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JMU X-Labs promotes the education of Virginia’s students, faculty and the greater community as they work together across disciplines to solve real problems through pilot courses, collaboration, creativity and innovation.

🎉 During our Innovation Summit: Solutions Showcase we celebrated the work and discoveries made during this academic year...
05/14/2025

🎉 During our Innovation Summit: Solutions Showcase we celebrated the work and discoveries made during this academic year’s X-Labs courses. This interactive event offered student teams an opportunity to highlight their work and answer thoughtful questions from the audience, leaving us all with fresh perspectives. Thank you to all attendees - students, X-Labs instructors, industry partners, and faculty - for supporting the innovative work that takes place in X-Labs courses.

📸 Photo courtesy of James Madison University

Best of luck to JMU Esports Varsity Rainbow Six team as they head to the Playfly Tournament of Champions in Arlington, T...
05/01/2025

Best of luck to JMU Esports Varsity Rainbow Six team as they head to the Playfly Tournament of Champions in Arlington, Texas! You can catch the action tomorrow and Saturday on twitch.tv/playflygg.

JMU X-Labs is excited to announce our four Fall ‘25 courses! 🎉 Our unique courses bring together students and faculty fr...
04/10/2025

JMU X-Labs is excited to announce our four Fall ‘25 courses! 🎉 Our unique courses bring together students and faculty from across campus to solve real-world problems.

🔗 Link in About Me section for course details. If a course aligns with your interests and qualifications, take the next steps in MyMadison to enroll when registration opens. Be part of an innovative solution next semester!

**This workshop is cancelled for this semester and will be rescheduled at a later date.**💡Building Challenge Statements ...
04/04/2025

**This workshop is cancelled for this semester and will be rescheduled at a later date.**

💡Building Challenge Statements Workshop - April 14💡

Challenge statements are a foundation of X-Labs courses. Join us for this interactive workshop focused on the art of creating effective challenge statements, a critical step in the design thinking process. Participants will learn how to define clear, actionable, and human-centered problem statements that could inspire your next step towards proposing an X-Labs course and supporting your research.

🌟Team Teaching Unpacked: Faculty Experiences from JMU X-Labs🌟The final panel in our series features a current X-Labs tea...
04/03/2025

🌟Team Teaching Unpacked: Faculty Experiences from JMU X-Labs🌟

The final panel in our series features a current X-Labs teaching team from ENVT 400: Workshop in Environmental Problem Solving. Our panelists include Rob Alexander, Associate Professor, Political Science; Raihan Khan MD, Professor, Health Sciences; and Lisa Tubach, Professor, Art. Join us to hear first-hand accounts of their experience as a new team, including the challenges, delights, surprises, and value of cross-disciplinary team teaching!

📅 Thursday, April 17, 2:30-3:30PM
📌 Lakeview Hall 1160
🔗 Registration required: link in bio

Register now for the second event in our new series >> Team Teaching Unpacked: Faculty Experiences from JMU X-Labs!💭 Wha...
03/18/2025

Register now for the second event in our new series >> Team Teaching Unpacked: Faculty Experiences from JMU X-Labs!

💭 What: A brown bag lunch series bringing together X-Labs faculty - Dmytro Babik, Kevin Borg, and Jonathan Stewart on 3/28 - in panel discussions to share their experiences in cross-disciplinary team teaching in JMU X-Labs.
⌚ When: Friday, March 28, 12:30 - 1:30PM
🗺️ Where: Lakeview Hall 1160 (The Tank)
🔗 Registration Required: link in About section

Pack your lunch and fuel your curiosity about teaching in JMU X-Labs!

Raise your hand if you're excited to be part of X-Labs 2.0! We had an enthusiastic and inquisitive group last Friday - m...
03/03/2025

Raise your hand if you're excited to be part of X-Labs 2.0! We had an enthusiastic and inquisitive group last Friday - many with no prior experience engaging with X-Labs - for our faculty panel discussion featuring Samy El-Tawab, Raihan Khan, and Dr. Erica Lewis. JMU X-Labs Executive Director, Connie Frigo, led an open discussion where presenting faculty shared the unexpected emotions, exhilarations, challenges, and pedagogical epiphanies integrated into their X-Labs teaching experience.

💡 Curious to learn more? Sign up for an upcoming event this semester - link in bio.

🗓️ Don't miss out on our fun, interactive, and educational events! The easiest way to organize your calendar with all th...
02/26/2025

🗓️ Don't miss out on our fun, interactive, and educational events! The easiest way to organize your calendar with all things X-Labs is to visit our Upcoming Events & Deadlines webpage. We hope to see you at X-Labs soon!

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We are less than 2️⃣ weeks away from JMU Giving Day (2/27/25)! JMU X-Labs is excited to again be part of this initiative...
02/19/2025

We are less than 2️⃣ weeks away from JMU Giving Day (2/27/25)! JMU X-Labs is excited to again be part of this initiative to raise funds for JMU Esports, a vibrant gaming community that brings together nearly 100 students from diverse academic backgrounds to enhance critical thinking, communication, digital literacy, and leadership skills.

💜 Launched in 2021, JMU Esports’ Rainbow Six: Siege team has already won two national championships. As Collegiate Esports continues to gain popularity across the country, it is a top priority for JMU X-Labs to fundraise for student support including travel to competitions.

💛 JMU Giving Day is 24 hours of generosity and JMU Dukes coming together to make a big difference for our students and community.

🗓️ Mark your calendar and stay tuned for our JMU Esports Giving Day program!

💡🚀 Bring your curiosity and energy to X-Labs for our Design Thinking Sprint Workshop! Design thinking is a foundational ...
02/18/2025

💡🚀 Bring your curiosity and energy to X-Labs for our Design Thinking Sprint Workshop! Design thinking is a foundational element of X-Labs courses. Be part of a mini sprint to collaboratively tackle a real-world challenge by progressing through the key stages of empathy, defining the problem, ideation, prototyping, and testing.

📅 Tuesday, March 4, 2:30-3:35PM
📌 Lakeview Hall 1160
🔗 Registration required: link in "About" section

🎉 We're excited to have Patrice Ludwig, interim assistant vice president for Research & Innovation and founder and associate professor of X-Labs courses, leading the workshop!

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