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Arts and Lectures Calendar for Spring 2025

January 15, 2025Last updated January 15, 2025 by Ryan Cornell

This listing includes events for the spring semester at Eastern Mennonite University. To see most current details, additional events and further information, please visit the events calendar at: emu.edu/events EMU

EMU Honors, Awards and Recognitions – 2023-24

May 1, 2024Last updated May 1, 2024 by EMU Communications, photos by Macson McGuigan / EMU

More than 100 Eastern Mennonite University students were recognized for accomplishments and achievements during the 2023-24 academic year during a special recognition ceremony on Tuesday, April 30. “The student recognition

Douglas Abrams, author of ‘The Book of Hope’ with Jane Goodall, to headline ACE Festival keynote

April 9, 2024Last updated April 9, 2024 by Ryan Cornell

Date: Wednesday, April 17, 2024Time: 10:10 a.m.Location: Lehman AuditoriumAdmission: Free and open to the public New York Times-bestselling author Douglas Abrams, who has worked with many of the most inspiring

Queen Mother, interfaith leader to give convocation address

March 19, 2024Last updated March 26, 2024 by Ryan Cornell

03/26 update: The time and location of the “Interfaith Dialogue with a Vodou High Priestess” event has been changed. African educator, human rights activist and philanthropist Dr. Dòwòti Désir, Queen

2016 Fall Convocation video

August 31, 2016Last updated August 31, 2016 by

Eastern Mennonite University welcomes all students back to campus during the fall convocation held in Lehman Auditorium on August 31, 2016. Interim President Lee Snyder, Provost Fred Kniss, and Assistant

Campus pastor Brian Martin Burkholder leads a prayer of blessing and sending during Spring 2011 convocation

President’s Convocation Message Calls Students to Serve and Lead

January 13, 2011Last updated January 25, 2011 by Jim Bishop

What does it mean to serve and lead in a global context? Loren Swartzendruber, president of EMU, addressed this question in a convocation address Wednesday morning, Jan. 12, in Lehman

EMU gearing up for new school year

August 18, 2009 by Jim Bishop

The calendar – and the heat index – indicates that that it’s time for Eastern Mennonite University to warm upfor the start of the 2009-10 academic year. Fall semester classes

Convocation Message, ‘Love the World,’ God’s Creation

January 9, 2009 by Jim Bishop

What does it mean to love God’s created world? And, what impossible, or even possible things, are you dreaming of and what obstacles are looming for you in this world

President on EMU’s Mission: ‘We Are Educating for Shalom’

August 27, 2008 by Jim Bishop

Brian Martin Burkholder, campus pastor, leads the Eastern Mennonite University hymn, "Christ of the Mountain, be our Word." Photo by Jon Styer So, why are you here? A rather strange

Seminarians Encouraged to ‘Live God’s Purpose’

August 27, 2008 by Laura Amstutz

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