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Returning to Congo, fashion student seams learning with experience

College of Education and Human Development

… Congolese outfits.  "During my internship I've been working in three different positions at a tailoring house," … my manager's assistant and part of the production team as a worker and supervisor. So I'm learning how to balance being … skills as a fashion designer, Kassenda believes the most valuable part of the internship has been exposure to working in …

https://wmich.edu/education/news/2024/10/fashion-student-internship-experience-congo

Three professors lauded as emerging scholars

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… outstanding promise to achieve renown in their continuing work. The award goes to scholars nominated for consideration … Program from 2004-09 and 2010 to the present. Angles' work as a literary translator and scholar of modern Japanese … around the world," the colleague wrote. "Moreover, his work is of the highest quality as recognized by the growing …

https://wmich.edu/news/2012/09/1514

Spring Convocation celebrates investments in innovation at Western

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… Spring Convocation will celebrate faculty and staff whose work has drawn interest and investments. The event, which is … fully virtual this year , begins at 9 a.m. with a Fulbright workshop hosted by Dr. Michelle Metro-Roland . Presentations … is sort of a badge of honor about the quality of your work," says Dr. Terri Goss Kinzy , vice president for …

https://wmich.edu/news/2021/04/63859

Taboo topics course uses dialogue to break through barriers

W Magazine

… The course objective is challenging to attain, but invaluable: come to understand contrary viewpoints about … critically question authority and established meaning is a social justice imperative and the only path to liberation. … communication as “shared meaning,” dialogue, Orbe says, works as a necessary tool to enhance understanding and …

https://wmich.edu/news/2020/05/59619

Grants to WMU fly past $4.2 million mark in November, December

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… research centers at colleges across the country that are working to advance research and education programs that … provide daily living, communication, behavior control and social skill services to developmentally disabled adults For …

https://wmich.edu/news/2016/03/30795

Student leadership, academic integrity on tap at Ethics Center event

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… content analysis of publicly available resources, including social media sites, institution homepages, and student …

https://wmich.edu/news/2016/03/30982

Ethics Center stages original play examining world of academia

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… "dying"), Martin Luther King (on Nietzsche), Rousseau (on social inequality) and Plato (on the nature of truth and the …

https://wmich.edu/news/2016/02/30196

Dance department to stage annual Winter Gala concert

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… Gabrielle Lamb with WMU dance students KALAMAZOO—Two works from the Western Michigan University Great Works Dance Project, two guest artist pieces, four faculty works and three dances choreographed by students will be …

https://wmich.edu/news/2014/01/13037

Longtime WMU board secretary Betty Kocher dies at 84

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… who had retired just two years ago at the end of 2015, worked with 46 trustees over the years and, at the time of her retirement, had worked for every WMU president except Dwight Waldo. Between … Betty told the Kalamazoo Gazette she had truly enjoyed working with each president and with every trustee she had …

https://wmich.edu/news/2017/11/43661

Memorial concert for Greg Fisk reflects love of classical music

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… of music The program features the first movement of a work by composer Elizabeth Start for cello and piano based on the work of Hildegard von Bingen, "Air Swiftly Flies" (2004). Other works on the program include those by Barber, Bach, …

https://wmich.edu/news/2012/02/174