SMAD students and professor help hatch new school’s logo

Harrisonburg’s new high school, which opens next year, needed an identity, and SMAD professor Adrienne Hooker saw the branding of Rocktown High School as an opportunity for students

Echoes from the past

Paranormal investigators Tee Morris (’92) and Phil Rossi (’01) share a passion for unearthing buried history at the country’s most haunted places

Community-Engaged Courses Give Students Hands-On Experience

In courses from several CAL programs, student groups work on problems for various organizations — including local businesses and community nonprofits — to connect their classroom learning to real-life outcomes.

Connecting people to their environment

Produced by JMU faculty and students, a seasonal radio program invites listeners to engage with the valley’s natural surroundings

JMU alumni contribute to The Martin Agency’s success

Virginia firm wins Ad Age’s 2023 Agency of the Year award

The Breeze celebrates 100 years of chronicling JMU history

The award-wining student newspaper has been a fixture of student engagement at Madison for more than a century.

The Breeze and Breeze TV win 18 VPA awards

Breeze and Breeze TV staff members received honors in writing, design, photo, advertising and video categories at the Virginia Press Association annual conference in Richmond on May 6.

New Breeze and Breeze TV leaders look ahead to 2023-24

New leaders of the newspaper, online and TV staffs are Michael Russo, executive editor; Grant Johnson, editor-in-chief; Kayla Brown, TV news director; and Avery Goodstine, Breeze managing editor.

Exhibit allows SMAD students to showcase alumni's work

The SMAD alumni network is on full display in the SMAD Gallery in the ground floor hallway of Harrison Hall thanks to Prof. Adrienne Hooker's SMAD 332 class.

SMADies should submit those scholarship applications soon

The deadline for most of the competitive SMAD scholarships is March 1, so submit those applications ASAP!

"A Longstanding Tradition of Journalistic Commentary"

As JMU’s student newspaper, The Breeze, marks its 100th year, we also mark a 10th year for the scholarship founded in memory of Breeze Designer and Senior Editor/Columnist Whitten Maher.

'22 grad's film wins best short in Virginia film fest

“Home of the Brave,” written and directed by 2022 SMAD alumnus Ian Welfley, won Best Short Narrative Film at the Virginia Film Festival in November.

JMU shares information on loss of students

The loss our community has felt today is unthinkable.