Jacksonville University has announced its 2020 and 2021 Woman of the Year Award recipients. The winners for both years were announced during a live-streamed ceremony punctuated with performances provided by the university’s own Linda Berry Stein College of Fine Arts…
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Jacksonville University Celebrates Women’s History Month
Jacksonville University joins the rest of the nation in celebrating Women’s History Month 2021. Throughout the month of March, the university will host a full slate of events, special topic discussions and activities. From charitable endeavors to awards and …
Read More »Committee names 2020 Jacksonville University Women of the Year
The COVID-19 crisis curtailed many Women’s History Month 2020 activities, including this year’s public celebrations of Jacksonville University’s Women of the Year.
Still, members of the University community had nominated 34 exceptional undergraduate and graduate students and faculty and staff …
Read More »Women’s History Month celebrates Valiant Women of the Vote
Women’s History Month highlights the contributions of women in history and contemporary society. In 1911, it started with a day, expanded to a week in 1980, and finally became a month of celebration worldwide in 1988.
Ever since, the celebration …
Read More »Announcing JU’s Women of the Year
Jacksonville University’s Women’s History Month committee, together with President and Mrs. Cost, hosted an evening to remember as three JU women accepted the distinction of Woman of the Year.
Throughout March, the University joined millions across the nation celebrating Women’s …
Read More »Crowley Logistics Newly Promoted VP, JU Alum Jackie Gonsalez
By Sheri Webber
Jackie Gonsalez of Crowley Logistics is now Vice President of Apparel and Retail Supply Chain Business Development, overseeing a team of solutions-oriented professionals and core markets in the U.S., Puerto Rico, Central America, Asia, and the Caribbean. …
Read More »“Support Her” Initiative at JU Aids Her Song Impact in Northeast Florida
By Sheri Webber
Freedom is often something taken for granted in America today. That is, until face to face with someone whose freedom was snatched away.
Her Song, a regional nonprofit dedicated to the rescue of human trafficking victims, has …
Read More »WAVE+ A Passionate Advocate for Quality Study Abroad Programs
By Natalie Williams
A new collaboration between WAVE Magazine and student-led campus publications, including The Navigator and The Aquarian, WAVE+ features articles written by and for Jacksonville University students.
If you are a Communications student at Jacksonville University, you …
Read More »Year of the Woman Retrospective: Commemorating Visionary Women at JU
WAVE magazine reflects on members of the JU community who have demonstrated this year’s Women’s History Month national theme: “Visionary Women: Champions of Peace and Nonviolence.” These JU Dolphins dared to be bold, to lead, and to embrace the unexpected.
… Read More »One Woman’s History in Jacksonville Politics: Audrey Moran Addresses JU Public Policy Institute
By Sheri Webber
“I’m with Audrey.” That was what the t-shirts and campaign signs stated, and it’s something people still say six years after Audrey McKibbin Moran’s run for mayor in Jacksonville.
In the decades leading to that memorable 2011 …
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