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Photo: Music students and wind instruments Madison's people — professors, students, alumni — address crucial global issues every day. Through innovative and cutting-edge research seasoned with a global-centric understanding, they invest in the future of people around the world on both national and individual levels. With a substantial investment in people worldwide, they are building a framework for mutual global understanding.

The Stories …

Industrial revolution

JMU junior Daniel Morgan's invention will assist in rebuilding efforts in a Uganda village as the people — former residents of a Internally Displaced People camp — recover from two decades of civil war. … Read More

Building global officers

JMU's Army ROTC Project GO-Nenda Alliance link is molding future military officers to have the global awareness and language proficiency so crucial in today's world. … Read More

Goodness is powerful

Archbishop Desmond Tutu On the 2007 International Day of Peace a packed crowd in JMU's Convocation Center listened to Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu's encouragement to pursue goodness and compassion … Read More

Leave home, find yourself

Director of JMU's Semester in Florence program Alessandro Gentili believes that knowledge and appreciation of other cultures leads to a full appreciation of one's own self. "If you don't leave home, there is…no way you can find your own self," he says … Read More

The People …

Sarita Hartz

Sarita Hartz ('02)

Director, Zion Project

In March 2006, Sarita traveled to Uganda for five months and saw things she had only read about -- disease, starvation and desperation. She returned to the U.S. to create Zion Project, which is dedicated to transforming hearts and empowering the lives of girl child soldiers … Read More

Sushil Mittal

Associate professor of religion

Sushil Mittal found a unique way to bring change to the Madison campus as founding director of the Mahatma Gandhi Center for Global Nonviolence. The center contributes to the creative life of Madison and encourages new thinking across the disciplines … Read More