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Faculty awarded prestigious Fulbright fellowships for global research and teaching opportunities

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… Faculty awarded prestigious Fulbright fellowships for global research … on KALAMAZOO, Mich.—Two Western Michigan University faculty members received highly competitive Fulbright U.S. Scholar … which operates in more than 160 countries worldwide. For nearly 80 years, Fulbright award winners have addressed …

https://wmich.edu/news/news/2025/01/url-2025-fulbright-fellowships-awarded-stephen-covell-chien-juh-gu

Love on the ice: A Lawson romance comes full circle

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… Love on the ice: A Lawson romance comes full circle Submitted by Erin Flynn on CINCINNATI, … Ohio—Western Michigan University's Lawson Ice Arena will always hold a special place in Doug Wheelright's heart. He … in the NHL, and the other is to drive the Zamboni, so I was batting .500," jokes Wheelright, who graduated in 2014. …

https://wmich.edu/news/2021/02/63180

WMU Jazz partners with the John Stites Jazz Artist Organization

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… Jazz and the Irving S. Gilmore School of Music have been awarded a significant multi-year grant from the John Stites … to perform, receive feedback and clinics as well as instrument specific classes. A mainstay in Michigan for 47 years, … in jazz as guest performers.  “WMU Jazz was something near to John’s heart, and I am so pleased that our two …

https://wmich.edu/jazz/news/2024/11/stites-jazz-festival

"Abandoned" - Anna LeChard

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… "Abandoned" - Anna LeChard Submitted by Megan Looker on "Abandoned"   "It seems like we are living … the church I had an eerie feeling. Everything in the church was in the exact place it should be, besides a thick layer … like everyone got up and left, never to return. Nothing was put away or covered up. Looking at something abandoned …

https://wmich.edu/news/2020/05/59471

Gearing up for the grind: Skateboard-loving student ready to roll into WMU's kinetic imaging program

First-Year Faces

https://wmich.edu/firstyearfaces/news/2025/07/class-2029-yoyo-rodriguez-vargas-kinetic-imaging

Team USA luger sees natural track to career success at Western

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… top athletes at the World Cup series in Europe. In fact, he was in Italy last year when he completed his interview for … snow, he considered staying close to home and going to nearby Michigan Tech. But the scholarship valued at more … Borders, a registered student organization focused on service through engineering, as well as on Western’s …

https://wmich.edu/news/2023/02/70875

WMU launches Native American elders-in-residence program

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… WMU launches Native American elders-in-residence program Submitted by Erin Flynn … at Western Michigan University. The University received a nearly $1 5,000 award from the Native American Heritage Fund (NAHF) to launch …

https://wmich.edu/news/news/2025/08/native-american-affairs-council-launches-elders-residence-program

Griselda Daniel obituary

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… by Deanne Puca on Griselda Daniel Griselda Daniel , a former Western Michigan University administrator in the Graduate College, died April 1. She was 80. Daniel, of Gobles, Michigan, joined the WMU staff in 1977 and retired in 2005 after 28 years of service to the University. She began her career at WMU as …

https://wmich.edu/news/2018/04/46272

Arthur W.J. Stoddart obituary

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… Stoddart, a retired Western Michigan University faculty member, died Sept. 6 at home in Kalamazoo. He was 79. Arthur W.J. Stoddart Stoddart, an associate … WMU faculty in 1967 and retired in 1996 after 29 years of service to the University. Previously, he was a lecturer at …

https://wmich.edu/news/2013/09/9536

Take advantage of global engagement opportunities in March

Haenicke Institute for Global Education

… Take advantage of global engagement opportunities in March Submitted by Korey Force on … to be locally oriented and globally competent, culturally aware, and ready to contribute to world knowledge and … March 1 2017 Yomiuri Prize for Literature Reading—an awards reception —4:30 to 6 p.m. in 1035-1045 Fetzer Center, …

https://wmich.edu/news/2017/02/38374