ADHD, breast cancer education

by Lauren Jefferson

Jared Fernandez didn’t have to go far to find a research topic for his master’s in biomedicine thesis. Not only is “vaping” with E-cigarettes, or E-cigs, a growing trend among
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Economics student named one of ’20 Under 35 Changing the World’ by Mennonite Economic Development Association

by Lauren Jefferson

Alex Miller, a 21-year-old economics major at Eastern Mennonite University, was recently recognized by Mennonite Economic Development Association (MEDA) as one of “20 Under 35 Changing the World.” Working for
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Taylor Mortensen’s experiences with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis provide motivation to pursue pediatric nursing

by Dylan Buchanan

Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis is not a part of our everyday vocabulary and especially not heard on a college campus. But it’s a familiar disease to Eastern Mennonite University sophomore Taylor
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Grad student — at EMU to study restorative justice and civic engagement — wins humanitarian award for recent activism

by Randi B. Hagi with Lauren Jefferson

Darsheel Kaur, a first-year graduate student at Eastern Mennonite University’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding (CJP), has been awarded a Youth Humanitarian Award by the Greater Dayton, Ohio chapter of
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Smithsonian Folklife Festival media internship brings Indonesian student to the Mall to help celebrate Peru

by Brenna Cowardin with Lauren Jefferson

Eastern Mennonite University senior Victoria Gunawan, a native of Indonesia, spent her summer among Peruvians on the National Mall in Washington D.C. As a media intern at the Smithsonian Folklife
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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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