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Amish Dairy Farmer, Author, Pulls In Crowd
February 10th, 2012Courtesy Daily News Record, Feb. 10, 2012 Ohio dairy farmer David Kline’s first trip to the Shenandoah Valley came with a surprise — it’s not flat amid the mountains. “You have rolling hills,” he said. “I like roll to the land.” What’s more surprising is how many people heard Kline say that. A crowd of …More
Alumnus a Champion for Mental Health Care
January 27th, 2012This article appears in Crossroads magazine, fall 2011 supplement When the state of Georgia needed someone to rescue its troubled system for mentally ill and disabled individuals, it hired Frank Shelp ’80. In May 2009, Georgia named Shelp to be its first-ever commissioner of its newly formed Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities, charged …More
Life’s a Swamp
January 20th, 2012For 2008 Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) alum Adam Brown, his working environment is not a day at the beach or a walk in the park, it’s a swamp. Brown, a native plant corps project leader at the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, is charged with the task of working on the restoration of the Cowles Bog …More
Pre-Dental Student a “Hands-On” Volunteer
December 1st, 2011Originally posted by Harrisonburg-Rockingham Free Clinic, Fall 2011 edition. If anyone values opportunity, it’s Lyubov Slashcheva. As a pre-dental biology major at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU), taking the Dental Admission Test (DAT) is one of her priorities. Her free moments are spent engrossed in a DAT study guide. A Russian interpreter for the Harrisonburg-Rockingham Free …More
Research on Flies Could Unlock Aging Mysteries
November 16th, 2011Courtesy WHSV/TV3. Research being conducted at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg could begin to shed some light on the mysteries of aging. Assistant professor of biology Jeff Copeland is doing aging research using an unlikely subject- fruit flies. The concept of studying human aging by using fruit flies is one his student research assistant Charise …More