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WMUK station head featured on NPR's Friday StoryCorps segment
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… Western Michigan University's public radio station, WMUK, is slated to be the interview subject on National Public … Michigan listeners. During the weeks it was here, residents from across West Michigan flocked to Bronson Park to tell … just as the StoryCorps booth was being moved to its next location. Bolar and Isay have stayed in touch over the …
https://wmich.edu/news/2012/11/3155
Western student powers launch of new compostability testing center
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… Wang fills pots with soil to test compostability in his lab's greenhouse. Products go through phases of testing … make a good, healthy soil conditioner that will go back to farmland." Jason Wang , a paper science Ph.D. candidate, led … brand owners coming together to make a positive change in how we impact the environment," Pschigoda says. For more WMU …
https://wmich.edu/news/2022/07/68373
Accountancy student receives $10,000 scholarship
Haworth College of Business
… , a senior accountancy major and management minor, hails from Nha Trang, Vietnam, and is a first generation college student. She intends to use … Scholarship," says Quang. "Being the first generation of my family to go to college and growing up in a …
https://wmich.edu/news/2015/06/24655
Human diversity celebrated during International Education Week
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… throughout the week by WMU offices and international registered student organizations. The 2013 observance at WMU, … for a global environment, but also attract future leaders from abroad to study, learn and exchange experiences in the … Room, Kanley Chapel. Learn from WMU international students how to prepare traditional dishes from other countries. …
https://wmich.edu/news/2013/11/11011
Graduate student awarded for research in sustainability
College of Engineering and Applied Sciences
… by Lindsey Haehnel on Esther Forson pictured at the IISE Annual Conference, held in Montreal, Canada, to accept … Management in Ghana’s Artisanal Mining Problem.” “My professor, Dr. Thaviphoke, and I submitted this paper for … Forson hold a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in …
https://wmich.edu/news/2024/05/75670
Sew worth it—fashion design students use skills to craft masks for hospital workers
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… grows, some have called sewing a dying skill. That skill, however, is now helping protect frontline medical professionals from the potentially deadly threat of COVID-19. Kalamazoo …
https://wmich.edu/news/2020/03/58737
WMU secures NIH grant to use technology to battle opioid addiction
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… collaboration with WMU, has been awarded a $222,383 grant from the National Institutes of Health's Helping to End … who have overdosed and enroll them in medication-assisted treatment. "It's clear that a multi-pronged scientific … partnerships with companies and community groups result in far more than additive advances in our research,” says Dr. …
https://wmich.edu/news/2019/09/55634
Campus Ring Road to close temporarily
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… result in closure of a key portion of the campus Ring Road from 7 a.m. Tuesday, July 5, through the close of business … the bus stop and improve storm water flow. Traffic from Howard Street routed south Vehicles will be allowed to enter … traffic will only be able to turn south—counterclockwise—on the Ring Road. Travel to the Sindecuse Health Center …
https://wmich.edu/news/2016/06/33292
WMU and KCC announce major transfer agreement
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… program at the University. The agreement, which outlines how credits earned at one school will transfer to another, … the loss of credits and duplication of coursework. "This partnership between two robust institutions is a victory … Mark O'Connell said. "Never before have the pathways from KCC to WMU been better designed, and never before has …
https://wmich.edu/news/2018/05/46804
WMU students create apiary, study the imperiled honeybee
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… study the imperiled honeybee Submitted by Paula M. Davis on A student beekeeper holds a hive frame containing … to see if each colony had a healthy, egg-laying queen. And how was that "nuc" hive coming along? "Looks good," head … announced a measure providing $8 million in incentives for farmers and ranchers to establish new habitats to support …
https://wmich.edu/news/2014/12/20781