Dr. Elizabeth Johnson (left) and Hannah Shepherd met with Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., during their trip to Capitol Hill to extol the virtues of undergraduate research.

Seismic Opportunity
JMU Undergraduate Takes Volcano Research to Capitol Hill

By Dan Armstrong, JMU Public Affairs

Hannah Shepherd likes things that make a big impact.

So it was a natural fit when she teamed up with James Madison University geology professor Elizabeth Johnson to investigate the massive volcanic eruptions that formed the calderas, lava flows and ash deposits now part of Yellowstone National Park in the western United States.

Little did she know that her research would soon make its own impact—on members of the United States Congress. -- Full story.

Off To Africa—Again
Education Professor Teresa Harris Earns Fulbright For Six-Month Teaching Trip

By Chris Edwards

College of Education Professor Teresa Harris has earned Fulbright funding to teach early childhood education at a university and another school in South Africa from January to June, 2010.

Harris will do her teaching at the University of Pretoria and at the Child Academy in Tambesa—in northern South Africa’s rural Venda section.

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