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WMU board to consider proposed 2025-26 tuition, room and board rates Thursday

News

… top the agenda when the Western Michigan University Board of Trustees meets Thursday, June 26, at noon in the Heritage … lease for Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine; and setting the 2026 Board of Trustees meeting …

https://wmich.edu/news/news/2025/06/wmu-board-consider-proposed-2025-26-tuition-room-board-rates

Biomedical sciences graduate driven by resilience, called to help others

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… stay with her, wake up early to be with her and then go to school." After her untimely death, Ruiz-Alavez—a high school student at the time—stepped up to help provide for … in the classroom, with a knack for math and aspirations of a career in engineering. When it came time to think about …

https://wmich.edu/news/2021/04/63981

Light Center Research Grants fund a global art project, a book translation and tourism and development research

Haenicke Institute for Global Education

… for Global Education announces the 2024 recipients of the Timothy Light Center for Chinese Studies Research … and area coordinator of sculpture at the Gwen Frostic School of Art, joins Dr. Shu Yang , associate professor of … Literatures, and Dr. Li Yang , associate professor in the School of Environment, Geography and Sustainability, as …

https://wmich.edu/global/news/2024/11/grantawards

Building global connections through the classroom: WMU’s Global Classrooms Collaborative

Haenicke Institute for Global Education

… online, says Dr. Michelle Metro-Roland , associate director of external scholarships and faculty development at the … For Dr. Angela Groves , associate professor in the Bronson School of Nursing, the Global Classrooms Collaborative … the experience in a way that would be accessible and valuable to all students.”   “The effort you put into designing …

https://wmich.edu/global/news/2025/10/global-classrooms-collaborative

Communication professor's immersive exhibit in media and news literacy will debut at Kalamazoo Valley Museum

College of Arts and Sciences

… Communication professor's immersive exhibit in media and news literacy will … tosses a ball at her exhibit. A professor in Western's School of Communication , Christian pitched the idea for the … for adults and youth, but it specifically targets middle school students. At that age, says Christian, many students …

https://wmich.edu/news/2022/02/67102

Students crack code for career success at WMU Cybersecurity Summit

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… Cybersecurity Summit Submitted by Erin Flynn on Hundreds of students, educators and cybersecurity and IT professionals networked and learned at the WMU Cybersecurity … your network is your net worth.”   With more than 60 high school and community college students in attendance, the …

https://wmich.edu/news/news/2025/10/students-lead-cybersecurity-summit-2025

Education students mingle with reptiles during visit from alligator sanctuary

College of Education and Human Development

… 13-foot albino python. Students in a teaching elementary school science course got to hold some of the critters from the Critchlow Alligator Sanctuary. Dr. … Critchlow Alligator Sanctuary  in their teaching elementary school science course on  April 17 . In  Dr. Meredith …

https://wmich.edu/news/2024/05/75512

WMU’s 2025 fall awards to spotlight distinguished contributions across campus

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… The celebration begins at 11 a.m. in Kirsch Auditorium of the Fetzer Center.   President Russ Kavalhuna and Dr. … the celebration. The annual event recognizes recipients of special honors of Distinguished Service, Distinguished …   Destiny Wallace , undergraduate advisor for the Gilmore School of Music   Distinguished Service Awards   Dr. Whitney …

https://wmich.edu/news/news/2025/09/2025-fall-awards-celebration-recognizes-wmu-best

From dinosaurs to spaceships, children's summer camp offers it all

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… From dinosaurs to spaceships, children's summer camp offers it all Submitted by Deanne Puca on Campus Kids camp … University's Children's Place Learning Center is enrolling school-aged children for its 2013 Summer Program. The … are urged to register early while space is available. School-age children participate in the Campus Kids summer …

https://wmich.edu/news/2013/03/5378

Be a dream chaser: Early childhood education major follows her calling

College of Education and Human Development

… her calling Submitted by Nicole Leffler on KALAMAZOO, Mich.—School has always come easy for Belle Venticinque , an early … she had to become more independent. “I knew in the middle of my sophomore year that teaching was my calling. I grew up … Western Michigan University, I couldn’t think of a better school for me!” When she arrived in Kalamazoo, she took a …

https://wmich.edu/news/2022/10/69544