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The season brings the spirit of being thankful but giving back to those in need. This month, volunteer around your city during these events and local centers to make someone’s holiday special.
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The season brings the spirit of being thankful but giving back to those in need. This month, volunteer around your city during these events and local centers to make someone’s holiday special.
The Eastern Michigan University Alumni Association held its annual teaching excellence awards Thursday.
The Porter Chair Speaker Series welcomed filmmaker Dan Habib on Wednesday night to the Roosevelt Hall Auditorium.
Eastern Michigan University students attended last week’s Ypsilanti City Council meeting to demand the city do more to protect them.
The Honors College’s star lecture series for this year is all about exploring issues around poverty. On Tuesday, philosophy professor Peter Higgins spoke in the Student Center Ballroom about the philosophy side of poverty. The name of the lecture was “Charity, Beneficence, or Justice?” Higgins did a lecture for last year’s star lecture series and came back this year by popular demand.
The Student Center Auditorium played host to a packed crowd of guests, organization members and curious onlookers as AMP presented episode 2 of its reality show, “Clash of the Creators,” on Tuesday.
On Tuesday the Eastern Michigan University creative writing program held its Bathhouse Reading Series featuring authors Douglas Kearney and Tisa Bryant in the Student Center Auditorium. Bryant’s first readings came from her book “Unexplained Presence,” which is a collection of hybrid essays punctuated by ekphrastic poems.
Student safety on- and off-campus continues to be a major concern for Eastern Michigan University officials.
Gather ‘round the metaphorical campfire and I’ll tell you a story, alright? Eastern Michigan University has its share of creepy legends, like how Starkweather Hall is supposedly haunted by Mary Starkweather and Jones and Goddard have some thing about a faceless janitor or something. But I’m willing to bet you’ve never heard of the Echo ghost.
The Energy and Sustainability Committee, a new ad hoc Student Government committee, hosted their first meeting in the Student Government office on Tuesday night.
On Tuesday, Mohammed Safi, the Muslim Chaplain at the University of Michigan, gave a talk titled “What is Islam?”
Eastern Michigan University’s Department of Public Safety’s Officer Candace Dorsey will be holding three self-defense classes for female faculty, staff and students in November.
At least one person walked by the body of Demarius Reed after he was fatally shot, and as many as six people heard gunfire the night of the murder in his apartment complex, according to interim Ypsilanti Police Chief Tony DeGiusti.
A small screening of the landmark 1990 documentary “Paris is Burning” played Monday evening. The event, organized by Beth Currans of the Department of Women and Gender Studies, was to celebrate the recent addition of the new minor in LGBT studies, which is now available at Eastern Michigan University.
Poet George Ellenbogen wrapped up a 30-event tour with a talk at Eastern Michigan University on Monday in the Halle Auditorium.
The Red Cross was on campus Monday and Tuesday in the Student Center Auditorium collecting pints of blood from students for lifesaving uses in the community.
Eastern Michigan University’s Student Center was recently named 4th in the 25 most amazing campus student unions by Best College Reviews.
The Fall Major Fest was an opportunity for students to expand, investigate and explore the diverse range of learning opportunities offered at Eastern Michigan University.
On Tuesday, Eastern Michigan University held a screening of the Academy Award-winning documentary “Anne Frank Remembered.”
Eastern Michigan University Campus Life welcomed famed historical biography author Jon Meacham on Tuesday night. Meacham gave a lecture about the subject of his most recent book, “Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power,” which was named one of the best books of the year by The New York Times. After the lecture, Meacham opened the floor for questions and stayed for a book signing.