Ask Shyleigh Good about JMU professors.

Expect to be there awhile, and for all of it to be good.

The long list of Good’s JMU standout professors include chemistry wizards Lindsay Caesar, Dan Downey and Donna Amenta.

Caeser shared her expertise in products chemistry, a form of analytical chemistry, on Good starting with Good’s sophomore year at JMU. The results include multiple presentations, including at a national conference, and an impending publication in a peer-reviewed journal.

Downey’s was Good’s first college lab experience and the first professor who called her a chemist, “a huge boost in my confidence,” she says. Amenta contributed when Good was a high-schooler, urging her to major in a hard science like chemistry to bolster her interest in forensic science.

Good calls JMU a marvelous choice, especially for undergraduate STEM students. "You have so many opportunities to do research ad work hands-on with impressive instrumentation," she says, adding, "I think it's the biggest thing that they view you as a chemist from day one, and you start thinking like a chemist. And they also really care for you as a person, too.

“That’s what I’ve always loved and it’s gone a long way toward making me the chemist that I am today.”