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Undergraduate presents computer science research at prestigious SIGSCE conference

April 7, 2016Last updated July 19, 2016 by Walt Wiltschek

Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) senior Alex Bender presented in the Student Research Competition at this year’s Association for Computing Machinery’s Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, popularly known as SIGCSE.

New men’s ministry creates a space to take on the tough questions of masculinity, identity and faith

April 3, 2016Last updated July 19, 2016 by Walt Wiltschek

During one recent Friday lunch hour, a group of about a dozen male students, faculty and staff gathered around tables in Eastern Mennonite University’s dining hall and broached the question,

‘Distant Witness,’ adapted from journalist Andrew Carvin’s book, immerses audience in Arab Spring

April 1, 2016Last updated February 7, 2017 by Walt Wiltschek

“Distant Witness: Social Media, the Arab Spring, and a Journalism Revolution,” an immersive, multi-media play based on the events of the Arab Spring, will make its full stage debut April

Poet Angela Carter ’09 and campus communities unite for fifth annual Walk For Hope, raising awareness of depression and suicide

March 30, 2016Last updated July 19, 2016 by Walt Wiltschek

Poet Angela Carter ’09 and James Madison University graduate student Erin Casey will headline the April 2 Walk for Hope, which is hosted by James Madison University (JMU) this year.

Latino Student Alliance’s beautiful ‘alfombra’ is the centerpiece for a Holy Week chapel service

March 23, 2016Last updated July 19, 2016 by Lauren Jefferson

More than 150 members of the Eastern Mennonite University and Eastern Mennonite Seminary community gathered in the campus center Wednesday for a Holy Week service around the “alfombra,” or carpet,

EMU students lead Y-Serve trips to Georgia, West Virginia and Michigan, while Civil Rights Tour makes pilgrimage south

March 23, 2016Last updated July 19, 2016 by Lauren Jefferson

Eastern Mennonite University students scattered far and wide — from Georgia to Michigan — during March’s Spring Break on four different Y-Serve service learning trips. (Y-Serve is the new name

Writers Read: Mennonite and Amish characters live in the novels of Iowa native Evie Miller Yoder

March 22, 2016Last updated July 19, 2016 by Walt Wiltschek

Novelist Evie Yoder Miller writes that some years ago — after reading Barbara Kingsolver’s book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle — she decided to plant a patch of black raspberries. She works

Independent research projects land invitations for nine senior psychology majors to attend a state conference

March 16, 2016Last updated July 19, 2016 by Lauren Jefferson

After a deaf friend shared that deaf people often feel socially isolated and marginalized by the hearing community, Jessie Wheatley applied what she’d learned in the past four years of

‘Conversations on Sexual Violence’ symposium aims to nurture community-building and resilience

March 9, 2016Last updated July 19, 2016 by Walt Wiltschek and Lauren Jefferson

A multi-year research project on domestic violence, under the direction of professor Carolyn Stauffer, will be highlighted in a community education symposium at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) this spring. The

Lenten Reflections: Carmen Schrock-Hurst reflects on her journey with glaucoma and on walking ‘by faith, not by sight’

March 7, 2016Last updated July 19, 2016 by Carmen Schrock-Hurst

In the fall of 1977, I was preparing to be a resident assistant in Northlawn residence hall. I needed to pick a Bible verse to be a theme for our

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