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Emeritus professor to lead Mennonite Central Committee

June 24, 2020Last updated June 22, 2020 by Cheryl Zehr Walker / MCC U.S.

Ann Graber Hershberger, an emeritus professor of nursing at Eastern Mennonite University, has been named executive director of Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) U.S. She begins her new role in October

After 33 years, nursing professor Ann Hershberger ’76 moves to MCC leadership role

April 10, 2019Last updated April 15, 2019 by Lauren Jefferson

Professor Ann Graber Hershberger ‘76, who began as assistant instructor in the nursing department at Eastern Mennonite University and served in several influential leadership roles over 33 years of service,

New programs of study beginning this fall: political and global studies

March 25, 2019Last updated September 18, 2019 by Christopher Clymer Kurtz

Eastern Mennonite University’s two newest programs of study embody its mission to prepare students to “serve and lead in a global context.” A political science major and revised minor and

FSU professor, a leader in indigenous nursing research, talks health inequities, historical trauma

February 27, 2019Last updated April 8, 2019 by Lauren Jefferson

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Grad School Q&A: Donovan Tann reflects on the courses and professors who shaped how he now teaches

January 2, 2019Last updated January 3, 2019 by EMU communications

Donovan Tann is a 2008 graduate of Eastern Mennonite University who now teaches courses in literature, writing and film at Hesston (Kansas) College. A member of the Lilly Graduate Fellows

Hershberger set to revisit, update EMU nursing’s ‘Sacred Covenant’

November 2, 2018Last updated November 3, 2018 by Christopher Clymer Kurtz

The Eastern Mennonite University nursing program’s signature “Sacred Covenant” is getting an update – by its originator and with the help of those who live it. Since 1994, the ethics

Baseball coach Adam Posey begins faith formation discussion at spring conference: ‘Meet students where they are’

May 16, 2018Last updated May 21, 2018 by Lauren Jefferson

Most folks in the audience at Eastern Mennonite University’s April 10 spring faculty-staff conference left the first morning assembly with a much better idea of how assistant baseball coach Adam

Independent biology research takes EMU junior to Guatemala to collaborate with alumna

May 2, 2018Last updated May 7, 2018 by Christopher Clymer Kurtz

Planes, buses, and taxis, sure – but the connections that landed Eastern Mennonite University junior Maria Yoder in Guatemala for a spring break research project were also of a different

Donning of the Kente ceremony kicks off EMU’s 100th Commencement celebration

April 20, 2018Last updated April 20, 2018 by Lauren Jefferson

“The question is, what have you learned, and what traditions has Eastern Mennonite University imprinted on you?” asked Professor David Owusu-Ansah of soon-to-be-graduates at Eastern Mennonite University’s third annual Donning

Dianne Swann-Wright, known for historical research at Monticello, remembered for contributions to EMU

January 26, 2018Last updated January 30, 2018 by Lauren Jefferson

Dianne Swann-Wright, former director of multicultural programs at Eastern Mennonite University and a leading historian of African American history, died Jan. 23, 2018. At the time of her death, she

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