Montpelier Winter 2003
Crooning and Crowing at Homecoming
While Phil Vassar ('85) croons his top country tunes to usher in Homecoming, JMU crows over the grand opening of the Leeolou Alumni Center, a place for alumni to call home and reconnect.
Living in
Exile
On the 700th anniversary of Dante's exile, scholars gather at JMU
with professor Giuliana Fazzion to discuss the impact personal and
political exile has had on the arts and throughout
history.
Biotechnology: Paradise or
Purgatory?
It still comes down to human nature. As JMU develops leadership in
biotechnology manufacturing education, JMU scientists say the field
of genetics holds the potential for both miracles and
misdeeds.
In these days of Enron and WorldCom, one of JMU's own, hard-nosed Isabel Mercedes Cumming ('84), is on the job prosecuting white-collar crime in Maryland.
Campus life wasn't as goody-two-shoes as Madison College alumni have led us to believe all these years. They own up to some surprising tales at their reunion "Confessionals."
JMU seniors join an elite group of college students that assists distinguished NASA scientists at Langley Research Center in Virginia and immerse themselves in technical lectures and mentored research.
New voice professor Dorothy Maddison directs students in Strauss' operetta, Die Fledermaus. The production brings together all the elements of musical theater.
Thanks to Virginians who backed the bond issue last fall, critical projects - including an arts complex, a library east of Interstate-81, major renovations of Harrison Hall and Burruss Hall, and extensive infrastructure work on our heating facilities and handicapped accessibility - will move ahead at JMU.
Jack Marsh to speak at James Madison Day, it's new day for development, wireless Internet comes to campus, meet some Parents Council "lifers", Field hockey's fab four, professors' books, digging with the president, Kennedy Center internships, a patriotic mural and CampusWire news bites
Alumni awards celebrate achievement, chapters get it together, JMUWorks! at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and Fred Bean ('79), Tee Morris ('92), Lisa Poff ('95), Nicholas Kohn ('98) and books by alumni
Sydney Nguyen ('91) applauds the CoB's Kent Zimmerman