Madison Scholarly News - 2013
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| 2013 | January | Grant | Carter | Dr. Timothy J. Carter (Head, Sociology and Anthropology; Professor, Sociology) received two grants from Carmeuse Lime & Stone – $77,048 for "Middle Marsh Extended" to conduct archaeological testing and assessment of Nieswander's Fort, Wesley Merritt's 1864 cavalry encampment, and the Stickley slave quarter sites identified as part of the ongoing cultural resources investigation being conducted on the Middle Marsh Project locale in Frederick County, Va., and $11,545 for "Phase I Archaeology at Middle Marsh Run" to complete the remaining field work north of Hite Chapel Road, to complete the initial report of findings and to file the sites identified in the Middle Marsh Run, Northern Reserve and Middletown Wood project areas with the Virginia Department of Historic Resources. | 01 |
| 2013 | January | Grant | Harris | Dr. Reid N. Harris (Professor, Biology) received $5,000 from the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium for "Conservation microbial ecology of the eastern hellbender" to investigate the function of hellbender microbial communities by determining if the compositions of bacterially produced metabolites are constant and are capable of inhibiting the amphibian chytrid fungus. Harris received $920 from the National Science Foundation for "Supplemental request to Dimensions: Collaborative Research: Diversity and symbiosis: examining the taxonomic, genetic and functional diversity of amphibian skin microbiota" to fund travel to a principal investigator’s meeting at the NSF. |
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| 2013 | January | Grant | Hartzler-Weakley | Kimberlee Hartzler-Weakley (Administrator, Institute for Innovation in Health and Human Services) received $66,570 from Virginia Commonwealth University for "Blue Ridge Area Health Education Center Fiscal Year 2013" to promote health careers and access to primary care for medically underserved populations through community-academic partnerships. Hartzler-Weakley received $3,120 from Rockingham Memorial Hospital for "Drug Free Communities Mentor Grant Year 2" to address substance abuse in culturally appropriate ways. She also received $17,837 from the Virginia Department of Education for "Migrant Education 2012-2013" to provide supplemental educational services to the children of migrant farm workers in collaboration with local school districts and to assess language and educational experience and progress of individual students. | 01 |
| 2013 | January | Grant | Hubbell | Jane Hubbell (Associate Director, Institute for Innovation in Health and Human Services) received $9,968 from the City of Harrisonburg to improve the healthcare services delivered to the homeless to end not only chronic but also episodic homelessness in the City of Harrisonburg. | 01 |
| 2013 | January | Grant | Kyger, Quinn | Dr. Margaret M. Kyger (Assistant Dean, College of Education; Associate Professor, Exceptional Education) and Dr. Brianna S. Quinn (Assistant Professor, Exceptional Education) received $29,000 from the Virginia Department of Education for "Consortium of Institutions of Higher Education in Virginia in Visual Impairments-Fiscal Year 2013" to develop and deliver courses via distance education, expand student participation and carry out administrative responsibilities for the Visual Impairments Consortium. |
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| 2013 | January | Grant | Ludlow | Dr. Christy L. Ludlow (Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders) received $50,000 from Passy-Muir Inc. for "The Passy Muir Swallowing Self Training Device to Enhance Recovery Post-Stroke" to identify which stimulation parameters will induce a greater increase in swallowing rate and the greatest cortical brain response to vibrotactile stimulation in healthy volunteers. |
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| 2013 | January | Grant | Race | Gary S. Race (Fiscal Technician, Institute for Innovation in Health and Human Services; Director, Mahatma Gandhi Center for Global Nonviolence) received $361,948 from the Virginia Department of Health for "Home Visiting Consortium" to maintain the consortium website, to continue to operate its web-based training registration system and to continue to provide periodic reports on the home visiting registration. |
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| 2013 | January | Grant | Race, Hubbell | Gary S. Race (Fiscal Technician, Institute for Innovation in Health and Human Services; Director, Mahatma Gandhi Center for Global Nonviolence) and Jane Hubbell (Associate Director, Institute for Innovation in Health and Human Services) received $256,010 from the Virginia Department of Health for "HIV Consortium for Northwest Region 2012-2013" to assure the provision of comprehensive, essential health and support services for individuals and families with HIV infection. |
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| 2013 | January | Grant | Ryals | Dr. Brenda M. Ryals (Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders) received $35,000 from the American Auditory Society for Editor-in-Chief, Ear and Hearing Journal. | 01 |
