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Occupational therapy program celebrates 100 years of improving quality of life

W Magazine

… impossible to navigate, an occupational therapist can be an immeasurably helpful guide to an improved quality of … "An occupational therapist helps people of all ages to live better with a disability, injury or illness. More than that, … started with one instructor and just three students has become a department that today has 11 faculty members and an …

https://wmich.edu/news/2022/08/69000

English department faculty, students help Kalamazoo high school students write scholarship essays

College of Arts and Sciences

… the Kalamazoo Community Foundation. Photo credit: Jake Waggoner and the Kalamazoo Promise KALAMAZOO, Mich.—Department … this year it got so much bigger, and we were so excited to be helping all these bright, young students. The energy was … the entire process of developing their scholarship essays, beginning with a discussion about what constitutes a good …

https://wmich.edu/news/2023/03/71174

Top seniors honored as 2012 Presidential Scholars

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… on campus in the Fetzer Center. Each year, faculty members from across the University select the most outstanding … The designation is the highest academic honor that WMU can bestow on its undergraduates . Selection is based on the … Presidential Scholars include a dietetics major who has been researching genetic engineering of a rice crop that may …

https://wmich.edu/news/2012/03/278

Kellogg Foundation is first recipient of aviation award

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… Kellogg Foundation is first recipient of aviation award Submitted … WMU College of Aviation Excellence in Diversity Award will be presented today, April 11, at the University's annual … diversity achievements. The event is set for 5 p.m. in the Bernhard Center Bernhard on WMU's main campus in Kalamazoo. …

https://wmich.edu/news/2012/04/336

President Dunn heads to Malaysia to celebrate 25-year partnership

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… near Kuala Lumpur and the launch of a "twinning program" between that college and WMU helped Malaysia emerge as a … twinning program developed there placed a WMU faculty member on site at Sunway to guide Malaysian students through their first two years of college studies before they traveled to WMU to complete their final two …

https://wmich.edu/news/2012/06/763

NPR counterterrorism correspondent to give talk

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… to American foreign policy issues. Locally, WMU will be offering a live lecture by National Public Radio … Questions about Temple-Raston's talk at WMU should be directed to Dr. Michelle Metro-Roland in the University's … Education at @email or (269) 387-5890. Dina Temple-Raston A Belgian-born American journalist, Temple-Raston joined the …

https://wmich.edu/news/2013/01/4380

Student designs sales tool to help boost Stryker profits

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… who graduates in spring 2014, was asked to design a tool to be used by the company's 150 sales reps. She did a crash … the country at Styker's mid-year meeting, the halfway point before the company's national sales meeting. She gave reps a … what I needed to add, certain types of videos and other suggestions." Simic also had to work with regulatory …

https://wmich.edu/news/2013/04/6422

Violinist and WMU professor Renata Artman Knific to perform

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… explores the use of electronics with violin and will be held at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 14 , in the Dalton Center Recital Hall. The performance will be preceded by a 7 p.m. discussion hosted by Dr. David … calling (269) 387-2300 or (800) 228-9858. Performing will be sopranos Karen Kness , Elizabeth Stoner and Rhea Olivacce …

https://wmich.edu/news/2016/09/34680

LBGT office celebrates 30 years of inclusion, diversity on campus

W Magazine

… as society has made those strides,” says Dr. Suzie Nagel-Bennett, associate vice president for student affairs and … to do, but it has come a long way in what I consider to be a short amount of time.” Nagel-Bennett remembers being in the room with the WMU Board of …

https://wmich.edu/news/2020/01/57382

Drs. Chad and Autumn Edwards are Western’s own dynamic duo

College of Arts and Sciences

… a junior. Autumn had tried out for the debate team and remembers being immediately impressed with Chad’s skills as a seasoned … their hobbies are all activities that are notably unplugged.  Their oldest daughter, America, is currently …

https://wmich.edu/news/2022/09/69149