Urgently Needed! Defenders of Peace and Justice Thank you, President Huxman. This is really a lot of pressure. In one hundred years of EMU’s existence, who would have told anyone ... read more about Leymah Gbowee’s 2018 Commencement Address, Eastern Mennonite University
At an afternoon reception following Sunday’s Commencement ceremony at Eastern Mennonite University, Center for Justice and Peacebuilding Executive Director Daryl Byler reminded the 29 graduates that they were now members ... read more about CJP graduates from eight states and 12 countries charged to ‘maximize healing’
Leadership style and abilities emerge from experience and from constant learning, Vice President of Student Life Jim Smucker said in his welcome to Eastern Mennonite University’s spring semester recognition chapel. ... read more about Spring recognition chapel honors nearly 130 student leaders
Though surely all professors at Eastern Mennonite University were excited by the inaugural Academic and Creative Excellence Festival on campus last week, new faculty member Sonia Balasch Rodriguez was ... read more about Inaugural Academic and Creative Excellence Festival builds intellectual buzz
Timothy Seidel, assistant professor of international development at Eastern Mennonite University, has been selected from a competitive, national pool of nominees to participate in a faculty seminar on the teaching ... read more about Professor Timothy Seidel to participate in summer seminar on teaching interfaith understanding
Since losing two childhood friends in the 1963 Sunday School bombings in Birmingham, Alabama, Fania Davis has dedicated her life to social justice advocacy, becoming a civil rights attorney and ... read more about Fania Davis to keynote inaugural Academic and Creative Excellence Festival at EMU
In early February, 20 scholars from five leading Iraqi universities and a representative from Iraq’s Ministry of Education gathered in Beirut, Lebanon, for a five-day training on conflict analysis. The ... read more about Scholars from five Iraqi universities gather for CJP-led conflict analysis training
On the occasion of its 100th commencement ceremony, Eastern Mennonite University announces that the 2018 address will be given by alumna and 2011 Nobel Peace Laureate Leymah Gbowee. In recognition ... read more about Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Leymah Gbowee to give commencement address, receive inaugural honorary doctorate of justice
Seven graduate students from Eastern Mennonite University’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding have been selected to present at the 2018 Notre Dame Student Peace Conference April 13-14 in South Bend, ... read more about Seven CJP graduate students selected to present at Notre Dame peace conference
A black woman and a white man have been on what they call “a healing journey.” They have written a book that describes her as a “daughter of slavery” and him as “a son of the slave trade.” “You have to tell the truth, even when it gets ugly,” says Sharon Leslie Morgan. She wrote a book with Thomas Norman DeWolf about their physical, emotional, and spiritual journey uncovering their roots on either side of the slave trade. ... read more about CTTT’s DeWolf and Morgan share their ‘healing journey’ in Florida from Altamont Enterprise