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Frostic Series teams up with Theatre Kalamazoo to present playwright

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… Kalamazoo in early February to present a new work by an award-winning playwright. Adam Szymkowicz will help to launch … Germany and Lithuania. His plays include "Deflowering Waldo," "Pretty Theft," "Food for Fish," "Hearts Like … playwright to participate in the Bloomington Playwrights Project's Square One Series. He served twice as playwright …

https://wmich.edu/news/2016/01/29828

Education researcher to be honored as WMU emerging scholar

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… as an emerging scholar during a Sept. 30 campuswide awards ceremony. Dr. Jessaca Spybrook , who recently received … will be presented with the 2016-17 Emerging Scholar Award during WMU's Fall Convocation recognition ceremony … process and carries a $2,000 cash prize. Spybrook's grant project will mine a treasure trove of large-scale data sets, …

https://wmich.edu/news/2016/09/35309

Select group receives top undergraduate honor for 2015

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… the highest honor WMU can bestow on an undergraduate. The award goes to the most outstanding seniors in each of the … programs. Only the highest caliber of students receive the award. They are selected on the basis of their general … a variety of obstacles. For his senior engineering-design project, he worked with a team to create a reconfigurable …

https://wmich.edu/news/2015/05/25421

Board approves WMU 2015-16 operating budget of $388 million

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… a 3.2 percent increase in tuition and required fees, which was also approved by trustees June 3. That increase will … that is the result of a market-based Staff Compensation Project completed in May. The study of WMU compensation …

https://wmich.edu/news/2015/06/24545

WMU researcher wins $800,000 NSF grant to assess education efforts

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… of large-scale data sets, analyze them and come up with ways to inform the design of large evaluations of teacher development initiatives. "In education, we're always asking and trying to answer questions about what … of science teacher professional development, Spybrook's project will also allow researchers to more accurately …

https://wmich.edu/news/2016/02/29895

Consider It Dunn campaign starts with T-shirt fundraiser

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… immediate financial need and part of the Invisible Need Project that also includes a food pantry for students in need. The T-shirt was designed by WMU student Cody Potter , a senior from …

https://wmich.edu/news/2014/09/18853

WMU department changes name to World Religions and Cultures

College of Arts and Sciences

… as one of 15 teacher training colleges for a pioneering project on teacher education and religion, the department … and thematic issues. “I think it’s really helpful that way,” says Covell. “Our program helps students see the world more broadly, and as I tell them, if you want to understand history, you can't understand it without …

https://wmich.edu/news/2024/02/74749

Sweet success: Food marketing student cooks up skills to help business thrive

W Magazine

… to help business thrive Submitted by Erin Flynn on Layla Wallace, a sophomore food marketing major, serves up … the moments before she hits her stride, accelerating toward takeoff, Bronco long jumper Layla Wallace gets in the … Layla’s Cool Pops was born from a fourth grade economics project in 2015. Students were challenged to create …

https://wmich.edu/magazine/news/2024/11/layla-wallace-food-marketing-student-leads-kalamazoo-business

Faculty researcher, advisor named Graduate College associate dean

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… College effective July 1 . Byrd-Jacobs' appointment was made pending approval of the Board of Trustees. In her … the College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Achievement Award in Research. Byrd-Jacobs has mentored nine … is a member of the Academic Program Review and Planning Project Management Team, the Institutional Animal Care and …

https://wmich.edu/news/2014/05/16297

Students learning to navigate, adapt to challenges of remote education

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… Learning via WebEx meeting isn't rocket science. If it was, Grace Dybing says her aerospace engineering instructors … Dybing works on her computer alongside her dog, Zeke. "My project-based classes have changed a bit more, and anything that was supposed to be a group presentation has become more …

https://wmich.edu/news/2020/03/58706