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Be a risk-taker and a change-maker, Nobel Peace Prize winner tells class of 2014

April 28, 2014Last updated March 17, 2015 by Caleb Soptelean

Courtesy of Caleb Soptelean, Daily News Record, April 28, 2014 “Dare to be laughed at, mocked and scorned.” A Nobel Peace Prize winner gave those words of advice to Eastern

Nobel Laureate Gbowee helps EMU graduates to appreciate taking action – and dancing – in the present

April 28, 2014Last updated March 16, 2015 by Bonnie Price Lofton

Under a postcard-perfect blue sky at Eastern Mennonite University, 467 members of the graduating class of 2014 heard Nobel Peace Laureate Leymah Gbowee call them to “take action in the

Joshua Mensah emerges as strong communicator, innovator, fulfilling hopes of his Nobel-winning mother in his own way

April 25, 2014Last updated May 9, 2014 by Paul Souder

Joshua Mensah landed at Eastern Mennonite University because his Nobel prize-winning mother, Leymah Gbowee, wanted him to go to a Christian college that emphasizes community and peacebuilding. “Coming from an

Iranian women scholars to study at Summer Peacebuilding Institute

April 16, 2014Last updated May 6, 2014 by Lauren Jefferson

Ten Iranian women from the world’s largest Shi’a Islam seminary will attend Eastern Mennonite University’s Summer Peacebuilding Institute (SPI) for three weeks in May. Their arrival will mark the first

Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee to speak at 2014 commencement

March 31, 2014Last updated September 24, 2014 by Andrew Jenner

Leymah Gbowee, co-winner of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, will give the address at Eastern Mennonite University’s 96th commencement on Sunday, April 27. Gbowee is a 2007 graduate of EMU,

Shocked Beyond Words by Sandy Hook… We Must Pray and Act

December 17, 2012Last updated December 27, 2012 by Loren Swartzendruber

Dear Community and Friends of EMU: All of us in the EMU community mourn with the families and community of Newtown, Connecticut. We are shocked beyond words and we struggle

EMU Peace Profs Go to Women in Somaliland

November 20, 2012Last updated December 7, 2012 by Chris Edwards

Six of the women who planned to study at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) in the summer of 2012 in the brand-new Women’s Peacebuilding Leadership Program were unable to enter the

EMU Opens Convocation “Like No Other”

August 31, 2012Last updated September 22, 2014 by Mike Zucconi

Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) President Loren Swartzendruber called students, faculty and staff to be “like no other,” as a Christian university and as servant leaders, to the standing-room only crowd

Check Out Graduate Studies for Peacebuilding

August 30, 2012Last updated September 17, 2012 by Lora Steiner

Interested in a graduate education that increased the knowledge of a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate? The Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University invites you to visit campus

Alumni of the Year: Vic and Christina Buckwalter

August 8, 2012Last updated August 31, 2012 by Steve Shenk

Two idealistic young people meet at EMU, earn their degrees in pre-med and education, and spend their entire careers serving others – without fanfare – at home and abroad. Now

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