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Twenty-four incoming students win $50,000 Medallion Scholarships
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… fall. Medallion Scholarships are the highest merit-based award WMU can bestow on an incoming freshman. Valued at … member of the football team and under his school's no-set-captains policy, served several times in that leadership … Tennessee; and prepared and served food at a local soup kitchen. In addition, she participated in the Service Over …
https://wmich.edu/news/2014/06/16679
WMU to confer more than 1,700 degrees during fall commencement
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… fall ceremonies will last about two hours and be geared toward students who are graduating from a particular set of degree-granting academic units. The 9 a.m. ceremony …
https://wmich.edu/news/2016/12/36754
Seminar to focus on building adult literacy in southwest Michigan
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… Clinic, and "Learners with Special Needs" with Dr. Luchara Wallace, WMU professor of special education and literacy … Pathways in Adult Literacy" with Michael D. Evans, executive director of the Kalamazoo Literacy Council, and Kym … teachers for their child. "We're also hoping to be able to set priorities for adult literacy throughout the region," …
https://wmich.edu/news/2016/11/36668
Take advantage of global engagement opportunities in November
Haenicke Institute for Global Education
… display —daily Nov. 1 to Dec. 1. on the third floor of the Waldo Library, hosted by the Division of Multicultural … a series of lectures, a performance of a play and a reading set in 1917 Russia. Free and open to the public. Sunday, … America's National Security" lecture —7 to 8:30 p.m. at WMU-Grand Rapids, Beltline, 2333 E. Beltline, hosted by the …
https://wmich.edu/news/2017/11/43532
'Station Eleven' is selection for WMU's 2016-17 book read
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… Read selection and a finalist for both the National Book Award and PEN/Faulkner Award. All of WMU's first-year students are required to read … "Imaginary Worlds and Real Insights." Discussions are set for 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sept. 28 and Oct. 5 in the …
https://wmich.edu/news/2016/09/35228
WMU trustees opt to keep 2016-17 tuition increase below state cap
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… Michigan residents at the freshman or sophomore level is set at $384.42. A complete outline of tuition and fees for …
https://wmich.edu/news/2016/06/33314
51st annual congress turns Kalamazoo once more into medieval mecca
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… for the 51st International Congress on Medieval Studies, set for Thursday through Sunday, May 12-15 , on the campus … of popular culture and in-depth academic exploration always plays a role in the congress," says Dr. Jana Schulman , … address such subjects as the Black Death, Muslim migrants, waste management, medieval humor and multilingualism in the …
https://wmich.edu/news/2016/05/32064
Red Wings defenseman Danny DeKeyser scores goal of graduating from WMU
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… receives his bachelor's degree from WMU President Edward Montgomery during summer commencement. KALAMAZOO, … degree at Western Michigan University. "It feels great. It was an awesome ceremony," DeKeyser says of the emotions he … of Danny's young family now. What an example he's just set for his kids," Murray says. "He's making over $5 million …
https://wmich.edu/news/2019/07/54118
WMU's flight operations chief named to presidential leadership group
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… Russell Kavalhuna , Western Michigan University's new executive director of flight operations in the College of … Va., the group spent its first working weekend traveling to Washington for meetings at the White House and the National … communities and our country." Kavalhuna says the program is set up to encourage participants to interact with people who …
https://wmich.edu/news/2016/03/31048
Department of Dance presents annual Winter Gala concert
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… and show their personalities. Harris has received numerous awards for his theatrical hip-hop dance performances. He is … Project will also present "Con Amore" by Lew Christensen . Set to three Rossini overtures, "Con Amore" is a comedic and bubbling adventure. Choreographed in 1953, this was Christensen's first major ballet after becoming artistic …
https://wmich.edu/news/2016/02/30241