An irrepressible sense of adventure has led Claudia Peters ('87) up the ladder of career success -- and around the world. She once explored China on a credit card, confident she would find a way to pay it off later.

From Orange County, Va., to the first Continental Congress, a young James Madison prepares to lead a nation. (The second installment of a five-part series by James Madison Center Director Devin Bent.)

Civil War Institute students explore the pressures and conflicts that led to the American Civil War and walk the battlefields to appreciate the violent and sometimes valiant consequences of those sectional convictions.

After 25 years, JMU's Semester in London has grown up and matured into a program chock full of classes, lectures, meseum visits, Shakespeare plays, architecture gazing, field trips into English history and forays into English literature, science and more.

Few JMU alumni can forget the tremendous influence that a special teacher had on their lives, says President Linwood H. Rose. He introduces five of them and their achievements

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• The Writer's Block
• Hackers Beware
• Operation Peanut Butter
• Musical "Trump card"
• Technology Titans
• Shattering TV's Glass Ceiling
• Kosovo Encounters of the 4th Kind
• Walking on Air

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