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WMU part of state effort to boost student success in high-risk courses
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… courses through a statewide effort called Michigan Gateways to Completion. At WMU, the effort was launched in 2015 as an initiative of the WMU College of … Institute for Excellence in Undergraduate Education. The project is based on the Gardner Institute's Gateways to …
https://wmich.edu/news/2016/12/36877
WMU research team wins grant to study impact of speed on crashes
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… researchers from Western Michigan University has been awarded a $161,802 grant from the Michigan Department of … whether changing speed limits on Michigan interstate freeways has had an impact on crash types and severity. The … says. The three researchers are being assisted in their project by two graduate students, but more will be added …
https://wmich.edu/news/2016/06/33086
Collaboration, teamwork lead to sharp increase in grants to WMU
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… grants to Western Michigan University. Externally funded awards, much of them for research, pushed the grant total for … in at $3.7 million. The year-end grant total—$35,166,490—was announced at the WMU Board of Trustees October meeting … in cooperation with four other universities. The project is being carried out by a multidisciplinary team of …
https://wmich.edu/news/2015/11/28716
Graphic novel expert to give talk as part of common read events
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… events Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on "Maus I" was selected as the 2015 University Common Read. KALAMAZOO, … Experience activities, WMU has launched a campuswide comics project called Making History. WMU students with varying … Hillary Chute Chute Hillary Chute is interested in the ways people address history and understand their lives …
https://wmich.edu/news/2015/10/27437
Building purchase OK'd for expansion of WMU's autism center
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… to a building that is owned and operated by WMU. The center was established in 2008 by Dr. Richard W. Malott , WMU … for the delivery of autism therapy. That renovation project is being funded as part of a $4 million contract … Michigan Department of Health and Human Services that WMU was awarded in 2014. Serving as co-principal investigators …
https://wmich.edu/news/2015/08/26216
WMU honored by University Business magazine for recruitment app
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… of prospective students so recruiting efforts don’t go to waste," said University Business senior editor Tim Goral. … and enrollment management department began creating a project plan that would simplify the collection of … Community College and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. …
https://wmich.edu/news/2014/08/18264
New bachelor's degree with high-tech music spin offered
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… happening and how profound they are," Campos says. "So we wanted to have a degree that could give our students a … in the area they're most interested in as they work their way up through the program," Biggs says. Students will top their studies off with a capstone project focusing on their specialty area. Biggs will teach …
https://wmich.edu/news/2014/05/15748
Education and human development alumni recognized as most influential people of West Michigan
College of Education and Human Development
… and a two-time e valuation, measurement and research alumni was honored as a Notable West Michigan Leader in DEI. Trey … of the Grand Rapids Gold and a physical education graduate, was recognized as West Michigan's 40 Under 40. Jazz … strategic plan and is now leading a community collaboration project titled, "Reimagine GRPS with Us!", in hopes of …
https://wmich.edu/news/2023/11/73266
With rural and small clinics in mind, professor uses COVID-19 grant to create low-cost respiratory device
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… home with his own equipment to create the dedicated hardware and software. “I decided to put the skills I have toward making … most of these parts online. The problem is expertise. This project needs software development. It needs an interface. I …
https://wmich.edu/news/2020/07/60231
Anna Litvinova is off to a flying start
College of Engineering and Applied Sciences
… Anna Litvinova is off to a flying start Submitted by Cindy Wagner on Anna Litvinova, B.S.‘20 KALAMAZOO, Mich.—Western … alumna Anna Litvinova , B.S.‘20, has never shied away from spreading her wings to pursue her dreams. She … the Diether Haenicke Scholarship, and for her senior design project, "Aerodynamics of Wind Loading on Building," …
https://wmich.edu/news/2023/06/71875