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Students try their skills at aviation and engineering

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… and aviation careers Saturday, May 19. KALAMAZOO--High school and middle school students from Kalamazoo Public Schools and Calhoun … May 19, at the Western Michigan University College of Aviation in Battle Creek, Mich. WMU aeronautical …

https://wmich.edu/news/2012/05/552

Top teacher award goes to another WMU grad

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… Mich.—For the second year in a row, the Michigan Department of Education has selected a Western Michigan University … top teacher. Cara Lougheed , a teacher at Stoney Creek High School in Rochester Hills, was surprised May 8 when Interim … named her the 2019-20 Teacher of the Year during an all-school assembly. "Ms. Lougheed has an incredible ability to …

https://wmich.edu/news/2019/05/53382

Flags lowered Friday for Marine Sgt. Justin M. Hansen

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… on Marine Sgt. Justin M. Hansen LANSING, Mich.—By order of Gov. Rick Snyder, U.S. flags on all campuses of Western … at Camp Lejeune, N.C. Hansen graduated from Kingsley High School in 2003, joined the Marines in 2005 and attended the School of Infantry at Camp Pendleton, Calif. He was first …

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WMU Jazz partners with the John Stites Jazz Artist Organization

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… Michigan University Jazz and the Irving S. Gilmore School of Music have been awarded a significant multi-year grant … support for Western’s jazz Festival, which brings high school students from across the Midwest to perform, receive …

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

Gala to showcase enhanced relationship between WMU, Air Zoo

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… sponsor for the Air Zoo's May 16 Science Innovation Hall of Fame Awards Gala and Dinner . The inaugural benefit gala, … , will honor science and arts innovation shown by high school students and K-12 teachers in a 12-county southwest … The event also will continue a long statewide tradition of inducting new members into the Michigan Aviation Hall of

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COVID-19 response grants awarded for innovative research related to pandemic

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… by Erin Flynn on KALAMAZOO, Mich.—The University's Office of Research and Innovation has awarded five grants for … English learners. Protacio's project will focus on a rural school district where 1 in 5 students is an English learner …

https://wmich.edu/news/2020/05/59443

Trumpeter kicks off annual jazz festival

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… Trumpeter kicks off annual jazz festival Submitted by Anonymous (not … the University Jazz Orchestra, and the outstanding high school big band and combo from the 30 groups participating … year’s festival. The day-long festival will feature high school big band and combo performances beginning at 9 a.m. …

https://wmich.edu/news/2013/03/5353

United Airlines' Aviate Pilot Development Program puts WMU aviators on fast track to careers

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… at WMU, stands near several planes on the College of Aviation campus. KALAMAZOO, Mich.—Western Michigan … University is partnering with United Airlines under terms of the company’s new pilot career development initiative … called Aviate . The partnership will put WMU College of Aviation students accepted into this new program on a …

https://wmich.edu/news/2020/02/57857

WMU joins national alliance aimed at developing more inclusive and diverse STEM faculty

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… on KALAMAZOO, Mich.—Western Michigan University is one of 20 universities joining a three-year institutional change … hiring and retention practices. The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities—APLU—co-leads the … STEM Faculty . The new cohort joins an  inaugural set  of 15 institutions that began working together to advance …

https://wmich.edu/news/2019/10/56137

Western's jazz program captures four 2024 DownBeat magazine Student Music Awards

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… competition in jazz education. WMU Jazz has a long history of success with DownBeat, one of the oldest publications … our students' work acknowledged alongside other top music schools in the country. WMU Jazz has a long tradition of … Rathbun , jazz studies chair in the Irving S. Gilmore School of Music. DownBeat 2024 Student Music Award …

https://wmich.edu/news/news/2024/08/downbeat-2024-awards