| 2013 | January | Grant | Swayne | Nick D. Swayne (Interim Director, Education Support Center; Coordinator for External Relations, College of Education; Instructor, Learning, Technology and Leadership Education) received two grants of $20,698 and $2,780 from Virginia city and county donors for the "Robotics STEM Project" to provide sponsorship of robotics teams. |
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| 2013 | January | Publication | Bodkin | Dr. Alison Bodkin (Assistant Professor, Communication Studies) wrote the curation "Nursing our pinktoberfest hangover, women’s health is a joke" for In Media Res. |
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| 2013 | January | Honor | Linder | Dr. Joshua M. Linder (Associate Professor, Anthropology) was selected by the Network of Conservation Educators and Practitioners as the "Professor of the Month" for January 2013 |
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| 2013 | January | Honor | Pierrakos, Taalman | Dr. Olga Pierrakos (Associate Professor, Engineering) and Dr. Laura Taalman (Professor, Mathematics and Statistics) were among 12 recipients of the 2013 Outstanding Faculty Award, which was presented by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia. | 01 |
| 2013 | January | Publication | Aleman | Dr. Carlos Aleman (Associate Professor, Communication Studies) and Dr. Melissa Aleman (Professor, Communication Studies) wrote "The trouble with family stories" in the book "Mediating Cultures: Parenting in Intercultural Contexts," which was published by the Lexington Press. |
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| 2013 | January | Publication | Bland | Dr. Sidney R. Bland (Professor Emeritus, History) wrote "Alice Paul: Finally Getting Her Due," which was published in The Clarion, 42: 2-3 in fall 2012. |
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| 2013 | January | Publication | Carmack | Dr. Heather J. Carmack (Assistant Professor, Communication Studies) co-authored an article with G.J. Galanes, "'He’s really setting an example': Student contributions to the learning environment," which was published in Communication Studies, 64 (1): 49-65. |
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| 2013 | January | Publication | Loveland | Dr. Jeffrey D. Loveland (Professor, Health Sciences) co-authored an article with L.O. Gentry, "Sleep: Essential to Living Life to Its Fullest," which was published in OT Practice 18 (1): 9-14. |
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| 2013 | January | Publication | Mazzarella | Dr. Sharon R. Mazzarella (Professor and Director, Communication Studies) edited "Content & representation," a volume of the International Encyclopedia of Media Studies, which was published by Blackwell in January 2013. |
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| 2013 | January | Publication | O'Donnell | Dr. Mary E. O’Donnell (Assistant Professor, Spanish) published an article, "Second Language Learners’ Use of Marginal Glosses," in Foreign Language Annals (45): 543-563 in December 2012. |
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| 2013 | January | Publication | Opt | Dr. Susan Opt (Associate Professor, Communication Studies) wrote "Enhancing speech creativity and preparation," which was published in Communication Teacher, 26 (4): 224-227. |
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| 2013 | January | Publication | Witmer | Dr. Andrew Witmer (Assistant Professor, History) co-authored an article with William G. Thomas and Patrick D. Jones, "History Harvests: What Happens When Students Collect and Digitize People’s History?" in Perspectives on History in January 2013. The journal is published by the American Historical Association. | 01 |
| 2013 | January | Service | Bland | Dr. Sidney R. Bland (Professor Emeritus, History) has been elected to the Board of Directs of the Edith and Theodore Roosevelt Pine Knot Foundation. Pine Knot was the rustic retreat for President Theodore Roosevelt and is located south of Charlottesville. | 01 |
| 2013 | February | Grant | Akerson, Hubbell | Emily K. Akerson (Associate Director, Institute for Innovation in Health and Human Services) and Jane Hubbell (Associate Director, Institute for Innovation in Health and Human Services) received two grants from Rockingham Memorial Hospital – $130,315 for "Healthy Families Page County-RMH Support" and $130,315 for "Healthy families Shenandoah County-RMH Support" to provide integrated activities and services that are designed to improve the well-being, increase the permanency and ensure the safety of children who are in or at risk being place in an out-of-home placement as a result of a parent’s or caretaker’s substance abuse. Akerson and Hubbell also received $2,000 from Page Memorial Hospital for "Healthy Families Page County-Page Memorial Hospital Support" to provide written and video materials and supportive education to at least 100 new and expectant parents regarding Shaken Baby Syndrome, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and other serious early childhood health and safety issues. | 02 |
| 2013 | February | Grant | Brakke | Dr. David F. Brakke (Dean, College of Science and Mathematics; Professor, Biology and Geology and Environmental Science) received $35,021 from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation for "Smith Creek Virginia Headwaters Brook Trout Restoration: Phase II" to make substantial improvements in the brook trout resources in the eastern United States by converting riparian and upland pastures to bottomland and upland forests. | 02 |
