Graduate School News

M.A.T. alum putting teaching skills to work in Czech Republic

Read about a day in the life of a M.A.T. alum as an English Teaching Assistant through Fulbright Czech Republic.

MBA Global Business class traveling to Japan

JMU MBA students will travel to Japan in March 2020 for company and facility visits, meetings with guest speakers from upper management and government, and take their learning into the global business arena.

JMU Double Duke becomes new director of Piedmont Governor’s School

M.A.T. alum taking new leadership role.

Ph.D. candidate named program director at EMU

Andrew Miller, current student in the Strategic Leadership, PhD program was named the program director of M.B.A. and M.A. in Organizational Leadership programs at Eastern Mennonite University.

Building outside the box

A music alumna applies her gifts to the health care realm.

A wake-up call

Alumni are on a mission to reduce the amount of screen time in K-12 classrooms.

Caring for the creatures

Megan Reinertsen Ross (’96) is the first female director of Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo.

Teaching teachers how to teach

Preparing teachers to teach students with various backgrounds and experiences is a passion of Dr. Almarode.

Horst, Finney and Fulcher collaborate on webinar

Professors Sara Finney, Jeanne Horst and Keston Fulcher collaborate on webinar

Populist Politics

Exposing populist movements for what they really are.

Finney and Horst Speak at Carnegie Mellon University

Professors Sara Finney and Jeanne Horst traveled to Carnegie Mellon University from May 5-8 to participate in the 2019 Summit of the Empirical Educators Project

Alumni Spotlight

Combining analytical skills with a passion for politics

A JMU Humanities Student Becomes a Rocket Man

Raphael Perrino shares the story of how he is now using his master's degree as a Senior Business Intelligence Analyst at Virgin Orbit.

Psychology instructors combine classes to discuss research

To liven up class material, Julia Dobner-Pereira and Christian Haase, graduate students in the CIPSYD program, brought their PSYC 101 classes together to recreate an academic conference.

Inspirational journey of an international graduate student to Harrisonburg

Communication and Advocacy international graduate student shares her experiences in transitioning to JMU and Harrisonburg.

#CHBSChats with Andi Diamond

#CHBSChats with Andi Diamond (Physician Assistant - Health Professions) - Our series of informal chats with students

#CHBSChats with Katelin Curd & Jacqueline Billy

#CHBSChats with Riley Smith (Communication Sciences and Disorders) - Our series of informal chats with students

A Quest for Learning

The combination of a strong, engaged academic community and program flexibility drew Jackson Chambers to JMU.

Research suggests oysters have a thing about personal space

Madison Trust has enabled a graduate student and her professor to research the optimum living conditions for oysters.

Beetle, Social Networks, and Brillance

Rachel Harnish advanced her career through the M.B.A at JMU. She shares her experience in the program, with faculty, and her peers in this Q & A interview.

Scope of practice

Graduate students in speech-language pathology are using augmented reality to practice complicated procedures.

Occupational Therapy students advocate in DC

Over 20 graduate students from JMU’s occupational therapy (OT) program advocated for their profession at an event called AOTA’s 2018 Capitol Hill Day.

Timing was key to alum's success

When the idea for the wildly successful Watch Ya Mouth party game came like a flash to Peter Denbigh (’02, ’11M) in 2016, he did what most people don’t—he acted on it.

Teaching the intangibles

JMU alumna Katie Tusing turns a life-changing accident into learning opportunities.

JMU School of Nursing director testifies before Congress

JMU School of Nursing director Julie Sanford testified before the U.S. Senate on the growing shortage of healthcare professionals in rural areas and potential solutions to fill this critical, national need.