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Helping Dukes stay Dukes

Gifts to JMU's financial aid initiatives make a difference. Take, for example, Amanda "Mandy" Matherly Stowe ('10), who was helped by JMU donors when times got unexpectedly tough and has been making a difference of her own since. Today, her work helping people with intellectual or developmental disabilities find employment gives them a chance to be productive citizens. It's the dynamic of positive change — help others, and they, in turn, help many more. And it's a Madison tradition. Read more.

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Engineering students

Engineering trailblazers

The School of Engineering will graduate its first class in May. Engineering students are characterized by a curiosity to understand the natural and man-made world and use that understanding to solve real-world problems. Follow this year's seniors as they finish their capstone projects and set their sights on their futures.

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Employee Giving Campaign. Giving Back is Moving Forward

Giving back

JMU employees have a strong tradition of giving — volunteering in the community, going above the call of duty to assist JMU students and providing financial support to causes that matter most to them. Madison employees are making a difference. The 2012 Employee Giving Campaign launches Wed., Feb. 1 with a goal to have 35 percent of JMU faculty and staff members to make a gift to JMU by March 2.

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JMU faculty and students from discovering a way to get gold film to stick to plastic, a potentially groundgreaking development

Striking gold

A little setback didn't stop some JMU faculty and students from discovering a way to get gold film to stick to plastic, a potentially groundgreaking development for industries from biomedical to computer chip manufacturers. The research environment at JMU had a lot to do with the opportunity to go beyond just finding a method that worked.

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Headlines Events

  • JMU Professor Receives Outstanding Faculty Award

    Graduate psychology professor Dr. Anne Stewart embodies James Madison University’s challenge to students, faculty and ... More

  • Scientific Society Names Dilts a Fellow

    Dr. Judith A. Dilts, associate dean of the College of Science and Mathematics and professor ... More

  • Student Volunteers Help With Family Caregiving

    Caring for an elderly family member who is frail or suffers from Alzheimer’s disease is ... More

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Headlines Events

  • “ETHEL – Music of the Sun,”

    Concert Hall
    Forbes Center for the Performing Arts

    Jan. 25, 8 p.m. …more

  • The Gandhi Center Discussion Series

    Room 2105, Harrison Hall

    Jan. 26, 3-9 p.m.

  • Public Star Gaze

    Astronomy Park

    Jan. 27, 3-7 p.m.

  • A Robert Burns Day Celebration:
    Poetry and Song

    Recital Hall
    Forbes Center for the Performing Arts

    Jan. 27, 8 p.m. …more

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    Madison, the magazine of James Madison University, connects you to the life of the university even when you can't be on campus. Read the latest issue.