University Colloquium: Dr. Carol Grace Hurst
Love & Duty in the Final Chapter: Experiences of Home-based Caring for Family EldersCarol Grace Hurst, PhD, LCSWAssociate Professor of Social WorkEastern Mennonite University Dr. Hurst presents results of a qualitative inquiry exploring home based caregiving experiences for family elders. Elders with complex health challenges are often assumed to need institutional care. The ways that....
University Colloquium: Dr. Cathy Rittenhouse
Catherine E. Rittenhouse, DNP, MSN, CRNP, RNAssociate Professor of NursingEastern Mennonite University Based on the most recent data from the CDC, there were 26 million new diagnoses of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the US – almost half of these infections occurred in people aged 15-24 (CDC, 2021). The majority of the undergraduate student population....
University Colloquium: Cathy Smeltzer Erb
Embedding Restorative Justice Pedagogy in K-12 Instructional PracticeEmbedding Restorative Justice Pedagogy in K-12 Instructional Practice is the result of a research study that draws upon a framework of restorative justice in education pedagogy, developed in collaboration with Dr. Kathy Evans. The framework examines the intersection between three components of restorative justice (nurture healthy relationships, repair....
University Colloquium: Timothy Seidel
Violence, Nonviolence, and Resistance: Sumud and Struggle in Palestine Discussion on resistance movements often turns on representations of violence and nonviolence. But is there something about the violence/ nonviolence binary itself that obscures deeper understandings of popular struggle and the social, political, and economic conditions from which they emerge? In an effort to unpack that binary, this....
University Colloquium: Daniel King
Revisiting Old Experiments: What Can Reenactment Teach us About Transforming Goals for Labs?Daniel King, PhDAssociate Professor of Physics and EngineeringEastern Mennonite University
University Colloquium: Martha Eads
Resources for Recovery: Reading Ron Rash’s Short Stories Alongside Formerly Incarcerated WomenMartha Greene Eads, PhDProfessor of EnglishEastern Mennonite University
Chapel Gathering in the Seminary: Nancy Heisey
COSMIC PRAISE Reflections by Dean Nancy Heisey on the lectionary texts.
Opening Seminary Convocation Worship “Christian Leadership in a Divided World”–Dr. Sue Cockley
Dr. Sue Cockley, Dean of Eastern Mennonite Seminary, opens the EMS Fall 2018 Semester with her convocation address, “Christian Leadership in a Divided World.”
2018 Centennial Commencement
EMU celebrates the University’s 100th Annual Commencement. 2011 Nobel Peace Laureate Leymah Gbowee offers the Commencement address. Graduate perspectives are shared by Harrison Horst, Keyri Lopez-Godoy, James Ramsey, Sabrina Burress, and Sarah Bailey.
2018 Undergraduate Baccalaureate
EMU celebrates the University’s 100th Annual Commencement in this Baccalaureate Service. Dr. Judy Mullet, professor of psychology, addresses the graduates with her speech titled “Seek Simplicity, and Distrust It”. Senior class co-presidents Emily Augsburger and Dan Zook offer Senior Class Salutations.