News Archive: March 2016

Honors Seminar in Dominican Republic Photo Essay
March 31, 2016: JMU Honors students practiced global citizenship and gained a better understanding of problem-solving in a different part of the world during a service-learning trip to Dominican Republic
Redrawing Soto's map?
March 29, 2016: JMU anthropologist Dennis Blanton and his students are analyzing physical artifacts that are leading researchers to question the path of 16th-century Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto's expedition
Weekend entrepreneurship competition teaches valuable lessons
March 28, 2016: Her team member, Patrick Haggerty, a senior public policy and administration major, said they came into the event asking, "What do we need going forward?" After hearing from professionals
Professor uses grant to strengthen multicultural collaboration, understanding
March 25, 2016: Dr. Lisa L. Porter (Assistant Professor, Sociology and Anthropology) received $2,000 from the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities to enhance communication and cultural understanding
IDEA grants diversify JMU's inclusion efforts
March 24, 2016: Our Madison family is a rich tableau of people from all backgrounds, which is why the university has made diversity and inclusion a top priority.
The importance of interactions in higher education: A conversation on diversity
March 24, 2016: Final Madison Vision Series presentation and keynote speaker for the Diversity Conference, Dr. Sylvia Hurtado speaks on interactions and diversity in college
IDEA grants diversify JMU's inclusion efforts
March 24, 2016: Our Madison family is a rich tableau of people from all backgrounds, which is why the university has made diversity and inclusion a top priority. One of the initiatives to promote this has been the IDEA program grants
Student body VP talks Student Alumni Association
March 23, 2016: Our alumni association continues the relationship through a community of hardworking, passionate and fun JMU-ers. Students don't have to wait to become involved. They can join the Student Alumni Association
How a professor's malaria research has the attention of NIH
March 22, 2016: Not a whole lot is known about it. We've studied and published in the past a number of things about its role in certain types of allergies and in other parasitic diseases. And so we are now focused
CNN senior White House correspondent Jim Acosta wins Carrier Award
March 22, 2016: As the profession of journalism continues to evolve and face new challenges, a JMU alumnus serves as an example of excellence. Jim Acosta is CNN senior White House correspondent and the recipient of the Carrier Award
JMU-U.Va. expand research into antibiotic resistant bacteria
March 21, 2016: They had found that such plasmids were common in bacteria in local streams and soils and that they conferred resistance to not only common antibiotics, but also to
Madison Vision Series features diversity expert
March 14, 2016: On Thursday, March 17, at Grafton-Stovall Theatre from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Dr. Sylvia Hurtado, professor in the Graduate School of Education and Information and director of the Higher Education Research Institute, will give
10 little-known facts about JMU President Alger
March 9, 2016: Students got a peek unto the life of JMU President Alger at MADTalks, an event hosted by the Honors Program. In a relaxed Ted Talks-style conversation, Pres. Alger answered questions.
No joking, comedy has a place for teaching science
March 4, 2016: The demystifying started by having the comedy troupe members asking Whitmeyer questions in an attempt to find out what kind of scientist he was. After accomplishing that, the next task involved the trio trying to
Biotechnology outreach gets boost from faculty grant
March 3, 2016: We were engaged in a collaborative research project in which high school students isolate new strains of an agriculturally significant soil bacterium associated with soybean crops in the valley
Q and A with Alan Levinovitz, author of 'The Gluten Lie'
March 3, 2016: Faculty author of "The Gluten Lie" debunks food myths that develop a life of their own in popular American culture
Art on the moon
March 2, 2016: The MoonArk project, a miniature time capsule representing all of the arts and humanities, will hitch a ride to the moon later this year.
How Innovation Fellows are boosting JMU's national profile
March 2, 2016: The SXSWedu conference is the first of two national meetings Ashley will participate in. The second will be March 17-20 at Stanford University, where JMU's Innovation Fellows will have a leading role in workshops and

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