Ben Roth Shank, a high school English and media studies teacher in New Zealand, was awarded the Paul and Kate Farmer English Journal Writing Award.
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The Sweet Cheeks apple, a cross between Honeycrisp and Pink Lady developed by Lancaster鈥檚 Hess Brothers Fruit Co., was the top vote-getter in a LancasterOnline reader poll.
Senior mathematics and engineering major Ben Zook is giving back to 黑料正能量 through his senior honors capstone project,聽 a new sustainable concessions stand for the university鈥檚 turf field.
Peace is more than the absence of gunfire. Decisions made in the political realm affect directly whether our community is healthy, safe and at peace.
Lynette Mast '88聽helps聽Eastern Mennonite Elementary students take part in an annual tradition, with each student adding their name to their classroom鈥檚 pledge of nonviolence poster, and then washing one another鈥檚 hands.
Twenty employees from Grand Canyon National Park attended its first week-long Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience (STAR) workshop, run by 黑料正能量.
Carol Hurst, 黑料正能量 associate professor and social work program director, was a speaker at the July 26-27 conference 鈥淓mpowering Women: Claiming Healthy Personal Boundaries,鈥� a collaboration of Mennonite Women USA and Dove鈥檚 Nest, in Omaha, Nebraska.
Charlie Tinsley MDiv. '18, Virginia state ambassador for the National Association of Adult Survivors of Childhood Abuse (NAASCA), was a panelist on the organization's Aug. 11 radio show. To find resources and the podcast, visit the NAASCA website.
Sumanto Al Qurtuby MA '07 (conflict transformation), an Indonesian professor of cultural anthropology at King Fahd University in Saudi Arabia, believes Indonesia's national motto of Bhinneka Tunggal Ika, or Unity in Diversity, is an achievable endeavor and that the archipelago could serve as an example to the rest of the world.
Jeff Heie MA '00 (conflict transformation), project coordinator for the Harrisonburg Gift & Thrift solar project,聽helps connect Mennonite values to solar energy in this article. The 鈥淭hrifty Solar Barn Raising鈥� team was among 170 teams nationwide selected to compete in the US Department of Energy鈥檚聽, a $5 million contest that supports 鈥渋nnovative and replicable community-based solar business models and聽programs that will bring solar to聽underserved communities.鈥