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JU alum Ken Underwood launches record label

Jacksonville University alumnus Ken Underwood’s launching of a record label is featured in a Nov. 30 Jacksonville Business Journal article.

“Rapper J. Dash’s first release, ‘WOP,’ was released through Underwood’s startup record label, Stereofame Records Inc., in January 2011, and …

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JU’s new ASPIRE campaign … in Spanish, compliments Prof. Jorge Majfud

Check out the great job by JU Assistant Professor of Spanish Dr. Jorge Majfud at putting out the word in Spanish about the just-announced $85 million ASPIRE campaign for Jacksonville University!

The Spanish-language version can be viewed at the website

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JU Prof. Heather Hausenblas offers WJXT viewers tips on holiday snacking

Studies show that all those goodies around the holidays typically add an average of about a pound to our frames, but JU Associate Professor of Exercise Science Heather Hausenblas recently had some strategies to avoid that for WJXT TV-4 morning …

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Jacksonville University unveils historic $85 million ASPIRE fundraising campaign

 

By Phillip Milano

Marking a seminal point in its nearly 80-year history, Jacksonville University publicly unveiled its $85 million ASPIRE Campaign Friday, Nov. 30, announcing bold plans to move the university dramatically forward with new scholarship and research funds, state-of-the-art …

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JU sociology Prof. Nathan Rousseau talks preacher Joel Osteen’s “mass appeal” in Florida Times-Union

Nathan Rousseau, associate professor of sociology at Jacksonville University, was featured prominently in an article in the Wednesday, Nov. 28, issue of the Florida Times-Union, discussing the mass appeal of preacher Joel Osteen. Osteen is in Jacksonville this week for …

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New Florida Times-Union regular feature offers insights from Jacksonville University School of Nursing

Staff and students from Jacksonville University’s School of Nursing are being showcased in a new regular feature in the Florida Times-Union, discussing symptoms, diagnoses and treatments based on composites of patient cases handled by instructors, students and alumni of JU’s …

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JU CFA Soiree unites arts, culture for economic growth and urban development

By Bill Hill, JU College of Fine Arts Dean

The CFA Soiree was an amazing success. The College of Fine Arts at Jacksonville University celebrated its 50th anniversary with ambition that through fusion and collaboration, we can unite the arts …

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