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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

Rev. Risher urges MLK celebration attendees to ‘stay woke through this revolution’

January 15, 2018Last updated January 16, 2018 by Christopher Clymer Kurtz and Lauren Jefferson

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

‘Trust in the Lord in your long journey’: Dedicated commuter students make weekly trek for seminary classes

January 12, 2018Last updated January 15, 2018 by Lauren Jefferson

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

Seeing ‘the cage’: EMU race and gender classmates explore inequality, systemic injustice

January 10, 2018Last updated January 15, 2018 by Christopher Clymer Kurtz

In their last Fall 2017 class together, the students in SOWK 360 “Race and Gender” stood and linked arms, a living symbol of solidarity and connection after a semester of

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