| 2013 | February | Grant | Carter | Dr. Timothy J. Carter (Head, Department of Sociology and Anthropology; Professor, Sociology) received $9,475 from the Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation for "Middle Field Historical Archaeological Project" to focus on locating the historic north-south fence line and evaluate the adjoining terrain to search for evidence of associated military action including the possible placement of XIXth Corps battle lines. |
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| 2013 | February | Grant | Constantin | Dr. Costel Constantin (Assistant Professor, Physics and Astronomy) received $3,000 from Nanoscale Informal Science Education for "Shenandoah Valley Nanoscience Outreach Collaboration" to help K-12 teachers incorporate nanoscience concepts and applications into the framework of Virginia’s Standards of Learning for Science. |
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| 2013 | February | Grant | Hammond | Dr. Scott J. Hammond (Professor, Political Science) received the JMU Faculty Emeriti Association’s Legacy Grant in August 2012. |
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| 2013 | February | Grant | Hartzler-Weakley | Kimberlee Hartzler-Weakley (Administrator, Institute for Innovation in Health and Human Services) received $11,150 from Page County Public Schools for "Gus Bus Site Visits" to provide weekly support in the surrounding area to encourage early learning and literacy. |
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| 2013 | February | Grant | Ludlow | Dr. Christy L. Ludlow (Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders) received $78,645 from the National Institutes of Health for "Dystonia Coalition: Validity and Reliability of Diagnostic Methods and Measures of Spasmodic Dysphonia-Year 4" to develop and validate tools to diagnose Spasmodic Dysphonia, measure severity and determine the impact of SD on disability and quality of life via a multicenter clinical study. |
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| 2013 | February | Grant | McBride | Amber N. McBride (IT Specialist, Furious Flower Poetry Center) received $500 from the Target Corporation for "The Furious Flower Reading Club-Target Headquarters" to use the upcoming Tribute to Toni Morrison to establish a reading club that invites students, parents and faculty members from area high schools to read and discuss poetry and prose as a community. |
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| 2013 | February | Grant | O'Shea, Strawbridge | Dr. Edwin M. O’Shea (Assistant Professor, Mathematics and Statistics) and Dr. Eva M. Strawbridge (Assistant Professor, Mathematics and Statistics) received two grants from the Center for Undergraduate Research in Mathematics – $3,125 for "A Multiscale Model of Wiggling Worms" to investigate the locomotion of the nematode worm Caenorhabdidis elegans to explore how molecular level mechanics are converted into organismal motility and $3,125 for "Geometry of Integer Partitions" to study another potential generalization of Euler’s result called the "Alder conjectures" by utilizing techniques coming from the enumeration of lattice points in polyhedra. | 02 |
| 2013 | February | Grant | Pangle | Remy M. Pangle (Outreach and Education Director, Virginia Center for Wind Energy) received $5,000 from the Dominion Foundation for "Virginia Kid Wind Challenge" to support the challenge, allowing students to compete in constructing wind turbines to generate the most electricity while learning about the advantages of wind energy. | 02 |
| 2013 | February | Honor | Keller | Dr. Jonathan W. Keller (Associate Professor, Political Science) received the 2012-2013 Madison Scholar Award for the College of Arts and Letters. |
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| 2013 | February | Honor | Pruett | Dr. David Pruett (Professor Emeritus, Mathematics and Statistics) was selected by Choice Reviews Online for his academic work with its Outstanding Academic Titles status. Pruett’s book, "Reason and Wonder: A Copernican Revolution in Science and Spirit," which was published by Praeger in 2012, was one of this year’s 10 recipients in the category Science and Technology. |
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| 2013 | February | Publication | Keller | Dr. Jonathan W. Keller (Associate Professor, Political Science) and Dennis M. Foster wrote an article, "Presidential Leadership Style and the Political Use of Force," which was published in the October 2012 issue of Political Psychology. |
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| 2013 | February | Publication | Perritt | Dr. Denise C. Perritt (Associate Professor, Strategic Leadership Studies) wrote an article, "Using Faculty Survey Data to Make School Improvement Decisions: One School’s Story," which was published in the National Teacher Education Journal 6 (1) in February 2013. |
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| 2013 | April | Grant | Henderson | Cheryl L. Henderson (Co-Director, Training/Technical Assistance Center) and Carol A. Wiegle (Coordinator, T/TAC) received $1,782 from the Virginia Department of Education for "T/TAC Speech Language Institute" to support professional development for speech-language pathologists. |
