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Eastern Michigan University will welcome a new leader in student engagement next semester. On Jan. 5, 2025, Emma Wuetrich will assume the role of Director of Campus Life, stepping into a position that has been vacant since the summer of 2024. Wuetrich, an EMU alum and the current Coordinator of the LGBT Resource Center, was selected following a months-long search that concluded this fall.
Perri Pace, an Eastern Michigan University sophomore, uses the same social media platform every day. It isn't Instagram, though, or X, Snapchat or one of the other chart-topping services of the past two decades.
Same Page: Loading Player 2 took place in Room 310 of the Student Center on Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2025. The organizer, Same Page, put on the event to encourage and foster healthy relationships between students at Eastern Michigan University. The night involved games, food, fun, and friends as students moved between different gaming areas. Students first started in a group setting and moved their way down to one-on-one games with their new potential friend. Students who completed the final gaming stage were allowed to pick an item from the prize table. Same Page was excited to put on the event again after the success they saw at the previous event last March, and was pleased to see how many students showed up for the event on Tuesday.
Eastern Michigan University’s student chapter of the National Art Education Association champions three core values: creativity, inclusivity and community.
Travel journalist and Fulbright scholar Dan Fellner stops at EMU in December to provide a talk and visual experience for students while sharing perspectives on worldwide cultures.
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Students and staff gathered with homemade posters and comments to present at Eastern Michigan University’s Board of Regents meeting Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025. Tensions were still high two months after multiple changes and closures to EMU’s dining services were announced.
From trick-or-treating in Depot Town to swing dance classes at Riverside Arts Center, several events are taking place this week in Ypsilanti.
For those who want to jump into Halloween early, Nightmare on Cross Street and the Skeleton Walk are happening every weekend this October in Depot Town.
Art students at Eastern Michigan University may have a new academic opportunity thanks to a potential $200,000 gift from the Windgate Foundation. The gift is a matching grant, meaning it is contingent upon the EMU School of Art and Design raising a portion of the funds needed for the project, $100,000.
Bird enthusiasts based at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology recently celebrated a new record, using radar to count birds in flight at a single moment across the United States. That was 10 p.m. EST on Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2025, a night when 1.25 billion birds were recorded during their flight from the winter ground to the south. This was the highest count recorded by BirdCast, the radar network designed to track bird migrations, since the monitoring system was created more than two decades ago.
With over 150 student organizations on Eastern Michigan University's campus, there’s a group for everybody — but if someone can’t find exactly what they’re looking for, they can always start their own.
Editor's Note: The Eastern Echo staff meets regularly with interesting people on and off campus. Engage in those conversations with us through our weekly Q&A report. This week, we talked with Lee Hammock, president of the on-campus club Bingo at EMU.
Three weeks after E|Dining announced the closure of multiple campus dining and market locations, Eastern Michigan University students remain frustrated by the changes.
This year, Eastern Michigan University’s Swoop’s Pantry commemorated its 10-year anniversary with a celebratory campus event on Sept. 4, 2025.
Eastern Michigan University’s fraternities and sororities — and a number of other campus organizations — are gearing up for three days of special events to recognize National Hazing Prevention Week, which starts Monday, Sept. 22, 2025.
EMU students arriving for classes this week found that many of the food locations they've used across campus had been permanently closed.
For many students, moving into a dorm is their first real taste of independence. Between figuring out how to live away from home and starting a new chapter, the little moments become part of a bigger picture.
The start of the academic year can be an exciting yet nerve-wracking time for new and returning students. To help, The Eastern Echo created a brief guide to on campus resources including study spots, the bookstore, buying merch and more.
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