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Award-winning singer, plane crash survivor to speak on resilience at WMU

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… a teenager when she was involved in a horrific plane crash. Of the 109 people aboard, only two survived. Sustained by her faith, family, and love of music, she has endured more than 100 reconstructive surgeries while completing high school and earning a master's degree. "It's so hard to see …

https://wmich.edu/news/2019/09/55402

Broncos reach new heights in NASA Student Launch competition

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… Ella Kubesh, Tyler Clendenning and Markus Vanderzwaag show off some of the rockets their team has built.  KALAMAZOO, … standing in this open field surrounded by 50 of the top schools in the nation competing for the exact same thing," … most senior member of the team, apply what I had learned in school to actual problems with this challenge. I took ideas …

https://wmich.edu/news/news/2025/05/nasa-student-launch-challenge-2025-aiaa-pegasus-rocket

Emily Bosak

First-Year Faces

… to mind to describe Emily Bosak .  The Loy Norrix High School and Kalamazoo Area Math and Science Center graduate … also bilingual, an accomplished violinist and concertmaster of the Kalamazoo Junior Symphony, a graduate of WMU’s … bringing her talents to Lee Honors College and the Bronson School of Nursing to achieve her dream of becoming a nurse …

https://wmich.edu/news/2020/05/59608

Western Wind Quintet premieres new composition

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… Anonymous (not verified) on Western Wind Quintet KALAMAZOO—School of Music faculty ensemble Western Wind Quintet will perform … "Island Universe," commissioned by the quintet and the School of Music as part of its 100th anniversary …

https://wmich.edu/news/2013/03/5365

WMU again named among 'best national universities' by U.S. News

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… University appears on U.S. News & World Report's list of "best national universities" and continues to move up in the group of schools the magazine calls the top tier of colleges and … moved up eight spots on the list and is now among schools tied in the ranking at No. 173, making it among the …

https://wmich.edu/news/2014/09/18468

Trustees approve tenure for 18 faculty members

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… on KALAMAZOO—The Western Michigan University Board of Trustees approved the tenure of 18 faculty members at its … program affiliations, are: Dr. Kelly D. Ackerson , Bronson School of Nursing Dr. Barbara A. Barton , School of Social Work Dr. Luigi A. Berto , Department of

https://wmich.edu/news/2013/06/7676

WMU Sky Broncos qualify for national competition

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… to the national competition. NIFA regional competitions pit schools against each other in five ground events and four … are earned by competitors who place in the top 10 in each of the events. Sky Bronco team members captured four of … science. He graduated from Western Michigan Christian High School in Norton Shores, Mich., in 2009. He was part of the …

https://wmich.edu/news/2012/10/2312

Indigenous hip-hop artist brings new perspective to Western

Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs

… , the 35-year-old award-winning Lakota artist and activist of Indigenous culture, has signed on as a faculty member of Western Michigan University’s Irving S. Gilmore School of Music and an artist-in-residence this academic … assist faculty on certain topics and courses throughout the school year.   “This new chapter at Western for me is an …

https://wmich.edu/provost/news/2024/09/frank-waln-artist-residence

WMU nears $7 million mark in grants in September and October

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… the year-to-date total past $12 million since the start of the 2015-16 fiscal year, WMU trustees learned at their … grant was awarded to Dr. Jessaca K. Spybrook , associate professor of educational leadership, research and technology. … Innocence Project in partnership with the WMU Cooley Law School . The grant will be used to review post conviction …

https://wmich.edu/news/2015/12/29246

Why I give: David Lyth

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… Lyth Submitted by Erin Flynn on David Lyth, M.S.'79, professor emeritus of engineering Managing people, money and projects. That’s how Dr. David Lyth , M.S.‘79, professor emeritus of engineering, sums up what he taught for …

https://wmich.edu/news/2022/11/69871