EMU’s campus community entered into a wave of critical discussions about faith, race, and gender this semester. Three book clubs emerged independently, while yet another reading group and a film ... read more about Hot topics: Five spring semester discussion groups focus on faith, race, and gender
Clara Weybright ’20 is a Climate Futures Fellow with the Center for Sustainable Climate Solutions, in partnership with MCC U.S. Read on to hear about how she helped to connect ... read more about Why advocating for climate justice matters: alum connects students to lobby efforts
Sarah Ann Bixler has been named associate dean of Eastern Mennonite Seminary. She begins administrative duties July 1, 2021, and will continue teaching responsibilities as a faculty member of the ... read more about Sarah Ann Bixler named associate dean at Eastern Mennonite Seminary
As Virginia’s vaccine rollout spreads into the Shenandoah Valley, Eastern Mennonite University students are participating at both ends of the needle: both giving and getting the shot. And in some ... read more about Vaccines in the Valley: EMU’s nursing students volunteer at clinics serving community and fellow students
Seven EMU students heading to careers in science and medicine have earned funding for summer research, provided by the Kauffman-Miller Research Awards and the CT Assist Summer Experiential Learning Program. ... read more about Student-scientists receive 2021 summer research grants
If you listen hard enough, you might hear the sound of pages turning. Just down the road from Eastern Mennonite University, Waterman Elementary School is immersed in a reading challenge ... read more about Students donate hundreds of books for eager Waterman Elementary readers
Teacher education majors at Eastern Mennonite University who are preparing for careers teaching in the STEM fields will soon have access to new scholarship funds. EMU is the recipient of ... read more about EMU’s new National Science Foundation-funded scholarship program preps STEM teachers for 21st century classrooms
Rabbi Niles Goldstein, a former visiting scholar with the Center for Interfaith Engagement, returns to Eastern Mennonite University as the keynote speaker for the 2021 Academic and Creative Excellence (ACE) ... read more about ACE Festival to welcome Rabbi Niles Goldstein for keynote
Four graduate students from Eastern Mennonite University’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding played a role in the release of two incarcerated individuals from Virginia state prisons in February 2021. Conner ... read more about CJP volunteers connect with state prisons for COVID-19 Compassion Release Project
“Community organizing is fundamentally a project of power-building within and among groups of people marginalized from existing power structures,” says Professor Ryan Good, co-director of the Washington Community Scholars’ Center ... read more about EMU announces community organizing and development minor