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 ... read more about Local partnership brings ‘What Were You Wearing?’ survivor art installation to EMU, three other locations
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 ... read more about BSU hosts chapel and town hall on race, launches neighborhood partnership during Black History Month
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 ... read more about Initial EMU crowdfunding campaigns to fund solar boost, MJ Sharp scholarship
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 ... read more about Bibliophiles’ Delight: 100 years of EMU library history
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. ... read more about Free donuts, coffee and clothespins make Appreciation Week at EMU ‘simple,’ ‘edifying’
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 ... read more about EMU awarded $300,000 Department of Justice grant
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” ... read more about Ash Wednesday services lead EMU community into Lent
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 ... read more about ‘Close-up view’: Honors and Scholarship Weekend draws prospective students for interviews, auditions
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 ... read more about Rev. Risher urges MLK celebration attendees to ‘stay woke through this revolution’
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 ... read more about ‘Trust in the Lord in your long journey’: Dedicated commuter students make weekly trek for seminary classes