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20 incoming students win $60,000 Medallion Scholarships

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… a presentation on her internship with a general surgeon at Good Samaritan Hospital. During the experience, she shadowed … Muslim Youth Organization's refugee program, acting for a time as secretary and interim president as well as tutoring … from Southgate Anderson High School and is undecided about what to major in at WMU. He received a Presidential …

https://wmich.edu/news/2017/07/41400

Additional shows added to Miller Auditorium's 2015-16 season

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… Lake Michigan Mailers Spotlight Series: The Piano Guys, Gold Company's "Anything You Can Sing, We Can Swing Better!" … Added events The Piano Guys—8 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 5 What began as an experiment and then exploded into an … art center concert will feature their ultimate mash-up of classical music and pop, demonstrating why The Piano …

https://wmich.edu/news/2015/05/23570

Nine incoming students earn $60,000 Foundation Scholarships

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… year. 2017 Foundation Scholars Sarahi Acosta is from Chicago and a graduate of Northside College Preparatory High … program in 2015 to expand college access for new first-time, full-time freshmen. The scholarship is based on both … graduate school. The Foundation Scholarship fund is set up in the WMU Foundation. Donations to the fund can be made …

https://wmich.edu/news/2017/08/42170

James W. Dempsey obituary

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… died July 12 . He was 84. Dempsey joined the staff of what is now the Office of Admissions in 1973 and retired in … Jim Dempsey While working at WMU, Dempsey also taught part time at Kalamazoo Valley Community College and Lake Michigan … The PTK Alumni Association at WMU was the first such group chartered in Michigan, and Dempsey served as its advisor …

https://wmich.edu/news/2015/11/28449

WMU graduate student awarded addictions counselor fellowship

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… The foundation is awarding 40 fellowships of up to $11,000 each to master's-level addictions counseling … graduation. Princilla Ursery Ursery currently works full-time as a residential care provider and crisis specialist, … a loved one with a diagnosed mental illness. "My overall goal in working in the mental health field is to help …

https://wmich.edu/news/2015/04/23156

WALI helps expand access to space education

College of Engineering and Applied Sciences

… is spurred by people who look to the stars and dream of what remains to be discovered. And those inspired people are … come a long way since it was founded in 2014 by a small group of undergraduate and graduate students interested in … team projects. From this experience, she had an idea of what it could do for WALI. “What if we took all of this …

https://wmich.edu/news/2024/01/73466

Student skin care company claims entrepreneurship award

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… KALAMAZOO, Mich.—When you have sensitive skin, the struggle to find products that work well for you is very real. … available that nobody had developed a way to keep track of what products a person has tried and how it worked for them … well on its way to being open for business. The knowledge, support and connections that I gained through Starting Gate …

https://wmich.edu/news/2021/07/64816

Aviation college honors individuals for diversity, historical achievements

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… Excellence in Diversity awards from the college were: Gregory A. Lyman , retired senior vice president of the … of Aviation, the 1947 and 1948 Sky Broncos represented what was then Western Michigan College at the National … as an undergraduate and graduated in 2004. During his time at WMU, he was the founding member of WMU's …

https://wmich.edu/news/2017/01/37239

Executive board room at medical campus named in honor of Dunns

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… the board for the medical school. "We're very fond of our time here at Western Michigan University and certainly we're … cooperation and support of lots of people. "I think that's what, hopefully, the conversations that occur in the board … Our aspirations are high and they should always be high." Going forward, he added that he is excited to witness the …

https://wmich.edu/news/2018/06/47508

Educator honored with Emerging Scholar Award for global work to expand critical public health knowledge

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… research method where participants take photos and describe what their photos mean. This approach was used to generate … visual evidence to inform policies and programs for Congolese refugee women in Uganda. In fall 2021, she also … impact with research achievements in a relatively short time since joining WMU in 2016, including notable impact …

https://wmich.edu/news/2023/09/72654