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Donations being collected for Seita Scholar welcome packs
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… Michigan University will welcome its fifth year of Seita Scholars this fall, and many of these students, who have aged out of the foster care … system, will arrive without basic items to help make their school year successful. The Seita Scholars program is …
https://wmich.edu/news/2012/06/741
Industrious students meet tough academic challenge
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… complete their bachelor's degree and transition to graduate school and professional life. Dr. Charlotte Giscombe , the program's … obtain a cumulative 4.0 grade point average for a minimum of one academic year. The Student Success Program is …
https://wmich.edu/news/2012/10/2180
Stulberg Competition silver medalist solos with WMU Orchestra
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… String Competition, will present its first concert of the 2013–14 season at 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 6, at Chenery … University String Academy Virtuosi on a ten-city tour of Argentina and Brazil. She has performed in Carnegie Hall … Catherine Cho as a Jerome L. Greene fellow at The Juilliard School in New York City. Stulberg International String …
https://wmich.edu/news/2013/10/9524
Partnership between Western, Gun Lake Tribe promotes suicide prevention
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… suicide prevention," says Dr. Dee Sherwood , associate professor of social work and primary investigator on the … for Native American communities is related to boarding schools—residential institutions set up across the United … we're doing is making a connection between that boarding school policy, the mantra of 'Kill the Indian, save the man …
https://wmich.edu/news/2021/12/66452
WMU honored for college access and advising work
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… and success. WMU President John M. Dunn and the presidents of 11 other universities in Michigan were honored March 8 as … highly trained, near-peer college advisors in high-need schools to boost the schools' capacity to serve students during the college …
https://wmich.edu/news/2016/04/31723
Business faculty help coordinate interdisciplinary international conference
Haworth College of Business
… Mich.—Two faculty members from the Haworth College of Business recently helped lead an international conference … impact and geography. Drs. Melissa Intindola and Laurel Ofstein , both associate professors of management, helped … the conference would often rotate between partner schools involved in the planning. It would be an amazing …
https://wmich.edu/news/2021/01/62695
Student veterans find place to grow, thrive at WMU
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… an electrical engineering student, completed several tours of duty including this deployment to Afghanistan in 2011. … like if I would have come to college straight out of high school it wouldn't be the same," he says. "The military gave … Patrick McConnell loves adventure. He was still in high school in Edwardsburg when he decided to enlist in the …
https://wmich.edu/news/2019/11/56507
Students help lead COVID-19 prevention, education efforts on WMU campus
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… are now complicated exponentially by the pandemic. A group of Western Michigan University students is leading the … and, consequently, the college experience intact. Members of the COVID-19 Student Coalition meet virtually. "We are … Therefore, we are all responsible for the health and safety of campus," says Melanie Mitchell , a chemistry graduate …
https://wmich.edu/news/2020/10/61540
Student leader by day, business mogul by night
W Magazine
… lip gloss. Richardson's lip gloss line features a variety of unique packaging options. Some of the Eunique Kisses … turning it into a burgeoning business—while still balancing school and a full- time job. To say Tasia Richardson is busy … “WMU set me up for life by making me believe in myself. The school cares about every student and will do whatever they …
https://wmich.edu/news/2020/11/62024
Geography grad created road map to success at Western
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… degrees and a job waiting for him at the Department of Defense once he completes his accelerated master's … has been a passion of Heiser's since he was in elementary school, studying maps on long road trips with family. While … she's been really involved in seeing how I'm doing with school work and how my future is looking." In his …
https://wmich.edu/news/2023/04/71466