A state-of-the-art residence hall, inviting study spaces, cutting-edge academic programs, a completely updated fitness center, new labs, the U.S.’s leading food-service provider added to the JU team — and some words of wisdom from an Apollo moonwalker. Not a bad …
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Cause for celebration: New year, new home for the Class of 2019 as move-in begins
Resident Assistant Ques’tavia “Peaches” Bradshaw popped her head into a room, just as she had been doing all morning Friday, Aug. 21, helping freshmen as they moved onto the second floor of the brand new 274-bed North Hall.
“Now, if …
Read More »Art professors to show works at Riverside’s Clay & Canvas Friday, Aug. 28
Works by Lily Kuonen and Tiffany W. Leach, both Assistant Professors of Art at JU, will be on display from 5:30-8:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 28, during an Open Studio Night Exhibition at the Clay & Canvas Studio they operate in …
Read More »Move-in Weekend at JU is almost here!
Excitement is building as students from all over Florida, the country and the world prepare to descend on Jacksonville University this weekend for the start of the 2015-16 academic year.
The new freshman class alone boasts students from 30 states, …
Read More »Fran Kinne receives Lifetime Achievement Award at the Women of Influence Awards
Jacksonville University’s own Dr. Frances Bartlett Kinne was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award on Thursday, Aug. 13, at the 12th Annual Women of Influence Awards.
Among her numerous achievements, Dr. Kinne was the first woman to serve as dean of …
Read More »Latest in reading, language techniques coming to JU students after renowned OGI training held on campus
Some of the latest methods in reading and language education will now be available to JU students after the School of Education and Brooks Rehabilitation College of Heathcare Sciences recently hosted world-renowned Ron Yoshimoto Orton-Gillingham International (OGI) training.
The week-long …
Read More »Davis College of Business to host International Management Conference in 2016
The Davis College of Business is proud to announce that Jacksonville University has been selected to host the 24th annual International Conference on Advances in Management (ICAM) July 20-23, 2016. It’s the first time JU has been selected to …
Read More »No nun-sense: Theatre Prof. Deborah Jordan fine-tunes her play “The Calling” at famed Seven Devils Playwrights Conference
Deborah Jordan, an Associate Professor of Theatre, was one of two playwrights-in–residence chosen from 500 applicants nationwide to take part in the 2015 Seven Devils Playwrights Conference this summer at the Alpine Playhouse in McCall, Idaho.
A team …
Read More »RIVER LIFE: Kingfish tournament gets people hooked on nature
The First Coast has an abundance of natural resources that we enjoy and maybe too often take for granted. I was reminded of this earlier this month during the 35th annual Greater Jacksonville Kingfish Tournament.
I have been working with
Varsity Shooting Team earns four national titles at SCTP Championships
The JU Varsity Shooting Team recently took a five-man squad to the Scholastic Clay Target Program (SCTP) National Championships and came back with four national titles, in Sporting Clays, Handicap Trap, Trap Doubles and Skeet Doubles.
More than 2,500 high …
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