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Homecoming and Family Weekend events planned

News

… are gathering across campus to welcome alumni home, stage award programs and hold special pregame tailgates Saturday, … The competition includes a variety of activities geared toward students but also open to faculty and staff such as tug … of Education and Human Development Alumni Society—Annual Golden Apple and Keystone Alumni Awards reception and …

https://wmich.edu/news/2017/10/43172

Book read looks at ethical questions of immortal cell line

News

… month at the Western Michigan University centering on the award-winning book "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by … much attention from ethicists and the public at large and was selected for the fifth annual College of Health and … gene mapping and more. Her cells were an enormous boon to scientific discovery, a sort of Holy Grail to mid-century …

https://wmich.edu/news/2012/03/227

WMU secures $5.3M to boost Michigan innovation and biotech growth

News

… and Commercialization Center (BRCC) earned a $5.3 million award as part of the inaugural cohort of the Michigan …

https://wmich.edu/news/news/2025/07/biosciences-research-commercialization-center-inaugural-michigan-innovation-fund

Office earns LGBT career center certification

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… verified) on Career and Student Employment Services earned gold-level certification from Out for Work. KALAMAZOO— … Services at Western Michigan University has received gold-level certification for 2013 from Out for Work as a … to the assessment, participating institutions receive an A+ gold, gold, silver or bronze ranking and have access to …

https://wmich.edu/news/2013/02/4690

Internationally regarded geographer honored as WMU's Emerging Scholar

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… field. Zhu will be recognized with the Emerging Scholar Award during Western's Fall Awards Celebration on  Friday, Oct. 3 , at  11 a.m. in Kirsch … of times as well as featured in major news outlets, such as Scientific America and Newsweek. He was also selected as a …

https://wmich.edu/news/news/2025/09/emerging-scholar-award-2025-laiyin-zhu

United in Love and Aviation: Ben and Shelby Egan Find Their Fit with Each Other and the Airlines

College of Aviation

… College of Aviation Information Obviously, that's not the way they came to Western's Kalamazoo campus after receiving … administration, selecting that kind of career because "I always knew from a young age that I wanted to travel and see … during a trip to Colorado Shelby wore the Bronco brown-and-gold in 2016, 2017 and 2018 as a member of Western's entry …

https://wmich.edu/aviation/news/2024/10/egan

Aviation the Apogee Way: Pascal Paffhausen and Austin Harper are the Dynamic Duo

College of Aviation

… Aviation the Apogee Way: Pascal Paffhausen and Austin Harper are the Dynamic Duo … Detroit.  Two of the latest to trade in their Brown and Gold for Apogee colors are Austin Harper and Pascal … Paffhausen.  Request College of Aviation Information Harper was born and raised in the Lake Michigan shoreline community …

https://wmich.edu/aviation/news/2024/01/apogee

College of Health and Human Services selects new associate dean for academic affairs

College of Health and Human Services

… chapters and reports and more than 135 presentations at scientific and health care meetings. …

https://wmich.edu/hhs/news/2025/09/associate-dean-announced

Why I Give: David and Sandy Rozelle

W Magazine

… and distinction. During his teaching career, Rozelle was a chair of the department as well as the faculty advisor to WMU’s award-winning chapter of the accounting honorary Beta Alpha … the place that had given us so much.” A heart of brown and gold In addition to supporting Broncos, two of his biggest …

https://wmich.edu/news/2023/11/73396

Why I Give: Barry Zurell Roberts

W Magazine

… and then I’d go to the next event to ask students if they wanted to buy any prints. This was before digital photography.” —Barry Z. Roberts, BS ‘84 … deemed unsafe for humans. Still going for the brown and gold As a first-generation college student with five …

https://wmich.edu/news/2024/02/74813