
Summer Peacebuilding Institute 2020 continues online
For Eastern Mennonite University’s Summer Peacebuilding Institute, the COVID-19 pandemic has become an opportunity to flourish and expand rather than another cancelled event.

For Eastern Mennonite University’s Summer Peacebuilding Institute, the COVID-19 pandemic has become an opportunity to flourish and expand rather than another cancelled event.

Just as households are bracing for a financial fallout from the widespread effects of COVID-19, many local governments across the Commonwealth of Virginia are doing the same.

Gov. Ralph Northam is setting Virginia up for a political fight with the Trump administration over social distancing and economic restrictions in place to slow the spread of COVID-19.

The JMU Chemistry Department has found a way to use some of the chemicals it normally uses for teaching to aid medical workers on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Virginia Department of Education is expanding its existing online learning system, Virtual Virginia, to allow every teacher in the Commonwealth to host virtual classes while schools are closed due to the coronavirus pandemic.

More than 22,000 U.S. deaths have been attributed to COVID-19, which means, what, exactly, in terms of where we are, a month into the national shutdown?

Smithfield Foods will close its Sioux Falls facility for three days, citing an abundance of caution for its 3,700 employees there, a portion of whom have tested positive for COVID-19.

Sophomore industrial design students at JMU are working with others to handmake hundreds of fabric face masks to distribute to healthcare workers and area fire departments.

The libraries of Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Richmond are working together to publish a new open-access edition of “The Politics of Annexation: Oligarchic Power in a Southern City.”

Eastern Mennonite University’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding announces two Peacebuilder of the Year honorees: Emmanuel Bombande MA ‘02 and Cole Parke MA ‘12.
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