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Western alumna highlights first-generation Latinx student journeys at documentary screening

Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs

… Mich.—A Western Michigan University alumna details the struggles of first-generation Latinx students in a documentary … students in Holland, Michigan, who are part of the TRiO Upward Bound Program. It highlights their dreams of becoming the first in their families to go to college and how the COVID-19 global pandemic and …

https://wmich.edu/news/2023/09/72796

Book read looks at ethical questions of immortal cell line

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… important tool in biomedical research. Lacks died a short time later, but her cells, unlike those of other donors, … to live in poverty and poor health, only learning of what had happened some two decades later. Her cells have …

https://wmich.edu/news/2012/03/227

Grad student knows the rewards of studying abroad at WMU

Haworth College of Business

… future career in finance. “I am starting to understand how what we learn in the classroom can be applied to the real … in various sectors of my future career. Ultimately, my goal is to apply the program to a workplace that not only … when I need guidance and have been influential during my time at WMU.” With the goal of graduating in the summer of …

https://wmich.edu/news/2024/02/74890

WMU students take third place in national advertising competition

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… the chance to move forward to the finals. This is the fifth time in six years that a team from WMU has placed in the top … about the advertising campaign process since it mirrors what they will do for a real client when they enter the …

https://wmich.edu/news/2021/04/64051

Campus blood drive challenge underway

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… competition will receive a "Blood Battle" T-shirt while supplies last. To make an online appointment to give blood at any of WMU's challenge drives, go to redcrossblood.org and enter sponsor code "bronco blood …

https://wmich.edu/news/2015/03/22626

Miller Auditorium to host 'Frozen' singalong

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… powerful Snow Queen Elsa, her sprightly sister Anna teams up with a rough-hewn mountaineer named Kristoff and his … A Princess's" Snow Queen will be in the lobby to meet moviegoers before the show. Tickets Tickets are on sale now. … or in person, and a valid Bronco ID is required at the time of pickup. Group discounts are available at …

https://wmich.edu/news/2015/01/20949

University Theatre presents 'Kiss Me Kate'

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… Love interests and co-stars Fred Graham and Lilli Vanessi go on a raucous journey in this delightful story. Patterson … first studied under the tutelage of prima ballerina Pauline Goddard. He later studied with the legendary Buster Brown. At age 14 he started his own traveling performing troupe, Backstage Theatre Productions, where he created …

https://wmich.edu/news/2013/04/6282

Part of West Michigan Avenue at campus center closed

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… right off North Dormitory. The city will be making critical updates to a 1917 sewer line that once marked the city … but now is attached to 1950s-era sewer lines that continue up Michigan Avenue and onto the central campus. City … city personnel worked together closely to find a window of time that would be least disruptive to normal campus …

https://wmich.edu/news/2014/07/17303

Engineering professor conferred special service award

College of Engineering and Applied Sciences

… for the organization's certification exams. Mallak teamed up with eight experts across the United States to create the … working professionals, we have much to gain as they apply what they learn to improve many aspects of our lives,” adds …

https://wmich.edu/news/2021/11/66268

WMU celebrates graduation of its 100th Seita Scholar

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… celebrated Seita Scholars program, designed to support young people who have aged out of the foster care … foster care youth. It is named for Dr. John Seita , a three-time WMU alumnus and a nationally known advocate for … of the program. Since its founding at WMU nine years ago, the Seita Scholars program has sparked creation of a …

https://wmich.edu/news/2016/12/37026