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WMU horn player places highly in international competition

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… $1,000 prize and a three-year International Horn Society membership. In addition, Clifton clinched the top prize in the … Frizelle Orchestral Audition Competition for high horn, besting more than a dozen other players. He won a coaching … a moment of nerves at the solo competition before plunging into the first movement of Mozart's second horn concerto and …

https://wmich.edu/news/2013/08/8668

Trumpeter kicks off annual jazz festival

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… in the Dalton Center Recital Hall. Tickets are $10 and can be purchased at millerauditorium.com . The closing concert … and open to the public. Tickets for the evening concert can also be purchased at the door. Tim Hagans Hagans …

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

Hard-working students meet academic challenge

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… cognitive impairment and learning disabilities who will be graduating this month. Enbody is a sophomore majoring in … that guides and supports them and helps them develop a can-do attitude," Giscombe says. "Our students also can register at no cost for one of our First-Year Experience …

https://wmich.edu/news/2012/04/200

Sunseeker builds on 30+ years of ‘raycing’ with the sun

College of Engineering and Applied Sciences

… 28, 2023. KALAMAZOO, Mich.—“Racing is spelled r-a-y-c-I-n-g because the cars are powered by sun rays,” explains Byron … Grand Prix (FSGP) is a track race and the location of it can vary by year. The 2023 FSGP took place at Heartland … to compete in the three-day race that determines which team can complete the most 2.5-mile laps. The American Solar …

https://wmich.edu/news/2023/11/73445

Kohrman Hall being renovated to house product design facilities

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… Kohrman Hall being renovated to house product design facilities Submitted … as a base where key southwest Michigan corporate partners can find answers to their product design and talent … the engineering college until 2003, when the college moved into Floyd Hall on what at the time was WMU's recently …

https://wmich.edu/news/2018/02/45220

Some 3,000 medievalists from dozens of nations to gather at WMU

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… medieval enthusiasts and others from around the globe. They fill area hotels as well as WMU's Goldsworth Valley … used to make glass beads; the Aristotle furnace, an iron-into-steel re-melting furnace; and textile production from … Nederman will examine how the early history of toleration can shed light on the limitations of classic liberalism as …

https://wmich.edu/news/2015/05/23536

Area families sought to host international teachers and students

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… new people, exploring new cultures and introducing American culture to international visitors, consider becoming a host family. Western Michigan University is … family selection. Interested families should contact Barb Curley at findyournest@gmail.com or (269) 217-9094. Contact: …

https://wmich.edu/news/2012/07/961

Damali Ayo addresses improving community race relations

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… KALAMAZOO--Author and artist Damali Ayo will present "You Can Fix Racism" at 6:30 p.m. Monday, April 16 , in the Bernhard Center Ballroom at Western Michigan University. … Ayo received a bachelor's degree in public policy and American civilization from Brown University. She went on to earn …

https://wmich.edu/news/2012/04/305

WMU's Unified Clinics offer specialty care to thousands each year

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… Mich.—Second-year graduate student Erin Caspers remembers the first time she knew her developing skill in … the latest knowledge in their disciplines. "They get to go into the classroom, learn, and then go to the clinic and … at colleges similar to ours for a very long time, and I can say there are few colleges who are specialized health …

https://wmich.edu/news/2018/02/45318

Men's soccer captures MAC regular season title

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… to secure the program's first-ever regular season Mid-American Conference Championship. Junior defender Ben Thornton from Linden scored the game-winning goal in the … Tommy Clark of South Bend, Indiana, sent a perfect ball into the box to find Thornton who headed the ball into the …

https://wmich.edu/news/2017/10/43543