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Financial, academic support available for student-parents in need of child care assistance
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… available for student-parents in need of child care assistance Submitted by Erin Flynn on Gabriel Josts makes a … his child care expenses. "Day care costs more than half of what my wife makes as a teacher weekly. We would have been struggling financially and with a whole bunch of other things if …
https://wmich.edu/news/2021/07/64780
Lessons from Terri Schiavo case up for discussion at Ethics Center event
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… Lessons from Terri Schiavo case up for discussion at Ethics Center event Submitted by Anonymous (not … and her condition set off a highly publicized legal struggle over end-of-life care from 1990 to 2005. Schiavo's … notoriety of the Schiavo case is due to a fundamental shift—what he describes as a biopolitical fragmentation. This …
https://wmich.edu/news/2016/04/31508
Alumna helps craft Michigan K-12 fall return-to-learn framework
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… on Angela Blood Starr, a Calhoun Intermediate School District regional school health coordinator and Western … Should students return to a regular learning schedule? What about riding the bus? Districts are required to create … on June 30, Blood Starr said she thinks one of the biggest hurdles facing school districts will be continuing to …
https://wmich.edu/news/2020/07/60219
Flint water disaster topic of talk by Virginia Tech scientist
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… Flint water disaster topic of talk by Virginia Tech scientist Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on KALAMAZOO, … by Civil Engineering Professor Dr. Marc Edwards , mounted what it viewed as a scientific relief effort to expose the …
https://wmich.edu/news/2016/01/29841
WMU trustees approve 2019-20 tuition rates
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… approve 2019-20 tuition rates Submitted by Paula M. Davis on KALAMAZOO, Mich.-- The Western Michigan University … measures across campus operations. "Our top priority is always to keep WMU's education as reasonably priced as … which begins July 1 , school officials do not yet know what the University's 2019-20 state allocation will be, as …
https://wmich.edu/news/2019/06/54096
Groundbreaking research could provide key to kicking smoking habit for good
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… Mich.—Quitting smoking tops many New Year's resolution lists, but a nicotine addiction is hard to curb. "People try … who know the habit is bad for their health but are struggling to quit. Chris Clark "I think the application where … in this family," Clark says. Discoveries like this are what got him excited about the field. Admittedly bored and …
https://wmich.edu/news/2021/01/62413
Camp for blind and visually impaired athletes breaks down barriers
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… Camp for blind and visually impaired athletes breaks down barriers Submitted by … to follow the noise, before one scoops up the ball and hurls it across the court at the opposing team. In a … and Low Vision Studies also got the opportunity to practice what they were learning. "When we first put this together, …
https://wmich.edu/news/2019/07/53866
Culture shocks in Egypt to be discussed in Humanities Center talk
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… Culture shocks in Egypt to be discussed in Humanities Center talk Submitted by Anonymous … in tumultuous Egypt will be the focus of a presentation this month offered through the University Center for the … and environmental and social climates are changing and what the earth's inhabitants need to know and do about it. …
https://wmich.edu/news/2014/05/15730
Strong supporter of student success named dean of Merze Tate College
Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs
… KALAMAZOO, Mich. – Dr. Luchara Wallace , director of the Lewis Walker Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnic … positions her well to lead a college with a vital mission that spans across colleges and academic units at … advising model. “It allows us to take the best of what all our colleges are doing and enhance it with the …
https://wmich.edu/news/2024/07/75953
WMU professor awarded prestigious Bellagio Residency: continues work on grief
College of Arts and Sciences
… like to extend an early apology to her mother-in-law for missing Thanksgiving next year. Instead of celebrating the … the Rockefeller Foundation, the Bellagio Residency Program is an exclusive retreat offered to the nation's best … to be intellectualized substitutes, quite removed from what people are grappling with when they lose someone they …
https://wmich.edu/arts-sciences/news/2024/12/ashley-atkins-bellagio