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

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… When it rains, it stalls: WMU team studies weather impacts on autonomous vehicle technology … Paige Novak/Paige Novak Photography Goberville adjusts equipment on the windshield. Courtesy: Paige Novak/Paige Novak … Michigan University is leading an effort to develop software that will keep systems running in all conditions. Dr. …

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

School of Music faculty produce dozens of creative and research projects in trying times

Irving S. Gilmore School of Music

… dozens of creative and research projects in trying times Submitted by David Bernard on   Clarinet Professor Ellen … and community. In a survey of faculty members in the unit, nearly 40 creative projects had been completed including … Grant and commissioned five new pieces for septet by Hawaiian composers. The grant supported a 10-day tour for …

https://wmich.edu/news/2020/11/61926

Western researchers develop a special boot to save limbs and lives

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… is a national concern, affecting more than one in 10 Americans. Among the many health challenges it causes, the … comes with consequences. "If you take the leg, you'll take away the function for the rest of their life," says Lawson, … for being away." A dream decades in the making is now nearing the finish line for Lawson, who worked with Dr. …

https://wmich.edu/news/2021/05/64303

WMU education instructors offer advice for parents navigating virtual learning with young kids

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… with his or her teacher over a tablet while a client waits for you to deliver a presentation over Zoom might have … up there with the proverbial naked-in-class nightmare. Same with navigating a global pandemic. But both are realities … for K-12 parents burning the candle at both ends, finding it hard to tell where work ends and home begins with …

https://wmich.edu/news/2020/08/60874

Fifty seniors receive WMU's top undergraduate honor

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… the highest honor WMU can bestow on an undergraduate. The award goes to the most outstanding seniors in each of the … Dr. Cindy Linn in 2014. Their research led to an important scientific discovery—the ability of neurons to … Education. Berry is from Kalamazoo, and a graduate of nearby Mattawan High School. A member of WMU's Lee Honors …

https://wmich.edu/news/2016/05/31959

WMU students create apiary, study the imperiled honeybee

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… by Paula M. Davis on A student beekeeper holds a hive frame containing honey, bees and brood. KALAMAZOO, Mich.—After … of meticulous work in unrelenting summer heat and well away from an apiary buzzing with thousands of honeybees, the … Board of Trustees approval to support setting up the fund. Nearly 60 percent of the proceeds from this fee go to stoke …

https://wmich.edu/news/2014/12/20781

Select group receives top undergraduate honor for 2015

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… the highest honor WMU can bestow on an undergraduate. The award goes to the most outstanding seniors in each of the … For his Lee Honor's College thesis, he is examining how scientific and medical reasoning are employed among Internet … of science, epistemology, probability theory and linear algebra. She has always loved teaching and is …

https://wmich.edu/news/2015/05/25421

New class of Medallion Scholars inducted into elite group

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… New class of Medallion Scholars inducted into elite group Submitted by … . Medallion Scholarships are the highest merit-based award WMU can bestow on an incoming first-time freshman. … for the Dearborn Heights Rotary Club. One cause that is near and dear to her heart is the Dearborn Area Theatre …

https://wmich.edu/news/2019/10/54831

Twenty-four incoming students win $50,000 Medallion Scholarships

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… Twenty-four incoming students win $50,000 Medallion Scholarships Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) … fall. Medallion Scholarships are the highest merit-based award WMU can bestow on an incoming freshman. Valued at … is the son of Brett and Beth Snoeyink. He has maintained a near-4.0 grade point average and been on the honor roll …

https://wmich.edu/news/2014/06/16679

WMU recognizes 2016-17 Presidential Scholars

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… Mich.—Fifty students in Western Michigan University's 5,900-member senior class were named a 2017 Presidential Scholar. … the highest honor WMU can bestow on an undergraduate. The award goes to the most outstanding seniors in each of the University's academic schools, …

https://wmich.edu/news/2017/04/39545