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EMU offers free webinars for ministry, parents, educators, healthcare professionals, racial and social justice advocates

May 26, 2020Last updated June 1, 2020 by EMU communications

Eastern Mennonite University offers several academic and professional programs related to trauma and resilience and restorative justice, and integrates this expertise into general coursework for programs not specifically focused on

EMU announces 2020 Yoder and Webb Scholars

May 25, 2020Last updated August 9, 2021 by Randi B. Hagi

Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) has announced the 2020 Yoder and Webb Scholars. The scholarships cover full tuition and include admission into EMU’s Honors Program. The Yoder Scholars program was founded by

2020 Excellence in Teaching awards honor professors Daniel Showalter, Johonna Turner and Bonnie Yoder

May 21, 2020Last updated June 2, 2020 by Lauren Jefferson

Eastern Mennonite University announces three honors of the annual Excellence in Teaching Awards: in the Tenured Faculty category, Daniel Showalter PhD, associate professor of mathematics; in the Pre-tenure Faculty category,

Peacebuilder Podcast: “Journalist of Justice” with Howard Zehr

May 21, 2020Last updated May 25, 2020 by Randi B. Hagi

Howard Zehr – director emeritus of the Zehr Institute for Restorative Justice and a distinguished professor of restorative justice at the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding (CJP) – is the

Beloved professor Jay B. Landis ’54 leaves deep legacy

May 21, 2020Last updated May 21, 2020 by Lauren Jefferson

Poetry recitations, the gifts of home-grown roses, a special grace of dignity in the simple acts of being and sharing, and an encyclopedic memory that connected him deeply to all

EMU’s first engineering grads head to work, grad school and service

May 15, 2020Last updated June 2, 2020 by Randi B. Hagi

One master codebreaker and Appalachian Trail hiker, one supercomputer builder and high school soccer coach, one student organization leader headed to doctoral studies, one environmental designer bound for data analysis,

Jolee Paden ’16 now on the run for bigger causes

May 15, 2020Last updated June 2, 2020 by David Driver/Daily News-Record

Jolee Paden went from being a Division III runner at Eastern Mennonite University to working with Division I athletes in the nation’s capital. But the native of Illinois is not

Peacebuilder Podcast: “Re-friending My Body” with Katie Mansfield

May 14, 2020Last updated May 25, 2020 by Randi B. Hagi

Katie Mansfield is the featured guest of the eighth episode of the Peacebuilder podcast. Mansfield, lead trainer of the Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience (STAR) program at the Center

CJP alumna named Humanity In Action Berlin Fellow

May 13, 2020Last updated May 13, 2020 by Lauren Jefferson

Christine Kindler, a 2017 graduate of Eastern Mennonite University’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding, was announced as the recipient of the Berlin Fellowship from Humanity in Action (HIA). The fellowship

Bishop’s Mantle: ‘A (College) Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes’

May 13, 2020Last updated May 14, 2020 by Jim Bishop

Jim Bishop ’67 has resumed his popular “Bishop’s Mantle” column in the local Harrisonburg newspaper, Daily News-Record. We share last week’s nostalgia-laden installment with permission from the author, a former

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