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WMU and the College of Arts and Sciences
- College of Arts and Sciences launches COVID-19 response grants webinar series
- WMU releases Safe Return Plan for fall 2020
- WMU professor bringing rent relief to international students stuck on campus
- Dr. Jessica Spybrook, professor in the Department of Educational Leadership Research and Technology, wins $1.3M NSF grant to improve STEM learning outcomes
- WMU researchers creating national database of religious response to COVID-19
- Dr. Carla Koretsky, dean of the college, receives Distinguished Woman in Higher Education Leadership Award by the Michigan ACE Network
- WMU now has rapid-result COVID-19 testing
- Dr. Fritz Allhoff, philosophy professor, "unmasks" the stigma surrounding face coverings
- College of Arts and Sciences adds new STEM, humanities programs
- WMU COVID-19 response grants awarded for innovative research related to pandemic
Faculty
- Dr. Erika Friedl, the Edwin E. Meader professor emerita of anthropology, honored with Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society for Iranian Studies
- Communication professor Mark Orbe’s Communicating about Taboo Topics course uses dialogue to break through barriers
- Dr. Linda Borish, history professor and chair at WMU, has been featured in the multimedia series, UNLADYLIKE2020
- Tiffany Schriever, professor of biological sciences, test waters in wetland projects to restart research at WMU
Students
- Two biology graduate students are helping to reverse the sharp drop in the number of birds in southwest Michigan
- Freshwater studies graduaten RJ Bolzman is already making a splash in his field
- Biological sciences graduate student Adam Austin leads a wetlands research project at WMU
Alumni
- WMU freshwater science and sustainability graduate Sierra Clark is awarded inaugural fellowship with the Mishigamiing Project
- Two alums in public administration help address racial disparity in COVID-19 outcomes
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