SMAD racks up nine honors in 2025 BEA awards

Feb 12, 2025: Sixteen students representing all four Media Arts and Design concentrations earned recognition in the 2025 Broadcast Education Association's Festival of Media Arts competitions.

New faculty spotlight: Leech brings branding expertise to SMAD

Feb 12, 2025: For more than a decade, Matt Leech has been designing logos and branding for businesses and organizations across Virginia and beyond. Now he's SMAD’s newest Creative Advertising professor.

If this airplane could talk; JMU X-Labs students bring history to life

Dec 12, 2024: Last year, the First Air Force One Foundation posed a unique challenge to the students in JMU’s X-Labs program: come up with a plan to make First Air Force One accessible to the public. 

New faculty spotlight: Michelle L. Herman brings interactive design, VR/AR expertise to SMAD

Oct 13, 2024: Michelle L. Herman, SMAD's newest professor in the Interactive Design concentration, brings a vast and deep background in virtual reality and fine arts, as well as professional experience.

Video expertise, teaching makes SMAD professor a Game Changer

Oct 11, 2024: SMAD technology director and instructor John Hodges (’78) was recognized as a “Game Changer” Thursday during a JMU football game.

Breeze journalists to compete for national SPJ honors

Aug 7, 2024: The student-run news organization won the "Best All-Around Student Newspaper" in the Mid-Atlantic regional Society of Professional Journalists competition.

Breeze, Breeze TV win 14 Virginia Press Association awards

Aug 5, 2024: Competing against professional news organizations across Virginia, students won 14 awards for journalism and advertising in the annual VPA contest.

SMAD honors 2024 graduates and scholarship winners

May 5, 2024: SMAD doled out more than $40,000 in scholarships to incoming and returning students and honored top performers from the class of ’24, which started at JMU amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

SMAD students win silver ADDY award for local co-op's campaign

Mar 17, 2024: Creative Advertising students’ work to revamp a “stale promotion” at the food co-op, winning second place in an advertising competition.