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Film and discussion to focus on sexual assault in U.S. military

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… Deanne Puca on A panel discussion will follow the screening of "The Invisible War" KALAMAZOO—Western Michigan University … will be the host for a screening and panel discussion of "The Invisible War," a documentary about sexual assault … Monday, April 15 , in WMU's Little Theatre at the corner of Oakland Drive and Oliver Lane, and is free and open to …

https://wmich.edu/news/2013/04/6333

Award-winning New York poet to read in Frostic Series

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… on Valentine KALAMAZOO—A New York City poet and winner of the National Book Award and several other high honors … early next month at Western Michigan University as part of the spring 2013 Gwen Frostic Reading Series. Jean … bachelor's degree from Radcliffe College and has lived most of her life in New York City. She won the Yale Younger Poets …

https://wmich.edu/news/2013/03/5964

Broadway hit 'American Idiot' on campus for one performance

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… Broadway musical "American Idiot," featuring the music of Green Day, is coming to Western Michigan University's … . Purchase tickets online: millerauditorium.com Winner of two Tony Awards, "American Idiot" is the story of three boyhood friends, each searching for meaning in a …

https://wmich.edu/news/2013/03/5977

Panel discussion focuses on cultural humility

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… toward cultural humility: A lifelong process" is the topic of a panel discussion Tuesday, Nov. 13 , on the campus of Western Michigan University. Free and open to the public, … support and services to the class of 2019 at select public schools in the southwest Michigan area. At WMU's Real Talk …

https://wmich.edu/news/2018/11/50120

WMU historian awarded National Humanities Center fellowship for early Supreme Court book

College of Arts and Sciences

… history herself. Dr. Sally Hadden Dr. Sally Hadden , a professor in the Department of History , earned a prestigious one-year fellowship from … the fellowship. This recognition comes in acknowledgment of her collaborative efforts on the book "One Supreme …

https://wmich.edu/news/2023/08/72562

Pandemic didn’t swallow restaurant industry’s appetite for innovation

W Magazine

… times, the pandemic has pushed the traditional boundaries of the restaurant industry. "The food world has had to adapt … Business Development Center , hosted at Haworth College of Business. “Restaurants have done their best to be agile … have been able to operate “normally,” a roller coaster of restrictions left the industry scrambling for recipes to …

https://wmich.edu/news/2021/03/63904

I am an LGBTQ+ survivor

Health Promotion and Education

… into one category, and by doing so create problems of exclusion and generalization. While we continue to seek … resources regarding the LGBTQ+ community and its experience of sexual assault.  Sexual assault is devastating to all victims, regardless of gender and sexual orientation, and you may feel reactions …

https://wmich.edu/healthpromotion/resources-0/prevention/help-lgbtq

Get moving, gamers!

W Magazine

… and overall performance, according to a recent study. “Get off the couch and get active”—it's not the typical advice an … in competitive esports. Dr. Nicholas Hanson , associate professor of exercise science and 2022 Emerging Scholar Award …

https://wmich.edu/news/2022/11/69851

WMU commercialization center invests in nervous system breakthrough

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… nervous systems. The BRCC award to Axonia Medical is part of $2 million in seed financing the company recently … "The technology Axonia is developing is precisely the kind of innovative, early-stage work our center is designed to support," says Stephen J. Haakenson, executive director of the BRCC. "This is technology developed in a university …

https://wmich.edu/news/2012/05/555

WMU alum and veteran journalist to deliver annual peace lecture

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… writing from Columbia College in 1995. A poet and proponent of the human potential movement, he has taken restorative … first newspaper job was at the Plainwell Enterprise, north of Kalamazoo, where he laid out copy, sold ads and did … a dozen years at the Lerner Newspaper chain, covering much of the North Side of Chicago, a pulsating, complex …

https://wmich.edu/news/2012/10/1877