RateMyProfessors Spotlight #2: Lori Britt

She is a familiar face to all that wander the halls of Harrison. Well-known and well-loved, Dr. Lori Britt has been teaching at James Madison University since 2010. Dr. Britt completed her Master's Degree and Ph.D. both in Communication, with a focus on group and organization communication. Believe it or not, teaching at JMU has been Dr. …

An Inside Look at a Centennial Scholar

There is a small group of students at JMU who have something a bit special. These incredibly motivated and successful students are known as the Centennial Scholars. The Centennial Scholarship Program (CSP) provides specific scholarships to students with outstanding GPA's for their college tuition. The CSP "strives to build students' confidence in their academic and …

5 Tips to Start Your Year Off Right

As we wave goodbye to our memories of beaches, pools and barbecues and say hello to our new paradise we like to call JMU, coming back to school can almost feel as if you never left. Or for others that 3-month break has left you completely lost as to how to be a student again. …

PROTEIN! PROTEIN! PROTEIN!

Interested in the academic accomplishments of your peers? Well today we bring you Osscar, a senior majoring in Bio Technology with minors in Chemistry and Spanish. He is a part of a team of students who are researching how to isolate and purify protein domains to help cure and prevent Muscular Dystrophy and explain why …