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| 2013 | April | Grant | Johnson | Dr. Elizabeth A. Johnson (Assistant Professor, Geology and Environmental Science) received $81,485 from the National Science Foundation for "Collaborative Research: Virginia’s Volcanoes: A Window into Eastern North America Mantle Processes" to constrain the response of the mantle and changes within the base of the lithosphere following rifting under Eastern North America and to evaluate the contributions of tectonic inheritance to the dynamics of the passive margin. |
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| 2013 | April | Grant | Mayfield | Dr. Christopher S. Mayfield (Assistant Professor, Computer Science) received $12,000 from Google for the "Computer Science Teaching Academy" to launch a new Content Teaching Academy for high-school computer science teachers as part of a larger effort to increase dual enrollment opportunities for local school divisions. | 04 |
| 2013 | April | Grant | Miles | Dr. Jonathan J. Miles (Professor, Integrated Science and Technology) received $55,000 from the Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy for "State-Based Anemometer Loan Program" to validate wind resource maps in collaboration with other states and the U.S. Department of Energy and to support the wind siting efforts throughout the state. | 04 |
| 2013 | April | Grant | Moran | Dr. Thomas E. Moran (Assistant Professor, Kinesiology) received $10,000 from the Warren G. Stambaugh Memorial Foundation for "Turning Barriers into Hurdles" to provide programming in specific public schools within the Shenandoah Valley and to conduct an early intervention physical activity and nutrition program. | 04 |
| 2013 | April | Grant | Swayne | Nick D. Swayne (Interim Director, Education Support Center; Coordinator for External Relations, College of Education; Instructor, Learning, Technology and Leadership Education) received $10,808 from Virginia city and county donors for "FIRST LEGO League" to provide sponsorship of robotics teams. | 04 |
| 2013 | April | Grant | Williams | Dr. Jacqueline A. Williams (Professor, Kinesiology) received $47,000 from the Virginia Department of Education for "The 2013 Health & Physical Activity Institute" to provide funding for a high-quality health and physical education content/teaching summer institute. | 04 |
| 2013 | April | Grant | Wood | Dr. William C. Wood (J.W. and Alice S. Marriott Faculty Fellow; Director, Center for Economic Education; Professor, Economics) received $60,499 from Shenandoah Valley Economic Education Inc. for "Economic Education Consultant Program" to continue a teacher outreach program in economic education. | 04 |
| 2013 | April | Honor | Britt | Dr. Lori Britt (Assistant Professor, Communication Studies; Director, Institute for Constructive Advocacy and Dialogue) has been chosen to participate in a research exchange with the Charles F. Kettering Foundation in Dayton, Ohio. The Kettering Foundation focuses on the question of "What does it take to make democracy work as it should?" Kettering advances this question through identifying and working with partners in what is called "joint learning cycles." Through Britt’s participation in workshops, training and collaborative research over the next year, she will focus on exploring ways to bring citizens into deliberations on public issues, conduct workshops for other organizations in the community that wish to convene and deliberate public issues and conduct research on the practices that enable this form of civic engagement. | 04 |
| 2013 | April | Honor | Davis | Dr. Michael Davis (Assistant Professor, Communication Studies; Director, Debate) was awarded The Brownlee Award by the Cross Examination Debate Association. The Brownlee Award is an annual national honor awarded to a forensic educator who demonstrates outstanding achievement in scholarship, education and service to CEDA. | 04 |
| 2013 | April | Honor | Galmarini | Dr. Maria C. Galmarini (Assistant Professor, History) has received a postdoctoral writing fellowship from the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University for the 2013-14 academic year. Galmarini will write a book manuscript, "The 'Right To Be Helped': Entitlement and Marginalization in Soviet Russia (1917-1950)," and participate in the Fellows Seminar while at Harvard. She is one of six scholars chosen to participate in the program, which focuses on the theme of Subjectivities and Identities in Eurasia. | 04 |
| 2013 | April | Honor | Imbrescia | Eric Imbrescia (Graduate Student, Education) received the William C. Lowry Mathematics Educator of the Year Award for the Elementary School Level on March 8 at the annual conference of the Virginia Council for Teachers of Mathematics. Imbrescia is a student in JMU’s master of education program that leads to endorsement as a K-8 mathematics specialist. He currently teaches third-grade students at Peak View Elementary School in Rockingham County,Va. | 04 |
| 2013 | April | Honor | Katzman | Dr. Laura Katzman (Associate Professor, Art History) was awarded an educational leave from the College of Visual and Performing Arts for the academic year 2012-13, during which she has been researching her current book project on "New Deal photography in post-World War II Puerto Rico." She is also the recipient of the CVPA's 2012-13 Madison Scholar Award for achieving a record of outstanding scholarship in her discipline. | 04 |
