For the third straight year, EMU men's volleyball team put seven players on the Continental Volleyball Conference All-Academic Team. The total is also the tied for the most in program history. ... read more about Seven volleyball players earn All-Academic status from EMUroyals.com
Carmen Schrock-Hurst, instructor in the Bible and religion department, writes about how young people need to understand how their story is a part of the Biblical story, and how the Biblical story continues to unfold. ... read more about ‘Durable Faith’: helping youth see their call to shape the future of the church from The Gathering Place
Elisabeth Wilder '17, a self-described "liberal lady," writes about her friendship with classmate and "conservative chic" Lorraine Armstrong '17 that developed during a semester at the Washington Community Scholars Center. ... read more about Bipartisan friendships bloom, fittingly, during Washington D.C. cross-cultural from The Mennonite
Phillip Thompson, assistant superintendent of Rockbridge County Public Schools, was appointed superintendent by the Rockbridge County School Board.. ... read more about Phillip Thompson ’93 promoted to superintendent of Rockbridge County Public Schools from Roanoke Times
Lynchburg Beacon of Hope filmed Azariah Cox this month at Heritage High School, creating a video celebrating his status as the first college graduate for the nonprofit, which aims to increase the number of Lynchburg City Schools students who pursue higher education. ... read more about Heritage High alumnus Azariah Cox a role model for aspiring college students from Lynchburg News & Advance
Michael Bischoff MA '02, who qualifies for disability benefits because of an aggressive brain cancer, suggests that we think anew about "people who receive disability benefits as released friends, people who are released from the normal world of paid work, with the expectation that they will then contribute creatively, socially, spiritually, and culturally to society in powerful ways." ... read more about Michael Bischoff MA ’02 on a different way to think about people who receive disability benefits from Minneapolis Post
EMU's two men at the NCAA Track & Field Championships had a great final day, including junior hurdler Connor Faint (Winchester, Va./Millbrook) earning an All-America medal. Grant Amoateng (Bristow, Va./Patriot) moved up one spot from his seeding, finishing 13th in the triple jump. ... read more about EMU’s Faint runs to All-America finish, Amoateng moves up from EMUroyals.com
After finishing fourth in his heat, Connor Faint (Winchester, Va./Millbrook) had to wait it out to see if he would advance to the finals of the 400m hurdles at this weekend's NCAA Outdoor National Championships. ... read more about Hurdler pushes through rain to advance to NCAA finals from EMUroyals.com
Kyle Mathews (Chesapeake, Va./Great Bridge) and Joe Hall (Gladys, Va./Rustburg) earned spots on the D3baseball.com All-South Region Teams, which were announced today. Eastern Mennonite University was the only ODAC school to have a player named to each the First Team and Second Team. ... read more about EMU’s Mathews And Hall named All-Region from EMUroyals.com