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Administrator earns Kalamazoo-area LGBT award

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… Administrator earns Kalamazoo-area LGBT award Submitted by … on Bailey KALAMAZOO--A Western Michigan University administrator recently received the 2011 Terry Kuseske Education … LBGT and allied community of southwest Michigan for more than 20 years. Bailey came to WMU in 2008 to direct the …

https://wmich.edu/news/2012/02/135

Bassoon student takes top prize in prestigious competition

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… has won the International Double Reed Society Young Artist Competition. Mingyuan Yang , 19, a freshman, bested two other finalists, students at the prestigious Oberlin Conservatory of … Oberlin, Ohio. The competition, for bassoon players younger than 22 years of age, was held Thursday, June 27, at the …

https://wmich.edu/news/2013/06/7839

Gold Company qualifies to perform at prestigious fall festival

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… regarded and award-winning vocal jazz ensemble, won its division at the prestigious Next Generation Jazz Festival … Gold Company was selected to be one of only six finalists in the collegiate vocal jazz division invited to … for several years, the Monterey Jazz Festival features more than 500 artists performing nonstop on eight stages and …

https://wmich.edu/news/2018/03/46008

WMU business students successfully sweep awards in DECA competition

Haworth College of Business

… by Stacey Anderson on KALAMAZOO, Mich.—In a field of more than 1,200 competitors, Western Michigan University students … presented it via role-play to the head of the company. Alexis Ehlebracht from Marcellus, Michigan, placed second in the … Northville, Michigan, placed third in the fashion merchandising and marketing category where she examined a practical …

https://wmich.edu/news/2024/06/75727

Music student wins trombone competition

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… student has won an important competition for young trombonists, one of two recent contests in which he was a finalist. Nick Dewyer , of Chelsea, who will be a sophomore this … honestly couldn't have imagined my freshman year going any better," Dewyer says. "Participating in these competitions …

https://wmich.edu/news/2014/06/16704

Dining Services partners with Invisible Need to expand food options

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… Dining Services partners with Invisible Need to expand food options Submitted by Erin Flynn … partnership is a wonderful solution where students are better fed and landfills contain less food waste." … the resources because they feel someone else needs it more than them. Lamons says she encountered that firsthand when …

https://wmich.edu/news/2020/02/58180

Life-saving innovation crafted by WMU engineering alum

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… merged amid stay-at-home orders during the pandemic, time is in short supply. Still, Bornhorst, manufacturing … medical workers," Bornhorst says. "It's turning out to be bigger than I expected." He credits the basic skills he honed at …

https://wmich.edu/news/2020/05/59275

Graduate students honored for research

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… verified) on KALAMAZOO--Nineteen students representing 10 disciplines were honored for their research at Western … April 20 at the Fetzer Center. It featured posters and displays by faculty and graduate students from across the … "Geophysical and Remote Sensing Applications for a Better Understanding of the Structural Controls on …

https://wmich.edu/news/2012/05/444

WMU and West Michigan Hispanic Chamber empower local entrepreneurs through bilingual accounting bootcamp

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… WMU and West Michigan Hispanic Chamber empower local entrepreneurs through … strengthen the regional economy.   Funded by the WK Kellogg Foundation, this initiative addresses a gap that WMHCC … with WMHCC.     “This program was a chance to do more than teach theory—it was about translating accounting into …

https://wmich.edu/professional/news/2025/05/bilingual-accounting-bootcamp

WMU instructor's book wins 2014 USA Best Book Award

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… Mich.—A book of poems by a Western Michigan University Spanish instructor has won a 2014 USA Best Book Award, while a second book was named a finalist in another category. Dr. Hedy Habra is author of the … finalists of the 2014 USA Best Book Awards on Nov. 12. More than 400 winners and finalists were announced in over 100 …

https://wmich.edu/news/2014/12/20390