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Latino Student Alliance creates third annual ‘alfombra’ for Easter

March 28, 2018Last updated March 28, 2019 by Shelby Mertens/Daily News-Record

Every year on Palm Sunday, communities in Central America recreate the Biblical passage in which Jesus is welcomed into Jerusalem a week before his crucifixion, with his followers laying down

EMU’s bell will toll at 7:05 p.m., April 4, joining worldwide commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination

March 24, 2018Last updated April 9, 2018 by Lauren Jefferson

Eastern Mennonite University will join a global bell-tolling ceremony on Wednesday, April 4, to mark the 50th anniversary of the assassination of The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the

Local partnership brings ‘What Were You Wearing?’ survivor art installation to EMU, three other locations

March 23, 2018Last updated April 23, 2018 by EMU communications

In April, a local partnership brings the “‘What Were You Wearing?’ Survivor Art Installation” to Eastern Mennonite University and three other area locations. The exhibit’s goal is to raise public awareness

BSU hosts chapel and town hall on race, launches neighborhood partnership during Black History Month

March 13, 2018Last updated March 14, 2018 by Lauren Jefferson

Among many other events during 2017 Black History Month at Eastern Mennonite University, a work day kicked off a new partnership with the Northeast Neighborhood Association that will stretch well

Initial EMU crowdfunding campaigns to fund solar boost, MJ Sharp scholarship

March 9, 2018Last updated March 14, 2018 by Christopher Clymer Kurtz

An Eastern Mennonite University crowdfunding campaign is closing in on covering the cost of a student-initiated solar project that will boost the university’s solar output by 40 percent. The Student

Bibliophiles’ Delight: 100 years of EMU library history

March 5, 2018Last updated March 12, 2018 by EMU communications

From one book (Virgil’s Aeneid) to more than 500,000 items today, the library has always been a source of knowledge, wisdom and social life at first Eastern Mennonite School, then Eastern

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.

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

Ash Wednesday services lead EMU community into Lent

February 14, 2018Last updated February 19, 2018 by EMU communications

Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday were marked by services at Eastern Mennonite Seminary and Eastern Mennonite University this week. Martin Chapel hosted a Lectio Divina service focused on “living waters”

‘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

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