News Archive: March 2012

College of Business Maintains Excellent Businessweek Ranking
March 28, 2012: JMU's College of Business remains in the top 5 percent of undergraduate business schools
Breaking Down Barriers
March 23, 2012: JMU celebrates Disability Awareness Week, March 26-30, 2012.
Educational Technology: Tools to Sharpen Learning
March 22, 2012: JMU's educational technology helps teachers make education faster, better and cheaper.
JMU Joins Area Colleges in Walk to Shed Light on Depression, Suicide
March 21, 2012: Walk for Hope: Colleges Unite for Depression and Suicide, will bring together students, staff and faculty from Blue Ridge Community College, Bridgewater College, Eastern Mennonite University and James Madison University
JMU, HHS Musicians 'Sing Out' for Charity
March 20, 2012: JMU, HHS musicians 'sing out' for charity.
JMU Meeting Changing Needs of Social Work
March 20, 2012: JMU is training social workers to meet the ever changing needs of society.
East Campus Hillside Project Explained and Explored
March 13, 2012: A transformation is under way on the East Campus Hillside. Formerly covered by a manicured lawn, the hillside is now transitioning into an expanse of natural vegetation that wil
Collection Provides Link to Voices of Pre-SNP Life
March 12, 2012: Professional scholars and local history enthusiasts alike can now delve into the extensive Shenandoah National Park Oral History Collection to learn more about life in the Blu
Students Study Abroad at JMU
March 7, 2012: Twenty-eight students from Hiroshima University in Japan visited JMU for two weeks in February to gain first-hand experience in American education inside and beyond the classroom
Art Historian Explores Family's Niche as Woodcarvers
March 6, 2012: The Yoruba people are found in the forest zone of Nigeria, West Africa, a place art historian and JMU Assistant Professor Dr. Aderonke Adesanya is very familiar with, having taugh
Student's Research Challenges E-readers' Claim
March 2, 2012: JMU honors student challenges e-readers' claim.
Putting ideas into action
March 1, 2012: JMU alums Alexandra Robbins ('07) and Daniel Haney ('07) worked to fix this problem 9,000 miles around the globe in Cambodia.
Saving childhood
March 1, 2012: Children's worldview is often shaped by the gratuitous offerings of TV and film, so one of the most worrisome issues for parents is their kids' entertainment. Enter Children's Playshop, offering entertainment that demonstrates a higher...
The biggest assist
March 1, 2012: When diagnosed with Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis, JMU women's basketball player Dawn Evans ('11) was told the disease would take away her career as a NCAA Division I athlete.
Art students design for the real (JMU) world
March 1, 2012: JMU students in an Environmental Design class collaborated across disciplines and received feedback from internationally noted artist/architect Michael Singer to create practical and environmentally sound site designs...
Changing the world begins in the classroom
March 1, 2012: At an early age, she dreamed of becoming an educator, as a Pruden Scholar Katie Schwizer learned the lessons teachers need to know.
Say 'Yes' to the Madison Forever Vision Fund
March 1, 2012: It's time to put JMU on the national stage. How can you help? The Madison Forever Vision Fund.
The joy of scholarship
March 1, 2012: Summa cum laude 2011 graduate Eden Parks says that her Phi Beta Kappa induction was the capstone of an already cherished Madison Experience.
A Priscilla's Homecoming journal
March 1, 2012: A firsthand account of an extraordinary journey.
Classroom in the frozen north
March 1, 2012: Julie Schneider's journey to the arctic's edge was a once-in-a-lifetime adventure, and a great way to liven up science lessons for her young students.
Spraggs receives BEYA award
March 1, 2012: "Madison allowed me to challenge myself and not be afraid to try new things," says Paul Spraggs ('78), a mathematics major and physics minor at JMU. Spraggs was named one of the Black Engineers of the Year for 2009.
A lesson in the sun
March 1, 2012: Madison Forever made a huge difference for Ericka Welsh, and she's determined to make a difference for others

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