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Greek Festival features Sugar Ray, Locash Cowboys
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… Saturday, $7 from 4 to 7 p.m. and $12 from 7 p.m. to 1 a.m. After 7 p.m., people younger than 18 years old must be … by an adult. Festival highlights Entertainment includes music from the American country band Locash Cowboys at …
https://wmich.edu/news/2014/05/15844
Multiracial leadership advocate is next distinguished speaker
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… will be followed by a question-and-answer period. Founded after the 1968 riots that followed the tragic death of Dr. … annual Changing Color of Leadership Conference and Bridge Awards Dinner, Business Leaders of Color publications and … for her advocacy of multiracial leadership. In 2013, she was named among "100 Women of Influence" by Today's Chicago …
https://wmich.edu/news/2014/04/14349
Cousins and Petcovic named to arts and sciences leadership positions
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… Cousins has been named associate dean of the college after serving in the position on an interim basis for the … she came to WMU from Oregon State University, where she was coordinator for a program called Science Connections. …
https://wmich.edu/news/2016/12/37028
Renowned trombonist to perform at WMU
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… Wilson Prior to his appointment at Vanderbilt, Wilson was a member of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and its … State Opera. He joined those orchestras at the age of 25 after winning what was his first-ever orchestral audition, … Hall of the Philharmonic's legendary home venue, the Wiener Musikverein. At the Vienna State Opera, one of the world's …
https://wmich.edu/news/2017/09/42409
Top geography students test skills in state bee at WMU
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… Geographic Bee state title and a chance to travel to Washington, D.C., for the national contest. State bees are … to be on the WMU campus for a second round of competition after winning their local contests. The WMU event is … Visual Atlas of the World, 2nd Edition," and a trip to Washington, D.C., to represent Michigan in the National …
https://wmich.edu/news/2018/04/46180
Open house, commencement honor first medical school grads
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… Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine. Four years after beginning their studies in fall 2014, 48 students are … the graduating students have accomplished at WMed and what awaits them as new physicians. Doors to Miller Auditorium … The event will mark a return for Shapiro to Kalamazoo. He was the keynote speaker at the White Coat Ceremony welcoming …
https://wmich.edu/news/2018/05/46878
Former school superintendent named interim education dean
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… Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Burt KALAMAZOO—Dr. Walter L. Burt, associate professor of educational … pending approval by the WMU Board of Trustees. "Walter Burt brings to the college many years of education … of his willingness to step in and lead the college after Van Cooley's untimely death. He will lead the college …
https://wmich.edu/news/2012/10/2485
Sunseeker sails through first solar race qualifying event
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… day of the solar event's three-day scrutineering session, after being inspected by electrical and mechanical engineers … in the Formula Sun Grand Prix at Monticello (N.Y.) Speedway. Because of its success at scrutineering, the WMU team …
https://wmich.edu/news/2012/07/959
Gordon's 'Misrule' continues to attract literary world's praise
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… Jaimy Gordon and winner of the 2010 National Book Award, is continuing to attract the attention of judges in … prize is the United Kingdom's most prestigious annual book award for fiction written by women. It covers … National Book Award for fiction in November 2010, shortly after it was published. "Lord of Misrule" was later named a …
https://wmich.edu/news/2012/03/219
WMU alum and veteran journalist to deliver annual peace lecture
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… an editor at the Chicago Tribune syndicate, Tribune Media Services. Xenos Press published his book, "Courage Grows … peace circle keeper training. Koehler's first newspaper job was at the Plainwell Enterprise, north of Kalamazoo, where … column started out more personal than political, then, after 9/11, when the war on terror began, he became …
https://wmich.edu/news/2012/10/1877