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WMU School of Medicine will be named for medical device pioneer

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… Corporation. The school will be housed at the W.E. Upjohn M.D. Campus in downtown Kalamazoo. Thanks to the … granddaughter of Homer Stryker, and her husband William D. Johnston , a WMU trustee, the first class of medical … Borgess Health and Bronson Healthcare. Stryker and Johnston are the donors who made a founding anonymous gift …

https://wmich.edu/news/2014/03/14100

Exemplars of engaging education honored with Distinguished Teaching Award

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… Palmer created the Sustainability in India study abroad program, which challenges students to see how businesses can … myself as a researcher and approach the rest of my master's program in a steadfast manner," writes  Ava Leahy , a …

https://wmich.edu/news/news/2024/09/whitney-decamp-timothy-palmer-dee-sherwood-named-2024-distinguished-teaching

Thousands of students, families on campus for 2015 orientation

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… for summer orientation sessions. Two types of orientation programs are offered. The biggest one, New Student … and run through Sunday and Monday, June 28-29 . President John M. Dunn visits with parents during a mixer. While on … abroad, employment, career development, financial aid and scholarships, and living and dining on campus. For more …

https://wmich.edu/news/2015/06/24757

Shirley Van Hoeven obituary

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… eight years later, she was named the department's graduate program director and advisor, a position she held until her … on Academic Priorities and the Minority Mentor/Mentee Program. Van Hoeven's contributions outside the University … Fellowship in the WMU School of Communication or the John G. Bouwman Camp Sunshine Endowment Fund at the …

https://wmich.edu/news/2014/09/18512

Duke scholar to address violence, mental illness and the law

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… the Brain and Behavior Foundation, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Program on Public Health Law Research. Swanson served as a member of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Research …

https://wmich.edu/news/2016/10/35694

From classroom to catwalk: Western students headed to New York Fashion Week

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… universities in the entire state of Michigan that offer a program and an opportunity like this,” says Alixe Holcomb , … them to be a Bronco. The fashion merchandising and design program is part of the Department of Family and Consumer … design. "That speaks to the strength of both the academic program and each student’s commitment to their personal …

https://wmich.edu/news/2022/01/66946

University Percussion Ensemble offers free fall concert

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… assistant Bradford Crossland, and "Second Construction" by John Cage, combined with new works including "Gravity" by …

https://wmich.edu/news/2017/11/43977

Food marketing student’s enthusiasm leads to early career successes

Haworth College of Business

… to my achievements, as they’ve offered me career readiness programming and peer-to-peer mentoring to help put my plans …

https://wmich.edu/business/news/2025/11/food-marketing-leena-shrum-internship-study-abroad

Math professor awarded Fulbright grant to work in South Africa

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… for students. So he is using his six-month-long Fulbright Program Scholarship to delve deeper into how conceptual discourse … professor of mathematics, Davis is one of the six Fulbright Scholars from WMU who are working around the globe this …

https://wmich.edu/news/2017/03/38948

Traditional Chinese fall festival celebrates food, culture

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… and Literatures, Association of Chinese Students and Scholars, and Taiwanese Student Association. For more …

https://wmich.edu/news/2014/09/18461