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Former Royals pitcher Kirk King found a ticket to the Major Leagues with the New York Mets

February 17, 2015Last updated March 3, 2015 by David Driver

When Kirk King graduated from Eastern Mennonite University in 1997, the longtime baseball player stepped off the pitcher’s mound for good and headed into an Oregon classroom as a middle

EMU filmmakers contribute to grassroots struggle to preserve environment in northwestern Wisconsin

September 11, 2014Last updated March 19, 2015 by Lauren Jefferson

Major news media such as Al-Jazeera America and the New York Times are paying attention to an environmental and political crisis developing in northwestern Wisconsin, and Eastern Mennonite University professor

Castillo Sees Movement Toward Easing Immigrants’ Plight

November 16, 2012Last updated December 10, 2012 by Lani Prunés

After a June 2012 announcement by President Obama to grant “deferred action” to undocumented youth, Isabel Castillo ‘07 applied for authorization to work and live legally in the United States

1968 history graduate earns a top position in New York courts

April 14, 2009 by Jim Bishop

Luis A. Gonzalez, 1968 EMU grad, is now presiding justice of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court for the First Judicial Department, New York City. A 1968 EMU history

Novelist Payne to Speak at First ‘Writers Read’

September 10, 2007 by Jim Bishop

Novelist Peggy Payne will kick off the 2007-08 Writers Read dinners at EMU. The language and literature department at EMU will hold its first "Writers Read" program of the new

Professor Wins Two Major Peace Awards

September 22, 2006 by Bonnie Price Lofton

Howard Zehr, a professor of restorative justice at Eastern Mennonite University, is the 2006 recipient of the annual Community of Christ International Peace Award, one of the world

Writer Robert Morgan Returns to Campus

September 6, 2005 by Jim Bishop

Robert Morgan Critically-acclaimed writer Robert Morgan will read and discuss his poetry 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 3, in Lehman Auditorium at Eastern Mennonite University. Morgan, who teaches at Cornell University,

Students Bring ‘The Music Man’ to Campus

February 1, 2005 by Jim Bishop

The sound of "76 trombones" will reverberate through Lehman Auditorium as Theater at EMU presents the spring mainstage production of Meredith Willson’s "The Music Man." The 45-member student cast, directed

‘Writers Read’ Program Underway for Fall

August 25, 2004 by Jim Bishop

Lauren Winner The language and literature department will hold its first “Writers Read” program of fall semester 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 16 in Martin Chapel of the seminary building at

STAR Program Expands to New York City

November 24, 2003 by Jim Bishop

Brenda Anita Boyd Bell Ruth Yoder Wenger The STAR (Seminars on Trauma Awareness and Recovery) program at Eastern Mennonite University has announced the opening of an office in New York

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