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JU mascot Nellie the dolphin gets national headlines for surpassing 60!
Nellie the dolphin, Jacksonville University’s beloved mascot, is making national headlines with her 60th birthday.
GrindTV.com featured a lengthy article on her longevity, reaching six decades old at Marineland on Feb. 27. Nellie is the world’s oldest dolphin under human …
Read More »JU Assistant Professor of Aeronautics Wayne Ziskal discusses sequestration’s effects on small airports in First Coast News report
The automatic federal budget cuts — also known as “sequestration” — that are expected to kick in on March 1 could have a dire impact on three small northeast Florida aiports and the crews and passengers they serve, Jacksonville University
Join the 2013 Jacksonville University Marching Band!
Join the 2013 Jacksonville University Marching Band!
Visit: ju.edu/marchingband or e-mail: marchingband@ju.edu for more information.
2013 production features the music of Kanye West, Youngblood Brass Band, Michael Jackson, Cupid, and DJ Khaled.
See video below for more on the 2013 …
Read More »JU grad, restaurateur Mahshid Fatemi featured in Times-Union Editor Frank Denton’s column on ethnicity
Florida Times-Union Editor Frank Denton has a deep apprecation for what he describes as Jacksonville’s “wonderful stew of international ethnicity.”
In a March 3 column celebrating the people who have moved from other countries to Jacksonville “for the freedom …
Read More »March Forward: 31 New Scholarships, 31 Days
March 1, 2013
To the JU Community,
Today we kick off a promising, high-energy effort under the ASPIRE umbrella to help fulfill some of our long-term goals for our students.
It’s a sprint, if you will, to help create scholarship …
Read More »JU’s Walker Blanton, Shelley Grant discuss gun culture in Folio Weekly cover story
Two JU professors were recently quoted in a Folio Weekly cover story examining gun culture in the wake of high-profile local and national shootings.
Florida tops the nation in active concealed-carry permits, reaching the 1 million mark on Dec. 12, …
Read More »JU Davis College of Business Dean Don Capener editorializes in JBJ on industries ‘parking’ their cash
It’s commonplace today for large industries to “park” their cash assets rather than spend money on new product initiatives, acquisitions or human resources.
That troubles JU Davis College of Business Dean Don Capener, who says in a Jacksonville Business Journal …
Read More »JU student Marshalluna Hudson, Prof. Rose Borkowski take part in dolphin rescue
Marshalluna Hudson, a first-year Masters of Science student at the Jacksonville University Marine Science Research Institute and a volunteer with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission, recently took part rescuing and disentangling a dolphin calf swimming with a Frisbee-like object …
Read More »JU alum Donnie Horner III profiled nationally for his MS activist role
JU alum Donnie Horner III, a U.S. Navy Officer who changed careers after a devastating diagnosis of multiple sclerosis, is profiled as an MS activist in the Spring 2013 edition of Momentum, the magazine of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. …
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