Dr. Rose is a firm believer in exposing students to scientific research beyond the classroom and arming them with the real-world skills needed to approach problems from a range of perspectives. I am enormously grateful for the opportunities we have had to work together and advance scientific innovation in the Shenandoah Valley. He has been a valued friend to SRI and me, and I wish him all the best in the next phase of his life. — Curtis R. Carlson, President and CEO, SRI International
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London, Beijing, Harrisonburg — an expanding notion of campus
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With 1,100 JMU students studying in 56 destinations, and scholars and students coming to JMU from 70 countries around the globe, the perspectives informing the Madison Experience are increasingly diverse.
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Located in the 16th-century Palazzo Capponi in Florence (inset, the Roses and Alessandro Gentili) is JMU’s Semester in Florence and six-year-old master’s program in European Union Policy Studies. Events like Cappadocia’s annual balloon festival offers new Study Abroad perspectives from Turkey and Greece.
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Semester in Washington
Based in the nation’s capital, the thriving Washington Semester program puts JMU students in the thick of the nation’s political life. Living and taking classes together, they also land independent internships at places like the White House, the Department of State, the Federal Communications Commission and other centers of political, legislative and administrative activity. As Lisa Maurer (‘09), has said, “my internship allowed me to brush shoulders with officials like Sandra Day O’Connor, Karen Hughes, Condoleezza Rice and the Dalai Llama. To this day, I am still left feeling star struck, honored and grateful for my Washington Semester Experience.”
six semester programs (in Antwerp, Beijing, Florence, Kenya, London and Salamanca) two graduate programs (in Florence and Malta) and more than 40 short-term programs and exchange programs (the latter with 12 universities abroad)
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Semester in Washington is 15 years old in 2012. Students live and take courses and explore the nation’s capital together while they work in independent internships and obtain hands-on political and governmental experiences and contacts.
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JMU’s Individual Events Team has been ranked in the top 20 for the past four years and stands among the ranks of the top intercollegiate speech programs in the country. National Champions are Kane Kennedy (’13), communications studies, in Dramatic Interpretation for 2011 and Whitney Rice (’09), anthropology, in Poetry Interpretation for 2009 and in Program Oral Interpretation for 2008. Additionally, JMU Forensics is the only program in the nation directed by two recipients of AFA’s most respected coaching awards: Distinguished Service and Outstanding New Coach.
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