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From Kent (WA) to Kalamazoo (MI), Jennifer Nguyen’s Medallion Journey Takes Flight
College of Aviation
… From Kent (WA) to Kalamazoo (MI), Jennifer Nguyen’s Medallion Journey … and immediate family were on the wrong side of the Vietnam War, which forced many of their peers to leave the home … a rock-centered eye on an aviation career — just an awareness that something had to, or was going to, happen. …
https://wmich.edu/aviation/news/2024/04/nguyen
Jeff Breneman
Government Relations
… External Relations Office (269) 387-2071 Mobile (269) 716-0400 Send an email Location 3010 Seibert Administration … careers, but for a lifetime of community leadership and stewardship. Jeff is a committed advocate for free speech, … Community. He received Heterodox Academy's Open Inquiry Award in 2022, and in 2025 WMU was recognized with the same …
https://wmich.edu/government/directory/breneman
Sergeant First Class Bobby Capelle
Military Science and Leadership
… completion of Basic training and OSUT at Fort Knox, he was assigned to the 1 st Battalion, 8 th Infantry Regiment, … Korea, SFC Capelle relocated to Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, where he was assigned to 4 th Battalion, 23 rd … Upon redeployment, SFC Capelle was put on assignment orders to U.S Army Japan at Camp Zama where he served as the …
https://wmich.edu/rotc/directory/capelle-bobby
Jay Cizeski
Economics
… people may consider their predictions of others' choices in order to make their own. At WMU Dr. Cizeski teaches …
https://wmich.edu/economics/directory/cizeski-jay
Western honors staff who go above and beyond with Make a Difference Annual Award
News
… who go above and beyond with Make a Difference Annual Award Submitted by Deanne Puca on KALAMAZOO, Mich.—Western … Victoria Hastings , Giulia Hayes , Chris Salvaggio and Teri Wagner will be honored as the Make a Difference Annual Award … custodian to keep our facilities clean and in good working order, she seems to have been placed with us in order to …
https://wmich.edu/news/news/2026/09/make-difference-annual-award-2026-recipients-recognized
Mustafa Mughazy
World Languages and Literature
… in Arabic Editing Medieval mystical poetry Mughazy was the recipient of the 2019 College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Achievement Award in Research and Creative Activity. Books Dīwān Ghurrat … d’archéologie orientale. 2021. Kitāb Dustūr al-gharā ʾ ib wa-ma ʿ dan al-ragh āʾ ib and Related Texts, Mughazy, …
https://wmich.edu/languages/directory/mughazy
Nicholas L. Padilla
School of Environment, Geography and Sustainability
… 49008-5424 USA Ph.D. Geography, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2017 M.S. Geography, Texas State University-San … and rural actors in Cauca, Colombia, who have coalesced in order to further their ‘own’ educational model, re-introduce …
https://wmich.edu/environment/directory/padilla
Kelsey Paschich
Dance
… earned her the WMU Presidential Innovation Professorship Award, invitations to the Choreographic Coding Lab in Cologne … dem Tiger in Ulm, Germany, the Creative Living for Dancers Award in Brussels, the NCCAkron Dancing Lab: Art Speaks 2.0 … She has also presented her research at conferences in Bandung, Indonesia; Honolulu, Hawaii; and Seoul, South …
https://wmich.edu/dance/directory/nelson
Helping people is alumna Ali Yoder’s greatest resource
WMU Alumni
… my first year and never changed it,” she says. “I knew I wanted to pursue a career in business, and my dad, who spent … HR. He felt it fit my personality and strengths, and he was right.” Yoder’s dad also believed that a college degree … opportunity to succeed.” Whether carrying a full tray of orders or a packed schedule of classes, Yoder learned to …
https://wmich.edu/alumni/news/2026/10/alum-ali-yoder-greatest-resource
Breakthrough fish research makes waves in evolutionary theory
News
… Breakthrough fish research makes waves in evolutionary theory Submitted by Erin Flynn on … the lineage of fish species in Australia and New Guinea was just published in the prestigious journal Proceedings of … science, but we never had all of the data that we needed in order to attack this,” says Bloom. “This took decades of …
https://wmich.edu/news/news/2026/10/fish-research-evolutionary-theory-devin-bloom