Destination Imagination Teams Win Silver

A pair of Destination Imagination teams from James Madison University placed second at the annual DI Globals competition in Knoxville, Tenn., and a third JMU team finished fourth.

The JMU students were among more than 1,000 elementary-school, middle-school, high-school and university teams from the United States and 15 other countries who participated in the event at the University of Tennessee in May.

On Professional Development and Continuing Scholarship

During my past two years as a graduate student at the Institute of Technical and Scientific Communication (TSC), I have been seeking additional opportunities for professional development to supplement the monthly presentations by our student chapter of the Society for Technical Communication (STC). While interested in shadowing a professor at a paper presentation or professional conference, the prospects for such an arrangement were scarce. Recently, through my student membership in the National Association of Science Writers (NASW), I had the opportunity to work with a mentor at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Boston.