Search results

WMU employs state-of-the-art cleaning technologies in effort to keep COVID-19 off campus

News

… advance and prepare campus for people to be safe." The forward-thinking approach is also evident in Tekna , an …

https://wmich.edu/news/2020/08/60573

New technology developed at WMU to have huge industry impact

News

… a huge commercial impact on the machining of difficult-to-machine engineered components. The technological … officer. The National Science Foundation recently awarded Patten and Ravindra an NSF Innovation Corps … WMU alumnus and a recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award. Patten and Ravindra say manufacturers currently use …

https://wmich.edu/news/2012/05/443

WMU sales students win team gold and individual honors

Haworth College of Business

… with selling 3M VHB pressure sensitive adhesive tape to a washing machine manufacturer, role-playing for 15 minutes per round … division. Zoeller took second in the junior division and was a mere one-one hundredth of a point from first place. …

https://wmich.edu/news/2018/03/45781

Economics alumna tackling hunger, health issues at Brookings Institution

News

… witnessed poverty firsthand. Dr. Dweepobotee Brahma "I was lucky, I grew up in a metropolitan city," she says. "But … who lived in slums. So, I had seen it all around me, and I wanted to work toward something that would improve the … whose research focused on applying new, cutting-edge machine learning and econometric tools in development …

https://wmich.edu/news/2020/02/57684

Lessons Learned by Aviation Technical Operations Faculty Nate Lisak

College of Aviation

… trade, Nate Lisak has forged himself a productive and rewarding career as a "Tech-Ops" instructor for the WMU … to their very last summer at the College of Aviation.  Watching their confidence develop and see them move into … tutelage.  "His Stryker team works like a well-oiled machine.  Their attitudes and work ethic are top-notch in …

https://wmich.edu/aviation/news/2022/01/lisak

Event set to mark 50th anniversary of King's visit to WMU

News

… lead a panel of students and community members—one of whom was in the audience the night King originally spoke. The … to hear parts of a rarely heard formal address by King that was for many years literally lost. For that reason, the … was found by a Kalamazoo resident on a reel-to-reel machine that had been in storage since the 1970s. The …

https://wmich.edu/news/2013/11/11610

Annual festival brings theatre artists from across Midwest to campus

News

… power of live theatre, telling stories in bold and unique ways. Each play centers around a character (or group of … missing from their lives; from a prosthetics maker wanting to make an impact on the world, a group of people … Her newest play, "The Guest" has had workshops at Rogue Machine Theater in Los Angeles, Chicago Dramatist  and …

https://wmich.edu/news/2018/06/47468

LZ Granderson returns to WMU to inspire next generation of journalists

College of Arts and Sciences

… graduating from Western Michigan University, achieving an award-winning career as a journalist and then returning this … one’s voice as an opinion writer. He also hopes to raise awareness that the field of journalism is viable and … making cold calls to businesses as an employee at a uniform rental company, it quickly clarified what he didn’t want to …

https://wmich.edu/news/2023/12/73669

When it rains, it stalls: WMU team studies weather impacts on autonomous vehicle technology

W Magazine

… Michigan University is leading an effort to develop software that will keep systems running in all conditions. Dr. … Vehicles Lab , and doctoral student Nick Goberville were awarded a grant from the Michigan Translational Research and … received from the camera, we are basically applying various machine learning and computer vision techniques to process …

https://wmich.edu/news/2020/11/60422

Business professor earns second prestigious Fulbright award

News

… Business professor earns second prestigious Fulbright award Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Dr. Kuanchin … has earned a highly competitive Fulbright Specialist Award from the U.S. Department of State and the J. William … business analytics, data science, business intelligence and machine learning, that are of interest globally in business …

https://wmich.edu/news/2020/04/58788