![Broadway star Marin Mazzie looks on.](https://wmich.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1440x960/public/images/news/2019/06/static.playbill.jpg?itok=kmOMiDdZ×tamp=1559828573)
Summer 2019
Summer 2019
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Generating Buzz
Genetically modified mosquitoes could potentially be used to fight malaria, and a principal research associate at WMU is helping African governments and regulatory officials prepare.
University News
Enhancing Accessibility
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Sense of Direction
Students used the skills they've learned in virtual reality and blindness and low vision studies to develop 3D-printed models that will help visually impaired people better navigate the College of Health and Human Services.
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Beneficial Burn
As part of ongoing efforts to actively manage WMU's Asylum Lake Preserve for research, education, passive recreation and ecological health, a prescribed burn scorched areas of the nature preserve in April.
Innovation Leaders
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The STEAM Collaboration brings together chemistry, art and music students to create original works derived from mass spectrometry analysis.
Alumni Profile
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Dr. Yogesh Suryawanshi could be on the path toward a cure for cancer. After receiving his doctorate in biological sciences from WMU in 2017, he secured a job in the department of molecular medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, developing viruses that can attack cancer cells.
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Hey, Siri ...
WMU leads the way in studying human-robot communication.