| 2013 | April | Publication | Davis | Dr. Michael Davis (Assistant Professor, Communication Studies) and Dr. Peter Bsumek (Associate Professor, Communication Studies) published "The public debate writing assignment: Developing an academically engaged debate audience" in Contemporary Argumentation and Debate, 32, 92-97. | 04 |
| 2013 | April | Publication | Fife | Dr. Eric Fife (Associate Professor, Communication Studies), Dr. C. Leigh Nelson (Associate Professor, Communication Studies) and Kristin Zhang (Undergraduate Student, Communication Studies) published "A new horizon for a classic perspective: Facebook and Expectancy Violation Theory" in the Journal of the Communication, Speech & Theatre Association of North Dakota, 25, 13-23. | 04 |
| 2013 | April | Publication | Hickerson | Dr. Corey Hickerson (Associate Professor, Communication Studies) and Dr. Peter Bsumek (Associate Professor, Communication Studies) published "Greening the public relations curriculum: An integrative approach to teaching environmental communication best practices in the campaigns course" in PRism, 9(1), 1-11. | 04 |
| 2013 | April | Publication | Nelson | Dr. C. Leigh Nelson (Associate Professor, Communication Studies) and Dr. Eric Fife (Associate Professor, Communication Studies) published "RateMyProfessors.com: A validity exercise" in Communication Teacher, 27(1), 6-10. | 04 |
| 2013 | April | Publication | Temple | Dr. April Temple (Assistant Professor, Health Science/Health Services Administration Program) and Dr. Jon M. Thompson (Professor, Health Sciences; Director, Health Services Administration Program) published "Using Qualitative Research to Understand Student Interest in Long-Term Care Administration" in The Journal of Health Administration Education, 30(1): 7-18, Winter 2013. | 04 |
| 2013 | April | Publication | Whitfield | Dr. Toni S. Whitfield (Associate Professor, Communication Studies) and Dr. Corey Hickerson (Associate Professor, Communication Studies) published "The difficult transition? Teaching, research, service: Examining the preparedness of communication faculty entering the academe" in The Journal of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 13(1). |
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| 2013 | April | Presentation | Bsumek | Dr. Peter Bsumek (Associate Professor, Communication Studies) presented "Appalachia calling: Competing constructions of identity and ethical responsibility in the Mountaintop Removal mining controversy" at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Western States Communication Association in Reno, Nev., in February. | 04 |
| 2013 | April | Presentation | Carmack | Dr. Heather J. Carmack (Assistant Professor, Communication Studies) and Tatjana M. Hocke (Assistant Professor, Communication Studies) presented "Stop the Cough: A Content Analysis of Knowledge, Fear Appeals and Efficacy in Pertussis PSAs" at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the DC-Area Health Communication Conference at George Mason University in March. | 04 |
| 2013 | April | Presentation | Richards | Dr. Keith Richards (Lecturer, Communication Studies) presented "Emergency Contraception: Increase Knowledge and Intent" at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the DC-Area Health Communication Conference at George Mason University in March. | 04 |
| 2013 | April | Presentation | Richards | Dr. Sharlene Richards (Associate Professor, Communication Studies) presented "Co-Constructing the Truth about Infertility: A Narrative Analysis of the 'Truth About Trying' Campaign" at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the DC-Area Health Communication Conference at George Mason University in March. | 04 |
| 2013 | April | Presentation | Woo | Dr. Chang Wan "Isaac" Woo (Assistant Professor, Communication Studies) presented a co-authored paper with S. H. Cho, "Intercultural differences in perceptions of the Tiger Woods scandal: South Korea and the U.S.," at the Sixth Summit on Communication and Sport in Austin, Texas, in February. This paper was selected as one of the distinguished papers in the conference. | 04 |
| 2013 | April | Service | Aleman | Dr. Carlos Aleman (Associate Professor, Communication Studies) was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Shenandoah Valley Scholars Latino Initiative. A partner with the SLI of the Center for Global Initiatives at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the SV-SLI is dedicated to education excellence and pursuing equal access for students in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Through academic development programs and a three-year mentoring relationship between an undergraduate student of JMU and their Latino/a high-school scholar, the SV-SLI provides a personal approach to academic success for Latino students. | 04 |
| 2013 | April | Service | Carmack | Dr. Heather Carmack (Assistant Professor, Communication Studies) was elected to a graduated three-year appointment as Vice-Chair Elect, Vice-Chair and then Chair for the Applied Communication Studies Division of the National Communication Association. | 04 |
| 2013 | April | Service | Davis | Dr. Michael Davis (Assistant Professor, Communication Studies) served as editor for the forum "Debate as Pedagogy" for the journal Contemporary Argumentation and Debate. | 04 |
