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Congratulations to Dr. Sandhya Manjunath on her recent presentation, "Simulating the future of sport management: Assessing the impact of learning with AI tools on student engagement, motivation, and knowledge retention," given at the 2026 North American Society for Sport Management Conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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Congratulations to Cyril Uy II, faculty member in JMU Philosophy and Religion, on the recent publication of his new , "Riffing on/as the Real: Towards Jazz as a Framework for Medieval Sufism," published in the cross-cultural and cross-frontier philosophy and religion journal Sophia.

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Riffing on/as the Real: Towards Jazz as a Framework for Medieval Sufism - Sophia Taking Ibn ʿArabī’s (d. 638/1240) Allusions of the Qurʾān in the World of Man as its point of departure, this article explores jazz as a framework for the study of medieval Sufi knowledge. The first half introduces the jazz standard and develops its possibilities as a theoretical lens. Couplin...

Do audiobooks offer the same cognitive benefits as reading? JMU College of Education faculty expert Chelsey Bollinger addresses this question in a recent article for Health.

Do Audiobooks Offer the Same Cognitive Benefits as Reading? Experts break down whether listening to audiobooks or reading a print book is better for your brain health as you age.

Congratulations to Research Development Fellow Zerrouk Bessa on being recognized with the 2026 Youth Leadership Award from the JMU School of Professional & Continuing Education. His work as the Director of the 2025 Science Explorers Summer Camp provided meaningful STEM enrichment to regional youth and hands-on work experience for counselors.

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Congratulations to Cathy McKay on the recent publication of her co-authored article, "Japanese Professors' Experiences in Teaching Undergraduate Students in Adapted Physical Education Courses at Japanese Universities," which appeared in Quest, the official journal of the National Association for Kinesiology in Higher Education NAKHE.

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Japanese Professors’ Experiences in Teaching Undergraduate Students in Adapted Physical Education Courses at Japanese Universities The purpose of this study was to explore Japanese professors’ experiences in teaching adapted physical education (APE) courses to undergraduate students. The study used andragogy theory, which addr...

JMU Graduate Psychology faculty members Sara Finney and Brian Leventhal, along with graduate student Autumn Wild, recently presented at the 2026 Association for Psychological Science conference in Barcelona, sharing on the use of propensity score weighting to investigate the effect of engaging in Honors curriculum on campus and more.

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A&M faculty and students present at conference in Barcelona Autumn Wild, Dr. Sara Finney, and Dr. Brian Leventhal from the Assessment and Measurement PhD program traveled to the APS conference in Barcelona.

Congratulations to JMU School of Art, Design and Art History MFA candidate Jeremy Starn on being granted the competitive 2026-2027 Photography Fellowship from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. The fellowship comes with a $6000 award and the chance to have work displayed at the museum and other venues.

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Rising Third Year MFA in Art Student Wins Photography Fellowship MFA in Art candidate Jeremy Starn has been granted the 2026-2027 Photography Fellowship from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

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